Donald Lyall
Lecturer
Department of Health and Wellbeing
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
Biography
Donald is a lecturer in Public Health. His main interest is in the epidemiology of ageing; what are the factors which make people more or less likely to age well, mentally and physically? This research involves studying varied outcomes like cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke (etc.), as well as mental health outcomes like mood disorder and thinking skills ('cognitive function'). He mostly works with large epidemiological cohorts like the UK Biobank (http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk), ALSPAC (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/) and Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (http://www.lothianbirthcohort.ed.ac.uk/). Donald has published in journals like Neurobiology of Aging, Molecular Psychiatry and JAMA Cardiology, and presented his work publically in places like Pint of Science and Café Scientifique.
Research Interest
His main interest is in the epidemiology of ageing; what are the factors which make people more or less likely to age well, mentally and physically? This research involves studying varied outcomes like cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke (etc.), as well as mental health outcomes like mood disorder and thinking skills ('cognitive function').
Publications
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Celis-Morales, C. A. et al. (2017) Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study. BMJ, 357, j1456. (doi:10.1136/bmj.j1456) (PMID:28424154)
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Lyall, D. M. et al. (2017) Association of body mass index with cardiometabolic disease in the UK Biobank: a Mendelian randomization study. JAMA Cardiology, 2(8), pp. 882-889. (doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2016.5804) (PMID:28678979)
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Gray, S. R. et al. (2017) The associations between diabetes and both cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality are modified by grip strength: evidence from UK Biobank a prospective population-based cohort study. Diabetes Care, (Accepted for Publication)
