Sunil Piers

The association of vitamin D status and dietary calcium intake with individual components of the metabolic syndrome: a population-based study in Victoria, Australia.

Poonam K Pannu, Mario J Soares, Leonard S Piers, Yun Zhao, Zahid Ansari

Journal article  |  2017  |  Cardiovasc Endocrinol

This study examined the associations between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD), dietary calcium (Ca) intake, and individual components ..

The associations of vitamin D status and dietary calcium with the metabolic syndrome: an analysis of the Victorian Health Monitor survey.

Poonam K Pannu, Yun Zhao, Mario J Soares, Leonard S Piers, Zahid Ansari

Journal article  |  2017  |  Public Health Nutr

OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), dietary Ca intake and presence of the metaboli..

Vitamin D status is inversely associated with markers of risk for type 2 diabetes: A population based study in Victoria, Australia.

Poonam K Pannu, Leonard S Piers, Mario J Soares, Yun Zhao, Zahid Ansari

Journal article  |  2017  |  PLoS One

A growing body of evidence suggests a protective role of vitamin D on the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We investigated..

Nutritional predictors of successful chronic disease prevention for a community cohort in Central Australia

Joanne N Luke, Rebecca Ritte, Kerin O'Dea, Alex Brown, Leonard S Piers, Alicia J Jenkins, Kevin G Rowley

Journal article  |  2016  |  PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

OBJECTIVE: To investigate biomarkers of nutrition associated with chronic disease absence for an Aboriginal cohort. DESIGN: Screen..

Nutritional predictors of chronic disease in a Central Australian Aboriginal cohort: A multi-mixture modelling analysis

JN Luke, DF Schmidt, R Ritte, K O'Dea, A Brown, LS Piers, AJ Jenkins, KG Rowley

Journal article  |  2016  |  NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Chronic diseases (including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and chronic kidney disease) are ma..

Adding Measures of Body Composition to the CKD-EPI GFR Estimating Equation in Indigenous Australians: The eGFR Study

Louise J Maple-Brown, Jaquelyne T Hughes, Mark D Chatfield, Leigh C Ward, Leonard S Piers, Graham RD Jones, Paul D Lawton, Andrew G Ellis, Alan Cass, Wendy E Hoy, Kerin O'Dea, Richard J MacIsaac, George Jerums

Journal article  |  2015  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES

Development of a single-frequency bioimpedance prediction equation for fat-free mass in an adult Indigenous Australian population

JT Hughes, LJ Maple-Brown, LS Piers, J Meerkin, K O'Dea, LC Ward

Journal article  |  2015  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To describe the development of a single-frequency bioimpedance prediction equation for fat-free mass (FFM) ..

Increased bone mineral density in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: Impact of body composition differences

LJ Maple-Brown, J Hughes, LS Piers, LC Ward, J Meerkin, JA Eisman, JR Center, NA Pocock, G Jerums, K O'Dea

Journal article  |  2012  |  BONE

Bone mineral density (BMD) has been reported to be both higher and lower in Indigenous women from different populations. Body comp..

Mechanistic roles for calcium and vitamin D in the regulation of body weight

MJ Soares, LL Murhadi, AV Kurpad, WL Chan She Ping-Delfos, LS Piers

Journal article  |  2012  |  OBESITY REVIEWS

Low intakes of calcium and inadequate vitamin D status often cluster with higher prevalence rates of obesity. Consequently, there ..

Anthropometric measurements in Australian aborigines

S Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, LS Piers, S Raghavan, K O'Dea

Book Chapter  |  2012

Aborigines have inhabited Australia for many thousands of years. They led a 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle prior to European contact...