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Debbie A Lawlor
Researcher at University of Bristol
Publications - 1118
Citations - 118183
Debbie A Lawlor is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Body mass index. The author has an hindex of 147, co-authored 1114 publications receiving 101123 citations. Previous affiliations of Debbie A Lawlor include Southampton General Hospital & University of Vermont.
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Associations Between Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain and Daughter's Age at Menarche: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
TL;DR: Findings indicate that greater prepregnancy BMI and GWG are associated with earlier puberty in daughters and that these associations are mediated by daughters’ prepubertal BMIs.
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ABC of Obesity: Obesity and vascular disease
TL;DR: The wider impact of obesity on vascular disease: the effect on cardiovascular disease of Obesity as primary cause of the metabolic syndrome and of obesity as a risk factor for heart failure, stroke, other vascular conditions, and cognitive decline is examined.
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Relation of maternal prepregnancy body mass index with offspring bone mass in childhood: is there evidence for an intrauterine effect?
TL;DR: The positive relation between maternal prepregnancy BMI and offspring bone mass is likely due to shared familial, genetic, and environmental characteristics rather than to an intrauterine mechanism.
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The relationship between early life modifiable risk factors for childhood obesity, ethnicity and body mass index at age 3 years: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort study
Lesley Fairley,Lesley Fairley,Gillian Santorelli,Debbie A Lawlor,Maria Bryant,Maria Bryant,Raj Bhopal,Emily S. Petherick,Emily S. Petherick,Pinki Sahota,Darren C. Greenwood,Andrew J. Hill,Noel Cameron,Helen L. Ball,Sally E. Barber,John Wright +15 more
TL;DR: Differences in the prevalence of modifiable risk factors for childhood obesity between children of White British and Pakistani origin and the association between these risk factors and childhood BMI measured at age 3 years are described.
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Population heterogeneity in trajectories of midlife blood pressure
Andrew K Wills,Debbie A Lawlor,Graciela Muniz-Terrera,Fiona E. Matthews,Rachel Cooper,Arjun K. Ghosh,Diana Kuh,Rebecca Hardy +7 more
TL;DR: In midlife the majority of the population have a gentle underlying increase in BP, but that there also exists an important subgroup in whom BP increases much more markedly, which may be useful for identifying those most at risk for cardiovascular disease.