Research Centre for Optimal Health

About the centre

The Research Centre for Optimal Health (ReCOH) was established to deepen our understanding of the lifestyle-induced accelerated ageing process and to use this knowledge to deliver practical solutions to achieve optimal health throughout adult life.

Research groups associated with the Research Centre for Optimal Health include the Cancer Mechanisms and Biomarkers research group, the Genomics and Infectious Diseases research group, the Health Data Science research group and the Medicines Diagnostics and Disease Modelling research group.

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Publications

Our most recent publications include:

Donado-Pestana CM, Rodrigues L, Rundle M, Thomas EL, Wopereis S, Gundersen TE, Trezzi JP, Bunzel D, Kiselova-Kaneva Y, Sonntag D, Kulling SE, Ivanova D, Hiller K, Drevon CA, Brennan L, Bell JD, van Ommen B, Frost G, Daniel H, Fiamoncini J. Plasma metabolomic profiles reveal sex-specific response to an oral glucose tolerance test in late middle-aged adults. Mech Ageing Dev. 2025 Jun 2:112081. doi: 10.1016/j.mad.2025.112081
Odoemelam CS, Naz A, Thanaj M, Sorokin EP, Whitcher B, Sattar N, Bell JD, Thomas EL, Cule M, Yaghootkar H. Identifying four obesity axes through integrative multi-omics and imaging analysis. Diabetes. 2025 Apr 24:db241103. doi: 10.2337/db24-1103
de Celis Alonso B, Shumbayawonda E, Beyer C, Hidalgo-Tobon S, López-Martínez B, Dies-Suarez P, Klunder-Klunder M, Miranda-Lora AL, Pérez EB, Thomaides-Brears H, Banerjee R, Thomas EL, Bell JD, So PW. Liver magnetic resonance imaging, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome risk in pre-pubertal Mexican boys. Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 30;14(1):26104. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-77307-8
Booker A, Zabetakis I, Teusch NE, Dalby A, Hartung T, Peter AE. Editorial: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome observed post-COVID-19: the role of natural products, medicinal plants and nutrients and the use of prediction tools supporting traditional forms of diagnosis. Front Pharmacol. 2025 Jan 27;16:1539793. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1539793. PMID: 39931686.

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