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Dr James King

Dr James King

Reader in Clinical Exercise Science

Areas of expertise

Exercise and diet, energy balance, metabolism and chronic metabolic disease, cardiometabolic health, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Profile

Dr James King’s research focuses on the interaction between exercise and diet in the regulation of appetite, energy balance and metabolism, with particular emphasis on obesity-related disease. He provides expert commentary on how lifestyle interventions can be used to prevent and manage chronic metabolic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease.

James is affiliated with the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre and contributes to research on exercise as a therapeutic strategy for improving cardiometabolic health.

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Please call the press office on +44 (0)1509 222224 to arrange an interview with Dr James King.

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