🚨 New paper 🚨

In several papers we’ve called for a population-level approach to #dementia risk reduction. What exactly should that entail? We searched the literature (extensively! 🤓🥱).

26 recommended interventions here ⬇️

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📣 Join our next #PublicHealthVoices event on 14 Feb 2024, 12:00 - 13:00

Oliver Mytton (@UCLChildHealth) will discuss childhood obesity & the importance of shifting focus from individuals to addressing economic, social, & environmental factors.

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👋 Join us on Feb 14 to learn more about the #rstat paper that won the Design and Data Analytics PIA Best Publication Award competition at #AAIC23 !! 🏆

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🎄Happy Holidays🎄

Alzheimer's Association ISTAART Université de Bordeaux BORDEAUX POPULATION HEALTH Center

New in nature: we used digital measurements for 7 million people exposed to confirmed COVID-19 cases to determine risks for virus transmission, captured well by NHS COVID-19 app. We found that number of hours of exposure is a major predictor, along with proximity.

Very proud, and very very lucky, that my prof and mentor is 7th in the UK, and 80th in the world, of the most influential female researchers (in any field). An inspiration

Evaluation of clinical benefits of treatments for Alzheimer's disease by Kathy Liu and colleagues: thelancet.com/journals/lanhl… #OpenAccess

We wrote a piece on how we can better evaluate clinical benefits of Alzheimer’s disease therapies authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…, with Seb Walsh Robert Howard Richard Merrick Carol Brayne, Edo Richard. 1/

Smoking addicts people who then suffer multiple diseases including heart disease, cancers, dementia and stroke.

Vapes can help smokers quit, but should never be marketed to children.

The consultation on a smokefree generation is open. Please take part.
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🚨New paper 🚨

We need more population-level approaches for #dementia risk reduction. But this requires action from #policymakers . So we set out to find out what they think.

TL;DR: they agree but raise important challenges and arguments for/against

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

If #DementiaEpidemiology or #Neuropathology is your thing. Or just fab multidisc. Team science you’ll love our new review of findings from the #cfas 🧠 cohort! @NCL_medresearch The University of Sheffield #dementia NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria Newcastle University Research Strategy Fiona Matthews
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/na…

Really nice piece from Behnam Sabayan and colleagues exploring the concept of #brainhealth , #ageing and the life course approaches we should take to promote it - with a welcome focus on population-level interventions

thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Our latest research out today in Science, showing an important role for TRIM21 during tau immunotherapy. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… . We hope this discovery will renew efforts for tau therapeutics in neurodegeneration in the face of disappointing clinical trials.

New: The prevalence, correlation, and co-occurrence of neuropathology in old age: harmonisation of 12 measures across six community-based autopsy studies of dementia by Emma Nichols and colleagues thelancet.com/journals/lanhl… #openaccess

As the first results reporting on the impact of the soft drink tax on obesity suggest an 8% fall in number of girls with obesity – or 5,000 fewer girls with obesity/yr – been trying to pull together thoughts on where things are at on public health policy in England.

Bit of a 🧵

Post-doc job opportunity 📢
We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate to work in the health economics analysis study into a dedicated mental health service for #NHS staff. Hosted by UEA in collaboration with CPFT. Please share
myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment…

Our reality-checked editorial on #Lecanemab for #Alzheimers disease in The BMJ

Lecanemab is not a “game changer”, rather it is further evidence that anti-amyloid therapies do not produce clinically meaningful benefits for people with #dementia

bmj.com/content/379/bm…

The UK CMOs and GCSA have published a technical report for our successors on some of the scientific and public health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

gov.uk/government/pub…