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Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group
Publications

2003
 

Adams J, White M. Are activity promotion interventions based on the transtheoretical model effective? A critical review. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2003; 37: 106-14.

Adams J, White M.  Health benefits of green spaces not confirmed.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2003; 57: 312.

Adams J, White M.  Evidence concerning social capital and health inequalities is still lacking.  Journal of Public Health Medicine. 2003; 25(2): 184-185.

Adams J, White M, Barker G, Mathers J, Burn J. Are there socio-economic inequalities in age of resection of colorectal cancer in people with HNPCC? Family Cancer. 2003; 2: 169-73.

Alston RD, Lawson B, Newton R, Kelsey A, Newbould MJ, Birch JM, McNally RJQ.  Childhood medulloblastoma in North West England 1954-1997: Incidence and Survival. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 2003; 45: 308-314. 

Bell R, Rankin J, Donaldson LJ. Down's syndrome: occurrence and outcome in the north of England, 1985-99. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2003; 17: 33-9.

Bush J, White M, Kai J, Rankin J, Bhopal R. Understanding influences on smoking in Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults: community based, qualitative study. British Medical Journal. 2003; 326: 962.

Campbell DI, Murch SH, Elia M, Sullivan PB, Sanyang MS, Jobarteh B, Lunn PG. Chronic T cell-mediated enteropathy in rural west African children: relationship with nutritional status and small bowel function. Pediatric Research. 2003; 54: 306-11.

Campbell DI, Elia M, Lunn PG. Growth faltering in rural Gambian infants is associated with impaired small intestinal barrier function, leading to endotoxemia and systemic inflammation. Journal of Nutrition. 2003; 133: 1332-8.

Campbell DI, Beath SV, deVille de Goyet J, Thomas AG, Booth IW, Milford D, McKiernan PJ, Kelly DA. Severe intestinal lymphangiectasia complicated by nephrotic syndrome treated by small bowel, liver, and kidney transplantation. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2003; 36: 278-82.

Cattan M, Newell C, Bond J, White M. Alleviating social isolation and loneliness among older people. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion. 2003; 5: 20-30.

Charman T, Howlin P, Aldred C, Baird G, Degli Espinosa F, Diggle T, Kovshoff H, Law J, Le Couteur A, MacNiven J, Magiati I, Martin N, McConachie H, Peacock S, Pickles A, Randle V, Slonims V, Wolke D. Research into early intervention for children with autism and related disorders: methodological and design issues. Report on a workshop funded by the Wellcome Trust, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, November 2001. Autism. 2003; 7: 217-25.

Colver AF, Macdougall C, Cant A. Food allergy in childhood. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2003; 88: 742-3.

Colver AF, Sethumadhavan T. The term diplegia should be abandoned. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2003; 88: 286-90.

Colver AF. The benefits of a population register of cerebral palsy. Indian Paediatrics. 2003; 40: 639-644.

Decode Study Group.  Age- and sex-specific prevalences of diabetes and impaired glucose regulation in 13 European cohorts. Prepared by the  Diabetes Care. 2003; 26: 61-9.

Decode Study Group.  Gender difference in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality related to hyperglycaemia and newly-diagnosed diabetes.  Diabetologia. 2003; 46: 608-17

Decode Study Group. Is the current definition for diabetes relevant to mortality risk from all causes and cardiovascular and noncardiovascular diseases? Diabetes Care. 2003; 26: 688-96.

Dickinson HO, Hammal DM, Dummer TJ, Parker L, Bithell JF. Childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in relation to proximity to railways. British Journal of Cancer. 2003; 88: 695-8.

Dickinson HO, Hodgson JT, Parker L. Comparison of Health and Safety Executive and Cumbrian birth cohort studies of risk of leukaemia/non-Hodgkins lymphoma in relation to paternal preconception irradiation. Journal of Radiological Protection. 2003; 23: 385-403.

Diggle T, McConachie HR, Randle VR. Parent-mediated early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder. Cochrane Database Systematic Review. 2003: CD003496.

Dorak MT, Tang J, Tang S, Penman-Aguilar A, Coutinho RA, Goedert JJ, Detels R, Kaslow RA. Influence of human leukocyte antigen-B22 alleles on the course of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in 3 cohorts of white men. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2003; 188: 856-63.

Dummer TJ, Dickinson HO, Parker L. Adverse pregnancy outcomes around incinerators and crematoriums in Cumbria, north west England, 1956-93. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2003; 57: 456-61.

Dummer TJ, Dickinson HO, Parker L. Prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes around hazardous industrial sites in Cumbria, north-west England, 1950-93. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2003; 17: 250-5.

Eltringham G, Kearns A, Freeman R, Clark J, Spencer D, Eastham K, Harwood J, Leeming J. Culture-negative childhood empyema is usually due to penicillin-sensitive Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular serotype 1. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2003; 41: 521-2.

Fischbacher CM, Bhopal R, Blackwell CC, Ingram R, Unwin NC, White M, Alberti KG. IgG is higher in South Asians than Europeans: does infection contribute to ethnic variation in cardiovascular disease? Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 2003; 23: 703-4.

Fischbacher CM, Bhopal R, Rutter MK, Unwin NC, Marshall SM, White M, Alberti KG. Microalbuminuria is more frequent in South Asian than in European origin populations: a comparative study in Newcastle, UK. Diabetic Medicine. 2003; 20: 31-6.

Hedderly T, Baird G, McConachie H. Parental reaction to disability. Current Paediatrics. 2003; 13: 30-35.

Hill J, Kondryn H, Mackie E, McNally R, Eden T.  Adult psychosocial functioning following childhood cancer: the different roles of sons’ and daughters’ relationships with their fathers and mothers. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2003; 44: 752-762.

Hu G. Gender difference in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality related to hyperglycaemia and newly-diagnosed diabetes. Diabetologia. 2003; 46: 608-17.

Jarvis S, Glinianaia SV, Torrioli MG, Platt MJ, Miceli M, Jouk PS, Johnson A, Hutton J, Hemming K, Hagberg G, Dolk H, Chalmers J. Cerebral palsy and intrauterine growth in single births: European collaborative study. Lancet. 2003; 362: 1106-11.

Jessen EC, Colver AF, Mackie PC, Jarvis SN. Development and validation of a tool to measure the impact of childhood disabilities on the lives of children and their families. Child: care, health and development. 2003; 29: 21-34.

Machulla HK, Batnasan D, Steinborn F, Uyar FA, Saruhan-Direskeneli G, Oguz FS, Carin MN, Dorak MT. Genetic affinities among Mongol ethnic groups and their relationship to Turks. Tissue Antigens. 2003; 61: 292-9.

McConachie H, Logan S. Validation of the measure of processes of care for use when there is no Child Development Centre. Child: care, health and development. 2003; 29: 35-45.

McNally RJQ, Alston RD, Cairns DP, Eden OB, Kelsey AM, Birch JM.  Geographical and ecological analyses of childhood Wilms’ tumours and soft tissue sarcomas in North West England: Evidence for environmental aetiological factors.  European Journal of Cancer 2003; 39: 1586-1593.

McNally RJQ, Alston RD, Cairns DP, Eden OB, Birch JM.   Geographical and ecological analyses of childhood acute leukaemias and lymphomas in North West England.  British Journal of Haematology. 2003; 123: 60-65.

McNally RJQ, Kelsey AM, Eden OB, Alexander FE, Cairns DP, Birch JM.  Space-time clustering patterns in childhood solid tumours other than central nervous system tumours. International Journal of Cancer. 2003; 103: 253-258.

Miller J, Colligan J, Colver AF. A qualitative study, using focused interviews, of the information needs of families whose children's names are on a cerebral palsy register. Child: care, health and development. 2003; 29: 465-471.

Nyari TA, Dickinson HO, Hammal DM, Parker L. Childhood solid tumours in relation to population mixing around the time of birth. British Journal of Cancer. 2003; 88: 1370-4.

Nyari TA, Dickinson HO, Parker L. Childhood cancer in relation to infections in the community during pregnancy and around the time of birth. International Journal of Cancer. 2003; 104: 772-7.

Ogungbo B I, Gregson B, Mendelow A D, Walker R W.  Cerebrovascular diseases in Nigeria: What do we know and what do we need to know?   Tropical Doctor, 2003,  33: 25-30.

Oguz FS, Kalayoglu S, Diler AS, Tozkir H, Sargin D, Carin M, Dorak MT. HLA system affects the age-at-onset in chronic myeloid leukemia. American Journal of Hematology. 2003; 73: 256-62.

Pang D, McNally RJQ, Birch JM.  On behalf of the UK Childhood Cancer Study Investigators. Parental Smoking and childhood cancer: Results from the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study. British Journal of Cancer. 2003; 88: 373-381.

Pang D, McNally RJQ, Kelsey A, Birch JM.  Cancer incidence and mortality among the parents of a population-based series of 2604 children with cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 2003; 12:538-544.

Parker L, Lamont DW, Unwin N, Pearce MS, Bennett SM, Dickinson HO, White M, Mathers JC, Alberti KG, Craft AW. A lifecourse study of risk for hyperinsulinaemia, dyslipidaemia and obesity (the central metabolic syndrome) at age 49-51 years. Diabetic Medicine. 2003; 20: 406-15.

Parker L, Salotti J, Cresswell T, Jarvis S, Lothian J, Hammal DM, Colver A, Smith I.  Children with long-term disability in the former Northern and Yorkshire NHS Region - A scoping study for the North East Public Health Observatory.  North East Public Health Observatory, September 2003

Pearce MS, Parker L, Cotterill SJ, Gordon PM, Craft AW. Skin cancer in children and young adults: 28 years' experience from the Northern Region Young Person's Malignant Disease Registry, UK. Melanoma Research. 2003; 13: 421-6.

Pearce MS, O'Sullivan JJ. Relationship between birth weight and blood pressure variability in children. Journal of Human Hypertension. 2003; 17: 677-80.

Pollard TM, Carlin LE, Bhopal R, Unwin N, White M, Fischbacher C. Social networks and coronary heart disease risk factors in South Asians and Europeans in the UK. Ethnicity and Health. 2003; 8: 263-75.

Pollard TM, Schwartz JE. Are changes in blood pressure and total cholesterol related to changes in mood? An 18-month study of men and women. Health Psychology. 2003; 22: 47-53.

Rankin J, Bush J, Cresswell P, Bell R, Renwick M, Ward-Platt M.  Changing practice: the impact of CESDI in the North of England.  In: Adverse outcomes in maternity care - recommendations from the Confidential Enquiries. CEMACH 2003; 137-150.

Relton CL, Wilding CS, Jonas PA, Lynch SA, Tawn EJ, Burn J. Genetic susceptibility to neural tube defect pregnancy varies with offspring phenotype. Clinical Genetics. 2003; 64: 424-8.

Relton CL, Jackson A, Burn J. Folic acid - changes in women's knowledge. British Journal of Midwifery. 2003; 11: 438-441.

Tavridou A, Unwin N, Bhopal R, Laker MF. Predictors of lipoprotein(a) levels in a European and South Asian population in the Newcastle Heart Project. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2003; 33: 686-92.

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