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This weekend we hosted our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Annual Meeting

30 of our public contributors joined us in person and online for a day filled with insightful discussions 🗨️

Learn more about our PPIE work ➡️https://buff.ly/dss0mjc

Navy blue background with a photo of Cornelia van Duijn. Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford Population Health. Quote text reads: Our study highlights the key role of the brain in our health and life expectancy. As a genetic neuro-epidemiologist, the finding that thrills me most is that managing your brain ageing may counteract any disadvantage based on your genetic make-up. This is a break through and worth the effort.

🧠"Ageing clocks" show a healthier brain may reduce risk of dementia and early death

🕗“Ageing clocks” are statistical models that estimate how fast a person’s organs are ageing compared to the expected ageing ➡️ buff.ly/2jW3gsS

@broadinstitute.org @pku1898.bsky.social

Navy blue background with a photo of Christoph Wanner, Visiting Professor at Oxford Population Health’s Renal Studies Group. Quote reads: This report concludes that CKD is highly detectable, largely manageable, and now supported by several proven therapies that are simple to implement across diverse health-care systems. If adopted widely, these measures could substantially reduce the global burden of kidney failure, cardiovascular disease, and premature death.

📣Recent breakthroughs in treatment and detection of chronic kidney disease can reduce risks for many people with the disease 📉

Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/tXrDKs2

🎉RECOVERY has recruited 1000 flu participants!

RECOVERY aims to compare several different treatments that may be useful for patients with pneumonia, including influenza ➡️ buff.ly/eSwTCBe

EASi-KIDNEY trial 300+ sites

🎉Over 300 sites are now collaborating in the EASi-KIDNEY trial!

📉EASi-KIDNEY will investigate whether a novel treatment can help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) ➡️ buff.ly/PXTVVeE

🤔 How accurate are your fitness trackers?

Activity trackers can overestimate activity and misclassify sleep stages – but how accurate are they in real life?

The Oxford Wearables Group is running a real-world study to find out. 🙌 And we need YOUR help!➡️ bit.ly/3X3tvnI

Navy blue background with a profile photo of Bowen Liu, DPhil student at Oxford Population Health. Quote text reads These findings highlight the importance of preventing diabetes, through weight management and other strategies, in reducing the risk of developing several common cancers.

💡This #WorldDiabetesDay, did you know having diabetes increases risk of six types of cancer?

📊Analysing data from 2.2 million adults, they found the association between diabetes and these six types of cancer can't be explained by other common risk factors ➡️ buff.ly/J39Rh9z @ukbiobank.bsky.social

Navy blue background with a photo of Will Herrington, Professor of Trials and Kidney Disease Epidemiology Co-lead of the Renal Studies Group and the Oxford Population Health logo. Quote reads Our analysis shows that the kidney and heart protection provided by SGLT2 inhibitors clearly outweigh the risks, even in those without diabetes or with only small amounts of protein in their urine. This evidence supports simplifying treatment guidance to ensure more patients can benefit.

🔍New study finds major benefits of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors treatment for chronic kidney disease (CKB) regardless of the type of CKB patient

Leanr more ➡️ buff.ly/LXYWqgA

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📣 Study led by Oxford Population Health researchers compared the growth of children who were HIV-exposed but uninfected and HIV-unexposed and uninfected found no differences in growth ➡️ buff.ly/UUyIpOK

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🎥The next Festival of Global Health event will be on 26 Nov!

🌍Join us for a screening of Spillover: Planet of Viruses, followed by a panel discussion at the Curzon cinema

Find out more and register ➡️ buff.ly/AAZbBCz

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📣New investment into Children’s Surgery Outcome Reporting programme led by @npeu-oxford.bsky.social

📊Researchers from the Big Data Institute will contribute to the creation of a unified, England-wide dataset to support this research

Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/3GEC2Tt

Meta-analysis of exome-wide gene burden analysis of breast cancer susceptibility genes - npj Breast Cancer npj Breast Cancer - Meta-analysis of exome-wide gene burden analysis of breast cancer susceptibility genes

🧬New evidence for genetic susceptibility to breast cancer

💡A meta-analysis confirmed significant association between breast cancer risk and six genes already known to be associated and collected evidence to support the link between two other genes, BARD1 and ATRIP

Read the paper ⬇️

🦠Bacteria 'barcodes'

Researchers have devloped a new tool to track bacterium that commonly causes respiratory infections.

They have provided the most detailed structure analysis of Moraxella catarrhalis to date ➡️ buff.ly/IaffbCH

🕖The clocks changed this weekend - but does really time exist?

🎧This episode of After the End Podcast from @ethoxcentre.bsky.social explores the physics of time and the end of the universe ➡️ buff.ly/pcvGhtA

@oxfordbrc.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Quote from Eva Morris reading: The NHS holds uniquely rich data that, when linked and used effectively, can simply and efficiently identify missed cancers, improve training, and make diagnosis earlier and safer. We can, and should, be doing more with NHS data to save lives.

🔍Almost 70% of bowel cancers missed at colonoscopy are avoidable

This study creates the first national system for identifying post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers and understanding why they arise ➡️ buff.ly/kmsoxGh

We're hiring! Data Wrangler. Closing date: 7 November 12:00. IT Analyst/Programmer. Closing data: 13 November 12:00.

👀Looking for your next role? Join us!

📊 Data Wrangler (closes 7 Nov)➡️ buff.ly/b5LkIpx
🖱️ IT Analyst Programmer (closes 13 Nov)➡️ buff.ly/qWcz9BX

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🩺Underweight children cost the NHS as much per child as children with obesity.

A study by @herc-oxford.bsky.social and @oxprimarycare.bsky.social provides the first national picture of healthcare costs linked to children’s weight.

Learn more➡️ buff.ly/dO3KhZX

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An effective online treatment for childhood anxiety developed by a team at the University of Oxford is to be adapted and tested in five countries in Asia and South America, with the aim of driving widespread implementation in the future.

Read more: tinyurl.com/3wpbu46b

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📣Online treatment for childhood anxiety, developed by researchers at @herc-oxford.bsky.social and @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social to be rolled out internationally.

💻Online Support and Intervention (OSI) tool is an online CBT platform for treating anxiety problems in children ➡️ buff.ly/kuh1P5G

❓How do we involve the public in our research?

Today is World Evidence Based Healthcare Day and the theme is collaborative knowledge communication 🤝

Our researchers collaborate with patients and the public throughout the research process ➡️https://buff.ly/V1sLgul #WorldEBHCDay

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🧬 Ahead of #WorldMenopauseDay we are looking back at this research from @oxforddemsci.bsky.socialand @haskoliislands.bsky.social which explored, among other things, how our DNA can impact the timing of menopause ➡️https://buff.ly/76DSbw0

⏰Less than one week until the next Festival of Global Health event on 22 Oct!

📽️Join us for a screening of Trancendence: A Journey of Hope and Healing, followed by a panel discussion the Curzon Cinema ➡️https://buff.ly/lRmZsZn

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Last week we celebrated various awards winners at our OxPop showcase 🏆

Here are the award winners, pictured with our new Head of Department Professor Prabhat Jha ➡️https://buff.ly/8LwmMS8

@countthedead.bsky.social

Quote tile with a photo of Mara Violato and the quote: ‘As a health economist, I feel truly honoured to be recognised for this award as part of the Co-CAT study team. This nomination celebrates what can be achieved when people from different disciplines come together with a shared purpose. Clinicians, health economists, statisticians, qualitative researchers, and people with lived experience have all worked side by side to improve mental health care for children.’

🎉 Congrats to Prof Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu, part of the Co-CAT study team nominated for an @acamh.bsky.social Award for their research into an online, parent-led programme with therapist support to help children with anxiety ➡️ buff.ly/00cMB1H

@herc-oxford.bsky.social #WorldMentalHealthDay

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🎓 Welcome to our new cohort of postgraduate students!

Could this be you next year? 🤔
Applications are now open to join us as a DPhil or MSc student ➡️ buff.ly/2znqpk5

Algorithm for identifying breast cancer recurrences In this video, Gurdeep S. Mannu explains how researchers at Oxford Population Health have developed an algorithm to identify different types of breast cancer recurrences using cancer registry data.…

🎀October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

📊Did you know researchers at Oxford Population Health have developed an algorithm to identify different types of breast cancer recurrences using cancer registry data?

#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

📽️Learn more ➡️

⏰The next Festival of Global Health event will be on 22 Oct!

📽️Join us for a screening of Trancendence: A Journey of Hope and Healing, followed by a panel discussion at the Curzon Cinema

Find out more and register ➡️https://buff.ly/vMMaem8

In this video, Gurdeep S. Mannu explains how researchers at Oxford Population Health have developed an algorithm to identify different types of breast cancer recurrences using cancer registry data.… Algorithm for identifying breast cancer recurrences

🎀October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

🎥At Oxford Population Health, researchers have developed an algorithm to identify different types of breast cancer recurrences using cancer registry data

Find out more ➡️ buff.ly/ic7HAWS

Two-year outcomes after selective early treatment of patent ductus arteriosus with ibuprofen in preterm babies: follow-up of Baby-OSCAR–a randomised controlled trial We found no evidence of an improvement in neurodevelopmental and respiratory outcomes at 24 months’ corrected age, after selective early treatment of a PDA ≥1.5 mm with ibuprofen in children born…

🔎Baby-OSCAR trial: Can ibuprofen treat patent ductus arteriosus in premature infants?

📣The Lancet study found early ibuprofen treatment did not improve neurodevelopmental or respiratory outcomes in premature babies with patent ductus arteriosus ➡️