Katrina Scurrah

Studies of Twin Responses to Understand Exercise Therapy (STRUETH): Body Composition

Hannah J Thomas, Channa E Marsh, Barbara A Maslen, Katrina J Scurrah, Louise H Naylor, Daniel J Green

Journal article  |  2021  |  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

PURPOSE: We studied individual variability in exercise responses in twins. We hypothesized that 1) endurance (END) training would ..

The Association Between Chronic Disease and Psychological Distress: An Australian Twin Study.

Jessica Tyler, Janine Lam, Katrina Scurrah, Gillian Dite

Journal article  |  2020  |  Twin Research and Human Genetics

There is a commonly observed association between chronic disease and psychological distress, but many potential factors could conf..

CT DOSIMETRY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN COHORT DATA LINKAGE STUDY

Zoe Brady, Anna Forsythe, Jasmine McBain-Miller, Katrina J Scurrah, Nicolas Smoll, Yaqi Lin, Choonsik Lee, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, Leo J Roberts, John D Mathews

Journal article  |  2020  |  Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Children undergoing computed tomography (CT) scans have an increased risk of cancer in subsequent years, but it is unclear how muc..

Developmental origins of cardiometabolic health outcomes in twins: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Deborah N Ashtree, Amelia J McGuinness, Michelle Plummer, Cong Sun, Jeffrey M Craig, Katrina J Scurrah

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Studies of twins can reduce confounding and provide additional evidence about the causes of disease, due to w..

Exploring human trainability: Design and rationale of Studies of Twin Responses to Understand Exercise as a Therapy (STRUETH) study

Channa E Marsh, Hannah J Thomas, Louise H Naylor, Katrina J Scurrah, Daniel J Green

Journal article  |  2020  |  Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

Background: Exercise confers myriad health benefits and physical inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for many non-communicable ..

Exercise: One size does not fit all: authors' response

Daniel J Green, Channa E Marsh, Hannah J Thomas, Louise H Naylor, Katrina J Scurrah

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Physiology

CT scans in childhood predict subsequent brain cancer: Finite mixture modelling can help separate reverse causation scans from those that may be causal

Nicolas R Smoll, John D Mathews, Katrina J Scurrah

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cancer Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Excess brain cancers observed after computed tomography (CT) scans could be caused by ionizing radiation. However, as ..

Fitness and strength responses to distinct exercise modes in twins:Studies ofTwinResponses toUnderstandExercise as aTHerapy (STRUETH) study

Channa E Marsh, Hannah J Thomas, Louise H Naylor, Katrina J Scurrah, Daniel J Green

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Physiology

KEY POINTS: Exercise is considered medicine; however, the individual degree of responsiveness to a standardized dose of exercise i..

Assessing a recent South Korean cohort study of cancer risk following diagnostic radiation exposure at younger ages

Jasmine McBain-Miller, Katrina J Scurrah, John D Mathews

Journal article  |  2020  |  Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

A twin study of body mass index and dental caries in childhood.

MJ Silva, NM Kilpatrick, JM Craig, DJ Manton, P Leong, H Ho, R Saffery, DP Burgner, KJ Scurrah

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

Sub-optimal nutrition and dental caries are both common with significant short and long-term implications for child health and dev..