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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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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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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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COVID-19: exposing and amplifying inequalities
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Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us
This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...
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Socioeconomic position, alcohol use and alcohol-attributable emergency department visits
Background Differential vulnerability to alcohol contributes to socioeconomic inequities in alcohol-attributable harm. This study aimed to estimate the sex-/gender-specific joint effects of ...
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Occupational socioeconomic risk associations for head and neck cancer in Europe and South America: individual participant data analysis of pooled case–control studies within ...
Background The association between socioeconomic disadvantage (low education and/or income) and head and neck cancer is well established, with smoking and alcohol consumption explaining up to ...
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Psychosocial stress and bone loss among postmenopausal women: results from the Women’s Health Initiative
Background Bone loss is a major public health concern with large proportions of older women experiencing osteoporotic fractures. Previous research has established a relationship between psychosocial ...