Professor Astrid Fletcher BA PhD

Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing

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I have a first degree in anthropology, a postgraduate degree in biological anthropology and a PhD in Epidemiology. I have been at the School since 1992

Affiliation

• Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
• Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

Msc Epidemiology

Research

My research programme focuses on older people and includes studies of screening for common disabilities and conditions, and ophthalmic epidemiology with an emphasis on prevention of common eye disorders of old age. I am the Principal Investigator of the MRC Trial of assessment of older people, the seven country EUREYE study which is investigating risk factors for AMD and the INDEYE study - a 2 centre study in India investigating risk factors for cataract and age related macular degeneration.

• Selected publications

• Treatment of Hypertension in Patients 80 Years of Age or Older.

  Beckett, N.S.; Peters, R.; Fletcher, A.E.; Staessen, J.A.; Liu, L.; Dumitrascu, D.; Stoyanovsky, V.; Antikainen, R.L.; Nikitin, Y.; Anderson, C.; Belhani, A.; Forette, F.; Rajkumar, C.; Thijs, L.; Banya, W.; Bulpitt, C.J.; the HYVET Study Group, .;

  N Engl J Med, 2008; 358(18):1887-98

• Blood levels of vitamin C, carotenoids and retinol are inversely associated with cataract in a north Indian population.

  Dherani, M.; Murthy, G.V.; Gupta, S.K.; Young, I.S.; Maraini, G.; Camparini, M.; Price, G.M.; John, N.; Chakravarthy, U.; Fletcher, A.E.;

  Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2008; 49(8):3328-35

• Incident dementia and blood pressure lowering in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial cognitive function assessment (HYVET-COG): a double-blind, placebo controlled trial

  Peters, R.; Beckett, N.; Forette, F.; Tuomilehto, J.; Clarke, R.; Ritchie, C.; Waldman, A.; Walton, I.; Poulter, R.; Ma, S.; Comsa, M.; Burch, L.; Fletcher, A.; Bulpitt, C.

  Lancet Neurol, 2008; 7(8):683-9

• Oily fish consumption, dietary docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid intakes, and associations with neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

  Augood, C.; Chakravarthy, U.; Young, I.; Vioque, J.; de Jong, P.T.; Bentham, G.; Rahu, M.; Seland, J.; Soubrane, G.; Tomazzoli, L.; Topouzis, F.; Vingerling, J.R.; Fletcher, A.E.;

  Am J Clin Nutr, 2008; 88(2):398-406

• Weight, shape, and mortality risk in older persons: elevated waist-hip ratio, not high body mass index, is associated with a greater risk of death.

  Price, G.M.; Uauy, R.; Breeze, E.; Bulpitt, C.J.; Fletcher, A.E.;

  Am J Clin Nutr, 2006; 84(2):449-60

• Vulnerability to winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: population based study.

  Wilkinson, P.; Pattenden, S.; Armstrong, B.; Fletcher, A.; Kovats, R.S.; Mangtani, P.; McMichael, A.J.;

  British Medical Journal, 2004; 329(7467):647

• Population-based multidimensional assessment of older people in UK general practice: a cluster-randomised factorial trial.

  Fletcher, A.E.; Price, G.M.; Ng, E.S.; Stirling, S.L.; Bulpitt, C.J.; Breeze, E.; Nunes, M.; Jones, D.A.; Latif, A.; Fasey, N.M.; Vickers, M.R.; Tulloch, A.J.;

  Lancet, 2004; 364(9446):1667-77

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