MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

The impact of deprivation and neighbourhood food environments on home food environments, parental feeding practices, child eating behaviours, food preferences and BMI: The Family Food Experience Study-London.

D Smith A, Smith AD, Smith A

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Feb 2025

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-025-01788-7)

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Consideration of Young People's Active Travel in National Urban Policy Documents in Asia: A Documentary Analysis.

Maulida R, Smith AD, Weimann A, Oni T, van Sluijs EMF

Journal of physical activity & health. Nov 2024

(DOI : 10.1123/jpah.2024-0117)

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The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in children with overweight or obesity: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Colombo PE, Wickramarachchi M, Lakshmi A, Kudlek L, Ahern A, Tait S, Reid N, Jones RA, Smith AD

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Sep 2024

(DOI : 10.1111/obr.13839)

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Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort.

Nas Z, Herle M, Kininmonth AR, Smith AD, Bryant-Waugh R, Fildes A, Llewellyn CH

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. Sep 2024

(DOI : 10.1111/jcpp.14053)

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Cross-sectional associations of gender identity and sexual orientation, with co-occurrence and clustering of health-related behaviours among British adolescents: Millennium cohort study.

Ricardo LIC, Smith AD, Hesketh KR, Chavez-Ugalde Y, Lee EY, van Sluijs EMF

Preventive medicine. Jul 2024

(DOI : 10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108084)

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Healthcare professionals' perspectives on commercial milk formula marketing in the UK: a qualitative study.

McNaughton E, Chen L, Smith AD, Conway R

Archives of Disease in Childhood. Jul 2024

(DOI : 10.1136/archdischild-2024-327706)

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The impact of social media interventions on eating behaviours and diet in adolescents and young adults: a mixed methods systematic review protocol.

Tang H, Spreckley M, van Sluijs E, Ahern AL, Smith AD

BMJ Open. Apr 2024

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083465)

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Gender Differences in Caregivers' Attitudes to Risky Child Play in Britain: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Smith AD, Dodd HF, Ricardo L, van Sluijs E

Journal of physical activity & health. Jan 2024

(DOI : 10.1123/jpah.2023-0676)

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Associations of appetitive traits with growth velocities from infancy to childhood.

Olwi DI, Day FR, Cheng TS, Olga L, Petry CJ, Hughes IA, Smith AD, Ong KK

Scientific reports. Sep 2023

(DOI : 10.1038/s41598-023-42899-0)

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Behavioural susceptibility theory: the role of appetite in genetic susceptibility to obesity in early life.

Llewellyn CH, Kininmonth AR, Herle M, Nas Z, Smith AD, Carnell S, Fildes A

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. Jul 2023

(DOI : 10.1098/rstb.2022.0223)

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Using the Person-Based Approach to Develop a Digital Intervention Targeting Diet and Physical Activity in Pregnancy: Development Study.

Rhodes A, Pimprikar A, Baum A, Smith AD, Llewellyn CH

JMIR formative research. May 2023

(DOI : 10.2196/44082)

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Non-occupational physical activity and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and mortality outcomes: a dose-response meta-analysis of large prospective studies.

Garcia L, Pearce M, Abbas A, Mok A, Strain T, Ali S, Crippa A, Dempsey PC, Golubic R, Kelly P, Laird Y, McNamara E, Moore S, de Sá TH, Smith AD, Wijndaele K, Woodcock J, Brage S

British Journal of Sports Medicine. Feb 2023

(DOI : 10.1136/bjsports-2022-105669)

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Content analysis of on-package formula labelling in Great Britain: use of marketing messages on first infant, follow-on, growing-up and specialist formula.

Conway R, Esser S, Smith AD, Steptoe A, Llewellyn C

Public Health Nutrition. Jan 2023

(DOI : 10.1017/S1368980023000216)

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Intergenerational transmission of appetite: Associations between mother-child dyads in a Mexican population.

Hunot-Alexander C, Curiel-Curiel CP, Romero-Velarde E, Vásquez-Garibay EM, Mariscal-Rizo A, Casillas-Toral E, Smith AD, Llewellyn CH

PLoS ONE. Mar 2022

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0264493)

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Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis.

Patterson R, McNamara E, Tainio M, de Sá TH, Smith AD, Sharp SJ, Edwards P, Woodcock J, Brage S, Wijndaele K

European Journal of Epidemiology. Oct 2017

(DOI : 10.1007/s10654-018-0380-1)

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Physical activity and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Smith AD, Crippa A, Woodcock J, Brage S

Diabetologia. May 2016

(DOI : 10.1007/s00125-016-4079-0)

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