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
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
B3613: Deep phenotyping of cardiovascular systems physiology in adults born to hypertensive pregnancies
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2022 to 31/01/2027
Quality of relationships in mothers and their partners in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
Principal Investigator
Description
This project aims to describe the ALSPAC data on quality of relationship (RQ) using the intimate bond measure (IBM) in G0 couples over follow-up period.Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2022 to 11/10/2023
Thesis supervisions
Pubertal timing and self-harm
Supervisors
Development of a core outcome set for stillbirth care research
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
Epidemiological investigations into chronic inflammation using the novel biomarker Glycoprotein Acetyls
Supervisors
Lower urinary tract symptoms
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
17/07/2024A novel hypothesis-generating approach for detecting phenotypic associations using epigenetic data
Epigenomics
Codesign and refinement of an optimised antenatal education session to better inform women and prepare them for labour and birth
BMJ Open Quality
Cross-sectional survey of antenatal educators' views about current antenatal education provision
Maternal and Child Health Journal
Genome-wide analyses identify 21 infertility loci and over 400 reproductive hormone loci across the allele frequency spectrum
medRxiv
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and midlife maternal cognition in a prospective cohort study
Journal of Clinical Hypertension