MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Quantifying the Relationship Between Physical Activity Energy Expenditure and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study of Device-Measured Activity in 90,096 Adults.

Strain T, Dempsey PC, Wijndaele K, Sharp SJ, Kerrison N, Gonzales TI, Li C, Wheeler E, Langenberg C, Brage S, and Wareham N

Diabetes care. Jan 2023

(DOI : 10.2337/dc22-1467)

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Stepping towards More Intuitive Physical Activity Metrics with Wrist-Worn Accelerometry: Validity of an Open-Source Step-Count Algorithm.

Maylor BD, Edwardson CL, Dempsey PC, Patterson MR, Plekhanova T, Yates T, and Rowlands AV

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland). Dec 2022

(DOI : 10.3390/s22249984)

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Bidirectional associations of accelerometer-assessed physical activity and sedentary time with physical function among older English adults: the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study.

Yerrakalva D, Hajna S, Wijndaele K, Dempsey PC, Westgate K, Wareham N, Griffin SJ, and Brage S

European journal of ageing. Dec 2022

(DOI : 10.1007/s10433-022-00733-y)

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Stepping up with GGIR: Validity of step cadence derived from wrist-worn research-grade accelerometers using the verisense step count algorithm.

Rowlands AV, Maylor B, Dawkins NP, Dempsey PC, Edwardson CL, Soczawa-Stronczyk AA, Bocian M, Patterson MR, and Yates T

Journal of sports sciences. Nov 2022

(DOI : 10.1080/02640414.2022.2147134)

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Physical Activity Volume, Intensity and Incident Cardiovascular Disease.

Dempsey PC, Rowlands AV, Strain T, Zaccardi F, Dawkins N, Razieh C, Davies MJ, Khunti KK, Edwardson CL, Wijndaele K, Brage S, and Yates T

European heart journal. Oct 2022

(DOI : 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac613)

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Association of Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Accumulation Patterns With Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and All-Cause Mortality.

Dempsey PC, Strain T, Winkler EAH, Westgate K, Rennie KL, Wareham NJ, Brage S, and Wijndaele K

Journal of the American Heart Association. Apr 2022

(DOI : 10.1161/JAHA.121.023845)

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Investigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length.

Dempsey PC, Musicha C, Rowlands AV, Davies M, Khunti K, Razieh C, Timmins I, Zaccardi F, Codd V, Nelson CP, Yates T, and Samani NJ

Communications biology. Apr 2022

(DOI : 10.1038/s42003-022-03323-x)

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Device-measured physical activity, adiposity and mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis of eight prospective cohort studies.

Tarp J, Fagerland MW, Dalene KE, Johannessen JS, Hansen BH, Jefferis BJ, Whincup PH, Diaz KM, Hooker S, Howard VJ, Chernofsky A, Larson MG, Spartano NL, Vasan RS, Dohrn IM, Hagströmer M, Edwardson C, Yates T, Shiroma EJ, Dempsey PC, Wijndaele K, Anderssen SA, Lee IM, and Ekelund U

British Journal of Sports Medicine. Nov 2021

(DOI : 10.1136/bjsports-2021-104827)

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Physical activity intensity profiles associated with cardiometabolic risk in middle-aged to older men and women.

Dempsey PC, Aadland E, Strain T, Kvalheim OM, Westgate K, Lindsay T, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Brage S, and Wijndaele K

Preventive medicine. May 2021

(DOI : 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.106977)

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Effects of sedentary behaviour interventions on biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in adults: systematic review with meta-analyses.

Hadgraft NT, Winkler E, Climie RE, Grace MS, Romero L, Owen N, Dunstan D, Healy G, and Dempsey PC

British Journal of Sports Medicine. Mar 2020

(DOI : 10.1136/bjsports-2019-101154)

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Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk.

Strain T, Wijndaele K, Dempsey PC, Sharp SJ, Pearce M, Jeon J, Lindsay T, Wareham N, and Brage S

Nature medicine. Dec 2019

(DOI : 10.1038/s41591-020-1012-3)

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Impact of follow-up time and analytical approaches to account for reverse causality on the association between physical activity and health outcomes in UK Biobank.

Strain T, Wijndaele K, Sharp SJ, Dempsey PC, Wareham N, and Brage S

International Journal of Epidemiology. Sep 2019

(DOI : 10.1093/ije/dyz212)

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Sedentary Behavior and Chronic Disease: Mechanisms and Future Directions.

Dempsey PC, Matthews CE, Dashti SG, Doherty AR, Bergouignan A, van Roekel EH, Dunstan DW, Wareham NJ, Yates TE, Wijndaele K, and Lynch BM

Journal of physical activity & health. Aug 2019

(DOI : 10.1123/jpah.2019-0377)

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Effect of Morning Exercise With or Without Breaks in Prolonged Sitting on Blood Pressure in Older Overweight/Obese Adults.

Wheeler MJ, Dunstan DW, Ellis KA, Cerin E, Phillips S, Lambert G, Naylor LH, Dempsey PC, Kingwell BA, and Green DJ

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979). Feb 2019

(DOI : 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.12373)

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Sitting Less and Moving More: Implications for Hypertension.

Dempsey PC, Larsen RN, Dunstan DW, Owen N, and Kingwell BA

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979). Oct 2018

(DOI : 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.11190)

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Associations of context-specific sitting time with markers of cardiometabolic risk in Australian adults.

Dempsey PC, Hadgraft NT, Winkler EAH, Clark BK, Buman MP, Gardiner PA, Owen N, Lynch BM, and Dunstan DW

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Jun 2018

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-018-0748-3)

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