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Transition of care from paediatric to adult services: one part of improved health services for adolescentsRussell M Viner
UCL Institute of Child Health, London
Arch Dis Child 93:160-3. 2008..Thirdly, young patients need to be trained and empowered to allow them to be an effective partner in their own transition. Improvement of this transition is merely one part of a wider need to improve health care for adolescents...- Splitting hairsR Viner
Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1T 3AA, UK
Arch Dis Child 86:8-10. 2002 - Risk and protective factors for meningococcal disease in adolescents: matched cohort studyJoanna Tully
Academic Centre for Child Health, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry at Barts and the London, University of London, London E1 1BB
BMJ 332:445-50. 2006..Students are at higher risk. Altering personal behaviours could moderate the risk. However, the development of further effective meningococcal vaccines remains a key public health priority... - Assessing the efficacy of the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) compared with enhanced standard care of the obese adolescent in the community: study protocol for a randomized controlled trialDeborah Christie
General and Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
Trials 12:242. 2011..We will explore whether improvement in QOL may be intermediate on the pathway between the intervention and body mass index change. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN: ISRCTN99840111... - Maximising engagement, motivation and long term change in a Structured Intensive Education Programme in Diabetes for children, young people and their families: Child and Adolescent Structured Competencies Approach to Diabetes Education (CASCADE)Deborah Christie
Child and Adolescent Psychological Services, University College Hospital, London, UK
BMC Pediatr 9:57. 2009..Therefore there is a need for novel interventions and health delivery mechanisms aimed at young people and their families to help improve control and reduce complications, illness burden and costs to the NHS... - Physical activity and depressive symptoms in adolescents: a prospective studyCatherine Rothon
Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
BMC Med 8:32. 2010..There is a particular lack of evidence from longitudinal studies. This study examines the relationship between depression and physical activity using the Research with East London Adolescents: Community Health Survey (RELACHS)... - Growth of long-term survivors of liver transplantationR M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Arch Dis Child 80:235-40. 1999..To assess growth in survivors of liver transplantation... - Who changes body mass between adolescence and adulthood? Factors predicting change in BMI between 16 year and 30 years in the 1970 British Birth CohortR M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1368-74. 2006.... - Body mass, weight control behaviours, weight perception and emotional well being in a multiethnic sample of early adolescentsR M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1514-21. 2006..To investigate weight perception, dieting and emotional well being across the range of body mass index (BMI) in a population-based multiethnic sample of early adolescents... - Adult outcomes of binge drinking in adolescence: findings from a UK national birth cohortR M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, University College Hospital, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:902-7. 2007..The aim of the study was to determine outcomes in adult life of binge drinking in adolescence in a national birth cohort... - Do adolescent inpatient wards make a difference? Findings from a national young patient surveyRussell M Viner
General and Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Pediatrics 120:749-55. 2007..These analyses test the hypotheses that nursing young people in adolescent wards improves aspects of quality of care and patient satisfaction compared with child or adult wards... - Longitudinal risk factors for persistent fatigue in adolescentsRussell M Viner
General and Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, England
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:469-75. 2008..To examine whether sedentary behavior, obesity, smoking, and depression are risk factors for persistent fatigue in adolescents... - Childhood body mass index (BMI), breastfeeding and risk of Type 1 diabetes: findings from a longitudinal national birth cohortR M Viner
Children and Young People s Diabetes Service, University College London, London, UK
Diabet Med 25:1056-61. 2008.... - Efficacy and safety of anti-obesity drugs in children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysisR M Viner
UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
Obes Rev 11:593-602. 2010..63 SD, with improvements in cardiometabolic risk. Orlistat modestly reduces BMI (effect size approximately 0.24 SD) with a high prevalence of gastrointestinal adverse effects... - Variations in associations of health risk behaviors among ethnic minority early adolescentsRussell M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, University College, London, United Kingdom
J Adolesc Health 38:55. 2006..To investigate patterns of vulnerability and protection factors associated with risk behaviors and the co-occurrence of risk behaviors in minority ethnicity early adolescents... - Prevalence of the insulin resistance syndrome in obesityR M Viner
London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, UK
Arch Dis Child 90:10-4. 2005.... - Outpatient rehabilitative treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)R Viner
Department of Adolescent Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University College London Hospitals, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 89:615-9. 2004.... - Childhood predictors of self reported chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in adults: national birth cohort studyRussell Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Middlesex Hospital, London W1T 3AA
BMJ 329:941. 2004..To study childhood risk factors for chronic fatigue syndrome in adult life... - Motivational/solution-focused intervention improves HbA1c in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes: a pilot studyR M Viner
London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, University College London, London, UK
Diabet Med 20:739-42. 2003..We piloted a motivational and solution-focused therapy group intervention to improve glycaemic control in young people 11-17 years with poorly controlled Type 1 diabetes (mean annual HbA1c >8.5%)... - Managing obesity in secondary care: a personal practiceR Viner
Adolescent Medicine and Endocrinology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 90:385-90. 2005..In the UK, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has recently issued excellent brief guidance on managing obesity in primary care, as has the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network... - Bridging the gaps: transition for young people with cancerR Viner
Department of Paediatrics, The Middlesex Hospital, University College London Hospitals Trust, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA, UK
Eur J Cancer 39:2684-7. 2003 - Adult health and social outcomes of children who have been in public care: population-based studyRussell M Viner
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Pediatrics 115:894-9. 2005..To examine adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and health outcomes of being in public care in childhood... - Young people's health: the need for actionRussell M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London NW3 2PF
BMJ 330:901-3. 2005 - Television viewing in early childhood predicts adult body mass indexRussell M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College Medical School, and the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
J Pediatr 147:429-35. 2005..To examine the effects of duration, timing and type of television (TV) viewing at age 5 years on body mass index (BMI) in adult life... - Adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity: a national birth cohort studyRussell M Viner
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London NW3 2PF
BMJ 330:1354. 2005..To assess adult socioeconomic, educational, social, and psychological outcomes of childhood obesity by using nationally representative data... - Family-based behavioural treatment of obesity: acceptability and effectiveness in the UKC Edwards
Cancer Research Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 60:587-92. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: These results establish that FBBT is feasible and acceptable in a clinical setting in Britain. They indicate that significant loss of overweight can be achieved using the programme without adverse psychological consequences... - Cultural identity, clothing and common mental disorder: a prospective school-based study of white British and Bangladeshi adolescentsK Bhui
Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and the London Medical School, Queen Mary s University of London, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:435-41. 2008..This paper investigates the influence of different cultural identities on the risk of common mental disorders among Bangladeshi and white British pupils... - Severe insulin resistance secondary to insulin antibodies: successful treatment with the immunosuppressant MMFT Segal
Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, University College Hospital, London, UK
Pediatr Diabetes 9:250-4. 2008..6 to 2.7 mg/dL. MMF may be considered as a means of immunosuppression in patients with markedly raised insulin antibodies whose diabetes cannot be controlled with insulin alone... - The new system of review by multicentre research ethics committees: prospective studyJ Tully
Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 320:1179-82. 2000..To assess the function of the new system of review by multicentre research ethics committees and to highlight areas where improvement is still needed... - Evaluation of DXA against the four-component model of body composition in obese children and adolescents aged 5-21 yearsJ C K Wells
Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 34:649-55. 2010..Body composition is increasingly measured in pediatric obese patients. Although dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely available, and is precise, its accuracy for body composition assessment in obese children remains untested... - Insufficient evidence to support separate BMI definitions for obesity in children and adolescents from south Asian ethnic groups in the UKR M Viner
General and Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 34:656-8. 2010.... - Evaluation of lean tissue density for use in air displacement plethysmography in obese children and adolescentsJ C K Wells
Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 65:1094-101. 2011.... - Adolescent medicine in paediatric practiceD Payne
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 90:1133-7. 2005.... - Should metformin be prescribed to overweight adolescents in whom dietary/behavioural modifications have not helped?E Webb
University College Hospital, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 91:793-4. 2006 - Illicit and traditional drug use among ethnic minority adolescents in East LondonA A Jayakody
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
Public Health 120:329-38. 2006..The high use of paan and glue/gas/solvents by Bangladeshi young people poses an unappreciated public health problem that may require targeted interventions... - Social support, ethnicity and mental health in adolescentsEmily Klineberg
Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, Old Anatomy Building, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:755-60. 2006..In this study, we explored whether social support varied with ethnic group in young people, and if it explained ethnic differences in prevalence of psychological distress... - Lost in transition? Between paediatric and adult servicesJanet E McDonagh
BMJ 332:435-6. 2006 - Is it exposure to cigarette smoke or to smokers which increases the risk of meningococcal disease in teenagers?Pietro G Coen
Academic Department of Child Health, Queen Mary, University of London, Royal London Hospital, UK
Int J Epidemiol 35:330-6. 2006..Passive smoking appears to increase the risk of meningococcal disease (MD) in adolescents. Whether this effect is attributable to exposure to cigarette smoke or contact with smokers is unknown...