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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

Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Jackie Cooper, Ahmed Salih, Betty Raman, Aaron Mark Lee, Stefan Neubauer, Nicholas C Harvey & Steffen E Petersen, 2022, Heart, 109(2), 119-126
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321492
Type: article
Effect of discordant hip bone density on incident fracture risk
William D. Leslie, Suzanne N. Morin, Lisa M. Lix, Eugene V. McCloskey, Helena Johansson, Nicholas C. Harvey & John A. Kanis, 2022, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 37(10), 2018-2024
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.4672
Type: article
Evaluation and interpretation of latent class modelling strategies to characterise dietary trajectories across early life: a longitudinal study from the Southampton Women's Survey
Kathryn V. Dalrymple, Christina Vogel, Keith M. Godfrey, Janis Baird, Mark Hanson, Cyrus Cooper, Hazel Inskip & Sarah Crozier, 2022, British Journal of Nutrition, 129(11), 1945-1954
DOI: 10.1017/S000711452200263X
Type: article
Intervention thresholds and diagnostic thresholds in the management of osteoporosis.
John A. Kanis, Eugene V. McCloskey, Nicholas Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Rene Rizzoli, Bess Dawson-Hughes, Stefania Maggi & Jean-Yves Reginster, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(12), 3155 - 3157
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-022-02216-7
Type: letterEditorial
Sex-specific associations between cardiovascular risk factors and physical function: The Gambian Bone and Muscle Ageing Study
Ayse Zengin, Micheal O. Breasail, Camille Parsons, Landing M. Jarjou, Ramatoulie E. Janha, Ann Prentice, Cyrus Cooper, Peter R. Ebeling & Kate Ward, 2022, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 14(1), 84-92
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.13069
Type: article