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Displaying Publications 61 - 90 of 97 in total

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  1. Plasma urate concentration and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

    Jon White, Reecha Sofat, Gibran Hemani, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Biology

  2. Association of adiposity and mental health functioning across the lifespan: findings from Understanding Society (The UK Household Longitudinal Study)

    Apostolos Davillas, Michaela Benzeval, and Meena Kumari

    1. Medicine
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Biology

  3. New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

    Yingchang Lu, Felix R. Day, Stefan Gustafsson, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  4. Effect of smoking on blood pressure and resting heart rate: a Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in the CARTA Consortium

    Allan Linneberg, Rikke K. Jacobsen, Tea Skaaby, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  5. Effect of smoking on physical and cognitive capability in later life: a multicohort study using observational and genetic approaches

    Teri-Louise North, Tom M. Palmer, Sarah J. Lewis, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Medicine
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  6. Role of a functional polymorphism in the F2R gene promoter in sarcoidosis

    Manuela Platé, Phillippa J. Lawson, Michael R. Hill, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  7. Functional analysis of a carotid intima-media thickness locus implicates BCAR1 and suggests a causal variant

    Freya Boardman-Pretty, Andrew J. P. Smith, Jackie Cooper, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  8. The influence of age and sex on genetic associations with adult body size and shape: a large-scale genome-wide interaction study

    Thomas W. Winkler, Anne E. Justice, Mariaelisa Graff, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Research
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  9. Work-family life courses and markers of stress and inflammation in mid-life: evidence from the National Child Development Study

    Rebecca E. Lacey, Amanda Sacker, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Biology

  10. Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis. The CARTA consortium

    Richard W. Morris, Amy E. Taylor, Meg E. Fluharty, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  11. Sex‐specific effects of adiponectin on carotid intima‐media thickness and incident cardiovascular disease

    Jonas Persson, Rona J. Strawbridge, Olga McLeod, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  12. Elevated inflammatory biomarkers during unemployment: modification by age and country in the UK

    Amanda Hughes, Anne McMunn, Mel Bartley, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  13. Sixty-five common genetic variants and prediction of type 2 diabetes

    Philippa J. Talmud, Jackie A. Cooper, Richard W. Morris, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  14. Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis

    Eveline Nuesch, Caroline Dale, Tom M. Palmer, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  15. Is the adiposity-associated FTO gene variant related to all-cause mortality independent of adiposity? Meta-analysis of data from 169,551 Caucasian adults

    E. Zimmermann, L. H. Ängquist, S. S. Mirza, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  16. Would raising the total cholesterol diagnostic cut-off from 7.5 mmol/L to 9.3 mmol/L improve detection rate of patients with monogenic familial hypercholesterolaemia?

    M. Futema, Meena Kumari, C. Boustred, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  17. Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

    Michael V. Holmes, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Tom M. Palmer, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  18. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke, Bratati Kahali, Sonja I. Berndt, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  19. New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

    Dmitry Shungin, Thomas W. Winkler, Damien C. Croteau-Chonka, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  20. HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials

    Daniel I. Swerdlow, David Preiss, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  21. The effect of Renin Angiotensin System genetic variants in acute pancreatitis

    James R. A. Skipworth, Rian M. Nijmeijer, Hjalmar C. van Santvoort, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  22. Genetic determinants of circulating interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels and their association with glycemic traits

    Christian Herder, Marja-Liisa Nuotio, Sonia Shah, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  23. Association of diurnal patterns in salivary cortisol with type 2 diabetes in the Whitehall II study

    Ruth A. Hackett, Andrew Steptoe, and Meena Kumari

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  24. Stratification by smoking status reveals an association of CHRNA5-A3-B4 genotype with Body Mass Index in never smokers

    Amy E. Taylor, Richard W. Morris, Meg E. Fluharty, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  25. A non-linear association between self-reported negative emotional response to stress and subsequent allostatic load: prospective results from the Whitehall II Cohort Study

    Nadya Dich, Stacey N. Doan, Mika Kivimäki, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology

  26. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 130,000 individuals shows smoking does not modify the association of APOE genotype on risk of coronary heart disease

    Michael V. Holmes, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Daniela Melis, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  27. No evidence of a longitudinal association between diurnal cortisol patterns and cognition

    Archana Singh-Manoux, Aline Dugravot, Alexis Elbaz, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Medicine
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  28. Alcohol consumption and cognitive performance: a Mendelian randomization study

    Meena Kumari, Michael V. Holmes, Caroline E. Dale, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Medicine
    3. Health
    4. Surveys
    5. Biology

  29. Association of vitamin D status with arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk: a mendelian randomisation study

    Karani S. Vimaleswaran, Alana Cavadino, Diane J. Berry, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  30. Impact of a functional polymorphism in the PAR-1 gene promoter in COPD and COPD exacerbations

    Manuela Platé, Phillippa J. Lawson, Michael R. Hill, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

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