Professor Jon Tobias
Current positions
Professor of Rheumatology
Bristol Medical School (THS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Lifelong Health & Wellbeing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2017
Lifelong Health & Wellbeing Scheme: Describing habitual levels of physical activity (PA) in older people in terms of impact loads and how this relates to bone and other systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2017
Thesis supervisions
An investigation into the role of bone mass and other factors in determining fracture risk in children
Supervisors
Describing the development of hip shape in adolescence, and environmental and genetic influences on this process, in ALSPAC offspring
Supervisors
Understanding the Role of Bone in the Pathogenesis of Osteoarthritis
Supervisors
Genetic and epidemiologic approaches to elucidate the role of abnormal hip shape in the development of hip osteoarthritis
Supervisors
An investigation into the role of bone mass and other factors in determining fracture risk in children
Supervisors
Impact of osteoporotic vertebral fractures in older women
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
08/08/2024A novel classifier of radiographic knee osteoarthritis for use on knee DXA images is predictive of joint replacement in UK Biobank
Hip shape shows a causal effect on hip fracture but not hip osteoarthritis: findings from a GWAS meta-analysis and causal analyses
Cardiovascular risk assessment for osteoporosis patients considering Romosozumab
Bone
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry derived knee shape may provide a useful imaging biomarker for predicting total knee replacement
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
Femoral neck width genetic risk score is a novel independent risk factor for hip fractures
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
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