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John J. Reilly

Researcher at University of Strathclyde

Publications -  424
Citations -  30359

John J. Reilly is an academic researcher from University of Strathclyde. The author has contributed to research in topics: Body mass index & Childhood obesity. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 384 publications receiving 27034 citations. Previous affiliations of John J. Reilly include Education Scotland & University of Glasgow.

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Assessment of obesity in children and adolescents: synthesis of recent systematic reviews and clinical guidelines.

TL;DR: This review summarises recent systematic reviews and evidence-based guidelines that deal with the issue of how best to diagnose or define obesity in children and adolescents and is supportive of current guidelines that recommend percentile-based cut-offs relative to national reference data to define obesity.
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Prevalence of Protein-Energy Malnutrition at Diagnosis in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

TL;DR: Undernutrition is relatively common in patients with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia, with a threefold excess of patients below the cutoff used to define undernutrition.
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No evidence for an effect of nutritional status at diagnosis on prognosis in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

TL;DR: The study results suggest that nutritional status at diagnosis, defined on the basis of the body mass index, at least in developed countries, has no effect on the prognosis in ALL, and it should not be considered as a prognostic factor.
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Cohort profile: the Gateshead Millennium Study.

TL;DR: The Gateshead Millennium Baby Study was originally designed to investigate the antecedents of weight faltering in a population-based prospective study that addressed the main methodological problems of previous research.