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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

Telomere Length and Risk of Incident Fracture and Arthroplasty
Elizabeth Curtis, Veryan Codd, Christopher Nelson, Stefania D'angelo, Qingning Wang, Elias Allara, Stephen K. Kaptoge, Paul M. Matthews, Jonathan H. Tobias, John Danesh, Cyrus Cooper, Nilesh J. Samani & Nicholas Harvey, 2022, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 37(10), 1997-2004
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.4664
Type: article
Adjusting conventional FRAX estimates of fracture probability according to the number of prior fractures
John A. Kanis, Helena Johansson, Nicholas C Harvey, Vilmundur Gudnason, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Kristin Siggeirsdottir, Mattias Lorentzon, Enwu Liu, Liesbeth Vandenput & Eugene V. McCloskey, 2022, Osteoporosis International, 33(12), 2507-2515
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-022-06550-4
Type: article
Automatic segmentation of hip osteophytes in DXA scans sing U-nets
Raja Ebsim, Benjamin Faber, Fiona R. Saunders, Monika Frysz , Jennifer S. Gregory, Nicholas Harvey, Jonathan H. Tobias, Claudia Lindner & Timothy Cootes, 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16443-9_1
Type: conference
Multimodal multidisciplinary management of patients with moderate to severe pain in knee osteoarthritis
Nicola Veronese, Cyrus Cooper, Olivier Bruyère, Nasser M Al-Daghri, Jaime Branco, Etienne Cavalier, Sara Cheleschi, Mario Coelho da Silva Rosa, Philip G Conaghan, Elaine M Dennison, Maarten de Wit, Antonella Fioravanti, Nicholas R Fuggle, Ida K Haugen, Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Germain Honvo, Andrea Laslop, Radmila Matijevic, Alberto Migliore, Ali Mobasheri, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, María Concepción Prieto Yerro, Régis Pierre Radermecker, François Rannou, René Rizzoli & Jean-Yves Reginster, 2022, Drugs, 82(13), 1347-1355
DOI: 10.1007/s40265-022-01773-5
Type: article
Machine learning–derived acetabular dysplasia and cam morphology are features of severe hip osteoarthritis
Monika Frysz , Benjamin G. Faber, Raja Ebsim, Fiona R. Saunders, Claudia Lindner, Jennifer S. Gregory, Richard M. Aspden, Richard M. Aspden, Nicholas C. Harvey, Tim Cootes & Jon H. Tobias, 2022, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 37(9), 1720–1732
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.4649
Type: article