NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit

Recent papers from NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit

1. Muscle weakness, pain, and fatigue impair daily function in chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional analysis from the I-RACE studyRenal Failure · 2026
2. The CURTAIN feasibility study: Exploring a food-themed reminiscence theatre intervention to improve the nutrition of older adults living in residential care homesAppetite · 2024
3. The development of a family-based wearable intervention using behaviour change and co-design approaches: move and connectPublic Health · 2023
4. Mercury levels in hair are associated with reduced neurobehavioral performance and altered brain structures in young adultsCommunications Biology · 2022
5. Testing the short‐term effectiveness of primary care referral to online weight loss programmes: A randomised controlled trialClinical Obesity · 2021
6. Resistance to data loss from the Freestyle Libre: impact on glucose variability indices and recommendations for data analysisApplied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism · 2020
7. Associations between objectively assessed and questionnaire-based sedentary behaviour with body mass index and systolic blood pressure in Kuwaiti adolescentsBMC Research Notes · 2019
8. Moderate increases in daily step count are associated with reduced IL6 and CRP in women with PCOSEndocrine Connections · 2018
9. Moving Forward With Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity: Two Strategies to Ensure Meaningful, Interpretable, and Comparable MeasuresPediatric Exercise Science · 2018
10. activPAL-measured sitting levels and patterns in 9–10 years old children from a UK cityJournal of Public Health · 2018
11. Efficacy of a Multicomponent Intervention to Reduce Workplace Sitting Time in Office WorkersJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 2018
12. Associations of discretionary screen time with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer are attenuated by strength, fitness and physical activity: findings from the UK Biobank studyENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · 2018
13. Converting between estimates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity derived from raw accelerations measured at the wrist and from ActiGraph counts measured at the hip: the Rosetta StoneJournal of Sports Sciences · 2018
14. Refractive error is associated with intracranial volumeScientific Reports · 2018
15. Cross-sectional surveillance study to phenotype lorry drivers’ sedentary behaviours, physical activity and cardio-metabolic healthBMJ Open · 2017
16. Physical Activity of ICU Survivors during Acute Admission: Agreement of the activPAL with ObservationPhysiotherapy Canada · 2017
17. Lenticular nucleus correlates of general self-efficacy in young adultsBrain Structure and Function · 2017
18. Individual Variation in Hunger, Energy Intake, and Ghrelin Responses to Acute ExerciseMedicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2017
19. Skin autofluorescence, a non-invasive marker of advanced glycation end products: clinical relevance and limitationsPostgraduate Medical Journal · 2017
20. Associations of objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality in a population of adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes mellitusPreventive Medicine Reports · 2017