List of works by Jonathan Wells

3D Body Scanning and Healthcare Applications

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A critical appraisal of the predictive adaptive response hypothesis.

scientific article published on February 2012

A new method for quantifying encephalization in the growing individual.

scientific article published in December 2003

A shift in the epidemiology of low body mass index in Brazilian adults.

scientific article published on September 2005

A simplified approach to analysing bio-electrical impedance data in epidemiological surveys.

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Acceptability, Precision and Accuracy of 3D Photonic Scanning for Measurement of Body Shape in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Children Aged 5-11 Years: The SLIC Study

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Accuracy of aggregate 2- and 3-component models of body composition relative to 4-component for the measurement of changes in fat mass during weight loss in overweight and obese subjects

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Accuracy of predictive equations for the measurement of resting energy expenditure in older subjects

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Activity, body composition and bone health in children

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Acute effects of video-game playing versus television viewing on stress markers and food intake in overweight and obese young men: A randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Acute effects of violent video-game playing on blood pressure and appetite perception in normal-weight young men: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Adequacy of milk intake during exclusive breastfeeding: a longitudinal study.

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

Adiposity in children and adolescents: correlates and clinical consequences of fat stored in specific body depots.

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Adjusting milk intake for body size in early infancy.

scientific article published in January 1994

Adjustment of directly measured adipose tissue volume in infants

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Adjustment of fat-free mass and fat mass for height in children aged 8 y

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Administering labelled water to exclusively breast-fed infants in studies involving stable isotope dilution techniques.

scientific article published in March 2011

Adolescent physical activity and health: a systematic review.

scientific article published on January 2006

Adolescent undernutrition and early adulthood bone mass in an urbanizing rural community in India

scientific article published in September 2015

Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis

scientific article published in December 2016

Age-variability in body shape associated with excess weight: the UK National Sizing Survey.

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Aggregate prediction of resting energy expenditure may perform better than individual estimates

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An evolutionary perspective on the trans-generational basis of obesity.

scientific article published on 20 May 2011

Are ethnic and gender specific equations needed to derive fat free mass from bioelectrical impedance in children of South asian, black african-Caribbean and white European origin? Results of the assessment of body composition in children study.

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Assessing the acceptability and feasibility of the MEND Programme in a small group of obese 7-11-year-old children

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Assessment of body composition in Indian adults: comparison between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and isotope dilution technique

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

Assessment of obesity status in outpatients from three disease states

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Association between Birth Interval and Cardiovascular Outcomes at 30 Years of Age: A Prospective Cohort Study from Brazil

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Association between infant correlates of impulsivity - surgency (extraversion) - and early infant growth

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

Association between worldwide dietary and lifestyle patterns with total cholesterol concentrations and DALYs for infectious and cardiovascular diseases: an ecological analysis.

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Association of Hip Bone Mineral Density and Body Composition in a Rural Indian Population: The Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS).

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Associations between arterial oxygen saturation, body size and limb measurements among high-altitude Andean children.

scientific article published on August 2013

Associations of economic and gender inequality with global obesity prevalence: understanding the female excess

scientific article published on 21 April 2012

Associations of fat mass and fat-free mass accretion in infancy with body composition and cardiometabolic risk markers at 5 years: The Ethiopian iABC birth cohort study

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Associations of intrauterine and postnatal weight and length gains with adolescent body composition: prospective birth cohort study from Brazil.

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Between Scylla and Charybdis: renegotiating resolution of the 'obstetric dilemma' in response to ecological change

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Beyond Bergmann's rule: Global variability in human body composition is associated with annual average precipitation and annual temperature volatility

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Bidirectional cross-sectional and prospective associations between physical activity and body composition in adolescence: birth cohort study

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Bioimpedance index for measurement of total body water in severely malnourished children: Assessing the effect of nutritional oedema.

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Birth month associations with height, head circumference, and limb lengths among Peruvian children

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

Body Composition Indices and Single and Clustered Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Adolescents: Providing Clinical-Based Cut-Points

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Body composition and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes: an evolutionary perspective.

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Body composition assessed by the 4-component model and association with lung function in 6-12-y-old children with cystic fibrosis.

scientific article published on 6 October 2010

Body composition from birth to 6 mo of age in Ethiopian infants: reference data obtained by air-displacement plethysmography.

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Body composition in childhood: effects of normal growth and disease ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Body composition in early onset eating disorders

scientific article published in September 2002

Body composition in infants: evidence for developmental programming and techniques for measurement.

scientific article published on June 2012

Body composition in normal weight, overweight and obese children: matched case-control analyses of total and regional tissue masses, and body composition trends in relation to relative weight.

scientific article published on 13 June 2006

Body composition in young female eating-disorder patients with severe weight loss and controls: evidence from the four-component model and evaluation of DXA.

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Body composition, leg length and blood pressure in a rural Italian population: A test of the capacity-load model

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Body mass index adjustments to increase the validity of body fatness assessment in UK Black African and South Asian children

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Body mass index is directly associated with biomarkers of angiogenesis and inflammation in children and adolescents.

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Body shape and size in 6-year old children: assessment by three-dimensional photonic scanning.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Body shape by 3-D photonic scanning in Thai and UK adults: comparison of national sizing surveys.

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Body shape in American and British adults: between-country and inter-ethnic comparisons.

scientific article published on 31 July 2007

Body-composition reference data for simple and reference techniques and a 4-component model: a new UK reference child.

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Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Breast milk and energy intake in exclusively, predominantly, and partially breast-fed infants.

scientific article published on December 2003

Breastfeeding and infant temperament at age three months

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Calibration of bioelectrical impedance analysis for body composition assessment in Ethiopian infants using air-displacement plethysmography

scientific article published on April 2015

Can persistence hunting signal male quality? A test considering digit ratio in endurance athletes

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Centile reference charts for total energy expenditure in infants from 1 to 12 months

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Cereals and pulse-based ready-to-use therapeutic food as an alternative to the standard milk- and peanut paste-based formulation for treating severe acute malnutrition: a noninferiority, individually randomized controlled efficacy clinical trial.

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Childhood Malnutrition and Association of Lean Mass with Metabolome and Hormone Profile in Later Life

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Chronic disease outcomes after severe acute malnutrition in Malawian children (ChroSAM): a cohort study.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Cohort Profile: The 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study

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Commentary: Paternal and maternal influences on offspring phenotype: the same, only different

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Commentary: The paradox of body mass index in obesity assessment: not a good index of adiposity, but not a bad index of cardio-metabolic risk

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Commentary: The thrifty phenotype and the hierarchical preservation of tissues under stress.

scientific article published in October 2013

Commentary: games people play--birthweight

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Comparison of 3D laser-based photonic scans and manual anthropometric measurements of body size and shape in a validation study of 123 young Swiss men

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Comparison of waist circumference percentiles versus body mass index percentiles for diagnosis of obesity in a large cohort of children.

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Composition of the fat-free mass in obese and nonobese children: matched case–control analyses

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Correction for environmental water influx in measurement of milk volume intake by deuterium turnover in infants.

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Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

scientific article published on July 2012

Deuterium dilution technique for body composition assessment: resolving methodological issues in children with moderate acute malnutrition

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Development and validation of anthropometric prediction equations for estimation of lean body mass and appendicular lean soft tissue in Indian men and women

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Developmental plasticity as adaptation: adjusting to the external environment under the imprint of maternal capital

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Diet and behavioural activity in 12-week-old infants

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Differences in body composition between infants of South Asian and European ancestry: the London Mother and Baby Study

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Differences in the relationship of weight to height, and thus the meaning of BMI, according to age, sex, and birth year cohort

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Different associations of subscapular and triceps skinfold thicknesses with pathogen load: an ecogeographical analysis.

scientific article published on August 2013

Differential investment in body girths by sex: Evidence from 3D photonic scanning in a Thai cohort.

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

Digit ratio (2D:4D) and rowing ergometer performance in males and females.

scientific article published on 4 January 2011

Disentangling the associations between parental BMI and offspring body composition using the four-component model

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Disentangling the size and adiposity components of obesity.

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

Early determinants of physical activity in adolescence: prospective birth cohort study

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Early growth and body composition in infancy.

scientific article published in January 2009

Ecogeographical associations between climate and human body composition: analyses based on anthropometry and skinfolds.

scientific article published on 30 December 2011

Effect of milk protein and whey permeate in large quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement on linear growth and body composition among stunted children: A randomized 2 × 2 factorial trial in Uganda

scientific article published in 2023

Effectiveness of food supplements in increasing fat-free tissue accretion in children with moderate acute malnutrition: A randomised 2 × 2 × 3 factorial trial in Burkina Faso.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Effects of animal source food and micronutrient fortification in complementary food products on body composition, iron status, and linear growth: a randomized trial in Cambodia

scientific article published on 28 January 2015

Effects of intentional weight loss on physical and cognitive function in middle-aged and older obese participants: a pilot study.

scientific article published on April 2012

Energy cost of physical activity in twelve week old infants

scientific article published in January 1995

Energy expenditure compared to physical activity measured by accelerometry and self-report in adolescents: a validation study

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Energy metabolism in infants and children

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Environmental Temperature and Human Growth in Early Life

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Ethnic variability in adiposity and cardiovascular risk: the variable disease selection hypothesis.

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Ethnic variability in adiposity, thrifty phenotypes and cardiometabolic risk: addressing the full range of ethnicity, including those of mixed ethnicity.

scientific article published on December 2012

Evaluation of Arm Anthropometry for Assessing Pediatric Body Composition: Evidence from Healthy and Sick Children

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Evaluation of DXA against the four-component model of body composition in obese children and adolescents aged 5-21 years

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Evaluation of air-displacement plethysmography in children aged 5-7 years using a three-component model of body composition.

scientific article published in September 2003

Evaluation of lean tissue density for use in air displacement plethysmography in obese children and adolescents.

scientific article published on 25 May 2011

Evaluation of the body adiposity index against dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry for assessing body composition in children and adolescents

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Exclusive breastfeeding for 4 versus 6 months and growth in early childhood.

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Exploration of the contribution of biobehavioral variables to the energy expenditure of preterm infants

scientific article published in January 2005

Fat Mass in Young Malian Children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition: A Concern Regarding the Use of Correction Factors

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Fat and fat-free mass at birth: air displacement plethysmography measurements on 350 Ethiopian newborns

scientific article published in November 2011

Fetal and infant head circumference sexual dimorphism in primates

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Fetal, infant and childhood growth: relationships with body composition in Brazilian boys aged 9 years

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Flaws in the theory of predictive adaptive responses.

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Gastrostomy feeding in cerebral palsy: enough and no more.

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Gastrostomy feeding in cerebral palsy: too much of a good thing?

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Geographical variation in the progression of type 2 diabetes in Peru: The CRONICAS Cohort Study

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Graphical exploration of dimensions of preterm infant growth in weight in association with biological, nutritional, and energy expenditure conditions

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

Height, adiposity and hormonal cardiovascular risk markers in childhood: how to partition the associations?

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Historical cohort studies and the early origins of disease hypothesis: making sense of the evidence.

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

How much human milk do infants consume? Data from 12 countries using a standardized stable isotope methodology.

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How should pediatricians in India address behavior patterns associated with childhood obesity?

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Independent associations of women's age at marriage and first pregnancy with their height in rural lowland Nepal

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Independent changes in female body shape with parity and age: A life-history approach to female adiposity.

scientific article published in July 2010

Indices of whole-body and central adiposity for evaluating the metabolic load of obesity

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Infancy and childhood growth and physical activity in adolescence: prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

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Infancy weight gain predicts childhood body fat and age at menarche in girls

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Insufficient evidence to support separate BMI definitions for obesity in children and adolescents from south Asian ethnic groups in the UK.

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Intentional weight loss in overweight and obese individuals and cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

Is a single bioelectrical impedance equation valid for children of wide ranges of age, pubertal status and nutritional status? Evidence from the 4-component model

scientific article published on 18 January 2012

Is early development in humans a predictive adaptive response anticipating the adult environment?

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Is the Association between Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Confounded by Obesity? Evidence from the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS).

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Is vulnerability to cardiometabolic disease in Indians mediated by abdominal adiposity or higher body adiposity

scientific article published in December 2014

Life-course determinants of bone mass in young adults from a transitional rural community in India: the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS)

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Long-term effects of severe acute malnutrition on lung function in Malawian children: a cohort study

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Maternal and infant factors associated with neonatal adiposity: results from the Tasmanian Infant Health Survey (TIHS).

scientific article published on 17 January 2012

Maternal capital and the metabolic ghetto: An evolutionary perspective on the transgenerational basis of health inequalities.

scientific article published in January 2010

Metabolisable energy consumption in the exclusively breast-fed infant aged 3--6 months from the developed world: a systematic review.

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Midupper arm circumference and weight-for-length z scores have different associations with body composition: evidence from a cohort of Ethiopian infants.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Natural selection and sex differences in morbidity and mortality in early life.

scientific article published in January 2000

Number of days needed to assess energy and nutrient intake in infants and young children between 6 months and 2 years of age.

scientific article published in May 2004

Obesity and energy balance: is the tail wagging the dog?

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Obesity as malnutrition: the dimensions beyond energy balance.

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Obesity as malnutrition: the role of capitalism in the obesity global epidemic.

scientific article published on 02 March 2012

Objectively measured physical activity and fat mass in a large cohort of children

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Objectively measured physical activity in the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort.

scientific article published in December 2012

Parent-offspring conflict theory, signaling of need, and weight gain in early life

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Paternal and maternal influences on differences in birth weight between Europeans and Indians born in the UK

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Patterns of infant weight gain in developing countries.

scientific article published in August 1993

Pediatric reference data for lean tissue properties: density and hydration from age 5 to 20 y.

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Physical activity at 9-12 months and fatness at 2 years of age

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Physical inactivity: prevalence and associated variables in Brazilian adults.

scientific article published in November 2003

Precision of measurement and body size in whole-body air-displacement plethysmography

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

Prediction of total body water in infants and children.

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Prenatal and postnatal programming of body composition in obese children and adolescents: evidence from anthropometry, DXA and the 4-component model.

scientific article published on 8 February 2011

Prenatal, birth and early life predictors of sedentary behavior in young people: a systematic review

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Primate energy input and the evolutionary transition to energy-dense diets in humans.

scientific article published in June 2017

Progression from childhood overweight to adolescent obesity in a large contemporary cohort

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Prospective Associations Between Physical Activity Level and Body Composition in Adolescence: 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort.

scientific article published on 22 August 2014

Quantifying the association of natal household wealth with women's early marriage in Nepal

scientific article published on 16 December 2021

Randomized controlled trial investigating the effects of a breastfeeding relaxation intervention on maternal psychological state, breast milk outcomes, and infant behavior and growth

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Randomized controlled trial of 4 compared with 6 mo of exclusive breastfeeding in Iceland: differences in breast-milk intake by stable-isotope probe

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Randomized double-blind controlled trial on the effects on iron status in the first year between a no added iron and standard infant formula received for three months

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Re-examining heritability: genetics, life history and plasticity.

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

Reemphasizing the Role of Fructose Intake as a Risk Factor for Dementia

scientific article published on 07 February 2011

Relationships of maternal and paternal anthropometry with neonatal body size, proportions and adiposity in an Australian cohort

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Reproduction, aging, and body shape by three-dimensional photonic scanning in Thai men and women

scientific article published on 08 March 2011

Response to Gluckman et al. and Bateson: predictive adaptive responses

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Review of Methods for Body Composition Assessment in Children

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Sarcopenic obesity: A Critical appraisal of the current evidence.

scientific article published on 17 July 2012

Segmental bioelectrical impedance analysis in children aged 8–12 y: 1. The assessment of whole-body composition

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Segmental bioelectrical impedance analysis in children aged 8–12 y: 2. The assessment of regional body composition and muscle mass

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Severe hypoinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia in a premature infant associated with poor weight gain and reduced adipose tissue

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Severe resistance to weight gain, lack of stored triglycerides in adipose tissue, hypoglycaemia, and increased energy expenditure: a novel disorder of energy homeostasis

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Shifts in population dietary patterns and physical inactivity as determinants of global trends in the prevalence of diabetes: an ecological analysis

scientific article published on 24 May 2014

Signs and strategies to deal with food insecurity and consumption of ultra-processed foods among Amazonian mothers

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Sleep patterns and television viewing in relation to obesity and blood pressure: evidence from an adolescent Brazilian birth cohort

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Socioeconomic status and reduced kidney function in the Whitehall II Study: role of obesity and metabolic syndrome

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Study protocol: An investigation of mother-infant signalling during breastfeeding using a randomised trial to test the effectiveness of breastfeeding relaxation therapy on maternal psychological state, breast milk production and infant behaviour and

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Stunting, adiposity, and the individual-level "dual burden" among urban lowland and rural highland Peruvian children.

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Sugar consumption and global prevalence of obesity and hypertension: an ecological analysis.

scientific article published on 18 February 2013

The "drive to eat" hypothesis: energy expenditure and fat-free mass but not adiposity are associated with milk intake and energy intake in 12 week infants

The Concept of Phenotypic Induction (‘Programming’) and Implications for Growth

The Impact of Dietary Protein in Complementary Foods on Infant Growth and Body Composition in a Population Facing the Double Burden of Malnutrition: Protocol for a Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

The New "Obstetrical Dilemma": Stunting, Obesity and the Risk of Obstructed Labour.

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The association of birth order with later body mass index and blood pressure: a comparison between prospective cohort studies from the United Kingdom and Brazil

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The association of early life supplemental nutrition with lean body mass and grip strength in adulthood: evidence from APCAPS.

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

The biology of the colonizing ape.

scientific article published on January 2007

The contribution of fat and fat-free tissue to body mass index in contemporary children and the reference child

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

The effect of maternal prenatal smoking and alcohol consumption on the placenta-to-birth weight ratio

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The evolution of human adiposity and obesity: where did it all go wrong?

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The evolution of human fatness and susceptibility to obesity: an ethological approach.

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The obstetric dilemma: an ancient game of Russian roulette, or a variable dilemma sensitive to ecology?

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The relationship between wasting and stunting: a retrospective cohort analysis of longitudinal data in Gambian children from 1976 to 2016

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

The role of body height as a co-factor of excess weight in Switzerland

scientific article published in August 2022

The social patterning of fat and lean mass in a contemporary cohort of children

scientific article published in January 2006

The thrifty phenotype: An adaptation in growth or metabolism? ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Thrift: a guide to thrifty genes, thrifty phenotypes and thrifty norms

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Timing of the Introduction of Complementary Foods in Infancy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 12 November 2012

Toward body composition reference data for infants, children, and adolescents

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Towards sustainable partnerships in global health: the case of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases in Peru

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Trade-offs in relative limb length among Peruvian children: extending the thrifty phenotype hypothesis to limb proportions

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Use of fat mass and fat free mass standard deviation scores obtained using simple measurement methods in healthy children and patients: comparison with the reference 4-component model

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Validation of BIA in obese children and adolescents and re-evaluation in a longitudinal study.

scientific article published on 16 April 2009

Validation of anthropometry and foot-to-foot bioelectrical resistance against a three-component model to assess total body fat in children: the IDEFICS study.

scientific article published on 12 February 2013

Validation of bioelectrical impedance analysis in adolescents across different ethnic groups.

scientific article published on 29 October 2009

Validation of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry measures of abdominal fat by comparison with magnetic resonance imaging in an Indian population

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Validation of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry and foot-foot impedance against deuterium dilution measures of fatness in children.

scientific article published in January 2010

Validation of energy requirement references for exclusively breast-fed infants

scientific article published on 13 November 2012

Validity of Methods Used for the Assessment of Body Components in Children: Pros and Cons of Modern versus Old Technology

Weight centile crossing in infancy: correlations between successive months show evidence of growth feedback and an infant-child growth transition

scientific article published on 07 September 2016

Weight gain in childhood and body composition at 18 years of age in Brazilian males

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Whole-body three-dimensional photonic scanning: a new technique for obesity research and clinical practice.

scientific article published on 09 October 2007

Windows of opportunity for physical activity in the prevention of obesity.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Workplace environment and risk of hypertension

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Worldwide variability in growth and its association with health: Incorporating body composition, developmental plasticity, and intergenerational effects.

scientific article published on 22 January 2017

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