Debbie A Lawlor

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was performed to examine the associations between maternal anxiety, measured prospectively during pregnancy, and genome-wide DNAm from umbilical cord blood.

TL;DR: There is growing evidence from large studies and systematic reviews that individual characteristics of the individual's lifetime socioeconomic or psychosocial environment or phenotype, measured in pre-adult as well as the adult life, are associated with later mortality risk.

TL;DR: This commentary suggests that this area of research needs to move away from simply describing the association of birth weight with disease/health outcomes and aim to understand whether there are modifiable risk factors during the developmental period that are importantly causally related to later disease outcomes in ways that mean public health interventions should be aimed at the developmentalperiod.

TL;DR: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about the physical and psychological impacts of tobacco and alcohol abuse on health and wellbeing.

TL;DR: Lawlor’s excellent proposals to mitigate publication bias complements other ideas, such as (truly) blind review of completed studies by blanking-out study results, but certain conventional presumptions in the editorial are in error and have blinded discussants to important sources of publication bias.