MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Exercise without Weight Loss Prevents Seasonal Decline in Vitamin D Metabolites: The VitaDEx Randomized Controlled Trial

Jones K, Jones KS, Meadows SR, Parkington DA

Advanced Science. May 2025

(DOI : https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202416312)

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Thiamine Concentration in Human Milk Is Correlated With Maternal and Infant Thiamine Status: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Lao Thiamine Study

Jones K, Jones KS, Parkington DA, Meadows SR

Maternal & child nutrition. Apr 2025

(DOI : https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.70027)

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The effect of an acute bout of exercise on circulating vitamin D metabolite concentrations: a randomised crossover study in healthy adults.

Davies SE, Perkin OJ, Betts JA, Gonzalez JT, Hewison M, Jenkinson C, Jones KS, Meadows SR, Parkington DA, Koulman A, Thompson D

The Journal of physiology. Aug 2024

(DOI : 10.1113/JP286395)

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The Impact of Delayed Processing of Chilled Whole Blood Specimens on the Measurement of Nutritional Biomarkers in the United Kingdom National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme.

Jones KS, Meadows SR, Parkington DA, Collins D, Bates B, Koulman A, Page P

The Journal of nutrition. Jul 2024

(DOI : 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.07.008)

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Assessment of Erythrocyte Transketolase, Whole Blood Thiamine Diphosphate, and Human Milk Thiamine Concentrations to Identify Infants and Young Children Responding Favorably to Therapeutic Thiamine Administration: Findings from the Lao Thiamine Study, a Prospective Cohort Study.

Hess SY, Smith TJ, Arnold CD, Jones KS, Hampel D, Hiffler L, Trehan I, Fischer PR, Meadows SR, Parkington DA, Brown KH, Sitthideth D, Tan X, Koulman A, Allen LH, Kounnavong S

Current developments in nutrition. Jul 2024

(DOI : 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103786)

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Protocol for measuring erythrocyte glutathione reductase activity coefficient to assess riboflavin status.

Parkington DA, Koulman A, Jones KS

STAR protocols. Nov 2023

(DOI : 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102726)

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A randomised study of nurse collected venous blood and self-collected dried blood spots for the assessment of cardiovascular risk factors in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel.

Kumari M, Andrayas A, Al Baghal T, Burton J, Crossley TF, Jones KS, Parkington DA, Koulman A, Benzeval M

Scientific reports. Aug 2023

(DOI : 10.1038/s41598-023-39674-6)

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Protocol and application of basal erythrocyte transketolase activity to improve assessment of thiamine status.

Jones KS, Parkington DA, Bourassa MW, Cerami C, Koulman A

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Jan 2023

(DOI : 10.1111/nyas.14962)

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Towards harmonization of directly measured free 25-hydroxyvitamin D using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Sempos CT, Lindhout E, Heureux N, Hars M, Parkington DA, Dennison E, Durazo-Arvizu R, Jones KS, Wise SA

Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry. Sep 2022

(DOI : 10.1007/s00216-022-04313-y)

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The development, validation and application of remote blood sample collection in telehealth programmes

Koulman A, Rennie K, Parkington DA, Tyrrell CSB, Catt M, Gkrania-Klotsas E, Wareham NJ

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. May 2022

(DOI : 10.1177/1357633X221093434)

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Delayed Processing of Chilled Whole Blood for 24 Hours Does Not Affect the Concentration of the Majority of Micronutrient Status Biomarkers.

Jones KS, Meadows SR, Chamberlain K, Parkington DA, Collins D, Page P, Koulman A

The Journal of nutrition. Jul 2021

(DOI : 10.1093/jn/nxab267)

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Erythrocyte transketolase activity coefficient (ETKAC) assay protocol for the assessment of thiamine status.

Jones KS, Parkington DA, Cox LJ, Koulman A

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Nov 2020

(DOI : 10.1111/nyas.14547)

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Low-dose thiamine supplementation of lactating Cambodian mothers improves human milk thiamine concentrations: a randomized controlled trial.

Gallant J, Chan K, Green TJ, Wieringa FT, Leemaqz S, Ngik R, Measelle JR, Baldwin DA, Borath M, Sophonneary P, Yelland LN, Hampel D, Shahab-Ferdows S, Allen LH, Jones KS, Koulman A, Parkington DA, Meadows SR, Kroeun H, Whitfield KC

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Oct 2020

(DOI : 10.1093/ajcn/nqab052)

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