CDAH Publications

1.The childhood determinants of adult health study: a profile of a cohort study to examine the childhood influences on adult cardiovascular health

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2. Involvement of young Australian adults in meal preparation: cross-sectional associations with sociodemographic factors and diet quality

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3. Depression and insulin resistance: cross-sectional associations in young adults.

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4. Predictive associations between alternative measures of childhood adiposity and adult cardio-metabolic health

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5.Skipping breakfast: longitudinal associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study

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6. Measures of childhood fitness and body mass index are associated with bone mass in adulthood: a 20 year prospective study

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7. Physical activity and depression in young adults

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8. Evaluating the use of a portable ultrasound machine to quantify intima-media thickness and flow-mediated dilation: agreement between measurements from two ultrasound machines

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9. Trends in children's physical activity and weight status in high and low socio-economic status areas of Melbourne, Victoria, 1985-2001

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10. Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

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11. Utility of currently recommended pediatric dyslipidemia classifications in predicting dyslipidemia in adulthood. Evidence from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study, Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, and Bogalusa Heart Study

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12. Parental exercise is associated with Australian children's extracurricular sports participation and cardiorespiratory fitness: A cross-sectional study

13. A comparison of subjective and objective measures of physical activity and fitness in identifying associations with cardio-metabolic risk factors

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14. The provision of two hours of weekly physical activity in Australian schools: associations with physical activity, fitness and overweight in childhood and twenty years later

15. Parental smoking and smoking experimentation in childhood increase the risk of being a smoker 20 years later: the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study

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16. Physical activity and healthy weight maintenance from childhood to adulthood

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17. Television viewing and abdominal obesity in young adults: is the association mediated by food and beverage consumption during viewing time or reduced leisure-time physical activity?

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18. Cardiometabolic risk in younger and older adults across an index of ambulatory activity

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19. Takeaway food consumption and its associations with diet quality and abdominal obesity: a cross-sectional study of young adults

20. Decline in Physical Fitness From Childhood to Adulthood Associated With Increased Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Adults

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21. Obesity and menstrual irregularity: associations With SHBG, testosterone, and insulin

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22. The association of pediatric low- and high-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Dyslipidemia classifications and change in Dyslipidemia Status with Carotid Intima-Media thickness in adulthood: evidence from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, the Bogalusa Heart Study, and the CDAH (Childhood Determinants of Adult Health) Study.

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23. Socioeconomic Position and the Tracking of Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness From Childhood to Adulthood

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24. Healthy lifestyles and cardiovascular risk profiles in young Australian adults: the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study

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25. Intergenerational educational mobility is associated with cardiovascular disease risk behaviours in a cohort of young Australian adults: The Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study

26. Oral contraceptive use and bone mass in women aged 26-36 years

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27. Use of B-Mode Ultrasound to Examine Preclinical Markers of Atherosclerosis: Image Quality May Bias Associations Between Adiposity and Measures of Vascular Structure and Function

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28. Muscular fitness and clustered cardiovascular disease risk in Australian youth

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29. Factors Affecting the Stability of Blood Lipid and Lipoprotein Levels From Youth to Adulthood

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30.Tapp RJ, Venn A, Huynh QL, Raitakari OT, Ukoumunne OC, Dwyer T, Magnussen CG. Impact of adiposity on cardiac structure in adult life: the childhood determinants of adult health (CDAH) study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2014;14(79):1471-2261.

31.Smith KJ, Sanderson K, McNaughton SA, Gall SL, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Longitudinal associations between fish consumption and depression in young adults. Am J Epidemiol 2014;179(10):1228-35.

32.Quan HL, Blizzard CL, Sharman JE, Magnussen CG, Dwyer T, Raitakari O, Cheung M, Venn AJ. Resting heart rate and the association of physical fitness with carotid artery stiffness. Am J Hypertens 2014;27(1):65-71.

33.McKercher C, Sanderson K, Schmidt MD, Otahal P, Patton GC, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Physical activity patterns and risk of depression in young adulthood: a 20-year cohort study since childhood. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol Epub 2014 Mar 14.

34.Magnussen CG, Dwyer T, Venn A. Family history of premature coronary heart disease, child cardio-metabolic risk factors and left ventricular mass. Cardiol Young 2014;24(5):938-40.

35.Huynh QL, Blizzard CL, Sharman JE, Magnussen CG, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. The cross-sectional association of sitting time with carotid artery stiffness in young adults. BMJ Open 2014;4(3):2013-004384.

36.Hintsanen M, Puttonen S, Smith K, Tornroos M, Jokela M, Pulkki-Raback L, Hintsa T, Merjonen P, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Venn A, Keltikangas-Jarvinen L. Five-Factor Personality Traits and Sleep: Evidence From Two Population-Based Cohort Studies. Health Psychol Epub 2014 Aug 18.

37.Gall S, Huynh QL, Magnussen CG, Juonala M, Viikari JS, Kahonen M, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Venn A. Exposure to parental smoking in childhood or adolescence is associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness in young adults: evidence from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study. Eur Heart J Epub 2014 Mar 4.

38.Cleland V, Schmidt M, Salmon J, Dywer T, Venn A. Combined associations of sitting time and physical activity with obesity in young adults. J Phys Act Health 2014;11(1):136-44.

39.Oikonen M, Laitinen TT, Magnussen CG, Steinberger J, Sinaiko AR, Dwyer T, Venn A, Smith KJ, Hutri-Kahonen N, Pahkala K, Mikkila V, Prineas R, Viikari JS, Morrison JA, Woo JG, Chen W, Nicklas T, Srinivasan SR, Berenson G, Juonala M, Raitakari OT. Ideal cardiovascular health in young adult populations from the United States, Finland, and Australia and its association with cIMT: the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium. J Am Heart Assoc 2013;2(3):000244.

40.Laitinen TT, Pahkala K, Venn A, Woo JG, Oikonen M, Dwyer T, Mikkila V, Hutri-Kahonen N, Smith KJ, Gall SL, Morrison JA, Viikari JS, Raitakari OT, Magnussen CG, Juonala M. Childhood lifestyle and clinical determinants of adult ideal cardiovascular health: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study, the Princeton Follow-Up Study. Int J Cardiol 2013;169(2):126-32.

41.Juhola J, Magnussen CG, Berenson GS, Venn A, Burns TL, Sabin MA, Srinivasan SR, Daniels SR, Davis PH, Chen W, Kahonen M, Taittonen L, Urbina E, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Juonala M. Combined effects of child and adult elevated blood pressure on subclinical atherosclerosis: the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium. Circulation 2013;128(3):217-24.

42.Huynh Q, Blizzard L, Sharman J, Magnussen C, Schmidt M, Dwyer T, Venn A. Relative contributions of adiposity in childhood and adulthood to vascular health of young adults. Atherosclerosis 2013;228(1):259-64.

43.Antony B, Jones G, Venn A, Cicuttini F, March L, Blizzard L, Dwyer T, Cross M, Ding C. Association between childhood overweight measures and adulthood knee pain, stiffness and dysfunction: a 25-year cohort study. Ann Rheum Dis 2013;17(10):2013-204161.

44.Wei S, Jones G, Venn A, Cicuttini F, March L, Otahal P, Cross M, Dalton M, Dwyer T, Ding C. The association between parity and knee cartilage in young women. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2012;51(11):2039-45.

45.Smith KJ, Blizzard L, McNaughton SA, Gall SL, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Takeaway food consumption and cardio-metabolic risk factors in young adults. Eur J Clin Nutr 2012;66(5):577-84.

46.Smith KJ, Blizzard L, McNaughton SA, Gall SL, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Daily eating frequency and cardiometabolic risk factors in young Australian adults: cross-sectional analyses. Br J Nutr 2012;108(6):1086-94.

47.Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Venn A, Gall S, Kahonen M, Laitinen T, Taittonen L, Lehtimaki T, Jokinen E, Sun C, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT. Parental smoking in childhood and brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation in young adults: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2012;32(4):1024-31.

48.Gall S, Seal J, Taylor R, Dwyer T, Venn A. Folate status and socio-demographic predictors of folate status, among a national cohort of women aged 26-36 in Australia, 2004-2006. Aust N Z J Public Health 2012;36(5):421-6.

49.Dwyer T, Sun C, Magnussen CG, Raitakari OT, Schork NJ, Venn A, Burns TL, Juonala M, Steinberger J, Sinaiko AR, Prineas RJ, Davis PH, Woo JG, Morrison JA, Daniels SR, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Viikari JS, Berenson GS. Cohort Profile: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium. Int J Epidemiol 2012.

50.Cleland V, Dwyer T, Venn A. Which domains of childhood physical activity predict physical activity in adulthood? A 20-year prospective tracking study. Br J Sports Med 2012;46(8):595-602.

51.Smith KJ, McNaughton SA, Gall SL, Blizzard L, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Involvement of young Australian adults in meal preparation: cross-sectional associations with abdominal obesity and body mass index. J Am Diet Assoc 2011;111(8):1187-91.

52.Sanderson K, Patton GC, McKercher C, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Overweight and obesity in childhood and risk of mental disorder: a 20-year cohort study. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2011;45(5):384-92.

53.Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Berenson GS, Venn A, Burns TL, Sabin MA, Srinivasan SR, Daniels SR, Davis PH, Chen W, Sun C, Cheung M, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT. Childhood adiposity, adult adiposity, and cardiovascular risk factors. N Engl J Med 2011;365(20):1876-85.

54.Jose KA, Blizzard L, Dwyer T, McKercher C, Venn AJ. Childhood and adolescent predictors of leisure time physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood: a population based cohort study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2011;8(54):1479-5868.

55.Curry BA, Blizzard CL, Schmidt MD, Walters EH, Dwyer T, Venn AJ. Longitudinal associations of adiposity with adult lung function in the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) study. Obesity 2011;19(10):2069-75.

56.Cleland VJ, Schmidt MD, Salmon J, Dwyer T, Venn A. Correlates of pedometer-measured and self-reported physical activity among young Australian adults. J Sci Med Sport 2011;14(6):496-503.

57.Wei S, Jones G, Thomson R, Otahal P, Dwyer T, Venn A. Menstrual irregularity and bone mass in premenopausal women: cross-sectional associations with testosterone and SHBG. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2010;11(288):1471-2474.

58.Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Venn A, Dwyer T, Burns TL, Davis PH, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Daniels SR, Kahonen M, Laitinen T, Taittonen L, Berenson GS, Viikari JS, Raitakari OT. Influence of age on associations between childhood risk factors and carotid intima-media thickness in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study, the Bogalusa Heart Study, and the Muscatine Study for the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium. Circulation 2010;122(24):2514-20.

Letters

Smith KJ, Sanderson K, McNaughton SA, Gall SL, Venn AJ. Five authors reply: Am J Epidemiol. 2014 Sep 1;180(5):557-8. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwu201. Epub 2014 Aug 6.

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