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Dr Claire Steves

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Senior Clinical Lecturer

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Claire is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She is also a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust as well as the Deputy Director (Clinical) for TwinsUK. Claire is interested in the interactions between physical and mental health in ageing. Her current research focuses on the relationship between the gut, urinary and salivary microbiome and conditions of ageing, including cognitive ageing, frailty and multi-morbidity. Claire also leads on our new Wellcome Longitudinal Population Study grant which aims to expand our ability to contribute to health sciences, by linking with health records, social and environmental scientists. Claire graduated first class from Cambridge University in 1997. She joined the department in 2009 with a Wellcome Clinical Research Fellowship and gained a PhD by 2014.

Latest publications

Current smoking and COVID-19 risk: results from a population symptom app in over 2.4 million people
Hopkinson, N. S., Rossi, N., El-Sayed Moustafa, J., Laverty, A. A., Quint, J. K., Freidin, M., Visconti, A., Murray, B., Modat, M., Ourselin, S., Small, K., Davies, R., Wolf, J., Spector, T. D., Steves, C. J. & Falchi, M., 5 Jan 2021, In : Thorax. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216422
Cancer and Risk of COVID-19 Through a General Community Survey
COPE Consortium, Jan 2021, In : ONCOLOGIST. 26, 1, ONCO13497. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2020-0572
Geo-social gradients in predicted COVID-19 prevalence in Great Britain: results from 1 960 242 users of the COVID-19 Symptoms Study app
Bowyer, R. C. E., Varsavsky, T., Thompson, E. J., Sudre, C. H., Murray, B. A. K., Freidin, M. B., Yarand, D., Ganesh, S., Capdevila, J., Bakker, E., Cardoso, M. J., Davies, R., Wolf, J., Spector, T. D., Ourselin, S., Steves, C. J. & Menni, C., 29 Dec 2020, In : Thorax. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215119
Integrating Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for people with COPD and frailty starting pulmonary rehabilitation: the Breathe Plus feasibility trial protocol
Brighton, L. J., Evans, C., Farquhar, M., Bristowe, K., Kata, A., Higman, J., Ogden, M., Nolan, C. M., Yi, D. H., Gao, W., Koulopoulou, M., Hasan, S., Steves, C., Man, W. DC. & Maddocks, M., 21 Dec 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : ERJ Open Research. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
Detecting SARS-CoV-2 at point of care: preliminary data comparing loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) to polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Ã–sterdahl, M. F., Lee, K. A., Ni Lochlainn, M., Wilson, S., Douthwaite, S., Horsfall, R., Sheedy, A., Goldenberg, S. D., Stanley, C. J., Spector, T. D. & Steves, C. J., 1 Dec 2020, In : BMC infectious diseases. 20, 1, 783. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05484-8
An association between chronic widespread pain and the gut microbiome
Freidin, M., Stalteri, M., Wells, P., Lachance, G., Baleanu, A-F., Bowyer, R., Kurilshikov, A., Zhernakova, A., Steves, C. & Williams, F., 12 Nov 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Rheumatology (Oxford, England). Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
Detecting COVID-19 infection hotspots in England using large-scale self-reported data from a mobile application: a prospective, observational study
Graham, M., Ourselin, S., Modat, M., Cardoso, M. J., Sudre, C. H., Murray, B., Spector, T. & Steves, C., 10 Nov 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : The Lancet Public Health. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
The association between low birth weight, childhood recollections of parental response to illness, and irritable bowel syndrome: a twin study
Harvey, P. R., Theron, B., Smith, S. C. L., Rastall, P., Steves, C. J., Harris, J., Spector, T. D. & Trudgill, N. J., 1 Nov 2020, In : Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 32, 11, e13939. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13939
Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study
COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology Consortium, Nguyen, L. H., Drew, D. A., Graham, M. S., Joshi, A. D., Guo, C. G., Ma, W., Mehta, R. S., Warner, E. T., Sikavi, D. R., Lo, C. H., Kwon, S., Song, M., Mucci, L. A., Stampfer, M. J., Willett, W. C., Eliassen, A. H., Hart, J. E., Chavarro, J. E., Rich-Edwards, J. W. & 30 others, Davies, R., Capdevila, J., Lee, K. A., Ni Lochlainn, M., Varsavsky, T., Sudre, C. H., Cardoso, M. J., Wolf, J., Spector, T. D., Ourselin, S., Steves, C. J., Chan, A. T., Albert, C. M., Andreotti, G., Bala, B., Balasubramanian, B. A., Beane-Freeman, L. E., Brownstein, J. S., Bruinsma, F. J., Coresh, J., Costa, R., Cowan, A. N., Deka, A., Deming-Halverson, S. L., Elena Martinez, M., Ernst, M. E., Figueiredo, J. C., Fortuna, P., Steves, C. J. & Zhang, F., Sep 2020, In : The Lancet Public Health. 5, 9, p. e475-e483 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30164-X
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection in pregnant women: characterization of symptoms and syndromes predictive of disease and severity through real-time, remote participatory epidemiology
Molteni, E., Astley, C. M., Ma, W., Sudre, C. H., Magee, L. A., Murray, B., Fall, T., Gomez, M. F., Tsereteli, N., Franks, P. W., Brownstein, J. S., Davies, R., Wolf, J., Spector, T., Ourselin, S., Steves, C., Chan, A. T. & Modat, M., 19 Aug 2020, In : MedRxiv. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.17.20161760

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6 January 2021

Smoking associated with increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms

Smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to…