Further Information
Staff
The group consists of the following core staff:
- Professor Matthew Knuiman, UWA
- Mr Mark Divitini, Research Associate, UWA
- Mr Kashif Mukhtar, Database Manager, UWA
Contact Us
General enquiries
Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation
C/O Department of Respiratory Medicine
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands WA 6009 Australia
Phone: (+61 8) 9346 3700
Data or statistical services enquiries
Busselton Health Study Group
M431 School of Population Health
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009 Australia
Phone: (+61 8) 6488 1268
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
Marshall NS, Wong KK, Phillips CL, Liu PY, Knuiman MW, Grunstein RR. 'Is sleep apnea an independent risk factor for prevalent and incident diabetes in the Busselton Health Study'. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 2009; 5: 15-20.
Adams LA, Waters OR, Knuiman MW, Elliott RR, Olynyk JK. 'NAFLD as a risk factor for the development of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome: an eleven-year follow-up study'. American Journal of Gastroenterology 2009; 104: 861-867.
Knuiman MW, Hung J, Divitini M, Davis TM, Beilby JP. '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 2009; 16: 235-41.
Webster RJ, Warrington NM, Weedon MN, Hattersley AT, McCAskie PA, Beilby JP, Palmer LJ, Frayling TM. 'The association of common genetic variants in the APOA5, LPL and GCK genes with longitudinal changes in metabolic and cardiovascular traits'. Diabetologia 2009; 52: 106-114.
Chin MW, Mallon DF, Cullen DJ, Olynyk JK, Mollison LC, Pearce CB. 'Screening for coeliac disease using anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody assays, and prevalence of the disease in an Australian community'. Medical Journal of Australia 2009; 190 (8): 429-432
Our publications sections provides publications over numerous years.
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