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Research project

Hanson RG/15/17/31749 Epigenetic Biomarkers and Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk in Children

Staff

Lead researchers

Emeritus Professor Mark Hanson

Connect with Mark

Email: M.Hanson@soton.ac.uk

Other 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

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Hazel Inskip MSc, PhD, FFPH

Connect with Hazel

Email: hmi@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Plants and Food Security

We study the response of plants to the environment at the molecular, whole plant and ecological levels. This includes interactions with nematodes, insects and microbes.

Research outputs

Measured weight in early pregnancy is a valid method for estimating pre-pregnancy weight
Hazel Inskip, Sarah Crozier, Janis Baird, Julia Hammond, Sian Robinson, Cyrus Cooper & Keith Godfrey, 2020, Journal of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174420000926
Type: article
Does early introduction of solid feeding lead to early cessation of breastfeeding?
Angelina Lessa, Ada Garcia, Pauline Emmett, Sarah Crozier, Sian M Robinson, Keith Godfrey & Charlotte M. Wright, 2020, Maternal & Child Nutrition, 16(4)
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12944
Type: article
Unheard, unseen and unprotected: DOHaD Council’s call for action to protect the younger generation from the long-term effects of COVID-19
Tessa J. Roseboom, Susan E. Ozanne, Keith Godfrey, Carmen R. Isasi, Hiroaki Itoh, Rebecca Simmons , Amita Bansal, Mary Barker, Torsten Plosch, Deborah M. Sloboda, Stephen G. Matthews, Caroline Fall, Lucilla Poston & Mark Hanson, 2020, Journal of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 12(1), 3-5
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174420000847
Type: article
Adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes in three-year-old children of participants in UPBEAT, an RCT of a complex intervention in pregnant women with obesity
Kathryn Dalrymple, Florence A S Tydeman, Paul D. Taylor, Angela Flynn, Majella O’Keeffe, Annette Briley, Paramala Santosh, Louise Hayes, Stephen C. Robson, Scott M. Nelson, Naveed Sattar, Melissa K Whitworth, Harriet L. Mills , Claire Singh, Paul T. Seed, Sara L. White, Deborah A. Lawlor, Keith Godfrey & Lucilla Poston, 2020, Pediatric Obesity, 16(3), 1-11
DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12725
Type: article
Chrononutrition during pregnancy: a review on maternal night-time eating
See Ling Loy, Rachael Si Xuan Loo, Keith Godfrey, Yap-Seng Chong, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek , Kok Hian Tan, Mary Foong-Fong Chong, Jerry Kok Yen Chan & Fabian Yap, 2020, Nutrients, 12(9), 2783
DOI: 10.3390/nu12092783
Type: review