Research from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study has featured prominently at this year’s International Osteoporosis Foundation Conference – which, as a result of the Covid19 pandemic, was held online in August instead of in Barcelona in spring.
Dr Michael Clynes presented work on the relationship between work stress and bone density, finding higher bone density in women who had higher levels of work stress prior to retirement, a relationship apparently explained by higher adiposity in that group. In other work, Dr Jean Zhang reported rates of loss of grip strength in later life and the lifestyle factors associated with this; Dr Gregorio Bevilacqua presented a poster that described relationships between levels of vitamin D and musculoskeletal health; and Dr Nick Fuggle presented work on how alteration in our genetic makeup, which occurs naturally over our lifetimes, is associated with our bone health. Dr Sarah Carter gave an oral presentation on how lifestyle factors that impact bone health track across three generations of Hertfordshire families, and finally Professor Elaine Dennison shared some of the work that Hertfordshire Cohort Study participants have contributed to in a talk on osteoarthritis.
Thank you to all our study participants for making such a wealth of research presentations possible!
