Professor Louise Baur

Professor & Deputy Associate Dean
Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health

Director, Physical Activity, Nutrition &
Obesity Research Group

Clinical School
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Locked Bag 4001
Westmead NSW 2145

Phone: +61 2 9845 3382
Fax: +61 2 9845 3389
Mobile:0437278288

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Projects

Popping the Bubblewrap, Unleashing the Power of Play.

A Bundy; GA Naughton; PJ Tranter; SR Wyver; Prof LA Baur; WE Schiller; Prof. A Bauman.

ARC Discovery Grant $398,923

2009-2011

A Validation Study of Self-reported Weights and Heights in the NSW Health Survey

V Flood, G Pang, K Webb, R Lazarus, L Baur.
Funded by NSW Health, this project examined the validity and precision of self-reported heights and weights from the NSW Health Survey. A sub-sample of the original survey participants willing to be contacted about further studies were telephoned, and if willing, an interview to measure their weight and height was arranged (n=227). While the mean differences between self-reported and measured weights and heights were small (weight -2.4kg, height 1.3cm), the total effect of exaggeration of height and under-reporting of weight on calculated body mass index (BMI) was substantial in population terms. From weight categories based on measured data, over half the participants (54%) were classified as overweight or obese, whereas in the weight categories based on the self-reported data, only 35% of participants were classified as overweight or obese. It was concluded that the use of self-reported heights and weights would result in substantial underestimation of BMI in population studies and that this tended to be worse among more obese subjects.

Healthy Beginnings - early intervention to prevent childhood obesity

Wen LM, Alperstein G, Bauer L, Rissel C.

Funded by the NHMRC, this family-based randomised controlled trial features a series of developmentally staged home visits by early childhood nurses to address risk factors associated with overweight and obesity. The protocol is available on-line in the BMC Public Health 2007, 7:76.

2006-2009

Food and drink company sponsorship of children's sport: publicity or philanthropy?

Prof LA Baur; Prof. A Bauman; B Smith; K Chapman.

ARC Linkage $290,000