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Current search: 'Health'

  1. Educational attainment and allostatic load in later life: evidence using genetic markers

    Xuejie Ding, Nicola Barban, and Melinda C. Mills

    1. Education
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Genetics

  2. Market concentration, supply, quality and prices paid by local authorities in the English care home market

    Ferran Espuny Pujol, Ruth Hancock, Morten Hviid, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Economics
    3. Health

  3. Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9

    Amand F. Schmidt, Michael V. Holmes, David Preiss, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  4. A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

    Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  5. The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts

    Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Nikita Telkar, Theresa Reiker, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Demography
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Health
    5. Biology
    6. Genetics

  6. intcount: a command for fitting count-data models from interval data

    Stephen Pudney

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Computing
    3. Health

  7. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

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

  8. Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers? A study of 6025 employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Tarani Chandola, Cara L. Booker, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Sociology Of Labour
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving
    6. Biology

  9. Early-life inequalities and biological ageing: a multisystem Biological Health Score approach in Understanding Society

    Maryam Karimi, Raphaële Castagné, Cyrille Delpierre, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Biology

  10. The association between self-rated health and underlying biomarker levels is modified by age, gender, and household income: evidence from Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    M. Pia Chaparro, Amanda Hughes, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Demography
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  11. Refractory depression – mechanisms and efficacy of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RefraMED): findings of a randomised trial on benefits and harms

    Thomas R. Lynch, Roelie J. Hempel, Ben Whalley, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Psychiatry
    3. Economics
    4. Research
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  12. Can targeted cover letters improve participation in health surveys? Results from a randomized controlled trial

    Anne Illemann Christensen, Peter Lynn, and Janne Schurmann Tolstrup

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Health

  13. Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot, Yingchang Lu, Heather M. Highland, et al.

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

  14. Post-war (1946-2017) population health change in the United Kingdom: a systematic review

    Dawid Gondek, David Bann, Emily Grundy, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis

  15. The moderating effect of childhood disadvantage on the associations between smoking and occupational exposure and lung function; a cross sectional analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)

    Caroline Carney and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification

  16. The income-health gradient: evidence from self-reported health and biomarkers in Understanding Society

    Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Medicine
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  17. Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood

    Øystein Kravdal and Emily Grundy

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Sociology Of Households

  18. Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

    Ayush Giri, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Jacob M. Keaton, et al.

    1. Ethnic Groups
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  19. Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and cognitive capability at older ages: individual participant meta-analysis of five cohorts

    Michael Gardner, Stafford Lightman, Diana Kuh, et al.

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

  20. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  21. Productivity effects of dengue in Brazil

    Sonia Bhalotra, Gabriel Facchini, Aline Menezes, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health

  22. Genetic studies of accelerometer-based sleep measures yield new insights into human sleep behaviour

    Samuel E. Jones, Vincent T. van Hees, Diego R. Mazzotti, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  23. Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals

    Victoria Garfield, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, Caroline Dale, et al.

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  24. Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

    Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat, Dmitry Prokopenko, Maxime Lamontagne, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Health
    3. Biology
    4. Genetics

  25. New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

    Nick Shrine, Anna L. Guyatt, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  26. Baseline health and public healthcare costs five years on: a predictive analysis using biomarker data in a prospective household panel

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  27. Informal caregiving and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol: results from the Whitehall II cohort study

    Jesper Mortensen, Nadya Dich, Alice Jessie Clark, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Caregiving
    3. Biology

  28. Social support and trajectories of body mass index and waist to hip ratio from mid-adulthood to old age

    Urszula Tymoszuk, Meena Kumari, Rachel Batterham, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology

  29. The authors reply

    Amanda Hughes, Yanchun Bao, Melissa Smart, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  30. Genetic architecture of human thinness compared to severe obesity

    Fernando Riveros-McKay, Vanisha Mistry, Rebecca Bounds, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

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