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Displaying Publications 91 - 120 of 143 in total

Current search: 'Meena Kumari'

  1. The association of interpersonal relationships and social support with early post-surgery weight loss -conference paper abstract-

    Urszula Tymoszuk, Andrea Pucci, Wui Hang Cheung, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Medicine
    3. Health
    4. Social Psychology

  2. Diurnal cortisol patterns, future diabetes, and impaired glucose metabolism in the Whitehall II Cohort Study

    Ruth A. Hackett, Mika Kivimäki, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health

  3. 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

  4. Association of chronic insomnia symptoms and recurrent extreme sleep duration over 10 years with well-being in older adults: a cohort study

    Jessica G. Abell, Martin J. Shipley, Jane E. Ferrie, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Medicine
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  5. 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

  6. Healthy and unhealthy connections: our biology influences our health and lives, while the environments in which we live alter our biology

    Michaela Benzeval and Meena Kumari

  7. De-standardization and gender convergence in work–family life courses in Great Britain: a multi-channel sequence analysis

    Anne McMunn, Rebecca Lacey, Diana Worts, et al.

    1. Social Change
    2. Life Course Analysis

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Age and income-related inequalities in C-reactive protein: evidence from Understanding Society (UKHLS)

    Apostolos Davillas, Michaela Benzeval, and Meena Kumari

    1. Medicine
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Biology

  12. Severity of depressive symptoms as a predictor of mortality: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    J. White, P. Zaninotto, K. Walters, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Change in sleep duration and type 2 diabetes: the Whitehall II Study

    Jane E. Ferrie, Mika Kivimäki, Tasnime N. Akbaraly, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Workshop - genetic data in Understanding Society (part 1): introduction

    Meena Kumari

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

  20. 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

  21. Incident disability in older adults: prediction models based on two British prospective cohort studies

    Eveline Nuesch, Perel Pablo, Caroline E. Dale, et al.

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Health

  22. Job strain and the risk of stroke: an individual-participant data meta-analysis

    Eleonor I. Fransson, Solja T. Nyberg, Katriina Heikkila, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Social Psychology

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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