Cong Sun

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..

Childhood adiposity, adult adiposity, and the ACE gene insertion/deletion polymorphism: evidence of gene-environment interaction effects on adult blood pressure and hypertension status in adulthood

Cong Sun, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, John B Carlin, Minh Bui, Costan G Magnussen, Trudy L Burns, Terho Lehtimaki, Nicole H Wardrop, Markus Juonala, Jorma SA Viikari, Alison J Venn, Olli T Raitakari, Terence Dwyer

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

BACKGROUND: Genetic variants may modify the associations of adiposity measures with blood pressure (BP) and hypertension. The inse..

Conjunctival Ultraviolet Autofluorescence as a Measure of Past Sun Exposure in Children

Cong Sun, Angela Pezic, David A Mackey, John B Carlin, Andrew Kemp, Justine A Ellis, Fergus J Cameron, Christine P Rodda, Terence Dwyer, Minas T Coroneo, Anne-Louise Ponsonby

Journal article  |  2017  |  CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

Background: Conjunctival ultraviolet autofluorescence (CUVAF) area detected from UVAF photographs is a recently developed potentia..

Environmental and genetic determinants of two vitamin D metabolites in healthy Australian children

Abdulhadi Bima, Angela Pezic, Cong Sun, Fergus J Cameron, Christine Rodda, Ingrid van der Mei, Rachel Chiaroni-Clarke, Terence Dwyer, Andrew Kemp, Jun Qu, John Carlin, Justine A Ellis, Anne-Louise Ponsonby

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with adverse health outcomes. We examined genetic and environmental determina..

Determinants of Neonatal Vitamin D Levels as Measured on Neonatal Dried Blood Spot Samples

Chloe A Smith, Cong Sun, Angela Pezic, Christine Rodda, Fergus Cameron, Katie Allen, Maria E Craig, John Carlin, Terry Dwyer, Robyn M Lucas, Darryl W Eyles, Andrew S Kemp, Justine A Ellis, Anne-Louise Ponsonby

Journal article  |  2017  |  NEONATOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency is linked to adverse childhood health outcomes, yet data on the distribution and quantifiable det..

The Impact of Timing of Introduction of Solids on Infant Body Mass Index

Cong Sun, Rebecca J Foskey, Katrina J Allen, Shyamali C Dharmage, Jennifer J Koplin, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Adrian J Lowe, Melanie C Matheson, Mimi LK Tang, Lyle Gurrin, Melissa Wake, Matthew Sabin

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the associations between breastfeeding duration, age at solids introduction, and their interaction in rela..

Persistent Food Allergy and Food Allergy Coexistent with Eczema Is Associated with Reduced Growth in the First 4 Years of Life

Cara Beck, Jennifer Koplin, Shyamali Dharmage, Melissa Wake, Lyle Gurrin, Vicki McWilliam, Mimi Tang, Cong Sun, Rebecca Foskey, Katrina J Allen

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY-IN PRACTICE

BACKGROUND: Food allergy has been associated with lower weight and height in cross-sectional studies in children; however, this ha..

Objectively Measured Daily Steps and Subsequent Long Term All-Cause Mortality: The Tasped Prospective Cohort Study

Terence Dwyer, Angela Pezic, Cong Sun, Jenny Cochrane, Alison Venn, Velandai Srikanth, Graeme Jones, Robin Shook, Xuemei Sui, Andrew Ortaglia, Steven Blair, Anne-Louise Ponsonby

Journal article  |  2015  |  PLOS ONE

BACKGROUND: Self-reported physical activity has been inversely associated with mortality but the effect of objectively measured st..

Retinal microvessels reflect familial vulnerability to psychotic symptoms: A comparison of twins discordant for psychotic symptoms and controls

Madeline H Meier, Nathan A Gillespie, Narelle K Hansell, Alex W Hewitt, Ian B Hickie, Yi Lu, John McGrath, Stuart MacGregor, Sarah E Medland, Cong Sun, Tien Y Wong, Margaret J Wright, Gu Zhu, Nicholas G Martin, David A Mackey

Journal article  |  2015  |  SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Mounting evidence suggests that individuals with schizophrenia have an underlying vulnerability to cardiovascular disease, and a r..

Early childhood hospitalisation with infection and subclinical atherosclerosis in adulthood: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

David P Burgner, Matthew A Sabin, Costan G Magnussen, Michael Cheung, Cong Sun, Mika Kahonen, Nina Hutri-Kahonen, Terho Lehtimaki, Eero Jokinen, Tomi Laitinen, Jorma SA Viikari, Olli T Raitakari, Markus Juonala

Journal article  |  2015  |  ATHEROSCLEROSIS

OBJECTIVE: Most infections occur in pre-school children but the severity of the inflammatory response to common pathogens varies c..