Publications by authors named "Geoff Cleghorn"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a UK-based prediction model for estimating fat-free mass in children and adolescents across 19 countries outside the UK.
- Involving 5,693 participants aged 4 to 15, the model exhibited strong predictive performance, with R values over 75% in all countries and good calibration of predicted versus actual fat-free mass.
- The researchers found minimal variation in model performance based on gender, age, ethnicity, or national income, and they adjusted the model for different countries to enhance accuracy for future use.
Objective: To develop a height and weight based equation to estimate total body water (TBW) in Sri Lankan children.
Methods: Cross sectional descriptive study done involving 5-15 year old healthy children. Height and weight were measured.
Objective: There are many prediction equations available in the literature for the assessment of body composition from skinfold thickness (SFT). This study aims to cross validate some of those prediction equations to determine the suitability of their use on Sri Lankan children.
Methods: Height, weight and SFT of 5 different sites were measured.
Growth patterns in preterm infants born appropriate for gestational age.
J Paediatr Child Health
June 2008
Aim: This study aimed to document the growth patterns of a contemporary cohort of preterm infants born appropriate for gestational age (AGA). It was hypothesised that preterm AGA (PT-AGA) infants would display poorer growth than full-term AGA (FT-AGA) infants.
Methods: Sixty-four PT-AGA infants and 64 FT-AGA infants were assessed at 0, 4, 8 and 12 months of corrected age (CA).
The Codex Alimentarius Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) develops food standards, guidelines and related texts for protecting consumer health and ensuring fair trade practices globally. The major part of the world's population lives in more than 160 countries that are members of the Codex Alimentarius. The Codex Standard on Infant Formula was adopted in 1981 based on scientific knowledge available in the 1970s and is currently being revised.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND: Although lentiviral vectors have been widely used for in vitro and in vivo gene therapy researches, there have been few studies systematically examining various conditions that may affect the determination of the number of viable vector particles in a vector preparation and the use of Multiplicity of Infection (MOI) as a parameter for the prediction of gene transfer events. METHODS: Lentiviral vectors encoding a marker gene were packaged and supernatants concentrated. The number of viable vector particles was determined by in vitro transduction and fluorescent microscopy and FACs analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Alterations in energy expenditure during activity post head injury has not been investigated due primarily to the difficulty of measurement.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare energy expenditure during activity and body composition of children following acquired brain injury (ABI) with data from a group of normal controls.
Design: Energy expenditure was measured using the Cosmed K4b(2) in a group of 15 children with ABI and a group of 67 normal children during rest and when walking and running.