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Kate Northstone is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a pronounced focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Physiology, and general Health studies. Their main topics of investigation involve Health, Environment, and Cognitive Aging; Nutritional Studies and Diet; Birth, Development, and Health; Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet; Health Disparities and Outcomes; Air Quality and Health Impacts; and Physical Activity and Health.

Kate Northstone has contributed frequently to several publication venues, notably Wellcome Open Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Nutrients, and Proceedings of The Nutrition Society.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Northstone include:

  • Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts (2020, The British Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents (2020, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)
  • Gender differences in the distribution of children's physical activity: evidence from nine countries (2023, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)
  • Pre-admission interventions (prehabilitation) to improve outcome after major elective surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, BMJ Open)

Kate Northstone often collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Jean Golding, Yasmin Iles-Caven, Nicholas J. Timpson, Daniel Major-Smith, and Steven Gregory.

Best Publications

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Sex-specific, male-line transgenerational responses in humans.

    Marcus E Pembrey;Marcus E Pembrey;Lars Olov Bygren;Lars Olov Bygren;Gunnar Kaati;Sören Edvinsson

  • Factors Associated with the Development of Peanut Allergy in Childhood

    Gideon Lack;Deborah Fox;Kate Northstone;Jean Golding

  • Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Cathy E. Elks;John R B Perry;Patrick Sulem;Daniel I. Chasman

  • The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): an update on the enrolled sample of index children in 2019.

    Kate Northstone;Melanie Lewcock;Alix Groom;Andrew Boyd

  • Loss-of-function variants in the filaggrin gene are a significant risk factor for peanut allergy

    Sara J. Brown;Sara J. Brown;Sara J. Brown;Yuka Asai;Heather J. Cordell;Linda E. Campbell

  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts.

    Alex S F Kwong;Rebecca M Pearson;Mark J Adams;Kate Northstone

  • Time outdoors and physical activity as predictors of incident myopia in childhood: A prospective cohort study

    Jeremy Andrew Guggenheim;Kate Northstone;George McMahon;Andy R. Ness

  • The effect of age of introduction to lumpy solids on foods eaten and reported feeding difficulties at 6 and 15 months.

    K. Northstone;P. Emmett;F. Nethersole

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • Picky/fussy eating in children: Review of definitions, assessment, prevalence and dietary intakes

    Caroline M. Taylor;Susan M. Wernimont;Kate Northstone;Pauline M. Emmett

  • The burden of disease associated with filaggrin mutations: A population-based, longitudinal birth cohort study

    John Henderson;Kate Northstone;Simon P. Lee;Haihui Liao

  • Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty

    Ken K Ong;Ken K Ong;Cathy E Elks;Cathy E Elks;Shengxu Li;Shengxu Li;Jing Hua Zhao;Jing Hua Zhao

  • Improved imputation of low-frequency and rare variants using the UK10K haplotype reference panel

    Jie Huang;Bryan Howie;Shane McCarthy;Yasin Memari

  • Correction: Corrigendum: TCTEX1D2 mutations underlie Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy with impaired retrograde intraflagellar transport

    Miriam Schmidts;Yuqing Hou;Claudio R. Cortes;Dorus A. Mans

  • Prevalence and risk factors for common vision problems in children: data from the ALSPAC study.

    Cathy Williams;Kate Northstone;Margaret Howard;Ian Harvey

  • Maternal use of cannabis and pregnancy outcome

    David M. Fergusson;L. John Horwood;Kate Northstone

  • The prevalence of childhood dysphonia: a cross-sectional study.

    Paul N. Carding;Sue Roulstone;Kate Northstone;Alspac Study Team

  • Amblyopia treatment outcomes after screening before or at age 3 years: follow up from randomised trial

    C Williams;K Northstone;RA Harrad;JM Sparrow

  • Are dietary patterns stable throughout early and mid-childhood? A birth cohort study

    Kate Northstone;Pauline M. Emmett

Frequent Co-Authors

Pauline M Emmett
Pauline M Emmett University of Bristol
Jean Golding
Jean Golding University of Bristol
Nicholas J. Timpson
Nicholas J. Timpson University of Bristol
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Andy R Ness
Andy R Ness University of Bristol
Lars Bo Andersen
Lars Bo Andersen University of Bergen
Luís B. Sardinha
Luís B. Sardinha University of Lisbon
Susan M. Ring
Susan M. Ring University of Bristol
John Lynch
John Lynch University of Adelaide
Ulf Ekelund
Ulf Ekelund Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

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