UK/India/Africa Network for Adolescent Nutrition

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: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Maternal B12, folate and homocysteine concentrations and offspring cortisol and cardiovascular responses to stress

G.V. Krishnaveni, S.R. Veena, Matthew James Johnson, Kalyanaraman Kumaran, A. Jones, D.S. Bhat, Chittaranjan S. Yajnik & Caroline Fall, 2020, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 105(7), e2591–e2599

DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgz114

Type: article

Conflicts between adolescents and their caregivers living in slums of Mumbai, India in relation to junk food consumption and physical activity

Harsha Vipin Chopra, Meera Jayant Gandhi, Sirazul Ameen Sahariah, Susie Weller, Ramesh Dattatray Potdar, Mary Barker, Sarah Kehoe, Caroline Fall, Polly Hardy-Johnson, Kalyanaraman Kumaran & Kathryn Ward, 2020, Public Health Nutrition

DOI: 10.1017/S1368980020001640

Type: article

Age and gender influence healthy eating and physical activity behaviours in South African adolescents and their caregivers: Transforming Adolescent Lives through Nutrition Initiative (TALENT).

Stephanie V. Wrottesley, Edna N. Bosire, Gudani Mukoma, Molebageng Mothathedi, Gugulethu Mabena, Mary Barker, Polly Langdon, Caroline Fall & Shane A. Norris, 2019, Public Health Nutrition, 1-20

DOI: 10.1017/S1368980019002829

Type: article

A review of adolescent nutrition in South Africa

Stephanie V. Wrottesley, Titilola M. Pedro, Caroline H. Fall & Shane A. Norris, 2019, South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1-40

DOI: 10.1080/16070658.2019.1607481

Type: review

Active children are less adipose and insulin resistant in early adolescence: evidence from the Mysore Parthenon cohort

Sarah Kehoe, Ghattu V. Krishnaveni, Sargoor Veena, Krishnarajasagara N. Kiran, Samuel C. Karat, Asha Dhubey, Patricia Coakley & Caroline Fall, 2019, BMC Pediatrics, 19(1), 1-12

DOI: 10.1186/s12887-019-1855-2

Type: article

Life course programming of stress responses in adolescents and young adults in India

G.V. Krishnaveni, Kalyanaraman Kumaran, Murali Krishna, Sirazul A. Sahariah, G. Chandak, Sarah Kehoe, Alexander Jones, Dattatray Bhat, Vijay Danivas, Krishnamachari Srinivasan, J. Suguna Shanthi, S.C. Karat, Mary Barker, Clive Osmond, Chittaranjan Yajnik & Caroline Fall, 2018, Wellcome Open Research , 3(56)

DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14583.1

Type: article

Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception

Mary Barker, S. Dombrowski, T. Colbourn, Caroline Fall, N.M. Kriznik, Wendy Lawrence, S.A. Norris, G. Ngaiza, D. Patel, J. Skordis-Worrall, F.F. Sniehotta, R.P. Steegers-Theunissen, Christina Vogel, Kathryn Woods-Townsend & J. Stephenson, 2018, The Lancet, 391(10132), 1853-1864

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30313-1

Type: article