Shyamali Dharmage

Genetic origin of lifetime lung function trajectories

TAHS study (agreement with I-MED)

Providing translatable evidence to advance prevention and management of COPD: a longitudinal study from the 1st to 7th decade of life

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) makes breathing difficult and reduces wellbeing. People are more likely to get COPD from the ag..

"Testing an implementable strategy to improve infant skin barrier to prevent asthma and preserve lung function: a 4-year follow-up of the existing PEBBLES RCT "

Food allergy in the first 15 years of life: wave 5 of the HealthNuts longitudinal study (APP 2006658)

2021 - 2026

Healthy Lungs for Life: A Life Course Approach to Reduce COPD

Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD) causes breathing distress, disability and premature death. I have shown that COPD mostly has its ori..

2021 - 2025

Centre of Research Excellence in preventing and managing bronchiectasis, especially in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

2020 - 2025

Biomarkers of lifetime lung function trajectories: a population-based cohort study.

2020 - 2023

ENERGY TRANSITIONS, AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA

Emissions from burning biomass (including fossil fuels) are major features of our environment and are the 4th leading global risk factor for..

2017 - 2023

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 757 for Shyamali Dharmage.

Bidirectional Associations Between Asthma and Types of Mental Disorders.

Xiaoqin Liu, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, John J McGrath, Liselotte V Petersen, Shyamali C Dharmage, Natalie C Momen

Journal article | 2023 | J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract

BACKGROUND: Asthma and mental disorders frequently co-occur. Studies of their comorbidity have generally focused on associations r..

Epigenomic variability is associated with age-specific naive CD4 T cell response to activation in infants and adolescents

Samira Imran, Melanie R Neeland, David JJ Martino, Stephen Peng, Jennifer Koplin, Shyamali C Dharmage, Mimi LK Tang, Susan Sawyer, Thanh Dang, Vicki McWilliam, Rachel L Peters, Susan Prescott, Kirsten P Perrett, Boris Novakovic, Richard Saffery

Journal article | 2023 | IMMUNOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Childhood is a critical period of immune development. During this time, naïve CD4 (nCD4) T cells undergo programmed cell different..

Association of helminth infestation with childhood asthma: a nested case-control study

Chamara V Senaratna, Piyumali K Perera, Segarajasingam Arulkumaran, Nirupama Abeysekara, Pramodya Piyumanthi, Garun S Hamilton, Gillian M Nixon, Rupika S Rajakaruna, Shyamali C Dharmage

Journal article | 2023 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

OBJECTIVES: The association between helminthiasis and asthma remains inconclusive but can only be investigated in counties where h..

Lifetime spirometry patterns of obstruction and restriction, and their risk factors and outcomes: a prospective cohort study.

Shyamali C Dharmage, Dinh S Bui, Eugene H Walters, Adrian J Lowe, Bruce Thompson, Gayan Bowatte, Paul Thomas, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Debbie Jarvis, Garun S Hamilton, David P Johns, Peter Frith, Chamara V Senaratna, Nur S Idrose, Richard R Wood-Baker, John Hopper, Lyle Gurrin, Bircan Erbas, George R Washko, Rosa Faner, et al.

Journal article | 2023 | Lancet Respir Med

BACKGROUND: Interest in lifetime lung function trajectories has increased in the context of emerging evidence that chronic obstruc..

Complementary and Allergenic Food Introduction in Infants: An Umbrella Review.

Victoria X Soriano, Daniela Ciciulla, Grace Gell, Yichao Wang, Rachel L Peters, Vicki McWilliam, Shyamali C Dharmage, Jennifer J Koplin

Journal article | 2023 | Pediatrics

BACKGROUND: Multiple systematic reviews examine the introduction of foods in relation to individual health outcomes, but the balan..

Longitudinal Sleep Study in Pregnancy: Cohort Profile and Prevalence and Risk Factors for Sleep Symptoms in the First Trimester.

Chamara V Senaratna, Nirmala Priyadarshanie, Sharaine Fernando, Sampatha Goonewardena, Pramodya Piyumanthi, Jennifer Perret, Caroline Lodge, Garun S Hamilton, Shyamali C Dharmage

Journal article | 2023 | Int J Environ Res Public Health

Sleep disorders could influence pregnancy outcomes but evidence for longitudinal associations is scarce. We established a prospect..

Is antenatal or early-life vitamin D associated with eczema or food allergy in childhood? A systematic review

Rong Zeng, Yusi Li, Songying Shen, Xiu Qiu, Chia-Lun Chang, Jennifer JJ Koplin, Kirsten PP Perrett, Shyamali CC Dharmage, Caroline JJ Lodge, Adrian JJ Lowe

Journal article | 2023 | CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

OBJECTIVE: To summarise the associations between antenatal or early-life blood vitamin D and the development of eczema/food allerg..

The associations of particulate matter short-term exposure and serum lipids are modified by vitamin D status: A panel study of young healthy adults.

Jia-Min Li, Han-Yu Yang, Si-Han Wu, Shyamali C Dharmage, Bin Jalaludin, Luke D Knibbs, Michael S Bloom, Yuming Guo, Lidia Morawska, Joachim Heinrich, Yim Steve Hung Lam, Li-Zi Lin, Xiao-Wen Zeng, Bo-Yi Yang, Gong-Bo Chen, Ru-Qing Liu, Guang-Hui Dong, Li-Wen Hu

Journal article | 2023 | Environ Pollut

Particulate matter (PM) exposure is associated to the adverse change in blood lipids. Vitamin D is beneficial to lipid metabolism,..

Long-term Azithromycin in Children With Bronchiectasis Unrelated to Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Effects Over Time

Don Vicendese, Stephanie Yerkovich, Keith Grimwood, Patricia C Valery, Catherine A Byrnes, Peter S Morris, Shyamali C Dharmage, Anne B Chang

Journal article | 2023 | CHEST

BACKGROUND: Following evidence from randomized controlled trials, patients with bronchiectasis unrelated to cystic fibrosis receiv..

Gender differences and sex-related hormonal factors in asthma

B Leynaert, FG Real, NS Idrose, SC Dharmage

Book Chapter | 2023

This chapter first presents epidemiological data on gender differences in asthma prevalence and incidence throughout the lifespan...

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Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

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Displaying the 6 most recent news articles from 6 for Shyamali Dharmage.

Pollen does more than make you sneeze. It can cause thunderstorm asthma, even if you're not asthmatic

Shyamali Dharmage, Jo Douglass, Sabrina Idrose

Climate change has caused melting icebergs, flooding, and landslides. It can also bring about an increase in pollen levels, prolong the dur..

October 5, 2022

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Premature birth linked to lung disease later in life

Dinh Bui, Jennifer Perret, Caroline Lodge, Shyamali Dharmage

A few decades ago, researchers began noticing that as the number of premature births increased, so did the number of cases of a serious lun..

February 20, 2022

The impact of air pollution on life expectancy

Nilakshi Waidyatillake, Mark Stevenson, Shyamali Dharmage

Since early 2020, when much of the world entered lockdown to stop the spread of the pandemic, something positive happened for many cities ..

August 5, 2021

Heating and cooking at home linked to asthma

Xin Dai, Dinh Bui, Jennifer Perret, Adrian Lowe, Peter A Frith, Paul Thomas, Graham Giles, Garun Hamilton, Helen Tsimiklis, Jennie Hui, John Burgess, Michael J Abramson, Haydn Walters, Shyamali Dharmage, Caroline Lodge

At the moment, many Australians are spending time indoors – whether it’s because the weather is cooling down, or if you’re in Victoria, bec..

June 7, 2021

The long-term benefits of controlling your asthma

Dinh Bui, Shyamali Dharmage

Managing asthma is a challenge, but keeping the condition under control as you get older is more important than ever. A major study has fou..

April 5, 2018

Are Australia’s roads giving you asthma?

Gayan Bowatte, Shyamali Dharmage

Your address may be harming your health. New research has found that living close to a major road in middle age can increase your risk of a..

November 22, 2017