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If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying? (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying?. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 494 - 498. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-318215

Outcomes for children with asthma in the UK continue to lag behind other European countries. Mortality remains unacceptably high and in contrast to adults with asthma, most deaths occur in the 1 in 20 children with asthma who have severe asthma. Desp... Read More about If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying?.

The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 800-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2019.35

The COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) project is a large international collaborative effort to analyze individual-level phenotype data from twins in multiple cohorts from different environments. Th... Read More about The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins.

Anxiety in children and adolescents (2019)
Journal Article
Poppleton, A., Ramkission, R., & Ali, S. (2019). Anxiety in children and adolescents. InnovAiT, 635 -642. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755738019869182

Anxiety is the physiological state of fear, unease or apprehension experienced by an individual in the face of an uncertain outcome. Anxiety disorders are characterised by recurrent symptoms of anxiety disproportionate to the eliciting situation, and... Read More about Anxiety in children and adolescents.

Less sun, more cough: Annual hours of sunshine are inversely associated with hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infection (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gilchrist. (2019, September). Less sun, more cough: Annual hours of sunshine are inversely associated with hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infection. Presented at ERS International Congress 2019, IFEMA, Madrid

Background: Vitamin D deficiency affects immune function increasing susceptibility to respiratory tract infections (RTI). Randomised controlled trials show vitamin D supplementation protects against acute RTIs. Most vitamin D (>90%) is acquired from... Read More about Less sun, more cough: Annual hours of sunshine are inversely associated with hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infection.

Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Wu. (2019). Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 394(10204), 1181 - 1190. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2819%2931963-4

BACKGROUND: In women with late preterm pre-eclampsia, the optimal time to initiate delivery is unclear because limitation of maternal disease progression needs to be balanced against infant complications. The aim of this trial was to determine whethe... Read More about Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial.

Pregnancy As a Predictor of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: The Era of CardioObstetrics (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas, & Wu. (2019). Pregnancy As a Predictor of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: The Era of CardioObstetrics. Journal of Women's Health, 1037 - 1050. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2018.7480

Globally, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of mortality in women accounting for one in three deaths. There remains an under recognition of CVD as well as a lack of awareness of risk in women. Promotion of CVD prevention is essent... Read More about Pregnancy As a Predictor of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: The Era of CardioObstetrics.

The MOCHA Project: Origins, Approach and Methods (2019)
Book Chapter
(2019). The MOCHA Project: Origins, Approach and Methods. In Issues and Opportunities in Primary Health Care for Children in Europe. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-351-820191001

Primary care (PC) is a strong determinant of overall health care. Children make up around a fifth of the population of the European Union and European Economic Area and have their own needs and uptake of PC. However, there is little research into how... Read More about The MOCHA Project: Origins, Approach and Methods.

Models of Primary Care and Appraisal Frameworks (2019)
Book Chapter
(2019). Models of Primary Care and Appraisal Frameworks. In Issues and Opportunities in Primary Health Care for Children in Europe. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-351-820191007

The Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project identified the different models of primary care that exist for children, examined the particular attributes that might be different from those directed at adults and considered how these models mig... Read More about Models of Primary Care and Appraisal Frameworks.