Michael Catt

Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

@patricklolivier @ReubenKirkham Congratulations Reuben! Well deserved.

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

@kath_mackay @AlderleyPark @Bruntwood_UK All the best in your new role!

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

@miketrenell How to while away the time in Schiphol waiting for flight home!

[Mike Trenell @miketrenell]

Superb overview from Prof Nita Forouhi from @MRC_Epid on diet and non-communicable disease. Powerful interactions with lifestyle and disease - 80% of non-communicable disease risk down to what we do. #lifestylemedicine

[UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) @UKNICAofficial]

Prof. Tom Kirkwood “Everything about ageing is changing” “we need to rethink education to help with coping skills in later life... not just pack education in to first 25 years of life” #AgeWellTogether @UKinDenmark @VOICE__Global

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Stalling of Life Expectancy in UK continues and lags most other OECD nations: Wales and Scotland LE static/falling from peak in 2013/14-2014/15

https://t.co/wyvJNUJYWQ

[CEDAR @CedarUK]

A comparison of the health and environmental impacts of increasing #urban density against increasing propensity to #walk and #cycle in Nashville, USA https://t.co/LHdOX143Lz #evidence #activetravel #openaccess

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https://t.co/HiGLLlJ2tb

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

A striking feature of the @ONS release is that the slow down in life expectancy in UK is more marked than in virtually all OECD countries, except the USA and Iceland (Iceland? Why Iceland?)

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Alzheimers and Lewy Body Disease may have disease pathway specific effects on gait. LBD with greater impairments in asymmetry and variability c.f. AD; both groups were more impaired in pace and variability domains than controls: McArdle et al https://t.co/TPlYNAfuu0

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Good to see (Turing && #techmums)
https://t.co/h0PtN0jfOM?

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Need for a standardised operational definition of multimorbidity says Nguyen et al https://t.co/TqEJEQL66J

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

@NicWils68 @The_NHSA @SONLEJOG @spawneedave All the best Nic!

[IMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology]

Our Director Professor Nick Wareham has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Here he explains how activity, fast food, fat storage, sugar taxes, genetics and more affect a person's chances of developing type 2 #diabetes.

https://t.co/Annn9uczlX

@acmedsci

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

@OpenLab_Ncl @Edamessiah @kelliemorrissey All the best to you both

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Gait analysis with wearables predicts conversion to parkinson disease. https://t.co/KvfxQFsirW

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Latent Scurvy? fatigue, irritability and muscle pain: Even after adjustment for sociodemographic factors, lifestyle factors, and comorbidity, association between low vitamin C and poor functional health: McCall et al
https://t.co/foVUDQHls5

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Growing old in New Towns: A call for research on health and ageing in planned urban environments by Milton et al:
https://t.co/Cl50V1feJ7

[Michael Catt @MichaelCattNCL]

Women who averaged c.a. 4400 daily steps had lower mortality rates than those c.a 2700 steps a day.
Dose response observed esp. at lower, or inactive, end of the spectrum. Further declines in mortality up to c.a. 7500 steps per day says I-Min Lee to JAMA
https://t.co/4hTpOITkQo