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Season, terrestrial ultraviolet radiation, and markers of glucose metabolism in children living in Perth, Western AustraliaIncreased safe sun exposure in winter therefore represents a plausible means of reducing fasting blood sugar in children with obesity
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Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of DNA methylation and childhood asthmaNovel loci differentially methylated in newborns represent potential biomarkers of risk of asthma by school age
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Five things that may surprise you about type 1 diabetesProfessor Liz Davis reveals five things you might not know about type 1 diabetes.
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PhD pathway program ensuring bright future for clinical research in WATwo outstanding Perth Children’s Hospital clinicians will be supported to pursue a career in medical research, paving the way for more clinician-scientists in Western Australia.
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Validation of Physical Activity Assessment in Type 1 Diabetes – an Essential Step to Incorporating Systematic Measurement of Activity as the Standard of Care in YouthLiz Tim Davis Jones MBBS FRACP PhD MBBS DCH FRACP MD Co-director of Children’s Diabetes Centre Co-head, Diabetes and Obesity Research Co-director of
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Incidence of childhood onset type 1 diabetes in Western Australia from 1985 to 2016: Evidence for a plateauThis study provides evidence for a possible plateauing in the incidence of childhood T1D in Western Australia, following a peak in 2003
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Environmental determinants of islet autoimmunity (ENDIA): a pregnancy to early life cohort study in children at-risk of type 1 diabetesThese observations suggest factors in the modern environment promote pancreatic islet autoimmunity and destruction of insulin-producing beta cells.
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Are low sun exposure and/or Vitamin D risk factors for type 1 diabetesEvidence supports that higher sun exposure and/or vitamin D sufficiency in pregnancy, or supplementation in early life, decreases type 1 diabetes risk
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Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Maternal and Family FactorsThe need to target prevention and intervention efforts for childhood overweight and obesity towards families with overweight parents
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Exercise training improves vascular function in adolescents with type 2 diabetesExercise training can improve both endothelial function and health, independent of changes in insulin sensitivity in adolescents with type 2 diabetes