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Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data
Background Frailty is an age-related health condition affecting an estimated 18% of older adults in Europe and past evidence has shown a relationship between socioeconomic factors and frailty. We ...
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Relationship between loneliness, social isolation and modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a latent class analysis
Correspondence to Dr Daisy Fancourt, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; d.fancourt{at}ucl.ac.uk Background There is growing research into the ...
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Cognitive function trajectories and their determinants in older people: 8 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...
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Educational inequalities in deaths of despair in 14 OECD countries: a cross-sectional observational study
Background Deaths of despair are a key contributor to stagnating life expectancy in the USA, especially among those without a university-level education, but these findings have not been compared ...
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Device-captured incidental physical activity, sedentary behaviour and all-cause mortality risk
Background Incidental physical activity from normal daily living may be a more feasible approach to improve health status in adults who are unwilling or unable to complete traditional structured ...
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Do changes in socioeconomic factors lead to changes in mental health? Findings from three waves of a population based panel study
1 Health Inequalities Research Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Social Psychiatry & Population Mental Health Research Unit, University of Otago, ...
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Monitoring community responses to the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong: from day 10 to day 62
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Correspondence to: Dr J T F Lau, Centre for Epidemiology ...
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Indoor heating, house conditions, and health
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OP105 Does socio-economic status modify how individuals perceive and/or describe their own health? An assessment of reporting heterogeneity in the health survey for England
Background Self-reported health is widely used as a proxy for health status; it is a simple, holistic measure of health and has been associated with other health outcomes. However, these associations ...
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Low stress resilience in late adolescence and risk of smoking, high alcohol consumption and drug use later in life
Background While compromised stress resilience constitutes a recognised risk factor for somatic and psychiatric disease development in general, the knowledge about how individual variation in ...
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Determinants of social inequalities in stroke incidence across Europe: a collaborative analysis of 126 635 individuals from 48 cohort studies
Background Knowledge on the origins of the social gradient in stroke incidence in different populations is limited. This study aims to estimate the burden of educational class inequalities in stroke ...
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Can a documentary increase help-seeking intentions in men? A randomised controlled trial
Correspondence to Dr Kylie Elizabeth King, Centre for Mental Health, The Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia; ...