Journal Articles
Choy, CC,
Johnson, W, Braun, JM, Soti-Ulberg, C, Reupena, MS, Naseri, T, Savusa, K, Lupematasila, VF, Arorae, MS, Tafunaina, F, Unasa, F, Duckham, RL, Wang, D, McGarvey, ST, Hawley, NL (2024)
Associations of childhood BMI traits with blood pressure and glycated haemoglobin in 6–9-year-old Samoan children,
Pediatric Obesity, e13112, DOI:
10.1111/ijpo.13112.
Chandrasenage, D, Markey, O,
Johnson, W, Haycraft, E, Griffiths, PL (2024)
Socioeconomic inequalities in early child development in children aged under 36 months in South Asia: A systematic review,
Child: Care, Health and Development, 50(1), ISSN: 0305-1862. DOI:
10.1111/cch.13171.
Johnson, W, Mansukoski, L, Galvez-Sobral, JA, Furlán, L, Bogin, B (2023)
Inequalities in adiposity trends between 1979 and 1999 in Guatemalan children,
American Journal of Human Biology, ISSN: 1042-0533. DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.24031.
Petherick, E, Martine-Edith, G,
Johnson, W (2023)
Relationships between exposure to gestational diabetes treatment and neonatal anthropometry: Evidence from the Born in Bradford (BiB),
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 28(3), ISSN: 1092-7875. DOI:
10.1007/s10995-023-03851-w.
Martine-Edith, G,
Johnson, W, Petherick, ES (2023)
Associations between maternal gestational diabetes metformin or insulin treatment and offspring growth trajectories from birth to 60 months of age: Findings from the Born in Bradford (BiB) study,
Diabetic Medicine, 40(11), ISSN: 0742-3071. DOI:
10.1111/dme.15204.
McCann, S, Mason, L, Milosavljevic, B, Mbye, E, Touray, E, Colley, A,
Johnson, W, Lloyd-Fox, S, Elwell, CE, Moore, SE, Team, BRIGHTS (2023)
Iron status in early infancy is associated with trajectories of cognitive development up to pre-school age in rural Gambia,
PLOS Global Public Health, 3(11), e0002531, DOI:
10.1371/journal.pgph.0002531.
Aarestrup, J, Pedersen, DC, Bjerregaard, LG, Jensen, BW, Leth-Møller, KB, Jacobsen, RK,
Johnson, W, Baker, JL (2023)
Trends in childhood body mass index between 1936 and 2011 showed that underweight remained more common than obesity among 398 970 Danish school children,
Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child, 113(4), pp.818-826, ISSN: 0803-5253. DOI:
10.1111/apa.16980.
Johnson, W (2023)
Child and adolescent body size: unravelling trends in rural–urban disparities in China,
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 7(11), pp.748-749, ISSN: 2352-4642. DOI:
10.1016/s2352-4642(23)00196-7.
Johnson, W (2023)
The problem of latent class trajectory analysis in child growth and obesity research,
Annals of Human Biology, 50(1), pp.1-3, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2023.2189750.
Murphy-Alford, AJ,
Johnson, W, Nyati, LH, Santos, IS, Hills, AP, Ariff, S, Wickramasinghe, VP, Kuriyan, R, Lucas, N, Costa, CS, Slater, C, Ahmad, T, Byrne, NM, Divya, PJ, Kurpad, AV, Ismail, LC, Loechl, CU, Norris, SA (2023)
Body composition reference charts for infants from birth to 24 months: Multicenter Infant Body Composition Reference Study,
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 117(6), pp.1262-1269, ISSN: 0002-9165. DOI:
10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.02.012.
Keylock, L, Alway, P,
Johnson, W, Crabtree, N, King, M, Peirce, N, Brooke-Wavell, K (2023)
Lumbar spine bone mineral adaptation: cricket fast bowlers versus controls,
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 9(2), e001481, DOI:
10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001481.
Norris, T,
Johnson, W, Cooper, R, Pereira, SMP (2023)
Associations between diabetes status and grip strength trajectory sub-groups in adulthood: findings from over 16 years of follow-up in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development,
BMC Geriatrics, 23, 213, DOI:
10.1186/s12877-023-03871-9.
Choy, CC,
Johnson, W, Duckham, RL, Naseri, T, Soti-Ulberg, C, Reupena, MS, Joseph
M. Braun, JMB, McGarvey, ST, Hawley, NL (2023)
Prediction of fat mass from anthropometry at ages 7 to 9 years in Samoans: a cross-sectional study in the Ola Tuputupua’e cohort,
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 77, pp.495-502, ISSN: 0954-3007. DOI:
10.1038/s41430-022-01256-6.
Johnson, W, Perreira, SP, Costa, S, Baker, J, Norris, T (2022)
The associations of maternal and paternal obesity with latent patterns of offspring BMI development between 7 and 17 years of age: pooled analyses of cohorts born in 1958 and 2001 in the United Kingdom,
International Journal of Obesity, 47, pp.39-50, ISSN: 0307-0565. DOI:
10.1038/s41366-022-01237-6.
Sherry, A, Willis, S, Yates, T,
Johnson, W, Razieh, C, Sargeant, J, Malaikah, S, Stensel, D, Aithal, GP, King, J (2022)
Physical activity is inversely associated with hepatic fibro-inflammation: a population-based cohort study using UK Biobank data,
JHEP Reports, 5(1), 100622, DOI:
10.1016/j.jhepr.2022.100622.
Bann, D, Wright, L, Goisis, A, Hardy, R,
Johnson, W, Maddock, J, McElroy, E, Moulton, V, Patalay, P, Scholes, S, Silverwood, RJ, Ploubidis, GB, O’Neill, D (2022)
Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions,
Discover Social Science and Health, 2(1), 18, DOI:
10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1.
Alway, P, Peirce, N,
Johnson, W, King, M, Kerslake, R, Brooke-Wavell, K (2022)
Activity specific areal bone mineral density is reduced in athletes with stress fracture and requires profound recovery time: A study of lumbar stress fracture in elite cricket fast bowlers,
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 25(10), pp.828-833, ISSN: 1440-2440. DOI:
10.1016/j.jsams.2022.08.006.
Anthony, J,
Johnson, W, Papathomas, A, Breen, K, Kinnafick, F (2022)
Differences in body mass index trajectories of adolescent psychiatric inpatients by sex, age, diagnosis and medication: an exploratory longitudinal, mixed effects analysis,
Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 28(2), pp.318-326, ISSN: 1475-357X. DOI:
10.1111/camh.12575.
Gao, M, Wells, JC,
Johnson, W, Li, L (2022)
Socio-economic disparities in child-to-adolescent growth trajectories in China: Findings from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 1991-2015,
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 21, 100399, ISSN: 2666-6065. DOI:
10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100399.
Martine-Edith, G,
Johnson, W, Hunsicker, E, Hamer, M, Petherick, E (2021)
Associations between maternal characteristics and pharmaceutical treatment of gestational diabetes: an analysis of the UK Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort study,
BMJ Open, 11(11), e053753, ISSN: 2044-6055. DOI:
10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053753.
Robson, E, Norris, T, Hamer, M, Costa, S, Hardy, R,
Johnson, W (2021)
The relationship of childhood adversity with diurnal cortisol patterns and C-reactive protein at 60-64 years of age in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development,
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 132, 105362, ISSN: 0306-4530. DOI:
10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105362.
Johnson, W (2021)
Inequalities in paediatric obesity trends: challenges and opportunities,
The Lancet Public Health, 6(7), ISSN: 2468-2667. DOI:
10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00105-5.
Robson, E, Norris, T, Costa, S, Kivimäki, M, Hamer, M,
Johnson, W (2021)
Contribution of 20-year body mass index and waist circumference history to poor cardiometabolic health in overweight/obese and normal weight adults: a cohort study,
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 31(10), pp.2851-2859, ISSN: 0939-4753. DOI:
10.1016/j.numecd.2021.06.005.
Norris, T, Mansukoski, L, Gilthorpe, MS, Hamer, M, Hardy, R, Howe, LD, Li, L, Ong, KK, Ploubidis, GB, Viner, RM,
Johnson, W (2021)
Early childhood weight gain: latent patterns and body composition outcomes,
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 35(5), pp.557-568, ISSN: 0269-5022. DOI:
10.1111/ppe.12754.
Norris, T, Hamer, M, Hardy, R, Li, L, Ong, KK, Ploubidis, G, Viner, R,
Johnson, W (2021)
Changes over time in latent patterns of childhood-to-adulthood BMI development in Great Britain: evidence from three cohorts born in 1946, 1958, and 1970,
BMC Medicine, 19, 96, ISSN: 1741-7015. DOI:
10.1186/s12916-021-01969-8.
Norris, T, Mansukoski, L, Gilthorpe, M, Hamer, M, Hardy, R, Howe, L, Hughes, A, Li, L, ODonnell, E, Ong, K, Ploubidis, G, Silverwood, R, Viner, R,
Johnson, W (2021)
Distinct body mass index trajectories to young-adulthood obesity and their different cardiometabolic consequences,
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 41(4), pp.1580-1593, ISSN: 1079-5642. DOI:
10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315782.
Norris, T, Cole, TJ, Bann, D, Hamer, M, Hardy, R, Li, L, Ong, KK, Ploubidis, GB, Viner, R,
Johnson, W (2020)
Duration of obesity exposure between ages 10 and 40 years and its relationship with cardiometabolic disease risk factors: a cohort study,
PLoS Medicine, 17(12), e1003387, ISSN: 1549-1277. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pmed.1003387.
Sherry, A, Pearson, N, Ridgers, ND,
Johnson, W, Barber, SE, Bingham, DD, Nagy, LC, Clemes, S (2020)
Impacts of a standing desk intervention within an English primary school classroom: a pilot controlled trial,
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(19), 7048, ISSN: 1660-4601. DOI:
10.3390/ijerph17197048.
Johnson, W, Norris, T, Hamer, M (2020)
Secular changes in mid-adulthood body mass index, waist circumference, and low HDL cholesterol between 1990, 2003, and 2018 in Great Britain,
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 75(3), pp.539-545, ISSN: 0954-3007. DOI:
10.1038/s41430-020-00758-5.
Johnson, W, Norris, T, De Freitas, R, Pearson, N, Hamer, M, Costa, S (2020)
Is the positive relationship of infant weight gain with adolescent adiposity attenuated by moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in childhood? Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study,
International Journal of Obesity, 45, pp.84-94, ISSN: 0307-0565. DOI:
10.1038/s41366-020-00656-7.
Mansukoski, L and
Johnson, W (2020)
How can two biological variables have opposing secular trends, yet be positively related? A demonstration using timing of puberty and adult height,
Annals of Human Biology, 47(6), pp.549-554, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2020.1795256.
Norris, T, Crozier, S, Cameron, N, Godfrey, K, Inskip, H,
Johnson, W (2020)
Fetal growth does not modify the relationship of infant weight gain with childhood adiposity and blood pressure in the Southampton women’s survey,
Annals of Human Biology, 47(2), pp.150-158, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2020.1717616.
Johnson, W, Norris, T, Bann, D, Cameron, N, Wells, JK, Cole, TJ, Hardy, R (2020)
Differences in the relationship of weight to height, and thus the meaning of BMI, according to age, sex, and birth year cohort,
Annals of Human Biology, 40(2), pp.199-207, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2020.1737731.
Costa, S, Bann, D, Benjamin-Neelon, SE, Adams, J,
Johnson, W (2020)
Associations of childcare type, age at start, and intensity with body mass index trajectories from 10 to 42 years of age in the 1970 British Cohort Study,
Pediatric Obesity, 15(9), e12644, DOI:
10.1111/ijpo.12644.
Mansukoski, L, Bogin, B, Galvez-Sobral, JA, Fúrlan, L,
Johnson, W (2020)
Differences and secular trends in childhood IQ trajectories in Guatemala City,
Intelligence, 80, 101438, ISSN: 0160-2896. DOI:
10.1016/j.intell.2020.101438.
Bann, D, Fitzsimons, E,
Johnson, W (2020)
Determinants of the population health distribution: an illustration examining body mass index,
International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(3), ISSN: 0300-5771. DOI:
10.1093/ije/dyz245.
Robson, E, Norris, T, Wulaningsih, W, Hamer, M, Hardy, R,
Johnson, W (2020)
The relationship of early-life adversity with adulthood weight and cardiometabolic health status in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development,
Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(1), ISSN: 0033-3174. DOI:
10.1097/PSY.0000000000000751.
Mansukoski, L,
Johnson, W, Brooke-Wavell, K, Galvez-Sobral, JA, Furlán, L, Cole, TJ, Bogin, B (2019)
Four decades of socio-economic inequality and secular change in the physical growth of Guatemalans,
Public Health Nutrition, 23(8), pp.1381-1391, ISSN: 1368-9800. DOI:
10.1017/S1368980019003239.
Norris, T, Bann, D, Hardy, R,
Johnson, W (2019)
Correction to: Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood-to-adulthood BMI tracking in three British birth cohorts,
International Journal of Obesity, 43(8), pp.1656-1656, ISSN: 0307-0565. DOI:
10.1038/s41366-019-0403-3.
Norris, T, Bann, D, Hardy, R,
Johnson, W (2019)
Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood-to-adulthood BMI tracking in three British birth cohorts,
International Journal of Obesity, 44, pp.388-398, ISSN: 0307-0565. DOI:
10.1038/s41366-019-0387-z.
Mansukoski, L,
Johnson, W, Brooke-Wavell, K, Galvez-Sobral, JA, Furlan, LR, Cole, TJ, Bogin, B (2019)
Life course associations of height, weight, fatness, grip strength, and all-cause mortality for high socioeconomic status Guatemalans,
American Journal of Human Biology, 31(4), ISSN: 1042-0533. DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.23253.
Norris, T, Ramel, SE, Catalano, P, Chaoimh, CN, Roggero, P, Murray, D, Fields, DA, Demerath, EW,
Johnson, W (2019)
New charts for the assessment of body composition, according to air-displacement plethysmography, at birth and across the first six months of life,
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 109(5), pp.1353-1360, ISSN: 0002-9165. DOI:
10.1093/ajcn/nqy377.
Crozier, S,
Johnson, W, Cole, TJ, Macdonald-Wallis, C, Muniz-Terrera, G, Inskip, H, Tilling, K (2019)
A discussion of statistical methods to characterize early growth and its impact on bone mineral content later in childhood,
Annals of Human Biology, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2019.1574896.
Barbour-Tucker, E, Erlandson, MC,
Johnson, W, Muhajarine, N, Foulds, H, Baxter-Jones, ADG (2019)
At what age do normal weight Canadian children become overweight adults? Differences according to sex and metric,
Annals of Human Biology, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2018.1546900.
Johnson, W (2018)
Body size trajectories and cardio-metabolic resilience to obesity,
Nutrition Bulletin, ISSN: 1471-9827. DOI:
10.1111/nbu.12350.
Norris, T,
Johnson, W, Petherick, E, Cameron, N, Oddie, S, Johnson, S, Wright, J, Draper, E, Baker, PN (2018)
Investigating the relationship between fetal growth and academic attainment: Secondary analysis of the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort,
International Journal of Epidemiology, 47(5), pp.1475-1484, ISSN: 0300-5771. DOI:
10.1093/ije/dyy157.
Johnson, W, Bell, JA, Robson, EM, Norris, T, Kivimaki, M, Hamer, M (2018)
Do worse baseline risk factors explain the association of healthy obesity with increased mortality risk? Whitehall II Study,
International Journal of Obesity, 43, ISSN: 0307-0565. DOI:
10.1038/s41366-018-0192-0.
Masi, S, Georgiopoulos, G, Khan, T,
Johnson, W, Wong, A, Charakida, M, Whincup, P, Hughes, AD, Richards, M, Hardy, R, Deanfield, J (2018)
Patterns of adiposity, vascular phenotypes and cognitive function in the 1946 British Birth Cohort,
BMC Medicine, ISSN: 1741-7015. DOI:
10.1186/s12916-018-1059-x.
Johnson, W, Bann, D, Hardy, R (2018)
Infant weight gain and adolescent body mass index: comparison across two British cohorts born in 1946 and 2001,
Archives of Disease in Childhood, ISSN: 0003-9888. DOI:
10.1136/archdischild-2017-314079.
Johnson, W (2018)
Healthy obesity: time to give up the ghost?,
Annals of Human Biology, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.1080/03014460.2018.1444789.
Robson, EM, Costa, S, Hamer, M,
Johnson, W (2018)
Life course factors associated with metabolically healthy obesity: a protocol for the systematic review of longitudinal studies,
Systematic Reviews, ISSN: 2046-4053. DOI:
10.1186/s13643-018-0713-x.
Schoenbuchner, SM, Moore, SE,
Johnson, W, Ngum, M, Sonko, B, Prentice, A, Prentice, AM, Ward, KA (2018)
In rural Gambia, do adolescents have increased nutritional vulnerability compared with adults?,
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, ISSN: 0077-8923.
Bann, D,
Johnson, W, Li, L, Kuh, D, Hardy, R (2018)
Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood and adolescent body-mass index, weight, and height from 1953 to 2015: an analysis of four longitudinal, observational, British birth cohort studies,
The Lancet Public Health, 3(4), ISSN: 2468-2667. DOI:
10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30045-8.
Leung, M, Perumal, N, Mesfin, E, Krishna, A, Yang, S,
Johnson, W, Bassani, DG, Roth, DE (2018)
Metrics of early childhood growth in recent epidemiological research: a scoping review,
PLoS ONE, ISSN: 1932-6203. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0194565.
Lucas, K, James, P, Choh, AC, Lee, M, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW,
Johnson, W (2018)
The positive association of infant weight gain with adulthood body mass index has strengthened over time in the Fels Longitudinal Study,
Pediatric Obesity, ISSN: 2047-6310. DOI:
10.1111/ijpo.12271.
Cox, SE, Ellins, EA, Marealle, AI, Newton, CR, Soka, D, Sasi, P, Tanna, GLD,
Johnson, W, Makani, J, Prentice, AM, Halcox, JP, Kirkham, FJ (2018)
Ready-to-use food supplement, with or without arginine and citrulline, with daily chloroquine in Tanzanian children with sickle-cell disease: a double-blind, random order crossover trial,
Lancet Haematology, ISSN: 2352-3026.
Viner, RM, Costa, S,
Johnson, W (2018)
Patterns of BMI development between 10-42 years of age and their determinants in the 1970 British Cohort Study,
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, ISSN: 0143-005X. DOI:
10.1136/jech-2018-211051.
Hamer, M,
Johnson, W, Bell, JA (2017)
Improving risk estimates for metabolically healthy obesity and mortality using a refined healthy reference group,
European Journal of Endocrinology, 177(2), pp.169-174, ISSN: 0804-4643. DOI:
10.1530/EJE-17-0217.
Johnson, W, Elmrayed, SAA, Sosseh, F, Prentice, AM, Moore, SE (2017)
Pre-conceptional and gestational weight trajectories and risk of delivering a small-for-gestational age baby in rural Gambia,
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 105(6), pp.1474-1482, ISSN: 1938-3207. DOI:
10.3945/ajcn.116.144196.
Demerath, EW,
Johnson, W, Davern, BA, Anderson, CG, Shenberger, JS, Misra, S, Ramel, SE (2017)
New body composition reference charts for preterm infants,
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, ISSN: 1938-3207. DOI:
10.3945/ajcn.116.138248.
Bann, D,
Johnson, W, Li, L, Kuh, D, Hardy, R (2017)
Socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index across adulthood: coordinated analyses of individual participant data from three British birth cohort studies initiated in 1946, 1958, and 1970,
PLoS Medicine, ISSN: 1549-1676. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pmed.1002214.
Eriksen, KG,
Johnson, W, Sonko, B, Prentice, AM, Darboe, MK, Moore, SE (2016)
Following the World Health Organization’s recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding to six months of age does not impact the growth of rural Gambian infants,
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 147, ISSN: 1938-3207. DOI:
10.3945/jn.116.241737.
Johnson, W, Darboe, MK, Sosseh, F, Nshe, P, Prentice, AM, Moore, SE (2016)
Association of a prenatal lipid-based nutritional supplement with fetal growth in rural Gambia,
Maternal and Child Nutrition, ISSN: 1740-8709. DOI:
10.1111/mcn.12367.
Cole, TJ, Kuh, D,
Johnson, W, Ward, KA, Howe, LD, Adams, JE, Hardy, R, Ong, KK (2016)
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,
International Journal of Epidemiology, ISSN: 1464-3685. DOI:
10.1093/ije/dyw134.
Johnson, W, Choh, AC, Lee, M, Towne, B, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW (2016)
Is infant body mass index associated with adulthood body composition trajectories? An exploratory analysis,
Pediatric Obesity, pp.n/a-n/a, ISSN: 2047-6302. DOI:
10.1111/ijpo.12100.
Griffiths, P, Balakrishna, N, Rao, SF,
Johnson, W (2016)
Do socio-economic inequalities in infant growth in rural India operate through maternal size and birth weight?,
Annals of Human Biology, ISSN: 1464-5033. DOI:
10.3109/03014460.2015.1134656.
Johnson, W and Moore, SE (2015)
Adolescent pregnancy, nutrition, and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: what we know and what we don't know,
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 123(10), pp.1589-1592, ISSN: 1470-0328. DOI:
10.1111/1471-0528.13782.
Hawley, NL,
Johnson, W, Hart, CN, Triche, EW, Ah Ching, J, Muasau-Howard, B, McGarvey, ST (2015)
Gestational weight gain among American Samoan women and its impact on delivery and infant outcomes,
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 15(1), 10, DOI:
10.1186/s12884-015-0451-1.
Johnson, W, Li, L, Kuh, D, Hardy, R (2015)
How Has the Age-Related Process of Overweight or Obesity Development Changed over Time? Co-ordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Five United Kingdom Birth Cohorts,
PLOS Medicine, 12(5), pp.1-20, DOI:
10.1371/journal.pmed.1001828.
Norris, T,
Johnson, W, Farrar, D, Tuffnell, D, Wright, J, Cameron, N (2015)
Small-for-gestational age and large-for-gestational age thresholds to predict infants at risk of adverse delivery and neonatal outcomes: are current charts adequate? An observational study from the Born in Bradford cohort,
BMJ Open, 5(3), pp.e006743-e006743, ISSN: 2044-6055. DOI:
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006743.
Johnson, W (2015)
Analytical strategies in human growth research,
American Journal of Human Biology, 27(1), pp.69-83, ISSN: 1042-0533. DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.22589.
Costa, S,
Johnson, W, Viner, RM (2015)
Additive influences of maternal and paternal body mass index on weight status trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood in the 1970 British Cohort Study,
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 6(2), DOI:
10.14301/llcs.v6i2.301.
Johnson, W, Ong, KK, Elks, CE, Wareham, NJ, Wong, A, Muniz-Terrera, G, Hardy, R (2014)
Modification of genetic influences on adiposity between 36 and 63 years of age by physical activity and smoking in the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study,
Nutrition & Diabetes, 4(9), pp.e136-e136, DOI:
10.1038/nutd.2014.33.
Charakida, M, Khan, T,
Johnson, W, Finer, N, Woodside, J, Whincup, PH, Sattar, N, Kuh, D, Hardy, R, Deanfield, J (2014)
Lifelong patterns of BMI and cardiovascular phenotype in individuals aged 60–64 years in the 1946 British birth cohort study: an epidemiological study,
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2(8), pp.648-654, ISSN: 2213-8587. DOI:
10.1016/s2213-8587(14)70103-2.
Johnson, W, Kuh, D, Tikhonoff, V, Charakida, M, Woodside, J, Whincup, P, Hughes, AD, Deanfield, JE, Hardy, R (2014)
Body Mass Index and Height From Infancy to Adulthood and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness at 60 to 64 Years in the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study,
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 34(3), pp.654-660, ISSN: 1079-5642. DOI:
10.1161/atvbaha.113.302572.
Choh, AC, Lee, M, Kent, JW, Diego, VP,
Johnson, WO, Curran, JE, Dyer, TD, Bellis, C, Blangero, J, Siervogel, RM, Towne, B, Demerath, EW, Czerwinski, SA (2014) Gene-by-age effects on BMI from birth to adulthood: the Fels Longitudinal Study,
Obesity, 22(3), pp.875-881, ISSN: 1930-739X.
Hawley, NL,
Johnson, W, Nu'usolia, O, McGarvey, ST (2014)
The contribution of feeding mode to obesogenic growth trajectories in American Samoan infants,
Pediatric Obesity, 9(1), ISSN: 2047-6302. DOI:
10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00137.x.
Mueller, NT,
Johnson, W, Odegaard, AO, Lee, M, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW (2013)
Wrist breadth and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance in youth: The fels longitudinal study,
American Journal of Human Biology, 25(5), pp.581-585, ISSN: 1042-0533. DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.22416.
Santorelli, G, Petherick, ES, Wright, J, Wilson, B, Samiei, H, Cameron, N,
Johnson, W (2013)
Developing Prediction Equations and a Mobile Phone Application to Identify Infants at Risk of Obesity,
PLoS ONE, 8(8), pp.e71183-e71183, DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0071183.
Demerath, EW and
Johnson, W (2013)
Pediatric body composition references: what’s missing?,
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 98(1), pp.1-3, ISSN: 0002-9165. DOI:
10.3945/ajcn.113.064907.
Linabery, AM, Nahhas, RW,
Johnson, W, Choh, AC, Towne, B, Odegaard, AO, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW (2013)
Stronger influence of maternal than paternal obesity on infant and early childhood body mass index: the Fels Longitudinal Study,
Pediatric Obesity, 8(3), pp.159-169, ISSN: 2047-6302. DOI:
10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00100.x.
Johnson, W, Choh, AC, Lee, M, Towne, B, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW (2013)
Characterization of the infant BMI peak: Sex differences, birth year cohort effects, association with concurrent adiposity, and heritability,
American Journal of Human Biology, 25(3), pp.378-388, ISSN: 1042-0533. DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.22385.
Johnson, W, Balakrishna, N, Griffiths, PL (2013)
Modeling physical growth using mixed effects models,
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150(1), pp.58-67, ISSN: 0002-9483. DOI:
10.1002/ajpa.22128.
Griffiths, P,
Johnson, W, Cameron, N, Pettifor, JM, Norris, SA (2013)
In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children,
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY, 11(4), pp.502-514, ISSN: 1570-677X. DOI:
10.1016/j.ehb.2013.05.004.
Johnson, W, Chumlea, WC, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW (2013)
Secular trends in the fat and fat-free components of body mass index in children aged 8–18 years born 1958–1995,
Annals of Human Biology, 40(1), pp.107-110, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.3109/03014460.2012.720710.
Johnson, W, Choh, AC, Curran, JE, Czerwinski, SA, Bellis, C, Dyer, TD, Blangero, J, Towne, B, Demerath, EW (2013)
Genetic risk for earlier menarche also influences peripubertal body mass index,
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150(1), pp.10-20, ISSN: 0002-9483. DOI:
10.1002/ajpa.22121.
Demerath, EW, Choh, AC,
Johnson, W, Curran, JE, Lee, M, Bellis, C, Dyer, TD, Czerwinski, SA, Blangero, J, Towne, B (2013)
The Positive Association of Obesity Variants with Adulthood Adiposity Strengthens over an 80-Year Period: A Gene-by-Birth Year Interaction,
Human Heredity, 75(2-4), pp.175-185, ISSN: 0001-5652. DOI:
10.1159/000351742.
Johnson, W, Wright, J, Cameron, N (2012)
The risk of obesity by assessing infant growth against the UK-WHO charts compared to the UK90 reference: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort study,
BMC Pediatrics, 12(1), 104, DOI:
10.1186/1471-2431-12-104.
Johnson, W, Costa, S, Delgado, R, Guerra, R, Rosado, V (2012)
The growth of Portuguese and Cape Verdean infants aged 0–1 year living in Greater Lisbon, Portugal in 1993–1996,
Annals of Human Biology, 39(4), pp.315-321, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.3109/03014460.2012.700320.
Johnson, W, Choh, AC, Soloway, LE, Czerwinski, SA, Towne, B, Demerath, EW (2012)
Eighty-Year Trends in Infant Weight and Length Growth: The Fels Longitudinal Study,
The Journal of Pediatrics, 160(5), pp.762-768, ISSN: 0022-3476. DOI:
10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.11.002.
Johnson, W, Soloway, LE, Erickson, D, Choh, AC, Lee, M, Chumlea, WC, Siervogel, RM, Czerwinski, SA, Towne, B, Demerath, EW (2012)
A changing pattern of childhood BMI growth during the 20th century: 70 y of data from the Fels Longitudinal Study,
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 95(5), pp.1136-1143, ISSN: 0002-9165. DOI:
10.3945/ajcn.111.022269.
Johnson, W, Stovitz, SD, Choh, AC, Czerwinski, SA, Towne, B, Demerath, EW (2012)
Patterns of linear growth and skeletal maturation from birth to 18 years of age in overweight young adults,
International Journal of Obesity, 36(4), pp.535-541, ISSN: 0307-0565. DOI:
10.1038/ijo.2011.238.
Johnson, WO, Chumlea, WC, Czerwinski, SA, Demerath, EW (2012) Concordance of the recently published body adiposity index with measured body fat percent in European-American adults,
Obesity, 20(4), ISSN: 1071-7323.
Johnson, W, Vazir, S, Fernandez-Rao, S, Kankipati, VR, Balakrishna, N, Griffiths, PL (2012)
Using the WHO 2006 child growth standard to assess the growth and nutritional status of rural south Indian infants,
Annals of Human Biology, 39(2), pp.91-101, ISSN: 0301-4460. DOI:
10.3109/03014460.2012.657680.
Hawley, NL, Rousham, E,
Johnson, W, Norris, SA, Pettifor, JM, Cameron, N (2012)
Determinants of relative skeletal maturity in South African children,
BONE, 50(1), pp.259-264, ISSN: 8756-3282. DOI:
10.1016/j.bone.2011.10.029.
Griffiths, P, Sheppard, ZA,
Johnson, W, Cameron, N, Pettifor, JM, Norris, SA (2012)
Associations between household and neighbourhood socioeconomic status and systolic blood pressure among urban South African adolescents,
JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE, 44(4), pp.433-458, ISSN: 0021-9320. DOI:
10.1017/S0021932012000107.
Johnson, WO, Cameron, N, Raynor, P, Woffendin, C, Wright, J (2009) Monitoring growth,
Community Practitioner, 82(10), pp.38-39, ISSN: 1462-2815.
Johnson, W, Cameron, N, Dickson, P, Emsley, S, Raynor, P, Seymour, C, Wright, J (2009)
The reliability of routine anthropometric data collected by health workers: A cross-sectional study,
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(3), pp.310-316, ISSN: 0020-7489. DOI:
10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2008.10.003.
Johnson, W, Cameron, N, Raynor, P, Woffendin, C, Wright, J (2009) Monitoring growth,
Community practitioner : the journal of the Community Practitioners' & Health Visitors' Association, 82(10), pp.38-39, ISSN: 1462-2815.
Raynor, P (2008)
Born in Bradford, a cohort study of babies born in Bradford, and their parents: Protocol for the recruitment phase,
BMC Public Health, 8(1), 327, DOI:
10.1186/1471-2458-8-327.
