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Longer breastfeeding duration reduces the positive relationships among gestational weight gain, birth weight and childhood anthropometrics
3 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Yeyi Zhu, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health ...
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Sex differences in the relationship between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...
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Risk factors for ischaemic heart disease: the prospective phase of the British Regional Heart Study.
Risk factors for major ischaemic heart disease (acute myocardial infarction or sudden death) have been investigated in a prospective study of 7735 men aged 40-59 years drawn from general practices in ...
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Smoking and suicide: biological and social evidence and causal mechanisms
Smoking as a risk factor for death by suicide has been a controversial area of inquiry. Over the last 20 years, there has been an expanding body of literature demonstrating that smokers have an ...
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The origins of AIDS: from patient zero to ground zero
Correspondence to Dr Jacques Pépin, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS, 3001, 12ème Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Qc J1H 5N4, Canada; ...
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Excess mortality from avoidable and non-avoidable causes in men of low socioeconomic status: a prospective study in Korea
Department of Family Medicine, Samsung Medical Centre, Sung Kyun Kwan University School of Medicine, 50 Ilweondong, Kangnamgu, Seoul, Korea 135–710 STUDY OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to ...
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Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty: the Women’s Health and Aging Studies
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Background: Frailty is a ...
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Association of education levels with the risk of hypertension and hypertension control: a nationwide cohort study in Chinese adults
7 Union Hospital, Tong-ji Medical College, Hua-zhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China 8 Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, Guiyang, China 9 Second ...
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Estimating EQ-5D utility values for major health behavioural risk factors in England
Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick Medical School, ...
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Management of menorrhagia in primary care—impact on referral and hysterectomy: data from the Somerset Morbidity Project
SETTING 11 general practices from the Somerset Morbidity Project. SUBJECTS 885 women consulting their general practitioner with menorrhagia over four years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportions of these ...
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Socioeconomic status, race and COPD health outcomes
1 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, ...
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Employment grade differences in cause specific mortality. A 25 year follow up of civil servants from the first Whitehall study
STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN 25 year ...