The Busselton Health Studies group manages and maintains the Busselton Health Study database.

It does this on behalf of the Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation.

Maintenance includes annual mortality follow-up, periodic hospital morbidity updates, tracing of previous survey participants and improving information on family relationships among survey participants.

The group, independently and in collaboration with other Busselton Health Studies researchers, uses the accumulated data to conduct research into:

• epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases
• epidemiology of respiratory diseases
• mortality and hospital admission rates
• familial aggregation of chronic diseases and disease risk factors

Recent publications

Knuiman, M.W., James, A.L., Divitini, M.L., Bartholomew, H.C., 'Correlates of habitual snoring and witnessed apnoeas in Busselton, Western Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 29(5), Sep 2007: 412-415

Rossi, E., Hung, J., Beilby, J.P., Knuiman, M.W., Divitini, M.L., Bartholomew, H., 'Folate levels and cancer morbidity and mortality: prospective cohort study from Busselton Western Australia', Annal of Epidemiology, 16(3), Mar 2006:206-212

Knuiman, M.W., James, A.L., Divitini, M.L., Bartholomew, H.C., 'Longitudinal study of risk factors for habitual snoring in a general adult population: The Busselton Health Study', Chest, 130(6), Dec 2006: 1779-1783

Fritschi, L., Divitini, M., Talbot-Smith, A., Knuiman, M., 'Left-handedness and risk of breast cancer', British Journal of Cancer, 97, Aug 2007: 686-687

Hung, J., Knuiman, M.W., Divitini, M.L., Davis, T., Beilby, J.P., 'Prevalence and risk factor correlates of elevated C-reactive protein in an adult Australian population', American Journal of Cardiology, 101(2), Jan 2008:193-198

Hung, J., Knuiman, M.W., Divitini, M.L., Langton, P.E., Chapman, C.L., Beilby, J.P., 'C-reactive protein and interlukin-18 levels in relation to coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study from Busselton Western Australia', Heart, Lung and Circulation, 17(2), Apr 2008: 90-95

Milward, E.A., Baines, S.K., Knuiman, M.W., Bartholomew, H.C., Divitini, M.L., Ravine, D.G., Bruce, D.G., Olynyk, J.K., 'Non-citrus fruits as novel dietary environmental modifiers of iron stores in people with or without HFE gene mutations', Mayo Clinical Proceedings, 83(5), May 2008: 543-549

Adams, L.A., Knuiman, M.W., Divitini, M.L., Olynyk, J.K., 'Body mass index is a stronger predictor of alanine aminotransaminase levels than alcohol consumption', Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 23(7/pt1), Jun 2008 : 1089-1093

Hickling, S., Hung, J., Knuiman, M., Divitini, M., Beilby, J., 'Are the associations between diet and C-reactive protein independent of obesity?', Preventative Medicine, 47(1), July 2008:71-76

Knuiman, M.W., Hung, J., Divitini, M., Davis, T.M., Beilby, J.P., 'Utility of the metabolic syndrome and its components in the prediction of incident cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study', European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, 16(2), Apr 2009: 235-41

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