Recent Projects

Home based attention training in young people with traumatic brain injury

Return to work time for patients undergoing discectomy and total knee replacement

Outcomes for patients with lymphoma

MMR and influenza vaccine uptake in Lancashire and Cumbria

Academic research work

Manchester Child Heart Growth Study

This is a mixed longitudinal cohort follow up of mothers and babies who have been recruited into a separate multi-centre trial. The aims of the project are to assess how infant growth and heart function are affected by maternal diet and ethnicity. Isla Gemmell has been involved in data management and statistical analysis of this complex database over several years.

Bansal N, Ayoola OO, Gemmell I , Vyas A, Koudsi A, Oldroyd J, Clayton PE, Cruickshank JK Effects of early growth on blood pressure of infants of British European and South Asian origin at one year of age: the Manchester children's growth and vascular health study. Journal of Hypertension 2008; 26 (3): 412-418

Population Impact Measures