Publications List:

1. Measures of childhood fitness and body mass index are associated with bone mass in adulthood: a 20 year prospective study

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2. Physical activity and depression in young adults

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3.  Evaluating the use of a portable ultrasound machine to quantify intima-media thickness and flow-mediated dilation: agreement between measurements from two ultrasound machines

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4. Trends in children's physical activity and weight status in high and low socio-economic status areas of Melbourne, Victoria, 1985-2001

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5.  Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

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6.  Utility of currently recommended pediatric dyslipidemia classifications in predicting dyslipidemia in adulthood. Evidence from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) Study, Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, and Bogalusa Heart Study

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7 .  Parental exercise is associated with Australian children's extracurricular sports participation and cardiorespiratory fitness: A cross-sectional study

8.  A comparison of subjective and objective measures of physical activity and fitness in identifying associations with cardio-metabolic risk factors

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9.  The provision of two hours of weekly physical activity in Australian schools: associations with physical activity, fitness and overweight in childhood and twenty years later

10.  Parental smoking and smoking experimentation in childhood increase the risk of being a smoker 20 years later: the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study

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11.  Physical activity and healthy weight maintenance from childhood to adulthood

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12.  Television viewing and abdominal obesity in young adults: is the association mediated by food and beverage consumption during viewing time or reduced leisure-time physical activity?

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Primary Contact:

Associate Professor Alison Venn, Chief Researcher

Phone: (03) 6226 7706

Fax: (03) 6226 7704

Email: Alison Venn