Publications

Improving systems of care and services for people with diabetes and their families in rural and remote Australia (NT, FNQ & Kimberley)

2024

Correa-Rotter R, Maple-Brown L, Sahay R, Tuttle KR, and Ulasi II (2024). New and emerging therapies for diabetic kidney disease. Nature Reviews Nephrology, 20, 156–160. doi.org/10.1038/s41581-023-00782-1. New and emerging therapies for diabetic kidney disease

Dias T, MacKay D, Canuto K, Boyle JA, D’Antoine H, Hampton D, Martin K, Phillips J, Bartlett N, McIntyre HD, Graham S, Corpus S, Connors C, McCarthy L, Kirkham R, and Maple-Brown LJ (2024). Supporting healthy lifestyles for First Nations women and communities through co-design: Lessons and early findings from remote Northern Australia. Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 5, 1-14. Article 1356060. doi: 10.3389/fcdhc.2024.1356060. Supporting healthy lifestyles for First Nations women and communities through co-design: lessons and early findings from remote Northern Australia

Hawke K, Soong Zheng N, Anderson J, Dharmaputra R, Hogg P, Titmuss A, Sinha A, McLean, and McLean A (2024). Diabetes Complications among Inpatients with Childhood and Young Adult–Onset Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. Pediatric Diabetes, 1-9. Article 9926090. doi:9926090. Diabetes Complications among Inpatients with Childhood and Young Adult–Onset Type 1 and 2 Diabetes

Kirkham R, Puszka S, Titmuss A, Freeman N, Weaver E, Morris J, Mack S, O’Donnell V, Boffa J, Dowler J, Ellis E, Corpus S, Graham S, Scott L, Sinha AK, Connors C, Shaw JE, Azzopardi P, Brown A, Davis E, Wicklow B, and Maple-Brown L (2024). Codesigning enhanced models of care for Northern Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth with type 2 diabetes: study protocol. BMJ Open, 14(3). Article e080328. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080328. Codesigning enhanced models of care for Northern Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth with type 2 diabetes: study protocol – BMJ Open

MacKay, D, Maple-Brown L, Freeman N, Boyla JA, Campbell S, McLean A, Corpus S, Whitbread C, Van Dokkum P, Connors C, Moore E, Sinha A, Cadet-James Y, Boffa J, Graham S, Oats J, Brown A, McIntyre H.D and Kirkham R (2024). “It empowers you to empower them”: Health professional perspectives of antenatal and postpartum care for hyperglycaemia in pregnancy following implementation of a multi-component health systems intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (9), 1139. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091139 “It empowers you to empower them”: Health professional perspectives of antenatal and postpartum care for hyperglycaemia in pregnancy following implementation of a multi-component health systems intervention.

McLean A, Maple-Brown L, and Murphy HR (2024). Technology advances in diabetes pregnancy: right technology, right person, right time. Diabetologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-024-06216-2. Technology advances in diabetes pregnancy: right technology, right person, right time

Spry E, Seear K, Harkin B, O’Donnell V, Maple-Brown L, Atkinson D, and Kirkham R. Aboriginal young people’s experiences of type 2 diabetes diagnosis, management and support: A qualitative study in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (2024). Health Promotion Journal of Australia. doi: 10.1002/hpja.919. Aboriginal young people’s experiences of type 2 diabetes diagnosis, management and support: A qualitative study in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

Titmuss A, Korula S, Wicklow B and Nadeau KJ (2024). Youth-onset Type 2 Diabetes: An Overview of Pathophysiology, Prognosis, Prevention and Management. Current Diabetes Reports, 24, 183–195. doi.org/10.1007/s11892-024-01546-2. Youth-onset Type 2 Diabetes: An Overview of Pathophysiology, Prognosis, Prevention and Management

Wicks, M., Hampshire, C., Campbell, J., Graham, S., Maple-Brown, L., & Kirkham, R. (2024). Us and them: colonialism and racism in remote Aboriginal healthcare discourse. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–25. doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2396989 Us and them: colonialism and racism in remote Aboriginal healthcare discourse

2023

Agarwal S, Wade AN, Mbanya JC, Yajnik C, Thomas N, Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Maple-Brown L, and Graham S (2023). The role of structural racism and geographical inequity in diabetes outcomes. Lancet, 22:S0140-6736(23)00909-1. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00909-1. Epub ahead of print. The role of structural racism and geographical inequity in diabetes outcomes – ScienceDirect

Graham S and Wood A. Working in Partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to change the diabetes story (2023). Australian Diabetes Educator, 26:4. Working in Partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to change the diabetes story

Hare MJL, Maple-Brown L, Shaw JE, Boyle JA, Lawton PD, Barr ELM, Guthridge S, Webster V, Hampton D, Singh G, Dyck RF, and Barzi F (2023). Risk of kidney disease following a pregnancy complicated by diabetes: a longitudinal, population-based data-linkage study among Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory, Australia. Diabetologia, 66(5):837-846. doi: 10.1007/s00125-023-05868-w. Epub 2023 Jan 18. Risk of kidney disease following a pregnancy complicated by diabetes: a longitudinal, population-based data-linkage study among Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory, Australia – SpringerLink

McLean A, Barr E, Tabuai G, Murphy HR, and Maple-Brown L (2023). Continuous Glucose Monitoring Metrics in High-Risk Pregnant Women with Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. doi: 10.1089/dia.2023.0300. Epub ahead of print. Continuous Glucose Monitoring Metrics in High-Risk Pregnant Women with Type 2 Diabetes – Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics

Walker AF, Graham S, Maple-Brown L, Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Wade AN, Mbanya JC, Long JA, Yajnik C, Thomas N, Ebekozien O, Odugbesan O, DiMeglio LA, and Agarwal S (2023). Interventions to address global inequity in diabetes: international progress. Lancet, 22:S0140-6736(23)00914-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00914-5. Epub ahead of print. Interventions to address global inequity in diabetes: international progress – ScienceDirect

Wicks M, Hampshire C, Campbell J, Maple-Brown L, and Kirkham R (2023). Racial microaggressions and interculturality in remote Central Australian Aboriginal healthcare. Int J Equity Health, 25;22(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01897-4. Racial microaggressions and interculturality in remote Central Australian Aboriginal healthcare

2022

Hare MJL, Zhao Y, Guthridge S, Burgess P, Barr ELM, Ellis E, Butler D, Rosser A, Falhammar H, and Maple-Brown LJ. Prevalence and incidence of diabetes among Aboriginal people in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective, longitudinal data-linkage study. BMJ Open. 2022 May 15;12(5):e059716. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059716. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e059716.long

Longmore DK, Titmuss A, Barr E, Barzi F, Simmonds A, Lee IL, Hawthorne E, Derkenne R, Connors C, Boyle J, Zimmet P, O’Dea K, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Brown A, Shaw J, and Maple-Brown LJ. Breastfeeding and infant growth in offspring of mothers with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy: The pregnancy and neonatal diabetes outcomes in remote Australia study. Pediatr Obes. 2022 Jun;17(6):e12891. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12891. Epub 2022 Feb 20. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijpo.12891

McLean A, Sinha A, Barr E, and Maple-Brown L. Feasibility and Acceptability of Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Women With Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2022 Sep 19:19322968221124956. doi: 10.1177/19322968221124956. Epub ahead of print. Feasibility and Acceptability of Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Women With Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy – PubMed (nih.gov)

Titmuss A, D’Aprano A, Barzi F, Brown ADH, Wood A, Connors C, Boyle JA, Moore E, OʼDea K, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Zimmet P, Shaw JE, Craig ME, and Maple-Brown LJ. Hyperglycemia in pregnancy and developmental outcomes in children at 18-60 months of age: the PANDORA Wave 1 study. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2022 Apr 4:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S2040174422000101. Epub ahead of print. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-developmental-origins-of-health-and-disease/article/hyperglycemia-in-pregnancy-and-developmental-outcomes-in-children-at-1860-months-of-age-the-pandora-wave-1-study/E2E00C3A21F4BB787452847EFC7ECF5A

Titmuss A, Longmore DK, Barzi F, Barr ELM, Webster V, Wood A, Simmonds A, Brown ADH, Connors C, Boyle JA, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Shaw JE, Craig ME, Maple-Brown LJ; PANDORA Study Research Team. Association between hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and growth of offspring in early childhood: The PANDORA study. Pediatr Obes. 2022 May 29:e12932. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12932. Epub ahead of print. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijpo.12932

Weaver E, Freeman N, Mack S, Titmuss A, Dowler J, Corpus S, Hyatt T, Ellis E, Sanderson C, Connors C, Moore E, Silver B, Azzopardi P, Maple-Brown L, Kirkham R, on behalf of the Diabetes Across the Lifecourse: Northern Australia Partnership, “I don’t really know what diabetes is”: A qualitative study exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people aged 10-25 years living with type 2 diabetes in northern and central Australia, Canadian Journal of Diabetes (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjd.2022.04.010.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1499267122000958

2021

Lucas IM, Barr ELM, Barzi F, Longmore DK, Lee IL, Kirkwood M, Whitbread C, Connors C, Boyle J, Simon D, Goodrem A, Brown ADH, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Shaw JA, Maple-Brown LJ, on behalf of the PANDORA study research team, Gestational diabetes is associated with postpartum hemorrhage in Indigenous Australian women in the PANDORA study: a prospective cohort, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2021 Jul 30, doi:10.1002/ijgo.13846. (Epub ahead of print) https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.13846

MacKay D, Kirkham R, Freeman N, Boyle J, Campbell S, McLean A, Peiris D, Corpus S, Connors C, Moore L, Wenitong M, Silver B, McIntyre H, Shaw J, Brown A, and Maple-Brown L. Improving Systems of antenatal and postpartum care for hyperglycemia in pregnancy: A process evaluation, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2021 Jul 31. Doi:10.1002/ijgo 13850. (Epub ahead of print) https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.13850

Rohit A, Kirkham R, McCarthy L, Puruntatemeri V, Maple-Brown L, and Brimblecombe J. Exploring differences in perceptions of child feeding practices between parents and health care professionals: a qualitative study, BMC Public Health 2021, 1449 (2021). doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11493-2 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11493-2

Rohit A, McCarthy L, Mack S, Silver B, Turner S, Baur LA, Canuto K, Boffa J, Dabelea D, Sauder KA, Maple-Brown L, and Kirkham R. The Adaptation of a Youth Diabetes Prevention Program for Aboriginal Children in Central Australia: Community Perspectives. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 31;18(17):9173. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179173. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/17/9173

Rohit A, Roulston T, Henderson T, Lee IL, Webster V, McIntyre HD, Connors C, Brown A, Shaw J, Maple-Brown L, and Barr ELM. Screening rates for diabetic retinopathy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy: the PANDORA cohort study, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 2021;49(7):765-767, doi:10.1111/ceo.13985 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ceo.13985

Simpson S, Eadie T, Khoo ST, Titmuss A, Maple-Brown LJ, Thompson R, Wunungmurra A, Jeyaseelan D, Dunham M, and D’Aprano A. The ASQ-TRAK: Validating a culturally adapted developmental screening tool for Australian Aboriginal children. Early Human Development. 2021 Oct 6;163:105481. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105481. Epub ahead of print https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378221001808?via%3Dihub

Titmuss A, Davis E, O’Donnell V, Wenitong M, Barr E, Boffa J, Brown ADH, Connors C, Corpus S, Dowler J, Graham S, Griffiths E, Kirkham R, Lee C, Moore E, Pearson G, Shaw JE, Singleton S, Sinha A, White G, Zimmet P, Maple-Brown L*, and Hayes E* on behalf of the Hot North Diabetes in Youth Collaboration group. Youth-onset type 2 diabetes among First Nations young people in northern Australia: a retrospective, cross-sectional study, Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2021, doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00286-2. (*authors contributed equally) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(21)00286-2/fulltext

Wicks M, Barr EL, and Maple-Brown L. Pancreatitis and Post-Pancreatitis Diabetes in Central Australia. Intern Med J. 2021 Nov 15. doi: 10.1111/imj.15620. Epub ahead of print. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imj.15620

Wood AJ, Boyle JA, Barr ELM, Barzi F, Hare MJL, Titmuss A, Longmore DK, Death E, Kelaart J, Kirkwood M, Graham S, Connors C, Moore E, O’Dea K, Oats JJN, McIntyre HD, Zimmet PZ, Lu ZX, Brown A, Shaw JE, and Maple-Brown LJ. Type 2 diabetes after a pregnancy with gestational diabetes among first nations women in Australia: The PANDORA study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2021 Nov;181:109092. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109092. Epub 2021 Oct 13. PMID: 34653565. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168822721004514?via%3Dihub

Wood A, Graham S, Boyle J, Marcusson B, Anderson S, Connors, McIntyre H, Maple-Brown LJ, and Kirkham R. Incorporating Aboriginal women’s voices in improving care and reducing risk for women with diabetes in pregnancy – A phenomenological study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2021, 2021 Sep 16;21(1):624. doi: 10.1186/s12884-021-04055-2. https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-021-04055-2

2020

Hare MJL, Barzi F, Boyle JA, Guthridge S, Dyck RF, Barr ELM, Singh G, Falhammar H, Webster V, Shaw JE, and Maple-Brown LJ. Diabetes during pregnancy and birthweight trends among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia over 30 years, The Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific, 100005, doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2020.100005 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666606520300055?via%3Dihub

Kirkham R, King S, Graham S, Whitbread C, Boyle J, Kinner T, Rumbold A, and Maple-Brown L. ‘No sugar’, ‘no junk food’, ‘do more exercise’ – moving beyond simple messages to improve health of Aboriginal women with Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy in the Northern Territory – A phenomenological study, 2020 Women and Birth, 2020 Oct 31:S1871-5192(20)30360-7. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2020.10.003. Epub ahead of pring. PMID: 33144033 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871519220303607?via%3Dihub

Lee I, Barr ELM, Longmore D, Barzi F, Brown A, Connors C, Boyle J, Hampton V, Lynch M, Lu ZX, O’Dea K, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Zimmet P, Shaw JE, and Maple-Brown L. Cord blood metabolic markers are strong mediators of the effect of maternal adiposity on fetal growth in pregnancies across the glucose tolerance spectrum: the PANDORA study, Diabetologia, 2020 Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s00125-019-05079-2. [Epub ahead of print] – http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-019-05079-2

Longmore D, Barr ELM, Barzi F, Lee I-L, Kirkwood M, Connors C, Boyle J, O’Dea K, Zimmet P, Oats J, Catalano P, McIntyre HD, Brown ADH, Shaw JE, and Maple-Brown LJ, on behalf of the PANDORA study research team. Social and economic factors, maternal behaviours in pregnancy and neonatal adiposity in the PANDORA cohort, Diabetes Research & Clinical Practice [Epub ahead of print]. – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31962087

Longmore DK, Barr ELM, Wilson AN, Barzi F, Kirkwood M, Simmonds A, Lee IL, Hawthorne E, Van Dokkum P, Connors C, Boyle JA, Zimmet P, O’Dea K, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Brown ADH, Shaw JE, and Maple-Brown LJ. Associations of gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes during pregnancy with breastfeeding at hospital discharge and up to 6 months: the PANDORA study. Diabetologia. 2020 Sep 10. doi: 10.1007/s00125-020-05271-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32910247. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-020-05271-9

MacKay D, Kirkham R, Freeman N, Murtha K, Van Dokkum P, Boyle J, Campbell S, Barzi F, Connors C, O’Dea K, Oats J, Zimmet P, Wenitong M, Sinha A, Hanley AJ, Moore E, Peiris D, McLean A, Davis B, Whitbread C, McIntyre HD, Mein J, McDermott R, Corpus S, Canuto K, Shaw JE, Brown A, Maple-Brown L; Diabetes Across the Lifecourse: Northern Australia Partnership. Improving systems of care during and after a pregnancy complicated by hyperglycaemia: A protocol for a complex health systems intervention. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Sep 1;20(1):814. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05680-x. https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-020-05680-x

Maple-Brown LJ, Graham S, McKee J, and Wicklow B. Walking the path together: incorporating Indigenous knowledge in diabetes research, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2020; 8(7), 559-560. doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30188-1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32559468/

Maple-Brown LJ, and Hampton D. Indigenous cultures with similar colonisation history share the challenge of intergenerational diabetes, Lancet Global Health (Invited Commentary). Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2020, Pages e619-e620. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(20)20072-3 – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X20300723

McLean A, Katz M, Oats J, Wang Z, Barr E, and Maple-Brown L. Rethinking third trimester ultrasound measurements and risk of adverse neonatal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by hyperglycaemia: a retrospective study, NZ Journal Obstet Gynaecol 2020, doi:10.1111/ajo.13281 https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajo.13281

Wood A, Mackay D, Fitzsimmons D, Derkenne R, Kirkham R, Boyle J, Connors C, Whitbread C, Welsh A, Brown A, Shaw J, Maple-Brown L, Primary health care for Aboriginal women in remote communities after a pregnancy with hyperglycemia, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Jan 22;17(3). pii: E720. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17030720. – http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/3/720

2019

Cheng E, Longmore D, Barzi F, Barr E, Lee I, Whitbread C, Boyle J, Oats J, Connors C, McIntyre HD, Kirkwood M, Dempsey K, Zhang X, Thomas S, Williams D, Zimmet P, Brown ADH, Shaw JE, Maple-Brown L, Birth Outcomes in women with gestational diabetes managed by lifestyle modification alone: The PANDORA study, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (2019), doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2019.107876. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31586661

Hjort L, Novakovic B, Grunnet LJ, Maple-Brown L, Damm P, Desoye G, Saffery R. Diabetes in pregnancy and epigenetic mechanisms-how the first 9 months from conception might affect the child’s epigenome and later risk of disease. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 2019 May 22. Doi:10.1016/S2213-5254. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31128973

Kirkham R, Trap-Jensen N, Boyle JA, Barzi F, Barr ELM, Whitbread C, Van Dokkum P, Kirkwood M, Connors C, Moore E, Zimmet P, Corpus S, Hanley AJ, O’Dea K, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Brown A, Shaw JE, Maple-Brown L, NT Diabetes in Pregnancy Partnership. Diabetes care in remote Australia: the antenatal, postpartum and inter-pregnancy period. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Oct 28; 19(1):389 – http://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-019-2562-6 –

Longmore D, Barr E, Lee I, Barzi F, Kirkwood M, Whitbread C, Hampton V, Graham S, Van Dokkum P, Connors C, Boyle J, Catalano P, Brown A, O’Dea K, Oats J, McIntyre D, Shaw J, Maple‐Brown L. Maternal body mass index, excess gestational weight gain, and diabetes are positively associated with neonatal adiposity in the Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study. Paediatric Obesity, 2019 Jan 16:e12490. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12490. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30650263

Maple-Brown L, Lindenmayer G, Barzi F, Whitbread C, Connors C, Moore E, Boyle J, Kirkwood M, Lee IL, Longmore D, Van Dokkum P, Wicks M, Dowden M, Inglis C, Cotter M, Kirkham R, Corpus S, Chitturi S, Thomas S, O’Dea K, Zimmet P, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Brown A, Shaw JE. Real‐world experience of metformin use in pregnancy: Observational data from the Northern Territory Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinical Register. Journal of Diabetes, 2019 Jan 25. doi: 10.1111/1753-0407.12905. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30680949

Maple-Brown L, Lee I, Longmore D, Barzi F, Connors C, Boyle JA, Moore E, Whitbread C, Kirkwood M, Graham S, Hampton V, Simmonds A, Van Dokkum P, Kelaart J, Thomas S, Chitturi S, Eades S, Corpus S, Lynch M, Lu ZX, O’Dea K, Zimmet P, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Brown ADH, Shaw JE. Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia: The PANDORA Study, an observational birth cohort. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48(1):307-318. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30508095

McLean A, Kirkham R, Campbell S, Whitbread C, Barrett J, Connors C, Boyle JA, Brown A, Mein J, Wenitong M, McIntyre HD, Barzi F, Oats J, Sinha A, Maple-Brown L, Improving models of care for diabetes in pregnancy: Experience of current practice in Far North Queensland, Australia, Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Jul 19;7:192. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00192. http://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00192/full

Rohit A, Tonkin E, Maple-Brown L, Golley R, McCarthy L, Brimblecombe J. Parent feeding practices in the Australian Indigenous population within the context of non-Indigenous Australians and Indigenous populations in other high-income countries – a scoping review. Advances in Nutrition, 10(1):89-103. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30668618

Titmuss A, Davis E, Brown A, Maple-Brown L. Emerging diabetes and metabolic conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 210(3):111-113. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656687

2018

Kirkham R, MacKay D, Bazi F, Whitbread C, Kirkwood M, Graham S, Van Dokkum P, McIntyre D, Shaw J, Brown A, O’Dea K, Connors C, Oats J, Zimmett P, Boyle J, Maple-Brown L. Improving postpartum screening after diabetes in pregnancy: Results of a pilot study in remote Australia. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2018 Oct 02. doi:10.1111/ajo.12894. http://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajo.12894–

Lee I, Maple-Brown L. 2018. ‘Diabetes in pregnancy: world-wide perspective’, in CJ Lammi-Keefe, et al. (ed.) Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy, 2nd Edition, Humana Press, Totowa, pp. 387-400.

Lee I, Purbrick B, Barzi F, Brown A, Connors C, Whitbread C, Moore E, Kirkwood M, Simmonds A, Van Dokkum P, Death E, Svenson S, Graham S, Hampton V, Kelaart J, Longmore D, Titmuss A, Boyle J, Brimblecombe J, Saffery R, d’Aprano A, Skilton MR, Ward LC, Corpus S, Chitturi S, Thomas S, Eades S, Inglis C, Dempsey K, Dowden M, Lynch M, Oats J, McIntyre D, Zimmet P, O’Dea K, Shaw J, Maple-Brown L. Cohort Profile: The Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018. 47(4):1045-1046h. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29618003

Rohit A, Brimblecombe J, O’Dea K, Tonkin E, Maypilama L, Maple-Brown L. Development of a short-item diet quality questionnaire for Indigenous mothers and their young children: The Menzies remote short-item dietary assessment tool. The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2018. 26(3):220-224. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29672986

2017

Kirkham R, Boyle J, Whitbread C, Dowden M, Connors C, Corpus S, McCarthy, L, Oats J, McIntyre HD, Moore E, O’Dea K, Brown A, Maple-Brown L. Health services changes to address diabetes in pregnancy in a complex setting: perspectives of health professionals. BMC Health Services, 2017. 17(1):524. http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-017-2478-7

Kirkham R, Whitbread C, Connors C, Moore E, Boyle J, Richa R, Barzi F, Oats J, Inglis C, Cotter M, McIntyre H D, Dent G, Van Dokkum P, Zimmet P, Shaw J, O’Dea K, Brown A, & Maple-Brown L. Implementation of a Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinical Register in a complex setting: findings from a process evaluation. PLoS One, 2017. 12(8):e0179487. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179487

Klein J*, Boyle J*, Kirkham R, Connors C, Whitbread C, Oats J, Barzi F, McIntyre D, Lee I, Luey M, Shaw J, Brown A, Maple-Brown L (*These authors contributed equally). Preconception care for women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A mixed-methods study of provider knowledge and practice. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2017. 129:105-115. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521194

Whitbread C, Kirkham R, Cheng E, Thorbjornsen E, Maple-Brown L. Diabetes in pregnancy in the Northern Territory. Australian Diabetes Educator, 2017. 20(1):25-29.

2016

Lee I, Maple-Brown L. Global hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and challenges in its management in resource-limited settings. Diabetes Management Journal, 2016. 56: 11-14.

2014

Edwards L, Connors C, Whitbread C, Brown A, Oats J, Maple-Brown L. Improving health service delivery for women with diabetes in pregnancy in remote Australia: Survey of care in the Northern Territory Diabetes in Pregnancy Partnership. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2014. 54(6):534-40. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25308373

Maple-Brown L, Thomas S, Connors C, Whitbread C, Chitturi S. The challenge of managing diabetes in pregnancy in the Northern Territory, Diabetes Management Journal, 2014. 47:32-35.

2013

Maple-Brown L, Brown A, Lee IL, Connors C, Oats J, McIntyre HD, et al. Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study. BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 2013. 13:221. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30508095

Diabetes across the Lifecourse: Northern Australia Partnership