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Dr Soren BRAGE
Principal Investigator
Dr Søren Brage is the Group Leader of the Physical Activity Epidemiology group. His research interests include developing and evaluating assessment methods for physical activity and fitness at the population level, the descriptive epidemiology of physical activity, characterisation of the relationship between physical activity and metabolic disease, and how this relationship may be modified by genetic factors.
Dr Brage has an MSc in Exercise Science and an honours degree in health research from the University of Southern Denmark (Odense). He also has MPhil and PhD degrees in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge. During his PhD, he developed and evaluated techniques for objective assessment of physical activity and fitness in populations, using combined accelerometry and heart rate monitoring. These and similar objective methods have now been implemented in several population studies nationally and worldwide and form the basis of the work of the Physical Activity Epidemiology group.
Cambridge
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Patterson, R., McNamara, E., Tainio, M. et al. Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis. Eur J Epidemiol 33, 811–829 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0380-1
Doherty A, Jackson D, Hammerla N, Plötz T, Olivier P, Granat MH, et al. (2017) Large Scale Population Assessment of Physical Activity Using Wrist Worn Accelerometers: The UK Biobank Study. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0169649. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169649
Andersen, Lars Bo et al. Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a cross-sectional study (The European Youth Heart Study). The Lancet, Volume 368, Issue 9532, 299 - 304
Ekelund U, Brage S, Froberg K, Harro M, Anderssen SA, Sardinha LB, et al. (2006) TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study. PLoS Med 3(12): e488. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030488