Lucas Calais Ferreira

Positive lifestyle behaviours and emotional health factors are associated with low back pain resilience

KE Roberts, PR Beckenkamp, ML Ferreira, GE Duncan, L Calais-Ferreira, JM Gatt, P Ferreira

Journal article  |  2022  |  EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

PURPOSE: To evaluate the relationship between lifestyle behaviours, emotional health factors, and low back pain (LBP) resilience. ..

Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Friendship Scale to assess social isolation: cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties

Natália Christina Moura Alves, Paulo André Almeida, Paulo Henrique Ferreira, Lucas Calais Ferreira, Luci Fuscaldi Teixeira Salmela, Hércules Ribeiro Leite, Vinicius Cunha Oliveira

Journal article  |  2022  |  Research, Society and Development

Aim: To translate, cross-cultural adapt and investigate the measurement properties of the 25-point Friendship Scale to Brazilian-P..

Multimorbidity and quality of primary care after release from prison: a prospective data-linkage cohort study

Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Amanda Butler, Stephan Dent, David B Preen, Jesse T Young, Stuart A Kinner

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: The period after release from prison can be challenging, especially due to a higher risk of morbidity and mortality de..

The impact of different intensities and domains of physical activity on analgesic use and activity limitation in people with low back pain: A prospective cohort study with a one-year followup

Thomas G Patterson, Paula R Beckenkamp, Manuela Ferreira, Adrian Bauman, Ana Paula Carvalho-e-Silva, Lucas Calais Ferreira, Paulo H Ferreira

Journal article  |  2022  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN

BACKGROUND: Analgesics are the most common form of managing low back pain (LBP). No previous study has examined which domains and ..

Conducting Clinical Trials in Twin Populations: A Review of Design, Analysis, Recruitment and Ethical Issues for Twin-Only Trials

Lisa N Yelland, Katrina J Scurrah, Paulo Ferreira, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Monica Rankin, Jane Denton, Merryl Harvey, Katherine J Lee, Evie Kendal, Jeffrey M Craig

Journal article  |  2022  |  TWIN RESEARCH AND HUMAN GENETICS

Although twins often participate in medical research, few clinical trials are conducted entirely in twin populations. The purpose ..

Opposite-sex twins in medical research

L Calais-Ferreira, S Malta, JL Hopper

Book Chapter  |  2022

Studying sex or gender differences for any human trait or condition by comparing males and females from opposite-sex twin pairs is..

Birthweight, gestational age and familial confounding in sex differences in infant mortality: a matched co-twin control study of Brazilian male-female twin pairs identified by population data linkage

Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Marcos E Barreto, Everton Mendonca, Gillian S Dite, Martha Hickey, Paulo H Ferreira, Katrina J Scurrah, John L Hopper

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

BACKGROUND: In infancy, males are at higher risk of dying than females. Birthweight and gestational age are potential confounders ..

A rapid review of early guidance to prevent and control COVID-19 in custodial settings

Lindsay A Pearce, Alaina Vaisey, Claire Keen, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, James A Foulds, Jesse T Young, Louise Southalan, Rohan Borschmann, Ruth Gray, Sunita Sturup-Toft, Stuart A Kinner

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEALTH & JUSTICE

BACKGROUND: With over 11 million people incarcerated globally, prevention and control of COVID-19 in custodial settings is a criti..

Sex differences in epigenetic profiles: The value of twin studies

Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Shuai Li, John L Hopper

Book Chapter  |  2021

Epigenome-wide Association Studies (EWAS) have become a valuable tool to investigate sex differences in epigenetic profiles. Studi..

Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts

Karri Silventoinen, Aline Jelenkovic, Reijo Sund, Antti Latvala, Chika Honda, Fujio Inui, Rie Tomizawa, Mikio Watanabe, Norio Sakai, Esther Rebato, Andreas Busjahn, Jessica Tyler, John L Hopper, Juan R Ordonana, Juan F Sanchez-Romera, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Vinicius C Oliveira, Paulo H Ferreira, Emanuela Medda, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

We investigated the heritability of educational attainment and how it differed between birth cohorts and cultural-geographic regio..