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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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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

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH WORK PACKAGE 1 To investigate the past and present determinants of health service utilisation across the life course

BIOSTATISTICS WORK PACKAGE 2 Develop statistical methods for analyzing accelerometer data, and relate these to subsequent health outcomes.

NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY WORK PACKAGE 3 Relate dietary and physical activity data to NCD risk across Irish observational studies.

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