Emily James

I joined the Lifestyle Lifestyle & Health research group as a research assistant in December 2022, alongside finishing my PhD with University of Northumbria at Newcastle. I completed my PhD in sarcopenia and coronary heart disease in 2024. My current research interests include the effect of pharmacological and lifestyle interventions on physical function and lean mass in older people and people with cardiometabolic diseases.

Favourite way to be active

A mixture of resistance exercise, yoga, running and climbing

Contact

e.james@leicester.ac.uk

Research Areas

• Sarcopenia

• Frailty,

• Exercise

• Cardiometabolic disease

• Ageing

• Physical function

Current Projects

• Dapagliflozin,ExerciseTraining and physicAl function: the DETA trial

• Nutritional supplementation to preserve healthy lean mass and function during periods of pharmacological and non-pharmacological-induced weight loss: systematic review and meta-analysis

Publications

• James E, Butler T, Nichols S, Goodall S, O’Doherty AF. Provision of dietary education in UK-based cardiac rehabilitation: a cross-sectional survey conducted in conjunction with the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. British Journal of Nutrition. 2024;131(5):880-893. doi:10.1017/S0007114523002374

• James, E., Goodall, S., Nichols, S., Walker, K., Carroll, S., O’Doherty, A. F., & Ingle, L. (2023). Serum transthyretin and aminotransferases are associated with lean mass in people with coronary heart disease: Further insights from the CARE-CR study. Frontiers in Medicine, 10, 237.

• James, E., Oman, P., Ali, M. et al. The effectiveness of the Healthworks Staying Steady community-based falls prevention exercise programme to improve physical function in older adults: a 6-year service evaluation. BMC Public Health 22, 1457 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13832-3