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The Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Anderson, Emma L, Howe, Laura D, Jones, Hayley E, Higgins, Julian P T, Lawlor, Debbie A, Fraser, Abigail

“…Narrative reviews of paediatric NAFLD quote prevalences in the general population that range from 9% to 37%; however, no systematic review of the prevalence of…”
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Cohort Profile: The 'Children of the 90s'—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children by BOYD, Andy, GOLDING, Jean, MACLEOD, John, LAWLOR, Debbie A, FRASER, Abigail, HENDERSON, John, MOLLOY, Lynn, NESS, Andy, RING, Susan, SMITH, George Davey

“…The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a transgenerational prospective observational study investigating influences on health and…”
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Grip strength across the life course: normative data from twelve British studies by Dodds, Richard M, Syddall, Holly E, Cooper, Rachel, Benzeval, Michaela, Deary, Ian J, Dennison, Elaine M, Der, Geoff, Gale, Catharine R, Inskip, Hazel M, Jagger, Carol, Kirkwood, Thomas B, Lawlor, Debbie A, Robinson, Sian M, Starr, John M, Steptoe, Andrew, Tilling, Kate, Kuh, Diana, Cooper, Cyrus, Sayer, Avan Aihie

“…Epidemiological studies have shown that weaker grip strength in later life is associated with disability, morbidity, and mortality. Grip strength is a key…”
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Predicting live birth, preterm delivery, and low birth weight in infants born from in vitro fertilisation: a prospective study of 144,018 treatment cycles by Nelson, Scott M, Lawlor, Debbie A

“…The extent to which baseline couple characteristics affect the probability of live birth and adverse perinatal outcomes after assisted conception is unknown…”
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Risk factor screening to identify women requiring oral glucose tolerance testing to diagnose gestational diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis and analysis of two pregnancy cohorts by Farrar, Diane, Simmonds, Mark, Bryant, Maria, Lawlor, Debbie A, Dunne, Fidelma, Tuffnell, Derek, Sheldon, Trevor A

“…Easily identifiable risk factors including: obesity and ethnicity at high risk of diabetes are commonly used to indicate which women should be offered the oral…”
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Childhood obesity by Han, Joan C, MD, Lawlor, Debbie A, Prof, Kimm, Sue YS, Dr

“…Summary Worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity has increased greatly during the past three decades. The increasing occurrence in children of disorders such…”
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Objective measures of physical capability and subsequent health: a systematic review by Cooper, Rachel, Kuh, Diana, Cooper, Cyrus, Gale, Catharine R, Lawlor, Debbie A, Matthews, Fiona, Hardy, Rebecca

“…measures of physical capability may be predictive of subsequent health, but existing published studies have not been systematically reviewed. We hypothesised…”
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Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology by Lawlor, Debbie A., Harbord, Roger M., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Timpson, Nic, Davey Smith, George

“…Observational epidemiological studies suffer from many potential biases, from confounding and from reverse causation, and this limits their ability to robustly…”
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Gestational weight gain as a risk factor for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy by Macdonald-Wallis, Corrie, PhD, Tilling, Kate, PhD, Fraser, Abigail, PhD, Nelson, Scott M., PhD, MRCOG, Lawlor, Debbie A., PhD, FFPH

“…Objective Pregnancy interventions to limit gestational weight gain (GWG) have been proposed as a means of preventing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP);…”
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Cohort Profile: The Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study by WRIGHT, John, SMALL, Neil, PICKETT, Kate E, WAIBLINGER, Dagmar, WEST, Jane, RAYNOR, Pauline, TUFFNELL, Derek, BHOPAL, Raj, CAMERON, Noel, FAIRLEY, Lesley, LAWLOR, Debbie A, PARSLOW, Roger, PETHERICK, Emily S

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Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain, offspring DNA methylation and later offspring adiposity: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children by Sharp, Gemma C, Lawlor, Debbie A, Richmond, Rebecca C, Fraser, Abigail, Simpkin, Andrew, Suderman, Matthew, Shihab, Hashem A, Lyttleton, Oliver, McArdle, Wendy, Ring, Susan M, Gaunt, Tom R, Davey Smith, George, Relton, Caroline L

“…Evidence suggests that in utero exposure to undernutrition and overnutrition might affect adiposity in later life. Epigenetic modification is suggested as a…”
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Prevalence of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, and cascade of care in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional, population-based study in rural and urban Malawi by Price, Alison J, Crampin, Amelia C, Amberbir, Alemayehu, Kayuni-Chihana, Ndoliwe, Musicha, Crispin, Tafatatha, Terence, Branson, Keith, Lawlor, Debbie A, Mwaiyeghele, Elenaus, Nkhwazi, Lawrence, Smeeth, Liam, Pearce, Neil, Munthali, Elizabeth, Mwagomba, Beatrice M, Mwansambo, Charles, Glynn, Judith R, Jaffar, Shabbar, Nyirenda, Moffat

“…Sub-Saharan Africa is in rapid demographic transition, and non-communicable diseases are increasingly important causes of morbidity and mortality. We…”
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Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Cardiometabolic Health in Adolescent Offspring by Fraser, Abigail, Nelson, Scott M., Macdonald-Wallis, Corrie, Sattar, Naveed, Lawlor, Debbie A.

“…An accumulating body of evidence suggests that offspring of mothers with preeclampsia have higher blood pressure during childhood and young adulthood compared…”
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Prevalence of Elevated Alanine Aminotransferase Among US Adolescents and Associated Factors: NHANES 1999–2004 by Fraser, Abigail, Longnecker, Matthew P, Lawlor, Debbie A

“…Background & Aims: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common cause of liver disease in children and adolescents. The majority of studies of NAFLD in…”
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Metabolic characterization of menopause: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence by Wang, Qin, Ferreira, Diana L Santos, Nelson, Scott M, Sattar, Naveed, Ala-Korpela, Mika, Lawlor, Debbie A

“…Women who experience menopause are at higher cardiometabolic risk and often display adverse changes in metabolic biomarkers compared with pre-menopausal women…”
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Sedentary time in relation to cardio-metabolic risk factors: differential associations for self-report vs accelerometry in working age adults by STAMATAKIS, Emmanuel, HAMER, Mark, TILLING, Kate, LAWLOR, Debbie A

“…Sedentary behaviour has been proposed to be detrimentally associated with cardio-metabolic risk independently of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA)…”
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Customised and Noncustomised Birth Weight Centiles and Prediction of Stillbirth and Infant Mortality and Morbidity: A Cohort Study of 979,912 Term Singleton Pregnancies in Scotland by Iliodromiti, Stamatina, Mackay, Daniel F, Smith, Gordon C S, Pell, Jill P, Sattar, Naveed, Lawlor, Debbie A, Nelson, Scott M

“…There is limited evidence to support the use of customised centile charts to identify those at risk of stillbirth and infant death at term. We sought to…”
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Clustered environments and randomized genes: a fundamental distinction between conventional and genetic epidemiology by Smith, George Davey, Lawlor, Debbie A, Harbord, Roger, Timpson, Nic, Day, Ian, Ebrahim, Shah

“…In conventional epidemiology confounding of the exposure of interest with lifestyle or socioeconomic factors, and reverse causation whereby disease status…”
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Estimating the causal influence of body mass index on risk of Parkinson disease: A Mendelian randomisation study by Noyce, Alastair J, Kia, Demis A, Hemani, Gibran, Nicolas, Aude, Price, T Ryan, De Pablo-Fernandez, Eduardo, Haycock, Philip C, Lewis, Patrick A, Foltynie, Thomas, Davey Smith, George, Schrag, Anette, Lees, Andrew J, Hardy, John, Singleton, Andrew, Nalls, Mike A, Pearce, Neil, Lawlor, Debbie A, Wood, Nicholas W

“…Both positive and negative associations between higher body mass index (BMI) and Parkinson disease (PD) have been reported in observational studies, but it has…”
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Using multiple genetic variants as instrumental variables for modifiable risk factors by Palmer, Tom M, Lawlor, Debbie A, Harbord, Roger M, Sheehan, Nuala A, Tobias, Jon H, Timpson, Nicholas J, Smith, George Davey, Sterne, Jonathan AC

“…Mendelian randomisation analyses use genetic variants as instrumental variables (IVs) to estimate causal effects of modifiable risk factors on disease…”
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