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List of works by Avan Aihie Sayer

A Lifecourse Approach to Sarcopenia

A feasibility study of implementing grip strength measurement into routine hospital practice (GRImP): study protocol

scientific article

A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

A life course approach to musculoskeletal ageing: muscle strength, osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis

A multi-cohort study of polymorphisms in the GH/IGF axis and physical capability: the HALCyon programme

scientific article

A review of the measurement of grip strength in clinical and epidemiological studies: towards a standardised approach

scientific article

A study of common Mendelian disease carriers across ageing British cohorts: meta-analyses reveal heterozygosity for alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency increases respiratory capacity and height

scientific article published on February 2016

A study of mitochondrial DNA mutations in peripheral lymphocytes in an aging cohort

scientific article published in April 2003

A study of relationships between single nucleotide polymorphisms from the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor axis and bone mass: the Hertfordshire cohort study

scientific article

A systematic review of the use of volunteers to improve mealtime care of adult patients or residents in institutional settings

scientific article published on 25 April 2011

ACE inhibitors, statins and thiazides: no association with change in grip strength among community dwelling older men and women from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

ACTN3 genotype, athletic status, and life course physical capability: meta-analysis of the published literature and findings from nine studies

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Absence of association of a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the TERT-CLPTM1L locus with age-related phenotypes in a large multicohort study: the HALCyon programme

scientific article

Accumulation of risk factors associated with poor bone health in older adults

scientific article

Adult Lifetime Diet Quality and Physical Performance in Older Age: Findings From a British Birth Cohort

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Age and gender differences in physical capability levels from mid-life onwards: the harmonisation and meta-analysis of data from eight UK cohort studies

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Aging, sarcopenia and the life-course

An overview of appetite decline in older people

scientific article

Assessment and management of older people with sarcopenia.

scientific article published on June 2014

Association of diarrhoea in childhood with blood pressure and coronary heart disease in older age: analyses of two UK cohort studies

scientific article published on December 2007

Associations Between Objectively Measured Physical Activity, Body Composition and Sarcopenia: Findings from the Hertfordshire Sarcopenia Study (HSS).

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Associations between APOE and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol genotypes and cognitive and physical capability: the HALCyon programme

scientific article

Associations between grip strength of parents and their 4-year-old children: findings from the Southampton Women's Survey

scientific article published on 8 November 2011

Birth weight and growth from infancy to late adolescence in relation to fat and lean mass in early old age: findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Birth weight and weight at 1 year are independent determinants of bone mass in the seventh decade: the Hertfordshire cohort study

scientific article published on 4 February 2005

Birth weight, childhood size, and muscle strength in adult life: evidence from a birth cohort study

scientific article published in October 2002

Birth weight, infant weight gain, and cause-specific mortality: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published in June 2005

Birth weight, osteoarthritis of the hand, and cardiovascular disease in men.

scientific article published in October 2003

Body mass index from age 15 years onwards and muscle mass, strength, and quality in early old age: findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

scientific article

Body mass index, muscle strength and physical performance in older adults from eight cohort studies: the HALCyon programme

scientific article

Bone health and deterioration in quality of life among participants from the Hertfordshire cohort study.

scientific article published on 19 December 2009

Can measures of physical performance in mid-life improve the clinical prediction of disability in early old age? Findings from a British birth cohort study

scholarly article by Richard M Dodds published in September 2018

Can routine clinical data identify older patients at risk of poor healthcare outcomes on admission to hospital?

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Can trained volunteers improve the mealtime care of older hospital patients? An implementation study in one English hospital

scientific article published on 05 August 2018

Can trained volunteers make a difference at mealtimes for older people in hospital? A qualitative study of the views and experience of nurses, patients, relatives and volunteers in the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Childhood socioeconomic position and objectively measured physical capability levels in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Clinical risk factors, bone density and fall history in the prediction of incident fracture among men and women

scientific article published on 13 November 2012

Close Relationships and Risk of Frailty: The Hertfordshire Cohort Study

Clustering of lifestyle risk factors and poor physical function in older adults: the Hertfordshire cohort study

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Cohort profile: The Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS).

scientific article

Cohort profile: the Hertfordshire cohort study.

scientific article

Comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care: a systematic review

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Current Clinical Care of Older Adults With Sarcopenia

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Current patterns of diet in community-dwelling older men and women: results from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Detailed physiologic characterization reveals diverse mechanisms for novel genetic Loci regulating glucose and insulin metabolism in humans

scientific article

Development of a Short Questionnaire to Assess Diet Quality among Older Community-Dwelling Adults.

scientific article

Developmental Origins of Musculoskeletal Disease

Developmental influences, muscle morphology, and sarcopenia in community-dwelling older men

scientific article

Developmental origins of midlife grip strength: findings from a birth cohort study

scientific article

Developmental origins of midlife physical performance: evidence from a British birth cohort

scientific article

Diet and its relationship with grip strength in community-dwelling older men and women: the Hertfordshire cohort study

scientific article published on 15 November 2007

Dietary total antioxidant capacity is related to glucose tolerance in older people: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Do all systems age together?

scientific article published in January 1999

Do cognitively impaired patients benefit from rehabilitation?

Does chair type influence outcome in the timed "Up and Go" test in older persons?

scientific article published in April 2010

Does cognitive impairment affect rehabilitation outcome?

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Does diet influence physical performance in community-dwelling older people? Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

article by H. Martin et al published 14 January 2011 in Age and Ageing

Does sarcopenia originate in early life? Findings from the Hertfordshire cohort study

scientific article

Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and physical performance at older ages: an individual participant meta-analysis

scientific article

Effect of Dietary Patterns on Muscle Strength and Physical Performance in the Very Old: Findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study

scientific article

Effect of smoking on physical and cognitive capability in later life: a multicohort study using observational and genetic approaches

scientific article

Effects of aerobic exercise on muscle strength and physical performance in community-dwelling older people from the Hertfordshire cohort study: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on June 2013

Epidemiology of sarcopenia and insight into possible therapeutic targets

scientific article

Epigenome-wide association study of sarcopenia: findings from the Hertfordshire Sarcopenia Study (HSS)

scientific article published on 04 December 2021

Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

scientific article published in May 2010

Evaluation of common genetic variants identified by GWAS for early onset and morbid obesity in population-based samples

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Exome-wide analysis of rare coding variation identifies novel associations with COPD and airflow limitation in MOCS3, IFIT3 and SERPINA12.

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Factors associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression in five cohorts of community-based older people: the HALCyon (Healthy Ageing across the Life Course) Programme.

scientific article

Falls, sarcopenia, and growth in early life: findings from the Hertfordshire cohort study

scientific article

Fetal and infant growth and glucose tolerance in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study: a study of men and women born between 1931 and 1939.

scientific article published in December 2005

Fetal programming of body composition and musculoskeletal development

scientific article

Finding the right outcome measures for care home research

scientific article published on 25 May 2010

Frailty and sarcopenia: definitions and outcome parameters

scientific article published on July 2012

Framingham cardiovascular disease risk scores and incident frailty: the English longitudinal study of ageing

scientific article

Further evidence of the developmental origins of osteoarthritis: results from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 26 August 2014

Gender and telomere length: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

Genetic markers of bone and joint health and physical capability in older adults: the HALCyon programme

scientific article

Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

scientific journal article

Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Global variation in grip strength: a systematic review and meta-analysis of normative data

scientific article

Grip strength across the life course: normative data from twelve British studies

scientific article

Grip strength among community-dwelling older people predicts hospital admission during the following decade.

scientific article published on November 2015

Grip strength and cardiovascular drug use in older people: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 17 December 2009

Grip strength and inflammatory biomarker profiles in very old adults.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Grip strength and its determinants among older people in different healthcare settings

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

Grip strength and mortality: a biomarker of ageing?

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Grip strength and the metabolic syndrome: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 19 October 2007

Grip strength at four years in relation to birth weight

scientific article published on April 2012

Grip strength in a cohort of older medical inpatients in Malaysia: a pilot study to describe the range, determinants and association with length of hospital stay.

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Grip strength, body composition, and mortality

article

Growth in early life predicts bone strength in late adulthood: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Health and Employment after Fifty (HEAF): a new prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Heavy manual work throughout the working lifetime and muscle strength among men at retirement age

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Hertfordshire sarcopenia study: design and methods

scientific article

How clinical practitioners assess frailty in their daily practice: an international survey

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

How useful are the SF-36 sub-scales in older people? Mokken scaling of data from the HALCyon programme

scientific article

Human Vastus Lateralis Skeletal Muscle Biopsy Using the Weil-Blakesley Conchotome

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Identification of risk factors for hospital admission using multiple-failure survival models: a toolkit for researchers

scientific article

Immune-endocrine biomarkers as predictors of frailty and mortality: a 10-year longitudinal study in community-dwelling older people

scientific article published on 3 March 2012

Increased expression of H19/miR-675 is associated with a low fat-free mass index in patients with COPD.

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Inflammation, telomere length, and grip strength: a 10-year longitudinal study

scientific article

Inflammatory markers and incident frailty in men and women: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

scientific article published on 02 April 2013

Influences on diet quality in older age: the importance of social factors

scientific article published on 15 October 2016

Intrahepatic Lipid Content and Insulin Resistance Are More Strongly Associated with Impaired NEFA Suppression after Oral Glucose Loading Than with Fasting NEFA Levels in Healthy Older Individuals

scientific article published on 2 May 2013

Intrauterine exposure to a maternal low protein diet reduces adult bone mass and alters growth plate morphology in rats

scientific article

Is Hand-Held Dynamometry Useful for the Measurement of Quadriceps Strength in Older People? A Comparison with the Gold Standard Biodex Dynamometry

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Is grip strength a good marker of physical performance among community-dwelling older people?

scientific article published on January 2012

Is grip strength a useful single marker of frailty?

scientific article published in November 2003

Is grip strength associated with health-related quality of life? Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 11 May 2006

Is grip strength associated with length of stay in hospitalised older patients admitted for rehabilitation? Findings from the Southampton grip strength study ⬇️

scientific article published on July 9, 2012

Is lung function associated with bone mineral density? Results from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Job dissatisfaction and the older worker: baseline findings from the Health and Employment After Fifty study

scientific article published on 05 May 2016

Late life metabolic syndrome, early growth, and common polymorphism in the growth hormone and placental lactogen gene cluster

scientific article published in November 2004

Lean mass and fat mass have differing associations with bone microarchitecture assessed by high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography in men and women from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Lean mass, muscle strength and gene expression in community dwelling older men: findings from the Hertfordshire Sarcopenia Study (HSS).

scientific article

Life course trajectories of systolic blood pressure using longitudinal data from eight UK cohorts

scientific article

Lifecourse Epidemiology and Aging

scholarly article published 2012

Lipid profile, obesity and bone mineral density: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Liver fat accumulation is associated with reduced hepatic insulin extraction and beta cell dysfunction in healthy older individuals

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Low protein intake, muscle strength and physical performance in the very old: The Newcastle 85+ Study

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Lower maternal body condition during pregnancy affects skeletal muscle structure and glut-4 protein levels but not glucose tolerance in mature adult sheep

scientific article published on 18 February 2013

Markers of inflammatory status are associated with hearing threshold in older people: findings from the Hertfordshire Ageing Study

scientific article published on 14 November 2011

Maternal antenatal vitamin D status and offspring muscle development: findings from the Southampton Women's Survey

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Measuring Appetite with the Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire Identifies Hospitalised Older People at Risk of Worse Health Outcomes

scientific article published on January 2016

Mortality in the Hertfordshire Ageing Study: association with level and loss of hand grip strength in later life

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Muscle Mass, Muscle Morphology and Bone Health Among Community-Dwelling Older Men: Findings from the Hertfordshire Sarcopenia Study (HSS).

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Muscle size, strength, and physical performance and their associations with bone structure in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Muscle strength in older community-dwelling men is related to type of milk feeding in infancy

scientific article

Neighbourhood environment and positive mental health in older people: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 13 May 2011

New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

scientific article

New horizons in multimorbidity in older adults ⬇️

scientific article

New horizons in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of sarcopenia

scientific article

No interactions between previously associated 2-hour glucose gene variants and physical activity or BMI on 2-hour glucose levels

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Non-invasive Assessment of Lower Limb Geometry and Strength Using Hip Structural Analysis and Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography: A Population-Based Comparison

scientific article

Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals

scientific article

Null mutation in human ciliary neurotrophic factor gene confers higher body mass index in males

scientific article published in November 2002

Nurse-led implementation of the single assessment process in primary care: a descriptive feasibility study

scientific article

Nutrition and sarcopenia: a review of the evidence and implications for preventive strategies

scientific article published on 15 March 2012

Nutrition in the Very Old.

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Osteoporosis and sarcopenia in older age

scientific article

Papel de los profesionales de la atención primaria en el manejo de la sarcopenia

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Parental determinants of neonatal body composition

scientific article

Patterns of dietary supplement use among older men and women in the UK: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Patterns of interphalangeal hand joint involvement of osteoarthritis among men and women: a British cohort study

scientific article published in December 2003

Peri-implantation and late gestation maternal undernutrition differentially affect fetal sheep skeletal muscle development

scientific article

Peripheral quantitative computed tomography measures are associated with adult fracture risk: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Physical activity levels across adult life and grip strength in early old age: updating findings from a British birth cohort

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

Physical capability and subsequent positive mental wellbeing in older people: findings from five HALCyon cohorts

scientific article published on 02 July 2013

Physical performance and physical activity in older people: are developmental influences important?

scientific article published on 18 November 2008

Polymorphism of the IGF2 gene, birth weight and grip strength in adult men.

scientific article published in November 2002

Population mutation scanning of human GHR by meltMADGE and identification of a paucimorphic variant

scientific article

Prenatal Exposure to a Maternal Low Protein Diet Shortens Life Span in Rats

article by Avan Aihie Sayer et al published 2001 in Gerontology

Prevalence and correlates of frailty among community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 8 December 2009

Prevalence and functionality of paucimorphic and privateMC4Rmutations in a large, unselected European British population, scanned by meltMADGE

article published in 2007

Prevalence of Falls in an Urban Community-Dwelling Older Population of Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on January 2015

Prevalence of frailty and disability: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

scientific article

Prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling older people in the UK using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) definition: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS)

scientific article

Prevention and optimal management of sarcopenia: a review of combined exercise and nutrition interventions to improve muscle outcomes in older people

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Processed meat consumption and lung function: modification by antioxidants and smoking

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Proprioception: where are we now? A commentary on clinical assessment, changes across the life course, functional implications and future interventions

scientific article

Psychological well-being and incident frailty in men and women: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

scientific article published on 03 July 2013

Quality of life in sarcopenia and frailty

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of aerobic exercise in reducing metabolic risk in healthy older people: The Hertfordshire Physical Activity Trial

scientific article

Readiness of elders to use assistive devices to maintain their independence in the home

scientific article

Relationship between customary physical activity, muscle strength and physical performance in older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 29 July 2008

Relationship of vitamin D status to adult lung function and COPD

scientific article published on 08 June 2011

Relationships between SF-36 health profile and bone mineral density: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 25 May 2006

Reply

Sarcopenia definition, diagnosis and treatment: consensus is growing

Sarcopenia the new geriatric giant: time to translate research findings into clinical practice

scientific article

Sarcopenia, long-term conditions, and multimorbidity: findings from UK Biobank participants

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis

Size at birth and its relation to muscle strength in young adult women

scientific article

Skeletal muscle morphology in sarcopenia defined using the EWGSOP criteria: findings from the Hertfordshire Sarcopenia Study (HSS).

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Sleep disturbance and the older worker: findings from the Health and Employment after Fifty study

scientific article published on 4 January 2017

Social inequalities in grip strength, physical function, and falls among community dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 13 July 2009

Social inequalities in osteoporosis and fracture among community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study: design and methods

scientific article

Specific associations of insulin resistance with impaired health-related quality of life in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 8 November 2006

Subcellular origin of mitochondrial DNA deletions in human skeletal muscle

Symptoms of anxiety or depression and risk of fracture in older people: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Television viewing, walking speed, and grip strength in a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on April 2015

Telomere length and physical performance at older ages: an individual participant meta-analysis

scientific article

The Association of Grip Strength With Severity and Duration of Parkinson's: A Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

The Developmental Origins of Ageing

The Epidemiology of Sarcopenia

scientific article

The Hertfordshire Cohort Study: from historical to high-tech studies of musculoskeletal ageing in men and women entering their ninth decade

scientific article published in April 2012

The Impact of Trained Volunteer Mealtime Assistants on Dietary Intake and Satisfaction with Mealtime Care in Adult Hospital Inpatients: A Systematic Review

scientific article published in January 2017

The Impact of Trained Volunteer Mealtime Assistants on the Dietary Intake of Older Female In-Patients: The Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study.

scientific article

The developmental environment: clinical perspectives on effects on the musculoskeletal system

The developmental origins of sarcopenia

scientific article published on August 2008

The developmental origins of sarcopenia: from epidemiological evidence to underlying mechanisms

scientific article published in June 2010

The developmental origins of sarcopenia: using peripheral quantitative computed tomography to assess muscle size in older people

scientific article

The dynamic relationship between cognitive function and walking speed: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

scientific article

The early environment, developmental plasticity and aging

article by Avan Aihie Sayer & David Barker published August 2002 in Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

The effects of aerobic exercise on metabolic risk, insulin sensitivity and intrahepatic lipid in healthy older people from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 January 2010

The feasibility and acceptability of training volunteer mealtime assistants to help older acute hospital inpatients: the Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study

scientific article

The feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia in hospitalised older people: a comparison of commonly used tools

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

The identification of probable sarcopenia in early old age based on the SARC-F tool and clinical suspicion: findings from the 1946 British birth cohort

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

The importance of fall history in fracture risk assessment

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

The relationship of dietary patterns with adult lung function and COPD

scientific article published on 14 January 2010

The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in four cohorts of community-based, healthy older people: the HALCyon program

scientific article published on 10 March 2010

The use of volunteers to help older medical patients mobilise in hospital: a systematic review

scientific article

Tools in the assessment of sarcopenia

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Type 2 Diabetes, Muscle Strength, and Impaired Physical Function: The tip of the iceberg?

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with increased axial bone density in men and women from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study: evidence for an indirect effect of insulin resistance?

scientific article

Type of milk feeding in infancy and health behaviours in adult life: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 5 July 2012

Understanding NHS hospital admissions in England: linkage of Hospital Episode Statistics to the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article

Understanding poor health behaviours as predictors of different types of hospital admission in older people: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Urinary CTX-II and glucosyl-galactosyl-pyridinoline are associated with the presence and severity of radiographic knee osteoarthritis in men.

scientific article published on 10 November 2005

Use of the electronic Frailty Index to identify vulnerable patients: a pilot study in primary care.

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Vitamin D Status, Muscle Strength and Physical Performance Decline in Very Old Adults: A Prospective Study

scientific article

What influences diet quality in older people? A qualitative study among community-dwelling older adults from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, UK.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

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