Dr Odewumi Adegbija

Faculty of Medicine

The University of Queensland

+61 7 3365 5150

o.adegbija@uq.edu.au

Position

Casual Research Assistant

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy

Biography

Odewumi Adegbija is a researcher at the Centre for Chronic Disease, The University of Queensland. She has more than 10 years’ experience in data management and analysis, as well as public health and clinical research in Nigeria and Australia. This experience has included the use of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. In addition to research, Odewumi is involved in academic marking.

Featured projects	Duration
Facilitating national CKD surveillance utilising Audit4	2016–2019

Publications

Journal Articles (11)

Conference Paper (1)

Thesis (1)

Data Collection (1)

Journal Articles

McGrail, Matthew R., Adegbija, Odewumi and Kondalsamy- Chennakesavan, Srinivas (2021). Characterising Australia’s rural specialist physician workforce: the professional profile and professional satisfaction of junior doctors and consultants. Medical Journal of Australia, 215 (S1), S7-S14. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51122

Dong, Bin, Peng, Yang, Wang, Zhiqiang, Adegbija, Odewumi, Hu, Jie, Ma, Jun and Ma, Ying-Hua (2018). Joint association between body fat and its distribution with all-cause mortality: a data linkage cohort study based on NHANES (1988-2011). PLoS One, 13 (2) e0193368, e0193368. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193368

Peng, Yang, Wang, Zhiqiang, Dong, Bin, Cao, Sifan, Hu, Jie and Odewumi Adegbija (2017). Life’s Simple 7 and ischemic heart disease in the general Australian population. PLoS One, 12 (10) e0187020, e0187020. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187020

Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy E., Dong, Bin and Wang, Zhiqiang (2017). Body mass index and waist circumference as predictors of all-cause mortality in an Aboriginal Australian community. Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, 11 (1), 19-26. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2016.06.003

Wang, Z., Dong, B., Hu, J., Adegbjija, O and Arnold, LW (2016). Exploring the non-linear association between BMI and mortality in adults with and without diabetes: the US National Health Interview Survey. Diabetic Medicine, 33 (12), 1691-1699. doi: 10.1111/dme.13111

Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy E. and Wang, Zhiqiang (2015). Waist circumference values equivalent to body mass index points for predicting absolute cardiovascular disease risks among adults in an Aboriginal community: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 5 (11) e009185, e009185-e009185. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009185

Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy E. and Wang, Zhiqiang (2015). Corresponding waist circumference and body mass index values based on 10-year absolute type 2 diabetes risk in an Australian Aboriginal community. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 3 (1), e000127-e000127. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2015-000127

Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy and Wang, Zhiqiang (2015). Predicting absolute risk of type 2 diabetes using age and waist circumference values in an Aboriginal Australian community. PLoS One, 10 (4) e0123788, 1-10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123788

Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy and Wang, Zhiqiang (2015). Prediction of cardiovascular disease risk using waist circumference among Aboriginals in a remote Australian community. BMC Public Health, 15 (1) 57, 57. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1406-1

Wang, Zhiqiang, Dong, Bin, Adegbija, Odewumi, Sina, Maryam, Arnold, Luke, Pan, Tanya and Hu, Jie (2014). Data sharing: a decade since the publication of the first cohort profile. International Journal of Epidemiology, 43 (6) dyu154, 1986-1987. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyu154

Adegbija, Odewumi Oluwarotimi and Wang, Zhiqiang (2014). Gender variations in waist circumference levels between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian populations: a systematic review. Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, 8 (6), e513-e524. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2013.11.009

Conference Paper

Adegbija, O., Hoy, W. E., Wang, Z., Cameron, A., Healy, H. G., Tan, K. S. and Venuthurupalli, S. K. (2018). Chronic kidney disease is not characterised solely by those starting renal replacement therapy. 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN), Sydney, Australia, 8-12 September 2018. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell.

Thesis

Adegbija, Odewumi (2016). Waist circumference and risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and mortality among Aboriginal adults in an Australian community. PhD Thesis, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.1056

Data Collection

Adegbija, Odewumi, Hoy, Wendy and Wang, Zhiqiang (2015). Predicting absolute risk of Type 2 Diabetes using age and waist circumference values in an Aboriginal Australian community. The University of Queensland. (Dataset)

Areas of research

CKD surveillance

Practice improvement