Research project

UK/India/Africa Network for Adolescent Nutrition

Lead researcher:

Professor Cyrus Cooper
Research funder:

Medical Research Council
Status:

Not active

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

Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

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

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