Tim J. Cole

Nonlinear growth generates age changes in the moments of the frequency distribution: the example of height in puberty (2008)

Cole, Tim J., Cortina-Borja, Mario, Sandhu, Jat, Kelly, Frank P., Pan, Huiqi

Higher moments of the frequency distribution of child height and weight change with age, particularly during puberty, though why is not known. Our aims were to confirm that height skewness and...

Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey (2007)

Cole, Tim J., Flegal, Katherine M., Nicholls, Dasha, Jackson, Alan A.

OBJECTIVE: To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years. DESIGN: International survey of six large nationally representative cross...

Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey (2007)

Cole, Tim J., Flegal, Katherine M., Nicholls, Dasha, Jackson, Alan A.

OBJECTIVE: To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years. DESIGN: International survey of six large nationally representative cross...

Differential parental weight and height contributions to offspring birthweight and weight gain in infancy (2007)

Griffiths, Lucy J, Dezateux, Carol, Cole, Tim J

Background Parental weight and height correlate with offspring birthweight and weight gain, suggesting genetic and environmental influences on fetal growth. The differential contributions of the...

Infant nutrition and stereoacuity at age 4-6 y (2007)

Singhal, Atul, Morley, Ruth, Cole, Tim J, Kennedy, Kathy, Sonksen, Patricia, Isaacs, Elizabeth, ...

BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding has been reported to benefit visual development in children. A higher concentration of docosahexaneoic acid (DHA) in breast milk than in formula has been proposed as one...

Statistical Issues in Life Course Epidemiology (2006)

De Stavola, Bianca L., Nitsch, Dorothea, Dos Santos Silva, Isabel, McCormack, Valerie, Hardy, Rebecca, Mann, Vera, ...

There is growing recognition that the risk of many diseases in later life, such as type 2 diabetes or breast cancer, is affected by adult as well as early-life variables, including those operating...

Differential parental weight and height contributions to offspring birthweight and weight gain in infancy (2006)

Griffiths, Lucy J., Dezateux, Carol, Cole, Tim J.

Background Parental weight and height correlate with offspring birthweight and weight gain, suggesting genetic and environmental influences on fetal growth. The differential contributions of the...

Statistical Issues in Life Course Epidemiology (2005)

De Stavola, Bianca L., Nitsch, Dorothea, Dos Santos Silva, Isabel, McCormack, Valerie, Hardy, Rebecca, Mann, Vera, ...

There is growing recognition that the risk of many diseases in later life, such as type 2 diabetes or breast cancer, is affected by adult as well as early-life variables, including those operating...

Factors affecting a mother's recall of her baby's birth weight (2005)

Tate, A Rosemary, Dezateux, Carol, Cole, Tim J, Davidson, Leslie

Background The Millennium Cohort Study of UK babies born this century obtained maternal report of birth weight and data on the family's characteristics, including parental ethnicity, education, and...

Factors affecting a mother's recall of her baby's birth weight (2005)

Tate, A Rosemary, Dezateux, Carol, Cole, Tim J., Davidson, Leslie

Background The Millennium Cohort Study of UK babies born this century obtained maternal report of birth weight and data on the family's characteristics, including parental ethnicity, education, and...

Statistical Issues in Life Course Epidemiology (2005)

De Stavola, Bianca L., Nitsch, Dorothea, Dos Santos Silva, Isabel, McCormack, Valerie, Hardy, Rebecca, Mann, Vera, ...

There is growing recognition that the risk of many diseases in later life, such as type 2 diabetes or breast cancer, is affected by adult as well as early-life variables, including those operating...

BMJ statistical errors (2004)

Cole, Tim J, Altman, Douglas, Ashby, Deborah, Campbell, Mike, Deeks, Johnathan, Evans, Stephen, ...

EDITOR—Abbasi in his Editor's choice discusses a study that found statistical errors in 25% of papers published by the BMJ in 2001.1 As statistical advisers to the BMJ we aim to improve the quality...

Adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity: a national birth cohort study

Viner, Russell M, Cole, Tim J

Objectives To assess adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity by using nationally representative data.

Adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity: a national birth cohort study

Viner, Russell M, Cole, Tim J

Objectives To assess adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity by using nationally representative data.

Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey

Cole, Tim J, Flegal, Katherine M, Nicholls, Dasha, Jackson, Alan A

Objective To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years.

Factors associated with uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and use of single antigen vaccines in a contemporary UK cohort: prospective cohort study

Pearce, Anna, Law, Catherine, Elliman, David, Cole, Tim J, Bedford, Helen

Objectives To estimate uptake of the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and single antigen vaccines and explore factors associated with uptake and reasons for not using MMR.

Influence of moving to the UK on maternal health behaviours: prospective cohort study

Hawkins, Summer Sherburne, Lamb, Kate, Cole, Tim J, Law, Catherine

Objective To compare health behaviours during pregnancy (smoking and alcohol consumption) and after birth (initiation and duration of breast feeding) between British/Irish white mothers and mothers...

Reference Ranges for Spirometry Across All Ages: A New Approach

Stanojevic, Sanja, Wade, Angie, Stocks, Janet, Hankinson, John, Coates, Allan L., Pan, Huiqi, ...

Rationale: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) reference is currently recommended for interpreting spirometry results, but it is limited by the lack of subjects...

A Bimodal Association of Vitamin D Levels and Vascular Disease in Children on Dialysis

Shroff, Rukshana, Egerton, Martyn, Bridel, Michala, Shah, Vanita, Donald, Ann E., Cole, Tim J., ...

In addition to its classical role in calcium-phosphate homeostasis, vitamin D has anti-inflammatory effects that may influence vascular disease. This study examined the impact of vitamin D levels on...