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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

Is regular weight bearing physical activity throughout the lifecourse associated with better bone health in late adulthood?
Jean Zhang, Camille Parsons, Nicholas Fuggle, Kate Ward, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2022, Calcified Tissue International, 111(3), 279-287
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-022-00995-9
Type: article
Management of hand osteoarthritis: from an US evidence-based medicine guideline to a European patient-centric approach.
Nicholas Fuggle, Nathalie Bere, Olivier Bruyere, Mario M Rosa, María Concepción  Prieto Yerro, Elaine Dennison, Fitnat Dincer, Cem Gabay, Ida K. Haugen, Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Marc C. Hochberg, Andrea Laslop, Radmila Matijevic, Emmanuel Maheu, Alberto Migliore, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Regis Pierre Radermecker, Francois Rannou, Brigitte Uebelhart, Daniel Uebelhart, Nicola Veronese, Mila Vlaskovska, René Rizzoli, Ali Mobasheri, Cyrus Cooper & Jean-Yves Reginster, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(9), 1985-1995
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-022-02176-y
Type: review
Nutritional risk and its relationship with physical function in community-dwelling older adults
Ilse Bloom, Jean Zhang, Camille Parsons, Gregorio Bevilacqua, Elaine Dennison, Cyrus Cooper & Kate Ward, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(9), 2031-2039
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-022-02171-3
Type: article
Osteoporosis in 2022: care gaps to screening and personalised medicine
Elizabeth Curtis, Elaine Dennison, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas Harvey, 2022, Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology, 36(3)
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2022.101754
Type: article
Quantitating age-related BMD textural variation from DXA region-free-analysis: a study of hip fracture prediction in three cohorts
Mohsen Farzi, Jose M. Pozo, Eugene McCloskey, Richard Eastell, Nicholas Harvey, Alejandro Frangi & Jeremy Mark Wilkinson, 2022, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 37(9), 1679-1688
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.4638
Type: article