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Research project

C Cooper 17702 (MAVIDOS)

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

Other researchers

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
Connect with Keith

Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Elaine Dennison

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • The epidemiology of musculoskeletal disease, particularly those conditions common in later life (osteoporosis and osteoarthritis)
Connect with Elaine

Email: emd@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Hazel Inskip MSc, PhD, FFPH

Connect with Hazel

Email: hmi@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in relation to offspring respiratory symptoms and infections
Renate T. de Jongh, Sarah R. Crozier, Stefania D'Angelo, Katharine C. Pike, Graham Roberts, Jane S. Lucas, Hazel Inskip, Keith M Godfrey, Cyrus Cooper & Nicholas C. Harvey, 2014, European Respiratory Journal, 43(4), 1181-1183
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00116913
Type: letterEditorial
Maternal antenatal vitamin D status and offspring muscle development: findings from the Southampton Women's Survey
N.C. Harvey, R.J. Moon, A.A. Sayer, G. Ntani, J.H. Davies, M.K. Javaid, S.M. Robinson, K.M. Godfrey, H.M. Inskip & C. Cooper, 2014, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 99(1), 330-337
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-3241
Type: article
Vitamin D: some perspective please
N.C. Harvey & C. Cooper, 2012, British Medical Journal, 345, e4695
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4695
Type: article
MAVIDOS maternal vitamin D osteoporosis study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. The MAVIDOS Study Group
N.C. Harvey, M.K. Javaid, N. Bishop, S. Kennedy, A.T. Papageorghiou, R. Fraser, S.V. Gandhi, I. Schoenmakers, A. Prentice & C. Cooper, 2012, Trials, 13(1), p.13
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-13
Type: article