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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

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
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community-dwelling older adults
Ilse Bloom, Jean Zhang, Julia Hammond, Gregorio Bevilacqua, Wendy Lawrence, Kate A Ward, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine M Dennison, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(10 October)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275486
Type: article
Osteoporosis treatment in Austria-assessment of FRAX-based intervention thresholds for high and very high fracture risk
Hans P. Dimai, Helena Johansson, Nicholas C. Harvey, Mattias Lorentzon, Enwu Liu, Liesbeth Vandenput, Astrid Fahrleitner-Pammer, Peter Pietschmann, Christian Muschitz, Eugene V. McCloskey & John A. Kanis, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis, 17(1)
DOI: 10.1007/s11657-022-01175-w
Type: article
General comorbidity indicators contribute to fracture risk independent of FRAX
Gregory A Kline, Suzanne N Morin, Lisa M Lix, Eugene V McCloskey, Helena Johansson, Nicholas C. Harvey, John A Kanis & William D Leslie, 2022, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgac582
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