Jaclyn Parks

BC Cancer Research Centre | BCCRC · Department of Cancer Control Research (CCR)

Childhood obesity is linked to maternal smoking during pregnancy. Gut microbiota may partially mediate this association and could be potential targets for intervention; however, its role is understudied. We included 1,592 infants from the Canadian Healthy Infants Longitudinal Development Cohort. Data on environmental exposure and lifestyle factors...

Asthma and allergies are the leading chronic illnesses among children in Canada, causing a significant burden on healthcare systems and negatively impacting the quality of life of children and their families. Currently, the association between asthma, wheeze, and atopy development and early-life exposure to endotoxin is not fully understood. Data f...

Motivation Increasingly complex omics datasets are being generated, along with associated diverse categories of metadata (environmental, clinical, etc.). Looking at the correlation between these variables can be critical to identify potential confounding factors and novel relationships. To date, some correlation globe software has been developed to...

The relationship between antibiotic use and Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) has been well established in adults and older children but remains unclear and is yet to be fully examined in infant populations. This study aimed to determine the separate and cumulative impact from antibiotics and household cleaning products on C. difficile coloni...

Background As smoking prevalence has decreased in Canada, particularly during pregnancy and around children, and technological improvements have lowered detection limits, the use of traditional tobacco smoke biomarkers in infant populations requires re-evaluation. Objective We evaluated concentrations of urinary nicotine biomarkers, cotinine and t...

Background: Comprehensive longitudinal studies are important for understanding the complex risk factors, pathways, exposures and interactions that lead to the development and persistence of asthma. We aimed to examine associations between use of household cleaning products in early life and childhood respiratory and allergic disease using data fro...