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Major new Medical Research Foundation funded partnership between MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, University of Sheffield and the UK Royal Osteoporosis Society
This new collaboration, led by Professor Nicholas Harvey at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre (MRC LEC), University of Southampton, will undertake collaborative work to alter UK national policy on systematic fracture risk assessment in the community. Every year over 500,000 older people in the UK break a bone due to osteoporosis (weakening of the bones)…
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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…