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Obesity and Overweight in Ireland
A multidisciplinary approach to a multifaceted public health problem.
Patricia Kearney, Janas Harrington, Sheena McHugh, Jamie Madden, Xia Lee, Darren Dahly, Christina Dillon, Eimear Keane
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Source: Growing up in Ireland, 9 Year Old Females, 2007-2008
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Source: WHO, 2008 - SLAN 2007, Obese and Overweight Adults
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Source: Gillman MW. A lifecourse approach to obesity. From A lifecourse
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Lifestyle Transitions and Trajectories: Enhancing capacity in Irish cohort and
cross-sectional studies
Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Award
Building capacity in population health and health services research
Funded by the Health Research Board
Aims
• To describe how behavioural risk factors for obesity, CVD, and diabetes unfold over the life course in Ireland.
• To relate these life course patterns to health outcomes and health care utilization.
• To maximize the use of data from 9 Irish observational studies that collectively span the life course.
Team Investigators
Dr Xia Lee - Biostatistics
Dr Darren Dahly – Nutritional Epidemiology
Dr Sheena McHugh – Health Services Research
http://www.ucc.ie/en/epid/people/
Data Sources
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (age 50+ years, 2010)
Cork and Kerry Diabetes and Heart Disease Study (50-69, 1998-2008)
Mitchelstown Cohort (50-59, 2010)
National Survey of Lifestyles, Attitudes and Nutrition (18+, 2007)
SCOPE (Mothers, 2008-2012)
Growing up in Ireland (9m and 9y, 2007-2009)
Cork Children’s Lifestyle Study (9y, 2012-2013)
BASELINE (Birth to 2y, 2009-2012)
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (2 to 6m, 2012)
Four Areas of Expertise
Primary Investigators of the Studies
Methodologists – Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Services
Clinicians
Policy and Practice
Primary Investigators
Dr. Tony Fitzgerald, UCC Biostatistics
Prof. Joe Eustace, CRF/UCC Clinical Epidemiology
Dr. Patricia Kearney, UCC Epidemiology
Prof. Louise Kenny, UCC Obstetrics
Prof. John Browne, UCC Health Services Research
Prof. Ciaran O'Neill, NUIG Health Economics
External Collaborators
Prof. Zhenming Chen University of Oxford
Prof. Sharon Friel Australian National University
Dr. Graham Law University of Leeds
Dr. Kathleen Bennett Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Ellen Nolte RAND
Prof. Richard Layte ESRI
Prof. Amy Herring University of North Carolina
WORK PACKAGE 1
HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
To investigate the past and present determinants of health service utilisation across the life course
WORK PACKAGE 2
BIOSTATISTICS
Develop statistical methods for analyzing accelerometer data, and relate these to subsequent health outcomes.
WORK PACKAGE 3
NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Relate dietary and physical activity data to NCD risk across Irish observational studies.
