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Ailsa Welch is a researcher affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across several related subfields, including Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

Their research topics focus on diverse aspects of nutrition and health, particularly relating to aging and metabolism. Key areas include Nutrition and Health in Aging, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Body Composition Measurement Techniques, Bone Health and Osteoporosis Research, Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research, and Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition.

Ailsa Welch has an extensive publication record with frequent contributions to prominent journals such as:

  • Nutrients
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society
  • BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Welch include:

  • Nutrition and Frailty: Opportunities for Prevention and Treatment, 2021, Nutrients
  • Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2 virus/COVID-19 disease, 2020, BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health
  • Lower Dietary and Circulating Vitamin C in Middle- and Older-Aged Men and Women Are Associated with Lower Estimated Skeletal Muscle Mass, 2020, Journal of Nutrition
  • Effect of gut microbiome modulation on muscle function and cognition: the PROMOTe randomised controlled trial, 2024, Nature Communications
  • A Mediterranean Diet Is Positively Associated with Bone and Muscle Health in a Non-Mediterranean Region in 25,450 Men and Women from EPIC-Norfolk, 2020, Nutrients

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Richard Hayhoe, Angela A. Mulligan, Robert Luben, Kay-Tee Khaw, and Jane Skinner.

Best Publications

  • Association of hemoglobin A1c with cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults: the European prospective investigation into cancer in Norfolk.

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Nicholas Wareham;Sheila Bingham;Robert Luben

  • Glycated haemoglobin, diabetes, and mortality in men in Norfolk cohort of european prospective investigation of cancer and nutrition (EPIC-Norfolk).

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Nicholas Wareham;Robert Luben;Sheila Bingham

  • Combined Impact of Health Behaviours and Mortality in Men and Women: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Nicholas J. Wareham;Sheila Bingham;Ailsa A. Welch

  • Comparison of dietary assessment methods in nutritional epidemiology: weighed records v . 24 h recalls, food-frequency questionnaires and estimated-diet records

    S. A. Bingham;C. Gill;A. Welch;K. Day

  • Endogenous Testosterone and Mortality Due to All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer in Men European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) Prospective Population Study

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Mitch Dowsett;Elizabeth Folkerd;Sheila Bingham

  • EPIC-Norfolk: study design and characteristics of the cohort. European Prospective Investigation of Cancer.

    Day N;Oakes S;Luben R;Khaw Kt

  • Relation between plasma ascorbic acid and mortality in men and women in EPIC-Norfolk prospective study: a prospective population study

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Sheila Bingham;Ailsa Welch;Robert Luben

  • Validation of dietary assessment methods in the UK arm of EPIC using weighed records, and 24-hour urinary nitrogen and potassium and serum vitamin C and carotenoids as biomarkers.

    Sheila A. Bingham;Caroline Gill;Ailsa Welch;Aedin Cassidy

  • Body Fat Distribution and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition in Norfolk Cohort A Population-Based Prospective Study

    Dexter Canoy;S. Matthijs Boekholdt;Nicholas Wareham;Robert Luben

  • Are imprecise methods obscuring a relation between fat and breast cancer

    Sheila A Bingham;Robert Luben;Ailsa Welch;Nicholas Wareham

  • VALIDATION OF WEIGHED RECORDS AND OTHER METHODS OF DIETARY ASSESSMENT USING THE 24-H URINE NITROGEN TECHNIQUE AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL MARKERS

    S. A. Bingham;A. Cassidy;T. J. Cole;A. Welch

  • Epidemiological assessment of diet: a comparison of a 7-day diary with a food frequency questionnaire using urinary markers of nitrogen, potassium and sodium

    NE Day;N McKeown;MY Wong;A Welch

  • Standardization of the 24-hour diet recall calibration method used in the european prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): general concepts and preliminary results.

    N Slimani;P Ferrari;M Ocké;A Welch

  • Television viewing and low participation in vigorous recreation are independently associated with obesity and markers of cardiovascular disease risk: EPIC-Norfolk population-based study

    R. W. Jakes;N. E. Day;K. T. Khaw;R. Luben

  • Nutritional methods in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer in Norfolk

    Sheila A Bingham;Ailsa A Welch;Alison McTaggart;Angela A Mulligan

  • Plasma vitamin C level, fruit and vegetable consumption, and the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus: the European prospective investigation of cancer--Norfolk prospective study.

    Anne-Helen Harding;Nicholas J. Wareham;Sheila A. Bingham;KayTee Khaw

  • European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) calibration study: rationale, design and population characteristics

    N Slimani;R Kaaks;P Ferrari;C Casagrande

  • Cigarette Smoking and Fat Distribution in 21, 828 British Men and Women: A Population‐based Study

    Dexter Canoy;Nicholas Wareham;Robert Luben;Ailsa Welch

  • Prediction of total and hip fracture risk in men and women by quantitative ultrasound of the calcaneus: EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Jonathan Reeve;Robert Luben;Sheila Bingham

  • Association of hemoglobin A1c with cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults: The European prospective investigation into cancer in Norfolk

    K.T. Khaw;N. Wareham;S. Bingham;R. Luben

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Luben
Robert Luben University College London
Sheila Bingham
Sheila Bingham University of Cambridge
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Nicholas E. Day
Nicholas E. Day University of Cambridge
Nadia Slimani
Nadia Slimani International Agency For Research On Cancer
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Aedin Cassidy
Aedin Cassidy Queen's University Belfast
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Marga C. Ocké
Marga C. Ocké Centre for Health Protection

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