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Professor Alison Avenell

Professor Alison Avenell
Professor Alison Avenell
Professor Alison Avenell

Clinical Chair in Health Services Research

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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.

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  • Cardiovascular effects of calcium supplementation

    Reid, I. R., Bolland, M. J., Avenell, A., Grey, A.
    Osteoporosis International, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1649-1658
    Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews

  • Further use for the harvest plot: a novel method for quantitative and qualitative data synthesis

    Crowther, M., Avenell, A., MacLennan, G. S., Mowatt, G.
    Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 79-83
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Calcium supplements with or without vitamin D and risk of cardiovascular events: reanalysis of the Women's Health Initiative limited access dataset and meta-analysis

    Bolland, M. J., Grey, A., Avenell, A., Gamble, G. D., Reid, I. R.
    British Medical Journal, vol. 342, no. -, d2040
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Randomised trial of glutamine, selenium, or both, to supplement parenteral nutrition for critically ill patients

    Andrews, P. J. D., Avenell, A., Noble, D. W., Campbell, M. K., Croal, B. L., Simpson, W. G., Vale, L. D., Battison, C. G., Jenkinson, D. J., Cook, J. A., SIGNET Trial Group
    British Medical Journal, vol. 342, no. -, d1542
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Evidence-based policy on dietary calcium and vitamin D

    Reid, I. R., Avenell, A.
    Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 452-454
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A Qualitative Study Comparing Commercial and Health Service Weight Loss Groups, Classes and Clubs

    Karen Allan, K., Hoddinott, P., Avenell, A.
    Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 23-31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Group interventions to improve health outcomes: a framework for their design and delivery

    Hoddinott, P., Allan, K., Avenell, A., Britten, J.
    BMC Public Health, vol. 10, 800
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Being underweight may reduce your ability to mobilise peripheral blood stem cells

    Crowther, M., Avenell, A., Culligan, D. J.
    Transfusion and Apheresis Science, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 365-367
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Calcium and heart attacks: Authors' reply

    Bolland, M. J., Avenell, A., Baron, J. A., Grey, A., Reid, I. R., MacLennan, G. S., Gamble, G. D.
    BMJ (Online), vol. 341, no. 7773, pp. 569
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Effect of calcium supplements on risk of myocardial infarction and cardiovascular events: meta-analysis

    Bolland, M. J., Avenell, A., Baron, J. A., Grey, A., MacLennan, G. S., Gamble, G. D., Reid, I. R.
    British Medical Journal, vol. 341, no. -, c3691
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A case-control study of vitamin D status and asthma in adults

    Devereux, G., Wilson, A., Avenell, A., McNeill, G., Fraser, W. D.
    Allergy, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 666-667
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Interventions to achieve long-term weight loss in obese older people

    Witham, M., Avenell, A.
    Age and Ageing, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 176-184
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The fate of conference abstracts: systematic review and meta-analysis of surgical treatments for men with benign prostatic enlargement

    Wong, S. S., Fraser, C. M., Lourenco, T., Barnett, D., Avenell, A., Glazener, C., Cuthbertson, B., N'Dow, J. M. O.
    World Journal of Urology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 63-69
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Patient level pooled analysis of 68 500 patients from seven major vitamin D fracture trials in US and Europe

    Abrahamsen, B., Masud, T., Avenell, A., Anderson, F., Meyer, H. E., Cooper, C., Smith, H., LaCroix, A. Z., F, H., Torgerson, D., Johansen, A., Jackson, R., Rejnmark, L., Wactawski-Wende, J., Brixen, K., Mosekilde, L., Robbins, J. A., Francis, R. M., The DIPART (vitamin D Individual Patient Analysis of Randomized Trials) Group
    British Medical Journal, vol. 340, no. -, b5463
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Factors Influencing the Participation of Older People in Clinical Trials: Data Analysis from the MAVIS Trial

    Fearn, P., Avenell, A., McCann, S. K., Milne, A. C., MacLennan, G. S., MAVIS Trial Group
    Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 51-56
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Behavioural Interventions for Obese Adults with Additional Risk Factors for Morbidity: Systematic Review of Effects on Behaviour, Weight and Disease Risk Factors

    Dombrowski, S. U., Avenell, A., Sniehotta, F. F.
    Obesity Facts, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 377-396
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Systematic review of long-term lifestyle interventions to prevent weight gain and morbidity in adults

    Brown, T. J., Avenell, A., Edmunds, E., Moore, H., Whittaker, V., Avery, L., Summerbell, C., Ryan, M. E., Vale, L. D., PROGRESS team
    Obesity Reviews, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 627-638
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Systematic review and meta-analyses of studies of glutamine supplementation in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

    Crowther, M., Avenell, A., Culligan, D. J.
    Bone Marrow Transplantation, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 413-425
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Vitamin D supplementation and type 2 diabetes: a substudy of a randomised placebo-controlled trial in older people (RECORD trial, ISRCTN 51647438)

    Avenell, A., Cook, J. A., MacLennan, G. S., McPherson, G. C., RECORD Trial Group
    Age and Ageing, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 606-609
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Symposium 4: Hot topics in parenteral nutrition Current evidence and ongoing trials on the use of glutamine in critically-ill patients and patients undergoing surgery

    Avenell, A.
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 261-268
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A case of apples and pears?

    Crowther, M., Vickers, M. A., Avenell, A.
    Blood, vol. 113, no. 24, pp. 6259-6260
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Vitamin D and vitamin D analogues for preventing fractures associated with involutional and post-menopausal osteoporosis

    Avenell, A., Gillespie, W. J., Gillespie, L. D., O'Connell, D.
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 2, CD000227
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Group versus Individual Treatments for Adult Obesity

    Paul-Ebhohimhen, V. A., Avenell, A.
    Obesity Facts, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 17-24
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Protein and energy supplementation in elderly people at risk from malnutrition

    Milne, A. C., Potter, J., Vivanti, A., Avenell, A.
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 2, CD003288
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Radioiodine therapy (RAI) for Graves' disease (GD) and the effect on ophthalmopathy: a systematic review

    Acharya, S. H., Avenell, A., Philip, S., Burr, J., Bevan, J. S., Abraham, P.
    Clinical Endocrinology, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 943-950
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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