Research
The Centre's scientific programme includes work on the impact of infant and childhood nutrition on long term health and neurodevelopment, notably -
- cognitive function
- cardiovascular disease and its risk markers
- body fatness and
- bone health.
Tools for achieving these aims include -
- use of major randomised intervention studies
- physiological investigation of energy metabolism
- body composition
- growth
- metabolism,
- vascular physiology
- bone mineralisation and turnover
- neuroimaging
- psychometric testing and structure-function relationships in the brain.
The Centre is also interested in exploring more fundamental mechanisms involved in early nutritional 'programming' of later health and development.
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