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Research project

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
Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Nicholas

Email: nch@mrc.soton.ac.uk

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

Interdisciplinary management of FGF23-related phosphate wasting syndromes: a consensus statement on the evaluation, diagnosis and care of patients with X-linked hypophosphataemia
Andrea  Trombetti, Nasser M. Al-Daghri, Maria Luisa Brandi, Nicholas Harvey & Cyrus Cooper, 2022, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 18(6), 366-384
DOI: 10.1038/s41574-022-00662-x
Type: article
Medical history, medication use and physical activity in adults in their eighth and ninth decade of life in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Gregorio Bevilacqua, Jean Zhang, Camille Parsons, Faidra Laskou, Nicholas Fuggle, Cyrus Cooper & Elaine Dennison, 2022, Experimental & Clinical Sciences Journal, 21, 695-703
DOI: 10.17179/excli2022-4874
Type: article
Incidence of hip fracture in Saudi Arabia and the development of a FRAX model
Yousef Al-Saleh, Riad Sulimani, Shaker Alomary, Yassmeen Alnajjar, Liesbeth Vandenput, Enwu Liu, Mattias Lorentzon, Nicholas Harvey, McCloskey Eugene, Helena Johansson & John A. Kanis, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis, 17(1), 56
DOI: 10.1007/s11657-022-01085-x
Type: article
Management of patients at very high risk of osteoporotic fractures through sequential treatments
Elizabeth M. Curtis, Jean-Yves Reginster, Nasser M. Al-Daghri, Emmanuel Biver, Maria-Luisa Brandi, Etienne Cavalier, Peyman Hadji, Philippe Halbout, Nicholas C. Harvey, Mickaël Hiligsmann, M. Kassim Javaid, J.A, Kanis, Jean-Marc Kaufman, Olivier Lamy, Radmila Matijevic, Adolfo Diez-Perez, Regis Pierre Rademecker, Mario Miguel  Rosa, Thierry Thomas, Friederike Thomasius, Mila Vlaskovska, Rene Rizzoli & Cyrus Cooper, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(4), 695-714
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-022-02100-4
Type: review
Epidemiology of hip fracture in Qatar and development of a country specific FRAX model
N. Abdulla, O S Alsaed, A. Luft, F. Alam, I. Abdulmomen, S. Al Emadi, Nicholas Harvey, E. Liu, Lisbeth Vandenput, M. Lorentzon, E.V. McCloskey, J A. Kanis & H. Johansson, 2022, Archives of Osteoporosis, 17(1)
DOI: 10.1007/s11657-022-01083-z
Type: article