Miles Witham

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Professor of Trials for Older People

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Professor Miles Witham is a Professor of Trials for Older People at Newcastle University, UK. His research focuses on various aspects of health care for older adults, particularly concerning multiple long-term conditions. Recent articles by Professor Witham include studies on hospital care quality, clinical decision-making, and recruitment strategies for trials involving ethnic minority groups. He is also involved in assessing the impact of diet and physical inactivity on obesity and chronic diseases among older populations.

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NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre

Open Date: 2022-12-01

Close Date: 2027-11-01

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Ageing Research Translation (ART) of Healthy Ageing Network

Open Date: 2022-02-14

Close Date: 2024-02-13

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ADMISSION UK Multimorbidity Research Collaborative on Multiple Long-Term Conditions in Hospital: from burden and inequalities to underlying mechanisms.

Open Date: 2021-03-01

Close Date: 2025-02-01

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Acipimox therapy to improve muscle function and sarcopenia through NAD enhancement using a precision medicine approach – feasibility and initial proof of concept.

Open Date: 2021-03-01

Close Date: 2022-02-01

Grant: Close

Mouth care for pneumonia prevention in older people: a feasibility study (MAPPS)

Open Date: 2021-01-01

Close Date: 2022-06-01

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Sally Jane Singh

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University of Leicester

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Clinical decision-making and care pathways for people with multiple long-term conditions admitted to hospital: a scoping review

Building ADMISSION – A research collaborative to transform understanding of multiple long-term conditions for people admitted to hospital

Sometimes different, often the same: guidance on how recruitment and retention in trials need to be tailored to enhance participation of ethnic minority groups: a qualitative interview study in England

Cross-sectional study of the association between diet and physical inactivity with obesity, diabetes and hypertension among older adults in Sierra Leone

Exploring Similarities and Differences Between Methods That Exploit Patterns of Local Genetic Correlation to Identify Shared Causal Loci Through Application to Genome-Wide Association Studies of Multiple Long Term Conditions.

Perceptions of Hospital Care Quality According to People Living With Multiple Long-Term Conditions: A Scoping Review.

Randomised controlled trials for improving health outcomes for people living with multiple long-term conditions: Protocol for a systematic review of methodological approaches, risk of bias and reporting quality.

Evaluation of a nurse-led swallowing risk assessment tool in care-home residents: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study.

Association between markers of inflammation and outcomes after hip fracture surgery: analysis of routinely collected electronic healthcare data.

Frailty in randomized controlled trials of glucose-lowering therapies for type 2 diabetes: An individual participant data meta-analysis of frailty prevalence, treatment efficacy, and adverse events.

Repurposing Drugs for Diabetes Mellitus as Potential Pharmacological Treatments for Sarcopenia – A Narrative Review

Increasing physical activity levels in care homes for older people: a quantitative scoping review of intervention studies to guide future research

Optimising the use of SARC-F for the identification of muscle weakness by considering alternative cut-points: findings from the Newcastle SarcScreen project

Using pre-fracture mobility to augment prediction of post-operative outcomes in hip fracture

Defining and measuring multiple long-term conditions in research

The assessment of sarcopenia and the frailty phenotype in the outpatient care of older people: implementation and typical values obtained from the Newcastle SarcScreen project

Leucine and perindopril to improve physical performance in people over 70 years with sarcopenia: the LACE factorial RCT

Ageing Research Translation: a new era for UK geroscience

Effects of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide precursors on measures of physical performance and physical frailty: A systematic review

MET-PREVENT: metformin to improve physical performance in older people with sarcopenia and physical prefrailty/frailty – protocol for a double-blind, randomised controlled proof-of-concept trial

Collaborators (17)

Sally Jane Singh

Philip Anthony Heslop

Heather Cordell

Shaun Treweek

Nicky J Welton

Jacob George

Ewan Pearson

Peter Donnan

Antony Sorial

Gavin Wylie

Avan Aihie Sayer

Elizabeth Sapey

Rachel Cooper

Thilo Kroll

Jacqui Morris

Sandra Ortega-Martorell

Bārbala Ostrovska

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