MRC Epidemiology Unit - Publications Database

A systematic review of ecological momentary assessment studies of appetite and affect in the experience of temptations and lapses during weight loss dieting.

Randle M, Ahern AL, Boyland E, Christiansen P, Halford JCG, Stevenson-Smith J, Roberts C

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Jul 2023

(DOI : 10.1111/obr.13596)

Association between indicators of inequality and weight change following a behavioural weight loss intervention.

Birch JM, Mueller J, Sharp SJ, Griffin SJ, Kelly MP, Halford JCG, Ahern AL

Obesity facts. Dec 2022

(DOI : 10.1159/000528135)

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)

Perceived weight-related stigma, loneliness, and mental wellbeing during COVID-19 in people with obesity: A cross-sectional study from ten European countries.

Jones RA, Christiansen P, Maloney NG, Duckworth JJ, Hugh-Jones S, Ahern AL, Richards R, Brown A, Flint SW, Robinson E, Bryant S, Halford JCG, Hardman CA

International journal of obesity (2005). Sep 2022

(DOI : 10.1038/s41366-022-01220-1)

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, Halford JCG

BMJ Open. Jul 2021

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045616)

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

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

PLoS ONE. Jun 2020

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252110)

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)