Nara Tagiyeva-Milne

• PhD, MD, MPH
• University of Aberdeen

Background The clinical management of Child sexual abuse (CSA) demands specialised skills from healthcare professionals due to its sensitivity, legal implications, and serious physical health and mental health effects. Standardised, comprehensive clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) may be pivotal. In this systematic review, we examined existing CSA...

Introduction While the factors commonly associated with an increased risk of child maltreatment (CM) were found to be increased during COVID-19, reports of actual maltreatment showed varying trends. Similarly, evidence regarding the impact of COVID-19 on CM within the European Cooperation on Science and Technology and Network Collaborative (COST) A...

Background Asthma is the most common chronic childhood medical condition globally. After sharp rises in prevalence over the second half of the twentieth century, falling prevalence has been found in some countries including the United Kingdom during the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to gain insight into the hitherto unconfirmed...

Background: Evidence from longitudinal population-based studies relating occupational exposure to the full range of different forms of airborne pollutants and lung function and airway obstruction is limited. Objective: To relate self-reported COPD and lung function impairment to occupational exposure to different forms of airborne chemical pollu...

Background Asthma is the commonest long-term condition in children, affecting an estimated five million schoolchildren in Europe. 1 The condition is responsible for substantial morbidity with 11% of children in the United Kingdom describing recurrent episodes of wheeze, 2 and resulting in days lost from school and time lost from work for their pare...

Background: Childhood asthma is a common condition whose prevalence is changing. We hypothesised that the relationship between asthma and associated risk factors has changed over a 50-year period. Methods: An ecological study design was used. Children aged 8-13 attending schools in Aberdeen city were surveyed on seven occasions between 1964 and...

Importance Timing of introduction of allergenic foods to the infant diet may influence the risk of allergic or autoimmune disease, but the evidence for this has not been comprehensively synthesized. Objective To systematically review and meta-analyze evidence that timing of allergenic food introduction during infancy influences risk of allergic or...

Background There are few prospective studies that relate the development of adult respiratory disease with exposure to occupational asthmagens. Objective To evaluate the risk of adult onset wheeze (AOW) and obstructive lung function associated with occupational exposures over 50 years. Methods A population-based randomly selected cohort of childr...

Background Allergic diseases are the leading causes of chronic illness in children and young adults in the UK. Aim To undertake a comprehensive review of the evidence on the effect of breastfeeding (BF) duration and timing of solid food introduction (SFI), on the risk of wheeze, atopic dermatitis, rhino-conjunctivitis, food allergy, allergic sensit...

Rationale: Cohort studies suggest that airflow obstruction is established early in life, manifests as childhood asthma and wheezy bronchitis and tracks into early adulthood. Although an association between childhood asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in later life has been demonstrated, it is unclear if childhood wheezy bronch...

Background: Asthma is among the most common chronic childhood diseases and many different theories have been posited. Aims and objectives: To explore changes in asthma prevalence in the context of changes in the prevalences of asthma risk factors in 9 – 12 year-old children in Aberdeen 1964 – 2014. Methods: Children attending schools within the 1...

Background: COPD is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although cigarette and biomass smoke are major risk factors, additional factors appear to be important. Studies tracking early-life lung function suggest that children who experience viral associated wheezing should be at risk of COPD as adults, however this needs to be sh...

To compare the prevalences of and risk factors for asthma, wheeze, hay fever and eczema in primary schoolchildren in Aberdeen in 2014. Cross-sectional survey. Primary schools in Aberdeen, North-East Scotland. Children in Scottish school years primary 1-7 were handed a questionnaire by their class teacher to be completed by their parents and returne...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are ubiquitous domestic pollutants. Their role in asthma/allergy development and exacerbations is uncertain. This systematic review investigated whether domestic VOC exposure increases the risk of developing and/or exacerbating asthma and allergic disorders. We systematically searched 11 databases and three trial r...

AimsA systematic review of the literature published in English over 10 years was undertaken in order to describe the use of electronic healthcare data in the identification of potential adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in children.MethodsMEDLINE and EMBASE were searched using MESH headings and text words. Titles, key words and abstracts were checked f...

Introduction The prevalences of childhood asthma, eczema and hayfever have been recorded in our local population since 1964. The prevalence of a lifetime history of asthma rose from 4% in 1964 to a peak of 28% in 2004 before falling back to 22% in 2009. Wheeze in the past 12 months fell from 19% in 2004 to 16% in 2009. Lifetime prevalences of eczem...

Over the past decades, the prevalence of asthma, allergic disease and atopy has increased significantly and in parallel with the increased use of products and materials emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the indoor environment. The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence of the relationship between quantitatively measured domes...

The increase in asthma and allergies has been attributed to declining exposure to environmental microorganisms. The main source of these is soil, the composition of which varies geographically and which is a major component (40-45%) of household dust. Our hypothesis-generating study aimed to investigate associations between soil components, respira...

Background: Exposure to flour/flour constituents is a leading cause of occupational asthma. Paternal occupational exposure to flour has been associated with increased likelihood of childhood asthma, raising the possibility of para-occupational exposure whereby family members are exposed to sensitizers 'taken home' on contaminated skin/clothing. O...

Childhood asthma is a common condition and the prevalence has increased in many countries during the late 20th century. The Aberdeen schools asthma surveys reported rising lifetime prevalence of asthma between 1964 and 2004 in children aged 9-12 years, but a fall in wheeze in the last 3 years between 1999 and 2004. The present study tested the hypo...

Most of the evidence on agreement between self- and proxy-reported occupational data comes from interview-based studies. The authors aimed to examine agreement between women's reports of their partner's occupation and their partner's own description using questionnaire-based data collected as a part of the prospective, population-based Avon Longitu...

Surveys of primary schools children in Aberdeen carried out in 1964, 1989, 1994 and 1999 suggested a slowing of the increase in parent‐reported wheeze between 1994 and 1999. To assess whether this pattern had continued, questionnaires were distributed to 5712 children aged 7–12 years in the same schools in 2004. A total of 3271 (57.3%) completed qu...

The present birth cohort study investigated whether or not childhood wheeze and asthma are associated with parental exposure to occupational sensitisers that cause asthma. Parental occupation, from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), was related to wheeze, asthma, ventilatory function, airway responsiveness and atopic sens...

To compare risk factors for wheezy bronchitis (WB) and multi-trigger wheeze (MTW) in pre-pubertal children along the spectrum of disease severity. Cross-sectional survey of children aged 7-12 yr in Aberdeen city primary schools in 2004 using parent-completed questionnaires as used in surveys in 1964, 1989, 1994, and 1999. Children were grouped into...

Numerous surveys of school-aged children have shown increasing asthma prevalence with a less publicized but noticeable change in the male to female ratio. We sought to confirm this change in the sex ratio in four questionnaire-based surveys and investigate possible explanations. Identical questionnaire surveys were performed in 1989 (n=3,390), 1994...

Debate on the evaluation of safe motherhood programs has mainly focused on the outcome or process measure to be used. Less attention is paid to the application of different approaches to evaluation. This article reviews current theories of evaluation and provides examples of the extent to which these theories have been applied in the actual practic...