We have just published our paper on the multi-system impacts of long COVID www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A great team effort. #ALSPAC #TWINSUK #NIHR #UKRI #LongCovid #UCL
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Alun Hughes
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Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology Cardiometabolic health | Haemodynamics | Blood pressure | Hypertension | Statistics | Epidemiology All views my own. RT does not mean endorsement.
Our Chapter on The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children by S Chiesa, S Jones, C Park, N Timpson, A Hughes is published in Primordial Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. (Eds. Elaine M. Urbina, Sarah D. de Ferranti) link.springer.com/book/9783032... @chiesascott.bsky.social
👉Our paper on addressing missing data in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) has been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology link.springer.com/article/10.1... @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social Martina Narayanan, Brian Dodgeon 1/8
A data driven approach to address missing data in the 1970 British birth cohort - BMC Medical Research Methodology
BMC Medical Research Methodology - Missing data may induce bias when analysing longitudinal population surveys. We aimed to tackle this problem in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). We utilised...
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Two weeks to go: @georgeploubidis.bsky.social is delivering the keynote at @ucl.ac.uk's Past, Present and Future symposium on Thursday, 14 May. Living Longer but Not Healthier: The Generational Health Drift uses data from CLS’ cohorts. Register: bit.ly/42wK4ef
Incidental findings and duty-of-care protocols in cardiovascular magnetic resonance among older adults: a prospective population-based study from MyoFit46 - The Lancet Healthy Longevity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Incidental findings and duty-of-care protocols in cardiovascular magnetic resonance among older adults: a prospective population-based study from MyoFit46
CMR and baseline assessments revealed that incidental findings are common in imaging research in adults aged 75 years and older, underscoring the need for robust duty-of-care frameworks to ensure time...
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Happy 80th Birthday Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) - the world's longest running birth cohort study
Incidental findings and duty-of-care protocols in cardiovascular magnetic resonance among older adults: a prospective population-based study from MyoFit46 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Multi-organ structural and functional deficits in association with long COVID: a population-based case-control study
Background Multi-system impacts of long COVID remain unknown. We compared multi-system deficits between people with long COVID and controls. Methods A case-control study recruited from the Avon Longit...
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UK productivity grew more in the last year than in the previous seven combined www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/uk-p...
UK productivity grew more in the last year than in the previous seven combined • Resolution Foundation
Here’s some good news that might have passed you by. UK productivity – how much the economy produces per hour worked – grew more in the past year than in the previous seven years combined. I know. It ...
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"Causal Inference Using Cohort Data" A 3-day in person course. Dates: 20-22 Apr 2026 Presenters: Dr M Katsoulis (Associate Professor in Biomedical Statistics) & Dr L Wright (Lecturer i...
"Causal Inference Using Cohort Data" A 3-day in person course. Dates: 20-22 Apr 2026 Presenters: Dr M Katsoulis (Associate Professor in Biomedical Statistics) & Dr L Wright (Lecturer in Statistics a...
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👉We are running a 3-day in-person course "Causal Inference Using Cohort Data" Dates: 20-22 Apr 2026 Presenters: Dr M Katsoulis (Associate Professor in Biomedical Statistics) & Dr L Wright (Lecturer in Statistics and Survey Methodology) check here for more details www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
Training course: Causal Inference Using Cohort Data
The aim of this three-day in person short course is to teach methods of causal inference with an emphasis on application. In our experience, many causal inference courses focus on specific methods wh
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The founding of London’s first university – now @ucl.ac.uk – 200 years ago this week was controversial, but how much truth was there to claims of its students’ radical politics and rowdy ways? 🔓 Georgina Brewis’ recent article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
The Godless Students of London University
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Congratulations to Alex Jamieson for winning the 2025 Ernest Starling Young Investigator Award from the UCL BHF Centre of Research Excellence.
📝Individual socioeconomic inequalities (based on education and employment trajectories) in cardiometabolic health can already be identified at age 24. The Part-time Employment group showed worst cardiometabolic health. #inequalities #earlyadulthood @laura-howe.bsky.social @adh30.bsky.social
The socioeconomic trajectories followed during early adulthood contribute to inequalities in cardiometabolic health by age 24 years
Socioeconomic position is strongly associated with cardiovascular health. However, little is known about the short-term health impacts of socioeconomi…
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Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop, 12th September 2025 at Royal College of Physicians, London. www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop
Join us to hear from a variety of speakers working in key areas relevant to cardiovascular biology and medicine, in both experimental settings and in translational biology and clinical trials.
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Danish Cardiovascular Academy International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025 🫀 Info: 🏠 Tavistock room, Woburn House Conference Centre, London, UK 🕙 1 September 2025 - 3 September 2025 ⏳Deadline for registration: 6 July 2025 👉 Sign up and read more here: ow.ly/Kt1m50W6NVH
International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025
Sign up to apply for the International Summit on Sex Difference in Cardiovascular Disease, a joint effort between DCAcademy and University College London.
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🎉 Huge congratulations to RSS fellow Tim Cole, awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to medical stats! 👏 Read more and find out who else from the world of stats and data made the list 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Statisticians and data scientists included in King’s Birthday Honours List
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The New BlueSky account for the Artery Research Journal, the Oficial Journal of the Artery Society. Follow for news on published articles, Collections and other initiatives. You can find us @: arteryresearch.biomedcentral.com Article submission: arteryresearch.biomedcentral.com/submission-gui…
Artery Research
Artery Research is a dedicated hub for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning arterial structure and function. Official journal of the ...
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Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI studies
Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a prognostic biomarker for cardiovascular disease, which can be measured by dividing the aortic path length by the…
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Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...
Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK
Purpose The pathogenesis of the long-lasting symptoms which can follow an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (‘long covid’) is not fully understood. The ‘COroNaVirus post-Acute Long-term EffectS: Con...
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The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Phenotype of Lamin Heart Disease | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Phenotype of Lamin Heart Disease:
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Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring academic.oup.com/ehjdh/articl...
Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring
AbstractBackground. Hypertension is a leading cause of death worldwide, yet many hypertensive cases remain undiagnosed. Wearable, cuffless blood pressure m
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VIrtual Twins as tools for personalised clinicAL care (VITAL). The team at the 1st VITAL Consortium meeting in Barcelona. vital-horizoneurope.eu
The UCL BHF Centre for Research Excellence in partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK are seeking to better understand adolescent attitudes to heart & brain health. The short anonymous survey is aimed at anyone aged 16-24 and can be accessed using qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_6G…
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Article about some of the Insight46 team's work on physical activity and brain health across the life course. www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/...
Exercise May Help Protect Against Dementia, Study Finds
A lifelong habit of physical activity, particularly before age 50, may lead to brain changes that help reduce the risk of dementia, researchers said.
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Ian White, Professor of Statistical Methods for Medicine at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, has been awarded the 2024 Stata Journal Editor's Prize for his outstanding contributions to the journal. Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU
