Gender-specific risk factors for incident sarcopenia: 8-year follow-up of the English longitudinal study of ageing.

abstract：:This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics-drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 and the emerging international estimates of socio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bambra C,Riordan R,Ford J,Matthews F

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of area of residence on functional health as represented by medical outcomes study SF-36 physical and mental component summary scores. DESIGN:Multilevel analysis of cross sectional data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition in Norfolk, UK (EPIC-...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wainwright NW,Surtees PG

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Active ageing is a key to healthy ageing; shopping behaviour is an economically relevant activity of the elderly. METHODS:Analysis was based on the NAHSIT 1999-2000 dataset. A total of 1841 representative free-living elderly Taiwanese people were selected and information included demographics, socioeconomic...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chang YH,Chen RC,Wahlqvist ML,Lee MS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty analysis is a method, established in engineering and policy analysis but relatively new to epidemiology, for the quantitative assessment of biases in the results of epidemiological studies. Each uncertainty analysis is situation specific, but usually involves four main steps: (1) specify the target paramet...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Jurek AM,Maldonado G,Greenland S,Church TR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relation between questionnaire answers concerning living conditions during childhood and coronary risk factors in 7405 men and 7247 women. Poverty during childhood was positively associated with age-adjusted levels (p less than 0.05) of total cholesterol and percentage of current smokers (men only) and...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Arnesen E,Forsdahl A

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Innovative strategies beyond the health system are required to reduce the prevalence of smoking. Early child development interventions are examples of interventions that can help set children on positive social and educational trajectories, which in turn may also reduce the prevalence of smoking. The aim of ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： D'Onise K,Lynch JW,McDermott RA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cancers and other chronic diseases are associated with a long delay between exposure to a putative risk factor and subsequent diagnosis. This presents well recognised problems in the elucidation of suspected risk factors by epidemiological methods. In this paper we discuss the interpretation in epidemiological st...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McPherson K,Coope PA,Vessey MP

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To examine the geographical variation in self perceived morbidity in the south west of England, and assess the associations with rurality and social deprivation. DESIGN:A geographically based cross sectional study using 1991 census data on premature Limiting Long Term Illness (LLTI). The urban-rural an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Barnett S,Roderick P,Martin D,Diamond I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a new programme designed to reduce disease burden to the individual and economic burden to the society of common mental health problems (CMHP). This is the first study to look at the impact of IAPT on health service utilisation and sickness absence using ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： de Lusignan S,Chan T,Parry G,Dent-Brown K,Kendrick T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To empirically test the impact of dietary intake at several time points in childhood on children's school attainment and to investigate whether any differences in school attainment between children who ate packed lunches or school meals was due to who these children were, their pre-school dietary patterns, o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Feinstein L,Sabates R,Sorhaindo A,Rogers I,Herrick D,Northstone K,Emmett P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To analyse the role played by socioeconomic factors and self rated general health in the prediction of the reporting of severe longterm illness, and the extent to which these factors explain social class differences in the reporting of such illness. DESIGN:Analysis of panel data from the survey of livi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Blank N,Diderichsen F

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social gradients and ethnic disparities have been reported in some forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities. However, information on the association between area deprivation, ethnicity and other forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities are inconclusive. AIM:To estimate the independen...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Emerson E

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immigrants are sometimes found to have better health than locally born populations. We examined the mortality experience of South Asian origin and white European origin individuals living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. METHODS:A linked 17-21 year mortality follow-up of a cross-sectional study of European (n=82...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hayes L,White M,McNally RJQ,Unwin N,Tran A,Bhopal R

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:828 elderly subjects residing in nursing homes were followed up during 4 months to ascertain incidence of symptoms associated with Pontiac fever (PF) in a non-epidemic setting. METHODS:The exposure situation was inhalation of Legionella bacteria while showering. An audit of the hot water system in all insti...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bauer M,Mathieu L,Deloge-Abarkan M,Remen T,Tossa P,Hartemann P,Zmirou-Navier D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aims were (1) to assess whether termination of pregnancy after prenatal screening by ultrasound affected the prevalence of congenital anomalies at birth, and (2) to examine the trend of this pattern over time. DESIGN:This study deals with congenital anomalies, possibly detectable prenatally or at b...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Julian-Reynier C,Philip N,Scheiner C,Aurran Y,Chabal F,Maron A,Gombert A,Aymé S

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-rating measure of stigma and several supplementary questions were devised in order to assess perceived stigma in a community survey of the quality of life in 420 rectal cancer patients, of whom 265 had a permanent colostomy. Half the patients felt stigmatised, higher proportions being observed among younger pat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： MacDonald LD,Anderson HR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate methods for calculating life expectancy in small areas, for example, English electoral wards. DESIGN:The Monte Carlo method was used to simulate the distribution of life expectancy (and its standard error) estimates for 10 alternative life table models. The models were combinations of Chian...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Eayres D,Williams ES

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the long-term consequences of sickness presence (ie, going to work despite ill-health), although one study suggests an association with coronary heart disease. This study examined the effect of sickness presence on future long-term sickness absence. METHODS:Information from a random sa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hansen CD,Andersen JH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1999 a great multi-site clinical trial known as the randomised Aldactone evaluation study (RALES) showed that the use of spironolactone importantly reduced complications attributable to chronic heart failure without major negative side effects. Recently, RALES has been questioned by a large scale observational stud...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Koch E,Otarola A,Kirschbaum A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is increasingly shaped by powerful global forces, many of which have consequences for human health and the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health are increasingly determined at a supranational level. As a result, local or national level efforts to influence health determinants can ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McKee M,Gilmore AB,Schwalbe N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence of racial/ethnic inequalities in tobacco outlet density is limited by: (1) reliance on studies from single counties or states, (2) limited attention to spatial dependence, and (3) an unclear theory-based relationship between neighbourhood composition and tobacco outlet density. METHODS:In 97 counti...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lee JG,Sun DL,Schleicher NM,Ribisl KM,Luke DA,Henriksen L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a house-to-house study of 994 urban Zulus the prevalence of hypertension according to WHO criteria was 25% (23% men, 27% women). In a rural Zulu study of 987 the prevalence age corrected to the urban distribution was 9.4% (8.7% men, 10% women). Thus there was a pronounced difference between the prevalence of hypert...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Seedat YK,Seedat MA,Hackland DB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynaecological neoplasms, especially in industrialised countries. The aetiology of the disease is not well understood, except that inherited mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 account for up to 10% of all cases, and child-bearing, oral contraceptive use and ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Langseth H,Hankinson SE,Siemiatycki J,Weiderpass E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In epidemiological studies the diagnosis of a past history of myocardial infarction is made from the answer to a single question: "Have you ever had a severe pain across the front of your chest lasting for half an hour or more?" Two additional questions, which form an optional part of the London School of Hygiene and ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Yarnell JW,Sweetnam PM,Baker IA,Bainton D

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between perceptions of neighbourhood physical and social characteristics and three health outcomes (self assessed health status, chronic conditions, and emotional distress). DESIGN:Cross sectional survey data analysed in small neighbourhoods. SETTING:Hamilton, Ontario, C...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wilson K,Elliott S,Law M,Eyles J,Jerrett M,Keller-Olaman S

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Several studies have reported an association between income inequality and increased mortality, but few have used net income data, controlled for individual income, or evaluated sensitivity to the choice of inequality measure. The study tested the hypotheses that people in regions of Britain with the gr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Weich S,Lewis G,Jenkins SP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of growth during infancy and childhood on blood pressure in adolescence. DESIGN:Birth cohort study. SETTING:Pelotas, southern Brazil. PARTICIPANTS:749 adolescents with complete information on birth weight and gestational age, as well as on anthropometric data at all three follow up vis...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Horta BL,Barros FC,Victora CG,Cole TJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effect on fruit and vegetable consumption, self reported, and psychological health of a "natural experiment"-the introduction of large scale food retailing in a deprived Scottish community. DESIGN:Prospective quasi-experimental design comparing baseline and follow up data in an "intervention" ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cummins S,Petticrew M,Higgins C,Findlay A,Sparks L

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：: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