Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in the general population: a systematic review

CV Senaratna, JL Perret, CJ Lodge, AJ Lowe… - Sleep medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
With this systematic review we aimed to determine the prevalence of obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA) in adults in the general population and how it varied between population sub …

Atopic dermatitis and the atopic march revisited

SC Dharmage, AJ Lowe, MC Matheson, JA Burgess… - Allergy, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Atopic dermatitis (AD) has become a significant public health problem because of increasing
prevalence, together with increasing evidence that it may progress to other allergic …

Validity of the Berlin questionnaire in detecting obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CV Senaratna, JL Perret, MC Matheson, CJ Lodge… - Sleep medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
We aimed to systematically review the Berlin questionnaire as a screening tool for
obstructive sleep apnea. We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, and Scopus …

Prevalence of challenge-proven IgE-mediated food allergy using population-based sampling and predetermined challenge criteria in infants

NJ Osborne, JJ Koplin, PE Martin, LC Gurrin… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Several indicators suggest that food allergy in infants is common and
possibly increasing. Few studies have used oral food challenge to measure this …

Can early introduction of egg prevent egg allergy in infants? A population-based study

JJ Koplin, NJ Osborne, M Wake, PE Martin… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Infant feeding guidelines have long recommended delaying introduction of
solids and allergenic foods to prevent allergy in high-risk infants, despite a paucity of …

Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

F Demenais, P Margaritte-Jeannin, KC Barnes… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide
asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of …

Shared genetic origin of asthma, hay fever and eczema elucidates allergic disease biology

MA Ferreira, JM Vonk, H Baurecht, I Marenholz… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Asthma, hay fever (or allergic rhinitis) and eczema (or atopic dermatitis) often coexist in the
same individuals, partly because of a shared genetic origin,,. To identify shared risk variants …

Identification of IL6R and chromosome 11q13. 5 as risk loci for asthma

MAR Ferreira, MC Matheson, DL Duffy, GB Marks… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background We aimed to identify novel genetic variants affecting asthma risk, since these
might provide novel insights into molecular mechanisms underlying the disease. Methods …

Childhood predictors of lung function trajectories and future COPD risk: a prospective cohort study from the first to the sixth decade of life

DS Bui, CJ Lodge, JA Burgess, AJ Lowe… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Lifetime lung function is related to quality of life and longevity. Over the lifespan,
individuals follow different lung function trajectories. Identification of these trajectories, their …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

L Paternoster, M Standl, CM Chen, A Ramasamy… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a commonly occurring chronic skin disease with high heritability.
Apart from filaggrin (FLG), the genes influencing atopic dermatitis are largely unknown. We …