MRC Epidemiology Unit - Publications Database

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of referral to a commercial open group behavioural weight management programme in adults with overweight and obesity: 5-year follow-up of the WRAP randomised controlled trial

Ahern AL, Breeze PR, Fusco F, Sharp SJ, Islam N, Wheeler G, Hill AJ, Hughes CA, Duschinsky R, Thomas C, Bates S, Woolston J, Stubbings M, Whittle F, Boothby C, Bostock J, Jebb SA, Aveyard P, Boyland EJ, Halford JCG, Morris S, Brennan A, Griffin SJ

The Lancet Public Health. Oct 2022

(DOI : 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00226-2)

Effects of a group-based weight management programme on anxiety and depression: A randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Heath L, Jebb S, Stevens R, Wheeler G, Ahern A, Boyland E, Halford J, Aveyard P

PLoS ONE. Feb 2022

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0263228)

Effect of weight loss on cardiometabolic risk: observational analysis of two randomised controlled trials of community weight-loss programmes.

Morris E, Jebb SA, Oke J, Nickless A, Ahern A, Boyland E, Caterson ID, Halford J, Hauner H, Aveyard P

The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Jun 2020

(DOI : 10.3399/bjgp20X714113)

The effect of referral to an open-group behavioural weight-management programme on the relative risk of normoglycaemia, non-diabetic hyperglycaemia and type 2 diabetes: Secondary analysis of the WRAP trial.

Ahern AL, Griffin SJ, Wheeler GM, Sharp SJ, Aveyard P, Boyland EJ, Halford JCG, Jebb SA

Diabetes, obesity & metabolism. Mar 2020

(DOI : 10.1111/dom.14123)

Greater Attendance at a Community Weight Loss Programme over the First 12 Weeks Predicts Weight Loss at 2 Years.

Piernas C, MacLean F, Aveyard P, Ahern AL, Woolston J, Boyland EJ, Halford JCG, Jebb SA

Obesity facts. Jan 2020

(DOI : 10.1159/000509131)

Extended and standard duration weight-loss programme referrals for adults in primary care (WRAP): a randomised controlled trial.

Ahern AL, Wheeler GM, Aveyard P, Boyland EJ, Halford JCG, Mander AP, Woolston J, Thomson AM, Tsiountsioura M, Cole D, Mead BR, Irvine L, Turner D, Suhrcke M, Pimpin L, Retat L, Jaccard A, Webber L, Cohn SR, Jebb SA

Lancet (London, England). Jan 2016

(DOI : 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30647-5)

Inequalities in the uptake of weight management interventions in a pragmatic trial: an observational study in primary care.

Ahern AL, Aveyard P, Boyland EJ, Halford JC, Jebb SA, WRAP trial team WRAP trial team

The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Jun 2015

(DOI : 10.3399/bjgp16X684337)

Association between genetic variants on chromosome 15q25 locus and objective measures of tobacco exposure.

Munafò MR, Timofeeva MN, Morris RW, Prieto-Merino D, Sattar N, Brennan P, Johnstone EC, Relton C, Johnson PC, Walther D, Whincup PH, Casas JP, Uhl GR, Vineis P, Padmanabhan S, Jefferis BJ, Amuzu A, Riboli E, Upton MN, Aveyard P, Ebrahim S, Hingorani AD, Watt G, Palmer TM, Timpson NJ, EPIC Study Group EPIC Study Group, Davey Smith G

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Apr 2012

(DOI : 10.1093/jnci/djs191)