We are delighted to have been awarded the Green Impact Platinum Award in 2020-21, the first time that the Unit has achieved this award. Congratulations to our Green Impact Group for the hard work they put in towards this award, and to all Unit members who contributed to this achievement. With the award we received […]

By including multi-ethnic participants, a largescale genetic study has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits than if the research had been conducted in Europeans alone. The international MAGIC collaboration, made up of more than 400 global academics conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter. In […]

An international collaboration, led by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, including Professor Martin White of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, has calculated that approximately one million excess deaths occurred in 2020 across 29 high income countries. The results are published today in the BMJ. Assessing the coronavirus pandemic’s […]

In many countries, including the UK, many fewer women than men cycle. Using data from 17 countries in six continents, a new study led by researchers at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge has identified a threshold above which we start to see at least as many women cycling as men. For countries this […]

MRC Epidemiology Unit PhD students and scientists took part in the inaugural Cambridge Festival, held online due to the Covid pandemic. The Cambridge Festival spanned the humanities and sciences, and featured over 350 free virtual events from Friday 26 March to Sunday 4 April. Involving people in research during the Covid-19 pandemic On Tuesday 30 […]

An international research team led by scientists at the MRC Epidemiology Unit has used a new approach to combine data from 27 individual population studies and conduct the largest ever investigation of the link between consumption of legumes and type 2 diabetes. A healthy diet is one important way to prevent type 2 diabetes, a […]

A new study published today in Nature Medicine has identified key risk factors that increase the likelihood of individuals developing not only one but multiple non-communicable diseases, which include cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes. The analysis of over 11,000 people found that rather than being due to chance, there are often underlying biological […]

The amount of sugar purchased by households through soft drinks fell by 10% in the year following the introduction of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy. While the volume of soft drinks purchased did not change, the amount of sugar in those drinks was 30g lower per household per week, which the researchers say represents […]

Yesterday the American Diabetes Association (ADA) announced the recipients of the 2021 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Awards, which “recognize academics, health care providers and educators who have contributed to tangible advances in the field of diabetes care and research. Each of these leaders have unwavering dedication to achieving the mission of the ADA: […]