Cognitive performance in childhood and early adult illness: a prospective cohort study.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare health walks, a community based lay-led walking scheme versus advice only on physical activity and cardiovascular health status in middle aged adults. DESIGN:Randomised controlled trial with one year follow up. Physical activity was measured by questionnaire. Other measures included attitude...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lamb SE,Bartlett HP,Ashley A,Bird W

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respirator symptoms, and health attitudes was administered to 10 498 secondary schoolchildren in 1975. The results reported in this paper indicate that children who smoke regularly have a higher prevalence of upper respiratory tract infections and a higher incidence of the r...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rawbone RG,Keeling CA,Jenkins A,Guz A

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the associations between socioeconomic trajectories from birth to adulthood and gestational age and birth size in the next generation, using linked data from two population-based birth cohorts carried out in a Brazilian city. By comparing socioeconomic trajectories of mothers and fathers, we atte...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Gigante DP,Horta BL,Matijasevich A,Mola CL,Barros AJ,Santos IS,Barros FC,Victora CG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have reported the incidence/risk of becoming obese, but few have described the trajectories of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) over time, especially in low/middle-income countries. We assessed the trajectories of BMI and WC according to sex in four sites in Peru. METHODS:Data from...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Carrillo-Larco RM,Miranda JJ,Gilman RH,Checkley W,Smeeth L,Bernabé-Ortiz A,CRONICAS Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While social disparities in mortality have been shown in the majority of high-income countries, research on inequalities in the German population is still limited. This applies especially to studies investigating time trends in social inequalities with respect to life expectancy. The aim of this study is to ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tetzlaff F,Epping J,Sperlich S,Tetzlaff J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is commonly believed that nature has positive impacts on children's health, including physical, mental and social dimensions. This review focuses on how accessibility to, exposure to and engagement with nature affects the mental health of children and teenagers. METHODS:Ten academic databases were used t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tillmann S,Tobin D,Avison W,Gilliland J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of a community based bicycle helmet programme aimed at children aged 5-12 years (about 140,000) from poor and well off municipalities. METHODS:A quasi-experimental design, including a control group, was used. Changes in the risk of bicycle related head injuries leading to hospitalisatio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Farley C,Laflamme L,Vaez M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the use of deprivation indices in relation to health. DESIGN:This paper reviews selected publications which illustrate the diversity of use of deprivation indices in the past decade. Most of this work is based in the major routine databases which exist in this country: the census, population...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Carstairs V

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the worldwide trend towards more time being spent at work by employed people, few studies have examined the independent influences of work-based versus home-based social networks on employees' health. We examined the association between work-based social networks and health status by controlling for ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Suzuki E,Takao S,Subramanian SV,Doi H,Kawachi I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through life-course epidemiological studies. AIMS:To investi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Roustit C,Renahy E,Guernec G,Lesieur S,Parizot I,Chauvin P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the elderly living in the community and in institutional care in the Leeds Metropolitan District is outlined. Four populations of persons aged 65 and over were examined: those living in their own homes; in sheltered housing; in social services aged persons' hostels (Part III accommodation); and in hospitals...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McDonnell H,Long AF,Harrison BJ,Oldman C

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Wales National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) is a 16-week programme including motivational interviewing, goal setting and relapse prevention. METHOD:A pragmatic randomised controlled trial with nested economic evaluation of 2160 inactive participants with coronary heart disease risk (CHD, 1559, 72%), ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murphy SM,Edwards RT,Williams N,Raisanen L,Moore G,Linck P,Hounsome N,Din NU,Moore L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is an important contributor to the global burden of disease. Besides several known individual-level factors that contribute to depression, there is a growing recognition that neighbourhood environment can also profoundly affect mental health. This study assessed associations between three neighbou...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cohen-Cline H,Beresford SAA,Barrington WE,Matsueda RL,Wakefield J,Duncan GE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prompted by my participation in the People's Climate March held in New York City on 21 September 2014, as part of the 'Harvard Divest' contingent, in this brief essay I reflect on the late 20th century development of--and debates over--the necessity of ecological thinking in epidemiology, and also the still limited en...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Krieger N

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine material and behavioural factors as explanations for occupational class differences in health, while taking into account the interrelations between these two groups of factors. METHODS:Data from cross sectional surveys among middle aged women and men employed by the City of Helsinki (n = 6062, res...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Laaksonen M,Roos E,Rahkonen O,Martikainen P,Lahelma E

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lower blood folate levels have been associated with depression in cross-sectional surveys, but no studies have examined the relationship prospectively to determine whether the relationship is causal. A follow-up study was designed to examine whether lower blood folate levels predict incident depressive sympt...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kendrick T,Dunn N,Robinson S,Oestmann A,Godfrey K,Cooper C,Inskip H,Southampton Women's Survey Study Group.

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to quantify mortality after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in England, and to compare English case fatality rates (CFRs) with those reported in the literature. PATIENTS AND METHODS:English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for the financial years 1998/9 to 200...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Filipovic M,Goldacre MJ,Gill L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social position is known to play a role in the quality of ageing, notably through the stimulation/dysregulation of key physiological systems in response to external stresses. Using data from one wave of Understanding Society including 9088 participants, we defined, as an extension of the allostatic load, a synthetic B...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Karimi M,Castagné R,Delpierre C,Albertus G,Berger E,Vineis P,Kumari M,Kelly-Irving M,Chadeau-Hyam M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomised controlled trial intensive individual anti-smoking advice given in parallel with hospital antenatal care did not influence the outcome of pregnancy. The belief that retardation of fetal growth caused by maternal smoking occurs in late pregnancy is not well based, and the advice may not have been given ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Donovan JW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study examined the change in ethnic differences in mortality in Estonia 1989-2000. DESIGN:Two unlinked cross sectional census based analyses were compared. Total and cause specific mortality was analysed for ethnic Estonians and Russians. The absolute differences in mortality were evaluated throug...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Leinsalu M,Vågerö D,Kunst AE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental pollutants and nutrients may be present in the same foodstuffs or dietary patterns; share internal mechanisms of transport, metabolism and cellular uptake; or target the same molecular signalling pathways and biological functions. Lipophilic pollutants and nutrients, like dioxins and polyunsaturated fatt...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cano-Sancho G,Casas M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of human reproduction was conducted in Tamilnadu State, South India, from 1969 to 1975. This paper reports twinning rates and relates these to maternal age, parity, and consanguinity. Birth weights and other dimensions at birth and infant mortality are also studied. The overall twinning rate was 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rao PS,Inbaraj SG,Muthurathnam S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D deficiency occurs worldwide. Winter season and high Body Mass Index (BMI) are associated with low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). We estimated the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a Norwegian adult population and examined factors associated with vitamin D deficiency. A cohort of 25, 616 a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Larose TL,Chen Y,Camargo CA Jr,Langhammer A,Romundstad P,Mai XM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand school boys aged 8 to 16 were examined for their somatotype, physical growth, sexual maturation, and smoking habits. Fifty-two boys were found to be smokers, of whom 30 were regularly smoking between two and 20 bidis or cigarettes a day for a mean duration of 2.5 years. The mean height and weight of the s...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lall KB,Singhi S,Gurnani M,Singhi P,Garg OP

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier investigations have shown mortality effects of community socio-economic resources. However, the sex differences have not been clear, and the estimates may well have been biased because of inadequate control for community factors affecting both the socio-economic resources and mortality. The objective...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kravdal O

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate if job insecurity and poor labour market chances predict a decline in self-rated health in the Danish workforce. DESIGN:Job insecurity, labour market chances, self-rated health and numerous covariates were measured in 1809 women and 1918 men who responded to a questionnaire in 1995 and again i...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rugulies R,Aust B,Burr H,Bültmann U

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Northern Ireland has the highest standardised mortality ratios for colon cancer in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has some of the highest mortality rates for cancer in the world. The aim of the study therefore was to investigate trends in colorectal cancer in the north and south of Irela...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kee F,Patterson C,Collins B

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To study municipal variations in children's injury risk and to assess the impact of safety promotion measures in general municipal, preschool, school, and leisure activity settings, on injury outcome. DESIGN:A cohort study based on individual data on children's consumption of hospital care as a result ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Sellström E,Guldbrandsson K,Bremberg S,Hjern A,Arnoldsson G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Road traffic casualties show some of the widest socioeconomic differentials of any cause of morbidity or mortality, and as yet there is little evidence on what works to reduce them. This study quantified the current and potential future impact of the introduction of 20 mph zones on socioeconomic inequalities...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Steinbach R,Grundy C,Edwards P,Wilkinson P,Green J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper is to systematically review and analyse the validity and reliability of Antonovsky's life orientation questionnaire/sense of coherence scale (SOC). DESIGN:The study is descriptive and analytical with a systematic integration of the contemporary knowledge base on the salutogenic re...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Eriksson M,Lindström B

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00