Cyrus Cooper

TL;DR: Research is ongoing to demonstrate the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of osteoporosis case finding and risk assessment strategies worldwide, and the huge burden caused by bone mineral density related fractures to individuals, healthcare systems and societies should provide a clear impetus for the progression of such approaches.

TL;DR: Critical in the development of this field will be an understanding of the phenotype, plasticity, and potentiality of these cells and the tempering of patients’ expectations driven by commercial and media hype to match current laboratory and clinical observations.

TL;DR: As muscle mass and strength in later life are a reflection of both the rate of muscle loss and the peak attained in early life, efforts to prevent sarcopenia also need to consider diet across the lifecourse and the potential effectiveness of early interventions.

TL;DR: Systematic, community-based screening programme of fracture risk in older women in the UK is feasible, and could be effective in reducing hip fractures, and there was no evidence of differences in mortality, anxiety levels, or quality of life.

TL;DR: The consistently reported positive relation between birth weight and adult body mass index may reflect prenatal and maternal influences on fat-free mass rather than on fat mass in older people, suggesting the postnatal environment may be more influential than prenatal factors in the development of obesity in later life.