Department of Medicine :: Research

The Department is active and productive in many areas of medical research including disease mechanisms, new treatments and clinical trials of treatment. Members of the Department regularly present their findings at local, national and international meetings and publish in peer reviewed and international publications.

Department of Medicine :: Publications List 2001- 2005

Journal Articles - Refereed

Al-Delaimy, W.K., Crane, J., and Woodward, A. Passive smoking in children: effect of avoidance strategies, at home as measured by hair nicotine levels. Archives of Environmental Health 56:117-122 (2001)

Al-Delaimy, W.K., Hay, S.M., Gain, K.R., Jones, D.T., and Crane, J. The effects of carbon dioxide on exercise-induced asthma: an unlikely explanation for the effects of Buteyko breathing training. Medical Journal of Australia 174:72-74 (2001)

Anderson, H.R., Poloniecki, J.D., Strachan, D.P., Beasley, C.R., Bjorksten, B., Asher, M.I. Immunization and symptoms of atopic disease in children: results from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood. American Journal of Public Health 91:1126112-9 (2001)

Asher, M.I., Barry, D., Clayton, T., Crane, J., D'Souza, W., Ellwood, P., Ford, R.P., Mackay, R., Mitchell, E.A., Moyes, C., Pattemore, P., Pearce, N., and Stewart, A.W. The burden of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivities and atopic eczema in children and adolescents in six New Zealand centres: ISAAC Phase One. New Zealand Medical Journal 114:114-120 (2001)

Barber, R., Delahunt, B., Grebe, S.K.G., Davis, P.F., Slim, G.C., and Thornton, A. Orally administered shark cartilage does not abolish carcinogenesis but delays tumor progression in a murine model. Anticancer Research 21:1065-1070 (2001)

Beasley, C.R., and Crane, J. Head circumference at birth and the development of allergic disease--more questions than answers. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 31:1804-1805 (2001)

Beasley, C.R., and Crane, J. Reducing asthma mortality with the asthma self-management plan system of care. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 163:3-4 (2001)

Beasley, C.R., Sterk, P.J., Kerstjens, H.A., and Decramer, M. Comparative studies of inhaled corticosteroids in asthma. European Respiratory Journal 17:579-580 (2001)

Beasley, C.R., Burgess, C., and Holt, S. Call for worldwide withdrawal of benzalkonium chloride from nebulizer solutions. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 107:222-223 (2001)

Crane, J. Asthma, atopy, antibiotics and the bowel. Mediators of Inflammation 10:304-305 (2001)

Darwish, B., Blackmore, T., and Hunn, M. Intracranial and spinal tuberculosis requiring neurosurgical intervention. The Wellington Hospital experience 1998-2001. New Zealand Medical Journal 114:445-447 (2001)

Fishwick, D., Bradshaw, L., Macdonald, C., Beasley, C.R., Gash, D., Bengtsson, T., Bondesson, E., and Borgstrom, L. Cumulative and single-dose design to assess the bronchodilator effects of beta2-agonists in individuals with asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 163:474-477 (2001)

Greenslade, E., Weinstein, P., Woodward, A., Capucci, L., Salmond, C., and Beasley, C.R. A serological survey of antibodies to rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (rabbit calicivirus disease) in two rural Central Otago communities. New Zealand Medical Journal 114:55-57 (2001)

Hasan, Q., Tan, S.T., Gush, J., and Davis, P.F. Altered mitochondrial cytochrome-b expression during the regression of hemangioma. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery108:1471-1476 (2001)

Holt, S., Suder, A., Weatherall, M., Cheng, S., Shirtcliffe, P., and Beasley, C.R. A meta-analysis of the dose-response relationship of inhaled fluticasone propionate in adult asthmatic patients. British Medical Journal 323:253-256 (2001)

Keating, J.P., Mouat, C., and Strettell, M.D. Appendiceal carcinoma masquerading as a rectal villous adenoma. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 53:124-125 (2001)

Mason, K., Crane, J., Fitzharris, P., and Siebers, R. The effect of sieving on Der p 1 levels. Allergy 56:1012-1013 (2001)

McNaughton, H., McPherson, K., Falkner, E., and Taylor, W. Impairment, disability, handicap and participation in post-poliomyelitis subjects. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research 24:133-136 (2001)

McNaughton, H., Weatherall, M., Taylor, W., and McPherson, K. Factors influencing rate of Barthel Index change in hospital following stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation 15:422-427 (2001)

McPherson, K.M., Brander, P., Taylor, WJ, and McNaughton, H.K. Living with arthritis--what is important? Disability and Rehabilitation 23:706-721 (2001)

Robinson, S.R., Johnston, P., and Wyeth, J.W. Aortic perforation due to an impacted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy gastric flange. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 71:71-72 (2001)

Shirtcliffe, P.M., Easthope, S.E/, Cheng, S., Weatherall, M., Tan, P.L., Le Gros, G., and Beasley, C.R. The effect of delipidated deglycolipidated (DDMV) and heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae in asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 163:1410-1414 (2001)

Siebers, R., Healy, B., Holt, S., Peters, S., Crane, J., and Fitzharris, P. Fel d 1 levels in domestic living rooms are not related to cat color or hair length. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 108:652-653 (2001)

Siebers, R.W.L., Wu, F.S., and Maling, T.J.B. Effect of cell washing on erythrocyte sodium concentration in human hypertensive subjects. British Journal of Biomedical Science 58:92-94 (2001)

Sistek, D., Tschopp, J.M., Schindler, C., Brutsche, M., Ackermann-Liebrich, U., Perruchoud, A.P., and Leuenberger, P. Clinical diagnosis of current asthma: predictive value of respiratory symptoms in the SAPALDIA study. European Respiratory Journal 17:214-219 (2001)

Swain, A., Jeffery, P., Hughes, G., and Nowitz, M. Another cause for bilateral haemorrhagic otorrhoea following trauma. Emergency Medicine 13:247-250 (2001)

Taylor W, Myers J, McNaughton H, McPherson K. Evidence for inadequate construct validity of the Disease Repercussions Profile in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology 40:757-762 (2001)

Taylor, W., Simpson, R., Gow, D., and McNaughton, H. Rehabilitation that works--vocational outcomes following rehabilitation for occupational musculoskeletal pain. New Zealand Medical Journal 114:185-187 (2001)

Taylor, W.J., Lord, S., McPherson, K.M., and McNaughton, H. EuroQol EQ-5D may not adequately describe the health of people with disabilities. Disability and Rehabilitation 23:281-285 (2001)

Walker, R., Dixon, S., Rüger, B., Davis, P.F., Hildebrant, F., Kremer, M., Eccles, M., McNoe, L., Watson, M., and Reid, J. Familial fibronectin glomerulopathy: analysis of chromosome 1q32 and uteroglobin gene loci in a large New Zealand family. Nephrology 6:191-197 (2001)

Weatherall, M. Does a delay in transfer to a rehabilitation unit for older people affect outcome after fracture of the proximal femur? New Zealand Medical Journal 114:547-549 (2001)

Weatherall, M. Elder abuse: a survey of managers of residential care facilities in Wellington, New Zealand. Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect 13:91-99 (2001)

Wickens, K., Crane, J., Kemp, T., Lewis, S., D'Souza, W., Sawyer, G.M., Stone, M.L., Tohill, S.J., Kennedy, J., Slater, T.M., and Pearce, N.E. A case-control study of risk factors for asthma in New Zealand children. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 25:44-49 (2001)

Wickens, K., Mason, K., Fitzharris, P., Siebers, R., Hearfield, M., Cunningham, M., and Crane, J. The importance of housing characteristics in determining Der p 1 levels in carpets in New Zealand. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 31:827-835 (2001)

Major reviews

Shirtcliffe, P., Holt, S., Crane, J., and Beasley, C.R Towards the optimal use of inhaled corticosteroid therapy in adult asthma. New Zealand Medical Journal 114:263-265 (2001)

Weatherall, M. Managing urinary incontinence in the elderly. Hospital Medicine 62:692-695 (2001)

Journal Letters or Notes

Kitching, A.R., Ritchie, D., Wong, J.K., May, A., and Hatfield, P.J. Chloramine-induced hemolysis associated with neurological symptoms in a home hemodialysis patient. Clinical Nephrology 55:259-260 (2001)

Roberts, P.R. Reaffirming professionalism in medicine--yet again. New Zealand Medical Journal 114:503-504 (2001)

Siebers, R. Data inconsistencies in abstracts of articles in Clinical Chemistry. Clinical Chemistry 47:149 (2001)

Siebers, R. How accurate are references in Clinical Chemistry? Clinical Chemistry 47:606-607 (2001)

Conference Publications - Extract of Paper

Siebers, R. Data inconsistencies in abstracts of research articles in the New Zealand Medical Journal. In Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, Barcelona, Spain. (2001) 36

Tan, S.T., Hasan, Q., Xu, B., and Davis, P.F. In vitro effects of different glucocorticoids on haemangioma. In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery. (2001) 71:A74

Wickens, K., Lane, J., Fitzharris, P., Riley, G., Douwes, J., Smith, T., and Crane, J. Differences in allergic disease prevalence between New Zealand rural and town children. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Germisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (2001) A58

Commissioned Reports

Howden-Chapman, P., Saville-Smith, K., and Crane, J. Housing and mould: a quantitative telephone survey. Commissioned by The Building Research Association of New Zealand, Porirua (2001) 14p

PhD Theses

Tan, S.T. Cellular and molecular basis of haemangioma. P.F. Davis, B. Delahunt and P. Johnston (supervisors)

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