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Prof Nick WAREHAM
Principal Investigator
Prof Nick Wareham is the Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Director of the new national research network Population Health Improvement UK.
His principal research interests are the aetiology and prevention of obesity and diabetes, and he co-leads the Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders of Later Life programme. He is an Honorary Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
He was formerly a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Science in Cambridge. He qualified in medicine from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, London, and trained in epidemiology and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, Harvard University, Boston, USA and at the University of Cambridge. Nick was Chair of the NICE Programme Development Group on the prevention of prediabetes. In 2009 he was a member of the WHO Expert Group on the classification and diagnosis of diabetes.
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Abarca-Gómez, Leandra et al. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet, Volume 390, Issue 10113, 2627 - 2642
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants. The Lancet, Volume 387, Issue 10026, 1377 - 1396
Go, Alan S., Dariush Mozaffarian, Véronique L. Roger, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, Michael J. Blaha, Shifan Dai, et al. ‘Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2014 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association’. Circulation 129, no. 3 (21 January 2014). https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000441139.02102.80.
Timothy M. Frayling et al., A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity.Science316,889-894(2007).DOI:10.1126/science.1141634