Cohorts and data collection

Lead Research Organisation: University College London
Department Name: UNLISTED

Abstract

Our work requires substantial data collection from our population cohorts, and putting structures in place to check, take care of and share data in a secure way with other scientific researchers. Our core cohort is the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, (1946 UK birth cohort), but we also manage other cohorts such as DELPHIC (Camden based population cohort of older people), and SABRE (a tri-ethnic London based population cohort). Our research uses these and other cohorts to answer specific scientific questions.

Technical Summary

Aim
This theme serves the underpinning cohort platforms, providing essential data for all programmes.
Research Objectives
We plan core data collection on key health and sociodemographic variables as identified in individual programmes. We build on the strengths of the well-established core funded MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) and will capitalise on linkages with the WT funded Delirium and Population Health Informatics Cohort (DELPHIC) cohort. Investigators within the Unit also lead the Southall and Brent REvisited (SABRE) tri-ethnic older age cohort which has complementary data of relevance to some programmes.
Methods
The Cohorts and Data Collection theme has two sub-themes; the first is Data Collection, concerned with de novo clinical, home visit and questionnaire data capture for the current QQ, and the second is Cohort Maintenance, which is concerned with data and sample curation, linkages, and overall Unit management.
Translational aspects, and public health exploitation are detailed in individual programmes.

Publications

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Related Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Award Value
MC_UU_00019/1 31/03/2019 31/03/2024 £4,569,000
MC_UU_00019/2 Transfer MC_UU_00019/1 31/03/2019 31/03/2024 £1,784,000
MC_UU_00019/3 Transfer MC_UU_00019/2 31/03/2019 31/03/2024 £1,468,000
MC_UU_00019/4 Transfer MC_UU_00019/3 31/03/2019 31/03/2024 £843,000
 
Description British Heart Foundation's 60th Birthday Parliamentary Reception
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/policy-and-public-affairs/we-work-with-government
 
Description Evidence to Science and Technology Select Committee: Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living - AH
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjN4_-R6aDvAhVvShUIHf1OBbsQ...
 
Description Biomedical follow-up of 1958 Birth Cohort Study members at age 60
Amount £2,543,547 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/P023444/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2017 
End 03/2024
 
Description COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing - National Core Study (LWH-NCS)
Amount £5,203,856 (GBP)
Funding ID MC_PC_20030 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2020 
End 03/2021
 
Description Characterisation, Determinants, Mechanisms And Consequences Of The Long-term Effects Of COVID-19: Providing The Evidence Base For Health Care Services
Amount £9,539,110 (GBP)
Organisation National Institute for Health Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2021 
End 02/2024
 
Description Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER)
Amount £11,991,010 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/K000357/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2012 
End 03/2024
 
Title CLOSER online guide on dietary mesures 
Description New online guide on dietary measures and estimated nutrient intake within and across eight CLOSER partner studies. 
Type Of Material Biological samples 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Increased awareness of these dietary measures for future use in research projects 
URL https://www.closer.ac.uk/cross-study-data-guides/dietary-data-guide/
 
Title Covid 19 questionnaire 
Description A covid questionnaire was developed and sent to all NSHD study members. This was an online questionnaire about what the study members' lives have been like during the pandemic. The questionnaire covered the impact of the pandemic on work, health, family and social life. Three waves have been sent out. 
Type Of Material Biological samples 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Too early to say 
 
Title Online COVID questionnaire 
Description NSHD study members were sent upto three online/postal questionnaires on COVID. In the first questionnaire, a variety of questions were asked to capture a physical and mental health and wellbeing, family and relationships, education, work, and finances during the first national lockdown. In the second questionnaire, we repeated many of the topic areas as in Wave 1, but included questions on health care, financial transfer and life events. For the third questionnaire, we additionally asked about the vaccination programme and long COVID. 
Type Of Material Biological samples 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact data is currently being analysed 
 
Title 1970 British Cohort Study Response Dataset, 1970-2016 
Description The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) began in 1970 when data were collected about the births and families of babies born in the United Kingdom in one particular week in 1970. Since then, there have been nine further full data collection exercises in order to monitor the cohort members' health, education, social and economic circumstances. These took place when respondents were aged 5 in 1975, aged 10 in 1980, aged 16 in 1986, aged 26 in 1996, aged 30 in 1999-2000 (SN 5558), aged 34 in 2004-2005, aged 42 in 2012 and aged 46 in 2016-18. A range of sub-sample and supplementary surveys have also been conducted, and a separate dataset covering response to BCS70 over all waves is available under SN 5641, 1970 British Cohort Study Response Dataset, 1970-2012. Further information about the BCS70 and may be found on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies website. As well as BCS70, the CLS now also conducts the NCDS series. How to access genetic and/or bio-medical sample data from a range of longitudinal surveys: A useful overview of the governance routes for applying for genetic and bio-medical sample data, which are not available through the UK Data Service, can be found at Governance of data and sample access on the METADAC (Managing Ethico-social, Technical and Administrative issues in Data Access) website. The BCS70 Response Dataset contains response outcomes for all main sweeps of BCS70 (1970-2016). The fourth edition (March 2021) includes Sweep 10 outcomes and has been streamlined by removing cases which have never participated in any main sweep survey and are no longer being issued.  
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/1970-british-cohort-study/ 
URL https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=5641#2
 
Title Additional file 1 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1: Table 1. Full hub metabolite results (models 1-3). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_1_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 1 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1: Table 1. Full hub metabolite results (models 1-3). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_1_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 2 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2: Table 2. Full module analysis results (models 1-3). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_2_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 2 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2: Table 2. Full module analysis results (models 1-3). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_2_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 2 of Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects 
Description Additional file 2: Table S1. Statistically significant CpGs in relation to current versus never smoking status at false discovery rate (FDR) 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_2_of_Novel_DNA_methylation_sign...
 
Title Additional file 2 of Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects 
Description Additional file 2: Table S1. Statistically significant CpGs in relation to current versus never smoking status at false discovery rate (FDR) 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_2_of_Novel_DNA_methylation_sign...
 
Title Additional file 3 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 3: Supplementary file 3: Table 3. PRS results. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_3_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 3 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 3: Supplementary file 3: Table 3. PRS results. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_3_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 4 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 4: Supplementary file 4: Table 4. Associations between metabolites, modules, outcomes and lifestyle factors. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_4_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 4 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 4: Supplementary file 4: Table 4. Associations between metabolites, modules, outcomes and lifestyle factors. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_4_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 5 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 5: Supplementary file 5: Table 5. Associations between metabolites and modules and whole-brain volume following adjustment for smoking and alcohol intake. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_5_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Additional file 5 of Investigating associations between blood metabolites, later life brain imaging measures, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease 
Description Additional file 5: Supplementary file 5: Table 5. Associations between metabolites and modules and whole-brain volume following adjustment for smoking and alcohol intake. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_5_of_Investigating_associations...
 
Title Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children 
Description ALSPAC is a longitudinal birth cohort study which enrolled pregnant women who were resident in one of three Bristol-based health districts in the former County of Avon with an expected delivery date between 1st April 1991 and 31st December 1992. Around 14,000 pregnant women were initially recruited. Detailed information has been collected on these women, their partners and subsequent children using self-completion questionnaires, data extraction from medical notes, linkage to routine information systems and from hands-on research clinics. Additional cohorts of participants have since been enrolled in their own right including fathers, siblings, children of the children and grandparents of the children. Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee (IRB00003312) and Local Research Ethics. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2014 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/ 
URL http://service.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011256
 
Title Born in Bradford 
Description Born in Bradford is one of the biggest and most important medical research studies undertaken in the UK. The project started in 2007 and is looking to answer questions about our health by tracking the lives of 13,500 babies and their families and will provide information for studies across the UK and around the world. The aim of Born in Bradford is to find out more about the causes of childhood illness by studying children from all cultures and backgrounds as their lives unfold. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://borninbradford.nhs.uk/ 
URL http://service.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011818
 
Title Covid 19 questionnaire dataset 
Description NSHD study members were sent upto three online/postal questionnaires on COVID. In the first questionnaire, a variety of questions were asked to capture a physical and mental health and wellbeing, family and relationships, education, work, and finances during the first national lockdown. In the second questionnaire, we repeated many of the topic areas as in Wave 1, but included questions on health care, financial transfer and life events. For the third questionnaire, we additionally asked about the vaccination programme and long COVID. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Too early to say - numerous publications and impacts will be produced using these data in the future 
URL https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8732
 
Title Delirium and Population Health Informatics Cohort 
Description Baseline, follow-up and hospitalisation data for DELPHIC 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Constituent cohort of DPUK ongoing projects and shared data applications. 
URL https://portal.dementiasplatform.uk/CohortDirectory/Item?fingerPrintID=DELPHIC
 
Title English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Waves 0-9, 1998-2019 
Description The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) is a longitudinal survey of ageing and quality of life among older people that explores the dynamic relationships between health and functioning, social networks and participation, and economic position as people plan for, move into and progress beyond retirement. The main objectives of ELSA are to: construct waves of accessible and well-documented panel data; provide these data in a convenient and timely fashion to the scientific and policy research community; describe health trajectories, disability and healthy life expectancy in a representative sample of the English population aged 50 and over; examine the relationship between economic position and health; investigate the determinants of economic position in older age; describe the timing of retirement and post-retirement labour market activity; and understand the relationships between social support, household structure and the transfer of assets. Further information may be found on the ELSA project website, the Institute for Fiscal Studies: ELSA and Natcen Social Research: ELSA web pages. Health conditions research with ELSA - June 2021 The ELSA Data team have found some issues with historical data measuring health conditions. If you are intending to do any analysis looking at the following health conditions, then please contact elsadata@natcen.ac.uk for advice on how you should approach your analysis. The affected conditions are: eye conditions (glaucoma; diabetic eye disease; macular degeneration; cataract), CVD conditions (high blood pressure; angina; heart attack; Congestive Heart Failure; heart murmur; abnormal heart rhythm; diabetes; stroke; high cholesterol; other heart trouble) and chronic health conditions (chronic lung disease; asthma; arthritis; osteoporosis; cancer; Parkinson's Disease; emotional, nervous or psychiatric problems; Alzheimer's Disease; dementia; malignant blood disorder; multiple sclerosis or motor neurone disease). How to access genetic and/or bio-medical sample data from a range of longitudinal surveys: A useful overview of the governance routes for applying for genetic and bio-medical sample data, which are not available through the UK Data Service, can be found at Governance of data and sample access on the METADAC (Managing Ethico-social, Technical and Administrative issues in Data Access) web site. Harmonised dataset: The Harmonised dataset is originally compiled in Stata, and contains extra alphabetic missing value codes. An SPSS version is also deposited, but as SPSS does not accommodate alphabetic missing value codes in numeric variables, the codes have transferred as long numeric codes. While the missing values are fully labelled, users should be aware that only the Stata alphabetic codes are described in the documentation. Users who prefer to use the Stata version will need access to Stata SE/MP software, as the file contains over 2,047 variables (the limit for the standard Stata 'Intercooled' version). ELSA COVID-19 study: A separate ad-hoc study conducted with ELSA respondents, measuring the socio-economic effects/psychological impact of the lockdown on the aged 50+ population of England, is also available under SN 8688, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing COVID-19 Study. Wave 1 was first released on 30 September 2020. Latest edition of ELSA: For the 35th edition (July 2021), mortality variables Mortstat, Yrdeath, agedead2 and maincod have been removed from the index file at the depositor's request, due to finalised agreement with NHS Digital. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/research/behavioural-science-and-health/research/psychobiology/english-longitudinal-study-ageing-0 
URL https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=5050#21
 
Title Geography and Longitudinal Data: Understanding Society The UK Household Longitudinal Study 
Description Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind and provides crucial information for researchers and policymakers on the changes and stability of people's lives in the UK. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/impact 
URL http://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.15806.54089
 
Title Github repository 
Description I have uploaded my scripts for my last papers, so that people can replicate the results of my stidies 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact I have been contacted by many researchers over the last years asking for further clarifications as well as suggestions for their analysis 
URL https://github.com/mkatsoulis82
 
Title MRC NSHD 2013-2018 Data 
Description The MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) has informed UK health care, education and social policy for more than 50 years and is the oldest and longest running of the British birth cohort studies. Today, with study members in their seventies, the NSHD offers a unique opportunity to explore the long-term biological and social processes of ageing and how ageing is affected by factors acting across the whole of life. From an initial maternity survey of 5362 births recorded in England, Scotland and Wales during one week of March 1946, a socially stratified sample of singleton babies born to married parents was selected for follow-up. These participants have been studied over twenty times throughout their life. During their childhood, the main aim of the NSHD was to investigate how the environment at home and at school affected physical and mental development and educational attainment. During adulthood, the main aim was to investigate how childhood health and development and lifetime social circumstances affected their adult health and function and their change with age. Now, as participants have reached retirement, the research team is developing the NSHD into a life course study of ageing. Study members were asked to attend a clinic at age 60-64 for a range of assessments (or alternatively have a home visit). They were invited for a home visit at 69 years, updating information on health, lifestyle and life circumstances as well as obtaining repeat physical and cognitive measurements. Postal questionnaires were completed before the clinic and home visits. A subset of 500 study members are also being invited to participate in a Neuroscience sub-study. This publication covers data from the NSHD for the years 2013 to 2018. The cohort study is ongoing and further data collections are being added, while component data sets are separately referable. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Data provided for linkage within UK LLC 
URL http://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk/data/nshd-digital-object-identifiers/mrc-nshd-2013-2018-data/
 
Title Millennium Cohort Study 
Description Socio-emotional behaviours in early childhood, including self-regulation, emotional problems, and peer problems, have been shown to individually influence academic achievement in primary and secondary school. Environmental and demographic factors have also been shown to influence a child's academic development. The current study extends previous work to consider - concurrently, using structural equation modelling - a broader array of antecedents and measures of social-emotional development to understand their relative effects on academic outcomes. Parent-report data on a nationally representative sample of children (n = 17,035) at ages 3 and 5 years, and academic assessment at age 7, were drawn from the Millennium Cohort Study for longitudinal modelling. Results indicate the individual and collective contribution of socio-emotional, environmental, and demographic antecedents, expanding the current literature on predictors of child academic achievement in primary school. The results suggest that malleable factors in early childhood are important predictors of later academic success, and thus may be viable targets for intervention. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/millennium-cohort-study/ 
URL http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/36952/version/1
 
Title National Child Development Study: Activity Histories, 1974-2013 
Description The National Child Development Study (NCDS) originated in the Perinatal Mortality Survey (see SN 5565), which examined social and obstetric factors associated with still birth and infant mortality among over 17,000 babies born in Britain in one week in March 1958. Surviving members of this birth cohort have been surveyed on eight further occasions in order to monitor their changing health, education, social and economic circumstances - in 1965 at age 7, 1969 at age 11, 1974 at age 16 (the first three sweeps are also held under SN 5565), 1981 (age 23 - SN 5566), 1991 (age 33 - SN 5567), 1999/2000 (age 41/2 - SN 5578), 2004-2005 (age 46/47 - SN 5579), 2008-2009 (age 50 - SN 6137) and 2013 (age 55 - SN 7669). There have also been surveys of sub-samples of the cohort, the most recent occurring in 1995 (age 37), when a 10% representative sub-sample was assessed for difficulties with basic skills (SN 4992). Finally, during 2002-2004, 9,340 NCDS cohort members participated in a bio-medical survey, carried out by qualified nurses (SN 5594, available under more restrictive Special Licence access conditions; see catalogue record for details). The bio-medical survey did not cover any of the topics included in the 2004/2005 survey. Further NCDS data separate to the main surveys include a response and deaths dataset, parent migration studies, employment, activity and partnership histories, behavioural studies and essays - see the NCDS series page for details. Further information about the NCDS can be found on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies website. How to access genetic and/or bio-medical sample data from a range of longitudinal surveys: A useful overview of the governance routes for applying for genetic and bio-medical sample data, which are not available through the UK Data Service, can be found at Governance of data and sample access on the METADAC (Managing Ethico-social, Technical and Administrative issues in Data Access) website. The purpose of the National Child Development Study: Activity Histories, 1974-2013 was to merge all data on work and non-work activities in successive sweeps into one longitudinal dataset. Data on work and non-work activities lasting one month or more have been collected in all NCDS sweeps from sweep 4 (age 23) onwards. The focus of the questions asked at each sweep vary from: work activities engaged in since leaving school (sweep 4 aged 23); work and non-work activities engaged in since leaving school (sweep 5, aged 33); work and non-work activities engaged in since the last sweep (sweep 6, aged 42); work and non-work activities engaged in since the last sweep or aged 16 (sweep 7, aged 46) work and non-work activities engaged in since 2000, or 2004 if included in sweep 7 (sweep 8, aged 50), work and non-work activities engaged in since 2004, or 2008 if included in sweep 8 (sweep 9, aged 55). Therefore the activity histories will start from the time that the cohort member left school and continue until the interview date of the latest data sweep that each cohort member participated in. The lengths of the activity histories vary depending on the latest sweep that a cohort member was present at. The minimum activity history length recorded is 1 month and the maximum is 480 months (40 years). Gaps in the activity histories occur where a cohort member has not been present at all sweeps and/or where full activity data were not reported. An employment histories dataset was previously created (Ward, 2007). This work was undertaken as part of the Gender Network Project. The current work on NCDS activity histories builds on this previous activity history and incorporates various cleaning of the data. This previous employment history included data up to sweep 7 (2004) only, did not deal with any non-work activities and did not identify duplicate activities (i.e. where an activity was reported again in a later sweep). Latest Edition Information For the second edition (June 2016) the data and documentation were updated to include the latest NCDS wave, extending coverage to 2013. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/1958-national-child-development-study/ 
URL https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=6942#3
 
Title SABRE 
Description a UK population-based comparison of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people of European, South Asian and African Caribbean heritage 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Currently, and in the past, supported many research studies aiding hundreds of publications around the world. 
URL https://portal.dementiasplatform.uk/CohortDirectory/Item?fingerPrintID=SABRE
 
Title Supplementary information files for Life course socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration in mid-life 
Description Supplementary files for article Life course socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration in mid-life Background: Ageing biomarkers can help us better understand how well-established socioeconomic position (SEP) disparities in ageing occur. A promising new set of DNAm methylation (DNAm)-based ageing biomarkers indicate through their age acceleration (AA) measures if biological ageing is slower or faster than chronological ageing. Few studies have investigated the association between SEP and DNAm AA. Methods: We used linear regression to examine the sex-adjusted relationships between childhood social class, adult social class, intergenerational social class change, education and adult household earnings with first (Horvath AA and Hannum AA) and second generation (PhenoAge AA and GrimAge AA) DNAm AA markers using data from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development. Results: In the first-generation biomarkers, there was little evidence of any associations with Horvath AA but associations of childhood social class and income with Hannum AA were observed. Strong associations were seen between greater disadvantage in childhood and adult SEP and greater AA in the second generation biomarkers. For example, those with fathers in an unskilled occupational social class in childhood had 3.6 years greater PhenoAge AA (95% CI 1.8 to 5.4) than those with fathers from a professional social class. Individuals without qualifications had higher AA compared with those with higher education (4.1 years greater GrimAge AA (95% CI 3.1 to 5.0)). Conclusion: Our findings highlight the importance of exposure to social disadvantage in childhood to the biological ageing process. The second generation clocks appear to be more sensitive to the accumulation of social disadvantage across the life course. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Supplementary_information_files_for_Life_course_soci...
 
Title TwinsUK 
Description The TwinsUK resource is the biggest UK adult twin registry of 12.000 twins used to study the genetic and environmental aetiology of age related complex traits and diseases. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact https://twinsuk.ac.uk/media-and-engagement/overview/ 
URL http://service.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011851
 
Description BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST 
Organisation Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution As described under other output headings
Collaborator Contribution As described under other output headings
Impact As described under other output headings
Start Year 2020
 
Description Blood biomarkers 
Organisation Lund University
Country Sweden 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Collaborating on a biomarker identification and characterisation project
Collaborator Contribution Collaborating on a biomarker identification and characterisation project
Impact Publications
Start Year 2022
 
Description Bristol University-NCS LH&W 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Providing co-leadership of the project. Providing study data. Contributing to data analysis, results dissemination, study design and conduct, oversight and strategic input.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Jonathan Sterne, is co-Director of the LH&W NCS and PI of the vaccination theme related to this award. Providing co-leadership of the project. Providing study data. Contributing to data analysis, results dissemination, study design and conduct, oversight and strategic input.
Impact doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.22.21266512
Start Year 2020
 
Description CLOSER 
Organisation University College London
Department Institute of Education (IOE)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Leading on work packages and the teaching aspect of CLOSER. This includes data analysis, preparing and commenting on manuscripts, organising workshops, seminars and conferences. Members of the executive group and CLOSER communications network.
Collaborator Contribution CLOSER (Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) aims to maximise their use, value and impact both at home and abroad. Bringing together eight leading studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service, CLOSER works to stimulate interdisciplinary research, develop shared resources, provide training, and share expertise. In this way CLOSER is helping to build the body of knowledge on how life in the UK is changing - both across generations and in comparison to the rest of the world.
Impact Johnson 2017 PMID:28072856 Bann 2017 PMID: 28072856 2 successful bids to the innovation fund 2 successful bids to the innovation fund Bann, D, Johnson, W, Li, L, Kuh, D, Hardy, R. Socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index, weight, and height in childhood and adolescence: coordinated analyses of individual participant data from four British birth cohort studies initiated in 1946, 1958, 1970, and 2000/1. Lancet Public Health 2018 Apr;3(4):e194-e203. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30045-8. Epub 2018 Mar 21.
Start Year 2012
 
Description CLOSER 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution N/A yet
Collaborator Contribution N/A yet
Impact N/A yet
Start Year 2022
 
Description Calibration Study 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provide equipment to be used in calibration study. Expertise with analysis and manuscript preparation
Collaborator Contribution PhD student to carry out the analysis of the results of the calibration study and write manuscripts
Impact Numerous poster/abstract presentations at conferences paper in preparation
Start Year 2015
 
Description Collaboration with Baldev Singh Lab, AIIMS, New Delhi 
Organisation All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Expertise and intellectual input in the area of sleep epidemiology and statistics, as applied to this area, as well as experience in statistical software such as Stata and R.
Collaborator Contribution Expertise in experimental sleep studies, data collection and managing complex field work.
Impact Soni R, Dale C, Garfield V, Akhtar N. A cross-sectional observational study for ethno-geographical disparities in sleep quality, brain morphometry and cognition (a SOLACE study) in Indians residing in India, and South Asians and Europeans residing in the UK - a study protocol. Front. Aging Neurosci., 21 February 2024 Sec. Neurocognitive Aging and Behavior Volume 16 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2024.1294681
Start Year 2021
 
Description KCL 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As described under other output headings
Collaborator Contribution As described under other output headings
Impact As described under other output headings
Start Year 2020
 
Description Laura Howe Bristol Adversity 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution of NSHD data, data analysis expertise, manuscript preparation, epidemiology expertise
Collaborator Contribution Contribution of data analysis expertise, manuscript preparation, epidemiology expertise
Impact Sucessful grant applications PMID: 32098806 PMID: 30510187 PMID: 30468142 PMID: 29365106 PMID: 29092899 PMID: 28882142 PMID: 28553793 PMID: 27681097 PMID: 27466311
Start Year 2014
 
Description NCD Risk Factor Collaboration 
Organisation Imperial College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provide NSHD data and advice on manuscript preparation and analysis
Collaborator Contribution Analysis of data and creation of manuscripts
Impact PMID 27061677 Trends in diabetes PMID 27458798 Adult human height PMID 27115820 Trends in adult BMI PMID 27863813 Trends in blood pressure NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million children, adolescents and adults.PMID: 29029897 2017 Dec 16;390(10113):2627-2642. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3. NCD Risk Factor Collaboration 'Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants' International Journal of Epidemiology. . 2018 Mar 19. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy016. [Epub ahead of print] Most recent wave of data added in
Start Year 2016
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Department NICE International
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description NIHR Long Covid 
Organisation University of the West of England
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Collaborator Contribution Long-term health consequences of C-19 (long-COVID) occur frequently. Most infections are not hospitalised; population studies are the place to understand individual and societal challenges of long-COVID. We have an established consortium of experts and platforms uniting linked national primary care registries and population cohorts. The national coverage of primary care registries captures all individuals presenting to their GP, with linked prescribing, consulting, referral and outcome data. Many with long-COVID do not seek care. Population cohorts, with repeat C-19 related questionnaires, overcome this limitation. Further, the standardised pre-pandemic health data enables dissection of the effects of infection versus progression of co-morbidity. Parallel analysis of cohorts and registries will address each question. With NICE, we will quantify adherence to diagnostic and management guidelines in GP records, and pilot a pop-up intervention to enhance adherence. Our findings will enhance diagnostic criteria, identify pathways for bespoke sub-phenotype intervention, and inform plans for health service delivery.
Impact Successful grant application to NIHR
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Glasgow
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Leicester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Liverpool
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Core Study LLHW 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. LHA is the lead for this project and is contributing data from its cohorts as well as personnel. We propose uniting distinct but complementary longitudinal studies already engaged in COVID-19 research, enriched with health and administrative data linkage, and enhanced by new, urgent data collection. This collective resource will be mined by a cadre of experienced analysts to provide rapid answers to existing and emerging priority research questions.
Collaborator Contribution Project using data from longitudinal studies to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth to inform mitigating strategies. Partners are contriubuting longitudinal studies, data personnel and expertise.
Impact Too early to report
Start Year 2020
 
Description Network of Applied Statisticians in Health 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I started collaborating with other statisticians at UCL, with whom we share common interests in the statistical analysis of different types of health databases. I mainly help people who want to analyse Electronic Health Records. In 2022, I organised a short course on "Target Trial Emulation", that had more than 200 participants From March 2023, I have been one of the network leads the NASH network, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/research/network-applied-statisticians-health
Collaborator Contribution Their contribution was the useful feedback and comments that I had on my projects.
Impact I am writing one paper, in which I received useful comments from 2 members of this team (Bianca de Stavola and Manuel Gomes), who will be included as co-authors.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Proteomics 
Organisation Stanford University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Collaborating in a proteomics project
Collaborator Contribution Collaborating in a proteomics project
Impact Some preliminary publications
Start Year 2022
 
Description UCLEB 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution NSHD data sharing and epideomiological experitise
Collaborator Contribution Maximising research potential of NSHD Prof Aroon Hinorani brings in CVD and genetic skills and manages the collaboration with several CVD cohort studies at UCL and Edinburgh, including NSHD. Data sharing
Impact UCL Biomedical Research Centre High Impact Grant awarded BHF programme grant under review 23977022 White 26781229 Neusch 25979724 Talmund 25475436 White 26781229 Beaney 27549350 Morris 27365493 Prins 27327646 Beaney KE. Functional analysis of the coronary heart disease risk locus on chromosome 21q22. PMID:28458444 PMC5387827 Dale C. Causal Associations of Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution with Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke Subtypes and Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis. PMID: 28500271 PMC5515354 Fairoozy R. Identifying Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Associated Variants in the Annexin A2 (ANXA2) Gene. PMID:28456096 PMC5446264 Franceschini N, Giambartolomei C, de Vries PS, Finan C, Bis JC, Huntley RP, Lovering RC, Tajuddin SM, Winkler TW, Graff M, Kavousi M, Dale C, Smith AV, Hofer E, van Leeuwen EM, Nolte IM, Lu L, Scholz M, Sargurupremraj M, Pitkänen N, Franzén O, Joshi PK, Noordam R, Marioni RE, Hwang SJ, Musani SK, Schminke U, Palmas W, Isaacs A, Correa A, Zonderman AB, Hofman A, Teumer A, Cox AJ, Uitterlinden AG, Wong A, Smit AJ, Newman AB, Britton A, Ruusalepp A, Sennblad B, Hedblad B, Pasaniuc B, Penninx BW, Langefeld CD, Wassel CL, Tzourio C, Fava C, Baldassarre D, O'Leary DH, Teupser D, Kuh D, Tremoli E, Mannarino E, Grossi E, Boerwinkle E, Schadt EE, Ingelsson E, Veglia F, Rivadeneira F, Beutner F, Chauhan G, Heiss G, Snieder H, Campbell H, Völzke H, Markus HS, Deary IJ, Jukema JW, de Graaf J, Price J, Pott J, Hopewell JC, Liang J, Thiery J, Engmann J, Gertow K, Rice K, Taylor KD, Dhana K, Kiemeney LALM, Lind L, Raffield LM, Launer LJ, Holdt LM, Dörr M, Dichgans M, Traylor M, Sitzer M, Kumari M, Kivimaki M, Nalls MA, Melander O, Raitakari O, Franco OH, Rueda-Ochoa OL, Roussos P, Whincup PH, Amouyel P, Giral P, Anugu P, Wong Q, Malik R, Rauramaa R, Burkhardt R, Hardy R, Schmidt R, de Mutsert R, Morris RW, Strawbridge RJ, Wannamethee SG, Hägg S, Shah S, McLachlan S, Trompet S, Seshadri S, Kurl S, Heckbert SR, Ring S, Harris TB, Lehtimäki T, Galesloot TE, Shah T, de Faire U, Plagnol V, Rosamond WD, Post W, Zhu X, Zhang X, Guo X, Saba Y; MEGASTROKE Consortium, Dehghan A, Seldenrijk A, Morrison AC, Hamsten A, Psaty BM, van Duijn CM, Lawlor DA, Mook-Kanamori DO, Bowden DW, Schmidt H, Wilson JF, Wilson JG, Rotter JI, Wardlaw JM, Deanfield J, Halcox J, Lyytikäinen LP, Loeffler M, Evans MK, Debette S, Humphries SE, Völker U, Gudnason V, Hingorani AD, Björkegren JLM, Casas JP, O'Donnell CJ. GWAS and colocalization analyses implicate carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaque loci in cardiovascular outcomes. Nat Commun. 2018 Dec 3;9(1):5141. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07340-5. PMID: 30510157 PMID: 32114887 PMID: 31088856
Start Year 2008
 
Description UCLEB 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution NSHD data sharing and epideomiological experitise
Collaborator Contribution Maximising research potential of NSHD Prof Aroon Hinorani brings in CVD and genetic skills and manages the collaboration with several CVD cohort studies at UCL and Edinburgh, including NSHD. Data sharing
Impact UCL Biomedical Research Centre High Impact Grant awarded BHF programme grant under review 23977022 White 26781229 Neusch 25979724 Talmund 25475436 White 26781229 Beaney 27549350 Morris 27365493 Prins 27327646 Beaney KE. Functional analysis of the coronary heart disease risk locus on chromosome 21q22. PMID:28458444 PMC5387827 Dale C. Causal Associations of Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution with Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke Subtypes and Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis. PMID: 28500271 PMC5515354 Fairoozy R. Identifying Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Associated Variants in the Annexin A2 (ANXA2) Gene. PMID:28456096 PMC5446264 Franceschini N, Giambartolomei C, de Vries PS, Finan C, Bis JC, Huntley RP, Lovering RC, Tajuddin SM, Winkler TW, Graff M, Kavousi M, Dale C, Smith AV, Hofer E, van Leeuwen EM, Nolte IM, Lu L, Scholz M, Sargurupremraj M, Pitkänen N, Franzén O, Joshi PK, Noordam R, Marioni RE, Hwang SJ, Musani SK, Schminke U, Palmas W, Isaacs A, Correa A, Zonderman AB, Hofman A, Teumer A, Cox AJ, Uitterlinden AG, Wong A, Smit AJ, Newman AB, Britton A, Ruusalepp A, Sennblad B, Hedblad B, Pasaniuc B, Penninx BW, Langefeld CD, Wassel CL, Tzourio C, Fava C, Baldassarre D, O'Leary DH, Teupser D, Kuh D, Tremoli E, Mannarino E, Grossi E, Boerwinkle E, Schadt EE, Ingelsson E, Veglia F, Rivadeneira F, Beutner F, Chauhan G, Heiss G, Snieder H, Campbell H, Völzke H, Markus HS, Deary IJ, Jukema JW, de Graaf J, Price J, Pott J, Hopewell JC, Liang J, Thiery J, Engmann J, Gertow K, Rice K, Taylor KD, Dhana K, Kiemeney LALM, Lind L, Raffield LM, Launer LJ, Holdt LM, Dörr M, Dichgans M, Traylor M, Sitzer M, Kumari M, Kivimaki M, Nalls MA, Melander O, Raitakari O, Franco OH, Rueda-Ochoa OL, Roussos P, Whincup PH, Amouyel P, Giral P, Anugu P, Wong Q, Malik R, Rauramaa R, Burkhardt R, Hardy R, Schmidt R, de Mutsert R, Morris RW, Strawbridge RJ, Wannamethee SG, Hägg S, Shah S, McLachlan S, Trompet S, Seshadri S, Kurl S, Heckbert SR, Ring S, Harris TB, Lehtimäki T, Galesloot TE, Shah T, de Faire U, Plagnol V, Rosamond WD, Post W, Zhu X, Zhang X, Guo X, Saba Y; MEGASTROKE Consortium, Dehghan A, Seldenrijk A, Morrison AC, Hamsten A, Psaty BM, van Duijn CM, Lawlor DA, Mook-Kanamori DO, Bowden DW, Schmidt H, Wilson JF, Wilson JG, Rotter JI, Wardlaw JM, Deanfield J, Halcox J, Lyytikäinen LP, Loeffler M, Evans MK, Debette S, Humphries SE, Völker U, Gudnason V, Hingorani AD, Björkegren JLM, Casas JP, O'Donnell CJ. GWAS and colocalization analyses implicate carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaque loci in cardiovascular outcomes. Nat Commun. 2018 Dec 3;9(1):5141. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07340-5. PMID: 30510157 PMID: 32114887 PMID: 31088856
Start Year 2008
 
Description UCLEB 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution NSHD data sharing and epideomiological experitise
Collaborator Contribution Maximising research potential of NSHD Prof Aroon Hinorani brings in CVD and genetic skills and manages the collaboration with several CVD cohort studies at UCL and Edinburgh, including NSHD. Data sharing
Impact UCL Biomedical Research Centre High Impact Grant awarded BHF programme grant under review 23977022 White 26781229 Neusch 25979724 Talmund 25475436 White 26781229 Beaney 27549350 Morris 27365493 Prins 27327646 Beaney KE. Functional analysis of the coronary heart disease risk locus on chromosome 21q22. PMID:28458444 PMC5387827 Dale C. Causal Associations of Adiposity and Body Fat Distribution with Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke Subtypes and Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis. PMID: 28500271 PMC5515354 Fairoozy R. Identifying Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Associated Variants in the Annexin A2 (ANXA2) Gene. PMID:28456096 PMC5446264 Franceschini N, Giambartolomei C, de Vries PS, Finan C, Bis JC, Huntley RP, Lovering RC, Tajuddin SM, Winkler TW, Graff M, Kavousi M, Dale C, Smith AV, Hofer E, van Leeuwen EM, Nolte IM, Lu L, Scholz M, Sargurupremraj M, Pitkänen N, Franzén O, Joshi PK, Noordam R, Marioni RE, Hwang SJ, Musani SK, Schminke U, Palmas W, Isaacs A, Correa A, Zonderman AB, Hofman A, Teumer A, Cox AJ, Uitterlinden AG, Wong A, Smit AJ, Newman AB, Britton A, Ruusalepp A, Sennblad B, Hedblad B, Pasaniuc B, Penninx BW, Langefeld CD, Wassel CL, Tzourio C, Fava C, Baldassarre D, O'Leary DH, Teupser D, Kuh D, Tremoli E, Mannarino E, Grossi E, Boerwinkle E, Schadt EE, Ingelsson E, Veglia F, Rivadeneira F, Beutner F, Chauhan G, Heiss G, Snieder H, Campbell H, Völzke H, Markus HS, Deary IJ, Jukema JW, de Graaf J, Price J, Pott J, Hopewell JC, Liang J, Thiery J, Engmann J, Gertow K, Rice K, Taylor KD, Dhana K, Kiemeney LALM, Lind L, Raffield LM, Launer LJ, Holdt LM, Dörr M, Dichgans M, Traylor M, Sitzer M, Kumari M, Kivimaki M, Nalls MA, Melander O, Raitakari O, Franco OH, Rueda-Ochoa OL, Roussos P, Whincup PH, Amouyel P, Giral P, Anugu P, Wong Q, Malik R, Rauramaa R, Burkhardt R, Hardy R, Schmidt R, de Mutsert R, Morris RW, Strawbridge RJ, Wannamethee SG, Hägg S, Shah S, McLachlan S, Trompet S, Seshadri S, Kurl S, Heckbert SR, Ring S, Harris TB, Lehtimäki T, Galesloot TE, Shah T, de Faire U, Plagnol V, Rosamond WD, Post W, Zhu X, Zhang X, Guo X, Saba Y; MEGASTROKE Consortium, Dehghan A, Seldenrijk A, Morrison AC, Hamsten A, Psaty BM, van Duijn CM, Lawlor DA, Mook-Kanamori DO, Bowden DW, Schmidt H, Wilson JF, Wilson JG, Rotter JI, Wardlaw JM, Deanfield J, Halcox J, Lyytikäinen LP, Loeffler M, Evans MK, Debette S, Humphries SE, Völker U, Gudnason V, Hingorani AD, Björkegren JLM, Casas JP, O'Donnell CJ. GWAS and colocalization analyses implicate carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaque loci in cardiovascular outcomes. Nat Commun. 2018 Dec 3;9(1):5141. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07340-5. PMID: 30510157 PMID: 32114887 PMID: 31088856
Start Year 2008
 
Title An AI system to fully automate and improve accuracy and precision of cardiac MRI measurements. 
Description The AI system ingests the images from a cardiac MRI study, and automatically analyses the images that contain information about heart structure and function. The measurements are fully automated and, more importantly, objective. The precision of the analysis beats that of an expert clinician, which has the potential of translating to improved clinical outcomes and more statistical power in clinical trials. 
Type Of Technology New/Improved Technique/Technology 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Clinical application to ~8000 cardiac patients. Used as the core analysis in 3 (and growing) clinical trials. Formed the core IP of a UCL spin-out (Mycardium AI) 
 
Title New data sharing platform - Skylark 
Description Skylark is our new data sharing platform. Skylark is aimed at providing researchers with all the information they need to apply for survey data from the NSHD. Skylark is composed of two companion systems: A wiki (https://skylark.ucl.ac.uk) provides users with a detailed description of the study including all data collections across its 70+ years. The wiki includes: 1. background information about the NSHD; 2. all annotated questionnaires and other paper instruments; 3. a description of the major topics, including information on repeated measures and standard variables; 4. information about the variable search facility and guides on how to locate variables; 5. NSHD information governance; 6. a complete description of the NSHD data sharing process, including all the forms necessary to set up a data sharing agreement and submit a data access request. A variable search facility (https://skylark/ucl.ac.uk/Skylark) provides a platform to locate metadata covering more than 25,000 NSHD variables. Users will need to register, before they can log in to search for variables of interest, which can then be added to personal shopping baskets and saved. Following a successful data sharing application and satisfactory information security assessment, these baskets will then be processed by NSHD staff and the data sent out. This is different from our current data sharing platform, SWIFT, is that it is more secure, transparent and the process of data sharing will be more automated. Data applications are now all completed on line improvements are continuously being made to this platform 
Type Of Technology New/Improved Technique/Technology 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact We are in the testing phase, with a full launch scheduled for end of September / beginning of October. 
URL https://skylark.ucl.ac.uk
 
Description 75th birthday celebratory talk series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A series of five talks were orgnaised for the birthday week in March to celbrate 75 years of the NSHD. The topics covered were recent finding, future plans, covid research and cross cohort work, the history of the NSHD and archive and how the childhood questionnaires are being used in current research. The talks were live streamed from youtube and we had on average 100 peopl ewatching and lots of questions were asked throughout each session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 78th study members newsletter 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The annual Newsletter to the study members to update them on what has been happening over the last 12 months. This is linked to Aim 3 of the comms strategy to ensure that all LHA cohort study members feel valued and ensuring frequent and meaningful contact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL http://nshd.mrc.ac.uk/78th-birthday/newsletter
 
Description ARUK Network London Engagement Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Display presentation of the evolution of research through NSHD with highlights of key findings, key substudies and impact on policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Blog post about diet and new dietary measures guides (CLOSER) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Scientist worked with CLOSER to produce a new online guide on dietary measures and estimated nutrient intake within and across eight CLOSER partner studies and wrote a blog post talkingall about diet - what it is, how it's measured and why it matters.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/diet-what-is-it-and-how-do-we/?utm_medium=referral&utm_sou...
 
Description British Heart Foundation's 60th Birthday Parliamentary Reception 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact We presented an update of our research and data science methods to MPs at the British Heart Foundation's 60th Birthday Parliamentary Reception. This was held at the House of Commons and hosted by Elliot Colburn MP on March 2nd 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/birthday
 
Description British Science Week Social Media Campaign 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This year the Unit ran a social media campaign during British Science Week to showcase the many 'connections' that the unit has.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description CLOSER - Preparing for the future III 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Longitudinal population studies (LPS) currently face a range of challenges. With the world still dealing with COVID-19 and its far-reaching impacts, the value of longitudinal studies, with the wealth of data already collected in the years before the pandemic, and their ability to track individuals during and after the pandemic, has never been greater.

But what will these studies look like in a post-COVID world? How will the experiences during the pandemic influence approaches to policy engagement and impact, the adoption of novel approaches to data collection and emerging technologies, and to participant and public engagement? How are studies harnessing the opportunities that have arisen during the pandemic and what learning has been gained?

Following the success of CLOSER's 2018 and 2020 Preparing for the future conferences, in January 2022 we brought the LPS community together again to identify ways to tackle shared challenges. This online conference, delivered over three days, was a collaborative, interactive event with a strong focus on sharing best practice and problem solving.

The programme was shaped by consultation with UK and international longitudinal studies. Each session involved short presentations of exemplar work in a given area, followed by facilitated group discussions and the chance for delegates to share their own experiences.

The conference addressed the following topics:

The impact of COVID-19 on longitudinal population studies
Influencing policy
Data linkage
New forms of data collection
Participant and public engagement
Influencing policy
Partnerships facilitate policy translation - a case study from Growing Up in New Zealand -Susan Morton, Growing Up in New Zealand
Watch the talk | Download the slides [PDF] | View the illustrated summary [JPG]

Generating policy impact: insights from Understanding Society Policy and Partnerships Unit - Raj Patel, Understanding Society
Watch the talk | Download the slides [PDF] | View the illustrated summary [JPG]
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/2022-conference/
 
Description DEMON BIOMARKERS WORKING GROUP TALK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I presented together with two other researchers our study on the association of common infections and amyloid-beta deposition in the brain , at the DEMON network working group for biomarkers. This working group comprises researchers working on dementia and using biomarkers specifically in their research. The talk sparked several questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description ESRA 10th Conference Milan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact I gave a talk on "Study member preferences for questionnaire mode in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development". This sparked a discussion afterwards on the differences of over 70's vs the younger cohorts which the other groups were studing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2023/progGlance.php?sess=220#296
 
Description Human Rights Lawyers Association Systemic Racism Event 29 July: Panellist Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Took part in a podcast organised by the Human Rights Lawyers Association to highlight issues related to covid and race. Well atended session with lots of questions during the event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description In2Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Mini-workshop on lesion segmentation working in groups to identify the difficulty in creating a protocol and the variability across people
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description In2Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact In2scienceUK empowers young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their potential through life changing opportunities that give them insights into STEM careers and research and boosts their skills and confidence.
Two students joined the Unit for a week and were shown various aspects of the research and the clinic activities. One of the students went on to apply for University course.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Interview for national news - BAME and covid 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Nish Chaturvedi was interviewed for numerous articles commenting on why coronavirus hit people from BAME communities so hard https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bame-communities-coronavirus-uk; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/08/the-virus-piggybacked-on-racism-why-did-covid-19-hit-bame-families-so-hard; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/poorest-areas-of-england-and-wales-hit-hardest-by-covid-19-ons; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/why-are-people-from-bame-groups-dying-disproportionately-of-covid-19. Numerous comments and debates were had as a result of this and lead to Nish speaking at a Human Rights Lawyers Association Systemic Racism Event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Invited Talk: BIHS 2021 Resilience in Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chloe Park gave an Invited Talk at the Young Investigators session of the BIHS meeting, Brighton, Sep 2021, on Resilience in Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Its all academic 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact LHA took part in the UCL Its all academic festival. LHA had their Game of Life activity which was an interactive game where participants learnt about our longitudinal research into healthy ageing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keir Starmer MP Research visit 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Local MP, Sir Keir Starmer was invited to the MRC Festival of Medical Research but he was unable to attend. However, he offered to visit the units, who were taking part in the Festival. We and the MRC LMBC took up the opportunity to meet Keir. He met with staff, who explained about the cohort studies we have at the Unit - MRC NSHD, SABRE, LINKAGE and Insight 46 (a substudy of the MRC NSHD).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description LH&W and Convalescence Study conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The first face-to-face LH&W and Convalescence Study conference took place on November 17th/18th at The Danubius Hotel Regents Park. ~90 researchers from 15 institutions attended and made the
event a great success.
LHA researchers featured throughout the conference, including presentations from Professor Nish Chaturvedi, Dr Kishan Patel, Dr Khaled Rjoob and Dr Wels Jacques.
Thank you to Dr Alisia Carnemolla , Dr Dylan Williams and Dr Chloe Park for organising the event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description LHA Outputs 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Aim 1 of our Communiciations Strategy is to Create and maintain a unified and cohesive MRC Unit. The Monthly Newsletter aims to keep internal staff and students up to date with the Units activities and achievements. Feedback from users has been very positive and they feel it has imporoved internal communication across the Unit.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023,2024
 
Description MRC Festival June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact LHA hosted a Science Fair at UCL with the MRC Laboratory for Medical Cell Biology and the MRC Prion. This was a free family fun day for all ages and included hands-on activities, interactive demonstrations, games and exhibitions. LHA had their Game of Life activity which was an interactive game where participants learnt about our longitudinal research into healthy ageing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description MedICSS 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Talk on the use of metrics for validation in medical imaging research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Media interest in Respiratory paper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This paper was picked up by a number of media outlets - Early childhood lower respiratory tract infection and premature adult death from respiratory disease in Great Britain: a national birth cohort study
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/headlines/2023/mar/respiratory-disease-childhood-linked-premature-death-a...
 
Description Media interest in excerise and brain function paper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Media interest on a paper around Exercising at least once a month linked to better brain function in later life
Read: Guardian, More: Mail Online, CNN, Times (£), Irish Times, Mirror (2), Med Page Today, Independent, Evening Standard, Express, Telegraph (£), i News, U.S. News,Yahoo! News, CBS News, UCL News
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/headlines/2023/feb/exercising-least-once-month-linked-better-brain-functi...
 
Description Member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (Education committee) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I have been a member of the ISCB committee for 2 years. Our goal is to support and organise educational activities, such as short-courses, webinars and seminars on contemporary methods in clinical biostatistics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022,2023
URL https://iscb.info/education/
 
Description NSHD 76th Birthday Pack 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We sent a birthday card and newsletter to the NSHD study members
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description NSHD Advisory Panel 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We have 2 NSHD Advisory Panels. A discussion group with 12 study members and a email/postal group with 24 study members. We aim to hold 2 meetings of the discussion group per year. We send out information to the email/postal group as and when we have questions we would like to ask the study members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023,2024
 
Description NSHD Roadshow 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This is a thank you to the study members and to satisfy aim 3 of the comms strategy to ensure that all LHA cohort study members feel valued and ensuring frequent and meaningful contact.
It is also an opportunity to showcase the data collection opportunities avaliable to the study members for the Garmin watches and Insight 46 clinic visits. The recuritment so far has been lower than expected and so the events were organised to boost recruitment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description NSHD Study Members Birthday Pack 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Every year for the study member's birthday we send them out a birthday card and newsletter
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://nshd.mrc.ac.uk/newsletter-2023/
 
Description NSHD featured in science programme QUARKS in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact NSHD featured in science programme QUARKS in German 1st television. Increased reputation and awareness of NSHD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.planet-schule.de/sf/php/sendungen.php?sendung=10879
 
Description New Scientist Live 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact We had a stall at New Scientist Live, which ran from 7th -9th October 2023. The first 2 days was the general public and the last day was for schools. In total there were 23,045 attendees.
The intended purpose was to insipre the next generation of scientist and to educate around the importance of healthy ageing. It was also the perfect opportunity to train new researchers in public engagement events.
We talked with a number of attendees who had never heard of longitudinal studies before. The balance test made attendees aware of how good / bad they were and some of the attendeess who purformed poorly mentioned they would do more exercise.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://live.newscientist.com/
 
Description New Scientist Live 2023 at the Excel London 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The MRC LHA unit participated in the New Scientist Live event in London in October 2023, with a public engagement activity entitled. Over 50 people (both adults and children) stopped by, and engaged with the activities we prepared to showcase some measures that are used in lifelong epidemiological research, and asked questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://live.newscientist.com/
 
Description Non communicable diseaes in South Asia Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NCD in South Asia Workshop 23rd to 24th Jan 2020. Led by Academy of Medical Sciences. Steering committee member, chair and facilitator. Bringing regional experts in NCDs together to discuss research state, gaps, and initiatives. Following the workshop, a written report is being produced and will be disseminated to stakeholders within the region and the UK highlighting the identified next steps to help tackle NCDs South Asia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description PhD event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Description of research circumstances and best practice for supervision to the cohorts of Institute of Cardiovascular
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Poster presentation AAIC (2 posters) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference with input on lesion shape and impact of lesion on segmentation processing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Press Release - role of cognitive reserve markers from NSHD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Paper picked up for a press release programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description School talk for British Science Week 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact For British Science Week 2023, Dr Chloe Park visited Kings Court First School in Old Windsor to talk to 5-9 year old about being a scientist.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Science Museum Lates 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact LHA took their Life Course Golf Course activity to the Science Museum Lates. Participants were taken round the miniature golf course by our researchers (the caddy) and learnt about our longitudinal research into healthy ageing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Sir Thomas Lewis Symposium talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Talk for the benefit of the Institute of Cardiovascular Science on state of research related to cerebrovascular disease attended by about 120 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Vent project podcast 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Nish took part in a podcast as part of the VENT Project. Part of our new Covid-19 Fact Checkers mini-series which aims to answer your questions and anxieties around Covid-19. This episode, Amelia is joined by co-host Suprina Thapa, Science Journalist, Layal Liverpool and Epidemiologist Prof. Nishi Chaturvedi. VICE UK have teamed up with Brent, the London Borough of Culture 2020, to launch this year-long project: VENT.VENT is an experiment in podcasting, handing the megaphone of VICE UK's huge platform to the young people of a single London borough, amplifying their passions and their fears to a truly international audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.brent2020.co.uk/brent-stories/vent-covid-19-fact-checkers-episode-2/