Congratulations Koya!
Congrats to long time friend of the Raine Study and leader of our Cardiometabolic Special Interest Group Dr Koya Ayonrinde, who was awarded a prestigious Emerging Leaders Fellowship at the WA Near-Miss Awards..

"Big Data" 
We were excited to see the Raine Study included in the latest edition of the University of Western Australia'ss Uniview magazine. Scientific Director Bec Glauert shares what "big data" is and how it isn't necessarily how much you have (though the Raine Study has a lot!) but what you do with it that matters...

High Blood Pressure Discriminates Gender?
New research in the international journal Hypertension, using data from the Raine Study, shows that a hormone that can cause high blood pressure behaves differently in young men versus young women. 

Physical Activity
Curtin University’s Professor Leon Straker (former Scientific Director of the Raine Study) shared his findings based on Raine Study data at the Wellbeing Health & Youth centre of excellence for teenage health.

Reproductive Health
The Raine Study Helps Give IVF Kids A Clean Bill Of Health: New research published in the medical journal Human Reproduction, using your data from the Raine Study, is being described as a major breakthrough in how we understand the long-term health implications for children born via IVF. 

Sleep Disorders 
Congratulations to UWA PhD candidate Kelly Sansom who was awarded the Raine Study PhD Top-Up Scholarship for 2021. Kelly is using the scholarship funding to progress her research into the connection between sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease, using your Raine Study data.

Current
It’s full speed ahead with our current follow-up, the Gen2_28 Heart Function Follow-Up. This round of testing is a continuation of the Gen2_28 Vision and Vessels follow-up from 2018-2020, with a focus on our Generation 2 participants who attended the Gen2_28VV follow-up but didn’t have a heart ultrasound. We’re hoping to see between 10 and 12 participants a week, with the follow-up estimated to run until early-2022. Right now, we’re booking appointments from September onwards, so if you want to book in then give us a call on 0447 863 944 or email rainestudy@uwa.edu.au

Coming in 2023:
The Generations Follow-Up
We’re excited to be planning a new follow-up that will include both Generation 1 (the parents who are approximately 60 years old) and Generation 2 participants (the original babies who are approximately 30 years old) at the same time. This is 
the first time we’ve ever been able to do something like this, making this quite possibly the biggest follow-up we’ve ever done!

The official name for this new follow-up will be the Generations Follow-Up, with the short-hand version as follows:

• Gen1_33 follow-up
• Gen2_33 follow-up

The current plan is that we’ll be ready to start follow-up appointments with our participants from early 2023 – Follow-Up Manager Diane is working closely with the rest of the team to scope out what assessments will be included. In turn the Science team are working with our researchers to get them thinking about what studies they’d like to conduct.
 
While there are still many details to be finalised, we’d love to hear from you if there’s a topic you’d like to see included. Remember, the Raine Study isn’t just a pregnancy and child health study – it’s for all aspects of the human lifecycle from pre-birth through to end of life. If there’s a topic you think we should look into, your suggestion might be just what a researcher needs to make the case for why their research should be funded. Please don’t be shy – we welcome your suggestions.