MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Changing the narrative around obesity in the UK: a survey of people with obesity and healthcare professionals from the ACTION-IO study.

Hughes CA, Ahern AL, Kasetty H, McGowan BM, Parretti HM, Vincent A, and Halford JCG

BMJ Open. Jul 2021

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045616)

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Associations between hedonic hunger and BMI during a two-year behavioural weight loss trial.

Mead BR, Boyland EJ, Christiansen P, Halford JCG, Jebb SA, and Ahern AL

PLoS ONE. Jun 2020

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252110)

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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, and Jebb SA

Diabetes, obesity & metabolism. Mar 2020

(DOI : 10.1111/dom.14123)

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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, and Jebb SA

Obesity facts. Jan 2020

(DOI : 10.1159/000509131)

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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, and Jebb SA

Lancet (London, England). Jan 2016

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

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