Lauren O’Mahoney

I joined the Leicester Lifestyle & Health Research Group in 2025, after five years as a Research Associate within the NIHR ARC East Midlands at the Leicester Diabetes Centre. My research focuses on lifestyle medicine, multiple long-term conditions, diabetes and Long Covid. I work across applied research, clinical trials and evidence synthesis, with a particular interest in improving outcomes for people living with complex health conditions.

Favourite way to be active

I stay active through hiking (when I get the chance) and the gym (always).

Contact

llom1@leicester.ac.uk

Research Areas

  • Diet and nutrition

  • Exercise physiology

  • Multiple long-term conditions

  • Diabetes

  • Drug and Lifestyle

  • Cardiometabolic health

Current Projects

  • Plant Your Health: A prospective, three-arm, parallel-group, open-label, randomised, blinded-endpoint (PROBE), single-centre trial comparing vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous diets in adults with overweight or obesity.

  • Deintensification of potentially inappropriate medications amongst older frail people with type 2 diabetes: A cluster randomised controlled trial (D-MED study).

  • Outcome measurement for multiple long-term conditions research across health-care settings – an overview of reviews

  • Advancing the understanding of multiple long-term conditions in people living with diabetes.

  • Understanding barriers to insulin initiation in people with T2D from ethnic minority populations: A mixed-methods study to inform the development of a community champion led intervention.

Publications

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