Cohort Profile: The 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study (2008)
Victora, Cesar G, Hallal, Pedro C, Araújo, Cora LP, Menezes, Ana MB, Wells, Jonathan CK, Barros, Fernando C
Earlier Mother's Age at Menarche Predicts Rapid Infancy Growth and Childhood Obesity (2007)
Ken K Ong, Kate Northstone, Jonathan CK Wells, Carol Rubin, Andy R Ness, Jean Golding, ...
BackgroundEarly menarche tends to be preceded by rapid infancy weight gain and is associated with increased childhood and adult obesity risk. As age at menarche is a heritable trait, we hypothesised...
The concept of the thrifty phenotype, first proposed by Hales and Barker, is now widely used in medical research, often in contrast to the thrifty genotype model, to interpret associations between...
Adjusting body cell mass for size in women of differing nutritional status (2004)
Jonathan CK Wells, Alexia J Murphy, Helen M Buntain, Ristan Greer, Geoffrey Cleghorn, Peter Davies
This paper, published in the AJCN, which has the highest impact factor of any clinical nutrition journal, described the importance of adequately adjusting a state of the art assessment of nutritional...
Adjusting body cell mass for size in women of differing nutritional status (2004)
Jonathan CK Wells, Alexia J Murphy, Helen M Buntain, Ristan Greer, Geoffrey Cleghorn, Peter Davies
This paper, published in the AJCN, which has the highest impact factor of any clinical nutrition journal, described the importance of adequately adjusting a state of the art assessment of nutritional...
Earlier Mother's Age at Menarche Predicts Rapid Infancy Growth and Childhood Obesity
Ong, Ken K, Northstone, Kate, Wells, Jonathan CK, Rubin, Carol, Ness, Andy R, Golding, Jean, ...
Earlier age at menarche may be a transgenerational marker of faster growth, particularly during infancy, leading to taller childhood stature but earlier maturation and hence shorter adult stature.
The concept of the thrifty phenotype, first proposed by Hales and Barker, is now widely used in medical research, often in contrast to the thrifty genotype model, to interpret associations between...