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| Merete OslerSummaryAffiliation: University of Southern Denmark Country: Denmark Publications
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Childhood social environment and risk of drug and alcohol abuse in a cohort of Danish men born in 1953Merete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 163:654-61. 2006..Deprived social circumstances during childhood, poor school performance in early adolescence, and attending a youth club seemed to be independent markers of substance abuse in adult life...- Cohort profile: the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohortMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 35:541-5. 2006 - Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortalityMerete Osler
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 35:1272-7. 2006.... - Socioeconomic position and twins' health: a life-course analysis of 1266 pairs of middle-aged Danish twinsMerete Osler
Institute of Public Health Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, JB Winsløws Vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 36:77-83. 2007.... - Cognitive function in childhood and early adulthood and hospital admission for schizophrenia and bipolar disorders in Danish men born in 1953Merete Osler
Department of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Schizophr Res 92:132-41. 2007..This study examines the influence of cognitive function and change in cognitive function during adolescence on schizophrenia and bipolar disorders in adulthood and explores possible mechanisms for any associations... - Revitalising the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohort: background, aims and designMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:385-94. 2004..A questionnaire-based postal follow-up survey is planned. Thus, the Metropolit study provides an important opportunity to examine the processes by which factors that operate over the life course influence adult health... 
Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parentsMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:38-41. 2005....- Influence of marital history over two and three generations on early death. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953Rikke Lund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:496-501. 2006.... - Income inequality and ischaemic heart disease in Danish men and womenMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 32:375-80. 2003..8 years. Information on median income share at parish and municipality levels was obtained from population registers... 
Marital status and twins' health and behavior: an analysis of middle-aged Danish twinsMerete Osler
Danish Ageing Research Center Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Psychosom Med 70:482-7. 2008..We compared health status among same-sex male and female twin pairs who lived together during childhood and were discordant or concordant on adult marital status...- Childhood social circumstances and health behaviour in midlife: the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohortMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 37:1367-74. 2008.... - Childhood social circumstances and body mass index in adult life: the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohortAnne Mette Larsen
Department of Social Medicine, Institut of Public Health, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:296-302. 2011.... - Social gradient in the metabolic syndrome not explained by psychosocial and behavioural factors: evidence from the Copenhagen City Heart StudyEva Prescott
The Copenhagen City Heart Study, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:405-12. 2007..Psychosocial stressors may mediate the effect of social status on the metabolic syndrome (MS). The paper explores this hypothesis in a random sample of the general population... - The influence of birth weight and body mass in early adulthood on early coronary heart disease risk among Danish men born in 1953Merete Osler
Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Eur J Epidemiol 24:57-61. 2009..The risk estimates is highest for individuals with a combination of low birth weight and overweight in young adulthood... - Job loss and broken partnerships: do the number of stressful life events influence the risk of ischemic heart disease in men?Margit Kriegbaum
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ann Epidemiol 18:743-5. 2008..The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the accumulated number of job losses and broken partnerships (defined as the end of cohabitation) on the risk of fatal and nonfatal events of ischemic heart disease (IHD)... - Cognitive function in childhood and early adulthood and injuries later in life: the Metropolit 1953 male birth cohortMerete Osler
Department of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, J B Winsløwsvej 9B, 5000 Odense, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 36:212-9. 2007..This study examines the relationship between cognitive function measured at the age of 12 and 18 years and fatal and non-fatal injuries later in adult life... - Women's death in Scandinavia--what makes Denmark different?Rune Jacobsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej, Denmark
Eur J Epidemiol 19:117-21. 2004..To compare the mortality for women in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in order to search for clues for the low life expectancy of Danish women... - Major life events increase the risk of stroke but not of myocardial infarction: results from the Copenhagen City Heart StudyHenriette Kornerup
Department of Cardiology, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 17:113-8. 2010..More attention has been paid to psychosocial conditions as possible risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the impact of accumulated major life events (MLE) on the development of CVD has received little attention... - Childhood intelligence in relation to adult coronary heart disease and stroke risk: evidence from a Danish birth cohort studyG David Batty
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:452-9. 2005..Replication of these results using studies which hold data on intelligence and socio-economic position across the life course is required... - Effect of grandparent's and parent's socioeconomic position on mortality among Danish men born in 1953Merete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 15:647-51. 2005..This study examines the effect of parent's and grandparent's socioeconomic position on all-cause mortality of their adult offspring... - Loss to follow up did not bias associations between early life factors and adult depressionMerete Osler
Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, Denmark
J Clin Epidemiol 61:958-63. 2008..This study examines the consequences of nonresponse in a follow-up survey for the associations of early life factors with adult depression... - Rapid report on methodology: does loss to follow-up in a cohort study bias associations between early life factors and lifestyle-related health outcomes?Merete Osler
Department of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark
Ann Epidemiol 18:422-4. 2008..To examine the consequences of non-response in a follow-up survey for associations between early-life factors and lifestyle-related health outcomes in adulthood... - Income and risk of ischaemic heart disease in men and women in a Nordic welfare countryIngelise Andersen
Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population Studies, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, H S Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 32:367-74. 2003..The present study explores the associations between income and IHD in men and women in a Nordic country... - The predictive value of fatigue for nonfatal ischemic heart disease and all-cause mortalityAnette Ekmann
Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Postbox 2099, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Psychosom Med 74:464-70. 2012..To investigate whether fatigue predicts nonfatal ischemic heart disease (IHD) and all-cause mortality in middle-aged men... - Job losses and accumulated number of broken partnerships increase risk of premature mortality in Danish men born in 1953Margit Kriegbaum
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Occup Environ Med 51:708-13. 2009..To investigate how accumulation of job losses and broken partnerships affect the risk of premature mortality, and to study joint exposure to both events... - Excessive drinking and history of unemployment and cohabitation in Danish men born in 1953Margit Kriegbaum
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 21:444-8. 2011..CONCLUSIONS: Very excessive drinking is related to number of job-losses, broken partnerships, living alone and duration of unemployment... - Does educational status impact adult mortality in Denmark? A twin approachMia Madsen
Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 172:225-34. 2010..In addition, the effect of education may be more pronounced in older cohorts of Danish men... - Birth dimensions, parental mortality, and mortality in early adult age: a cohort study of Danish men born in 1953Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 33:92-9. 2004.... - Marital history from age 15 to 40 years and subsequent 10-year mortality: a longitudinal study of Danish males born in 1953Rikke Lund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 33:389-97. 2004.... - Effect of smoking reduction on lung cancer riskNina S Godtfredsen
The Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population Studies, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
JAMA 294:1505-10. 2005..A proposed means of harm reduction is to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day. However, it is not clear whether this strategy decreases the risk for tobacco-related diseases... - Birth dimensions and risk of depression in adulthood: cohort study of Danish men born in 1953Merete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark
Br J Psychiatry 186:400-3. 2005..Two British cohort studies have reported birth weight to be associated with self-reported depression in adulthood, even after adjustment for socio-economic factors... - No inverse association between fish consumption and risk of death from all-causes, and incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged, Danish adultsMerete Osler
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
J Clin Epidemiol 56:274-9. 2003.... - Income inequality, individual income, and mortality in Danish adults: analysis of pooled data from two cohort studiesMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Copenhagen Center of Prospective Population Studies, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Denmark, Copenhagen
BMJ 324:13-6. 2002..To analyse the association between area income inequality and mortality after adjustment for individual income and other established risk factors... - Smoking reduction, smoking cessation, and mortality: a 16-year follow-up of 19,732 men and women from The Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population StudiesNina S Godtfredsen
The Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population Studies, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 156:994-1001. 2002..These results suggest that smoking reduction is not associated with a decrease in mortality from tobacco-related diseases. The data confirm that smoking cessation reduces mortality risk... - Childhood IQ in relation to later psychiatric disorder: evidence from a Danish birth cohort studyG David Batty
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Psychiatry 187:180-1. 2005..70, 95% CI 1.34-2.14). Adjusting for paternal occupational social class and birth weight had only a small attenuating effect. Low childhood IQ may have an aetiological role in the development of adult total psychiatric disorder... - Associations between physical and mental health problems and sexual dysfunctions in sexually active DanesBirgitte Schütt Christensen
Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Sex Med 8:1890-902. 2011..Studies have shown a high prevalence of sexual dysfunctions among individuals with a variety of health problems... - Changes in community and individual level psychosocial coronary risk factors in the Danish MONICA population, 1982-92Merete Osler
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 30:36-40. 2002..Myocardial infarction incidence declined by 3-5% per year from 1982-92 in the Danish study population of the WHO MONICA project. This study examined whether psychosocial coronary risk factors changed in the population during this period... - Social position and functional decline among non-disabled old men and womenKirsten Avlund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 14:212-6. 2004..To examine the relation between different aspects of social position and functional decline at 5 year follow-up in 75 year old men and women... - Social position and health in old age: the relevance of different indicators of social positionKirsten Avlund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 31:126-36. 2003..An analysis was undertaken to investigate social inequalities in health among old men and women in relation to five indicators of social position... - Smoking and subsequent risk of early retirement due to permanent disabilityLise Lotte N Husemoen
Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population Studies, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 14:86-92. 2004..The objective of the study is to determine the effects of smoking behaviour on early retirement due to permanent disability in a large sample of the general population... - Do negative aspects of social relations influence fatigue? A cross-sectional study on a non-clinical sample of middle-aged Danish menAnette Ekmann
Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
J Psychosom Res 73:277-82. 2012..Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore the association between demands from and conflicts with different sources of social relations and fatigue... - Commentary: influence of early life intelligence test performance on later health: do lower scoring children become less healthy adults?Merete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 33:414-5. 2004 - Socioeconomic position and stage of cervical cancer in Danish women diagnosed 2005 to 2009Else Ibfelt
Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:835-42. 2012..We investigated the relations between socioeconomic factors, comorbidity, time since last Papanicolau smear, and stage at diagnosis in Danish women with cervical cancer... - Birth weight in relation to leisure time physical activity in adolescence and adulthood: meta-analysis of results from 13 nordic cohortsLise Geisler Andersen
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Center for Health and Society, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
PLoS ONE 4:e8192. 2009.... - Persistence of high-risk human papillomavirus infection in a population-based cohort of Danish womenAnn Nielsen
Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Med Virol 82:616-23. 2010..No association was found with viral load or smoking. In conclusion, persistent high-risk HPV infection, especially HPV 16 persistence, was common among women positive for high-risk HPV... - Validity of protein, retinol, folic acid and n-3 fatty acid intakes estimated from the food-frequency questionnaire used in the Danish National Birth CohortTina B Mikkelsen
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Public Health Nutr 9:771-8. 2006..To validate intakes of protein, folic acid, retinol and n-3 fatty acids estimated from a food-frequency questionnaire in week 25 of pregnancy (FFQ-25)... - [The contribution of population studies to research of public health problems with focus on Danish cohorts]Merete Osler
Afdeling for Socialmedicin, , Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Ugeskr Laeger 166:1428-31. 2004 - [Project Metropolit. A status report]Merete Osler
Afdeling for Socialmedicin, , Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Ugeskr Laeger 166:1434-7. 2004 - Do smoking and health education influence student nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and professional behavior?Helle Secher Sejr
Copenhagen Hospital Corporation School of Nursing, Blegdamsvej 9, Department 7301, 2100 Ø Copenhagen, Denmark
Prev Med 34:260-5. 2002.... - [Smoking reduction is associated with a reduced the risk of lung cancer--a secondary publication]Nina S Godtfredsen
Københavns Kommunehospital, Institut for Sygdomsforebyggelse, Hovedstadens Center for Prospektive Befolkningsstudier, H S Rigshospitalet, Kardiologisk Afdeling, og Københavns Universitet
Ugeskr Laeger 168:695-7. 2006..Results showed that compared to sustained heavy smokers, smoking reduction by at least 50% reduced lung cancer incidence by 27%. We conclude that smoking reduction is associated with a significantly reduced risk of lung cancer... - [Correlation between the prevalence of schizophrenia and the sociodemographic status in different areas of Copenhagen]Merete Osler
Ugeskr Laeger 164:3223; author reply 3223-4. 2002 - Dietary quality and lifestyle factors in relation to 10-year mortality in older Europeans: the SENECA studyAnnemien Haveman-Nies
Division of Human Nutrition and Epidemiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Am J Epidemiol 156:962-8. 2002..These results underscore the importance of a healthy lifestyle, including multiple lifestyle factors, and the maintenance of it with advancing age... - Mortality after acute myocardial infarction according to income and educationJeppe N Rasmussen
National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:351-6. 2006..To study how income and educational level influence mortality after acute myocardial infarction (AMI)... - Association between fruit and vegetable consumption and birth weight: a prospective study among 43,585 Danish womenTina B Mikkelsen
Maternal Nutrition Group, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 34:616-22. 2006..To examine whether fruit and vegetable consumption in pregnancy is associated with birth weight in a Western population... - Alcohol use as predictor for infertility in a representative population of Danish womenJanne Schurmann Tolstrup
Center for Alcohol Research, National Institute of Public Health, and Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen Hospital Corporation, Denmark
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 82:744-9. 2003..Our aim was to examine the association between use of alcohol and subsequent incidence of primary infertility... - Consistency of food intake factors by different dietary assessment methods and population groupsPer Togo
Copenhagen County Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
Br J Nutr 90:667-78. 2003..In conclusion, the food intake factors identified were reproducible using two different dietary assessment methods and, furthermore, independent of stratification... - The validity of the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in routine statistics: a comparison of mortality and hospital discharge data with the Danish MONICA registryMette Madsen
National Institute of Public Health, Svanemøllevej 25, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
J Clin Epidemiol 56:124-30. 2003..The combination of the national registries was found to be a valid and powerful tool for monitoring the population incidence of MI... - Use of statins and beta-blockers after acute myocardial infarction according to income and educationJeppe N Rasmussen
National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK 1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:1091-7. 2007..To study the initiation of and long-term refill persistency with statins and beta-blockers after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) according to income and education... - [Children's health at the 1,5-year examination in the municipality of Sundeved]Merete Osler
, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Ugeskr Laeger 164:5799-802. 2002..DISCUSSION: Social factors are of great importance for the health of young children... - Income as mediator of the effect of occupation on the risk of myocardial infarction: does the income measurement matter?Ingelise Andersen
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, H S Kommunehospitalet, DK 1399 Copenhagen, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1080-5. 2005..To investigate whether the effect of occupational grade on the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) is mediated by income with different aspects of income taken into account... - Persistent socio-economic differences in revascularization after acute myocardial infarction despite a universal health care system-a Danish studyJeppe N Rasmussen
National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1399, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Cardiovasc Drugs Ther 21:449-57. 2007..We investigated how this affected socioeconomic differences in their use... - Relative validity of fruit and vegetable intake estimated by the food frequency questionnaire used in the Danish National Birth CohortTina B Mikkelsen
Maternal Nutrition Group, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen S, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 35:172-9. 2007..To validate the fruit and vegetable intake estimated from the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) used in the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC)... - [Filing and reuse of research data]Merete Osler
Syddansk Universitet, Institut for Sundhedstjenesteforskning, Epidemiologi
Ugeskr Laeger 170:716-7. 2008..DDA/Health also passes on research data for reuse, and at present more than 300 studies are available in a database on sundhed.dda.dk... - [Cohort studies for beginners. An introduction to cohort design and basal concepts]Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen
Afdeling for Social Medicin, , Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Ugeskr Laeger 166:1431-4. 2004 - [A scientific evaluation of the "alternative" food pyramid]Bjørn Richelsen
Ernaeringsrådet, Søborg
Ugeskr Laeger 167:927-31. 2005 - Smoking reduction and biomarkers in two longitudinal studiesNina S Godtfredsen
The Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Addiction 101:1516-22. 2006..To measure reduction in exposure to smoke in two population-based studies of self-reported smoking reduction not using nicotine replacement...