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A genome-wide association study of body mass index across early life and childhood

scientific article published on April 2015

A shared biomechanical environment for bone and posture development in children

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

A systematic review of an emerging consciousness population: focus on program evolution

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Accuracy of height and weight data from child health records.

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Active for Life Year 5: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a primary school-based intervention to increase levels of physical activity, decrease sedentary behaviour and improve diet

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Adiposity, depression and anxiety: interrelationship and possible mediators

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Adult height variants affect birth length and growth rate in children

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Cross-Cohort Comparison

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Adverse childhood experiences in the children of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

scientific article published in 2018

Adverse childhood experiences: Prevalence and related factors in adolescents of a Brazilian birth cohort

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Adversity in childhood and measures of aging in midlife: Findings from a cohort of british women

scientific article published on September 2017

Agreement between routine and research measurement of infant height and weight.

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Are objective measures of physical capability related to accelerated epigenetic age? Findings from a British birth cohort.

scientific article published in November 2017

Are there socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in childhood, and are they mediated by adiposity? Findings from a prospective cohort study

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Assessing the causal role of body mass index on cardiovascular health in young adults: Mendelian randomization and recall-by-genotype analyses

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Assessing the causal role of body mass index on cardiovascular health in young adults: Mendelian randomization and recall-by-genotype analyses

Association between general and central adiposity in childhood, and change in these, with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: prospective cohort study

scientific article (publication date: 25 November 2010)

Association of a body mass index genetic risk score with growth throughout childhood and adolescence

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Associations of Central and Peripheral Blood Pressure With Cardiac Structure and Function in an Adolescent Birth Cohort: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

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Associations of Y chromosomal haplogroups with cardiometabolic risk factors and subclinical vascular measures in males during childhood and adolescence.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Associations of adverse childhood experiences with educational attainment and adolescent health and the role of family and socioeconomic factors: A prospective cohort study in the UK

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Associations of adversity in childhood and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in mid-adulthood

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Associations of anthropometry since birth with sagittal posture at age 7 in a prospective birth cohort: the Generation XXI Study.

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Associations of blood pressure in pregnancy with offspring blood pressure trajectories during childhood and adolescence: findings from a prospective study

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Bayesian Piecewise Linear Mixed Models With a Random Change Point: An Application to BMI Rebound in Childhood

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Body mass index at 11 years and bone mass at age 18: path analysis within the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study

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Body stature growth trajectories during childhood and the development of myopia

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Challenges of implementing multiple imputation to address missing data in economic evaluations.

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Changes in HIV prevalence among differently educated groups in Tanzania between 2003 and 2007.

scientific article published on March 2010

Changes in ponderal index and body mass index across childhood and their associations with fat mass and cardiovascular risk factors at age 15.

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Changes over time in sexual behaviour among young people with different levels of educational attainment in Tanzania

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Childhood adversity and DNA methylation in two population-based cohorts

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Childhood energy intake is associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adolescents

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Childhood gene-environment interactions and age-dependent effects of genetic variants associated with refractive error and myopia: The CREAM Consortium

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Childhood psychosocial adversity and female reproductive timing: a cohort study of the ALSPAC mothers.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Commentary: Methods for analysing life course influences on health--untangling complex exposures

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Commentary: Tipping the balance: wider waistlines in men but wider inequalities in women

scientific article published on 28 December 2009

DNA methylation from birth to late adolescence and development of multiple-risk behaviours

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Defining Patterns of Sagittal Standing Posture in Girls and Boys of School Age.

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Describing differences in weight and length growth trajectories between white and Pakistani infants in the UK: analysis of the Born in Bradford birth cohort study using multilevel linear spline models.

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Developing a community-based neonatal care intervention: a health facility assessment to inform intervention design

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Differences in growth trajectories between white British and Pakistani infants in the UK: analysis of the Born in Bradford birth cohort study

scientific article published in The Lancet

Differential Effects of Adiposity and Childhood Growth Trajectories on Retinal Microvascular Architecture

scientific article published on 01 October 2013

Do rapid BMI growth in childhood and early-onset obesity offer cardiometabolic protection to obese adults in mid-life? Analysis of a longitudinal cohort study of Danish men

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Does vitamin D mediate the protective effects of time outdoors on myopia? Findings from a prospective birth cohort

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Drawing causal inferences in epidemiologic studies of early life influences

scientific article published on 11 May 2011

Early Life Factors and Inter-Country Heterogeneity in BMI Growth Trajectories of European Children: The IDEFICS Study

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Early-life adversity, later-life mental health, and resilience resources: a longitudinal population-based birth cohort analysis

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Education, intelligence and Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization study

scholarly article published 27 August 2018

Effect of fish oil supplementation in pregnancy on bone, lean, and fat mass at six years: randomised clinical trial

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Effect of intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour, and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children: active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 2014)

Effects of body mass index on relationship status, social contact, and socioeconomic position: Mendelian Randomization study in UK Biobank

Elevated Blood Pressure in Adolescence Is Attributable to a Combination of Elevated Cardiac Output and Total Peripheral Resistance

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Epigenetic clocks for gestational age: statistical and study design considerations.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Epigenetic gestational age acceleration: a prospective cohort study investigating associations with familial, sociodemographic and birth characteristics.

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Estimating trajectories of energy intake through childhood and adolescence using linear-spline multilevel models.

scientific article published in July 2013

Ethnic differences in risk factors for obesity in New Zealand infants

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Exaggerated Exercise Blood Pressure is Associated with Higher Left Ventricular Mass in Adolescence. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

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Examining the association between early life social adversity and BMI changes in childhood: a life course trajectory analysis.

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Frailty in older-age European migrants: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

scientific article published on 21 July 2018

Genetic influences on trajectories of systolic blood pressure across childhood and adolescence

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

Growth trajectories in the children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2014)

Handbook on Health Inequality Monitoring

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Height-based Indices of Pubertal Timing in Male Adolescents

scientific article published on January 2013

Independent and combined associations of maternal and own smoking with adult lung function and COPD

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Influence of childhood growth on asthma and lung function in adolescence

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Insomnia symptoms and behavioural health symptoms in veterans 1 year after traumatic brain injury

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

International Genome-Wide Association Study Consortium Identifies Novel Loci Associated With Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Is disrupted sleep a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease? Evidence from a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Is interpregnancy interval associated with cardiovascular risk factors in later life? A cohort study

scientific article (publication date: 19 March 2014)

Is the wealth index a proxy for consumption expenditure? A systematic review.

scientific article published on 29 April 2009

Issues in the construction of wealth indices for the measurement of socio-economic position in low-income countries

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Lifecourse relationship between maternal smoking during pregnancy, birth weight, contemporaneous anthropometric measurements and bone mass at 18years old. The 1993 Pelotas Birth Cohort

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Linear spline multilevel models for summarising childhood growth trajectories: A guide to their application using examples from five birth cohorts

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Long-term effects of the Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school-based cluster-randomised controlled trial

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Longitudinal study of the associations between change in sedentary behavior and change in adiposity during childhood and adolescence: Gateshead Millennium Study.

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Loss to follow-up in cohort studies: bias in estimates of socioeconomic inequalities

scientific article published on January 2013

Maternal alcohol use during pregnancy and offspring trajectories of height and weight: A prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Maternal education inequalities in height growth rates in early childhood: 2004 Pelotas birth cohort study

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring smoking initiation: assessing the role of intrauterine exposure

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring trajectories of height and adiposity: comparing maternal and paternal associations

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Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low- and middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper

scientific article published on 21 March 2012

Modeling Exposure to Multiple Childhood Social Risk Factors and Physical Capability and Common Affective Symptoms in Later Life

scientific article published on December 2016

Modelling childhood growth using fractional polynomials and linear splines

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Neuropsychological profile of a Filipino gentleman with X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism: a case report of Lubag disease

scientific article published on 12 March 2008

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, liver fibrosis, and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescence: a cross-sectional study of 1874 general population adolescents

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Nonlinear Exposure-Outcome Associations and Public Health Policy

scientific article published on March 2016

Parental Separation and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Late Adolescence: A Cross-Cohort Comparison

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Physical Activity Is Prospectively Associated With Adolescent Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Physical activity during pregnancy and offspring cardiovascular risk factors: findings from a prospective cohort study

scientific article (publication date: 25 September 2013)

Polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors in children

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Prospective associations of psychosocial adversity in childhood with risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Psychosocial adversity and socioeconomic position during childhood and epigenetic age: analysis of two prospective cohort studies.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Rapid increases in infant adiposity and overweight/obesity in childhood are associated with higher central and brachial blood pressure in early adulthood

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Relationship between mediation analysis and the structured life course approach.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Risk factors for injuries in young children in four developing countries: the Young Lives Study.

scientific article published on October 2006

Robustness of the linear mixed effects model to error distribution assumptions and the consequences for genome-wide association studies

scientific article published in October 2014

Self-reported sleep in late pregnancy in relation to birth size and fetal distress: the E Moe, Māmā prospective cohort study

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Short Sleep Duration in the First Years of Life and Obesity/Overweight at Age 4 Years: A Birth Cohort Study

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Sleep-disordered breathing, sleep duration, and childhood overweight: a longitudinal cohort study

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Social inequalities in height: persisting differences today depend upon height of the parents

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Socioeconomic differences in childhood BMI trajectories in Belarus

scientific article published in September 2018

Socioeconomic differences in childhood growth trajectories: at what age do height inequalities emerge?

scientific article published on 18 August 2010

Socioeconomic differences in childhood length/height trajectories in a middle-income country: a cohort study

scientific article published on 8 September 2014

Socioeconomic disparities in birth weight and body mass index during infancy through age 7 years: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Socioeconomic disparities in trajectories of adiposity across childhood

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Studying the life course health consequences of childhood adversity: challenges and opportunities

scientific article published on 9 April 2015

Subjective measures of socio-economic position and the wealth index: a comparative analysis

scientific article published on 03 September 2010

Submaximal exercise blood pressure and cardiovascular structure in adolescence

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school-based cluster randomised controlled trial protocol: detailed statistical analysis plan

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The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school-based cluster randomised controlled trial: effect on potential mediators.

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The Causal Effect Of Educational Attainment On Alzheimer's Disease: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study

scholarly article published 17 April 2017

The Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published in 2015

The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and CV Risk Factors: The CRONICAS Cohort Study of Peruvian Adults

scientific article published on March 2016

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 epigenetic clock and physical development during childhood and adolescence: longitudinal analysis from a UK birth cohort.

scientific article published on 15 January 2017

Trajectories and Transitions in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

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Trajectories of socioeconomic inequalities in health, behaviours and academic achievement across childhood and adolescence

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

Understanding the consequences of education inequality on cardiovascular disease: mendelian randomisation study.

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Using SITAR (SuperImposition by Translation and Rotation) to estimate age at peak height velocity in Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

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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.

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Weight trajectories through infancy and childhood and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adolescence: the ALSPAC study.

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What explains the effect of education on cardiovascular disease? Applying Mendelian randomization to identify the consequences of education inequality:

Within-family studies for Mendelian randomization: avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases

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