Conferences & Training
- New Insights into Sugar Sweetened Drinks and Cardiometabolic Risk
When:
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 from 9:30 AM – 4:50 PM (GMT)
Where:
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
WC1N 1EH London
United Kingdom
Hosted By:
Catherine.Stone@aso.org.uk
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Event Details:
Conference Aims
The conference is an opportunity to hear internationally renown leaders in this field, presenting the latest research
Conference programme
ASO Symposium: New insights into cardiometabolic risk. Chair Prof Jean-Pierre Després
09.30 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Chairman’s Introduction
10.10 Lifestyle predictors of cardiometabolic risk in adults – Prof Nick Wareham, Director of MRC Epidemiology Unit
10.40 Early cardiometabolic risk factors in children and young people – Prof Nick Finer, University College, London
11.10 Refreshments
11.30 Body fat depots and cardiometabolic risk – Prof Naveed Sattar, University of Glasgow
12.00 Panel Discussion
12.20 ASO Awards – Student Researcher Award 2010 and Best Practice Award 2010
13.00 Lunch
ICCR Symposium: Sugar sweetened beverages and cardiometabolic risk. Chair: Dr Susan Jebb
13.40 Sugar sweetened beverages, ‘diet’ drinks and cardiometabloic risk – Prof Frank Hu, Harvard University, USA
14.20 Appetitive effects of sugared and artifical sweetened beverages – Prof Richard Hammersley, Glasgow Caledonian University
15.00 Refreshments
15.20 Metabolic effects of sugar sweetened beverages : pathophysiology and mechanistic insights - Prof Luc Tappy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
16.00 Limiting intake of sweetened beverages : a target for prevention of obesity and cardiometabolic risk? – Prof Jean-Pierre Després, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
16.50 Close
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