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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
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

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

Automatic segmentation of hip osteophytes in DXA scans sing U-nets
Raja Ebsim,
Benjamin Faber,
Fiona R. Saunders,
Monika Frysz ,
Jennifer S. Gregory,
Nicholas Harvey,
Jonathan H. Tobias,
Claudia Lindner,
& Timothy Cootes
, 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16443-9_1
Type: conference
Machine learning applied to HR-pQCT images improves fracture discrimination provided by DXA and clinical risk factors
Shengyu Lu,
Nicholas R Fuggle,
Leo D Westbury,
Mícheál Ó Breasail,
Gregorio Bevilacqua,
Kate A Ward,
Elaine M Dennison,
Sasan Mahmoodi,
Mahesan Niranjan,
& Cyrus Cooper
, 2022 , Bone , 168
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2022.116653
Type: article
Does antenatal cholecalciferol supplementation affect the mode or timing of delivery? Post hoc analyses of the MAVIDOS randomised controlled trial
Rebecca J Moon,
Stefania D’angelo,
Sarah R Crozier,
Elizabeth M Curtis,
Michelle Fernandes,
Alexandra J Kermack,
Justin H Davies,
Keith M Godfrey,
Nicholas J Bishop,
Stephen H Kennedy,
Ann Prentice,
Inez Schoenmakers,
Robert Fraser,
Saurabh V Gandhi,
Hazel M Inskip,
Muhammad Kassim Javaid,
Aris T Papageorghiou,
Cyrus Cooper,
& Nicholas C Harvey
, 2022 , Journal of Public Health
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdac160
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
Defining terms commonly used in sarcopenia research
Peggy M Cawthon,
Marjolein Visser,
Hidenori Arai,
José A Ávila-Funes,
Rocco Barazzoni,
Shalender Bhasin,
Ellen Binder,
Olivier Bruyère,
Tommy Cederholm,
Liang-Kung Chen,
Cyrus Cooper,
Gustavo Duque,
Roger A Fielding,
Jack Guralnik,
Douglas P Kiel,
Ben Kirk,
Francesco Landi,
Avan A Sayer,
Stephan Von Haehling,
Jean Woo,
& Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft
, 2022 , European Geriatric Medicine , 13 (6) , 1239--1244
DOI: 10.1007/s41999-022-00706-5
Type: article