William Johnson

Biographic Data

ID79072
NAMEWilliam Johnson
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMEJohnson
SIGNATUREJOHNSON W
AFFILIATIONSLoughborough University
ORCID0000-0002-0347-4354
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS83
TOTAL CITATIONS101
AUTHOR COUNT83
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1912
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Do minimum acceptable diet and family caregiving mediate the associations of maternal education and household wealth with childhood stunting and wasting in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessDamith Chandrasenage, P Griffiths et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2026

    Objective: To investigate the extent to which the associations of socio-economic position (SEP) with stunting and wasting are mediated by minimum acceptable diet (MAD) and a family care indicator (FCI) in Sri Lanka. Design: Secondary data analysis of children from the 2016 Sri Lanka Demographic and Health Survey. The outcomes were stunting and wasting, the exposure was a composite measure combining maternal education and household wealth, and the…

  • Stunting and inequality in Sri Lanka compared with other low- and middle-income South Asian countries

    Open AccessDamith Chandrasenage, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: This study investigates and measures whether the association of childhood stunting with household socio-economic position (SEP) differs in Sri Lanka compared with other South Asian countries. Design: Secondary analysis of data of children from the latest available Demographic and Health Surveys data (survey years, 2016–2018). The exposures (SEP) were maternal education and wealth. The outcome was stunting. Binary logistic regression mo…

  • Inequalities in adiposity trends between 1979 and 1999 in Guatemalan children

    Open AccessWilliam Johnson, Liina Mansukoski et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2024

    BACKGROUND: Guatemala suffered from civil war and high levels of inequality and childhood stunting in the second half of the 20th century, but little is known about inequalities in secular trends in adiposity. OBJECTIVES: To investigate differences in childhood body mass index (BMI) and skinfold thickness trajectories from 1979 to 1999 between three groups of children: High socioeconomic position (SEP) Ladino, Low SEP Ladino, and Low SEP Indigeno…

  • Preece & Baines (1978)

    Open AccessWilliam JohnsonARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2024

    This article refers to: Preece MA, Baines MJ. 1978. A new family of mathematical models describing the human growth curve. Ann Hum Biol. 5(1):1–24. doi:10.1080/03014467800002601

  • Non-parental Childcare During Early Childhood and Problem Behaviour Trajectories from Ages 5 to 14 Years

    Open AccessKathrin Burdenski, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2024

    Using data from the nationally representative Millennium Cohort Study, this study examined the association between age of starting and weekly hours in formal childcare between birth and 5 years with internalising and externalising behaviour trajectories from ages 5 to 14 years in England (N = 6194 children). Associations were analysed using multilevel general linear regression models, with adjustment for socio-economic position, maternal mental h…

  • Iron status in early infancy is associated with trajectories of cognitive development up to pre-school age in rural Gambia

    Open AccessSamantha McCann, Luke Mason et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Introduction Iron deficiency is among the leading risk factors for poor cognitive development. However, interventions targeting iron deficiency have had mixed results on cognitive outcomes. This may be due to previous interventions focusing on the correction of iron deficiency anaemia in late infancy and early childhood, at which point long lasting neural impacts may already be established. We hypothesise that the relationship between iron status…

  • Relationships Between Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Treatment and Neonatal Anthropometry

    Open AccessGilberte Martine‐Edith, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2023

    Offspring exposed to GDM treatment were lighter and smaller at birth than those not exposed to GDM. Metformin-exposed offspring had largely comparable birth anthropometric characteristics to those exposed to insulin

  • The problem of latent class trajectory analysis in child growth and obesity research

    Open AccessWilliam JohnsonARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2023

    It is increasingly common to see papers in human biology and cognate journals in which scientists describe unobserved or latent patterns of child growth or body mass index (BMI) development. [...]

  • In search of the 'great horse

    Open AccessCarly Ameen, Helene Benkert et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021Cited by: 1References: 29

    Popular culture presents a deep-rooted perception of medieval warhorses as massive and powerful mounts, but medieval textual and iconographic evidence remains highly debated. Furthermore, identifying warhorses in the zooarchaeological record is challenging due to both a paucity of horse remains relative to other domesticates, and the tendency of researchers to focus on osteological size, which makes it difficult to reconstruct in-life usage of ho…

  • Constrained Gatekeepers of the Criminal Justice Footprint

    Open AccessCYNTHIA LUM, CHRISTOPHER S KOPER et al.ARTICLEJustice Quarterly2020

    This study examines the gatekeeping role that public safety communication specialists (911 calltakers and dispatchers) play in the criminal justice footprint using systematic observations of one of the largest public communication centers in the U.S. Findings indicate that public safety communications professionals can play a significant role in initially shaping the criminal justice footprint, and can help to prevent that footprint from growing.…

  • The Relationship of Early-Life Adversity With Adulthood Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Status in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development

    Ellie Robson, Tom Norris et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2020

    OBJECTIVE: Evidence linking early-life adversity with an adverse cardiometabolic profile in adulthood is equivocal. This study investigates early-life adversity in relation to weight and cardiometabolic health status at ages 60 to 64 years. METHODS: We included 1059 individuals from the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development. Data on adversity between ages 0 to 15 years were used to create a cumulative childhood psychosocial adversity sco…

  • Impacts of a Standing Desk Intervention within an English Primary School Classroom

    Open AccessAron P Sherry, Natalie Pearson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Traditional classroom furniture dictates that children predominantly sit during class time. This study evaluated the impact of providing standing desks within a deprived UK primary school setting over 8 months using mixed-method approaches. All children within a Year 5 class (9-10-year-olds, n = 30) received an adjustable sit-stand desk, while another Year 5 class ( n = 30) in a nearby school retained traditional furniture as a control classroom.…

  • Four decades of socio-economic inequality and secular change in the physical growth of Guatemalans

    Open AccessLiina Mansukoski, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: To investigate changes in socio-economic inequalities in growth in height, weight, BMI and grip strength in children born during 1955–1993 in Guatemala, a period of marked socio-economic-political change. Design: We modelled longitudinal data on height, weight, BMI and hand grip strength using Super-Imposition by Translation and Rotation (SITAR). Internal Z -scores summarising growth size, timing and intensity (peak growth velocity, e.…

  • Cohort methods and applications in human biology

    Open AccessWilliam Johnson, Tim J ColeARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2020

    Cohort studies can broadly be defined as any non-interventional study in which a group of individuals are recruited (at any point in their lives) and followed up over time. Since the inception of t

  • Fetal growth does not modify the relationship of infant weight gain with childhood adiposity and blood pressure in the Southampton women’s survey

    Open AccessTom Norris, Sarah Crozier et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2020

    Background: Rapid infant weight gain is a risk factor for childhood obesity. This relationship may depend on whether infant weight gain is preceded by in-utero growth restriction. Aim : Examine whether fetal growth modifies the relationship between infant weight gain and childhood adiposity and blood pressure. Subjects and methods: 786 children in the Southampton Women's Survey. We related infant weight gain (weight at 2 years-birth weight) to bo…

  • How can two biological variables have opposing secular trends, yet be positively related? A demonstration using timing of puberty and adult height

    Open AccessLiina Mansukoski, William JohnsonARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2020

    Timing of puberty and adult height have opposing secular trends yet are positively associated in individuals. We demonstrate this using data from a single sample and discuss possible statistical and epidemiological reasons behind it. The sample comprised 365 females from Fels Longitudinal Study born 1929-1992. We used Super-Imposition by Translation and Rotation (SITAR) to estimate individual age at peak height velocity (PHV) and PHV from serial …

  • Differences in the relationship of weight to height, and thus the meaning of BMI, according to age, sex, and birth year cohort

    Open AccessWilliam Johnson, Tom Norris et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2020

    Background: Weight can be adjusted for height using the Benn parameter (kg/m B ), where B is the power that minimises the correlation with height. Aim: To investigate how the Benn parameter changes across age (10-65 years) and time (1956-2015) and differs between sexes. Subjects and methods: The sample comprised 49,717 individuals born in 1946, 1958, 1970 or 2001. Cross-sectional estimates of the Benn parameter were produced and cohort difference…

  • Life course associations of height, weight, fatness, grip strength, and all‐cause mortality for high socioeconomic status Guatemalans

    Open AccessLiina Mansukoski, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2019

    OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to investigate the association between physical growth in preadult life with five outcomes at ages 64 to 76: weight, body mass index (BMI), estimated body fat percentage, hand grip strength, and mortality. METHODS: Super-imposition by translation and rotation (SITAR) growth curves of 40 484 Guatemalan individuals aged 3 to 19 years were modeled for the parameters of size, timing and intensity (peak grow…

  • A discussion of statistical methods to characterise early growth and its impact on bone mineral content later in childhood

    Open AccessSarah Crozier, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2019

    Similarities and differences in results from a variety of analytic strategies need to be understood in the context of each statistical methodology

  • I See You

    Open AccessDerek L Holyoak, William Johnson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Family Therapy2019References: 4

  • Patterns of BMI development between 10 and 42 years of age and their determinants in the 1970 British Cohort Study

    Russell Viner, Silvia Costa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019References: 23

    BACKGROUND: Mixture modelling is a useful approach to identify subgroups in a population who share similar trajectories. We aimed to identify distinct body mass index (BMI) trajectories between 10 and 42 years and investigate how known early-life risk factors are related to trajectories. METHODS: Sample: 9187 participants in the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study, with BMI observations between 10 and 42 years and data on birth weight, parental BMI, …

  • At what age do normal weight Canadian children become overweight adults? Differences according to sex and metric

    Open AccessErin Barbour‐tuck, Marta Erlandson et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2018

    In summary, overweight onset occurs during young adulthood with the exception of WC in males. BMI in males and %FM in females were the metrics identifying overweight the earliest

  • Healthy obesity

    Open AccessWilliam JohnsonARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2018

    This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Taylor & Francis under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Reconstruction of the mid-Holocene paleoclimate of the Ecuadorian Andean páramo at Tres Lagunas, Ecuador

    Open AccessLogan Frederick, Andrea Brunelle et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2018Cited by: 1References: 4

    Previous paleoclimate studies have suggested a warm/dry event during the mid-Holocene in páramo vegetation of the tropical Andes of South America. However, the timing of the mid-Holocene warm/dry event in Tres Lagunas, Ecuador, remains uncertain, since a previously reported bog core record characterized the warm/dry event during a hiatus in sediment deposition. In order to understand the timing of the warm/dry event in Tres Lagunas in relation to…

  • Delayed skeletal maturation is a major contributor to child height deficits in a low-income setting

    Liina Mansukoski, B Bogin et al.Cited by: 1References: 1

    Delayed maturation contributes to height deficits, supporting the idea that opportunity for catch-up growth continues past early childhood in both sexes