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Research project

Establishment of a National Network on Musculoskeletal Ageing

Staff

Lead researchers

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

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, 2023, British Journal of Nutrition, 129(11), 1945-1954
DOI: 10.1017/S000711452200263X
Type: article
Expected benefits and budget impact from a microsimulation model support the prioritisation and implementation of Fracture Liaison Services
Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Edward Burn, Christopher Maronga, Cyrus Cooper & M Kassim Javaid, 2023, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 38(4), 499-511
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.4775
Type: article
Increased fracture risk in Parkinson's disease - An exploration of mechanisms and consequences for fracture prediction with FRAX
M. Schini, P. Bhatia, H. Shreef, H. Johansson, N C Harvey, M Lorentzon, J A Kanis, O Bandman & E V McCloskey, 2023, Bone, 168
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2022.116651
Type: article
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, 2023, Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 14(1), 84-92
DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.13069
Type: article
Biochemical Markers of Musculoskeletal Health and Aging to be Assessed in Clinical Trials of Drugs Aiming at the Treatment of Sarcopenia: Consensus Paper from an Expert Group Meeting Organized by the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ESCEO) and the Centre Academique de Recherche et d'Experimentation en Sante (CARES SPRL), Under the Auspices of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for the Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Conditions and Aging
Aurélie Ladang, Charlotte Beaudart, Jean-Yves Reginster, Nasser Al-Daghri, Olivier Bruyère, Nansa Burlet, Matteo Cesari, Antonio Cherubini, Mario Coelho da Silva, Cyrus Cooper, Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft, Francesco Landi, Andrea Laslop, Stefania Maggi, Ali Mobasheri, Sif Ormarsdottir, Régis Radermecker, Marjolein Visser, Maria Concepcion Prieto Yerro, René Rizzoli & Etienne Cavalier, 2023, Calcified Tissue International, 112(2), 197 - 217
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-022-01054-z
Type: review