Will elderly rest home residents wear hip protectors? by Villar, M, Hill, P, Inskip, H, Thompson, P, Cooper, C

“…We addressed this issue in a sample of elderly Dorset rest home residents over a 3-month period. METHODS: 31 rest homes agreed to participate. …”

Readiness of elders to use assistive devices to maintain their independence in the home. by Pain, H, Gale, C, Watson, C, Cox, V, Cooper, C, Sayer, A

Educating nursing home staff on fracture prevention: a cluster randomised trial. by Cox, H, Puffer, S, Morton, V, Cooper, C, Hodson, J, Masud, T, Oliver, D, Preedy, D, Selby, P, Stone, M, Sutcliffe, A, Torgerson, D

“…OBJECTIVE: to assess whether specialist osteoporosis nurses delivering training to care home staff can reduce fractures and improve the prescription of treatments to reduce fractures versus usual care. …”

Cord blood vitamin D status: evidence for altered CD4(+) naive and gut-homing T cell accumulation by Noakes, P, Michaelis, L, Williams, A, Thornton, C, Arshad, H, Calder, P, Harvey, N, Cooper, C, Roberts, G

When, where and how osteoporosis-associated fractures occur: an analysis from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) by Costa, A, Wyman, A, Siris, E, Watts, N, Silverman, S, Saag, K, Roux, C, Rossini, M, Pfeilschifter, J, Nieves, J, Netelenbos, J, March, L, Lacroix, A, Hooven, F, Greenspan, S, Gehlbach, S, Díez-Pérez, A, Cooper, C, Compston, J, Chapurlat, R, Boonen, S, Anderson, F, Adachi, J, Adami, S

“…Hip fractures occurred equally within and outside the home, spine fractures more often in the home, and NHNV fractures outside the home. …”

Grip strength and its determinants among older people in different healthcare settings. by Roberts, H, Syddall, H, Sparkes, J, Ritchie, J, Butchart, J, Kerr, A, Cooper, C, Sayer, A

“…CONCLUSIONS: older people in rehabilitation and care home settings had lower grip strength than reported for those living at home. …”

Grip strength and its determinants among older people in different healthcare settings by Roberts, H, Syddall, H, Sparkes, J, Ritchie, J, Butchart, J, Kerr, A, Cooper, C, Sayer, A

“…Conclusions: older people in rehabilitation and care home settings had lower grip strength than reported for those living at home. …”

Non-hip, non-spine fractures drive healthcare utilization following a fracture: the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW). by Ioannidis, G, Flahive, J, Pickard, L, Papaioannou, A, Chapurlat, R, Saag, K, Silverman, S, Anderson, F, Gehlbach, S, Hooven, F, Boonen, S, Compston, J, Cooper, C, Díez-Perez, A, Greenspan, S, Lacroix, A, Lindsay, R, Netelenbos, J, Pfeilschifter, J, Rossini, M, Roux, C, Sambrook, P, Siris, E, Watts, N, Adachi, J

“…Clinical vertebral fractures resulted in 617 days of hospitalization and 512 days of rehabilitation/nursing home care; hip fractures accounted for 1,306 days of hospitalization and 1,650 days of rehabilitation/nursing home care. …”

Social inequalities in grip strength, physical function, and falls among community dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study. by Syddall, H, Evandrou, M, Cooper, C, Sayer, A

“…Not owning one's home was associated with lower grip in men and women (p < .001) and poorer PF in men (p < .001). …”

Use of the stromal cell-derived factor-1/CXCR4 pathway in prostate cancer metastasis to bone. by Taichman, R, Cooper, C, Keller, E, Pienta, K, Taichman, N, McCauley, L

“…Neoplasms have a striking tendency to metastasize or "home" to bone. Hematopoietic cells also home to bone during embryonic development, where evidence points to the chemokine stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1 or CXCL12; expressed by osteoblasts and endothelial cells) and its receptor (CXCR4) as key elements in these processes. …”

Prevalence and correlates of frailty among community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study. by Syddall, H, Roberts, H, Evandrou, M, Cooper, C, Bergman, H, Aihie Sayer, A

“…Among women, not owning/mortgaging one's home (P = 0.02) was associated with frailty. With the exception of car availability among men (P = 0.03), all associations were non-significant (P > 0.05) after adjustment for co-morbidity. …”

Maternal awareness of young children's physical activity: levels and cross-sectional correlates of overestimation. by Hesketh, K, McMinn, A, Griffin, S, Harvey, N, Godfrey, K, Inskip, H, Cooper, C, van Sluijs, E

“…Nursery-school attendance and having older siblings at home may be important to consider when designing behavioural interventions to increase PA in preschool children.…”

The association between crowding within households and behavioural problems in children: Longitudinal data from the Southampton Women’s Survey by Marsh, R, Salika, T, Crozier, S, Robinson, S, Cooper, C, Godfrey, K, Inskip, H, Baird, J

“…OBJECTIVE:To test the association between the level of crowding in the home and behavioural problems in children, and to explore what factors might explain the relationship. …”

Dietary patterns in infancy and cognitive and neuropsychological function in childhood. by Gale, C, Martyn, C, Marriott, L, Limond, J, Crozier, S, Inskip, H, Godfrey, K, Law, C, Cooper, C, Robinson, S

“…RESULTS: In sex-adjusted analyses, children whose diet in infancy was characterised by high consumption of fruit, vegetables and home-prepared foods ('infant guidelines' dietary pattern) had higher full-scale and verbal IQ and better memory performance at age 4 years. …”

Physiotherapy rehabilitation for osteoporotic vertebral fracture—a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation (PROVE trial) by Barker, K, Newman, M, Stallard, N, Leal, J, Minns Lowe, C, Javaid, M, Noufaily, A, Hughes, T, Simth, D, Gandhi, V, Cooper, C, Lamb, S

“…Interventions: 7 individual physiotherapy sessions over 12 weeks focused on either manual therapy or home exercise compared with a single session of physiotherapy education (SSPT). …”

Persistence with teriparatide in patients with osteoporosis: the UK experience. by Arden, N, Earl, S, Fisher, D, Cooper, C, Carruthers, S, Goater, M

“…METHODS: Virtually all patients prescribed teriparatide in the UK receive treatment through Healthcare at Home, Basingstoke, UK. Data was obtained to assess the start date, discontinuation date and reason for discontinuation in all patients receiving teriparatide since its launch. …”

Are rates of ageing determined in utero? by Sayer, A, Cooper, C, Evans, JR, Rauf, A, Wormald, R, Osmond, C, Barker, D

“…METHODS: we traced 1428 men and women, born in Hertfordshire between 1920 and 1930, for whom records of early weight were available. 824 (58%) were interviewed at home and 717 (50%) attended clinic for eye examination, audiometry, grip strength measurement, skin thickness ultrasound and anthropometry. …”

Radiofrequency echographic multi spectrometry (REMS) in the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis: state of the art by Fuggle, NR, Reginster, J, Al-Daghri, N, Bruyere, O, Burlet, N, Campusano, C, Cooper, C, Perez, AD, Halbout, P, Ghi, T, Kaufman, J, Kurt, A, Matijevic, R, Radermecker, RP, Tuzun, S, Veronese, N, Rizzoli, R, Harvey, NC, Brandi, ML, Brandi, M

“…The portability of the device means that it can be deployed to measure BMD for frail patients at the bedside (avoiding the complications in transfer and positioning which can occur with DXA), in primary care, the emergency department, low-resource settings and even at home. The current evidence base supports the technology as a useful tool in the management of osteoporosis as an alternative to DXA.…”

Breast-feeding and adherence to infant feeding guidelines do not influence bone mass at age 4 years. by Harvey, N, Robinson, S, Crozier, SR, Marriott, L, Gale, C, Cole, Z, Inskip, H, Godfrey, K, Cooper, C

“…At 6 and 12 months the most important dietary pattern, defined by principal component analysis, was characterised by high consumption of vegetables, fruits and home-prepared foods. As this was consistent with infant feeding recommendations, it was denoted the 'infant guidelines' pattern. …”

Dietary patterns in infancy: the importance of maternal and family influences on feeding practice. by Robinson, S, Marriott, L, Poole, J, Crozier, S, Borland, S, Lawrence, W, Law, C, Godfrey, K, Cooper, C, Inskip, H

“…The first pattern was characterised by high consumption of fruit, vegetables and home-prepared foods ('infant guidelines' pattern). …”