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This document summarizes an interdisciplinary research project on obesity in Ireland. The project uses a lifecourse approach, drawing on data from multiple Irish cohort and cross-sectional studies spanning different age groups. The aims are to describe risk factors for obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes over the lifecourse and relate these to health outcomes. The research team includes investigators from the various studies as well as experts in biostatistics, epidemiology, health services, nutrition, and clinical areas. Work packages will investigate health service utilization across the lifecourse, statistical methods for accelerometer data, and relationships between diet, physical activity, and non-communicable disease risk.
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- 15. Aims • To describehow behavioural risk factors for obesity, CVD, and diabetes unfold over the life course in Ireland. • To relate these life course patterns to health outcomes and health care utilization. • To maximize the use of data from 9 Irish observational studies that collectively span the life course.
- 16. Team Investigators Dr XiaLee - Biostatistics Dr Darren Dahly – Nutritional Epidemiology Dr Sheena McHugh – Health Services Research http://www.ucc.ie/en/epid/people/
- 17. Data Sources The IrishLongitudinal Study on Aging Cork and Kerry Diabetes and Heart Disease Study Mitchelstown Cohort National Survey of Lifestyles, Attitudes and Nutrition SCOPE Growing up in Ireland Cork Children’s Lifestyle Study BASELINE Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (age 50+ years, 2010) (50-69, 1998-2008) (50-59, 2010) (18+, 2007) (Mothers, 2008-2012) (9m and 9y, 2007-2009) (9y, 2012-2013) (Birth to 2y, 2009-2012) (2 to 6m, 2012)
- 18. Four Areas ofExpertise Primary Investigators of the Studies Methodologists – Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Services Clinicians Policy and Practice
- 19. Primary Investigators Dr. TonyFitzgerald, UCC Prof. Joe Eustace, CRF/UCC Dr. Patricia Kearney, UCC Prof. Louise Kenny, UCC Prof. John Browne, UCC Prof. Ciaran O'Neill, NUIG Biostatistics Clinical Epidemiology Epidemiology Obstetrics Health Services Research Health Economics
- 20. External Collaborators Prof. ZhenmingChen Prof. Sharon Friel Dr. Graham Law Dr. Kathleen Bennett Dr. Ellen Nolte Prof. Richard Layte Prof. Amy Herring University of Oxford Australian National University University of Leeds Trinity College Dublin RAND ESRI University of North Carolina
- 21. HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH WORKPACKAGE 1 To investigate the past and present determinants of health service utilisation across the life course
- 23. BIOSTATISTICS WORK PACKAGE 2 Developstatistical methods for analyzing accelerometer data, and relate these to subsequent health outcomes.
- 27. NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY WORK PACKAGE3 Relate dietary and physical activity data to NCD risk across Irish observational studies.
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Editor's Notes
- #8 “High body mass index (BMI) was another major contributor to DALYs in 2010 andwas the sixth leading risk factor. High BMI is typically used as an indicator of overweightand obesity. It increased by a dramatic 82% over the period 1990 to 2010.High BMI is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular and circulatory diseases as wellas diabetes. It is striking that high BMI was a more important cause of poor healthworldwide than childhood underweight in 2010, whereas childhood underweightwas a much more prominent risk factor than high BMI in 1990.”