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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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Association between general and central adiposity in childhood, and change in these, with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: prospective cohort study

TL;DR: Measurements of waist circumference or directly assessed fat mass in childhood do not seem to be associated with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence any more strongly than BMI, and BMI, waist circumference, and fat mass were all strongly correlated with each other.
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Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-Analysis across 39 Studies Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Loci

Richa Saxena, +163 more
TL;DR: Large-scale meta-analysis involving a dense gene-centric approach has uncovered additional loci and variants that contribute to type 2 diabetes risk and suggests substantial overlap of T2D association signals across multiple ethnic groups.
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Meta-analysis identifies multiple loci associated with kidney function–related traits in east Asian populations

Yukinori Okada, +414 more
- 01 Aug 2012 - 
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for kidney function–related traits, including 71,149 east Asian individuals from 18 studies in 11 population-, hospital- or family-based cohorts, conducted as part of the Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network (AGEN), identified 17 loci newly associated with kidney function-related traits.
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Epidemiologic Evidence for the Fetal Overnutrition Hypothesis: Findings from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy and Its Outcomes

TL;DR: Findings provide some support for the fetal overnutrition hypothesis by examining the associations between parental prepregnancy body mass index and offspring BMI in 3,340 parent-offspring trios from a birth cohort based in Brisbane, Australia.