Doctor Ema De Lucia Rolfe | University of Southampton

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13 publications

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Associations of stunting in early childhood with cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood

Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe, C. Mary Schooling, Giovanny Vinícius Araújo de França, Carolina Avila Vianna, Denise P. Gigante, J. Jaime Miranda, John S. Yudkin, Bernardo Lessa Horta & Ken K. Ong, 2018, PLoS ONE, 13(4)

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192196

Type: article

The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa

Alessandra Prioreschi, Richard J. Munthali, Juliana Kagura, Rihlat Said-Mohamed, Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe, Lisa K. Micklesfield & Shane A. Norris, 2018, PLoS ONE, 13(1)

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190483

Type: article

Genomic ancestry and education level independently influence abdominal fat distributions in a Brazilian admixed population

Giovanny Vinícius Araújo de França, Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe, Bernardo Lessa Horta, Denise Petrucci Gigante, John S. Yudkin, Ken K. Ong & Cesar Gomes Victora, 2017, PLoS ONE, 12(6)

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179085

Type: article

Biography

Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe (Ema) is a Senior Research Fellow in Global Health and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology at the Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, Human Development and Health. Her research focuses on muscle health, physical function, and body composition across the life course, with particular emphasis on sub‑Saharan Africa.

Her work within the MUFASSA study (Muscle Function, Ageing and Sarcopenia in Sub‑Saharan Africa) integrates body composition, physical function, cardiometabolic markers, and metabolomics to investigate sarcopenia, obesity, and functional decline in older adults.

Emanuella has strong expertise in body composition and obesity research, developed through her previous role leading the Anthropometry Platform at IMS Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge. There, she developed and evaluated methods for assessing body composition at populatio level and co‑developed the MRC–NIHR DAPA Measurement Toolkit, a free web‑based resource for the assessment of diet, physical activity, anthropometry, and body composition that supports research capacity and knowledge exchange.

Her research interests include early‑life influences on later health, population differences in body composition and metabolic risk, and the development and innovation of low‑burden methods to assess body composition and functions, including 3D imaging and wearable technologies.

Other roles:

Co-leads the BRC Diet and Activity Research Translation (DART) Network , NIHR BRC-Southampton.
Visiting Researcher, IMS Epidemiology, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge,
Associate Editor, Nutiriton and Metabolism, Springer Nature

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