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Snehal M Pinto Pereira

Associate Professor in Population Health and Applied Statistics / MRC Career Development …
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Full-Field Digital versus Screen-Film Mammography: Comparison within the UK Breast Screening Program and Systematic Review of Published Data1

S Vinnicombe, SM Pinto Pereira, VA McCormack… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To (a) compare the performance of full-field digital mammography (FFDM), using
hard-copy image reading, with that of screen-film mammography (SFM) within a UK …

[HTML][HTML] Physical and mental health 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection (long COVID) among adolescents in England (CLoCk): a national matched cohort study

T Stephenson, SMP Pereira, R Shafran… - The Lancet Child & …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background We describe post-COVID symptomatology in a non-hospitalised, national
sample of adolescents aged 11–17 years with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood abuse is associated with methylation of multiple loci in adult DNA

M Suderman, N Borghol, JJ Pappas… - BMC medical …, 2014 - Springer
Background Childhood abuse is associated with increased adult disease risk, suggesting
that processes acting over the long-term, such as epigenetic regulation of gene activity, may …

[HTML][HTML] Sedentary behaviour and biomarkers for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in mid-life: the role of television-viewing and sitting at work

SM Pinto Pereira, M Ki, C Power - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Knowledge of sedentary behaviour associations with health has relied mainly
on television-viewing as a proxy and studies with other measures are less common. To …

Depressive symptoms and physical activity during 3 decades in adult life: bidirectional associations in a prospective cohort study

SMP Pereira, MC Geoffroy, C Power - JAMA psychiatry, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Associations have been documented between physical activity and depressive
symptoms, but the direction of this association is unclear. Objective To examine whether …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood maltreatment and BMI trajectories to mid-adult life: Follow-up to age 50y in a British birth cohort

C Power, SM Pinto Pereira, L Li - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Childhood maltreatment including abuse and neglect has been associated with
adult obesity, but evidence on life-course development of obesity or BMI gain is unclear. We …

[HTML][HTML] Natural course of health and well-being in non-hospitalised children and young people after testing for SARS-CoV-2: a prospective follow-up study over 12 …

SMP Pereira, R Shafran, MD Nugawela… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Despite high numbers of children and young people (CYP) having acute
COVID, there has been no prospective follow-up of CYP to establish the pattern of health …

[HTML][HTML] Adverse childhood experiences and adult inflammation: Single adversity, cumulative risk and latent class approaches

RE Lacey, SMP Pereira, L Li, A Danese - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long been known to be
related to poorer health across the life course. Previous studies typically relied on …

[HTML][HTML] Long COVID—six months of prospective follow-up of changes in symptom profiles of non-hospitalised children and young people after SARS-CoV-2 testing: A …

T Stephenson, SM Pinto Pereira, MD Nugawela… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Little is known about the prevalence and natural trajectory of post-COVID
symptoms in young people, despite very high numbers of young people having acute …

Child maltreatment and adult living standards at 50 years

SM Pinto Pereira, L Li, C Power - Pediatrics, 2017 - publications.aap.org
METHODS: We used 1958 British birth cohort data (N= 8076) to examine associations of
child neglect and abuse with adult (50 years) long-term sickness absence, not in …