Publications

2026

Screening for hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes among Aboriginal women in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective cohort study.

Wood AJ, O’Hara C, Joyce-Tubb A, Webster V, Wicks M, Van Dokkum P, Maple-Brown LJ, Hare MJL. BMJ Open. 2026 May 19.

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2025

Cardiometabolic Biomarkers and Prediction of Kidney Disease Progression: The eGRF Cohort Study.

Barr ELM, Barzi F, Mills (Kulkalgal) P, et al. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 2025 Dec.

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Islet autoimmunity in young First Nations women with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes

Wicks MM, Wood AJ, Titmuss A, Shaw JE, Wentworth JM, Colman PG, Brown ADH, Maple-Brown LJ, Barr ELM. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2025 Dec;230:112977.

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Prevalence of type 2 diabetes among global Indigenous adult populations: a systematic review.

Claussen C, Papadimos E, Magliano DJ, Hotu C, Monteith H, Shah B, Maple-Brown L, Brown A, Pearson O, Warne D, Nadeau M, Barr ELM, Hanley AJ. Diabetologia. 2025 Dec 21.

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Prevalence of youth type 2 diabetes in global Indigenous populations: a systematic review.

Papadimos ER, Claussen C, Magliano DJ, Hotu C, Brown A, Pearson O, Warne D, Maple-Brown LJ, Shah BR, Monteith H, Baur LA, Cotterill A, Hanley AJ, Barr ELM. Diabetologia. 2025 Oct 2.

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Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) 2025 consensus recommendations for the screening, diagnosis and classification of gestational diabetes

Sweeting A, Hare MJ, de Jersey SJ, Shub AL, Zinga J, Foged C, Hall RM, Wong T, Simmons D.  Med J Aust. 2025 Aug 4;223(3):161-167.

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What do Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory value during the operation journey? A qualitative study

Waugh EB, Hefler M, Pascoe S, Mayo M, Hare MJ, Story DA, Wilkshire N, Henwood P, Croker D, Ross J. Med J Aust. 2025 Jul 7;223(1):30-37.

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Care provided to women during and after pregnancy complicated by hyperglycaemia: the impacts of a multi-component health systems intervention

MacKay D, Boyle JA, Campbell S, Freeman N, MacLean A, et al. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, Volume 57, April 2025.

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Evaluation of a weight management service in the Northern Territory, Australia

Wood AJ, Fox O, Thallon A, Calma-Goodrem S, Taylor K, Maple-Brown LJ, Wilson K and MacKay D (2025). Intern Med J.

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Co-design of school-based strategies and supports for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living with type 2 diabetes: A qualitative study

Puszka S, Titmuss A, Weaver E, Freeman N, Carino M, Morris J, Tom P, Mack S, Corpus S, Minniecon D, Azzopardi P, Dowler J, Maple-Brown LJ, Kirkham R (2025). Aust N Z J Public Health.

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A commentary on: Associations of Diabetes and Prediabetes With Mortality and Life Expectancy in China: A National Study

Barr E, Magliano DJ (2025).

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Novel biomarkers and prediction of kidney disease progression in people with and without diabetes: the eGFR study

Barr E, Barzi F, Mills (Kulkalgal) P, Nickels M, Graham S, Obeyesekere V, Hoy W, Jones G, Lawton P, Brown A, Thomas M, Sinha A, Cass A, MacIsaac R, Hughes (Wagadagam) J, and Maple-Brown L (2025). Can J Kidney Health Dis. 

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A systematic review of prevention strategies for type 2 diabetes in First Nations children and young people

Carino MNguyen JNew RH, Kirkham R, Maple-Brown L, Mack S, MacKay D, and Titmuss A (2025). Pediatric Obesity.

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Non-pharmacological management strategies for type 2 diabetes in children and young adults: A systematic review

Carino M, New RH, Nguyen J, Kirkham R, Maple-Brown L, Titmuss A, and MacKay D (2025).  Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 222, 112045.

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Use of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors among Aboriginal people with type 2 diabetes in remote Northern Territory: 2012 to 2020

Hare MJL, Chen W, Berhane T, Corpus SM, Maple-Brown LJ. Internal Medicine Journal, 55(3), 518-52.

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Shorter-term and longer-term mortality prediction in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study

Tomic D, Salim A, Barr ELM, Zimmet PZ, Magliano DJ, Shaw JE. Internal Medicine Journal, 55:6, 922-931.

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2024

New and emerging therapies for diabetic kidney disease

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.

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Supporting healthy lifestyles for First Nations women and communities through co-design: Lessons and early findings from remote Northern Australia

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). Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 5, 1-14. Article 1356060. doi: 10.3389/fcdhc.2024.1356060.

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Working in Partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to change the diabetes story (2024)

Graham S and Wood A. Australian Diabetes Educator, 26:4.

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Diabetes Complications among Inpatients with Childhood and Young Adult–Onset Type 1 and 2 Diabetes

Hawke K, Soong Zheng N, Anderson J, Dharmaputra R, Hogg P, Titmuss A, Sinha A, McLean, and McLean A (2024). Pediatric Diabetes, 1-9. Article 9926090. doi:9926090.

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Codesigning enhanced models of care for Northern Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth with type 2 diabetes: study protocol

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). BMJ Open, 14(3). Article e080328. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080328.

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“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

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). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (9), 1139. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091139

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Technology advances in diabetes pregnancy: right technology, right person, right time

McLean A, Maple-Brown L, and Murphy HR (2024). Diabetologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-024-06216-2.

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Continuous Glucose Monitoring Metrics in High-Risk Pregnant Women with Type 2 Diabetes

McLean A, Barr E, Tabuai G, Murphy HR, and Maple-Brown L (2024). Diabetes Technol Ther. doi: 10.1089/dia.2023.0300. Epub ahead of print.

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Aboriginal young people’s experiences of type 2 diabetes diagnosis, management and support: A qualitative study in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (2024)

Spry E, Seear K, Harkin B, O’Donnell V, Maple-Brown L, Atkinson D, and Kirkham R. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. doi: 10.1002/hpja.919

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Youth-onset Type 2 Diabetes: An Overview of Pathophysiology, Prognosis, Prevention and Management

Titmuss A, Korula S, Wicklow B and Nadeau KJ (2024). Current Diabetes Reports, 24, 183–195. doi.org/10.1007/s11892-024-01546-2.

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Disparities in perioperative mortality outcomes between First nations and Non-First Nations peoples in Australia: protocol for a systematic review and planned meta-analysis

Waugh EB, Hare MJL, Story DA, Romero L, Mayo M, Smith-Vaughan H, Reilly JR. Systematic Reviews, 2024; 13(1):208. doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02611-3.

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Us and them: colonialism and racism in remote Aboriginal healthcare discourse

Wicks, M., Hampshire, C., Campbell, J., Graham, S., Maple-Brown, L., & Kirkham, R. (2024). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–25. doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2396989

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2023

The role of structural racism and geographical inequity in diabetes outcomes

Agarwal S, Wade AN, Mbanya JC, Yajnik C, Thomas N, Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Maple-Brown L, and Graham S (2023). Lancet, 22:S0140-6736(23)00909-1. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00909-1. Epub ahead of print.

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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

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). Diabetologia, 66(5):837-846. doi: 10.1007/s00125-023-05868-w. Epub 2023 Jan 18.

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Interventions to address global inequity in diabetes: international progress

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). Lancet, 22:S0140-6736(23)00914-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00914-5. Epub ahead of print.

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Racial microaggressions and interculturality in remote Central Australian Aboriginal healthcare

Wicks M, Hampshire C, Campbell J, Maple-Brown L, and Kirkham R (2023). Int J Equity Health, 25;22(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s12939-023-01897-4.

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2022

Prevalence and incidence of diabetes among Aboriginal people in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective, longitudinal data-linkage study

Hare MJL, Zhao Y, Guthridge S, Burgess P, Barr ELM, Ellis E, Butler D, Rosser A, Falhammar H, and Maple-Brown LJ. BMJ Open. 2022 May 15;12(5):e059716. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059716.

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Breastfeeding and infant growth in offspring of mothers with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy: The pregnancy and neonatal diabetes outcomes in remote Australia study

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. Pediatr Obes. 2022 Jun;17(6):e12891. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12891. Epub 2022 Feb 20.

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Feasibility and Acceptability of Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Women With Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy

McLean A, Sinha A, Barr E, and Maple-Brown L. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2022 Sep 19:19322968221124956. doi: 10.1177/19322968221124956. Epub ahead of print.

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Hyperglycemia in pregnancy and developmental outcomes in children at 18-60 months of age: the PANDORA Wave 1 study

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. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2022 Apr 4:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S2040174422000101. Epub ahead of print.

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Association between hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and growth of offspring in early childhood: The PANDORA study.

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. Pediatr Obes. 2022 May 29:e12932. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12932. Epub ahead of print.

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“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

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.

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2021

Gestational diabetes is associated with postpartum hemorrhage in Indigenous Australian women in the PANDORA study: a prospective cohort

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)

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Improving Systems of antenatal and postpartum care for hyperglycemia in pregnancy: A process evaluation, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

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)

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Exploring differences in perceptions of child feeding practices between parents and health care professionals: a qualitative study

Rohit A, Kirkham R, McCarthy L, Puruntatemeri V, Maple-Brown L, and Brimblecombe J. BMC Public Health 2021, 1449 (2021). doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11493-2

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The Adaptation of a Youth Diabetes Prevention Program for Aboriginal Children in Central Australia: Community Perspectives

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. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 31;18(17):9173. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179173.

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Screening rates for diabetic retinopathy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy: the PANDORA cohort study

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

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Validating a culturally adapted developmental screening tool for Australian Aboriginal children

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

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Youth-onset type 2 diabetes among First Nations young people in northern Australia: a retrospective, cross-sectional study, Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol

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)

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Pancreatitis and Post-Pancreatitis Diabetes in Central Australia

Wicks M, Barr EL, and Maple-Brown L. Intern Med J. 2021 Nov 15. doi: 10.1111/imj.15620. Epub ahead of print.

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Type 2 diabetes after a pregnancy with gestational diabetes among first nations women in Australia: The PANDORA study

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. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2021 Nov;181:109092. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109092. Epub 2021 Oct 13. PMID: 34653565.

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Incorporating Aboriginal women’s voices in improving care and reducing risk for women with diabetes in pregnancy – A phenomenological study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

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.

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2020

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

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

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‘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

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

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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

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]

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Social and economic factors, maternal behaviours in pregnancy and neonatal adiposity in the PANDORA cohort

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].

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Associations of gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes during pregnancy with breastfeeding at hospital discharge and up to 6 months: the PANDORA study

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. Diabetologia. 2020 Sep 10. doi: 10.1007/s00125-020-05271-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32910247.

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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

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; BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Sep 1;20(1):814. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05680-x.

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Walking the path together: incorporating Indigenous knowledge in diabetes research

Maple-Brown LJ, Graham S, McKee J, and Wicklow B. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2020; 8(7), 559-560. doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30188-1

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Indigenous cultures with similar colonisation history share the challenge of intergenerational diabetes

Maple-Brown LJ, and Hampton D. Lancet Global Health (Invited Commentary).

Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2020, Pages e619-e620. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(20)20072-3 –

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Rethinking third trimester ultrasound measurements and risk of adverse neonatal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by hyperglycaemia: a retrospective study

McLean A, Katz M, Oats J, Wang Z, Barr E, and Maple-Brown L.  NZ Journal Obstet Gynaecol 2020, doi:10.1111/ajo.13281

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Primary health care for Aboriginal women in remote communities after a pregnancy with hyperglycemia, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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. –

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2019

Birth Outcomes in women with gestational diabetes managed by lifestyle modification alone: The PANDORA study, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

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.

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Diabetes in pregnancy and epigenetic mechanisms-how the first 9 months from conception might affect the child’s epigenome and later risk of disease

Hjort L, Novakovic B, Grunnet LJ, Maple-Brown L, Damm P, Desoye G, Saffery R. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 2019 May 22. Doi:10.1016/S2213-5254.

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Diabetes care in remote Australia: the antenatal, postpartum and inter-pregnancy period

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. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Oct 28; 19(1):389 –

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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

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. Paediatric Obesity, 2019 Jan 16:e12490. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12490.

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Real‐world experience of metformin use in pregnancy: Observational data from the Northern Territory Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinical Register. Journal of Diabetes

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.

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Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia: The PANDORA Study, an observational birth cohort

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. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48(1):307-318.

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Improving models of care for diabetes in pregnancy: Experience of current practice in Far North Queensland, Australia, Frontiers in Public Health

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.

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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

Rohit A, Tonkin E, Maple-Brown L, Golley R, McCarthy L, Brimblecombe J. Advances in Nutrition, 10(1):89-103.

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Emerging diabetes and metabolic conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Australia

Titmuss A, Davis E, Brown A, Maple-Brown L. Medical Journal of Australia, 210(3):111-113.

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2018

Improving postpartum screening after diabetes in pregnancy: Results of a pilot study in remote Australia

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. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2018 Oct 02. doi:10.1111/ajo.12894.

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Diabetes in pregnancy: world-wide perspective

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.

Cohort Profile: The Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) Study

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. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018. 47(4):1045-1046h.

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Development of a short-item diet quality questionnaire for Indigenous mothers and their young children: The Menzies remote short-item dietary assessment tool

Rohit A, Brimblecombe J, O’Dea K, Tonkin E, Maypilama L, Maple-Brown L. The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2018. 26(3):220-224.

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Emerging diabetes and metabolic conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Australia

Titmuss A, Davis E, Brown A, Maple-Brown L. Medical Journal of Australia, 210(3):111-113.

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2017

Health services changes to address diabetes in pregnancy in a complex setting: perspectives of health professionals

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. BMC Health Services, 2017. 17(1):524.

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Implementation of a Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinical Register in a complex setting: findings from a process evaluation

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.  PLoS One, 2017. 12(8):e0179487.

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Preconception care for women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A mixed-methods study of provider knowledge and practice

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). Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2017. 129:105-115.

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Diabetes in pregnancy in the Northern Territory. Australian Diabetes Educator, 2017

Whitbread C, Kirkham R, Cheng E, Thorbjornsen E, Maple-Brown L. 20(1):25-29.

2016

Global hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and challenges in its management in resource-limited settings

Lee I, Maple-Brown L. Diabetes Management Journal, 2016. 56: 11-14.

2014

Improving health service delivery for women with diabetes in pregnancy in remote Australia: Survey of care in the Northern Territory Diabetes in Pregnancy Partnership

Edwards L, Connors C, Whitbread C, Brown A, Oats J, Maple-Brown L. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2014. 54(6):534-40.

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The challenge of managing diabetes in pregnancy in the Northern Territory, Diabetes Management Journal, 2014

Maple-Brown L, Thomas S, Connors C, Whitbread C, Chitturi S. 47:32-35.

2013

BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 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. 13:221.

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