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Inequalities in children's physical activity and interventions
(2019-10-26)There is clear evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity in childhood. These differences progressively worsen with age ultimately amplifying disparities in morbidity and premature mortality from ... -
Assessing activity energy expenditure from body-worn sensors during free-living
(2019-06-01)There has been widespread adoption of single body-worn sensors to objectively capture the physical activity of free-living individuals in large studies across the world. For research into metabolic diseases such as obesity ... -
Genetic approaches to identifying causal pathways to cardiometabolic diseases
(2019-06-15)Background: In the era of large-scale biobanks and detailed multi-omic and clinical phenotyping, it is now possible to simultaneously measure several thousands of biological traits and test their associations with health ... -
Dairy products and cardio-metabolic health: aspects from nutritional, molecular and genetic epidemiology
There is accumulating evidence on differences in the link between types of dairy products and cardio-metabolic health, but inconsistent findings limit the field. In my PhD project, I undertook an epidemiological investigation ...
