Establishment of a National Network on Musculoskeletal Ageing

Staff

Lead researcher

Research interests

Key research contributions have been:
discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture in late adulthood
demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone mineral accrual in childhood

Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Research interests

Lifecourse epidemiology of osteoporosis and fragility fractures
Understanding mechanism and development of novel interventions across lifecourse to prevent fragility fractures

Connect with Nicholas

Email: nch@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Interdisciplinary Musculoskeletal Health

The University hosts a substantial interdisciplinary community of researchers working to transform musculoskeletal health across the life course.

Research outputs

UKRI MRC National Musculoskeletal Ageing Network: strategic prioritisation to increase healthy lifespan and minimise physical frailty

Nicholas Harvey, Peter Clegg, Elaine Dennison, Paul Greenhaff, Simon J. Griffin, Celia L. Gregson, Malcom J. Jackson, Janet M. Lord, Eugene V. McCloskey, Emma J. Stevenson, Jonathan H. Tobias, Kate Ward & Cyrus Cooper, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis, 17(1)

DOI: 10.1007/s11657-022-01172-z

Type: article

Automatic segmentation of hip osteophytes in DXA scans sing U-nets

Raja Ebsim, Benjamin Faber, Fiona R. Saunders, Monika Frysz , Jennifer S. Gregory, Nicholas Harvey, Jonathan H. Tobias, Claudia Lindner & Timothy Cootes, 2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16443-9_1

Type: conference

Adjusting conventional FRAX estimates of fracture probability according to the number of prior fractures

John A. Kanis, Helena Johansson, Nicholas C Harvey, Vilmundur Gudnason, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Kristin Siggeirsdottir, Mattias Lorentzon, Enwu Liu, Liesbeth Vandenput & Eugene V. McCloskey, 2022, Osteoporosis International, 33(12), 2507-2515

DOI: 10.1007/s00198-022-06550-4

Type: article

Multimodal multidisciplinary management of patients with moderate to severe pain in knee osteoarthritis

Nicola Veronese, Cyrus Cooper, Olivier Bruyère, Nasser M Al-Daghri, Jaime Branco, Etienne Cavalier, Sara Cheleschi, Mario Coelho da Silva Rosa, Philip G Conaghan, Elaine M Dennison, Maarten de Wit, Antonella Fioravanti, Nicholas R Fuggle, Ida K Haugen, Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Germain Honvo, Andrea Laslop, Radmila Matijevic, Alberto Migliore, Ali Mobasheri, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, María Concepción Prieto Yerro, Régis Pierre Radermecker, François Rannou, René Rizzoli & Jean-Yves Reginster, 2022, Drugs, 82(13), 1347-1355

DOI: 10.1007/s40265-022-01773-5

Type: article

Determinants of muscle density and clinical outcomes: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

Faidra Laskou, Leo Westbury, Nicholas Fuggle, Nicholas Harvey, Harnish Patel, Cyrus Cooper, Kate Ward & Elaine Dennison, 2022, Bone, 164

DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2022.116521

Type: article