Agnes Ayton
Consultant psychiatrist - eating disorders. Vice Chair of the Eating Disorder Faculty, deputy chair of the Clinical Paper Panel, treasurer of EPSIG at RCPsych
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The Guardian view on policing youth violence: knives are a public health issue | Editorial
Editorial: Ministers and the mayor of London have embraced a new approach. But breaking the cycle will take resources as well as ideas
Boris Johnson pledges to tackle inactivity crisis of schoolchildren if he becomes prime minister
Boris Johnson has pledged to make tackling the inactivity crisis of schoolchildren a “key pillar” of his programme for the Government if, as expected, he succeeds Theresa May as prime minister next week.
True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission
Radical change needed to make UK food and farming system sustainable within 10 years
The Bedpan: The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice
This week: Professor Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London
Men’s Bodily Attractiveness: Muscles as Fitness Indicators - Patrick K. Durkee, Pablo Polo, José Antonio Muñoz-Reyes, Claudia Rodríguez-Ruiz, María Losada-Pérez, Ana B. Fernández-Martínez, Enrique Turiégano, David M. Buss, Miguel Pita, 2019
Bodily attractiveness is an important component of mate value. Musculature—a crucial component of men’s bodily attractiveness—provides women with probabilistic ...
Personal Reflections and What the ANGI Results Mean for Patients, Families, and Clinicians Today: Part 4
by Cynthia M. Bulik PhD This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about recent results from the Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative study published in Nature Genetics. Part 1 details our result…
Why GWAS's are evil
OK, yes, I know that genome-wide association studies have identified some important genetic effects but there are some important downsides t...
Anorexia May Be Linked to Metabolism, a Genetic Analysis Suggests
A large, correlation-based study identifies eight genome regions associated with the eating disorder
Childhood Obesity - Hansard
Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Daily Debates from Hansard are published on this website the next working day.
Early warning signs of eating disorder revealed in large-scale data study
Early warning signs that someone may have an eating disorder have been revealed in a large-scale data study conducted by Swansea University researchers.
Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa
Genome-wide analyses identify eight independent loci associated with anorexia nervosa. Genetic correlations implicate both psychiatric and metabolic components in the etiology of this disorder, even after adjusting for the effects of common variants...
Anorexia not just a psychiatric problem, scientists find
Discovery of metabolic causes opens door to new treatments for dangerous eating disorder
Understanding the neural mechanisms of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX) pharmacotherapy in Binge Eating Disorder (BED): a study protocol
The efficacy and safety of Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX) in the treatment of moderate to severe binge eating disorder (BED) has been demonstrated in multiple randomised clinical trials. Despite this, little is known about how LDX acts to improve...
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
This historical analysis uses internal sugar industry documents to describe how the industry sought to influence the scientific debate over the dietary causes of coronary heart disease in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thinking About the Evolution of Complex Traits in the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies
Many traits of interest are highly heritable and genetically complex, meaning that much of the variation they exhibit arises from differences at numerous loci in the genome. Complex traits and their evolution have been studied for more than a...
Association of Revised WIC Food Package on Perinatal and Birth Outcomes
This quasi-experimental study investigates whether the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) was associated with improved perinatal and birth outcomes among recipients in California.
Effects of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation With Oral Capsules in Obese Patients
Studies in mice have shown that the intestinal microbiota can contribute to obesity via the anorexigenic gut hormone glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) an…
Kim Darroch has resigned. Now Britain risks becoming a vassal of the US | Martin Kettle
Trump’s role in the ambassador’s exit has driven a stake through the heart of the UK’s self-image, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle