Daniel Ta

Biographic Data

ID7554143
NAMEDaniel Ta
GIVEN NAMESDaniel
FAMILY NAMETa
SIGNATURETA D
AFFILIATIONSThe Kids Research Institute Australia
ORCID0000-0001-9875-0704
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Diet culture on TikTok

    Open AccessEmily Munro, Gabriella Wells et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: To investigate how dieting is portrayed on TikTok and the potential implications for public health considering the effect of diet culture on eating disorders amongst young people. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive content analysis of 250 videos from the five most popular diet-related hashtags. A codebook was developed to analyse the content of the videos and collect the engagement for each video (likes, comments and shares). Settin…

  • How Families Manage the Complex Medical Needs of Their Children with Mecp2 Duplication Syndrome

    Open AccessDani John Cherian, Daniel Ta et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    MECP2 duplication syndrome (MDS) is a rare, X-linked, neurodevelopmental disorder resulting from the duplication of the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 ( MECP2 ) gene. The clinical features of MDS include severe intellectual disability, global developmental delay, seizures, recurrent respiratory infections, and gastrointestinal problems. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how the parents of children with MDS manage their child's seizur…

  • Medical Comorbidities in Mecp2 Duplication Syndrome

    Open AccessDaniel Ta, Jenny Downs et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Since the discovery of MECP2 duplication syndrome (MDS) in 1999, efforts to characterise this disorder have been limited by a lack of large datasets, with small case series often favouring the reporting of certain conditions over others. This study is the largest to date, featuring 134 males and 20 females, ascertained from the international MECP2 Duplication Database (MDBase). We report a higher frequency of pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchiolitis,…

  • Development of an International Database for a Rare Genetic Disorder

    Open AccessDaniel Ta, Jenny Downs et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    The natural history of MECP2 duplication syndrome (MDS), a rare X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder with an estimated birth prevalence of 1/150,000 live births, is poorly understood due to a lack of clinical data collected for research. Such information is critical to the understanding of disease progression, therapeutic endpoints and outcome measures for clinical trials, as well as the development of therapies and orphan products. This clinical…