R Fuhrer

Summary

Affiliation: McGill University
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Gender differences in mental health: evidence from three organisations
    Carol Emslie
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
    Soc Sci Med 54:621-4. 2002
  2. ncbi Exploring sex differences in the relationship between depressive symptoms and dementia incidence: prospective results from the PAQUID Study
    Rebecca Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1055-63. 2003
  3. ncbi Socioeconomic position, health, and possible explanations: a tale of two cohorts
    R Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, Great Britain
    Am J Public Health 92:1290-4. 2002
  4. ncbi How gender affects patterns of social relations and their impact on health: a comparison of one or multiple sources of support from "close persons"
    R Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 54:811-25. 2002
  5. ncbi Gender, social relations and mental health: prospective findings from an occupational cohort (Whitehall II study)
    R Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 48:77-87. 1999
  6. ncbi Work characteristics predict psychiatric disorder: prospective results from the Whitehall II Study
    S A Stansfeld
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Occup Environ Med 56:302-7. 1999
  7. ncbi Predictors of early retirement in British civil servants
    G Mein
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Age Ageing 29:529-36. 2000
  8. ncbi The pathways to mental health care of first-episode psychosis patients: a systematic review
    K K Anderson
    Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Psychol Med 40:1585-97. 2010
  9. ncbi Minireview: mechanisms by which the metabolic syndrome and diabetes impair memory
    M Kumari
    International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55:B228-32. 2000
  10. ncbi Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort study
    Marcus Richards
    MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London
    BMJ 328:552. 2004

Detail Information

Publications17

  1. ncbi Gender differences in mental health: evidence from three organisations
    Carol Emslie
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
    Soc Sci Med 54:621-4. 2002
    ..We conclude that generalisations about gender differences in minor psychiatric morbidity can be unhelpful, as these differences may vary depending on the context of the study...
  2. ncbi Exploring sex differences in the relationship between depressive symptoms and dementia incidence: prospective results from the PAQUID Study
    Rebecca Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1055-63. 2003
    ..To estimate the predictive relationship between depressive symptoms and 8-year dementia incidence in a large prospective community sample of French older adults and to compare the effect magnitude for men and women...
  3. ncbi Socioeconomic position, health, and possible explanations: a tale of two cohorts
    R Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, Great Britain
    Am J Public Health 92:1290-4. 2002
    ..We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient...
  4. ncbi How gender affects patterns of social relations and their impact on health: a comparison of one or multiple sources of support from "close persons"
    R Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 54:811-25. 2002
    ..Information from up to four close persons offered a more accurate portrayal of support exchanged, and gender differences were attenuated, if not eliminated, when this support index was used to predict physical and psychological health...
  5. ncbi Gender, social relations and mental health: prospective findings from an occupational cohort (Whitehall II study)
    R Fuhrer
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 48:77-87. 1999
    ....
  6. ncbi Work characteristics predict psychiatric disorder: prospective results from the Whitehall II Study
    S A Stansfeld
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Occup Environ Med 56:302-7. 1999
    ..The impact of work on the risk of future psychiatric disorder has been examined in few longitudinal studies. This was examined prospectively in a large epidemiological study of civil servants...
  7. ncbi Predictors of early retirement in British civil servants
    G Mein
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Age Ageing 29:529-36. 2000
    ..The Whitehall II study provides an opportunity to examine the predictors of early retirement in one of the largest employers in the United Kingdom...
  8. ncbi The pathways to mental health care of first-episode psychosis patients: a systematic review
    K K Anderson
    Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Psychol Med 40:1585-97. 2010
    ..Studies were included if they used an observational design to assess the pathways to care of patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP)...
  9. ncbi Minireview: mechanisms by which the metabolic syndrome and diabetes impair memory
    M Kumari
    International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55:B228-32. 2000
    ....
  10. ncbi Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort study
    Marcus Richards
    MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London
    BMJ 328:552. 2004
    ..To examine the association between cognitive ability in childhood and mid-life cognitive decline in the normal population...
  11. ncbi The importance of low control at work and home on depression and anxiety: do these effects vary by gender and social class?
    Joan M Griffin
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 54:783-98. 2002
    ..We conclude that, in addition to social roles and characteristics of the work environment, future investigations of gender inequalities in health incorporate variables associated with control at home and social position...
  12. ncbi Psychological distress as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in the Whitehall II Study
    Stephen A Stansfeld
    Department of Psychiatry, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, UK
    Int J Epidemiol 31:248-55. 2002
    ..This study aims to confirm the association between psychological distress and CHD and examine if it could be explained by other factors such as health behaviours, social isolation and low control at work...
  13. ncbi Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in diabetes: the Cardiovascular Determinants of Dementia (CASCADE) Study
    Reinhold Schmidt
    Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
    Diabetes 53:687-92. 2004
    ..Cognitive and pathological data are needed to determine the clinical significance of these findings as well as to understand the mechanisms underlying these associations...
  14. ncbi The association between blood pressure, hypertension, and cerebral white matter lesions: cardiovascular determinants of dementia study
    Ewoud J van Dijk
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Hypertension 44:625-30. 2004
    ..Successful treatment of hypertension may reduce this risk; however, a potential negative effect of decreasing diastolic blood pressure level on the occurrence of severe periventricular white matter lesions should be taken into account...
  15. ncbi Subjective cognitive complaints and cognitive decline: consequence or predictor? The epidemiology of vascular aging study
    Carole Dufouil
    Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 360, Epidemiological Research in Neurology and Psychopathology, Hopital La Salpetriere, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
    J Am Geriatr Soc 53:616-21. 2005
    ..To explore whether more cognitive complaints are associated with previous or future cognitive decline...
  16. ncbi Psychological distress as a predictor of CHD events in men: the effect of persistence and components of risk
    Amanda Nicholson
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, International Centre for Health and Society, University College, London, UK
    Psychosom Med 67:522-30. 2005
    ....
  17. ncbi Cerebral changes on MRI and cognitive function: the CASCADE study
    Hedvig Söderlund
    The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Canada, and Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
    Neurobiol Aging 27:16-23. 2006
    ..The findings are consistent with findings from lesion and functional neuroimaging studies...