Dr Alison Venn

Cleland V, Dwyer T, Venn A. Physical activity and healthy weight maintenance from childhood to adulthood: a prospective cohort study. Obesity 2008, April 10 Epub ahead of print


Cleland V, Schmidt M, Dwyer T, Venn A. Television viewing and abdominal obesity in young adults: is the association mediated by food and beverage consumption during viewing time or reduced leisure time physical activity? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (accepted 10 January 2008)


Foley S, Quinn S, Dwyer T, Venn A, Jones G. Measures of childhood fitness and body mass index are associated with bone mass in adulthood: a 20 year prospective study. Journal of Bone & Mineral Research 2008, Feb 26 Epub ahead of print

Cleland V, Dwyer T, Blizzard L, Venn A. The provision of two hours of weekly physical activity in Australian schools: associations with physical activity, fitness and overweight in childhood and twenty years later. International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition & Physical Activity 2008, 5:14

Venn A, Thomson R, Schmidt M, Cleland V, Curry B, Gennat H, Dwyer T. Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants from the 1985 Australian Schools Health & Fitness Survey. Med J Aust 2007; 186: 458-460

Salmon J, Timperio A, Cleland V, Venn A. Trends in children’s physical activity and weight status in high and low socioeconomic status areas of Melbourne, Victoria: 1985-2001. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2005; 29: 337-42

Cleland V, Venn A, Fryer J, Dwyer T, Blizzard L. Parental recreational physical activity is associated with Australian children’s extracurricular sports participation and cardiorespiratory fitness. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity 2005; 2: pp9 (e-journal)

Dwyer T, Blizzard L, Venn A, Stankovich JM, Ponsonby A-L, Morley R. Syndrome X in 8-year-old Australian children: stronger associations with current body fatness than with infant size or growth. International Journal of Obesity 2002;26:1301-9