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
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
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
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
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?)
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
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
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
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