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Examining barriers and facilitators in asthma inhaler technique education and technology‐enhanced educational tools in children: A mixed methods evaluation using the theoretical domains framework

Antonia O'Connor, Andrew Tai, Malcolm Brinn, Amy Hoang, more

Pediatric Pulmonology > 58 > 11 > 3113 - 3121

Introduction Educational interventions for asthma inhaler technique have been identified as successful in improving technique in children, yet inhaler technique has not improved over time. New approaches should be considered, including the use of technology‐based interventions such as smartphone and tablet applications. Adoption and implementation of such technology in healthcare has been historically...

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Sleep‐disordered breathing in Australian children with Prader‐Willi syndrome following initiation of growth hormone therapy

Daan Caudri, Gillian M Nixon, Aleisha Nielsen, Linda Mai, more

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health > 58 > 2 > 248 - 255

Aim In children with Prader‐Willi syndrome (PWS), growth hormone (GH) improves height and body composition; however, may be associated with worsening sleep‐disordered breathing (SDB). Some studies have reported less SDB after GH initiation, but follow‐up with polysomnography is still advised in most clinical guidelines. Methods This retrospective, multicentre study, included children with PWS treated...

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Ventilatory support at home for children: A joint position paper from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand/Australasian Sleep Association

Jasneek Chawla, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Amanda L. Griffiths, Gillian M. Nixon, more

Respirology > 26 > 10 > 920 - 937

The goal of this position paper on ventilatory support at home for children is to provide expert consensus from Australia and New Zealand on optimal care for children requiring ventilatory support at home, both non‐invasive and invasive. It was compiled by members of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) and the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA). This document provides recommendations...

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Requirements for improving health and well‐being of children with Prader‐Willi syndrome and their families

Jessica Mackay, Zoe McCallum, Geoffrey R Ambler, Komal Vora, more

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health > 55 > 9 > 1029 - 1037

Prader‐Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic condition with multi‐system involvement. The literature was reviewed to describe neurodevelopment and the behavioural phenotype, endocrine and metabolic disorders and respiratory and sleep functioning. Implications for child and family quality of life were explored. Challenging behaviours contribute to poorer well‐being and quality of life for both the...

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Multi‐centre ethics and research governance review can impede non‐interventional clinical research

Christine Duplancic, Tania Crough, Scott C. Bell, for the Australian Non‐tuberculous Mycobacteria in Cystic Fibrosis Study Group, more

Internal Medicine Journal > 49 > 6 > 722 - 728

Background The inter‐jurisdictional National Mutual Acceptance (NMA) scheme for Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) approvals of human research is designed to reduce the reported delays and costs of ethical review. Introduction of the NMA set forth an uncoupling of the ethics and governance review processes, permitting a single ethical review for multiple sites, while continuing separate governance...

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Exenatide corrects postprandial hyperglycaemia in young people with cystic fibrosis and impaired glucose tolerance: A randomized crossover trial

Myfanwy C. Geyer, Thomas Sullivan, Andrew Tai, Judith M. Morton, more

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism > 21 > 3 > 700 - 704

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in cystic fibrosis (CF) manifests as postprandial hyperglycaemia. Pancreatic enzyme supplementation reduces the latter; restoring incretin secretion and slowing gastric emptying. We aimed to determine the acute effect of exenatide on postprandial glycaemia in young people with CF and IGT. Six participants with CF and IGT were studied on 2 days, in a double‐blind randomized...

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International transmission of Japanese monetary shocks under low and negative interest rates: A global factor‐augmented vector autoregressive approach

Mark M. Spiegel, Andrew Tai

Pacific Economic Review > 23 > 1 > 51 - 66

We examine the implications of Japanese monetary shocks under recent very low and sometimes negative interest rates to the Japanese economy and three of its major trading partners: Korea, China and the United States. In particular, we investigate the implications of shocks to the 2‐year Japanese government bond rate in a series of factor‐augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) models, in which both...

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Australasian Sleep Association clinical practice guidelines for performing sleep studies in children

Yvonne Pamula, Gillian M. Nixon, Elizabeth Edwards, Arthur Teng, more

Sleep Medicine > 2017 > 36 > S1 > S23-S42

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Measuring the effects of dollar appreciation on Asia: A FAVAR approach

Zheng Liu, Mark M. Spiegel, Andrew Tai

Journal of International Money and Finance > 2017 > 74 > C > 353-370

Exchange rate shocks have mixed effects on economic activity in both theory and empirical VAR models. In this paper, we extend the empirical literature by considering the implications of a positive shock to the U.S. dollar in a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model for the U.S. and three large Asian economies: Korea, Japan and China. The FAVAR framework allows us to represent a country’s...

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Association Study of Gene Polymorphisms in GABA, Serotonin, Dopamine, and Alcohol Metabolism Pathways with Alcohol Dependence in Taiwanese Han Men

Lawrence Shih‐Hsin Wu, Chau‐Shoun Lee, Tzu‐Ya Weng, Kathy Hsiao‐Tsz Wang, more

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research > 40 > 2 > 284 - 290

BackgroundThe roles of GABA, serotonin, dopamine, and alcohol metabolism pathways in alcohol dependence (AD) are evident from animal models and human studies. Aims of this study were to investigate associations between genes in the 4 pathways and AD. MethodsMale subjects from 2 independent samples of Taiwanese Han descent, a family sample of 179 trios and a case–control sample of 262 AD cases and...

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Outcomes of childhood asthma to the age of 50 years

Andrew Tai, Haily Tran, Mary Roberts, Nadeene Clarke, more

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology > 2014 > 133 > 6 > 1572-1578.e3

In 1964, The Melbourne Asthma Study was established to describe the spectrum and natural history of childhood asthma.To describe the clinical and lung function outcome of childhood asthma to the age of 50 years.Subjects were invited to complete an interviewer-administered questionnaire, skin prick testing, and measurement of lung function from the age of 7 years to the age of 50 years at 7-year intervals...

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Changing trends in the prevalence of common mental disorders in Taiwan: a 20-year repeated cross-sectional survey

Tiffany Szu-Ting Fu, Chau-Shoun Lee, David Gunnell, Wen-Chung Lee, more

The Lancet > 2013 > 381 > 9862 > 235-241

Macrosocial changes might affect mental health. We investigated whether the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMDs) changed over a 20-year period of industrialisation in Taiwan. We used the 12-item Chinese Health Questionnaire to assess mental status of Taiwanese adults in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010. Respondents with scores of 3 or higher were classified as having probable CMDs. We assessed...

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Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Mohsen Naghavi, Rafael Lozano, more

The Lancet > 2012 > 380 > 9859 > 2163-2196

Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies done in 1990 and 2000 have been the only studies to quantify non-fatal health outcomes across an exhaustive set of disorders at the global and regional level. Neither effort quantified uncertainty in prevalence...

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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Stephen S Lim, Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Goodarz Danaei, more

The Lancet > 2012 > 380 > 9859 > 2224-2260

Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease analysis. No complete revision of global disease burden caused by risk factors has been done since a comparative risk assessment in 2000, and no previous analysis has assessed changes in burden attributable to risk factors over...

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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

Christopher J L Murray, Theo Vos, Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, more

The Lancet > 2012 > 380 > 9859 > 2197-2223

Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health. The 1990 Global Burden of Disease study proposed disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to measure disease burden. No comprehensive update of disease burden worldwide incorporating a systematic reassessment of disease and injury-specific...

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Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Life Attitude Schedule (LAS-C) in a sample of Taiwanese adolescents

Hsiu-Ju Chang, Chiung-Jane Wu, Tzen Wen Chen, Andrew Tai Ann Cheng, more

International Journal of Nursing Studies > 2011 > 48 > 5 > 590-600

Although prior research has proposed that several risk factors are conceptually and positively related to suicidal behavior, researchers have also suggested that suicide may be multifaceted. The Life Attitude Schedule (LAS) measures a broad range of suicide-related behaviors, including life-enhancing and life-threatening behaviors.This study aimed to translate the LAS into Chinese and evaluate the...

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Lung disease associated with periventricular nodular heterotopia and an FLNA mutation

Alice Masurel-Paulet, Eric Haan, Elizabeth M. Thompson, Cyril Goizet, more

European Journal of Medical Genetics > 2011 > 54 > 1 > 25-28

X-linked periventricular nodular heterotopia (PH) is a neuronal migration disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding filamin A (FLNA). High phenotypic diversity, ranging from PH to otopalatodigital syndrome and frontometaphyseal dysplasia has been described in association with FLNA mutations. Extra-neurological features including cardiovascular abnormalities, coagulopathy, skeletal dysplasia...

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An unusual presentation of bronchiolitis obliterans in an adolescent

Andrew Tai, John Massie

Respiratory Medicine CME > 2008 > 1 > 2 > 196-199

Bronchiolitis obliterans usually follows severe lower respiratory tract infection and is a rare complication in children. We present a case of an adolescent who presented in an insidious manner following Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Further investigations demonstrated co-infection with adenovirus. Attempts at medical treatment made no difference and she was left with severely reduced lung function...

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Association study of novel human serotonin 5-HT ₁ _B polymorphisms with alcohol dependence in taiwanese han

Hsiao-Fang Sunny Sun, Yuh-Terng Chang, Cathy Shen-Jang Fann, Ching-Jui Chang, more

Biological Psychiatry > 2002 > 51 > 11 > 896-901

Background: Abnormal serotonergic pathways are implicated in numerous neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, migraine, substance abuse, and alcoholism. The human serotonin receptor 1B, encoded by the HTR1B gene, is a presynaptic serotonin autoreceptor that plays a role in regulating serotonin synthesis and release. Because the linkage of antisocial alcoholism to the HTR1B gene was...

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Polymorphisms and Intron Sequences Flanking the Alternatively Spliced 8-Amino-Acid Exon of γ2 Subunit Gene for GABAA Receptors

Andrew Tai-Ann Cheng, El-Wui Loh, Chee-Yu Cheng, Yuan-Chun Wang, more

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications > 1997 > 238 > 2 > 683-685

Gamma-amminobutyric acid (GABA) is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter. Two alternatively spliced forms of the γ2 subunit of GABAA receptor (γ2L and γ2S), which differ by an exon of eight amino acids, show different sensitivities to modulatory effects of ethanol on receptor activities. A 2.7 kb DNA fragment and an 1.7 kb DNA fragment covering respectively the introns upstream and downstream from the...

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