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DR KEVIN ROWLEY



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW (CHS)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Applied Science Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1984
Graduate Diploma of Epidemiology & Biostatistics University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1995
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Interventions to improve cardiovascular health in Aboriginal people Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH Senior/Public Health Research Fellowships (VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION) 01/01/2002
Predictive models and interventions for coronary heart disease in aboriginal and torres strait islander people Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2004
HEALTH OUTCOMES MONITORING AND EVALUATION: LEARNING ABOUT ACTITIVY,NUTRITION,DIET AND SOCIAL FACTORS Chief Investigator MENZIES SCHOOL HEALTH RESEARCH Program Grants (NHMRC) 01/01/2005
DEVELOPING NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY GUIDELINES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES Victorian Department of Human Services Public Health Research Projects 01/07/2005
NHMRC Research Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2008
Culturally appropriate general practice services for Aboriginal Australians Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008
HOMELANDS: HEALTH OUTCOMES MONITORING AND EVALUATION: LEARNING ABOUT ACTITIVY,NUTRITION,DIET AND SOCIAL FACTORS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Strategic Research Funds 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
Theme 4 Leaders Discretion Fund (Chronic and infectious diseases) Chief Investigator CRC FOR ABORIGINAL HEALTH 01/07/2003
VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL CHILD HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AND WELL BEING SURVEY Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES 13/06/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

VicHealth Public Health Research Fellowship #2001-1081, 2002-6

National Health & Medical Research Council PHRDC Postdoctoral Training Fellowship #974302, ‘Nutritional markers and coronary risk in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’, 1997-2000

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Evaluation of an FFQ for assessment of antioxidant intake using plasma biomarkers in an ethically diverse population


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Public Health Nutrition
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2438-2447
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  • Carotenoids and Diabetic Retinopathy.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: British Journal of Nutrition
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 270-277
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  • Holding men: Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men (book review, book by B McCoy)
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 96-97
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  • Lipid treatment guidelines and cardiovascular risk for Aboriginal people in Central Australia
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 190
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 552-556
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders have an atherogenic lipid profile that is characterised by low HDL-cholesterol level and small LDL particles
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Atherosclerosis
    Volume: 201
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 368-377
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  • First National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Men’s Health Researcher Gathering, Alice Springs, 2008
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 25-26
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  • Glutathionyl haemoglobin is not increased in
    diabetes nor related to glycaemia, complications,
    dyslipidaemia, inflammation or other measures of
    oxidative stress
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: e1-3
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  • Glutathionyl haemoglobin is not increased in diabetes nor related to glycaemia, complications, dyslipidaemia, inflammation or other measures of oxidative stress
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: e1-3
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  • Homocysteine and diabetic retinopathy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 50-56
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  • Identifying psychosocial mediators of health amongst Indigenous Australians for the Health Heart Project
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ethnicity and Health
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 351-373
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  • Longitudinal analysis of low-molecular weight fluorophores in type 1 diabetes mellitus
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Medical Investigation
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 29-36
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  • Low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol is the most prevalent metabolic abnormality for Australian Aboriginal men and women even when lean
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-51
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  • Lower than expected morbidity and mortality for an Australian Aboriginal population: 10-year follow up in a decentralised community
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 188
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 283-287
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  • Plasma carotenoids and diabetic retinopathy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Nutrition
    Volume: 2008
    Issue: Jun
    Page numbers: 1-8
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  • Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 activity in type 2 diabetes: a different relationship with coronary heart disease and diabetic retinopathy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 786-791
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Reports

  • Designing a Victorian Aboriginal Child Health Child Health, Development and Wellbeing Survey
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Predicting Cardiovascular Disease for Aboriginal People in Central Australia: Preliminary analysis from the Heart Health Follow Up Study
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A collaborative cardiovascular health program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Goulburn-Murray region: development and risk factor screening at Indigenous community organisations


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Primary Health
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-17
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  • Koori community-directed health promotion in the Goulburn Valley


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Community Psychologist
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-46
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  • Anthropometric indices and their relationship with diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 172-8
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  • Diabetes in Indigenous Australians: possible ways forward
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 186
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 494-495
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  • Differential association of C-reactive protein with adiposity in men and women in an Aboriginal community in northeast Arnhem Land of Australia.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 103-108
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  • Hemostatic factors in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 629-35
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  • Increased serum pigment epithelium-derived factor is associated with microvascular complications, vascular stiffness and inflammation in Type 1 diabetes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1345-51
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  • Urban Indigenous health
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 4-5
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Conference Publications/Papers

Reports

  • A statewide evaluation framework for the Aboriginal Health Promotion and Chronic Care Partnerships (AHPACC) initiative
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Australian Institute of Primary Care(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Agreement between laboratory results and on-site pathology testing using Bayer DCA2000+ and Cholestech LDX point-of-care methods in remote Australian Aboriginal communities
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinica Chimica Acta
    Volume: 367
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 69-76
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  • Blood pressure and hypertension for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 438-43
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  • Exercise frequency and arterial compliance in non-diabetic and type 1 diabetic individuals
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 598-603
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  • Leanness and type 2 diabetes in a population of Indigenous Australians
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 93-9
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  • Test agreement for classifying diabetes in Indigenous Australians
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 128-131
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  • Traditional risk factor assessment does not capture the extent of cardiovascular risk in systemic lupus erythematosus
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 237-43
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Contamination in HPLC quantified benzaldehyde is from polypropylene microtubes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications
    Volume: 826
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 277-278
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Increases in plasma lycopene concentration after consumption of tomatoes cooked in olive oil
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 131-136
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  • Oxidative stress and high-density lipoprotein function in Type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical Science
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 497-506
    Publisher: Portland Press(London)
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  • Paraoxonase activity in Greek migrants and Anglo-Celtic persons in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study: relationship to dietary markers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: European Journal of Nutrition
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 223-230
    Publisher: Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag(Darmstadt)
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  • Plasma Low-Molecular Weight Fluorescence in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences
    Volume: 1043
    Page numbers: 655-661
    Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences(New York)
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  • Screening for diabetes in Indigenous populations using glycated haemoglobin: sensitivity, specificity, post-test likelihood and risk of disease
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 833-839
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  • The metabolic syndrome and changing relationship between blood pressure and insulin with age, as observed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1589-1597
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Kava use, dyslipidaemia and biomarkers of dietary quality in Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1090-1093
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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  • Lipoproteins and diabetic microvascular complications
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Current Pharmaceutical Design
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 3395-3418
    Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers(Sharjah)
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  • Paraoxonase activity in Greek migrants and Anglo-Celtic persons in the Melbourne Collabrative Cohort Study: relationship to dietary markers
    Year: 2004
    Journal: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: July 2004
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Reduced arterial elasticity in rheumatoid arthritis and the relationship to vascular disease risk factors and inflammation


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Arthritis and Rheumatism
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 81-89
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  • A cross-sectional study of the effects of type 2 diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors on structure and function of nonstenotic arteries of the lower limb
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 199-205
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association(Virginia)
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  • Association of albuminuria and the metabolic syndrome
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Current Diabetes Reports
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 80-86
    Publisher: Current Science(Philadelphia)
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  • Homocysteine concentrations lowered following dietary intervention in an Aboriginal community
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 92-95
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Melbourne)
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  • Inflammation and vascular endothelial activation in an Aboriginal population: relationships to coronary disease risk factors and nutritional markers
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 178
    Page numbers: 495-500
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Low plasma concentrations of diet-derived antioxidants in association with microalbuminuria in Indigenous Australian populations
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Clinical Science
    Volume: 105
    Page numbers: 569-575
    Publisher: Portland Press(London)
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  • Reduced arterial elasticity in rheumatoid arthritis and the relationship to vascular disease risk factors and inflammation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Arthritis and Rheumatism
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 81-89
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  • Relation of adiposity and body fat distribution to body mass index in Australians of Aboriginal and European ancestry
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 57
    Page numbers: 956-963
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Cartenoids: separation methods applicable to biological samples
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications
    Volume: 781
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 393-418
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in Aboriginal Australians: prevalence and risk
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 23-33
    Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland(Coclare)
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  • Diabetes in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Papua New Guinea Medical Journal
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 164-170
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  • Fasting criteria for screening: test properties and agreement with glucose tolerance
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 139-148
    Publisher: Elsevier Science Ireland(Coclare)
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  • High prevalence of obesity, diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors among indigenous people of the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 144-149
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  • Identification and quantitation of major carotenoids in selected components of the Mediterranean diet: green leafy vegetables, figs and olive oil.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1149-1154
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  • Identification and quantitation of major cartenoids in selected components of the Mediterranean diet: green leafy vegetables, figs and olive oil
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1149-1154
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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  • Macrovascular disease risk factors and insulin resistance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-16
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Obesity, diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors among Torres Strait Islander people
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 144-149
    Publisher: Public Health Association of Australia(Curtin)
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  • Paraoxonase and other coronary risk factors in a community-based cohort
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Redox Report
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 304-307
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Improvements in circulating cholesterol, antioxidants, and homocysteine after dietary intervention in an Australian Aboriginal community.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 74
    Page numbers: 442-448
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  • Lipids and psychosocial status in aboriginal persons with and at risk for Type 2 diabetes: implications for tertiary prevention.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Patient Education and Counseling
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 85-95
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