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Jonathan C. K. Wells is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on subfields including Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Jonathan C. K. Wells has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "Daily energy expenditure through the human life course," 2021, published in Science
  • "Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition," 2020, published in BMJ Global Health
  • "The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the experiences and feeding practices of new mothers in the UK: Preliminary data from the COVID-19 New Mum Study," 2020, published in Appetite
  • "Life History Transitions at the Origins of Agriculture: A Model for Understanding How Niche Construction Impacts Human Growth, Demography and Health," 2020, published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • "A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies," 2021, published in Cell Reports Medicine

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Jonathan C. K. Wells include:

  • Mary Fewtrell
  • Mubarek Abera
  • Akanksha A. Marphatia
  • Henrik Friis
  • Mario Cortina-Borja

Publishers of Wells's work are found predominantly in these venues:

  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Human Biology
  • Evolution Medicine and Public Health

Best Publications

  • Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

    Adrian Bauman;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;James F. Sallis;Jonathan C. K. Wells

  • Adolescent physical activity and health: a systematic review.

    Pedro C. Hallal;Cesar G. Victora;Mario R. Azevedo;Jonathan C. K. Wells

  • Measuring body composition

    J C K Wells;M S Fewtrell

  • Sexual dimorphism of body composition

    Jonathan C.K. Wells

  • The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health.

    Jonathan C Wells;Ana Lydia Sawaya;Rasmus Wibaek;Rasmus Wibaek;Martha Mwangome

  • Sarcopenic obesity: A Critical appraisal of the current evidence.

    C.M.M. Prado;J.C.K. Wells;S.R. Smith;B.C.M. Stephan

  • Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Fat Mass in a Large Cohort of Children

    Andy R Ness;Sam D Leary;Calum Mattocks;Steven N Blair

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

    Herman Pontzer;Yosuke Yamada;Hiroyuki Sagayama;Philip N. Ainslie

  • Programming of body composition by early growth and nutrition

    Jonathan C. K. Wells;Sirinuch Chomtho;Mary S. Fewtrell

  • Programming of lean body mass: a link between birth weight, obesity, and cardiovascular disease?

    Atul Singhal;Jonathan Wells;Tim J Cole;Mary Fewtrell

  • Four-component model of body composition in children: density and hydration of fat-free mass and comparison with simpler models.

    Jonathan Ck Wells;Nigel J Fuller;Odile Dewit;Mary S Fewtrell

  • Natural Selection and Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality in Early Life

    Jonathan C.K. Wells

  • Use of accelerometers in a large field-based study of children: protocols, design issues, and effects on precision.

    Calum Mattocks;Andy Ness;Sam Leary;Kate Tilling

  • ENERGETICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS HOMO

    Leslie C. Aiello;Jonathan C. K. Wells

  • Physical Activity 2 Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

    Adrian E Bauman;Rodrigo S Reis;James F Sallis;Jonathan C Wells

  • The thrifty phenotype as an adaptive maternal effect.

    Jonathan C. K Wells

  • Maternal capital and the metabolic ghetto: An evolutionary perspective on the transgenerational basis of health inequalities.

    Jonathan C.K. Wells

  • Adjustment of fat-free mass and fat mass for height in children aged 8 y

    J. C. K. Wells;T. J. Cole

  • A critique of the expression of paediatric body composition data

    J C K Wells

  • Early determinants of physical activity in adolescence: prospective birth cohort study

    Pedro C Hallal;Jonathan C K Wells;Felipe F Reichert;Luciana Anselmi

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Fewtrell
Mary Fewtrell University College London
Tim J. Cole
Tim J. Cole University College London
Peter Davies
Peter Davies University of Queensland
Kim F. Michaelsen
Kim F. Michaelsen University of Copenhagen
Cesar G. Victora
Cesar G. Victora Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Pedro Curi Hallal
Pedro Curi Hallal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
John J. Reilly
John J. Reilly University of Strathclyde
Ulf Ekelund
Ulf Ekelund Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Andy R Ness
Andy R Ness University of Bristol

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