Robyn Lucas

Ultraviolet radiation and health: friend and foe.

Association or causation: evaluating links between "environment and disease".

Estimates of beneficial and harmful sun exposure times during the year for major Australian population centres.

Considering the potential benefits as well as adverse effects of sun exposure: can all the potential benefits be provided by oral vitamin D supplementation?

Is the current public health message on UV exposure correct?

The high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency across Australian populations is only partly explained by season and latitude.

Mid-life stress is associated with both up- and down-regulation of markers of humoral and cellular immunity.

Estimating the global disease burden due to ultraviolet radiation exposure.

Future health implications of prenatal and early-life vitamin D status.

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitides: could geographic patterns be explained by ambient ultraviolet radiation?

Associations between silicone skin cast score, cumulative sun exposure, and other factors in the ausimmune study: a multicenter Australian study.

Public health impact of global heating due to climate change: potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases.

Population density determines the direction of the association between ambient ultraviolet radiation and type 1 diabetes incidence.

Recruiting child controls.

Latitudinal variation in incidence and type of first central nervous system demyelinating events.

Assessing vitamin D status: pitfalls for the unwary.

Vitamin D deficiency and pregnancy: from preconception to birth.

Hip fracture risk in relation to vitamin D supplementation and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies.

Measurement of Epstein-Barr virus DNA load using a novel quantification standard containing two EBV DNA targets and SYBR Green I dye.

The role of latitude, ultraviolet radiation exposure and vitamin D in childhood asthma and hayfever: an Australian multicenter study.

Questions and answers about the environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: 2010 assessment.

An epidemiological perspective of ultraviolet exposure--public health concerns.

Shift work and multiple sclerosis.

Vitamin D status during pregnancy and aspects of offspring health.

Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: progress report, 2011.

Epstein-Barr virus genotypes and strains in central nervous system demyelinating disease and Epstein-Barr virus-related illnesses in Australia.

The risks for falls and fractures in multiple sclerosis.

Validation of brief questionnaire measures of sun exposure and skin pigmentation against detailed and objective measures including vitamin D status.

Epstein-Barr virus infection: a smoking gun for multiple sclerosis?

Association between ambient ultraviolet radiation and risk of esophageal cancer.

Association between ambient ultraviolet radiation and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer.

Environmental risk factors for multiple sclerosis: a review with a focus on molecular mechanisms.

Imaging and diagnostic criteria for Multiple Sclerosis: are we there yet?

Adherence to MRI protocol consensus guidelines in multiple sclerosis: an Australian multi-centre study.

Vitamin D and solar ultraviolet radiation in the risk and treatment of tuberculosis.

Constitutive and relative facultative skin pigmentation among Victorian children including comparison of two visual skin charts for determining constitutive melanin density.

Sun exposure over a lifetime in Australian adults from latitudinally diverse regions.

Vitamin D deficiency and risk for rheumatic diseases: an update.

Vitamin D status: Multifactorial contribution of environment, genes and other factors in healthy Australian adults across a latitude gradient.

Assessing interactions between HLA-DRB1*15 and infectious mononucleosis on the risk of multiple sclerosis.

Assessing possible selection bias in a national voluntary MS longitudinal study in Australia.

Vitamin D sufficiency in pregnancy.

Vitamin D and multiple sclerosis.

Predicting vitamin D deficiency in older Australian adults.

Prospective observational study of physical functioning, physical activity, and time outdoors and the risk of hip fracture: a population-based cohort study of 158,057 older adults in the 45 and up study.

The physical anthropometry, lifestyle habits and blood pressure of people presenting with a first clinical demyelinating event compared to controls: The Ausimmune study.

Varicella zoster virus quantitation in blood from symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.

Association between ultraviolet radiation, skin sun sensitivity and risk of pancreatic cancer.

Vitamin D and tuberculosis: hope or hype?

A novel approach for prediction of vitamin d status using support vector regression.

Measuring exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation using a dosimetric technique: understanding participant compliance issues.

The contributions of solar ultraviolet radiation exposure and other determinants to serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in Australian adults: the AusD Study.

What is the optimal level of vitamin D? - separating the evidence from the rhetoric.

Environmental, personal, and genetic determinants of response to vitamin D supplementation in older adults.

Keyhole limpet haemocyanin - a model antigen for human immunotoxicological studies.

Myopia is associated with lower vitamin D status in young adults.

Shining the light on Sunshine: a systematic review of the influence of sun exposure on type 2 diabetes mellitus-related outcomes.

Incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in relation to ambient UV radiation in white populations, 1978-2012: empirical relationships.

Reply.

Sun exposure and vitamin D status as Northeast Asian migrants become acculturated to life in Australia.

Reply: To PMID 24600673.

Seasonal variation of relapse rate in multiple sclerosis is latitude dependent.

What is the optimal level of vitamin D--reply.

What is the optimal level of vitamin D--reply.

Vitamin D in fetal development: findings from a birth cohort study.

Vitamin D and immunity.

Weekend personal ultraviolet radiation exposure in four cities in Australia: influence of temperature, humidity and ambient ultraviolet radiation.

Cardiovascular disease risk factor profiles of 263,356 older Australians according to region of birth and acculturation, with a focus on migrants born in Asia.

Basal cell carcinomas on sun-protected vs. sun-exposed body sites: a comparison of phenotypic and environmental risk factors.

Variation in incidence of pediatric Crohn's disease in relation to latitude and ambient ultraviolet radiation: a systematic review and analysis.

Comparing the effects of sun exposure and vitamin D supplementation on vitamin D insufficiency, and immune and cardio-metabolic function: the Sun Exposure and Vitamin D Supplementation (SEDS) Study.

Vitamin D deficiency at melanoma diagnosis is associated with higher Breslow thickness.

Tightrope Walking: Using Predictors of 25(OH)D Concentration Based on Multivariable Linear Regression to Infer Associations with Health Risks.

The Global Burden of Cancer 2013.

Effect of vitamin D supplementation on selected inflammatory biomarkers in older adults: a secondary analysis of data from a randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

Analytical Bias in the Measurement of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations Impairs Assessment of Vitamin D Status in Clinical and Research Settings.

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition.

Do prenatal sex hormones modulate MS risk?

Higher intake of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids is associated with a decreased risk of a first clinical diagnosis of central nervous system demyelination: Results from the Ausimmune Study.

Ultraviolet radiation, vitamin D and multiple sclerosis.

A systematic review of the influence of skin pigmentation on changes in the concentrations of vitamin D and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in plasma/serum following experimental UV irradiation.

Measuring sun exposure in epidemiological studies: Matching the method to the research question.

Solar ultraviolet radiation in Africa: a systematic review and critical evaluation of the health risks and use of photoprotection.