Calum Mattocks

Sedentary Behavior and Obesity in a Large Cohort of Children (2009)

Mitchell, J. A., Mattocks, Calum, Ness, A. R., Leary, S. D., Pate, R. R., Dowda, M., ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between sedentary behavior and obesity among 12-year-old children, while adjusting for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and other...

Association of duration of television viewing in early childhood with the subsequent development of asthma (2009)

Sherriff, A., Maitra, A., Ness, A. R., Mattocks, Calum, Riddoch, Christopher, Reilly, J. J., ...

Objective: To investigate whether duration of television (TV) viewing in young children is associated with subsequent development of asthma. Methods: Children taking part in the Avon Longitudinal...

The contribution of active travel to children's physical activity levels: Cross-sectional results from the ALSPAC study (2009)

Fearne, V. A., Mattocks, Calum, Riddoch, Christopher, Griffin, S. J., Ness, A.

Objective. To assess the association between active travel to school and physical activity (PA) in a large population-based sample of 11-year old children. Method. Cross-sectional analyses using data...

Improvements in the Measurement of Physical Activity in Childhood Obesity Research; Lessons from Large Studies of Accelerometers (2008)

Calum Mattocks, Kate Tilling, Andy Ness, Chris Riddoch

Advances in technology have improved our ability to measure physical activity in free-living humans. In the last few years, several large epidemiological studies in Europe and the United States have...

Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Fat Mass in a Large Cohort of Children (2007)

Andy R. Ness, Sam D. Leary, Calum Mattocks, Steven N. Blair, John J. Reilly, Jonathan Wells, ...

BackgroundPrevious studies have been unable to characterise the association between physical activity and obesity, possibly because most relied on inaccurate measures of physical activity and...

Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Fat Mass in a Large Cohort of Children

Ness, Andy R, Leary, Sam D, Mattocks, Calum, Blair, Steven N, Reilly, John J, Wells, Jonathan, ...

A study with 5,500 12-year-olds shows an inverse association between physical activity and obesity, which is stronger in boys, and suggests that high-intensity activity is more important than total...

Early life determinants of physical activity in 11 to 12 year olds: cohort study

Mattocks, Calum, Ness, Andy, Deere, Kevin, Tilling, Kate, Leary, Sam, Blair, Steven N, ...

Objective To examine factors in early life (up to age 5 years) that are associated with objectively measured physical activity in 11-12 year olds.