Dr Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay graduated in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1988 and is Reader in the BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre (Western Infirmary, University of Glasgow). He completed his PhD in fetal programming in Edinburgh in 1997 and postdoctoral work with the diabetes epidemiology group of the National Institutes of Health in Phoenix, Arizona. His principal research interests are early life and genetic determinants of diabetes with particular interest in diabetes and pregnancy.
Dr Lindsay is the endocrine lead for the combined endocrine/ obstetric antenatal clinic at Princess Royal Maternity Unit and also practices general medicine and endocrinology at the Western Infirmary of Glasgow.
He is the chair of the subgroup on diabetes and pregnancy for the selective update of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines on Diabetes (2010) a member of the steering group of the Scottish Diabetes Research Network (SDRN) and chairs the SDRN epidemiology group.
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Recent Publications
- Lindsay RS, Nelson SM, Walker JD, Greene SA, Milne G, Sattar N, Pearson DW, Programming of Adiposity In Offspring Of Mothers With Type 1 Diabetes At Age 7 Diabetes Care 2010 in press
- A Lawlor D, Fraser A, Lindsay RS, Ness A, Dabelea D, Catalano P, Davey Smith G, Sattar N, Nelson SM. Association of existing diabetes, gestational diabetes and glycosuria in pregnancy with macrosomia and offspring body mass index, waist and fat mass in later childhood: findings from a prospective pregnancy cohort. Diabetologia. 2010 53(1):89-97
- Nelson SM, Freeman DJ, Sattar N and Lindsay RS: Erythrocytosis in offspring of mothers with Type 1 diabetes--are factors other than insulin critical determinants? Diabet Med 26:887-92, 2009
- Nelson SM, Coan PM, Burton GJ and Lindsay RS: Placental structure in type 1 diabetes: relation to fetal insulin, leptin and IGF-I. Diabetes, 2009
- Gluck ME, Venti CA, Lindsay RS, Knowler WC, Salbe AD and Krakoff J: Maternal influence, not diabetic intrauterine environment, predicts children's energy intake. Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:772-7, 2009
- Nelson SM, Lindsay RS (2009) Type 1 Diabetes In Pregnancy; Influences On Mother And Fetus Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review 20, pp 17-47
- Lindsay RS (2009) Gestational Diabetes The British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease 2009 9: 27-31
- Lindsay RS. Many HAPO returns: maternal glycemia and neonatal adiposity: new insights from the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes (HAPO) study. Diabetes. 2009 Feb;58(2):302-3.