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Establishment of a National Network on Musculoskeletal Ageing

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof Rheumatology Clinical Epidemiology

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

Professor Nicholas Harvey

Director/Professor

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

Return to work and employment retention after uni-compartmental and total knee replacement: findings from the Clinical Outcomes in Arthroplasty study
Elena Zaballa Lasala, Georgia Ntani, E. Clare Harris, Nigel Arden, Cyrus Cooper & Karen Walker-Bone, 2022, The Knee, 40, 245-255
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2022.11.022
Type: article
Recent sarcopenia definitions - prevalence, agreement and mortality associations among men: findings from population-based cohorts
Leo Westbury, Charlotte Beaudart, Olivier Bruyère, Jane A. Cauley, Peggy M. Cawthon, Alfonso Jose Cruz-Jentoft, Elizabeth Curtis, Kristine Ensrud, Roger A. Fielding, Helena Johansson, John A. Kanis, Magnus K. Karlsson, Nancy E. Lane, Laetitia Lengelé, Mattias Lorentzon, Eugene McCloskey, Dan Mellström, Anne B. Newman, Claes Ohlsson, Eric Orwoll, Jean Yves Reginster, Eva Ribom, Bjorn E. Rosengren, John T. Schousboe, Eric J. Shiroma, Nicholas Harvey, Elaine Dennison & Cyrus Cooper, 2022, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 14(1), 565-575
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.13160
Type: article
Does antenatal cholecalciferol supplementation affect the mode or timing of delivery? Post hoc analyses of the MAVIDOS randomised controlled trial
Rebecca J Moon, Stefania D’angelo, Sarah R Crozier, Elizabeth M Curtis, Michelle Fernandes, Alexandra J Kermack, Justin H Davies, Keith M Godfrey, Nicholas J Bishop, Stephen H Kennedy, Ann Prentice, Inez Schoenmakers, Robert Fraser, Saurabh V Gandhi, Hazel M Inskip, Muhammad Kassim Javaid, Aris T Papageorghiou, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas C Harvey, 2022, Journal of Public Health
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdac160
Type: article
Lower birth weight is linked to poorer cardiovascular health in middle-aged population-based adults
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Jackie Cooper, Mae S. Bethell, Celeste McCracken, Adam J. Lewandowski, Paul Leeson, Stefan Neubauer, Nicholas C. Harvey & Steffen E Petersen, 2022, Heart
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321733
Type: article
Greater pQCT calf muscle density is associated with lower fracture risk, independent of FRAX, falls and BMD
Nicholas C. Harvey, Eric Orwoll, Jane A. Cauley, Timothy Kwok, Magnus K. Karlsson, Björn E. Rosengren, Eva Ribom, Peggy M. Cawthon, Kristine Ensrud, Enwu Liu, Faidra Laskou, Kate A. Ward, Elaine M. Dennison, Cyrus Cooper, John A. Kanis, Liesbeth Vandenput, Mattias Lorentzon, Claes Ohlsson, Dan Mellström, Helena Johansson & Eugene McCloskey, 2022, JBMR Plus, 6(12)
DOI: 10.1002/jbm4.10696
Type: article