Melissa Wake

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Epigenomic newborn screening for conditions with intellectual disability and autistic features in Australian newborns

Article • Epigenomics, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Identifying early language predictors: A replication of Gasparini et al. (2023) confirming applicability in a general population cohort

Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, July 2024, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Improving the identification of bone‐specific physical activity using wrist‐worn accelerometry: A cross‐sectional study in 11–12‐year‐old Australian children

Article • European Journal of Sport Science, May 2024, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Understanding risk and causal mechanisms for developing obesity in infants and young children: A National Institutes of Health workshop

Article • Obesity Reviews, January 2024, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Emotional symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in childhood: Associations in two Australian birth cohorts

Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, January 2024, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
The Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Association Between 24-Hour Movement Behavior Compositions With Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in 6-Year-Old Children

Article • Journal of Physical Activity and Health, January 2024, Human Kinetics

Melissa Wake
Genome-wide Analyses of Vocabulary Size in Infancy and Toddlerhood: Associations With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Literacy, and Cognition-Related Traits

Article • Biological Psychiatry, December 2023, Elsevier

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Polygenic Risk Scores and the Risk of Childhood Overweight/Obesity in Association With the Consumption of Sweetened Beverages: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Article • Childhood Obesity, October 2023, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Melissa Wake
Spoken Expressive Vocabulary in 2-Year-Old Children with Hearing Loss: A Community Study

Article • Children, July 2023, MDPI AG

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Validating the ORACollect for the detection of cytomegalovirus

Article • International Journal of Clinical Virology, June 2023, Heighten Science Publications Corporation

Melissa Wake
Study protocol: Generation Victoria (GenV) special care nursery registry

Article • International Journal for Population Data Science, June 2023, Swansea University

Melissa Wake
Global distributions of age- and sex-related arterial stiffness: systematic review and meta-analysis of 167 studies with 509,743 participants

Article • EBioMedicine, June 2023, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Grit and working memory training outcomes for children with low working memory

Article • Acta Paediatrica, May 2023, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Greenness modifies the association between ambient air pollution and cognitive function in Australian adolescents, but not in mid-life adults

Article • Environmental Pollution, May 2023, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Early language predictors replicated across two cohort studies

Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

Melissa Wake
Association of Polygenic Risk Scores for Hearing Difficulty in Older Adults With Hearing Loss in Mid-Childhood and Midlife

Article • JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, January 2023, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
Effect of common pregnancy and perinatal complications on offspring metabolic traits across the life course: a multi-cohort study

Article • BMC Medicine, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Association between children's health-related quality of life, healthcare costs and socioeconomic position: Results from a longitudinal Australian-based study

Article • Social Sciences & Humanities Open, January 2023, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome

Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, December 2022, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Improving Cohort-Hospital Matching Accuracy through Standardization and Validation of Participant Identifiable Information

Article • Children, December 2022, MDPI AG

Melissa Wake
The effect of adverse and positive experiences on inflammatory markers in Australian and UK children

Article • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health, December 2022, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Fat-Soluble Vitamers: Parent-Child Concordance and Population Epidemiology in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • Nutrients, November 2022, MDPI AG

Melissa Wake
Children’s Sleep and Our Power to Improve It

Article • JAMA Pediatrics, November 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
Your best day: An interactive app to translate how time reallocations within a 24-hour day are associated with health measures

Article • PLoS ONE, September 2022, PLOS

Melissa Wake
Multi-omics analysis from archival neonatal dried blood spots: limitations and opportunities

Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), June 2022, De Gruyter

Melissa Wake
Genomic contributions to infant and toddler vocabulary scores: Implications for association with health-, cognition-, and behaviour-related outcomes

Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Melissa Wake
The role of Australian clinical quality registries in pregnancy care: A scoping review

Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, May 2022, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Data Resource Profile: Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse initiative (LifeCourse)

Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake, Professor Sheena Reilly
Can adult polygenic scores improve prediction of body mass index in childhood?

Article • International Journal of Obesity, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Embedding Life Course Interventions in Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Australia’s GenV Opportunity

Article • PEDIATRICS, May 2022, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Does inflammation mediate the association between obesity and hearing status in mid-childhood and mid-life?

Article • International Journal of Obesity, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Synthesizing Core Outcome Sets for outcomes research in cohort studies: a systematic review

Article • Pediatric Research, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
An Economic Evaluation of Australia’s Newborn Hearing Screening Program

Article • Ear & Hearing, November 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
The association between markers of inflammation and retinal microvascular parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Article • Atherosclerosis, November 2021, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Corrigendum to “Sleep and cardiometabolic health in children and adults: examining sleep as a component of the 24-hour day” [Sleep Med 78 (2020) 63–74]

Article • Sleep Medicine, October 2021, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Health-related quality of life of caregivers of children with low language: Results from two Australian population-based studies

Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Feasibility and acceptability of targeted salivary cytomegalovirus screening through universal newborn hearing screening

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, September 2021, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Digital Mega-Studies as a New Research Paradigm: Governing the Health Research of the Future

Article • Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, September 2021, SAGE Publications

Melissa Wake
Parental Preconception Exposures to Outdoor Neighbourhood Environments and Adverse Birth Outcomes: A Protocol for a Scoping Review and Evidence Map

Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2021, MDPI AG

Melissa Wake
Goldilocks Days: optimising children’s time use for health and well-being

Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, August 2021, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Backyard benefits? A cross-sectional study of yard size and greenness and children’s physical activity and outdoor play

Article • BMC Public Health, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Oral health: Epidemiology and concordance in Australian children and parents

Article • Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology, May 2021, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Does an inflammatory diet affect mental well-being in late childhood and mid-life? A cross-sectional study

Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

Melissa Wake
Maximizing Participant Engagement, Participation, and Retention in Cohort Studies Using Digital Methods: Rapid Review to Inform the Next Generation of Very Large Birth Cohorts

Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, May 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

Melissa Wake
Enhancing Value and Uptake for Whole-Population Cohorts of Children and Parents: Methods to Integrate Registries into the Generation Victoria Cohort

Article • Children, April 2021, MDPI AG

Melissa Wake
Diet quality trajectories and cardiovascular phenotypes/metabolic syndrome risk by 11–12 years

Article • International Journal of Obesity, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Equivalence Curves for Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Article • PEDIATRICS, April 2021, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Modifiable Early Childhood Risk Factors for Obesity at Age Four Years

Article • Childhood Obesity, April 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Melissa Wake
Ear Infection Trajectories and Academic, Behavioral, and Quality-of-Life Outcomes: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study

Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, March 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Insights into adolescent well‐being from computerised analysis of written language

Article • Acta Paediatrica, March 2021, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Plasma B Vitamers: Population Epidemiology and Parent-Child Concordance in Children and Adults

Article • Nutrients, March 2021, MDPI AG

Melissa Wake
Association of in utero antibiotic exposure on childhood ear infection trajectories: Results from a national birth cohort study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, February 2021, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Population epidemiology and concordance for plasma amino acids and precursors in 11–12-year-old children and their parents

Article • Scientific Reports, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Sleep and cardiometabolic health in children and adults: examining sleep as a component of the 24-h day

Article • Sleep Medicine, February 2021, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Sleep and cardiometabolic risk: a cluster analysis of actigraphy-derived sleep profiles in adults and children

Article • SLEEP, January 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Balancing time use for children’s fitness and adiposity: Evidence to inform 24-hour guidelines for sleep, sedentary time and physical activity

Article • PLoS ONE, January 2021, PLOS

Melissa Wake
Selecting life course frameworks to guide and communicate large new cohort studies: Generation Victoria (GenV) case study

Article • Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

Melissa Wake
Predictors in Infancy for Language and Academic Outcomes at 11 Years

Article • PEDIATRICS, January 2021, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake, Professor Sheena Reilly
TMAO is Not Associated with Cardiometabolic Phenotypes and Inflammatory Markers in Children and Adults

Article • Current Developments in Nutrition, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Takeaway food, sugar-sweetened beverages and preclinical cardiometabolic phenotypes in children and adults

Article • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Brachial-cuff excess pressure is associated with carotid intima-media thickness among Australian children: a cross-sectional population study

Article • Hypertension Research, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
The Effectiveness of Working Memory Training for Children With Low Working Memory

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2020, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Integrating trials into a whole-population cohort of children and parents: statement of intent (trials) for the Generation Victoria (GenV) cohort

Article • BMC Medical Research Methodology, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
The “Goldilocks Day” for Children's Skeletal Health: Compositional Data Analysis of 24‐Hour Activity Behaviors

Article • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, September 2020, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Analysing body composition as compositional data: An exploration of the relationship between body composition, body mass and bone strength

Article • Statistical Methods in Medical Research, September 2020, SAGE Publications

Melissa Wake
Sleep profiles of Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents: sociodemographic characteristics and lifestyle correlates

Article • Sleep Medicine, September 2020, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Maximising Participant Engagement, Participation and Retention in Very Large Cohort Studies: Rapid Review (Preprint)

Article • August 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

Melissa Wake
Clarifying the Sweeping Consequences of COVID-19 in Pregnant Women, Newborns, and Children With Existing Cohorts

Article • JAMA Pediatrics, August 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
Body Mass Index From Early to Late Childhood and Cardiometabolic Measurements at 11 to 12 Years

Article • PEDIATRICS, July 2020, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Plasma Trimethylamine N-Oxide (TMAO) and its Precursors: Population Epidemiology, Parent-Child Concordance, and Associations with Reported Dietary Intake in 11-12-year-old Children and Their Parents

Article • Current Developments in Nutrition, June 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Associations of retinal microvascular caliber with large arterial function and structure: A population‐based study of 11‐12 year‐olds and mid‐life adults

Article • Microcirculation, June 2020, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Cross-sectional metabolic profiles of mental health in population-based cohorts of 11- to 12-year-olds and mid-life adults: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, May 2020, SAGE Publications

Melissa Wake
Do body mass index and waist-to-height ratio over the preceding decade predict retinal microvasculature in 11–12 year olds and midlife adults?

Article • International Journal of Obesity, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Cardiovascular health and retinal microvascular geometry in Australian 11–12 year-olds

Article • Microvascular Research, May 2020, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Shared Regulatory Pathways Reveal Novel Genetic Correlations Between Grip Strength and Neuromuscular Disorders

Article • Frontiers in Genetics, April 2020, Frontiers

Melissa Wake
Direct assessment of mental health and metabolic syndrome amongst Indonesian adolescents: a study design for a mixed-methods study sampled from school and community settings

Article • Global Health Action, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake, Minh Pham
Cost-effectiveness of preventing child internalising problems: Results from the translational trial of Cool Little Kids at school entry

Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, March 2020, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Parent perspectives on children and young people's mental health services in Victoria – What's wrong and how to fix it: A multi‐site qualitative study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, February 2020, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Repeated presentation of children and adolescents to the emergency department following self‐harm: A retrospective audit of hospital data

Article • Emergency Medicine Australasia, February 2020, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Association of brachial-cuff excess pressure with carotid intima–media thickness in Australian adults

Article • Journal of Hypertension, February 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Associations of Retinal Vessel Caliber With Hearing Status in Childhood and Midlife

Article • JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, January 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
No obvious impact of caesarean delivery on childhood allergic outcomes: findings from Australian cohorts

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, January 2020, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Strengthening care for children: pilot of an integrated general practitioner–paediatrician model of primary care in Victoria, Australia

Article • Australian Health Review, January 2020, CSIRO Publishing

Melissa Wake
Mapping PedsQLTM scores onto CHU9D utility scores: estimation, validation and a comparison of alternative instrument versions

Article • Quality of Life Research, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Objectively measured sleep and telomere length in a population-based cohort of children and midlife adults

Article • SLEEP, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Early clinical markers of overweight/obesity onset and resolution by adolescence

Article • International Journal of Obesity, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake, Dr Jessica A Kerr
Health-Related Quality of Life in Children With Low Language or Congenital Hearing Loss, as Measured by the PedsQL and Health Utility Index Mark 3

Article • Value in Health, October 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake, Professor Sheena Reilly
Telomere length and lung function in a population‐based cohort of children and mid‐life adults

Article • Pediatric Pulmonology, August 2019, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Infant and young child feeding interventions targeting overweight and obesity: A narrative review

Article • Obesity Reviews, August 2019, Wiley

Melissa Wake, Dr Jessica A Kerr
Nutrition‐related interventions targeting childhood overweight and obesity: A narrative review

Article • Obesity Reviews, August 2019, Wiley

Melissa Wake, Dr Jessica A Kerr
Child and adult snack food intake in response to manipulated pre-packaged snack item quantity/variety and snack box size: a population-based randomized trial

Article • International Journal of Obesity, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake, Dr Jessica A Kerr
A Cross‐Cohort Study Examining the Associations of Metabolomic Profile and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Children and Their Parents: The Child Health CheckPoint Study and Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, July 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Prevalence of Childhood Hearing Loss and Secular Trends: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Article • Academic Pediatrics, July 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Albuminuria: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Body composition: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Carotid artery intima–media thickness, distensibility and elasticity: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years old and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Child Health CheckPoint: cohort summary and methodology of a physical health and biospecimen module for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Food choices: concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake, Dr Jessica A Kerr
Health-related quality of life: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Hearing, speech reception, vocabulary and language: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11 to 12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Lung function: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Metabolomics: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Physical activity and sedentary activity: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Population health bio-phenotypes in 11–12 year old children and their midlife parents: Growing Up in Australia’s Child Health CheckPoint

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Retinal microvasculature: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Sleep: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Telomere length: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Vascular function and stiffness: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
pQCT bone geometry and strength: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents

Article • BMJ Open, July 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Skin Prick Test Predictive Values for the Outcome of Cashew Challenges in Children

Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, July 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Telomere Length and Vascular Phenotypes in a Population‐Based Cohort of Children and Midlife Adults

Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Inflammatory diet and preclinical cardiovascular phenotypes in 11–12 year-olds and mid-life adults: A cross-sectional population-based study

Article • Atherosclerosis, June 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Perspective: Advancing Understanding of Population Nutrient–Health Relations via Metabolomics and Precision Phenotypes

Article • Advances in Nutrition, May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Associations of retinal microvascular caliber with intermediate phenotypes of large arterial function and structure: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Article • Microcirculation, May 2019, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Academic, behavioural and quality of life outcomes of slight to mild hearing loss in late childhood: a population-based study

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, May 2019, BMJ

Melissa Wake
The Association of the Body Composition of Children with 24-Hour Activity Composition

Article • The Journal of Pediatrics, May 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Inflammation and hearing status in mid-childhood and mid-life: a population-based cross-sectional study

Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, February 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Cross-sectional associations between Ideal Cardiovascular Health scores and vascular phenotypes in 11- to 12-year-olds and their parents: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • International Journal of Cardiology, February 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Patterns of tree nut sensitization and allergy in the first 6 years of life in a population-based cohort

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2019, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
OUP accepted manuscript

Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Child BMI Over Time and Parent-Perceived Overweight

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2018, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
The International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C): A research platform of prospective cohorts for studying the aetiology of childhood cancers

Article • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, November 2018, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Body Image Dissatisfaction and the Adrenarchal Transition

Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, November 2018, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Bidirectional associations between diet and body composition measures from 2–15 years: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

Melissa Wake
The great leap backward: changes in the jumping performance of Australian children aged 11−12-years between 1985 and 2015

Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

Professor Sarath C Ranganathan, Melissa Wake
Consider the costs of aiding mild hearing loss in the absence of clear benefits: Response to McCreery and colleagues

Article • Child Care Health and Development, October 2018, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Research priorities for childhood chronic conditions: a workshop report

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2018, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Eating behavior and body composition across childhood: a prospective cohort study

Article • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
A replicable, low-burden mechanism for observing, recording, and analysing mother-child interaction in population research

Article • Child Care Health and Development, August 2018, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Dr Penny Levickis, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Rethinking the sleep-health link

Article • Sleep Health, August 2018, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Associations between maternal responsive linguistic input and child language performance at age 4 in a community-based sample of slow-to-talk toddlers

Article • Child Care Health and Development, July 2018, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Dr Penny Levickis, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
How body composition influences hearing status by mid-childhood and mid-life: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • International Journal of Obesity, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Bone health, activity and sedentariness at age 11–12 years: Cross-sectional Australian population-derived study

Article • Bone, July 2018, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Food Allergy Is an Important Risk Factor for Childhood Asthma, Irrespective of Whether It Resolves

Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, July 2018, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Childhood dietary trajectories and adolescent cardiovascular phenotypes: Australian community-based longitudinal study

Article • Public Health Nutrition, June 2018, Cambridge University Press

Dr Jessica A Kerr, Melissa Wake
The role of joint engagement in the development of language in a community-derived sample of slow-to-talk children

Article • Journal of Child Language, June 2018, Cambridge University Press

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Associations of mental health with cardiovascular risk phenotypes and adiposity in adolescence: A cross-sectional community-based study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, May 2018, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Impact of a Behavioral Sleep Intervention on New School Entrants’ Social Emotional Functioning and Sleep: A Translational Randomized Trial

Article • Behavioral Sleep Medicine, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Research priority setting in childhood chronic disease: a systematic review

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, April 2018, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Parental health behaviour predictors of childhood and adolescent dietary trajectories

Article • Public Health Nutrition, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

Melissa Wake
Data resource profile: The Child LAnguage REpository (CLARE)

Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
The Prevalence of Food Sensitization Appears Not to Have Changed between 2 Melbourne Cohorts of High-Risk Infants Recruited 15 Years Apart

Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, March 2018, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Do Fathers' Home Reading Practices at Age 2 Predict Child Language and Literacy at Age 4?

Article • Academic Pediatrics, March 2018, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Parent-reported prevalence and persistence of 19 common child health conditions

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, February 2018, BMJ

Melissa Wake, Md Hamidul Huque
The failure of anti-obesity programmes in schools

Article • BMJ, February 2018, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Cross-sectional epidemiology of hearing loss in Australian children aged 11–12 years old and 25-year secular trends

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, January 2018, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Changes in verbal and visuospatial working memory from Grade 1 to Grade 3 of primary school: Population longitudinal study

Article • Child Care Health and Development, December 2017, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Maternal communicative behaviours and interaction quality as predictors of language development: findings from a community-based study of slow-to-talk toddlers

Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, December 2017, Wiley

Dr Penny Levickis, Sheena Reilly , Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake, Laura Conway
Skipping breakfast among 8-9 year old children is associated with teacher-reported but not objectively measured academic performance two years later

Article • BMC Nutrition, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Early life socioeconomic determinants of dietary score and pattern trajectories across six waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, October 2017, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Longitudinal Associations of Sleep Duration in Infancy and Early Childhood with Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Health at the Age of 6 Years: The Generation R Study

Article • Childhood Obesity, October 2017, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Melissa Wake
Preventing Preschool Mental Health Problems

Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, September 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
The Cumulative Effect of Health Adversities on Children's Later Academic Achievement

Article • Academic Pediatrics, September 2017, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Translational delivery of Cool Little Kids to prevent child internalising problems: Randomised controlled trial

Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, August 2017, SAGE Publications

Melissa Wake
Socioeconomic Position Is Associated With Carotid Intima–Media Thickness in Mid‐Childhood: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, August 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

Professor Sarath C Ranganathan, Melissa Wake
Use of time and adolescent health-related quality of life/well-being: a scoping review

Article • Acta Paediatrica, July 2017, Wiley

Melissa Wake
The prevalence of food allergy and other allergic diseases in early childhood in a population-based study: HealthNuts age 4-year follow-up

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, July 2017, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Cohort Profile: The Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS)

Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Sheena Reilly , Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Mild-moderate congenital hearing loss: secular trends in outcomes across four systems of detection

Article • Child Care Health and Development, June 2017, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Changes in carotid artery intima-media thickness during the cardiac cycle – a comparative study in early childhood, mid-childhood, and adulthood

Article • VASA, June 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

Melissa Wake
‘Nudge’ interventions for improving children's dietary behaviors in the home: A systematic review

Article • Obesity Medicine, June 2017, Elsevier

Dr Jessica A Kerr, Melissa Wake
Time-Use Patterns and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescents

Article • PEDIATRICS, June 2017, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Childhood Social Disadvantage and Pubertal Timing: A National Birth Cohort From Australia

Article • PEDIATRICS, May 2017, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Socioeconomic status in childhood and C reactive protein in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, May 2017, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Stability and change in dietary scores and patterns across six waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, April 2017, Cambridge University Press

Melissa Wake
Tackling the big questions: What research matters to Australian paediatricians?

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, April 2017, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Adolescent Cardiovascular Functional and Structural Outcomes of Growth Trajectories from Infancy: Prospective Community-Based Study

Article • Childhood Obesity, April 2017, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

Melissa Wake
Food Challenge and Community-Reported Reaction Profiles in Food-Allergic Children Aged 1 and 4 Years: A Population-Based Study

Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, March 2017, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Early-life exposures predicting onset and resolution of childhood overweight or obesity

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, February 2017, BMJ

Dr Jessica A Kerr, Melissa Wake
Language Outcomes at 7 Years: Early Predictors and Co-Occurring Difficulties

Article • PEDIATRICS, February 2017, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
The Impact of Timing of Introduction of Solids on Infant Body Mass Index

Article • The Journal of Pediatrics, December 2016, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Implications of Thiamine Fortification in Cambodian Fish Sauce

Article • JAMA Pediatrics, October 2016, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
Cross-sectional sleep thresholds for optimal health and well-being in Australian 4–9-year-olds

Article • Sleep Medicine, June 2016, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Persistent Food Allergy and Food Allergy Coexistent with Eczema Is Associated with Reduced Growth in the First 4 Years of Life

Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, March 2016, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Timing of routine infant vaccinations and risk of food allergy and eczema at one year of age

Article • Allergy, February 2016, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Polymorphisms affecting vitamin D–binding protein modify the relationship between serum vitamin D (25[OH]D3) and food allergy

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2016, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Population Outcomes of Three Approaches to Detection of Congenital Hearing Loss

Article • PEDIATRICS, December 2015, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Science, Not Philosophy, Will Help Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Reach Their Potential

Article • PEDIATRICS, December 2015, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
VITALITY trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial to establish the role of postnatal vitamin D supplementation in infant immune health

Article • BMJ Open, December 2015, BMJ

Melissa Wake
A healthy patient with bilateral frozen hips preceding bilateral frozen shoulders: a cautionary tale

Article • BMJ Case Reports, November 2015, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Do Childhood Infections Contribute to Adult Cardiometabolic Diseases?

Article • The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, November 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Two-Year Outcomes of a Population-Based Intervention for Preschool Language Delay: An RCT

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2015, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Health-care costs of underweight, overweight and obesity: Australian population-based study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, June 2015, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Identifying and managing common childhood language and speech impairments

Article • BMJ, May 2015, BMJ

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Differential factors associated with challenge-proven food allergy phenotypes in a population cohort of infants: a latent class analysis

Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, April 2015, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Trajectories and Outcomes Among Children With Special Health Care Needs

Article • PEDIATRICS, March 2015, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Cohort Profile: The HealthNuts Study: Population prevalence and environmental/genetic predictors of food allergy

Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Natural BMI Reductions and Overestimation of Obesity Trial Effectiveness

Article • PEDIATRICS, January 2015, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Viewpoint article: Childhood obesity - looking back over 50 years to begin to look forward

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2015, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Poor Sleep and Lower Working Memory in Grade 1 Children: Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study

Article • Academic Pediatrics, January 2015, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Schooling Duration Rather Than Chronological Age Predicts Working Memory Between 6 and 7 Years

Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, January 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Which infants with eczema are at risk of food allergy? Results from a population-based cohort

Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, December 2014, Wiley

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Speech sound disorder at 4 years: prevalence, comorbidities, and predictors in a community cohort of children

Article • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, November 2014, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Medical intervention in parent-reported infant gastro-oesophageal reflux: A population-based study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, November 2014, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Environmental and genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency in 12-month-old infants

Article • The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, October 2014, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Maternal responsiveness predicts child language at ages 3 and 4 in a community-based sample of slow-to-talk toddlers

Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, September 2014, Wiley

Dr Penny Levickis, Melissa Wake
Feeding practices and child weight: is the association bidirectional in preschool children?

Article • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Professional help seeking for young children with mental health problems

Article • Australian Journal of Psychology, September 2014, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Let's Call It As It Is: On Results, Reach, and Resolution in Population-Based Obesity Trials

Article • PEDIATRICS, August 2014, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
The challenges of real-world implementation of web-based shared care software: the HopSCOTCH Shared-Care Obesity Trial in Children

Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Measuring maternal responsiveness in a community-based sample of slow-to-talk toddlers: a cross-sectional study

Article • Child Care Health and Development, July 2014, Wiley

Dr Penny Levickis, Melissa Wake
Specific language impairment: a convenient label for whom?

Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, July 2014, Wiley

Sheena Reilly , Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Primary health-care costs associated with special health care needs up to age 7 years: Australian population-based study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, June 2014, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Methylation of the filaggrin gene promoter does not affect gene expression and allergy

Article • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, June 2014, Wiley

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Healthcare costs associated with language difficulties up to 9 years of age: Australian population-based study

Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

Dr Elizabeth Mary Westrupp, Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Maternal Behaviors Promoting Language Acquisition in Slow-to-Talk Toddlers

Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, May 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr Penny Levickis, Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Treating infant colic with the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri: double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial

Article • BMJ, April 2014, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Community Screening for Preschool Child Inhibition to Offer the ‘Cool Little Kids’ Anxiety Prevention Programme

Article • Infant and Child Development, March 2014, Wiley

Miss Alexandra Perry, Melissa Wake
Population response to change in infant feeding guidelines for allergy prevention

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2014, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Children's sleep patterns from 0 to 9 years: Australian population longitudinal study

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, December 2013, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Probiotics to Prevent or Treat Excessive Infant Crying

Article • JAMA Pediatrics, December 2013, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
Bidirectional Associations Between Mothers' and Fathers' Parenting Consistency and Child BMI

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2013, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Is glycosylated haemoglobin associated with psychosocial stress in non-diabetic 6-year-olds?

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, October 2013, Wiley

Melissa Wake
The Impact of Family History of Allergy on Risk of Food Allergy: A Population-Based Study of Infants

Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2013, MDPI AG

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Study protocol: the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (CATS)

Article • BMC Pediatrics, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Sleep well—be well study: improving school transition by improving child sleep: a translational randomised trial

Article • BMJ Open, October 2013, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Randomized Trial of a Population-Based, Home-Delivered Intervention for Preschool Language Delay

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2013, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Natural History of Stuttering to 4 Years of Age: A Prospective Community-Based Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, August 2013, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Correction: Family and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood Trajectories of BMI and Overweight: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

Melissa Wake
Family and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood Trajectories of BMI and Overweight: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

Melissa Wake
Early Puberty and Childhood Social and Behavioral Adjustment

Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, July 2013, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Shared care obesity management in 3-10 year old children: 12 month outcomes of HopSCOTCH randomised trial

Article • BMJ, June 2013, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Effects of school-based interventions for direct delivery of physical activity on fitness and cardiometabolic markers in children and adolescents: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Article • Obesity Reviews, June 2013, Wiley

Melissa Wake
The cost of healthcare for children with mental health difficulties

Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, May 2013, SAGE Publications

Dr Elizabeth Mary Westrupp, Melissa Wake
Bidirectional associations between overweight and health-related quality of life from 4–11 years: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • International Journal of Obesity, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with challenge-proven food allergy in infants

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, April 2013, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Who gets help for pre-school communication problems? Data from a prospective community study

Article • Child Care Health and Development, March 2013, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Community-based healthcare costs for children born low birthweight, preterm and/or small for gestational age: data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • Child Care Health and Development, March 2013, Wiley

Dr Elizabeth Mary Westrupp, Melissa Wake
Psychosocial predictors of 4-year BMI change in overweight and obese children in primary care

Article • Obesity, March 2013, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Childhood Obesity in Secondary Care: National Prospective Audit of Australian Pediatric Practice

Article • Academic Pediatrics, March 2013, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Development of Mental Health Problems and Overweight Between Ages 4 and 11 Years: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • Academic Pediatrics, March 2013, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Computer use and letter knowledge in pre-school children: A population-based study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, February 2013, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Research priorities in 2012 for the effective management of childhood obesity

Article • Clinical Obesity, February 2013, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Preventing early language delay: a pilot study

Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Randomised controlled trial of a brief GP intervention to reduce overweight in Victorian primary school children (LEAP)

Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Randomised controlled trial of a brief GP intervention to reduce overweight in Victorian primary school children - Live, Eat and Play (LEAP 2)

Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Physical Activity and 3-Year BMI Change in Overweight and Obese Children

Article • PEDIATRICS, January 2013, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Child Psychological Functioning Battery

Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

Melissa Wake
Primary healthcare costs associated with sleep problems up to age 7 years: Australian population-based study

Article • BMJ Open, January 2013, BMJ

Melissa Wake
ChocHealth for Kids! The effects of dark chocolate on children?s blood pressure

Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Improving outcomes of preschool language delay in the community

Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Preventing early language delay in the primary care setting: cluster randomised trial

Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Filaggrin loss-of-function mutations do not predict food allergy over and above the risk of food sensitization among infants

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, November 2012, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Four-Year-Old Outcomes of a Universal Infant-Toddler Shared Reading Intervention

Article • Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, November 2012, American Medical Association (AMA)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Five-Year Follow-up of Harms and Benefits of Behavioral Infant Sleep Intervention: Randomized Trial

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2012, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Environmental and demographic risk factors for egg allergy in a population-based study of infants

Article • Allergy, September 2012, Wiley

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Reply

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, September 2012, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Outcomes at six years of age for children with infant sleep problems: Longitudinal community-based study

Article • Sleep Medicine, September 2012, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Probiotics to improve outcomes of colic in the community: Protocol for the Baby Biotics randomised controlled trial

Article • BMC Pediatrics, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
How training affects Australian paediatricians' management of obesity

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, July 2012, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Improving outcomes of preschool language delay in the community: protocol for the Language for Learning randomised controlled trial

Article • BMC Pediatrics, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Dr Penny Levickis, Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Morbidity patterns among the underweight, overweight and obese between 2 and 18 years: population-based cross-sectional analyses

Article • International Journal of Obesity, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Dark chocolate for children's blood pressure: randomised trial

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, June 2012, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Preventing mental health problems in children: the Families in Mind population-based cluster randomised controlled trial

Article • BMC Public Health, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Development of children’s internalising and externalising problems from infancy to five years of age

Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, May 2012, SAGE Publications

Melissa Wake
Sleep problems and mental health in primary school new entrants: Cross-sectional community-based study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, May 2012, Wiley

Melissa Wake
The Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Newborn Screening for Bilateral Permanent Congenital Hearing Impairment: Systematic Review

Article • Academic Pediatrics, May 2012, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
NICU‐only versus universal screening for newborn hearing loss: Population audit

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, April 2012, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Increasing the accuracy of peanut allergy diagnosis by using Ara h 2

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, April 2012, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Predetermined challenge eligibility and cessation criteria for oral food challenges in the HealthNuts population-based study of infants

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, April 2012, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
A shared-care model of obesity treatment for 3–10 year old children: Protocol for the HopSCOTCH randomised controlled trial

Article • BMC Pediatrics, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Prevalence of eczema and food allergy is associated with latitude in Australia

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, March 2012, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Power to the paediatricians: The Australian Paediatric Research Network is born

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2012, Wiley

Melissa Wake
At what BMI are parents of pre-schoolers concerned? National cross-sectional study

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
The costs of preschool communication problems

Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, September 2011, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Four-Year Prospective Study of BMI and Mental Health Problems in Young Children

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2011, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
A Brief Sleep Intervention Improves Outcomes in the School Entry Year: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2011, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Risk Factors for Childhood Mental Health Symptoms: National Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2011, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Outcomes of population based language promotion for slow to talk toddlers at ages 2 and 3 years: Let's Learn Language cluster randomised controlled trial

Article • BMJ, August 2011, BMJ

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Does Sleep Duration Predict Metabolic Risk in Obese Adolescents Attending Tertiary Services? A Cross-Sectional Study

Article • SLEEP, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Can improving working memory prevent academic difficulties? a school based randomised controlled trial

Article • BMC Pediatrics, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Changes in body mass index and health related quality of life from childhood to adolescence

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Is the adiposity rebound a rebound in adiposity?

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Psychological predictors of adiposity: Systematic review of longitudinal studies

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
The Time and Practice Challenges of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics: An Australian National Study

Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, June 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Sleep duration and body mass index in 0-7-year olds

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, May 2011, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Profiles of language development in pre-school children: a longitudinal latent class analysis of data from the Early Language in Victoria Study

Article • Child Care Health and Development, March 2011, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Does an intervention that improves infant sleep also improve overweight at age 6? Follow-up of a randomised trial

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, March 2011, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Overweight and Obesity Between Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A 10-year Prospective Cohort Study

Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, March 2011, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Prevalence of challenge-proven IgE-mediated food allergy using population-based sampling and predetermined challenge criteria in infants

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, March 2011, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Outcomes of a Universal Shared Reading Intervention by 2 Years of Age: The Let's Read Trial

Article • PEDIATRICS, February 2011, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Can Skin Prick Testing Thresholds Replace Oral Food Challenges In Population-based Studies And Community Screening Of Infants?

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2011, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Oral Food Challenges in 1 Year Old Infants Using Pre-Determined Challenge Criteria

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2011, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Season of Birth Modifies the Risk of Food Allergy in Infants with Eczema and Food Sensitization in HealthNuts: a Population-based Study

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2011, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
The Epidemiology of Food Sensitization-Associated Eczema in Infancy in HealthNuts, a Population-based Study

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2011, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
The Cool Little Kids randomised controlled trial: Population-level early prevention for anxiety disorders

Article • BMC Public Health, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Predicting Language Outcomes at 4 Years of Age: Findings From Early Language in Victoria Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2010, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Translational research to prevent internalizing problems early in childhood

Article • Depression and Anxiety, November 2010, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Letters to the Editor

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, November 2010, Wiley

Melissa Wake
New directions in childhood obesity research: how a comprehensive biorepository will allow better prediction of outcomes

Article • BMC Medical Research Methodology, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Socioeconomic inequality profiles in physical and developmental health from 0–7 years: Australian National Study

Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, October 2010, BMJ

Prof Donna C Berthelsen, Melissa Wake
Can early introduction of egg prevent egg allergy in infants? A population-based study

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, October 2010, Elsevier

Dr Nicholas Osborne, Melissa Wake
Pet ownership and adolescent health: Cross-sectional population study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, September 2010, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Using simulated patients to develop doctors' skills in facilitating behaviour change: addressing childhood obesity

Article • Academic Medicine, June 2010, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Slight-Mild Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children: Audiometric, Clinical, and Risk Factor Profiles

Article • Ear & Hearing, April 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Mental Health Problems in 4–5-Year-Old Children: Australian Population Study

Article • Academic Pediatrics, January 2010, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
What research questions matter to Australian paediatricians? National Delphi Study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, December 2009, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Issues in obesity monitoring, screening and subsequent treatment

Article • Current Opinion in Pediatrics, December 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Predictors of early precocious talking: A prospective population study

Article • Journal of Child Language, October 2009, Cambridge University Press

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Three-year-old outcomes of a brief universal parenting intervention to prevent behaviour problems: randomised controlled trial

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2009, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Outcomes and costs of primary care surveillance and intervention for overweight or obese children: the LEAP 2 randomised controlled trial

Article • BMJ, September 2009, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Electronic Media Use and Adolescent Health and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Community Study

Article • Academic Pediatrics, September 2009, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Comorbidities of overweight/obesity experienced in adolescence: longitudinal study

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, June 2009, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Outcomes of Child Sleep Problems Over the School-Transition Period: Australian Population Longitudinal Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, April 2009, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Assessment of Sample Frame Validity After Pilot Recruitment for a Population Based Study of Infant Food Allergy

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2009, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Prevalence and Environmental Predictors of Food Allergy in Infants

Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, February 2009, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
How Do School-Day Activity Patterns Differ with Age and Gender across Adolescence?

Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, January 2009, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Predicting Stuttering Onset by the Age of 3 Years: A Prospective, Community Cohort Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, January 2009, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
The Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS): A prospective, longitudinal study of communication skills and expressive vocabulary development at 8, 12 and 24 months

Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Predictors of body mass index change in Australian primary school children

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Systematic Review of Preventive Interventions for Children's Mental Health: What Would Work in Australian Contexts?

Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, January 2009, SAGE Publications

Melissa Wake
Cost-effectiveness of a family-based GP-mediated intervention targeting overweight and moderately obese children

Article • Economics & Human Biology, December 2008, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Early childhood aetiology of mental health problems: a longitudinal population‐based study

Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2008, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Economic Evaluation of a Primary Care Trial to Reduce Weight Gain in Overweight/Obese Children: The LEAP Trial

Article • Ambulatory Pediatrics, September 2008, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Long-term Mother and Child Mental Health Effects of a Population-Based Infant Sleep Intervention: Cluster-Randomized, Controlled Trial

Article • PEDIATRICS, September 2008, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
The impact of childhood conditions and concurrent morbidities on child health and well-being

Article • Child Care Health and Development, July 2008, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Comorbities of overweight/obesity in Australian preschoolers: a cross-sectional population study

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, June 2008, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Influences on communicative development at 24 months of age: Child temperament, behaviour problems, and maternal factors

Article • Infant Behavior and Development, April 2008, Elsevier

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Does maternal concern about children's weight affect children's body size perception at the age of 6.5?—A community-based study

Article • International Journal of Obesity, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Health-related quality of life in children with hepatitis C acquired in the first year of life

Article • Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, February 2008, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Universal parenting programme to prevent early childhood behavioural problems: cluster randomised trial

Article • BMJ, January 2008, BMJ

Melissa Wake
How Well are Australian Infants and Children Aged 4 to 5 Years Doing?

Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2008, Elsevier

Prof Donna C Berthelsen, Melissa Wake
Identifying priority areas for longitudinal research in childhood obesity: Delphi technique survey

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Letter regarding ’A systematic review of the literature on characteristics of late‐talking toddlers‚ by Desmarais et al.

Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, January 2008, Wiley

Melissa Wake, Professor Sheena Reilly
Duchenne muscular dystrophy: issues in expanding newborn screening

Article • Current Opinion in Pediatrics, December 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Enhancing Longitudinal Studies by Linkage to National Databases:Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children†

Article • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Predicting Language at 2 Years of Age: A Prospective Community Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2007, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
Preschooler Obesity and Parenting Styles of Mothers and Fathers: Australian National Population Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2007, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
P1-141 Aetiology of mental health problems in early childhood

Article • Early Human Development, September 2007, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Adverse Associations of Infant and Child Sleep Problems and Parent Health: An Australian Population Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, May 2007, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Overweight in medical paediatric inpatients: Detection and parent expectations

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, April 2007, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Improving infant sleep and maternal mental health: a cluster randomised trial

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, March 2007, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Prevention of mental health problems: rationale for a universal approach

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, January 2007, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Adverse Associations of Sleep Problems in Australian Preschoolers: National Population Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, January 2007, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Comparing estimates of body fat in children using published bioelectrical impedance analysis equations

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
How should activity guidelines for young people be operationalised?

Article • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Letters to the Editor

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2007, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Letters to the Editor

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2007, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Sleep problems in young infants and maternal mental and physical health

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2007, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Stability of television viewing and electronic game/computer use in a prospective cohort study of Australian children: relationship with body mass index

Article • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
The Light Time-Use Diary and preschool activity patterns: Exploratory study

Article • International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Outcome data from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) trial: a randomized controlled trial of a primary care intervention for childhood overweight/mild obesity

Article • International Journal of Obesity, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Overweight, obesity and girth of Australian preschoolers: prevalence and socio-economic correlates

Article • International Journal of Obesity, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Growth of infant communication between 8 and 12 months: A population study

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, November 2006, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Sheena Reilly , Melissa Wake
Slight/Mild Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children

Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2006, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
The contribution of GJB2 mutations to slight or mild hearing loss in Australian elementary school children

Article • Journal of Medical Genetics, November 2006, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Is There a Relationship Between Overweight and Obesity and Mental Health Problems in 4- to 5-Year-Old Australian Children?

Article • Ambulatory Pediatrics, November 2006, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Enhancing the ethical conduct of genetic research: investigating views of parents on including their healthy children in a study on mild hearing loss

Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, September 2006, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Are general practitioners equipped to detect child overweight/obesity? Survey and audit

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, April 2006, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Prevalence, Stability, and Outcomes of Cry-Fuss and Sleep Problems in the First 2 Years of Life: Prospective Community-Based Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, March 2006, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Can Australian general practitioners tackle childhood overweight/obesity? Methods and processes from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) randomized controlled trial

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, September 2005, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Does Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status at School Entry Predict Language, Achievement, and Quality of Life 2 Years Later?

Article • Ambulatory Pediatrics, May 2005, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
The distraction test: The last word?

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, April 2005, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Hearing impairment: a population study of age at diagnosis, severity, and language outcomes at 7-8 years

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, March 2005, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Health-Related Quality of Life of Overweight and Obese Children

Article • JAMA, January 2005, American Medical Association (AMA)

Melissa Wake
Article • Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN VICTORIAN 4-YEAR-OLDS, 2002-4

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, December 2004, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Parent-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Children With Congenital Hearing Loss: A Population Study

Article • Ambulatory Pediatrics, September 2004, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Body mass index and parent-reported self-esteem in elementary school children: evidence for a causal relationship

Article • International Journal of Obesity, August 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Qualitative analysis of parents' experience with early detection of hearing loss

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, April 2004, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Stability of body mass index in Australian children: a prospective cohort study across the middle childhood years

Article • Public Health Nutrition, April 2004, Cambridge University Press

Melissa Wake
Australasian childhood longitudinal studies: Exciting yet challenging times

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, March 2004, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Outcomes of Children with Mild-Profound Congenital Hearing Loss at 7 to 8 Years: A Population Study

Article • Ear & Hearing, February 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

Melissa Wake
Health-Related Quality of Life and Metabolic Control in Children With Type 1 Diabetes: A prospective cohort study

Article • Diabetes Care, January 2004, American Diabetes Association

Melissa Wake
Slight and mild hearing loss in primary school children

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2004, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Early detection of emotional and behavioural problems in children with diabetes: the validity of the Child Health Questionnaire as a screening instrument

Article • Diabetic Medicine, August 2003, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Outcomes of Infant Sleep Problems: A Longitudinal Study of Sleep, Behavior, and Maternal Well-Being

Article • PEDIATRICS, March 2003, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Television, computer use and body mass index in Australian primary school children

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, March 2003, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Health status of Australian children with mild to severe cerebral palsy: cross-sectional survey using the Child Health Questionnaire

Article • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, February 2003, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Epidemiology of congenital hearing loss in Victoria, Australia: Epidemiología de la hipoacusia congénita en Victoria, Australia

Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

Melissa Wake
Six month impact of false positives in an Australian infant hearing screening programme

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, January 2003, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Language and Speech Perception Outcomes in Hearing-Impaired Children with and without Connexin 26 Mutations

Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2003, Karger Publishers

Melissa Wake
Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status in the Australian day-care setting: Developmental concerns of parents and carers

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, January 2003, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Health-related quality of life of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: Comparisons and correlations between parent and clinician reports

Article • International Journal of Cancer, December 2002, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Teething symptoms: cross sectional survey of five groups of child health professionals

Article • BMJ, October 2002, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Randomised controlled trial of behavioural infant sleep intervention to improve infant sleep and maternal mood

Article • BMJ, May 2002, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Parent-reported health status of overweight and obese Australian primary school children: a cross-sectional population survey

Article • International Journal of Obesity, May 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
Six year effectiveness of a population based two tier infant hearing screening programme

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, April 2002, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Now we're talking ... but who are we talking about?

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, October 2001, Wiley

Professor Sheena Reilly, Melissa Wake
The health and well-being of adolescents: a school-based population study of the self-report Child Health Questionnaire

Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, August 2001, Elsevier

Melissa Wake
Infant Sleep Problems and Postnatal Depression: A Community-Based Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, June 2001, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
The epidemiology of overweight and obesity among Australian children and adolescents, 1995-97

Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, April 2001, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Influence of Parental Gender and Self-Reported Health and Illness on Parent-Reported Child Health

Article • PEDIATRICS, December 2000, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
Teething and Tooth Eruption in Infants: A Cohort Study

Article • PEDIATRICS, December 2000, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Melissa Wake
The Child Health Questionnaire in children with diabetes: cross-sectional survey of parent and adolescent-reported functional health status

Article • Diabetic Medicine, October 2000, Wiley

Melissa Wake
The Parent-Form Child Health Questionnaire in Australia: Comparison of Reliability, Validity, Structure, and Norms

Article • Journal of Pediatric Psychology, September 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Melissa Wake
Change in body mass index in Australian primary school children, 1985–1997

Article • International Journal of Obesity, June 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

Melissa Wake
The Child Health Questionnaire in Australia: reliability, validity and population means

Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, April 2000, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Does height influence progression through primary school grades?

Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, April 2000, BMJ

Melissa Wake
Parent beliefs about infant teething: A survey of Australian parents

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, October 1999, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Prevalence of emotional and physical health concerns amongst young people in Victoria

Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, February 1999, Wiley

Melissa Wake
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

Article • Wiley

Melissa Wake

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