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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 of age at menarche with cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and function in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the associations of menarcheal age with BMI and other cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence and adulthood in a population-based sample of 794 female adolescents aged 9-18 y at baseline and again 3 and 6 y later.
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Does maternal weight gain in pregnancy have long-term effects on offspring adiposity? A sibling study in a prospective cohort of 146,894 men from 136,050 families

TL;DR: In normal-weight mothers, most of the association between MWG and later offspring BMI is explained by shared familial and early environmental characteristics, whereas evidence indicates a contribution of intrauterine mechanisms in overweight and obese women.
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Missed appointments in general practice: retrospective data analysis from four practices.

TL;DR: The likelihood of someone missing at least one appointment was independently associated with being female, living in a deprived area, and being a young adult, and the extent of this association was the same across all four practices.
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Genomic and phenomic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation

Josine L. Min, +168 more
- 03 Sep 2020 - 
TL;DR: Results of DNA methylation-quantitative trait loci (mQTL) analyses on 32,851 participants reveal that the genetic architecture of DNAm levels is highly polygenic and DNAm exhibits signatures of negative and positive natural selection.