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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.
Johnson W, Bann D, Hardy R. Infant weight gain and adolescent body mass index: comparison across two British cohorts born in 1946 and 2001. Arch Dis Child. 2018 Oct;103(10):974-980. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2017-314079. Epub 2018 Apr 19. PubMed PMID: 29674515.
Lucas K, James P, Choh AC, Lee M, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW, Johnson W. The positive association of infant weight gain with adulthood body mass index has strengthened over time in the Fels Longitudinal Study. Pediatr Obes. 2018 Aug;13(8):476-484. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12271. Epub 2018 Feb 28. PubMed PMID: 29493107; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8782254.
Johnson W. Healthy obesity: time to give up the ghost?. Ann Hum Biol. 2018 Jun;45(4):297-298. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2018.1444789. Epub 2018 Apr 11. PubMed PMID: 29641913; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6191884.
Masi S, Georgiopoulos G, Khan T, Johnson W, Wong A, Charakida M, Whincup P, Hughes AD, Richards M, Hardy R, Deanfield J. Patterns of adiposity, vascular phenotypes and cognitive function in the 1946 British Birth Cohort. BMC Med. 2018 May 28;16(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s12916-018-1059-x. PubMed PMID: 29804545; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5971427.
Bann D, Johnson W, Li L, Kuh D, Hardy R. Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood and adolescent body-mass index, weight, and height from 1953 to 2015: an analysis of four longitudinal, observational, British birth cohort studies. Lancet Public Health. 2018 Apr;3(4):e194-e203. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30045-8. Epub 2018 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 29571937; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5887082.
Cox SE, Ellins EA, Marealle AI, Newton CR, Soka D, Sasi P, Luca Di Tanna G, Johnson W, Makani J, Prentice AM, Halcox JP, Kirkham FJ. Ready-to-use food supplement, with or without arginine and citrulline, with daily chloroquine in Tanzanian children with sickle-cell disease: a double-blind, random order crossover trial. Lancet Haematol. 2018 Apr;5(4):e147-e160. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(18)30020-6. Epub 2018 Mar 13. PubMed PMID: 29548623; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5871644.
Robson EM, Costa S, Hamer M, Johnson W. Life course factors associated with metabolically healthy obesity: a protocol for the systematic review of longitudinal studies. Syst Rev. 2018 Mar 27;7(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0713-x. Review. PubMed PMID: 29587826; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5870377.
Leung M, Perumal N, Mesfin E, Krishna A, Yang S, Johnson W, Bassani DG, Roth DE. Metrics of early childhood growth in recent epidemiological research: A scoping review. PLoS One. 2018;13(3):e0194565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194565. eCollection 2018. Review. PubMed PMID: 29558499; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5860780.
Hamer M, Johnson W, Bell JA. Improving risk estimates for metabolically healthy obesity and mortality using a refined healthy reference group. Eur J Endocrinol. 2017 Aug;177(2):169-174. doi: 10.1530/EJE-17-0217. Epub 2017 May 31. PubMed PMID: 28566442; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5967883.
Johnson W, Elmrayed SA, Sosseh F, Prentice AM, Moore SE. Preconceptional and gestational weight trajectories and risk of delivering a small-for-gestational-age baby in rural Gambia. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Jun;105(6):1474-1482. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.144196. Epub 2017 May 10. PubMed PMID: 28490512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5445671.
Johnson W, Darboe MK, Sosseh F, Nshe P, Prentice AM, Moore SE. Association of prenatal lipid-based nutritional supplementation with fetal growth in rural Gambia. Matern Child Nutr. 2017 Apr;13(2). doi: 10.1111/mcn.12367. Epub 2016 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 27696720; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5396370.
Johnson W, Choh AC, Lee M, Towne B, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW. Is infant body mass index associated with adulthood body composition trajectories? An exploratory analysis. Pediatr Obes. 2017 Feb;12(1):10-18. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12100. Epub 2016 Jan 12. PubMed PMID: 26756208.
Eriksen KG, Johnson W, Sonko B, Prentice AM, Darboe MK, Moore SE. Following the World Health Organization's Recommendation of Exclusive Breastfeeding to 6 Months of Age Does Not Impact the Growth of Rural Gambian Infants. J Nutr. 2017 Feb;147(2):248-255. doi: 10.3945/jn.116.241737. Epub 2016 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 28003540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5265696.
Bann D, Johnson W, Li L, Kuh D, Hardy R. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index across Adulthood: Coordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Three British Birth Cohort Studies Initiated in 1946, 1958 and 1970. PLoS Med. 2017 Jan;14(1):e1002214. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002214. eCollection 2017 Jan. PubMed PMID: 28072856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5224787.
Demerath EW, Johnson W, Davern BA, Anderson CG, Shenberger JS, Misra S, Ramel SE. New body composition reference charts for preterm infants. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Jan;105(1):70-77. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.138248. Epub 2016 Nov 2. PubMed PMID: 27806978.
Johnson W, Moore SE. Adolescent pregnancy, nutrition, and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: what we know and what we don't know. BJOG. 2016 Sep;123(10):1589-92. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.13782. Epub 2015 Dec 2. PubMed PMID: 26629786; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4996336.
Cole TJ, Kuh D, Johnson W, Ward KA, Howe LD, Adams JE, Hardy R, Ong KK. Using Super-Imposition by Translation And Rotation (SITAR) to relate pubertal growth to bone health in later life: the Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Health and Development. Int J Epidemiol. 2016 Aug;45(4):1125-1134. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw134. Epub 2016 Jul 27. PubMed PMID: 27466311; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5841778.
Griffiths PL, Balakrishna N, Fernandez Rao S, Johnson W. Do socio-economic inequalities in infant growth in rural India operate through maternal size and birth weight?. Ann Hum Biol. 2016;43(2):154-63. doi: 10.3109/03014460.2015.1134656. Epub 2016 Feb 5. PubMed PMID: 26822350.
Johnson W, Li L, Kuh D, Hardy R. How Has the Age-Related Process of Overweight or Obesity Development Changed over Time? Co-ordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Five United Kingdom Birth Cohorts. PLoS Med. 2015 May;12(5):e1001828; discussion e1001828. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001828. eCollection 2015 May. PubMed PMID: 25993005; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4437909.
Norris T, Johnson W, Farrar D, Tuffnell D, Wright J, Cameron N. Small-for-gestational age and large-for-gestational age thresholds to predict infants at risk of adverse delivery and neonatal outcomes: are current charts adequate? An observational study from the Born in Bradford cohort. BMJ Open. 2015 Mar 17;5(3):e006743. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006743. PubMed PMID: 25783424; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4368928.
Hawley NL, Johnson W, Hart CN, Triche EW, Ah Ching J, Muasau-Howard B, McGarvey ST. Gestational weight gain among American Samoan women and its impact on delivery and infant outcomes. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2015 Feb 3;15:10. doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0451-1. PubMed PMID: 25643752; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4324802.
Johnson W, Kuh D, Hardy R. A Life Course Perspective on Body Size and Cardio-metabolic Health. 2015;. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20484-0_4. Review. PubMed PMID: 27683924.
Costa S, Viner RM, Johnson W. Additive influences of maternal and paternal body mass index on weight status trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood in the 1970 British Cohort Study. Longitudinal and life course studies. 2015; 6:147-172.
Johnson W. Analytical strategies in human growth research. Am J Hum Biol. 2015 Jan-Feb;27(1):69-83. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22589. Epub 2014 Jul 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 25070272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4309180.
Johnson W, Ong KK, Elks CE, Wareham NJ, Wong A, Muniz-Terrera G, Hardy R. Modification of genetic influences on adiposity between 36 and 63 years of age by physical activity and smoking in the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study. Nutr Diabetes. 2014 Sep 8;4(9):e136. doi: 10.1038/nutd.2014.33. PubMed PMID: 25198238; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4183974.
Charakida M, Khan T, Johnson W, Finer N, Woodside J, Whincup PH, Sattar N, Kuh D, Hardy R, Deanfield J. Lifelong patterns of BMI and cardiovascular phenotype in individuals aged 60-64 years in the 1946 British birth cohort study: an epidemiological study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2014 Aug;2(8):648-54. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(14)70103-2. Epub 2014 May 20. PubMed PMID: 24856161.
Choh AC, Lee M, Kent JW, Diego VP, Johnson W, Curran JE, Dyer TD, Bellis C, Blangero J, Siervogel RM, Towne B, Demerath EW, Czerwinski SA. Gene-by-age effects on BMI from birth to adulthood: the Fels Longitudinal Study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Mar;22(3):875-81. doi: 10.1002/oby.20517. Epub 2013 Aug 13. PubMed PMID: 23794238; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3883986.
Johnson W, Kuh D, Tikhonoff V, Charakida M, Woodside J, Whincup P, Hughes AD, Deanfield JE, Hardy R. Body mass index and height from infancy to adulthood and carotid intima-media thickness at 60 to 64 years in the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2014 Mar;34(3):654-60. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.113.302572. Epub 2014 Jan 23. PubMed PMID: 24458709; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3977342.
Hawley NL, Johnson W, Nu'usolia O, McGarvey ST. The contribution of feeding mode to obesogenic growth trajectories in American Samoan infants. Pediatr Obes. 2014 Feb;9(1):e1-e13. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00137.x. Epub 2013 Feb 5. PubMed PMID: 23386576; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3797146.
Griffiths PL, Johnson W, Cameron N, Pettifor JM, Norris SA. In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children. Econ Hum Biol. 2013 Dec;11(4):502-14. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2013.05.004. Epub 2013 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 23876525; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3857590.
Demerath EW, Choh AC, Johnson W, Curran JE, Lee M, Bellis C, Dyer TD, Czerwinski SA, Blangero J, Towne B. The positive association of obesity variants with adulthood adiposity strengthens over an 80-year period: a gene-by-birth year interaction. Hum Hered. 2013;75(2-4):175-85. doi: 10.1159/000351742. Epub 2013 Sep 27. PubMed PMID: 24081233; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4091039.
Mueller NT, Johnson W, Odegaard AO, Lee M, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW. Wrist breadth and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance in youth: the Fels Longitudinal Study. Am J Hum Biol. 2013 Sep-Oct;25(5):581-5. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22416. Epub 2013 Jul 30. PubMed PMID: 23897560; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3988662.
Santorelli G, Petherick ES, Wright J, Wilson B, Samiei H, Cameron N, Johnson W. Developing prediction equations and a mobile phone application to identify infants at risk of obesity. PLoS One. 2013;8(8):e71183. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071183. Print 2013. PubMed PMID: 23940713; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3737139.
Demerath EW, Johnson W. Pediatric body composition references: what's missing?. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Jul;98(1):1-3. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.113.064907. Epub 2013 May 29. PubMed PMID: 23719556; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3683813.
Linabery AM, Nahhas RW, Johnson W, Choh AC, Towne B, Odegaard AO, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW. Stronger influence of maternal than paternal obesity on infant and early childhood body mass index: the Fels Longitudinal Study. Pediatr Obes. 2013 Jun;8(3):159-69. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00100.x. Epub 2012 Oct 8. PubMed PMID: 23042783; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3765070.
Johnson W, Choh AC, Lee M, Towne B, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW. Characterization of the infant BMI peak: sex differences, birth year cohort effects, association with concurrent adiposity, and heritability. Am J Hum Biol. 2013 May-Jun;25(3):378-88. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22385. PubMed PMID: 23606227; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3988701.
Johnson W, Chumlea WC, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW. Secular trends in the fat and fat-free components of body mass index in children aged 8-18 years born 1958-1995. Ann Hum Biol. 2013 Jan;40(1):107-10. doi: 10.3109/03014460.2012.720710. Epub 2012 Sep 26. PubMed PMID: 23013058; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3988663.
Johnson W, Choh AC, Curran JE, Czerwinski SA, Bellis C, Dyer TD, Blangero J, Towne B, Demerath EW. Genetic risk for earlier menarche also influences peripubertal body mass index. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2013 Jan;150(1):10-20. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22121. PubMed PMID: 23283660; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3539227.
Johnson W, Balakrishna N, Griffiths PL. Modeling physical growth using mixed effects models. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2013 Jan;150(1):58-67. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22128. PubMed PMID: 23283665; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3539280.
Johnson W, Wright J, Cameron N. The risk of obesity by assessing infant growth against the UK-WHO charts compared to the UK90 reference: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort study. BMC Pediatr. 2012 Jul 23;12:104. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-104. PubMed PMID: 22824296; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3439315.
Griffiths PL, Sheppard ZA, Johnson W, Cameron N, Pettifor JM, Norris SA. Associations between household and neighbourhood socioeconomic status and systolic blood pressure among urban South African adolescents. J Biosoc Sci. 2012 Jul;44(4):433-58. doi: 10.1017/S0021932012000107. Epub 2012 Apr 11. PubMed PMID: 22490826.
Johnson W, Costa S, Delgado R, Guerra R, Rosado V. The growth of Portuguese and Cape Verdean infants aged 0-1 year living in Greater Lisbon, Portugal in 1993-1996. Ann Hum Biol. 2012 Jul;39(4):315-21. doi: 10.3109/03014460.2012.700320. PubMed PMID: 22747071.
Johnson W, Soloway LE, Erickson D, Choh AC, Lee M, Chumlea WC, Siervogel RM, Czerwinski SA, Towne B, Demerath EW. A changing pattern of childhood BMI growth during the 20th century: 70 y of data from the Fels Longitudinal Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 May;95(5):1136-43. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.111.022269. Epub 2012 Mar 14. PubMed PMID: 22418089; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3325836.
Johnson W, Choh AC, Soloway LE, Czerwinski SA, Towne B, Demerath EW. Eighty-year trends in infant weight and length growth: the Fels Longitudinal Study. J Pediatr. 2012 May;160(5):762-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.11.002. Epub 2011 Dec 16. PubMed PMID: 22177991; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3310964.
Johnson W, Chumlea WC, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW. Concordance of the recently published body adiposity index with measured body fat percent in European-American adults. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012 Apr;20(4):900-3. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.346. Epub 2011 Nov 17. PubMed PMID: 22095112; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3988697.
Johnson W, Stovitz SD, Choh AC, Czerwinski SA, Towne B, Demerath EW. Patterns of linear growth and skeletal maturation from birth to 18 years of age in overweight young adults. Int J Obes (Lond). 2012 Apr;36(4):535-41. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2011.238. Epub 2011 Nov 29. PubMed PMID: 22124455; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3312969.
Johnson W, Vazir S, Fernandez-Rao S, Kankipati VR, Balakrishna N, Griffiths PL. Using the WHO 2006 child growth standard to assess the growth and nutritional status of rural south Indian infants. Ann Hum Biol. 2012 Mar;39(2):91-101. doi: 10.3109/03014460.2012.657680. PubMed PMID: 22324834.
Hawley NL, Rousham EK, Johnson W, Norris SA, Pettifor JM, Cameron N. Determinants of relative skeletal maturity in South African children. Bone. 2012 Jan;50(1):259-64. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2011.10.029. Epub 2011 Oct 30. PubMed PMID: 22075209.
Johnson W, Cameron N, Raynor P, Woffendin C, Wright J. Monitoring growth. Community Pract. 2009 Oct;82(10):38-9. PubMed PMID: 19899507.
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