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112: 192:, a birth cohort study that followed over 5,000 participants from their births in 1946. She became Scientific Director of the National Survey of Health and Development in 2007. Her first work using the cohort study looked to understand the origins of cardiovascular disease and the contributions of early exposure. This became the basis of her doctoral research, earning a PhD at 216:, which explored the long-term influence of foetal and childhood experience. Her research has shown that early life has a profound impact on adult health, and that disadvantage resulted in accelerated ageing. This included musculoskeletal ageing: childhood adversity, birthweight and attainment of motor milestones were associated with adult grip strength. 208:
to study premature and early menopause. Together they showed that women with recurrent risk miscarriages were more likely to experience menopause early, and that Asian women faced a greater risk than other ethnicities. She also showed that later menopause was slightly beneficial to memory.
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transition. Her research showed that breastfeeding, better socioeconomic circumstances and higher cognitive ability children correlated with later menopause. She went on to show the relationship between menopause, bone density and cardiovascular function. She worked with
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Kuh became interested in women's health in the late nineties. When her cohort study turned 43 years old, they were interviewed by nurses at home. Kuh took this opportunity to understand the
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Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing. Her work showed that children born after 1990 were over three times more likely than other generations to be overweight.
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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC); Erkin Mirrakhimov; George Stergiou; et al. (10 October 2017).
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D. Kuh; Y. Ben-Shlomo; J. Lynch; J. Hallqvist; C. Power (1 October 2003).
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Kuh, Diana L.; Wadsworth, Michael; Hardy, Rebecca (August 1997).
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who is an emeritus professor of Life Course Epidemiology at
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D Mishra, Gita; Kuh, Diana; Hardy, Rebecca, eds. (2023).
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to understanding women's health. She established the
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