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Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study (2015)
Journal Article
Duckham, R. L., Masud, T., Taylor, R., Kendrick, D., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., …Brooke-Wavell, K. (2015). Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study. Age and Ageing, 44(4), 573-579. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv055

Background: exercise can reduce osteoporotic fracture risk by strengthening bone or reducing fall risk. Falls prevention exercise programmes can reduce fall incidence, and also include strengthening exercises suggested to load bone, but there is litt... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study.

Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome? (2015)
Journal Article
Vedhara, K., Gill, S., Eldesouky, L., Campbell, B. K., Arevalo, J. M., Ma, J., & Cole, S. W. (2015). Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 52, 72-82. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.028

Background The temporal and situational stability of personality has led generations of researchers to hypothesize that personality may have enduring effects on health, but the biological mechanisms of such relationships remain poorly understood. In... Read More about Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?.