Bethany Foster
Associate Professor
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
McGill University
Canada
Biography
The Montreal Children's Hospital
Research Interest
Focused on the influence of chronic kidney failure on the health of children and young adults. Her previous work has focused on the impact of kidney disease on growth and body composition. Her research program at McGill aims to evaluate the impact of kidney failure and its treatments (specifically kidney transplantation) on cardiovascular health in children and young adults. In addition, she is studying the determinants of long term kidney transplant survival, including the impact of transfer from a pediatric to an adult care setting. Interested in the analytic methods required to deal effectively with data collected from children spanning a wide range of ages and sizes.
Publications
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Donor Quality in the Eye of the Beholder: Interactions between Nonimmunologic Recipient and Donor Factors as Determinants of Graft Survival. Foster BJ, Gupta IR.
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Association of Sex with Risk of Kidney Graft Failure Differs by Age. Lepeytre F, Dahhou M, Zhang X, Boucquemont J, Sapir-Pichhadze R, Cardinal H, Foster BJ.
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Insulin Resistance and Hypertension in Obese Youth With Sleep-Disordered Breathing Treated With Positive Airway Pressure: A Prospective Multicenter Study. Katz SL, MacLean JE, Hoey L, Horwood L, Barrowman N, Foster B, Hadjiyannakis S, Legault L, Bendiak GN, Kirk VG, Constantin E.
