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The role of epigenetic factors in the aetiology of common complex diseases using twins (EpiTwin)
Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,
...ongitudinal studies using DNA stored for up to 15 years- as well as parental and offspring DNA. Epigenomics is a major future growth area. This large scale study would enable us to maintain a European lead and act also a valuable future epidemiologic resource and enable important collaborations with other European researchers and cohorts.
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Apolipoprotein E gene in the Metabolic Syndrome (APOMET)
Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,
"Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is closely linked to disturbances in lipid and glucose metabolism and increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. One-fourth of the adult European population has the MetS and a further increase is anticipated because a greater prevalence of obesity in the future. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) associates with lipoproteins and mediates theirmetabolism. ...
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Let Schools Move in a Healthy, Safe and Sustainable Way
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
...re children are transported by car in their way to school. This causes negative side effects as children obesity, air pollution and reduction of children autonomy.
These problems are common to the European cities. It is a global challenge that needs local solutions. The internationality of this project will allow the exchange of best practices and new ideas about healthy, safe and sustainable mo ...
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Evidence-based ICT tools for weight loss maintenance (NoHoW)
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,
...enge for Europe. Effective interventions and commercial programmes for weight loss are widely available, but most people re-gain their lost weight. Currently few comprehensive solutions exist to help Europeans manage weight loss maintenance (WLM).Current research suggests the most promising evidence-based behaviour change techniques for WLM are self-monitoring, goal setting, action control, buildi ...
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Multi-country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, FOod-related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression (MooDFOOD) (MOODFOOD)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
...OOD consortium combines expertise in nutrition, consumer behaviour, psychiatry and preventive psychology and uses a unique integrative approach. Existing high quality data of longitudinal prospective European cohort studies will be combined with new data from surveys, short-term experiments and a long-term preventive intervention study. This approach will provide insight in the causality of the li ...
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Sustainable prevention of obesity through integrated strategies (SPOTLIGHT)
Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,
...ntation and Maintenance (RE-AIM). A further aim is to identify factors for successful implementation of MIAs into health promotion practice.APPROACHBy combining published research and collected cross-European data with expert and target-group perspectives, effective, sustainable and implementable MIAs that counteract obesogenic behaviours in adults will be defined.ACHIEVEMENTSWe will provide an ev ...
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Developmental Origins of Healthy and Unhealthy Ageing: The Role of Maternal Obesity (DORIAN)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
...e defined. This project will comprehensively address the expected impacts listed in the work programme HEALTH.2011.2.2.2-2 targeting the improvement of health and healthy ageing of a broad/broadening European population. The participation of a research intensive SME and European NGOs guarantees success in biomarker discovery-innovation and in dissemination-public preventive programs. The scientifi ...
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Dietitians ensuring education, teaching and professional quality
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
...tion policy change and increased web-based and innovative communication between higher education (HE) and the dietetic profession. But to effectively contribute to policies and practices averting the European health crisis (WHO, 2007) and poor nutritional health of its children (EU, 2007) dietitians need to make effective use of lifelong learning increasing their competence and attain a high quali ...
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