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Representativeness of child controls recruited by random digit dialling

Recruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies

Dietary patterns and markers for the metabolic syndrome in Australian adolescents

Overweight and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) as well as their clustering, are increasingly prevalent among adolescents.

Association between socioeconomic status and the development of asthma: analyses of income trajectories

Using data on 2868 children born in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we examined the association between changes in family...

Stereotypical hand movements in 144 subjects with Rett syndrome from the population-based Australian database

Stereotypic hand movements are a feature of Rett Syndrome but few studies have observed their nature systematically.

The Second Research Report: patterns and trends in mortality of Western Australian infants, children and young people 2004-2005

This report was commissioned by the Department for Child Protection as an ongoing initiative to continue the work initiated by researchers at the Telethon Kids

Child behaviour following low to moderate maternal drinking in pregnancy

Child behaviour following low to moderate maternal drinking in pregnancy

Detecting genotyping error using measures of degree of Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium - art. no. 5

Tests for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) have been used to detect genotyping error, but those tests have low power unless the sample size is very large.

Adolescent dietary patterns are associated with lifestyle and family psychosocial factors

Few studies have examined the dietary patterns of adolescents and the social and environmental factors that may affect them during this life stage.