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Aarestrup J, Pedersen DC, Bjerregaard LG, Jensen BW, Leth-Møller KB, Jacobsen RK, Johnson W, Baker JL. Trends in childhood body mass index between 1936 and 2011 showed that underweight remained more common than obesity among 398 970 Danish school children. Acta Paediatr. 2024 Apr;113(4):818-826. doi: 10.1111/apa.16980. Epub 2023 Sep 29. PubMed PMID: 37776041.
Choy CC, Johnson W, Braun JM, Soti-Ulberg C, Reupena MS, Naseri T, Savusa K, Lupematasila VF, Arorae MS, Tafunaina F, Unasa F, Duckham RL, Wang D, McGarvey ST, Hawley NL. Associations of childhood BMI traits with blood pressure and glycated haemoglobin in 6-9-year-old Samoan children. Pediatr Obes. 2024 Mar 4;:e13112. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.13112. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38439600.
Martine-Edith G, Johnson W, Petherick ES. Relationships Between Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Treatment and Neonatal Anthropometry: Evidence from the Born in Bradford (BiB) Cohort. Matern Child Health J. 2024 Mar;28(3):557-566. doi: 10.1007/s10995-023-03851-w. Epub 2023 Nov 29. PubMed PMID: 38019368; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10914642.
Chandrasenage D, Markey O, Johnson W, Haycraft E, Griffiths PL. Socioeconomic inequalities in early child development in children aged under 36 months in South Asia: A systematic review. Child Care Health Dev. 2024 Jan;50(1):e13171. doi: 10.1111/cch.13171. Epub 2023 Sep 27. Review. PubMed PMID: 37766416.
Johnson W, Mansukoski L, Galvez-Sobral JA, Furlán L, Bogin B. Inequalities in adiposity trends between 1979 and 1999 in Guatemalan children. Am J Hum Biol. 2023 Dec 26;:e24031. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.24031. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38148505.
Martine-Edith G, Johnson W, Petherick ES. Associations between maternal gestational diabetes metformin or insulin treatment and offspring growth trajectories from birth to 60 months of age: Findings from the Born in Bradford (BiB) study. Diabet Med. 2023 Nov;40(11):e15204. doi: 10.1111/dme.15204. Epub 2023 Aug 26. PubMed PMID: 37597238; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10946820.
Johnson W. Child and adolescent body size: unravelling trends in rural-urban disparities in China. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023 Nov;7(11):748-749. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00196-7. Epub 2023 Sep 13. PubMed PMID: 37714170.
McCann S, Mason L, Milosavljevic B, Mbye E, Touray E, Colley A, Johnson W, Lloyd-Fox S, Elwell CE, Moore SE. Iron status in early infancy is associated with trajectories of cognitive development up to pre-school age in rural Gambia. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023;3(11):e0002531. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002531. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37910494; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10619872.
Johnson W. Rapid Infant Weight Gain: Critique of the Gilley et al Paper and Thoughts on How to Move the Field Forward. Pediatrics. 2023 Sep 1;152(3). doi: 10.1542/peds.2023-063112A. PubMed PMID: 37646088.
Gianferante DM, Moore A, Spector LG, Wheeler W, Yang T, Hubbard A, Gorlick R, Patiño-Garcia A, Lecanda F, Flanagan AM, Amary F, Andrulis IL, Wunder JS, Thomas DM, Ballinger ML, Serra M, Hattinger C, Demerath E, Johnson W, Birmann BM, De Vivo I, Giles G, Teras LR, Arslan A, Vermeulen R, Sample J, Freedman ND, Huang WY, Chanock SJ, Savage SA, Berndt SI, Mirabello L. Genetically inferred birthweight, height, and puberty timing and risk of osteosarcoma. Cancer Epidemiol. 2023 Aug 16;:102432. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2023.102432. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37596165; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10869637.
Murphy-Alford AJ, Johnson W, Nyati LH, Santos IS, Hills AP, Ariff S, Wickramasinghe VP, Kuriyan R, Lucas MN, Costa CS, Slater C, Ahmad T, Byrne NM, Divya PJ, Kurpad AV, Cheikh Ismail LI, Loechl CU, Norris SA. Body composition reference charts for infants from birth to 24 months: Multicenter Infant Body Composition Reference Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Jun;117(6):1262-1269. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.02.012. Epub 2023 May 11. PubMed PMID: 37270290.
Anthony J, Johnson W, Papathomas A, Breen K, Kinnafick FE. Differences in body mass index trajectories of adolescent psychiatric inpatients by sex, age, diagnosis and medication: an exploratory longitudinal, mixed effects analysis. Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2023 May;28(2):318-326. doi: 10.1111/camh.12575. Epub 2022 Jul 7. PubMed PMID: 35798687; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10946920.
Keylock L, Alway P, Johnson W, Crabtree N, King M, Peirce N, Brooke-Wavell K. Lumbar spine bone mineral adaptation: cricket fast bowlers versus controls. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2023;9(2):e001481. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001481. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37073173; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10106040.
Norris T, Johnson W, Cooper R, Pereira SMP. Associations between diabetes status and grip strength trajectory sub-groups in adulthood: findings from over 16 years of follow-up in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development. BMC Geriatr. 2023 Apr 4;23(1):213. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-03871-9. PubMed PMID: 37016329; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10074704.
Choy CC, Johnson W, Duckham RL, Naseri T, Soti-Ulberg C, Reupena MS, Braun JM, McGarvey ST, Hawley NL. Prediction of fat mass from anthropometry at ages 7 to 9 years in Samoans: a cross-sectional study in the Ola Tuputupua'e cohort. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023 Apr;77(4):495-502. doi: 10.1038/s41430-022-01256-6. Epub 2023 Jan 9. PubMed PMID: 36624192; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7614464.
Johnson W. The problem of latent class trajectory analysis in child growth and obesity research. Ann Hum Biol. 2023 Feb;50(1):1-3. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2023.2189750. PubMed PMID: 37335012.
Johnson W, Pereira SMP, Costa S, Baker JL, Norris T. The associations of maternal and paternal obesity with latent patterns of offspring BMI development between 7 and 17 years of age: pooled analyses of cohorts born in 1958 and 2001 in the United Kingdom. Int J Obes (Lond). 2023 Jan;47(1):39-50. doi: 10.1038/s41366-022-01237-6. Epub 2022 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 36357563; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9834052.
Sherry AP, Willis SA, Yates T, Johnson W, Razieh C, Sargeant JA, Malaikah S, Stensel DJ, Aithal GP, King JA. Physical activity is inversely associated with hepatic fibro-inflammation: A population-based cohort study using UK Biobank data. JHEP Rep. 2023 Jan;5(1):100622. doi: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2022.100622. eCollection 2023 Jan. PubMed PMID: 36440257; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9691414.
Bann D, Wright L, Goisis A, Hardy R, Johnson W, Maddock J, McElroy E, Moulton V, Patalay P, Scholes S, Silverwood RJ, Ploubidis GB, O'Neill D. Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions. Discov Soc Sci Health. 2022;2(1):18. doi: 10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1. Epub 2022 Oct 27. PubMed PMID: 36317190; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9613735.
Alway P, Peirce N, Johnson W, King M, Kerslake R, Brooke-Wavell K. Activity specific areal bone mineral density is reduced in athletes with stress fracture and requires profound recovery time: A study of lumbar stress fracture in elite cricket fast bowlers. J Sci Med Sport. 2022 Oct;25(10):828-833. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2022.08.006. Epub 2022 Aug 15. PubMed PMID: 36064501.
Gao M, Wells JCK, Johnson W, Li L. Socio-economic disparities in child-to-adolescent growth trajectories in China: Findings from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 1991-2015. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2022 Apr;21:100399. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100399. eCollection 2022 Apr. PubMed PMID: 35540561; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9079352.
Martine-Edith G, Johnson W, Hunsicker E, Hamer M, Petherick ES. Associations between maternal characteristics and pharmaceutical treatment of gestational diabetes: an analysis of the UK Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort study. BMJ Open. 2021 Nov 3;11(11):e053753. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053753. PubMed PMID: 34732497; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8572403.
Robson E, Norris T, Hamer M, Costa S, Hardy R, Johnson W. The relationship of childhood adversity with diurnal cortisol patterns and C-reactive protein at 60-64 years of age in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2021 Oct;132:105362. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105362. Epub 2021 Jul 21. PubMed PMID: 34333319.
Robson E, Norris T, Costa S, Kivimäki M, Hamer M, Johnson W. Contribution of 20-year body mass index and waist circumference history to poor cardiometabolic health in overweight/obese and normal weight adults: A cohort study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2021 Sep 22;31(10):2851-2859. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2021.06.005. Epub 2021 Jun 22. PubMed PMID: 34340899.
Norris T, Mansukoski L, Gilthorpe MS, Hamer M, Hardy R, Howe LD, Li L, Ong KK, Ploubidis GB, Viner RM, Johnson W. Early childhood weight gain: Latent patterns and body composition outcomes. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2021 Sep;35(5):557-568. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12754. Epub 2021 May 7. PubMed PMID: 33960515.
Johnson W. Inequalities in paediatric obesity trends: challenges and opportunities. Lancet Public Health. 2021 Jul;6(7):e437-e438. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00105-5. PubMed PMID: 34174994.
Norris T, Hamer M, Hardy R, Li L, Ong KK, Ploubidis GB, Viner R, Johnson W. Changes over time in latent patterns of childhood-to-adulthood BMI development in Great Britain: evidence from three cohorts born in 1946, 1958, and 1970. BMC Med. 2021 Apr 21;19(1):96. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-01969-8. PubMed PMID: 33879138; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8059270.
Norris T, Mansukoski L, Gilthorpe MS, Hamer M, Hardy R, Howe LD, Hughes AD, Li L, O'Donnell E, Ong KK, Ploubidis GB, Silverwood RJ, Viner RM, Johnson W. Distinct Body Mass Index Trajectories to Young-Adulthood Obesity and Their Different Cardiometabolic Consequences. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 Apr;41(4):1580-1593. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315782. Epub 2021 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 33657884; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7610444.
Johnson W, Norris T, Hamer M. Secular changes in mid-adulthood body mass index, waist circumference, and low HDL cholesterol between 1990, 2003, and 2018 in Great Britain. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2021 Mar;75(3):539-545. doi: 10.1038/s41430-020-00758-5. Epub 2020 Sep 16. PubMed PMID: 32939041; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7610415.
Johnson W, Norris T, De Freitas R, Pearson N, Hamer M, Costa S. Is the positive relationship of infant weight gain with adolescent adiposity attenuated by moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in childhood? Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Int J Obes (Lond). 2021 Jan;45(1):84-94. doi: 10.1038/s41366-020-00656-7. Epub 2020 Aug 21. PubMed PMID: 32826971.
Norris T, Cole TJ, Bann D, Hamer M, Hardy R, Li L, Ong KK, Ploubidis GB, Viner R, Johnson W. Duration of obesity exposure between ages 10 and 40 years and its relationship with cardiometabolic disease risk factors: A cohort study. PLoS Med. 2020 Dec;17(12):e1003387. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003387. eCollection 2020 Dec. PubMed PMID: 33290405; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7723271.
Sherry AP, Pearson N, Ridgers ND, Johnson W, Barber SE, Bingham DD, Nagy LC, Clemes SA. Impacts of a Standing Desk Intervention within an English Primary School Classroom: A Pilot Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 26;17(19). doi: 10.3390/ijerph17197048. PubMed PMID: 32993142; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7579086.
Costa S, Bann D, Benjamin-Neelon SE, Adams J, Johnson W. Associations of childcare type, age at start, and intensity with body mass index trajectories from 10 to 42 years of age in the 1970 British Cohort Study. Pediatr Obes. 2020 Sep;15(9):e12644. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12644. Epub 2020 May 5. PubMed PMID: 32372562.
Mansukoski L, Johnson W. How can two biological variables have opposing secular trends, yet be positively related? A demonstration using timing of puberty and adult height. Ann Hum Biol. 2020 Sep;47(6):549-554. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1795256. Epub 2020 Aug 5. PubMed PMID: 32657151.
Mansukoski L, Johnson W, Brooke-Wavell K, Galvez-Sobral JA, Furlán L, Cole TJ, Bogin B. Four decades of socio-economic inequality and secular change in the physical growth of Guatemalans. Public Health Nutr. 2020 Jun;23(8):1381-1391. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019003239. Epub 2019 Dec 5. PubMed PMID: 31801643; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7196735.
Bann D, Fitzsimons E, Johnson W. Determinants of the population health distribution: an illustration examining body mass index. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Jun 1;49(3):731-737. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz245. PubMed PMID: 32737506; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7394943.
Mansukoski L, Bogin B, Galvez-Sobral JA, Furlán L, Johnson W. Differences and secular trends in childhood IQ trajectories in Guatemala City. Intelligence. 2020 May-Jun;80:101438. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2020.101438. PubMed PMID: 32508371; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7263732.
Johnson W, Cole TJ. Cohort methods and applications in human biology. Ann Hum Biol. 2020 Mar;47(2):85-88. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1750108. PubMed PMID: 32429764.
Norris T, Crozier SR, Cameron N, Godfrey KM, Inskip H, Johnson W. Fetal growth does not modify the relationship of infant weight gain with childhood adiposity and blood pressure in the Southampton women's survey. Ann Hum Biol. 2020 Mar;47(2):150-158. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1717616. PubMed PMID: 32429761; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7261399.
Johnson W, Norris T, Bann D, Cameron N, Wells JK, Cole TJ, Hardy R. Differences in the relationship of weight to height, and thus the meaning of BMI, according to age, sex, and birth year cohort. Ann Hum Biol. 2020 Mar;47(2):199-207. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1737731. PubMed PMID: 32429756; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7261404.
Norris T, Bann D, Hardy R, Johnson W. Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood-to-adulthood BMI tracking in three British birth cohorts. Int J Obes (Lond). 2020 Feb;44(2):388-398. doi: 10.1038/s41366-019-0387-z. Epub 2019 Jun 5. PubMed PMID: 31168054; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6997121.
Robson E, Norris T, Wulaningsih W, Hamer M, Hardy R, Johnson W. The Relationship of Early-Life Adversity With Adulthood Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Status in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development. Psychosom Med. 2020 Jan;82(1):82-89. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000751. PubMed PMID: 31880748.
Johnson W, Bell JA, Robson E, Norris T, Kivimäki M, Hamer M. Do worse baseline risk factors explain the association of healthy obesity with increased mortality risk? Whitehall II Study. Int J Obes (Lond). 2019 Aug;43(8):1578-1589. doi: 10.1038/s41366-018-0192-0. Epub 2018 Aug 14. PubMed PMID: 30108269; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6268092.
Mansukoski L, Johnson W, Brooke-Wavell K, Galvez-Sobral JA, Furlan L, Cole TJ, Bogin B. Life course associations of height, weight, fatness, grip strength, and all-cause mortality for high socioeconomic status Guatemalans. Am J Hum Biol. 2019 Jul;31(4):e23253. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23253. Epub 2019 May 15. PubMed PMID: 31090124; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6767560.
Norris T, Ramel SE, Catalano P, Caoimh CN, Roggero P, Murray D, Fields DA, Demerath EW, Johnson W. New charts for the assessment of body composition, according to air-displacement plethysmography, at birth and across the first 6 mo of life. Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 May 1;109(5):1353-1360. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqy377. PubMed PMID: 31051509.
Crozier SR, Johnson W, Cole TJ, Macdonald-Wallis C, Muniz-Terrera G, Inskip HM, Tilling K. A discussion of statistical methods to characterise early growth and its impact on bone mineral content later in childhood. Ann Hum Biol. 2019 Feb;46(1):17-26. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2019.1574896. Epub 2019 Apr 15. PubMed PMID: 30719940; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6518455.
Barbour-Tuck E, Erlandson MC, Johnson W, Muhajarine N, Foulds H, Baxter-Jones ADG. At what age do normal weight Canadian children become overweight adults? Differences according to sex and metric. Ann Hum Biol. 2018 Sep-Dec;45(6-8):478-485. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2018.1546900. Epub 2019 Jan 31. PubMed PMID: 30497298.
Viner RM, Costa S, Johnson W. Patterns of BMI development between 10 and 42 years of age and their determinants in the 1970 British Cohort Study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2019 Jan;73(1):79-85. doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-211051. Epub 2018 Nov 8. PubMed PMID: 30409921.
Johnson W. Body size trajectories and cardio-metabolic resilience to obesity. Nutr Bull. 2018 Dec;43(4):456-462. doi: 10.1111/nbu.12350. Epub 2018 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 30555276; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6283272.
Norris T, Johnson W, Petherick E, Cameron N, Oddie S, Johnson S, Wright J, Draper E, Baker PN. Investigating the relationship between fetal growth and academic attainment: secondary analysis of the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort. Int J Epidemiol. 2018 Oct 1;47(5):1475-1484. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy157. PubMed PMID: 30060064; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6208280.
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