Professor Alison Avenell
Clinical Chair in Health Services Research
- About
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- Email Address
- a.avenell@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438164
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit
3rd Floor Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Alison Avenell joined the Unit in 1998, as a Clinical Research Fellow. She was subsequently funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health Directorates as a Clinical Research Fellow to undertake research in the MRC funded RECORD trial, which examined the effect of calcium and/or vitamin D supplementation in the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures. She also led the MAVIS trial which examined the effectiveness of vitamin and mineral supplementation in preventing infections in older people, and helped lead the SIGNET trial of glutamine and selenium supplementation in critical illness. She was a CSO funded Career Scientist and currently has a clinical chair in health services research and is an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry, undertaking systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials of treatments for adult obesity, and under-nutrition in clinical practice.
- Research
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Current Research
Current projects
- Evaluating the behavioural intervention, organisational and health economic evidence base for adult obesity management
- REBALANCE
- Systematic reviews of selected nutritional supplementation interventions
Completed projects
- Publications
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Distributions of baseline categorical variables were different from the expected distributions in randomized trials with integrity concerns
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 154, pp. 117-124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.12.018
A Systematic Review of the evidence for Non-surgical weight management for adults with severe obesity: What is cost effective and what are the implications for the Design of health Services?
Current Obesity Reports, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 356-385Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAre individual or group interventions more effective for long-term weight loss in adults with obesity?: A systematic review
Clinical Obesity, vol. 12, no. 5, e12539Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProcrastination and inconsistency: expressions of concern for publications with compromised integrity
Accountability in ResearchContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2022.2112572
Leucine and perindopril to improve physical performance in people over 70 years with sarcopenia: the LACE factorial RCT
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, vol. 9, no. 8Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffectiveness and cost-effectiveness of text messages with or without endowment incentives for weight management in men with obesity (Game of Stones): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Trials, vol. 23, no. 1, 582Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Systematic Review Examining Socioeconomic Factors in Trials of Interventions for Men that Report Weight as an Outcome
Obesity Reviews, vol. 23, no. 7, e13436Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDoes weight management research for adults with severe obesity represent them? Analysis of systematic review data
BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 5, e054459Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffect of perindopril or leucine on physical performance in older people with sarcopenia: the LACE randomized controlled trial
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 858-871Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConversations about financial hardship should not be off limits
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 376, o577Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o577
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EFFECT OF LEUCINE SUPPLEMENTATION ON PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE, MUSCLE MASS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLDER PEOPLE WITH SARCOPENIA
Age and Ageing, vol. 51, no. S1, 667Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac036.667
EFFECT OF PERINDOPRIL ON PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE, MUSCLE MASS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLDER PEOPLE WITH SARCOPENIA: RESULTS: FROM THE
Age and Ageing, vol. 51, no. S1, 666Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac036.666
Timeliness and content of retraction notices for publications by a single research group
Accountability in Research, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 347-378Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCitation of retracted publications: A challenging problem
Accountability in Research, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 18-25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2021.1886933
The effectiveness of weight-loss lifestyle interventions for improving fertility in women and men with overweight or obesity and infertility: A systematic review update of evidence from randomized controlled trials
Obesity Reviews, vol. 22, no. 12, e13325Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13325
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Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery and non-surgical weight management programmes for adults with severe obesity: a decision analysis model
International Journal of Obesity, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 2179-2190Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssociations between Frailty, Physical Performance, and Renal Biomarkers in Older People with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
European Geriatric Medicine, vol. 12, pp. 943–952Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVitamin D deficiency, supplementation and testing: have we got it right in New Zealand?
The New Zealand medical journal, vol. 134, no. 1541, pp. 86-95Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentical summary statistics were uncommon in randomized trials and cohort studies
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 136, pp. 180-188Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCorrecting the scientific record– A broken system?
Accountability in Research, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 265-279Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1852938
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Prevalence of biochemical osteomalacia in adults undergoing vitamin D testing
Clinical Endocrinology, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 74-83Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRecruitment strategies for sarcopenia trials: lessons from the LACE randomised controlled trial
JCSM Rapid Communications, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 93-102Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProtocol for a randomised controlled trial comparing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones (C-Gall trial)
BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 3, e039781Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33766835/
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039781
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16202/1/Ahmed_etal_Protocol_for_randomised_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/protocol-for-a-randomised-controlled-trial-comparing-laparoscopic-cholecystectomy-with-observationconservative-management-for-preventing-recurrent-symptoms-and-complications-in-adults-with-uncomplica(a66000bc-ddf4-4d6b-9167-7efd1556eace).html
WHAT ARE THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN RENAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE? FINDINGS FROM THE BICARB TRIAL COHORT
Age and Ageing, vol. 50, no. Supp 1, 47Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab030.08
Vitamin D supplementation and testing in the UK: Costly but ineffective?
The BMJ, vol. 372, n484Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n484
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- [ONLINE] Accepted manuscript in Newcastle University institutional repository