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Browsing Faculty Publications (Medical Sciences) by Author "Arbour, Laura"

Browsing Faculty Publications (Medical Sciences) by Author "Arbour, Laura"

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  • The current state of birth outcome and birth defect surveillance in northern regions of the world 
    Arbour, Laura; Melnikov, Vladimir; McIntosh, Sarah; Olsen, Britta; Osborne, Geraldine; Vaktskjold, Arild (International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2009)
    Objectives. Little is known about the rates of congenital anomalies in the northernmost regions of the world. As in other parts of the world, it is crucial to assess the relative rates and trends of adverse birth outcomes ...
  • Explaining the variability in cardiovascular risk factors among First Nations communities in Canada: a population-based study 
    Anand, Sonia S.; Abonyi, Sylvia; Arbour, Laura; Balasubramanian, Kumar; Brook, Jeffrey; Castleden, Heather; Chrisjohn, Vicky; Cornelius, Ida; Davis, Albertha Darlene; Desai, Dipika; de Souza, Russell J.; Friedrich, Matthias G.; Harris, Stewart; Irvine, James; L’Hommecourt, Jean; Littlechild, Randy; Mayotte, Lisa; McIntosh, Sarah; Morrison, Julie; Oster, Richard T.; Picard, Manon; Pictou Landing First Nation; Poirier, Paul; Schulze, Karleen M.; Toth, Ellen L. (The Lancet Planet Health, 2019)
    Summary Background Historical, colonial, and racist policies continue to influence the health of Indigenous people, and they continue to have higher rates of chronic diseases and reduced life expectancy compared with ...
  • KCNQ1 p.L353L affects splicing and modifies the phenotype in a founder population with long QT syndrome type 1 
    Kapplinger, Jamie; Erickson, Anders; Asuri, Sirisha; Tester, David J.; McIntosh, Sarah; Kerr, Charles R.; Morrison, Julie; Tang, Anthony; Sanatani, Shubhayan; Arbour, Laura; Ackerman, Michael J. (Journal of Medical Genetics, 2017)
    Background Variable expressivity and incomplete penetrance between individuals with identical long QT syndrome (LQTS) causative mutations largely remain unexplained. Founder populations provide a unique opportunity to ...
  • The Shared Pathoetiological Effects of Particulate Air Pollution and the Social Environment on Fetal-Placental Development 
    Erickson, Anders C.; Arbour, Laura (Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2014)
    Exposure to particulate air pollution and socioeconomic risk factors are shown to be independently associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes; however, their confounding relationship is an epidemiological challenge that ...

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