Jonathan CK Wells

Biographic Data

ID5460378
NAMEJonathan CK Wells
GIVEN NAMESJonathan CK
FAMILY NAMEWells
SIGNATUREWELLS J C
AFFILIATIONSChildhood Nutrition Research Centre, Population, Policy and Practice Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Forty years later

    Open AccessMubarek Abera, Gemechu Ameya et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    BACKGROUND: As the threat of child malnutrition increases, the focus remains mostly on short-term consequences. Long-term sequelae are increasingly recognised but lack strong evidence, and many studies face methodological limitations. METHOD: A retrospective cohort of survivors of the 1984-1985 Great-Ethiopian Famine was compared with two novel control groups: born post-famine; and age category- and sex-matched controls. Exposure to famine at dif…

  • Maternal mental health and nutritional status of infants aged under 6 months

    Open AccessMubarek Abera, Melkamu Berhane et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Maternal/caregivers’ mental health (MMH) and child nutrition are both poor in low- and middle-income countries. Links between the two are plausible but poorly researched. Our aim was to inform future malnutrition management programmes by better understanding associations between MMH and nutritional status of infants aged under six month (u6m). We conducted a health facility-based cross-sectional survey of 1060 infants in rural Ethiopia, between O…

  • Childhood BMI and other measures of body composition as a predictor of cardiometabolic non-communicable diseases in adulthood

    Open AccessAmela Bander, Alexia J Murphy-Alford et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: There is growing evidence that childhood malnutrition is associated with non-communicable diseases (NCD) in adulthood and that body composition mediates some of this association. This review aims to determine if childhood body composition can be used to predict later-life cardiometabolic NCD and which measures of body composition predicts future NCD. Design: Electronic databases were searched for articles where: children aged under 5 y…

  • Comprehensive analysis of the association of seasonal variability with maternal and neonatal nutrition in lowland Nepal

    Open AccessN Saville, Mario Cortina-Borja et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To provide a comprehensive seasonal analysis of pregnant mothers’ eating behaviour and maternal/newborn nutritional status in an undernourished population from lowland rural Nepal, where weather patterns, agricultural labour, food availability and disease prevalence vary seasonally. Design: Secondary analysis of cluster-randomised Low Birth Weight South Asia Trial data, applying cosinor analysis to predict seasonal patterns. Outcomes: …

  • Filling the weight gap

    Open AccessFabienne P Trüb, J Wells et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2020

  • Associations between diet, physical activity and body fat distribution

    Open AccessLiza Bowen, Amy E Taylor et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    In this Indian population, there was an inverse association between PA and body fat. Associations between body fat and dietary variables differed between the younger APCAPS population and older IMS population. Further longitudinal research is needed to elucidate causality and directions of these associations across the life course

  • Body composition indices of a load–capacity model

    Open AccessMario Siervo, Carla M Prado et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective Fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM) are frequently measured to define body composition phenotypes. The load–capacity model integrates the effects of both FM and FFM to improve disease-risk prediction. We aimed to derive age-, gender- and BMI-specific reference curves of load–capacity model indices in an adult population (≥18 years). Design Cross-sectional study. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry was used to measure FM, FFM, appendicula…

  • Sugar consumption and global prevalence of obesity and hypertension

    Open AccessMario Siervo, Concetta Montagnese et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective The nutrition transition model provides an integrated approach to analyse global changes in food consumption and lifestyle patterns. Whether variability in food availability for consumption, lifestyle and sociodemographic factors is associated with the worldwide prevalence distribution of overweight, obesity and hypertension is unclear. Design Ecological analysis. Setting Country-specific prevalence estimates of overweight, obesity and …