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  • 1995 - Baly Medal, Royal College of Physicians of London

Overview

C. N. Hales was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with a notable concentration in public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, pharmacology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and epidemiology.

Their work covered a diverse range of topics, including:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes

Among the recent published papers associated with or closely connected to their field are:

  • "Trends in Obesity Prevalence by Race and Hispanic Origin-1999-2000 to 2017-2018" (2020), published in JAMA
  • "A method for calculating BMI z-scores and percentiles above the 95th percentile of the CDC growth charts" (2020), published in Annals of Human Biology
  • "Dietary Supplement Use in Children and Adolescents Aged ≤19 Years - United States, 2017-2018" (2020), published in MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • "Changes in adiposity among children and adolescents in the United States, 1999-2006 to 2011-2018" (2021), published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • "Prevalence of Obesity and CKD Among Adults in the United States, 2017-2020" (2022), published in Kidney Medicine

The frequent co-authors who contributed extensively alongside C. N. Hales included:

  • Cynthia L. Ogden
  • Crescent B. Martin
  • David S. Freedman
  • Bryan Stierman
  • Edwina Wambogo

The prominent venues that frequently published their or related work were:

  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • PEDIATRICS
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • JAMA

C. N. Hales was awarded the Baly Medal by the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1995.

Best Publications

  • The glucose fatty-acid cycle. Its role in insulin sensitivity and the metabolic disturbances of diabetes mellitus.

    P.J. Randle;P.B. Garland;C.N. Hales;E.A. Newsholme

  • Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis

    C. N. Hales;D. J. P. Barker

  • The thrifty phenotype hypothesis.

    C N Hales;D J Barker

  • Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance at age 64.

    C. N. Hales;D. J. P. Barker;P. M. S. Clark;L. J. Cox

  • Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (syndrome X): relation to reduced fetal growth

    D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Hales;C. H. D. Fall;C. Osmond

  • Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine.

    A. C. J. Ravelli;J. H. P. Van Der Meulen;R. P. J. Michels;C. Osmond

  • Thinness at birth and insulin resistance in adult life.

    D. I. W. Phillips;D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Hales;S. Hirst

  • Understanding Oral Glucose Tolerance: Comparison of Glucose or Insulin Measurements During the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test with Specific Measurements of Insulin Resistance and Insulin Secretion

    D.I.W. Phillips;P.M. Clark;C.N. Hales;C. Osmond

  • Growth in utero and serum cholesterol concentrations in adult life.

    D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Martyn;C. Osmond;C. N. Hales

  • Fetal growth and impaired glucose tolerance in men and women

    K. Phipps;D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Hales;C. H. D. Fall

  • Fetal and infant growth and cardiovascular risk factors in women.

    C H D Fall;C Osmond;D J P Barker;P M S Clark

  • Glucose intolerance and impairment of insulin secretion in relation to vitamin D deficiency in East London Asians

    B. J. Boucher;N. Mannan;K. Noonan;C. N. Hales

  • Relation of infant feeding to adult serum cholesterol concentration and death from ischaemic heart disease.

    C. H. Fall;D. J. Barker;C. Osmond;P. D. Winter

  • Organ-selective growth in the offspring of protein-restricted mothers.

    M Desai;N J Crowther;A Lucas;C N Hales

  • EFFECTS OF LOW-CARBOHYDRATE DIET AND DIABETES MELLITUS ON PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS OF GLUCOSE, NON-ESTERIFIED FATTY ACID, AND INSULIN DURING ORAL GLUCOSE-TOLERANCE TESTS

    C.N. Hales;P.J. Randle

  • Early programming of glucose–insulin metabolism

    Susan E Ozanne;C.Nicholas Hales

  • Fetal growth and glucose and insulin metabolism in four-year-old Indian children.

    C.S. Yajnik;C.H.D. Fall;U. Vaidya;A.N. Pandit

  • Early growth determines longevity in male rats and may be related to telomere shortening in the kidney

    B.J. Jennings;S.E. Ozanne;M.W. Dorling;C.N. Hales

  • The role of calcium and magnesium in insulin secretion from rabbit pancreas studied in vitro.

    R. D. G. Milner;C. N. Hales

  • ROLE OF FETAL AND INFANT GROWTH IN PROGRAMMING METABOLISM IN LATER LIFE

    M. Desai;C. N. Hales

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan E. Ozanne
Susan E. Ozanne University of Cambridge
Christopher D. Byrne
Christopher D. Byrne University of Southampton
Clive Osmond
Clive Osmond University of Southampton
Michael L. J. Ashford
Michael L. J. Ashford University of Dundee
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Nicholas E. Day
Nicholas E. Day University of Cambridge
Leena Mykkänen
Leena Mykkänen The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
David J. P. Barker
David J. P. Barker University of Southampton
Melanie J. Davies
Melanie J. Davies University of Leicester
Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University

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