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Robert Scragg
Researcher at University of Auckland
Publications - 375
Citations - 19767
Robert Scragg is an academic researcher from University of Auckland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vitamin D and neurology & Population. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 364 publications receiving 17888 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Scragg include University of Otago & Health Science University.
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Short-term repeatability of a food frequency questionnaire in New Zealand children aged 1-14 y.
TL;DR: Overall, the FFQ described here shows similar or better repeatability in New Zealand children of all major ethnic groups compared to other child or adolescent FFQs.
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Long-Term High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation and Blood Pressure in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Robert Scragg,Sandy Slow,Alistair W. Stewart,Lance C. Jennings,Stephen T. Chambers,Patricia Priest,Christopher M. Florkowski,Carlos A. Camargo,David R. Murdoch +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, randomized controlled trials of vitamin D supplementation and blood pressure (BP) mainly have given vitamin D for short periods (100 nmol/L for 18 months, had no effect on systolic or diastolic BP in predominantly white, healthy adults without severe vitamin D deficiency.
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Trends in the incidence of testing for vitamin D deficiency in primary care in the UK: a retrospective analysis of The Health Improvement Network (THIN), 2005-2015.
Francesca L. Crowe,Kate Jolly,Christine MacArthur,Semira Manaseki-Holland,Neil Gittoes,Martin Hewison,Robert Scragg,Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar +7 more
TL;DR: Testing for vitamin D deficiency increased over the past decade among adults in the UK, and one-third of UK adults who had a vitamin D test performed in primary care were vitamin D deficient, and deficiency was much higher among ethnic minority patients.
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Public health policy on bed sharing and smoking in the sudden infant death syndrome.
TL;DR: A policy which advises all infants not to bed share is estimated to potentially save an extra 3% of SIDS compared to a policy targeted only on infants of smoking mothers, if public attitudes are favorable to bed sharing.
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Pedometer-Determined Physical Activity Levels of Adolescents: Differences by Age, Sex, Time of Week, and Transportation Mode to School
TL;DR: Daily step counts differed substantially by age, sex, time of week, and transportation mode to school.