Professor Abigail Fraser
PhD
Current positions
Professor of Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
My work focuses on the life course epidemiology of women's reproductive health and its relationship with chronic disease risk in later life. I am particularly interested in the links between pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia, preterm delivery, fetal growth restriction and gestational diabetes and later cardiometabolic health in mothers. This interest has led me to develop a programme of work focused on the placenta and how placental impairment and damage is related to long terms health outcomes in mothers and their offspring.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
[Resubmission] IEU: The PLACENTA and lifelong health of mothers and offspring
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2024 to 31/10/2029
[MRC TRF Total Cost Fellowship] Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction during mid-life in women with previous hypertensive pregnancy (B4098)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/08/2024 to 31/07/2027
ALSPAC and IEU: Improving treatment of menopausal symptoms by using genomics to understand aetiology
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/03/2024 to 28/02/2027
Quality of intimate relationship and later cardiovascular disease risk factors in a longitudinal study in the UK
Principal Investigator
Description
The aim of this study is to assess the association between changes in Quality of intimate relationship and later cardiovascular disease risk factors in a longitudinal study in the UK.…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2023
Determinants of quality of relationship between G0 partners, ALSPAC
Principal Investigator
Description
This project aims to explore the associations between a range of demographic, socioeconomic, psychological, and behavioural factors, and changes in quality of relationship (RQ) over time in the parental generation…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/08/2022
Thesis supervisions
Pubertal timing and self-harm
Supervisors
Investigating the interplay of reproductive, menstrual and adiposity factors in relation to breast cancer risk
Supervisors
Development of a core outcome set for stillbirth care research
Supervisors
Shared Decision-Making in Maternity Care
Supervisors
Mental health and cognitive outcomes associated with early childhood violence exposure
Supervisors
Using Mendelian randomization to investigate causal relationships in evolutionary theories of development and behaviour
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
07/07/2025A Core Outcome Set for Stillbirth Care
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Assessing the causal and independent impact of parity-related reproductive factors on risk of breast cancer subtypes
BMC Medicine
Association of Multiple Indicators of Pubertal Timing with Depressive Symptoms and Depression in Adolescent Girls
The British Journal of Psychiatry
Associations of adolescent menstrual symptoms with school absences and educational attainment: analysis of a prospective cohort study
npj Science of Learning
Associations of antenatal corticosteroids with neurodevelopment in children aged 27-30 months
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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