Cecily Kelleher

Biographic Data

ID176348
NAMECecily Kelleher
GIVEN NAMESCecily
FAMILY NAMEKelleher
SIGNATUREKELLEHER C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College Dublin
ORCID0000-0001-9548-4914
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT53
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Factors affecting Covid-19 outcomes in Ireland

    Open AccessShiraz Syed, Cecily Kelleher et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This comprehensive study confirmed international findings associated with poor outcomes in COVID-19. Whilst clinical indications for ICU admission and overall mortality may differ in hospitalised patients, the main drivers of mortality are age, underlying conditions and disease severity, irrespective of location

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Getting to Tobacco 21

    Open AccessKATE FRAZER, D Cox et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2023

    Thompson et al. (2018) remind us that the World Health Organization Ottawa Charter, published almost four decades ago, was the blueprint for health promotors and policymakers to build policies and create supportive environments to promote the health and well-being of communities and societies (World Health Organization, 1986). The relevance of this strategy continues in the 21st century if we are to achieve the goal of the tobacco endgame—a tobac…

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • Smoking Prevalence and Secondhand Smoke Exposure during Pregnancy and Postpartum—Establishing Risks to Health and Human Rights before Developing a Tailored Programme for Smoking Cessation

    Open AccessKATE FRAZER, Patricia Fitzpatrick et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Both smoking during pregnancy and secondhand smoke exposure are associated with reduced health outcomes. However, limited consistent evidence exists of risks of secondhand smoke exposure in pregnancy. Currently, inadequate smoking cessation services exist in Irish maternity hospitals. To identify the number of pregnant women smoking during pregnancy and to identify their exposure to secondhand smoke, we conducted a cross-sectional observational p…

  • The effect of local unemployment on health

    Open AccessJonathan Briody, Orla Doyle et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2020

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • School sociodemographic characteristics and obesity in schoolchildren

    Open AccessSilvia Bel-Serrat, Mirjam M Heinen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    School socioeconomic status was a strong determinant of overweight and obesity in Irish schoolchildren, and these associations were age- and sex-dependent. School location was not associated with overweight or obesity. There remains a need to intervene with school-aged children in disadvantaged schools, specifically among those approaching adolescence, to prevent a trajectory of obesity into adult life

  • Happy birthday? An observational study

    Gabrielle E Kelly, Cecily Kelleher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2018References: 9

    BACKGROUND: Previous studies show contradictory findings on the relationship between birthday and deathday, in particular whether people postpone death until after their birthday. We examine the phenomenon in eight groups of famous people. METHODS: Birthday and deathday for the following groups were recorded: British prime ministers, US presidents, Academy Award best actor, best female actor, best director, Nobel Prize winners, Wimbledon men's an…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016

    Open AccessLeandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • Parental population exposure to historical socioeconomic and political periods and grand-child’s birth weight in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study in the Republic of Ireland

    Open AccessCilia Mejia-Lancheros, John Mehegan et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2017

    Exposure to deprived socioeconomic conditions during the peri-conception and early childhood periods can have a negative long-term impact on individuals' health and that of their progeny. We aimed to examine whether relatives' birth period affected index-child (grand-child) birthweight status in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort in the Republic of Ireland. Participants were 943 mothers and offspring, 890 fathers, 938 maternal grandmothers (MGM…

  • Patterns of Smoking Behaviour in Low-Income Pregnant Women

    Open AccessCatherine Hayes, Morgan Kearney et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016

    Maternal smoking accounts for 20%-30% of low birth weight (BW). Second-Hand Smoke (SHS) also negatively affects BW. This cohort study explored the differential effect of smoking patterns during pregnancy on infant BW. Smoking status for 652 self-reported smokers attending public ante-natal clinics was assessed at baseline (V1 first ante-natal visit), 28-32 weeks (V2) and one week after birth (V3). Multivariable generalised linear regression model…

  • Effects of dietary restraint and weight gain attitudes on gestational weight gain

    Open AccessEmily Heery, Patrick Wall et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016Cited by: 2References: 46

  • BMI change in Australian cardiac rehabilitation patients

    Open AccessCatherine Mcgorrian, Mary Clare O' Hara et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2015

    Overweight and obesity are common health risks, but it can be difficult to effect weight change. This randomized controlled trial examined the effects of a novel Cookery skills intervention on body mass index (BMI) in overweight and obese patients with cardiovascular disease, who had previously attended a cardiac rehabilitation programme. Patients with BMI >27 kg/m(2) were randomized to either a 5-week cookery skills course with written education…

  • Prediction of gestational weight gain – a biopsychosocial model

    Open AccessEmily Heery, Cecily Kelleher et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective To examine the influence of health behaviours and psychological well-being on gestational weight gain using a biopsychosocial model. Design A prospective cohort study of pregnant women consecutively recruited at their first antenatal care visit. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on health behaviours and psychological well-being in early pregnancy. Linear regression and logistic regression were used to identify p…

  • Age-period-cohort analysis for trends in body mass index in Ireland

    Open AccessTao Jiang, Mark S Gilthorpe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    We notice a generally positive age and period effect but a slightly negative cohort effect. Knowing this, we have a better understanding of the different risk groups which allows for effective public intervention measures to be designed and targeted for these specific population subgroups

  • Familial intergenerational and maternal aggregation patterns in nutrient intakes in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study

    Open AccessAakash Shrivastava, Celine Murrin et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2013

    Objective The current study prospectively examines the intra-uterine hypothesis by comparing maternal, paternal and grandparental lineage influences on children's diet and also maternal–child aggregation patterns during pregnancy and early childhood. Design Prenatal dietary information was available for expectant mothers, fathers and up to four grandparents through a detailed validated semi-quantitative FFQ. At 6-year follow-up, when children ave…

  • PP33 A N Age-Period-Cohort Analysis for Trends in Body Mass Index in the Republic of Ireland in 18,016 Participants in Slan (Surveys of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition) 1998-2007

    Tao Jiang, Jiang T et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2013

    Background Obesity has increased in prevalence worldwide in the last 20 years and is associated with a variety of adverse health outcomes. It is valuable to examine these trends in relation to age, period and birth cohort, in conjunction with several evolving environmental factors. Age-period-cohort (APC) analysis is a popular analytic approach, since knowing the separate effects of age, period and cohort allows for a better understanding of the …

  • Frequent mental distress (FMD) in Irish Travellers

    Open AccessCatherine Mcgorrian, Noor Aman Hamid et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2013Cited by: 2References: 42

    Travellers are an indigenous minority group in Ireland, with poorer life expectancy and health status than the general population. Recent data have shown that Travellers are at increased risk of poor mental health and sequelae from same. We aimed to examine the associations between sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with poor mental health in Irish Travellers. A census survey of all Travellers was undertaken, with 8,492 enumerated families (8…

  • Body mass index and height over three generations

    Open AccessCeline M Murrin, Gabrielle E Kelly et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    This is the first family cohort study to report an enduring association between mother and offspring BMI over three generations. The evidence of BMI transmission over three generations through the maternal line in an observational study corroborates the findings of animal studies. A more detailed analysis of geno and phenotypic data over three generations is warranted to understand the nature of this maternal-offspring relationship

  • P1-40 Experience of discrimination is a significant associate of mental ill-health in Irish travellers. Findings from the all Ireland traveller health study

    Catherine Mcgorrian, B Quirke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Traveller are an indigenous minority in Ireland, with poorer life expectancy and health status than the general population. We describe here the self-reported burden of mental ill-health and its associates. Methods A census survey of all Travellers was undertaken, with 8492 enumerated families (80% response rate). A random subset of 1796 adults completed a health survey. Peer researchers employed a novel oral-visual computer data-col…

  • P2-49 Subclinical diastolic dysfunction is associated with biomarkers of hepatic function

    Carmel Conlon, Cecily Kelleher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction This analysis set to investigate the relationship between novel biomarkers of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality with diastolic dysfunction in a primary care cohort at heightened cardiovascular risk. Methods This is a cross-sectional analysis of 616 participants of the STOP HF study with complete echocardiographic data who have established cardiovascular risk factors and no previously known ventricular dysfunction. Data were also…

  • P2-414 The all Ireland traveller birth cohort study (2008–2011)

    Noor Aman Hamid, Cecily Kelleher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Irish Travellers are a nomadic minority group in Ireland with a strong cultural identity, who experience profound socioeconomic and health inequalities. The All Ireland Traveller Health Study is a multi-study project, one component of which is a birth cohort follow-up study. The aim of this study is to describe the methodology and findings to date. Methodology This is a 3-year longitudinal linkage cohort study of all Irish Traveller …

  • P1-26 The all Ireland traveller health study of ten thousand families provides a human development index for Irish travellers

    Noor Aman Hamid, Cecily Kelleher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Irish Travellers, a nomadic minority group in Ireland, experience multi-faceted social deprivation. The All Ireland Traveller Health Study (AITHS) 2007–2011 of an estimated 10 000 families in both Irish jurisdictions shows little improvement in most measured indicators since the last systematic assessment in 1987. The Human Development Index (HDI), measures long term basic dimensions including life expectancy, access to knowledge and…

  • P2-310 Gamma-glutamyltransferase as a biomarker for oxidative stress, metabolic syndrome, and alcohol consumption and its association with cancer incidence

    H Ulmer, Susanne Strohmaier et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Background Alcohol consumption, metabolic factors and oxidative stress have consistently been linked to cancer development. Gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) is a biomarker for adverse alcohol consumption and oxidative stress. It is highly related to metabolic factors such as hyperglycaemia, dislipidaemia and obesity. We therefore hypothesise that GGT is associated with cancer incidence at different sites. Methods First visit measurements in 94 628…