TUDA Study

Aims:

  • Provide a better understanding of how food and nutrition impacts on diseases of ageing, particularly in prevention of cardiovascular disease, dementia and osteoporosis
  • Generate evidence to influence public health policy and develop strategies aimed at promoting healthier ageing through improved nutrition
  • Generate opportunities for functional food development to support healthy ageing

Funders

The Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Health Research Board (under the Food Institutional Research Measure, FIRM)

Principle Investigators

UU: Sean Strain (PI), Helene McNulty, Mary Ward

TCD: John Scott, Anne Molloy, Cathal Walsh

St James Hospital: Conal Cunningham, Bernard Walshe, Miriam Casey

Lay Summary

5,186 adults, from Northern Ireland and the Republic, aged 60-102 years, have been extensively investigated in relation to nutrition and health. It is one of the most comprehensively characterised resources of its kind for ageing research internationally.

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