Biography:Peter Elwood
Peter Elwood (born 1930) is professor of epidemiology who for more than two decades led the Medical Research Council's Epidemiological Unit in South Wales. In 1979 he initiated the Caerphilly Heart Disease Study.
Career
Elwood completed four house jobs and six months in general practice, before opting towards epidemiology and studying whether some lung diseases favoured Northern Irish flax workers.[1]
His work has included a 35 year study involving over 2,500 men, on the effects of aspirin on platelets and heart disease, carried out in Caerphilly, Wales.[2]
He showed that absorption of iron from iron salts added to bread was at "about 4 per cent" in women with low hemoglobin level, which was lower than the previously assumed amount of "about 30 per cent".[3] He showed that giving milk to vulnerable children at school was beneficial but was not re-implemented.[3]
The study conducted to prove the lower absorption of iron, was conducted on 21 Indian immigrant women in the British town Coventry.[4] It is not clear whether or not the participants of the study consented to it being conducted on them. The flour of the chapattis was laced with radioactive iron.[5]
Selected publications
- Elwood, P.C. (1966). "Utilization of food iron--an epidemiologist's view". Nutritio et Dieta; European Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 8 (3): 210–225. doi:10.1159/000175143. ISSN 0550-4031. PMID 5333573.
- Elwood, P. C.; Newton, D.; Eakins, J. D.; Brown, D. A. (October 1968). "Absorption of iron from bread". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 21 (10): 1162–1169. doi:10.1093/ajcn/21.10.1162. ISSN 0002-9165. PMID 5686243.
- Elwood, P.C.; Benjamin, I.T.; Fry, F.A.; Eakins, J.D.; Brown, D.A.; De Kock, P.C.; Shah, J.U. (October 1970). "Absorption of iron from chapatti made from wheat flour". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 23 (10): 1267–1271. doi:10.1093/ajcn/23.10.1267. ISSN 0002-9165. PMID 5475656. (Co-author)
- ELWOOD PC; COCHRANE AL; BENJAMIN IT; SEYS-PROSSER D (October 1964). "A Follow-Up Study of Workers from an Asbestos Factory". British Journal of Industrial Medicine 21 (4): 304–307. doi:10.1136/oem.21.4.304. ISSN 0007-1072. PMID 14253230. (Co-author)
- Yarnell, J. W.; Baker, I. A.; Sweetnam, P. M.; Bainton, D.; O'Brien, J. R.; Whitehead, P. J.; Elwood, P. C. (March 1991). "Fibrinogen, viscosity, and white blood cell count are major risk factors for ischemic heart disease. The Caerphilly and Speedwell collaborative heart disease studies." (in en). Circulation 83 (3): 836–844. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.83.3.836. ISSN 0009-7322. PMID 1999035. (Co-author)
- Elwood, P. (November 2006). "The first randomized trial of aspirin for heart attack and the advent of systematic overviews of trials". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 99 (11): 586–588. doi:10.1177/014107680609901121. ISSN 0141-0768. PMID 17082305.
References
- ↑ Jeffreys, Diarmuid (2010) (in en). Aspirin: The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 151, 214. ISBN 978-1-4088-2042-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=EwMndWYjLX8C&pg=PT151.
- ↑ "Research Spotlight: Professor Peter Elwood". 29 February 2016. http://cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk/gairrhydd/research-spotlight-professor-peter-elwood/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Elwood, Peter (2002). "1964–69 Iron deficiency anaemia studies". in Ness, A R.; Reynolds, L A.; Tansey, E M.. Population-based research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-085484-081-6. http://www.histmodbiomed.org/sites/default/files/44835.pdf.
- ↑ "Absorption of Iron from Chapatti Made from Wheat Flour". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 23 (10): 1267–1271. October 1970. doi:10.1093/ajcn/23.10.1267. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/17696725.
- ↑ "Hughes, Janie: transcript of an audio interview (28-Mar-2000)". 28 March 2000. https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/19165/e2017047.pdf?sequence=4&%3BisAllowed=y.
Further reading
- Ness A R (intvr); Tansey E M, Thomas H (eds) (2017) Elwood, Peter: transcript of an audio interview (14-Apr- 2000; 28-Feb-2001). History of Modern Biomedicine Interviews (Digital Collection), item e2017045. London: Queen Mary University of London.
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