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Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group
Publications
2002
Ahmad N, Pollard TM, Unwin N. The optimal timing of blood collection during the menstrual cycle for the assessment of endogenous sex hormones: can interindividual differences in levels over the whole cycle be assessed on a single day? Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 2002; 11: 147-51.
Agarwal R, Chiswick ML, Rimmer S, Taylor GM, McNally RJQ, Alston RD, D’Souza SW. Antenatal steroids are associated with a reduction in the incidence of cerebral white matter lesions in very low birth weight infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal Neonatal Edition 2002; 86: F96-F101.
Aspray TJ. Purity, pragmatism and hip protector pads. Age Ageing. 2002; 31(4): 319.
Athey K, Towner E. An impact evaluation of the WHOOPS child safety project (In What works in child injury prevention: bridging the gap between research and practise). European Child Safety Alliance. 2002; Workshop report 19:
Bell R, Ithindi T, Low A. Improving equity in the provision of primary health care: lessons from decentralized planning and management in Namibia. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2002; 80: 675-81.
Bell CL, Hammal DM. Case-control versus cohort studies in the investigation of childhood cancer. Pediatric Hematology Oncology. 2002; 19: 289-93.
Bhopal R, Hayes L, White M, Unwin N, Harland J, Ayis S, Alberti G. Ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in coronary heart disease, diabetes and risk factors in Europeans and South Asians. Journal of Public Health Medicine. 2002; 24: 95-105.
Birch JM, Alston RD, Kelsey AM, Quinn MJ, Babb P, McNally RJQ. Classification and incidence of cancers in adolescents and young adults in England 1979-1997. British Journal of Cancer. 2002; 87: 1267-1274.
Bullen PJ, Rankin J, Robson SC. Investigation of the epidemiology and prenatal diagnosis of holoprosencephaly in the North of England. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2002; 184: 1256-1262.
Campbell DI, Lunn PG, Elia M. Age-related association of small intestinal mucosal enteropathy with nutritional status in rural Gambian children. British Journal of Nutrition. 2002; 88: 499-505.
Colver AF, Gale C, Appleby L. Health of children considered for adoption. Child: care, health and development. 2002; 28: 455-7.
Cryer C, Langley JD, Stephenson SC, Jarvis SN, Edwards P. Measure for measure: the quest for valid indicators of non-fatal injury incidence. Public Health. 2002; 116: 257-62.
Decode Study Group. Age, body mass index and glucose tolerance in 11 European population-based surveys. Diabetic Medicine. 2002; 19: 558-65.
Dickinson HO, Hammal DM, Bithell JF, Parker L. Population mixing and childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in census wards in England and Wales, 1966-87. British Journal of Cancer. 2002; 86: 1411-3.
Dickinson HO, Nyari TA, Parker L. Childhood solid tumours in relation to infections in the community in Cumbria during pregnancy and around the time of birth. British Journal of Cancer. 2002; 87: 746-50.
Dickinson HO, Parker L. Leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children of male Sellafield radiation workers. International Journal of Cancer. 2002; 99: 437-44.
Dickinson HO, Parker L, Salotti J, Birch P. Paternal preconceptional irradiation, population mixing and solid tumors in the children of radiation workers (England). Cancer Causes Control. 2002; 13: 183-9.
Dickinson HO, Parker L. Leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children of Sellafield male radiation workers. International Journal of Cancer. 2002; 101: 100.
Dickinson HO, Hutton JL, Greaves LH, Dummer TJ, Parker L. Deprivation and stillbirth risk in rural and urban areas. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2002; 16: 249-54.
Dorak MT, Oguz FS, Yalman N, Diler AS, Kalayoglu S, Anak S, Sargin D, Carin M. A male-specific increase in the HLA-DRB4 (DR53) frequency in high-risk and relapsed childhood ALL. Leukemia Research. 2002; 26: 651-6.
Dorak MT, Burnett AK, Worwood M. Hemochromatosis gene in leukemia and lymphoma. Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2002; 43: 467-77.
Dorak MT, Folayan GO, Niwas S, van Leeuwen DJ, Yee LJ, Tang J, Kaslow RA. C-C chemokine receptor 2 and C-C chemokine receptor 5 genotypes in patients treated for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Immunologic Research. 2002; 26: 167-75.
Dorak MT, Lawson T, Machulla HK, Mills KI, Burnett AK. Increased heterozygosity for MHC class II lineages in newborn males. Genes & Immunity. 2002; 3: 263-9.
Dorak MT. Book Review:- Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System by Abbas & Lichtman, W.B. Saunders Co. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2002; 155: 185-186.
Dowswell T, Towner E. Social deprivation and the prevention of unintentional injury in childhood: a systematic review. Health Education Research. 2002; 17: 221-37.
Drummond PM, Colver AF. Analysis by gestational age of cerebral palsy in singleton births in north-east England 1970-94. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2002; 16: 172-80.
Glinianaia SV, Rankin J, Wright C, Sturgiss SN, Renwick M. A multiple pregnancy register in the north of England. Twin Research. 2002; 5: 436-9.
Glinianaia SV, Pharoah PO, Wright C, Rankin JM. Fetal or infant death in twin pregnancy: neurodevelopmental consequence for the survivor. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal Neonatal Edition. 2002; 86: F9-15.
Hammal DM, Bell CL. Confounding and bias in epidemiological investigations. Pediatric Hematology Oncology. 2002; 19: 375-81.
Hayes L, White M, Unwin N, Bhopal R, Fischbacher C, Harland J, Alberti KG. Patterns of physical activity and relationship with risk markers for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and European adults in a UK population. Journal of Public Health Medicine. 2002; 24: 170-8.
Jagoe K, Edwards R, Mugusi F, Whiting D, Unwin N. Tobacco smoking in Tanzania, East Africa: population based smoking prevalence using expired alveolar carbon monoxide as a validation tool. Tobacco Control. 2002; 11: 210-4.
Kotb M, Norrby-Teglund A, McGeer A, El-Sherbini H, Dorak MT, Khurshid A, Green K, Peeples J, Wade J, Thomson G, Schwartz B, Low DE. An immunogenetic and molecular basis for differences in outcomes of invasive group A streptococcal infections. Nature Medicine. 2002; 8: 1398-404.
Macdougall CF, Cant AJ, Colver AF. How dangerous is food allergy in childhood? The incidence of severe and fatal allergic reactions across the UK and Ireland. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2002; 86: 236-9.
Mackie PC, Jessen EC, Jarvis SN. Creating a measure of impact of childhood disability: statistical methodology. Public Health. 2002; 116: 95-101.
McArdle P, Moseley D, Quibell T, Johnson R, Allen A, Hammal D, leCouteur A. School-based indicated prevention: a randomised trial of group therapy. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. 2002; 43: 705-12.
McConachie H. Appropriate research design in evaluating interventions for children with disabilities. Child: care, health and development. 2002; 28: 195-7.
McNally RJQ, Cairns DP, Eden OB, Alexander FE, Taylor GM, Kelsey AM, Birch JM. An infectious aetiology for childhood brain tumours? Evidence from space-time clustering and seasonality analyses. British Journal of Cancer. 2002; 86: 1070-1077.
McNally RJQ, Alexander FE, Birch JM. Space-time clustering analyses of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia by immunophenotype. British Journal of Cancer. 2002; 87: 513-515.
Oguz FS, Yalman N, Diler AS, Oguz R, Anak S, Dorak MT. HLA-DRB1*15 and pediatric aplastic anemia. Haematologica. 2002; 87: 772-4.
O'Sullivan J, Wright C, Pearce MS, Parker L. The influence of age and gender on the relationship between birth weight and blood pressure in childhood: a study using 24-hour and casual blood pressure. European Journal of Epidemiology. 2002; 161: 423-7.
Parker L. Prognostic indicators in cancer: a new approach. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. 2002; 19: 73-5.
Pearce MS, Dickinson HO, Aitkin M, Parker L. Stillbirths among the offspring of male radiation workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant: detailed results and statistical aspects. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 2002; 165: 523-548.
Petticrew M, Bell R, Hunter D. Influence of psychological coping on survival and recurrence in people with cancer: systematic review. British Medical Journal. 2002; 325: 1066.
Pollard TM, Fischbacher C, Unwin N. Trends in sex differences in mortality from heart disease: oestrogen may contribute to variation in mortality. British Medical Journal. 2002; 324: 238.
Rankin J, Wright C, Lind T. Cross sectional survey of parents' experience and views of the postmortem examination. British Medical Journal. 2002; 324: 816-8.
Relton CL, Daniel CP, Fisher A, Chase DS, Burn J, Tawn EJ. Polymorphisms of the DNA repair gene XRCC1 and the frequency of somatic mutations at the glycophorin A locus in newborns. Mutation Research. 2002; 502: 61-8.
Roper NA, Bilous RW, Kelly WF, Unwin NC, Connolly VM. Cause-specific mortality in a population with diabetes: South Tees Diabetes Mortality Study. Diabetes Care. 2002; 25: 43-8.
Sabek O, Dorak MT, Kotb M, Gaber AO, Gaber L. Quantitative detection of T-cell activation markers by real-time PCR in renal transplant rejection and correlation with histopathologic evaluation. Transplantation. 2002; 74: 701-7.
Sobngwi E, Mbanya JC, Unwin NC, Kengne AP, Fezeu L, Minkoulou EM, Aspray TJ, Alberti KG. Physical activity and its relationship with obesity, hypertension and diabetes in urban and rural Cameroon. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders. 2002; 26: 1009-16.
Towner E, Towner J. UNICEF's child injury league table. An analysis of legislation: more mixed messages. Injury Prevention. 2002; 8: 97-100.
Towner E, Dowswell T. Community-based childhood injury prevention interventions: what works? Health Promotion International. 2002; 17: 273-84.
Unwin N, Shaw J, Zimmet P, Alberti KG. Impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glycaemia: the current status on definition and intervention. Diabetic Medicine. 2002; 19: 708-23.