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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 382 in total

Current search: 'Health'

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. The authors reply

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

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

  8. Genetic architecture of human thinness compared to severe obesity

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

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  9. The transferability of lipid-associated loci across African, Asian and European cohorts

    Nikita Telkar, Theresa Reiker, Robin G. Walters, et al.

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

  10. Multivariate genome-wide analyses of the well-being spectrum

    Bart M. L. Baselmans, Rick Jansen, Hill F. Ip, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  11. Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data

    Amy Clair and Amanda Hughes

    1. Well Being
    2. Health
    3. Housing Market
    4. Biology

  12. 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

  13. Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci

    A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, MengZhen Liu, Victoria E. Jackson, et al.

    1. Health
    2. Biology
    3. Genetics

  14. The prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: a longitudinal analysis

    Alita Nandi and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Crime And Justice
    2. Public Policy
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Social Behaviour
    7. Social Psychology
    8. Race Relations

  15. Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy for refractory depression: the RefraMED RCT

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

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

  16. Exome chip meta-analysis fine maps causal variants and elucidates the genetic architecture of rare coding variants in smoking and alcohol use

    David M. Brazel, Yu Jiang, Jordan M. Hughey, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Medicine
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Psychiatry
    5. Health
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  17. 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

  18. Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England

    Renee Reichl Luthra, Alita Nandi, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Groups
    3. Social Networks
    4. Migration
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour
    8. Race Relations

  19. Socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration across the lifecourse

    Amanda Hughes, Melissa Smart, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, et al.

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

  20. Is pre-operation social connectedness associated with weight loss up to 2 years post bariatric surgery?

    Urszula Tymoszuk, Meena Kumari, Andrea Pucci, et al.

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

  21. Distributional analysis of the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation in the health gradient measured by biomarkers

    Kompal Sinha, Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, et al.

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

  22. Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  23. Leveraging DNA-methylation quantitative-trait loci to characterize the relationship between methylomic variation, gene expression, and complex traits

    Eilis Hannon, Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, et al.

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

  24. Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex) (ATR0040) [House of Commons Transport Select Committee on Active Travel]

    Charlotte Hamilton

    1. Public Policy
    2. Research
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Transport
    6. Commuting
    7. Travel

  25. Parametric models for biomarkers based on flexible size distributions

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Statistical Mathematics
    2. Health
    3. Surveys
    4. Biology

  26. The twin instrument: fertility and human capital investment

    Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

    1. Human Capital
    2. Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Health

  27. Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  28. IntCount: a Stata command for estimating count data models from interval data

    Stephen Pudney

    1. Computing
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health

  29. Twin birth and maternal condition

    Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

    1. Labour Market
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Health

  30. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Health
    3. Biology

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