Prof David Melzer

@d_melzer

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health: tweeting in a personal capacity

Exeter, England Joined December 2012

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Prof David Melzer @d_melzer Aug 7, 2018

Frailty and other aging outcomes were also relatively rare in 60 to 69 year olds with low cardiovascular risk profiles, in two cohorts with 421,000 people academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…

academic.oup.com Impact of Low Cardiovascular Risk Profiles on Geriatric Outcomes: Evidence From 421,000 Participa... AbstractBackground. Individuals with low cardiovascular risk factor profiles experience lower rates of cardiovascular diseases, but associations with geria

Age_and_Ageing @Age_and_Ageing Aug 6, 2018

Cardiovascular risk factors and frailty in a cross-sectional study of older people: implications for prevention britishgeriatricssociety.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/car… via @GeriSoc
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Prof David Melzer @d_melzer Jul 26, 2018

Jamie Timmons ‘healthy ageing gene expression signature’ debunked by Jacob and Speed – doi.org/10.1186/s13059… Publication delayed for two years by Timmons threatening to sue journal editor (emails to prove) - shameful. @metapredict @GenomeBiology @RetractionWatch @senseaboutsci

link.springer.com The healthy ageing gene expression signature for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis: a random sampling... Genome Biology - In a recent publication, Sood et al. (Genome Biol 16:185, 2015) presented a set of 150 probe sets that could be used in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on...