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View article: Coverage of the influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations among immigrant and non-immigrant older adults in Canada: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Coverage of the influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations among immigrant and non-immigrant older adults in Canada: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Open
Background Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination coverage in older adults fall below the target of 80%. Being an immigrant may be associated with lower coverage of both vaccinations, but limited efforts have been made in the Canadian cont…
View article: Preterm Birth and Risk of Psychiatric Disorders: A Register-Linkage Cohort Study: Liens entre la naissance prématurée et le risque de troubles psychiatriques : une étude de cohorte avec couplage de registres
Preterm Birth and Risk of Psychiatric Disorders: A Register-Linkage Cohort Study: Liens entre la naissance prématurée et le risque de troubles psychiatriques : une étude de cohorte avec couplage de registres Open
Objectives The objectives of this study were to quantify the associations between preterm birth and adolescent-to-adult psychiatric disorders in the Quebec (Canada) population and to determine whether sex and socioeconomic status (SES) mod…
View article: Perinatal health inequalities between Canadian-born and foreign-born women in Canada: a decomposition analysis
Perinatal health inequalities between Canadian-born and foreign-born women in Canada: a decomposition analysis Open
Background Foreign-born mothers are generally believed to experience better perinatal outcomes than Canadian-born mothers, despite relatively lower socioeconomic status. However, the magnitude and direction of inequalities by nativity stat…
View article: Comparative analysis of perinatal health outcomes among refugee subgroups and economic immigrants in Canada (2000–2017)
Comparative analysis of perinatal health outcomes among refugee subgroups and economic immigrants in Canada (2000–2017) Open
Background Refugees often face increased risks of poor perinatal health outcomes compared to native-born individuals and non-refugee immigrants. However, limited research has explored how birth outcomes vary across refugee subgroups in Can…
View article: The impact of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal, perinatal and paediatric outcomes: a scoping review
The impact of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal, perinatal and paediatric outcomes: a scoping review Open
Introduction We aimed to synthesise the current literature to better understand the scope and impacts of immigration policies and programmes on the health and development of immigrant mothers and their children. Methods Six databases (Scop…
View article: Childhood Growth and Later Outcomes—How We Quantify and Model Growth Matters
Childhood Growth and Later Outcomes—How We Quantify and Model Growth Matters Open
View article: Association of housing tenure and unaffordable housing with preterm birth and other adverse birth outcomes in Canada: a population-based study
Association of housing tenure and unaffordable housing with preterm birth and other adverse birth outcomes in Canada: a population-based study Open
Background Socioeconomic risk factors are known drivers of adverse birth outcomes. Housing is a key target for policy interventions. Objective To estimate the associations of housing tenure (renting vs owning) and unaffordable housing with…
View article: Prevalence and Temporal Trends of Epilepsy in Children: A Retrospective Birth Cohort Study
Prevalence and Temporal Trends of Epilepsy in Children: A Retrospective Birth Cohort Study Open
Objective: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurologic diseases in children; however, few recent studies examine the prevalence of epilepsy and its evolution over time according to birth or maternal characteristics. The aim of th…
View article: Birth and postnatal outcomes among infants of immigrant parents of different admission categories and parents born in Canada: a population-based retrospective study
Birth and postnatal outcomes among infants of immigrant parents of different admission categories and parents born in Canada: a population-based retrospective study Open
Heterogeneity exists in outcomes of infants born to immigrants to Canada across immigration categories. These results highlight the importance of disaggregating immigrant populations in studies of health disparities.
View article: Fifty years of evidence on perinatal experience among refugee and asylum-seeking women in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries: A scoping review
Fifty years of evidence on perinatal experience among refugee and asylum-seeking women in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries: A scoping review Open
Background Members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) play a significant role in hosting and supporting refugees. Refugees and asylum seekers in OECD countries may face unique challenges in accessing perin…
View article: In Utero Exposure to Maternal Injury and the Associated Risk of Cerebral Palsy
In Utero Exposure to Maternal Injury and the Associated Risk of Cerebral Palsy Open
Importance Although maternal unintentional injury during pregnancy has shown negative impacts on the mother and fetus, the evidence on its long-term associations with children’s neurodevelopment is limited. Objective To examine the associa…
View article: Effects of mobile networks and Covid-19 on mobile shopping sales in South Korea
Effects of mobile networks and Covid-19 on mobile shopping sales in South Korea Open
View article: Analysis of Maternal Prenatal Weight and Offspring Cognition and Behavior: Results From the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) Cohort
Analysis of Maternal Prenatal Weight and Offspring Cognition and Behavior: Results From the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) Cohort Open
This cohort study supports findings from animal experiments and human observational studies in settings with higher maternal BMI and obesity rates. Higher maternal prenatal BMI may be associated with poorer offspring brain development, alt…
View article: Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada
Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada Open
View article: A novel development indicator based on population-average height trajectories of children aged 0–5 years modelled using 145 surveys in 64 countries, 2000–2018
A novel development indicator based on population-average height trajectories of children aged 0–5 years modelled using 145 surveys in 64 countries, 2000–2018 Open
Introduction Children’s growth status is an important measure commonly used as a proxy indicator of advancements in a country’s health, human capital and economic development. We aimed to assess the feasibility of using Super-Imposition by…
View article: Prenatal exposure to insecticides and child weight trajectories in a South African birth cohort
Prenatal exposure to insecticides and child weight trajectories in a South African birth cohort Open
Background: DDT or pyrethroid insecticides are sprayed inside dwellings as part of global malaria vector control programs, resulting in high levels of exposure to millions of people, including pregnant women. These chemicals are endocrine …
View article: Linear growth and mid-childhood cognitive outcomes in three birth cohorts of term-born children: an approach to integrating three growth models to explore critical windows
Linear growth and mid-childhood cognitive outcomes in three birth cohorts of term-born children: an approach to integrating three growth models to explore critical windows Open
Objective To illustrate that a mediation framework can help integrate inferences from three growth models to enable a comprehensive view of the associations between growth during specific developmental windows and mid-childhood IQ. Design …
View article: Early childhood growth trajectory and later cognitive ability: evidence from a large prospective birth cohort of healthy term-born children
Early childhood growth trajectory and later cognitive ability: evidence from a large prospective birth cohort of healthy term-born children Open
Background Most studies of associations between child growth and cognitive ability were based on size at one or two ages and a single measure of cognition. We aimed to characterize different aspects of early growth and their associations w…
View article: Growth During Infancy and Early Childhood and Its Association With Metabolic Risk Biomarkers at 11.5 Years of Age
Growth During Infancy and Early Childhood and Its Association With Metabolic Risk Biomarkers at 11.5 Years of Age Open
The evidence that fetal life and early infancy are “critical” or “sensitive” ages for later development of cardiometabolic disease is based on flawed methods for comparing different age periods. Moreover, most previous studies have limited…
View article: Associations of atopic dermatitis and asthma with child behaviour: Results from the PROBIT cohort
Associations of atopic dermatitis and asthma with child behaviour: Results from the PROBIT cohort Open
Background Conflicting findings from studies evaluating associations of allergic disease with child behaviour require longitudinal studies to resolve. Objective To estimate the magnitude of associations of atopic dermatitis (AD) in infancy…
View article: Assessment of eating attitudes and dieting behaviors in healthy children: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test
Assessment of eating attitudes and dieting behaviors in healthy children: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test Open
Objective The Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) is a self‐report questionnaire that is conventionally summarized with a single score to identify “problematic” eating attitudes, masking informative variability in different eating att…
View article: Functional principal component analysis for identifying multivariate patterns and archetypes of growth, and their association with long-term cognitive development
Functional principal component analysis for identifying multivariate patterns and archetypes of growth, and their association with long-term cognitive development Open
For longitudinal studies with multivariate observations, we propose statistical methods to identify clusters of archetypal subjects by using techniques from functional data analysis and to relate longitudinal patterns to outcomes. We demon…
View article: Adverse birth outcomes and infant mortality according to registered First Nations status and First Nations community residence across Canada
Adverse birth outcomes and infant mortality according to registered First Nations status and First Nations community residence across Canada Open
View article: Association of Weight for Length vs Body Mass Index During the First 2 Years of Life With Cardiometabolic Risk in Early Adolescence
Association of Weight for Length vs Body Mass Index During the First 2 Years of Life With Cardiometabolic Risk in Early Adolescence Open
Choice of WFL vs BMI to define overweight during the first 2 years of life may not greatly affect the association with cardiometabolic outcomes during early adolescence. The findings appear to have important implications for investigators …
View article: Associating Growth in Infancy and Cognitive Performance in Early Childhood: A functional data analysis approach
Associating Growth in Infancy and Cognitive Performance in Early Childhood: A functional data analysis approach Open
Physical growth traits can be naturally represented by continuous functions. In a large dataset of infancy growth patterns, we develop a practical approach to infer statistical associations between growth-trajectories and IQ performance in…
View article: Breastfeeding during infancy and neurocognitive function in adolescence: 16-year follow-up of the PROBIT cluster-randomized trial
Breastfeeding during infancy and neurocognitive function in adolescence: 16-year follow-up of the PROBIT cluster-randomized trial Open
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01561612.
View article: Metrics of early childhood growth in recent epidemiological research: A scoping review
Metrics of early childhood growth in recent epidemiological research: A scoping review Open
Metrics to quantify child growth vary across studies of the developmental origins of health and disease. We conducted a scoping review of child growth studies in which length/height, weight or body mass index (BMI) was measured at ≥ 2 time…
View article: Analysis of ‘sensitive’ periods of fetal and child growth
Analysis of ‘sensitive’ periods of fetal and child growth Open
Standardization of weight and weight gain by age and sex, or regression-based standardized residuals based on conditional weight, reflects relative gain and thus accounts for the rapid weight gains normally observed in early infancy and pu…
View article: Infant feeding and growth: putting the horse before the cart
Infant feeding and growth: putting the horse before the cart Open
View article: Preterm birth: temporal trends and socioeconomic inequalities
Preterm birth: temporal trends and socioeconomic inequalities Open