Is ageing modifiable? – Professor Kay-Tee Khaw

Speaker: Kay-Tee Khaw MBBChir, MA, MSc, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, CBE is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Gerontology, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge and Life Fellow, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. She trained in medicine at Girton College, University of Cambridge and St. Mary’s Hospital, London (now Imperial College) and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with subsequent clinical and academic posts in the University of London and University of California San Diego. Her research interests are the maintenance of health in later life and the causes and prevention of chronic diseases with a focus on nutrition and hormones.

Synopsis: I will present some findings and discuss some controversies on the potentially modifiable lifestyle and physiological factors which predict good health in later life using examples from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

EPIC is a ten country collaboration on 500,000 participants which aims to investigate determinants of cancer.  EPIC-Norfolk is a collaborating British cohort in which the aims have been broadened to identify other lifestyle and biological determinants of overall health in older adults.     EPIC-Norfolk (http://www.epic-norfolk.org.uk/ comprises 25,000 men and women aged 40-79 years who were first surveyed 1993-1997 and who have been followed up to the present for health.

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