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The ABC of vitamin D: a qualitative study of the knowledge and attitudes regarding vitamin D deficiency amongst selected population groups
Published 2013OBJECTIVE: In Australia, vitamin D supply in food is limited, and sun exposure is the main source of vitamin D. However skin cancer risk is high, and the need to gain some sun exposure for adequate vitamin D is challenging ...Article -
ABC Women's Health Study: Breast cancer risk among Australian Broadcasting Corporation female employees.
Published 2010Report, Research -
Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities
Published 200915 years after liberation from apartheid, South Africans are facing new challenges for which the highest calibre of leadership, vision, and commitment is needed. The effect of the unprecedented HIV/AIDS epidemic has been ...Article -
Acute hospital-based services used by adults during the last year of life in New South Wales, Australia: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Published 2015Background: There is limited information about health care utilisation at the end of life for people in Australia. We describe acute hospital-based services utilisation during the last year of life for all adults (aged 18+ ...Article -
Acute hospital-based services utilisation during the last year of life in New South Wales, Australia: methods for a population-based study
Published 2014OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to describe healthcare utilisation in the last year of life for people in Australia, to help inform health services planning. The methods and datasets that are being used are described ...Article -
Adiposity and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: Prospective study in women and meta-analysis.
Published 2016OBJECTIVE: To compare associations of body mass index (BMI) with ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke risk, and to review the worldwide evidence. METHODS: We recruited 1.3 million previously stroke-free UK women between ...Article -
Adult body size, sexual history and adolescent sexual development, may predict risk of developing prostate cancer: Results from the New South Wales Lifestyle and Evaluation of Risk Study (CLEAR).
Published 2017Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in men worldwide. The relationships between PC and possible risk factors for PC cases (n = 1,181) and male controls (n = 875) from the New South Wales (NSW) ...Article -
The advertised diet: an examination of the extent and nature of food advertising on Australian television
Published 2013ISSUES ADDRESSED: The aim of the present study was to describe food advertising and expenditure on Australian television, and to conduct an audit to assess what proportion of food and beverage television advertisements was ...Article -
After BRCA1 and BRCA2-what next? Multifactorial segregation analyses of three-generation, population-based Australian families affected by female breast cancer
Published 2001Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 that cause a dominantly inherited high risk of female breast cancer seem to explain only a small proportion of the aggregation of the disease. To study the possible additional genetic components, ...Article -
Age at menarche and risks of coronary heart and other vascular diseases in a large UK cohort
Published 2015BACKGROUND: Early menarche has been associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but most studies were relatively small and could not assess risk across a wide range of menarcheal ages; few have examined ...Article -
Age, health, and education determine supportive care needs of men younger than 70 years with prostate cancer
Published 2007PURPOSE: It is important to meet the supportive care needs of cancer patients to ensure their satisfaction with their care. A population-wide sample of men younger than 70 years and newly diagnosed with prostate cancer was ...Article -
Age-specific HPV prevalence among 116,052 women in Australia's renewed cervical screening program: A new tool for monitoring vaccine impact
Published 2019Australia's transition to primary human papillomavirus (HPV) based cervical screening, has for the first time, provided a passive mechanism for monitoring the impact of vaccination on infection prevalence among women ...Article -
The agreement between self-reported cervical smear abnormalities and screening programme records
Published 2006SETTING: The Million Women Study is a cohort study of women aged 50-64 years in England and Scotland. As a component of the follow-up questionnaire, participants were asked to indicate if they had an abnormal cervical smear ...Article -
Alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and subtypes of haematological malignancy in the UK Million Women Study
Published 2012ABSTRACT Background: Previous research suggests associations of lower alcohol intake and higher tobacco consumption with increased risks of haematological malignancy. The prospective Million Women Study provides sufficient ...Article -
Anal cancer in high-income countries: Increasing burden of disease
Published 2018Background Previous studies have reported that anal cancer incidence has increased in individual countries; however, age-specific trends were not examined in detail. This study describes pooled and country-specific anal ...Article -
Analysis of 10-year cause-specific mortality of patients with breast cancer treated in New South Wales in 1995
Published 2011Objective: The objective of this study is to assess cause-specific mortality for patients with breast cancer and to determine if excess cardiac death was associated with radiation therapy (RT). Methods: We obtained 10-year ...Article -
An analysis of a multiple biomarker panel to better predict prostate cancer metastasis after radical prostatectomy
Published 2019A plethora of individual candidate biomarkers for predicting biochemical relapse in localized prostate cancer (PCa) have been proposed. Combined biomarkers may improve prognostication, and ensuring validation against more ...Article -
Androgen receptor exon 1 CAG repeat length and breast cancer in women before age forty years
Published 1999BACKGROUND: We conducted a population-based, case-control-family study to determine whether androgen receptor (AR) exon 1 polymorphic CAG repeat length (CAGn) was a risk factor for early-onset breast cancer in the Australian ...Article -
Androgenetic alopecia and prostate cancer: findings from an Australian case-control study
Published 2001The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between androgenetic alopecia (AA) and prostate cancer with particular emphasis on early age at diagnosis and higher grade tumors. We conducted an age-stratified, ...Article