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ORIGINS BENEFIT study is looking at whether mums eating more allergenic foods during pregnancy and early breastfeeding would make a difference to their children developing allergies.

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How to identify and tackle a weight problem in children is a delicate and sensitive issue for many parents. However, the earlier any child weight issues are identified the better.

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One of the more common food allergies ORIGINS is seeing in babies is cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA).

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Our participants have the opportunity to join a variety of sub-projects ranging from allergy prevention to improving the mental health of families.

Research

Cohort studies investigating respiratory disease pathogenesis aim to pair mechanistic investigations with longitudinal virus detection but are limited by the burden of methods tracking illness over time. In this study, we explored the utility of a purpose-built AERIAL TempTracker smartphone app to assess real-time data collection and adherence monitoring and overall burden to participants, while identifying symptomatic respiratory illnesses in two birth cohort studies.

The Mums Minds Matter study is comparing three stress-reduction training programs across a custom-designed app that is working to increase long-term mental health skill application among perinatal women.

This study aims to examine how a Mediterranean diet and exercise in pregnancy impacts on neonatal body fat composition at birth and weight at one year of age.

Exploring whether urinary ferritin can be used as an alternative biomarker for measuring iron status in young children over blood draws.