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Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group
Publications
2000
Aspray TJ, Mugusi F, Rashid S, Whiting D, Edwards R, Alberti KG, Unwin NC. Rural and urban differences in diabetes prevalence in Tanzania: the role of obesity, physical inactivity and urban living. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2000; 94: 637-44.
Athey K, Milner S. Influencing practices of mothers with pre-school children. Community Practitioner. 2000; 73:
Baird G, McConachie H, Scrutton D. Parents' perceptions of disclosure of the diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2000; 83: 475-80.
Bhopal RS, Rankin J, Bennett T. Editorial role in promoting valid use of concepts and terminology in race and ethnicity research. Science Editor. 2000; 23: 75-80.
Birch D, White M, Kamali F. Factors influencing alcohol and illicit drug use among medical students. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2000; 59: 125-130.
Birch JM, Alexander FE, Blair V, Eden OB, Taylor GM, McNally RJQ. Space-time clustering patterns in childhood leukaemia support a role for infection. British Journal of Cancer 2000; 82: 1571-1576.
Colver AF, Gibson M, Hey EN, Jarvis SN, Mackie PC, Richmond S. Increasing rates of cerebral palsy across the severity spectrum in north-east England 1964-1993. The North of England Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Survey. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2000; 83: F7-F12.
Connolly V, Unwin N, Sherriff P, Bilous R, Kelly W. Diabetes prevalence and socioeconomic status: a population based study showing increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in deprived areas. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2000; 54: 173-7.
Cotterill SJ, Parker L, Malcolm AJ, Reid M, More L, Craft AW. Incidence and survival for cancer in children and young adults in the North of England, 1968-1995: a report from the Northern Region Young Persons' Malignant Disease Registry. British Journal of Cancer. 2000; 83: 397-403.
Croom S, Procter S, Couteur AL. Developing a concept analysis of control for use in child and adolescent mental health nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2000; 31: 1324-32.
Cryer PC, Jarvis SN, Edwards P, Langley JD. Why the government was right to change the 'Our Healthier Nation' accidental injury target. Public Health. 2000; 114: 232-7.
Daniel CP, Fisher A, Parker L, Burn J, Tawn EJ. Individual variation in somatic mutations of the glycophorin-A gene in neonates in relation to pre-natal factors. Mutation Research. 2000; 467: 153-9.
Denbow ML, Cox P, Taylor M, Hammal DM, Fisk NM. Placental angioarchitecture in monochorionic twin pregnancies: relationship to fetal growth, fetofetal transfusion syndrome, and pregnancy outcome. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2000; 182: 417-26.
Dickinson HO, Dummer TJ, Parker L. Estimating the population of young people by ethnic group in the Northern Region of England. Environment and Planning. 2000; 32: 1935-1938.
Dummer TJ, Dickinson HO, Pearce MS, Charlton ME, Parker L. Stillbirth risk with social class and deprivation: no evidence for increasing inequality. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2000; 53: 147-55.
Edwards R, Unwin N, Mugusi F, Whiting D, Rashid S, Kissima J, Aspray TJ, Alberti KG. Hypertension prevalence and care in an urban and rural area of Tanzania. Journal of Hypertension. 2000; 18: 145-52.
Epidemiology of lower extremity amputation in centres in Europe, North America and East Asia. Prepared by The global lower extremity amputation study group. British Journal of Surgery. 2000; 87: 328-37.
Glinianaia SV, Pharoah P, Sturgiss SN. Comparative trends in cause-specific fetal and neonatal mortality in twin and singleton births in the North of England, 1982-1994. The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2000; 107: 452-60.
Glinianaia SV, Skjaerven R, Magnus P. Birthweight percentiles by gestational age in multiple births. A population-based study of Norwegian twins and triplets. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 2000; 79: 450-8.
Healey CS, Dunning AM, Teare MD, Chase D, Parker L, Burn J, Chang-Claude J, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Huntsman DG, Pharoah PD, Luben RN, Easton DF, Ponder BA. A common variant in BRCA2 is associated with both breast cancer risk and prenatal viability. Nature Genetics. 2000; 26: 362-4.
Holdcroft A, Sapsed-Byrne S, Ma D, Hammal D, Forsling ML. Sex and oestrous cycle differences in visceromotor responses and vasopressin release in response to colonic distension in male and female rats anaesthetized with halothane. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2000; 85: 907-10.
Hutton JL, Colver AF, Mackie PC. Effect of severity of disability on survival in north east England cerebral palsy cohort. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2000; 83: 468-74.
Jarvis SN, Lowe PJ, Avery A, Levene S, Cormack RM. Children are not goldfish--mark/recapture techniques and their application to injury data. Injury Prevention. 2000; 6: 46-50.
Kanan RM, Varanasi SS, Francis RM, Parker L, Datta HK. Vitamin D receptor gene start codon polymorphism (FokI) and bone mineral density in healthy male subjects. Clinical Endocrinology. 2000; 53: 93-8.
Lamont D, Parker L, White M, Unwin N, Bennett SM, Cohen M, Richardson D, Dickinson HO, Adamson A, Alberti KG, Craft AW. Risk of cardiovascular disease measured by carotid intima-media thickness at age 49-51: lifecourse study. British Medical Journal. 2000; 320: 273-8.
Levitt NS, Unwin NC, Bradshaw D, Kitange HM, Mbanya JC, Mollentze WF, Omar MA, Motala AA, Joubert G, Masuki G, Machibya H. Application of the new ADA criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes to population studies in sub-Saharan Africa. American diabetes association. Diabetic Medicine. 2000; 17: 381-5.
Mackie E, Hill J, Kondryn H, McNally RJQ. Adult psychosocial outcomes in long-term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and Wilms’ tumour: a controlled study. Lancet. 2000; 355: 1310-14.
McConachie H, Huq S, Munir S, Ferdous S, Zaman S, Khan NZ. A randomized controlled trial of alternative modes of service provision to young children with cerebral palsy in Bangladesh. Journal of Pediatrics. 2000; 137: 769-76.
McNally RJQ, Birch JM, Taylor GM, EdenOB. Temporal increase in the incidence of childhood peak precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia seen in North West England. Lancet. 2000; 356: 485-6.
Mobarak R, Khan NZ, Munir S, Zaman SS, McConachie H. Predictors of stress in mothers of children with cerebral palsy in Bangladesh. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2000; 25: 427-33.
Morton-Jones T, Diggle P, Parker L, Dickinson HO, Binks K. Additive isotonic regression models in epidemiology. Statistics in Medicine. 2000; 19: 849-59.
Newbury-Birch D, White M, Kamali F. Factors influencing alcohol and illicit drug use amongst medical students. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2000; 59: 125-30.
O'Sullivan JJ, Pearce MS, Parker L. Parental recall of birth weight: how accurate is it? Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2000; 82: 202-3.
Parker L, Dickinson HO, Morton-Jones T. Proximity to maternity services and stillbirth risk. Archives of Disease in Childhood (Fetal and Neonatal Edition). 2000; 82: F167-8.
Parker L. The objective of cancer screening is to reduce disease-specific mortality, including screening for neuroblastoma. Medical and Pediatric Oncology. 2000; 34: 82-3.
Parker L. Falling sperm counts: nappies not to blame. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2000; [E-letter]:
Pearce MS, Parker L. Paternal employment in agriculture and childhood kidney cancer. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. 2000; 17: 223-30.
Pearce MS. Assessing the effects of treatments for hematological malignancies on prepubertal growth. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. 2000; 17: 441-3.
Pearce MS. Confidence based intervals based on the profile likelihood for explanatory variables in logistic regression models. Stata Technical Bulletin. 2000; 56: 45-47.
Pearce MS, Feltbower RG. Tests for seasonal data - Edwards and Walter & Elwood tests. Stata Technical Bulletin. 2000; 56: 47-49.
Pollard TM, Ward GA, Thornley J, Wooster G, Wooster J, Panter-Brick C. Modernisation and children's blood pressure: On and off the tourist trail in Nepal. American Journal of Human Biology. 2000; 12: 478-486.
Rankin J, Glinianaia SV, Brown R, Renwick M. The changing prevalence of neural tube defects: a population based study in the North of England, 1984-1996. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2000:
Rashid S, Aspray TJ, Edwards R, Mugusi F, Whiting D, Unwin NC, Setel P, Alberti KG. The pitfalls of measuring changes in smoking habits. Essential NCD Health Intervention Project Team. Tropical Doctor. 2000; 30: 160-1.
Setel PW, Unwin N, Alberti KGMM, Hemed Y. Cause-specific adult mortality: Evidence from community-based surveillance selected sites, Tanzania, 1992-1998. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2000; 49: 416-419.
Towner E, Towner J. Developing the history of unintentional injury: the use of coroners' records in early modern England. Injury Prevention. 2000; 6: 102-5.
Walker RW, McLarty DG, Kitange HM, Whiting D, Masuki G, Mtasiwa DM, Machibya H, Unwin N, Alberti KG. Stroke mortality in urban and rural Tanzania. Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project. Lancet. 2000; 355: 1684-7.
White M. Researching the changing social pattern of cardiovascular diseases. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2000; 54: 804-5.