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University of Southampton researchers contribute to new World Health Organization collaboration
Scientists at the University’s MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre are part of a new international collaboration agreement between the World Health Organization and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ESCEO), aimed at eradicating fragility fractures caused by osteoporosis, with the International Osteoporosis…
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MRC LEC researchers contribute to elucidation of novel links between genetically determined 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration and mortality amongst vitamin D deficient individuals.
In a study led by the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge, published recently in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, the Hertfordshire Cohort was among 33 prospective studies comprising 500,962 individuals in which researchers examined associations between 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and cardiovascular and mortality outcomes. These observational analyses suggested inverse associations with…