Andrew Keith Wills
Professor
Applied Statistics & Epidemiology
Selected publications
Preprint(s):
Screening & diagnosing errors in longitudinal measures of body size. Wills, A. K. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.19.20234872v1
Journal articles (selected):
Øvrebø B, Bergh IH, Stea TH, Bere E, Surén P, Magnus PM, Juliusson PB, Wills AK. 2021. Overweight, obesity, and thinness among a nationally representative sample of Norwegian adolescents and changes from childhood: Associations with sex, region, and population density. PLoS One. 2021 Aug 3;16(8):e0255699.
Wills, A., Mahmoud, O., Hall, A., Sell, D., Smallridge, J., Southby, L., Toms, S., Waylen, A., Wren, Y., Ness, A. R. & Sandy, J. 2017. Centre‐level variation of treatment and outcome in 5‐year‐old children with non‐syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate: The Cleft Care UK study. Part 1: Methodology and results for dento-facial outcomes. Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research. 20, S2, p. 1-7
Ness, A. R., Wills, A., Mahmoud, O., Hall, A., Sell, D., Smallridge, J., Stokes, D., Toms, S., Waylen, A., Wren, Y. & Sandy, J. Jun 2017. Centre-level variation in treatment and outcomes and predictors of outcomes in 5-year-old children with non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip treated within a centralized service: The Cleft Care UK study. Part 6: Summary and implications. Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research. 20, S2, p. 48-51.
Wills, A. K., Strand, B. H., Glavin, K., Silverwood, R. J. & Hovengen, R., 2016. Regression models for linking patterns of growth to a later outcome: Infant growth and childhood overweight. In: BMC Medical Research Methodology. 16, 1, p. 41-9.
Wills, A. K., Silverwood, R. J. & De Stavola, B. L. 2013. Comment on Tu et al. 2013. A critical evaluation of statistical approaches to examining the role of growth trajectories in the developmental origins of health and disease. International Journal of Epidemiology. 43, 5, p. 1662-1664
Lawlor, D. A., Wills, A. K., Fraser, A., Sayers, A., Fraser, W. D. & Tobias, J. H. 2013. Association of maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy with bone-mineral content in offspring: a prospective cohort study. Lancet. 381, 9884, p. 2176-2183
Wills, A. K., Black, S., Cooper, R., Coppack, R. J., Hardy, R., Martin, K. R., Cooper, C. & Kuh, D. 2012. Life course body mass index and risk of knee osteoarthritis at the age of 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 71, p. 655-60
Wills, A. K., Lawlor, D. A., Muniz-Terrera, G., Matthews, F., Cooper, R., Ghosh, A. K., Kuh, D., Hardy, R. & FALCon Study Team. 2012. Population heterogeneity in trajectories of midlife blood pressure. Epidemiology. 23, 2, p. 203-11
Wills, A. K., Lawlor, D. A., Matthews, F. E., Sayer, A. A., Bakra, E., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Benzeval, M., Brunner, E., Cooper, R., Kivimaki, M., Kuh, D., Muniz-Terrera, G. & Hardy, R. 2011. Life Course Trajectories of Systolic Blood Pressure Using Longitudinal Data from Eight UK Cohorts. PLoS Medicine. 8, 6
Book chapter
Wills, A. K. & Tilling, K. M., 2014. Modelling repeat exposures: some examples from life course epidemiology. In A life course approach to healthy ageing. Kuh, D., Cooper, R., Hardy, R., Richards, M. & Ben-Shlomo, Y. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 91 108 p. (A life course approach to adult health).
Scientific publications
- Wills, Andrew Keith; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Van Lippevelde, Wendy; Barker, Mary Elizabeth; Vik, Frøydis Nordgård; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2024). Preconception diet in adolescence and its association with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and preterm birth. Results from The HUNT study. British Journal of Nutrition. ISSN: 0007-1145. s 1 - 8. doi:10.1017/S0007114524000746.
- Medin, Anine Christine; Vik, Frøydis Nordgård; Helle, Christine; Helland, Sissel Heidi; Wills, Andrew Keith; Osorio, Natalie Garzon; Lian, Henrik; Iveland Ersfjord, Torunn; van Daele, Wim; Bjørkkjær, Tormod; Valen, Erlend Larsen; Gebremariam, Mekdes; Grasaas, Erik; Kiland, Charlotte; von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica; Hope Abel, Marianne; Love, Penny; Campbell, Karen; Rutter, Harry; Barker, Mary Elizabeth; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2024). Scaling up evidence-based digital early life nutrition interventions in a county setting: an implementation trial – protocol for Phase 2 of the Nutrition Now project. Frontiers in Public Health. ISSN: 2296-2565. 11doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1326787.
- Salvesen, Lorentz; Valen, Erlend Larsen; Wills, Andrew Keith; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Vik, Frøydis Nordgård; Engeset, Dagrun; Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Medin, Anine Christine (2023). Developmental origins of health and disease knowledge is associated with diet quality in preconception young adult men and women. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. ISSN: 2040-1744. doi:10.1017/S2040174423000314.
- Salvesen, Lorentz; Wills, Andrew Keith; Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Engeset, Dagrun; Medin, Anine Christine (2023). Relative validity of a non-quantitative 33-item dietary screener with a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire among young adults. Journal of Nutritional Science (JNS). ISSN: 2048-6790. 12s 1 - 13. doi:10.1017/jns.2023.57.
- Øvrebø, Bente; Kjøllesdal, Marte Karoline Råberg; Stea, Tonje Holte; Wills, Andrew Keith; Bere, Elling Tufte; Magnus, Per Minor; Juliusson, Pétur Benedikt; Bergh, Ingunn Holden (2023). The influence of immigrant background and parental education on overweight and obesity in 8-year-old children in Norway. BMC Public Health. ISSN: 1471-2458. 23doi:10.1186/s12889-023-16571-1.
- Øvrebø, Bente; Stea, Tonje Holte; Bergh, Ingunn Holden; Bere, Elling Tufte; Suren, Pål; Magnus, Per Minor; Juliusson, Pétur Benedikt; Wills, Andrew Keith (2022). A nationwide school fruit and vegetable policy and childhood and adolescent overweight: A quasi-natural experimental study. PLoS Medicine. ISSN: 1549-1277. 19 (1). doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003881.
- Slator, Rona; Perisanidou, Lydia I.; Sell, Debbie; Sandy, Jonathan; Ness, Andrew R.; Wills, Andrew Keith (2022). Surgical sequence, timing and volume, and variation in dento-facial outcome, speech and secondary surgery in children with unilateral cleft lip and palate: The Cleft Care UK Study. Orthodontics & craniofacial research. ISSN: 1601-6335. doi:10.1111/ocr.12612.
- Agnihotri, Neha; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Bere, Elling Tufte; Wills, Andrew Keith; Brantsæter, Anne Lise; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2021). Development and description of New Nordic Diet scores across infancy and childhood in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). Maternal & Child Nutrition. ISSN: 1740-8695. 17 (3). doi:10.1111/mcn.13150.
- Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Medin, Anine Christine; Valen, Erlend Larsen; Salvesen, Lorentz; Wills, Andrew Keith; Engeset, Dagrun; Vik, Frøydis Nordgård; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord (2021). Effectiveness of a digital dietary intervention program targeting young adults before parenthood: protocol for the PREPARED randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. ISSN: 2044-6055. 11 (12). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055116.
- Blomkvist, Eli Anne Myrvoll; Wills, Andrew Keith; Helland, Sissel Heidi; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2021). Effectiveness of a kindergarten-based intervention to increase vegetable intake and reduce food neophobia amongst 1-year-old children: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Food & Nutrition Research (FNR). ISSN: 1654-6628. 65doi:10.29219/fnr.v65.7679.
- Øvrebø, Bente; Bergh, Ingunn Holden; Stea, Tonje Holte; Bere, Elling; Surén, Pål; Magnus, Per Minor; Juliusson, Pétur Benedikt; Wills, Andrew Keith (2021). Overweight, obesity, and thinness among a nationally representative sample of Norwegian adolescents and changes from childhood: Associations with sex, region, and population density. PLOS ONE. ISSN: 1932-6203. 16 (8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0255699.
- Agnihotri, Neha; Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Bere, Elling Tufte; Wills, Andrew Keith; Brantsæter, Anne Lise; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord (2020). Childhood adherence to a potentially healthy and sustainable Nordic diet and later overweight: The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). Maternal & Child Nutrition. ISSN: 1740-8695. doi:10.1111/mcn.13101.
- Van Lippevelde, Wendy; Vik, Frøydis Nordgård; Wills, Andrew Keith; Strømmer, Sofia; Barker, Mary E.; Skreden, Marianne; Anderson-Berry, Ann; Hanson, Corrine; Brantsæter, Anne Lise; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2020). The impact of diet during adolescence on the neonatal health of offspring: evidence on the importance of preconception diet. The HUNT study. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. ISSN: 2040-1744. s 1 - 13. doi:10.1017/S2040174420001087.
- Helle, Christine; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Wills, Andrew Keith; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2019). Evaluation of an eHealth intervention aiming to promote healthy food habits from infancy -the Norwegian randomized controlled trial Early Food for Future Health.. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. ISSN: 1479-5868. 16 (1). s 1 - 16. doi:10.1186/s12966-018-0763-4.
- Helle, Christine; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Wills, Andrew Keith; Øverby, Nina Cecilie (2019). Examining the effects of an eHealth intervention from infant age 6 to 12 months on child eating behaviors and maternal feeding practices one year after cessation: The Norwegian randomized controlled trial Early Food for Future Health. PLOS ONE. ISSN: 1932-6203. 14 (8). s 1 - 19. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220437.
- Medin, Anine Christine; Wills, Andrew Keith (2022). Closing the gap between research and practice - moving from efficacy trials to effectiveness and scale-up.
- Øvrebø, Bente; Kjøllesdal, Marte Karoline Råberg; Stea, Tonje Holte; Wills, Andrew Keith; Bere, Elling Tufte; Suren, Pål; Magnus, Per Minor; Juliusson, Pétur Benedikt; Bergh, Ingunn Holden (2022). Prevalence of overweight, obesity and central adiposity among children with immigrant background in Norway.
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