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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Social isolation in childhood and adult inflammation: evidence from the National Child Development Study

    Rebecca E. Lacey, Meena Kumari, and Mel Bartley

    1. Medicine
    2. Child Development
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Behaviour

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