MRC Epidemiology Unit

Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. Apr 2020

(DOI : 10.1007/s00198-021-05872-z)

Descriptive epidemiology of energy expenditure in the UK: findings from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2008-15.

Brage S, Lindsay T, Venables M, Wijndaele K, Westgate K, Collins D, Roberts C, Bluck L, Wareham N, and Page P

International Journal of Epidemiology. Jan 2020

(DOI : 10.1093/ije/dyaa005)

Estimating physical activity from self-reported behaviours in large-scale population studies using network harmonisation: findings from UK Biobank and associations with disease outcomes.

Pearce M, Strain T, Kim Y, Sharp SJ, Westgate K, Wijndaele K, Gonzales T, Wareham NJ, and Brage S

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Nov 2019

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-020-00937-4)

Descriptive epidemiology of physical activity energy expenditure in UK adults (The Fenland study).

Lindsay T, Westgate K, Wijndaele K, Hollidge S, Kerrison N, Forouhi N, Griffin S, Wareham N, and Brage S

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Aug 2019

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-019-0882-6)

Evaluation of a very brief pedometer-based physical activity intervention delivered in NHS Health Checks in England: The VBI randomised controlled trial.

Hardeman W, Mitchell J, Pears S, Van Emmenis M, Theil F, Gc VS, Vasconcelos JC, Westgate K, Brage S, Suhrcke M, Griffin SJ, Kinmonth AL, Wilson ECF, Prevost AT, Sutton S, and VBI Research Team

PLoS Medicine. Aug 2019

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003046)

A pragmatic and scalable strategy using mobile technology to promote sustained lifestyle changes to prevent type 2 diabetes in India and the UK: a randomised controlled trial.

Nanditha A, Thomson H, Susairaj P, Srivanichakorn W, Oliver N, Godsland IF, Majeed A, Darzi A, Satheesh K, Simon M, Raghavan A, Vinitha R, Snehalatha C, Westgate K, Brage S, Sharp SJ, Wareham NJ, Johnston DG, and Ramachandran A

Diabetologia. Jun 2019

(DOI : 10.1007/s00125-019-05061-y)

Associations of physical activity, sedentary time, and cardiorespiratory fitness with heart rate variability in 6- to 9-year-old children: the PANIC study.

Veijalainen A, Haapala EA, Väistö J, Leppänen MH, Lintu N, Tompuri T, Seppälä S, Ekelund U, Tarvainen MP, Westgate K, Brage S, and Lakka TA

European journal of applied physiology. May 2019

(DOI : 10.1007/s00421-019-04231-5)

Do older English adults exhibit day-to-day compensation in sedentary time and in prolonged sedentary bouts? An EPIC-Norfolk cohort analysis.

Yerrakalva D, Wijndaele K, Hajna S, Westgate K, Khaw KT, Wareham N, Griffin SJ, and Brage S

PLoS ONE. May 2019

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0224225)

Know Your Heart: Rationale, design and conduct of a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular structure, function and risk factors in 4500 men and women aged 35-69 years from two Russian cities, 2015-18.

Cook S, Malyutina S, Kudryavtsev AV, Averina M, Bobrova N, Boytsov S, Brage S, Clark TG, Diez Benavente E, Eggen AE, Hopstock LA, Hughes A, Johansen H, Kholmatova K, Kichigina A, Kontsevaya A, Kornev M, Leong D, Magnus P, Mathiesen E, McKee M, Morgan K, Nilssen O, Plakhov I, Quint JK, Rapala A, Ryabikov A, Saburova L, Schirmer H, Shapkina M, Shiekh S, Shkolnikov VM, Stylidis M, Voevoda M, Westgate K, and Leon DA

Wellcome open research. Nov 2018

(DOI : 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14619.3)

Protocol for a clinical trial of text messaging in addition to standard care versus standard care alone in prevention of type 2 diabetes through lifestyle modification in India and the UK.

Thomson H, Oliver N, Godsland IF, Darzi A, Srivanichakorn W, Majeed A, Johnston DG, Nanditha A, Snehalatha C, Raghavan A, Susairaj P, Simon M, Satheesh K, Ramachandran A, Sharp S, Westgate K, Brage S, and Wareham N

BMC endocrine disorders. Aug 2018

(DOI : 10.1186/s12902-018-0293-8)

Using Accelerometers to Measure Physical Activity in Older Patients Admitted to Hospital.

Hartley P, Keevil VL, Westgate K, White T, Brage S, Romero-Ortuno R, and Deaton C

Current gerontology and geriatrics research. Aug 2018

(DOI : 10.1155/2018/3280240)

Estimating energy expenditure from wrist and thigh accelerometry in free-living adults: a doubly labelled water study.

White T, Westgate K, Hollidge S, Venables M, Olivier P, Wareham N, and Brage S

International Journal of Obesity. Jul 2018

(DOI : 10.1038/s41366-019-0352-x)

Descriptive epidemiology of changes in objectively measured sedentary behaviour and physical activity: six-year follow-up of the EPIC-Norfolk cohort.

Hajna S, White T, Brage S, van Sluijs EMF, Westgate K, Jones AP, Luben R, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, and Griffin SJ

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

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-018-0746-5)

Longitudinal associations of physical activity and sedentary time with cardiometabolic risk factors in children.

Väistö J, Haapala EA, Viitasalo A, Schnurr TM, Kilpeläinen TO, Karjalainen P, Westgate K, Lakka HM, Laaksonen DE, Ekelund U, Brage S, and Lakka TA

Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports. Mar 2018

(DOI : 10.1111/sms.13315)

The Influence of Objectively Measured Physical Activity During Pregnancy on Maternal and Birth Outcomes in Urban Black South African Women.

Watson ED, Brage S, White T, Westgate K, Norris SA, Van Poppel MNM, and Micklesfield LK

Maternal and Child Health Journal. Mar 2018

(DOI : 10.1007/s10995-018-2504-3)

Physical activity intensity, bout-duration, and cardiometabolic risk markers in children and adolescents.

Tarp J, Child A, White T, Westgate K, Bugge A, Grøntved A, Wedderkopp N, Andersen LB, Cardon G, Davey R, Janz KF, Kriemler S, Northstone K, Page AS, Puder JJ, Reilly JJ, Sardinha LB, van Sluijs EMF, Ekelund U, Wijndaele K, Brage S, and International Childrens Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Collaborators

International journal of obesity (2005). Feb 2018

(DOI : 10.1038/s41366-018-0152-8)

Development of the Impacts of Cycling Tool (ICT): A modelling study and web tool for evaluating health and environmental impacts of cycling uptake.

Woodcock J, Abbas A, Ullrich A, Tainio M, Lovelace R, Sá TH, Westgate K, and Goodman A

PLoS Medicine. Feb 2018

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002622)

Development of the Impacts of Cycling Tool (ICT): A modelling study and web tool for evaluating health and environmental impacts of cycling uptake.

Woodcock J, Abbas A, Ullrich A, Tainio M, Lovelace R, Sá TH, Westgate K, and Goodman A

PLoS Medicine. Feb 2018

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002622)

Describing the diurnal relationships between objectively measured mother and infant physical activity.

Prioreschi A, Brage S, Westgate K, and Micklesfield LK

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Nov 2017

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-018-0692-2)

Physical activity energy expenditure and cardiometabolic health in three rural Kenyan populations.

Lee JC, Westgate K, Boit MK, Mwaniki DL, Kiplamai FK, Friis H, Tetens I, Christensen DL, and Brage S

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council. Nov 2017

(DOI : 10.1002/ajhb.23199)

Describing objectively measured physical activity levels, patterns, and correlates in a cross sectional sample of infants and toddlers from South Africa.

Prioreschi A, Brage S, Hesketh KD, Hnatiuk J, Westgate K, and Micklesfield LK

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Aug 2017

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-017-0633-5)

The contribution of physical fitness to individual and ethnic differences in risk markers for type 2 diabetes in children: The Child Heart and Health Study in England (CHASE).

Nightingale CM, Rudnicka AR, Kerry-Barnard SR, Donin AS, Brage S, Westgate K, Ekelund U, Cook DG, Owen CG, and Whincup PH

Pediatric diabetes. Aug 2017

(DOI : 10.1111/pedi.12637)

The combination of cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle strength, and mortality risk.

Kim Y, White T, Wijndaele K, Westgate K, Sharp SJ, Helge JW, Wareham NJ, and Brage S

European Journal of Epidemiology. Aug 2017

(DOI : 10.1007/s10654-018-0384-x)

Development and feasibility of a wearable infant wrist band for the objective measurement of physical activity using accelerometery.

Prioreschi A, Nappey T, Westgate K, Olivier P, Brage S, and Micklesfield LK

Pilot and feasibility studies. Aug 2017

(DOI : 10.1186/s40814-018-0256-x)

The descriptive epidemiology of the diurnal profile of bouts and breaks in sedentary time in older English adults.

Yerrakalva D, Cooper AJ, Westgate K, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Brage S, Griffin SJ, and Wijndaele K

International Journal of Epidemiology. Jun 2017

(DOI : 10.1093/ije/dyx123)

Associations of Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time With Arterial Stiffness in Pre-Pubertal Children.

Haapala EA, Väistö J, Veijalainen A, Lintu N, Wiklund P, Westgate K, Ekelund U, Lindi V, Brage S, and Lakka TA

Pediatric exercise science. Jan 2017

(DOI : 10.1123/pes.2016-0168)

Transient cardiac dysfunction but elevated cardiac and kidney biomarkers 24 h following an ultra-distance running event in Mexican Tarahumara.

Christensen DL, Espino D, Infante-Ramírez R, Cervantes-Borunda MS, Hernández-Torres RP, Rivera-Cisneros AE, Castillo D, Westgate K, Terzic D, Brage S, Hassager C, Goetze JP, and Kjaergaard J

Extreme physiology & medicine. Jan 2017

(DOI : 10.1186/s13728-017-0057-5)

Estimation of Physical Activity Energy Expenditure during Free-Living from Wrist Accelerometry in UK Adults.

White T, Westgate K, Wareham NJ, and Brage S

PLoS ONE. Oct 2016

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0167472)

Cross-Sectional Associations of Objectively-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time with Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Mid-Childhood: The PANIC Study.

Collings PJ, Westgate K, Väistö J, Wijndaele K, Atkin AJ, Haapala EA, Lintu N, Laitinen T, Ekelund U, Brage S, and Lakka TA

Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.). Aug 2016

(DOI : 10.1007/s40279-016-0606-x)

Cardiorespiratory fitness levels and associations with physical activity and body composition in young South African adults from Soweto.

Prioreschi A, Brage S, Westgate K, Norris SA, and Micklesfield LK

BMC Public Health. Aug 2016

(DOI : 10.1186/s12889-017-4212-0)

A cross-sectional study of physical activity and sedentary behaviours in a Caribbean population: combining objective and questionnaire data to guide future interventions.

Howitt C, Brage S, Hambleton IR, Westgate K, Samuels TA, Rose AM, and Unwin N

BMC Public Health. Jul 2016

(DOI : 10.1186/s12889-016-3689-2)

Cross-sectional study of ethnic differences in physical fitness among children of South Asian, black African-Caribbean and white European origin: the Child Heart and Health Study in England (CHASE).

Nightingale CM, Donin AS, Kerry SR, Owen CG, Rudnicka AR, Brage S, Westgate K, Ekelund U, Cook DG, and Whincup PH

BMJ Open. Jun 2016

(DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011131)

Occupational and leisure-time physical activity and workload among construction workers - a randomized control study.

Gram B, Westgate K, Karstad K, Holtermann A, Søgaard K, Brage S, and Sjøgaard G

International journal of occupational and environmental health. Apr 2016

(DOI : 10.1080/10773525.2016.1142724)

Physical activity and sedentary time in relation to academic achievement in children.

Haapala EA, Väistö J, Lintu N, Westgate K, Ekelund U, Poikkeus AM, Brage S, and Lakka TA

Journal of science and medicine in sport. Mar 2016

(DOI : 10.1016/j.jsams.2016.11.003)

Long-term physical activity: an exogenous risk factor for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

Harwood CA, Westgate K, Gunstone S, Brage S, Wareham NJ, McDermott CJ, and Shaw PJ

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration. Mar 2016

(DOI : 10.3109/21678421.2016.1154575)

A randomised controlled trial of three very brief interventions for physical activity in primary care.

Pears S, Bijker M, Morton KL, Vasconcelos J, Parker RA, Westgate K, Brage S, Wilson E, Prevost AT, Kinmonth AL, Griffin SJ, Sutton S, and Hardeman W

BMC Public Health. Feb 2016

(DOI : 10.1186/s12889-016-3684-7)

Adiposity, physical activity and neuromuscular performance in children.

Haapala EA, Väistö J, Lintu N, Tompuri T, Brage S, Westgate K, Ekelund U, Lampinen EK, Sääkslahti A, Lindi V, and Lakka TA

Journal of sports sciences. Jan 2016

(DOI : 10.1080/02640414.2015.1134805)

The descriptive epidemiology of accelerometer-measured physical activity in older adults.

Berkemeyer K, Wijndaele K, White T, Cooper AJ, Luben R, Westgate K, Griffin SJ, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, and Brage S

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Aug 2015

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-015-0316-z)

Quantifying the physical activity energy expenditure of commuters using a combination of global positioning system and combined heart rate and movement sensors.

Costa S, Ogilvie D, Dalton A, Westgate K, Brage S, and Panter J

Preventive medicine. Jul 2015

(DOI : 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.09.022)

Prospective associations between sedentary time, physical activity, fitness and cardiometabolic risk factors in people with type 2 diabetes.

Lamb MJE, Westgate K, Brage S, Ekelund U, Long GH, Griffin SJ, Simmons RK, and Cooper AJ

Diabetologia. Apr 2015

(DOI : 10.1007/s00125-015-3756-8)

Utilization and Harmonization of Adult Accelerometry Data: Review and Expert Consensus.

Wijndaele K, Westgate K, Stephens SK, Blair SN, Bull FC, Chastin SF, Dunstan DW, Ekelund U, Esliger DW, Freedson PS, Granat MH, Matthews CE, Owen N, Rowlands AV, Sherar LB, Tremblay MS, Troiano RP, Brage S, and Healy GN

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Mar 2015

(DOI : 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000661)

Estimation of Free-Living Energy Expenditure by Heart Rate and Movement Sensing: A Doubly-Labelled Water Study.

Brage S, Westgate K, Franks PW, Stegle O, Wright A, Ekelund U, and Wareham NJ

PLoS ONE. Jan 2015

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0137206)

Effects of an outdoor bicycle-based intervention in healthy rural Indian men with normal and low birth weight.

Madsen C, Mogensen P, Thomas N, Christensen DL, Bygbjerg IC, Mohan V, Inbakumari M, Nadig SV, Alex R, Geetanjali FS, Westgate K, Brage S, Vaag A, and Grunnet LG

Journal of developmental origins of health and disease. Dec 2014

(DOI : 10.1017/S2040174414000609)

Prospective associations between sedentary time, sleep duration and adiposity in adolescents.

Collings PJ, Wijndaele K, Corder KL, Westgate K, Ridgway CL, Sharp SJ, Atkin AJ, Bamber D, Goodyer I, Brage S, and Ekelund U

Sleep medicine. Nov 2014

(DOI : 10.1016/j.sleep.2015.02.532)

Objectively measured physical activity and longitudinal changes in adolescent body fatness: an observational cohort study.

Collings PJ, Wijndaele K, Corder KL, Westgate K, Ridgway CL, Sharp SJ, Atkin AJ, Stephen AM, Bamber D, Goodyer I, Brage S, and Ekelund U

Pediatric Obesity. Aug 2014

(DOI : 10.1111/ijpo.12031)

Sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk factors among individuals with type 2 diabetes.

Cooper AJ, Westgate K, Brage S, Prevost AT, Griffin SJ, and Simmons RK

Sleep medicine. Aug 2014

(DOI : 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.10.006)

Magnitude and determinants of change in objectively-measured physical activity, sedentary time and sleep duration from ages 15 to 17.5y in UK adolescents: the ROOTS study.

Collings PJ, Wijndaele K, Corder KL, Westgate K, Ridgway CL, Sharp SJ, Dunn V, Goodyer I, Ekelund U, and Brage S

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Jul 2014

(DOI : 10.1186/s12966-015-0222-4)

Reliability and validity of a domain-specific last 7-d sedentary time questionnaire.

Wijndaele K, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Godino JG, Lynch BM, Griffin SJ, Westgate K, and Brage S

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Feb 2014

(DOI : 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000214)

Combined influence of epoch length, cut-point and bout duration on accelerometry-derived physical activity.

Orme M, Wijndaele K, Sharp SJ, Westgate K, Ekelund U, and Brage S

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Oct 2013

(DOI : 10.1186/1479-5868-11-34)

Heritability of objectively assessed daily physical activity and sedentary behavior.

den Hoed M, Brage S, Zhao JH, Westgate K, Nessa A, Ekelund U, Spector TD, Wareham NJ, and Loos RJ

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Sep 2013

(DOI : 10.3945/ajcn.113.069849)

Levels and patterns of objectively-measured physical activity volume and intensity distribution in UK adolescents: the ROOTS study.

Collings PJ, Wijndaele K, Corder KL, Westgate K, Ridgway CL, Dunn V, Goodyer I, Ekelund U, and Brage S

The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. Sep 2013

(DOI : 10.1186/1479-5868-11-23)

Physical activity energy expenditure and glucose control in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes: is 30 minutes of daily exercise enough?

Kumareswaran K, Elleri D, Allen JM, Caldwell K, Westgate K, Brage S, Raymond-Barker P, Nodale M, Wilinska ME, Amiel SA, Hovorka R, and Murphy HR

Diabetes care. Feb 2013

(DOI : 10.2337/dc12-1567)

Validity of reporting oxygen uptake efficiency slope from submaximal exercise using respiratory exchange ratio as secondary criterion.

Williamson W, Fuld J, Westgate K, Sylvester K, Ekelund U, and Brage S

Pulmonary medicine. Dec 2011

(DOI : 10.1155/2012/874020)

Validity of a short questionnaire to assess physical activity in 10 European countries.

Peters T, Brage S, Westgate K, Franks PW, Gradmark A, Tormo Diaz MJ, Huerta JM, Bendinelli B, Vigl M, Boeing H, Wendel-Vos W, Spijkerman A, Benjaminsen-Borch K, Valanou E, de Lauzon Guillain B, Clavel-Chapelon F, Sharp SJ, Kerrison N, Langenberg C, Arriola L, Barricarte A, Gonzales C, Grioni S, Kaaks R, Key T, Khaw KT, May A, Nilsson P, Norat T, Overvad K, Palli D, Panico S, Ramón Quirós J, Ricceri F, Sánchez MJ, Slimani N, Tjonneland A, Tumino R, Feskins E, Riboli E, Ekelund U, and Wareham NJ

European Journal of Epidemiology. Aug 2011

(DOI : 10.1007/s10654-011-9625-y)

Protocol for the ADDITION-Plus study: a randomised controlled trial of an individually-tailored behaviour change intervention among people with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes under intensive UK general practice care.

Griffin SJ, Simmons RK, Williams KM, Prevost AT, Hardeman W, Grant J, Whittle F, Boase S, Hobbis I, Brage S, Westgate K, Fanshawe T, Sutton S, Wareham NJ, and Kinmonth AL

BMC Public Health. Mar 2011

(DOI : 10.1186/1471-2458-11-211)

Does birth weight influence physical activity in youth? A combined analysis of four studies using objectively measured physical activity.

Ridgway CL, Brage S, Sharp SJ, Corder K, Westgate K, Van Sluijs EM, Goodyer IM, Hallal PC, Anderssen SA, Sardinha LB, Andersen LB, and Ekelund U

PLoS ONE. Aug 2010

(DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0016125)

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