Wednesday 7 September 2016 11:46am
Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research (EDOR) members, and an EDOR advisory board member, have spoken at the recent Heart Disease satellite meeting as part of Queenstown Research Week (QRW), which was held in Nelson this year.
Dr Kirsten Coppell, EDOR co-director and public health physician, highlighted her recent research investigating if primary care can contribute to halting and reversing the diabetes epidemic.
Professor Sally McCormick, an EDOR researcher based in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, showed that a prodrug called ribose-cysteine could increase protection against the development of atherosclerosis.
Dr Jinny Willis, a member of EDOR's advisory board, is based in the Lipid & Diabetes Research Group at the Don Beaven Medical Research Centre in Christchurch. Her presentation 'Heart Disease Risk in Women with Diabetes: Double Jeopardy?' was featured in "The XX factor in Heart Disease" session.
QRW Heart Disease satellite meeting webpage, 28-29 August, 2016.
