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Understanding Diabetes: Early environmental determinants of pancreatic islet autoimmunity: a pregnancy to early life cohort study in children at risk of type 1 diabetesThis study is looking for the causes of type 1 diabetes, so that we can find ways to prevent it. We will follow many women around Australia during pregnancy until early childhood, looking at the child's birth, environment and genes.
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Strong BeginningsFocuses on understanding and improving early childhood health and development to set the foundation for lifelong wellbeing. By addressing factors from pregnancy through early years, this theme aims to optimise health outcomes from the very start.
View the projects currently underway at The Kids Research Institute Australia by our range of different children's health research teams.
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Friendship, loneliness and depression in adolescents with Asperger's SyndromeThis study investigated the relation between friendship, loneliness and depressive symptoms in adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome (AS).
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Inner speech impairments in autismThree experiments investigated the role of inner speech deficit in cognitive performances of children with autism.
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Risk factors for full- and partial-syndrome early adolescent eating disorders: a population-based pregnancy cohort studyTo identify prospective predictors of eating disorders in a population-based sample of 14-year-old boys and girls, using previously collected antenatal...
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Dietary intake and food sources of fatty acids in Australian adolescentsDietary fat consumed during childhood and adolescence may be related to the development of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in adulthood.
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Residential exposure to traffic emissions and adverse pregnancy outcomesResidential exposure to traffic emissions and adverse pregnancy outcomes
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Distribution of airway narrowing responses across generations and at branching points, assessed in vitro by anatomical optical coherence tomographyPrevious histological and imaging studies have shown the presence of variability in the degree of bronchoconstriction of airways sampled at different locations.