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Does subjective social status predict health and change in health status better than objective status?Archana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, HNSM, Saint Maurice cedex, France
Psychosom Med 67:855-61. 2005..To examine, among middle-aged individuals, if subjective socioeconomic status (SES) predicts health status and change in health status over time better than objective SES...
Adult education and child mortality in India: the influence of caste, household wealth, and urbanizationArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Epidemiology 19:294-301. 2008..We examined the association between adult education and child mortality, and the influence of other socioeconomic markers (caste, household wealth, and urbanization) on this association...- Gender differences in the association between morbidity and mortality among middle-aged men and womenArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687, Villejuif Cedex, France
Am J Public Health 98:2251-7. 2008..We examined gender differences in mortality, morbidity, and the association between the 2... - Socioeconomic status moderates the association between carotid intima-media thickness and cognition in midlife: evidence from the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687 IFR69, HNSM, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
Atherosclerosis 197:541-8. 2008..We examine two questions: does socioeconomic status (SES) moderate this association and is IMT more strongly associated with specific aspects of cognitive function?.. - Self-rated health and mortality: short- and long-term associations in the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687 IFR69, HNSM, 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
Psychosom Med 69:138-43. 2007..To determine if self-rated health (SRH), a single-item measure of health status where individuals are asked to rate their own health, predicts mortality in a middle-aged sample and if the predictive ability of SRH diminishes with time... - The relationship between parenting dimensions and adult achievement: evidence from the Whitehall II StudyArchana Singh-Manoux
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, England
Int J Behav Med 13:320-9. 2006..Moderate levels of warmth, low levels of strictness, and high parental expectation are associated with high adult achievement... - What does self rated health measure? Results from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel cohort studiesArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687, HNSM, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:364-72. 2006..To investigate the determinants of self rated health (SRH) in men and women in the British Whitehall II study and the French Gazel cohort study... - Effects of physical activity on cognitive functioning in middle age: evidence from the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, England
Am J Public Health 95:2252-8. 2005..We examined the association between physical activity and cognitive functioning in middle age... - The role of cognitive ability (intelligence) in explaining the association between socioeconomic position and health: evidence from the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687, National Hospital of Saint Maurice, 94415 Saint Maurice, France
Am J Epidemiol 161:831-9. 2005..These results suggest that, although cognitive ability is related to health, it does not explain social inequalities in health... - Commentary: Modelling multiple pathways to explain social inequalities in health and mortalityArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687, HNSM, 14 rue du Val d'Osne, , France
Int J Epidemiol 34:638-9. 2005 - Does personality explain social inequalities in mortality? The French GAZEL cohort studyHermann Nabi
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif 94807, France
Int J Epidemiol 37:591-602. 2008..We aim to quantify the contribution of personality measures to the associations between SEP and mortality... - Health behaviours, socioeconomic status, and mortality: further analyses of the British Whitehall II and the French GAZEL prospective cohortsSilvia Stringhini
Inserm U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
PLoS Med 8:e1000419. 2011..In the present paper, we examine this issue in Whitehall II and another prospective European cohort, the French GAZEL study... - Does sickness absence due to psychiatric disorder predict cause-specific mortality? A 16-year follow-up of the GAZEL occupational cohort studyMaria Melchior
Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations UMRS 1018, Epidémiologie des Déterminants Professionnels et Sociaux de la Santé, INSERM, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Am J Epidemiol 172:700-7. 2010..59, 95% CI: 0.95, 2.66) and smoking-related cancer (HR = 1.31, 95% CI: 0.85, 2.03). Psychiatric sickness absence records could help identify individuals at risk of premature mortality and serve to monitor workers' health... - Does adding information on job strain improve risk prediction for coronary heart disease beyond the standard Framingham risk score? The Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 40:1577-84. 2011..We sought to examine whether adding information on job strain to the Framingham model improves its predictive power in a low-risk working population... - Antidepressant medication use and risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus: a noncausal association?Mika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
Biol Psychiatry 70:978-84. 2011..To examine this, we assessed the associations of antidepressant use with change in glucose levels and incidence of undiagnosed and diagnosed diabetes... - Socioeconomic differences in cardiometabolic factors: social causation or health-related selection? Evidence from the Whitehall II Cohort Study, 1991-2004Marko Elovainio
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 174:779-89. 2011..008). These findings suggest that health-related selection operates at younger ages and that social causation contributes to socioeconomic differences in cardiometabolic health in midlife... - Does cognition predict mortality in midlife? Results from the Whitehall II cohort studySeverine Sabia
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Bâtiment 15 16, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Neurobiol Aging 31:688-95. 2010..This study suggests that 'g' type composite measure of cognition might not be enough to understand the associations between cognition and health... - Influence of individual and combined healthy behaviours on successful agingSeverine Sabia
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
CMAJ 184:1985-92. 2012..Increases in life expectancy make it important to remain healthy for as long as possible. Our objective was to examine the extent to which healthy behaviours in midlife, separately and in combination, predict successful aging... - Obesity phenotypes in midlife and cognition in early old age: the Whitehall II cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U1018, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Neurology 79:755-62. 2012..To examine the association of body mass index (BMI) and metabolic status with cognitive function and decline... - Do different measures of early life socioeconomic circumstances predict adult mortality? Evidence from the British Whitehall II and French GAZEL studiesSilvia Stringhini
Inserm U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Villejuif Cedex, France
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:1097-103. 2011..Father's occupational position, education and height have all been used to examine the effects of adverse early life socioeconomic circumstances on health, but it remains unknown whether they predict mortality equally well... - Trajectories of depressive episodes and hypertension over 24 years: the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyHermann Nabi
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health U1018, Université de Versailles St Quentin, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Hypertension 57:710-6. 2011..This study suggests that the risk of hypertension increases with repeated experience of depressive episodes over time and becomes evident in later adulthood... 
Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Lancet 372:1648-54. 2008..We assessed this issue in an occupational cohort study comparing low with high socioeconomic groups...- Usefulness of a single-item measure of depression to predict mortality: the GAZEL prospective cohort studyThomas Lefèvre
INSERM, U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health, F 94807, Villejuif, France
Eur J Public Health 22:643-7. 2012..The present study aims to examine the predictive value of a single-item measure of depression for mortality... - The association between self-rated health and mortality in different socioeconomic groups in the GAZEL cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687 IFR69, HNSM, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
Int J Epidemiol 36:1222-8. 2007..Self-rated health (SRH) is considered a valid measure of health status as it has been shown to predict mortality in several studies. We examine whether SRH predicts mortality equally well in different socioeconomic groups... - Incremental predictive value of adding past blood pressure measurements to the Framingham hypertension risk equation: the Whitehall II StudyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, UK
Hypertension 55:1058-62. 2010..These data suggest that, despite the net reclassification improvement, the clinical use of adding repeat measures of blood pressure to the Framingham hypertension risk score may be limited... - Lost work days in the 6 years leading to premature death from cardiovascular disease in men and womenArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U1018, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bât 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Atherosclerosis 211:689-93. 2010..It is unclear whether individuals experience specific patterns of morbidity prior to premature death from cardiovascular disease (CVD)... - Metabolic syndrome over 10 years and cognitive functioning in late midlife: the Whitehall II studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:84-9. 2010..We examined this association in late midlife, with particular focus on cumulative effects and the role of socioeconomic circumstances... - Effects of depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease and their interactive associations on mortality in middle-aged adults: the Whitehall II cohort studyHermann Nabi
INSERM, U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health, France
Heart 96:1645-50. 2010..This does not allow comparisons across risk-factor groups based on the cross-classification of depression and CHD status... - Alternative Healthy Eating Index and mortality over 18 y of follow-up: results from the Whitehall II cohortTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 94:247-53. 2011..It remains unclear if the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), designed to provide dietary guidelines to combat major chronic diseases, is related to mortality risk... - Validating the Framingham Hypertension Risk Score: results from the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom
Hypertension 54:496-501. 2009..5%; 95% CI: -2.5% to 1.5%). These data suggest that the Framingham hypertension risk score provides a valid tool with which to estimate near-term risk of developing hypertension... - Vascular risk status as a predictor of later-life depressive symptoms: a cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom
Biol Psychiatry 72:324-30. 2012..We examined whether standard clinical risk profiles developed for vascular diseases also predict depressive symptoms in older adults... - Low conscientiousness and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality over 17 years: Whitehall II cohort studyGareth Hagger-Johnson
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
J Psychosom Res 73:98-103. 2012..To examine the personality trait conscientiousness as a risk factor for mortality and to identify candidate explanatory mechanisms... - Physical activity and inflammatory markers over 10 years: follow-up in men and women from the Whitehall II cohort studyMark Hamer
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Circulation 126:928-33. 2012..We therefore examined the association between physical activity and inflammatory markers over a 10-year follow-up period... - Organisational justice and cognitive function in middle-aged employees: the Whitehall II studyMarko Elovainio
University College London, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:552-6. 2012..Little is known about the role that work-related factors play in the decline of cognitive function. This study examined the association between perceived organisational justice and cognitive function among middle-aged men and women... - Association between change in body composition and change in inflammatory markers: an 11-year follow-up in the Whitehall II StudyEleonor I Fransson
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:5370-4. 2010..Obesity is associated with low-grade inflammation, but the long-term effects of weight change on inflammation are unknown... - Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT
BMJ 339:b3765. 2009..To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether dose-response relations exist... - Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Soc Sci Med 56:1321-33. 2003..The results suggest that subjective social status reflects the cognitive averaging of standard markers of socioeconomic situation and is free of psychological biases... - Hyperglycemia, type 2 diabetes, and depressive symptoms: the British Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 32:1867-9. 2009..To examine the recent suggestion that impaired fasting glucose may protect against depression, whereas a diagnosis of diabetes might then result in depression... - Social inequality in walking speed in early old age in the Whitehall II studyEric Brunner
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:1082-9. 2009..We investigated social inequalities in walking speed in early old age... - Antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal modeling studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:1471-6. 2010..To examine antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of diabetes... - Change in sleep duration and cognitive function: findings from the Whitehall II StudyJane E Ferrie
University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, UK
Sleep 34:565-73. 2011..Evidence from cross-sectional studies shows that sleep is associated with cognitive function. This study examines change in sleep duration as a determinant of cognitive function... - History of coronary heart disease and cognitive performance in midlife: the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Eur Heart J 29:2100-7. 2008..Some studies show coronary heart disease (CHD) to be a risk factor for cognitive function while others report no association between the two. We examined the effect of CHD history and duration on cognition in a middle-aged population... - Alcohol consumption and cognitive function in the Whitehall II StudyAnnie Britton
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 160:240-7. 2004..Nonetheless, it is not proposed that these findings be used to encourage increased alcohol consumption... - Bidirectional association between physical activity and symptoms of anxiety and depression: the Whitehall II studyMarine Azevedo Da Silva
Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health, INSERM, U1018, 94807, Villejuif, France
Eur J Epidemiol 27:537-46. 2012..70, 95 % CI 1.10, 2.63). The association between physical activity and symptoms of anxiety and/or depression appears to be bidirectional... - Neuroticism and cardiovascular disease mortality: socioeconomic status modifies the risk in women (UK Health and Lifestyle Survey)Gareth Hagger-Johnson
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Psychosom Med 74:596-603. 2012..Our aim was to evaluate the all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer mortality risk associated with neuroticism or extraversion and their interactions with SES in a representative sample of the UK adult population... - Impact of smoking on cognitive decline in early old age: the Whitehall II cohort studySeverine Sabia
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, England, UK
Arch Gen Psychiatry 69:627-35. 2012..Smoking is a possible risk factor for dementia, although its impact may have been underestimated in elderly populations because of the shorter life span of smokers... - Association of lung function with physical, mental and cognitive function in early old ageArchana Singh-Manoux
Inserm U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Villejuif Cedex, France
Age (Dordr) 33:385-92. 2011..Our results suggest that lung function is a good 'summary' measure of overall functioning in early old age... - Timing of onset of cognitive decline: results from Whitehall II prospective cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
BMJ 344:d7622. 2012..To estimate 10 year decline in cognitive function from longitudinal data in a middle aged cohort and to examine whether age cohorts can be compared with cross sectional data to infer the effect of age on cognitive decline... - Examining overweight and obesity as risk factors for common mental disorders using fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genotype-instrumented analysis: The Whitehall II Study, 1985-2004Mika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 173:421-9. 2011..Mendelian randomization analyses supported the status of long-term obesity as a risk factor for CMD in men-a finding that should be interpreted cautiously because the function of the FTO gene is unknown... - Natural course of recurrent psychological distress in adulthoodMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Affect Disord 130:454-61. 2011.... - High alcohol consumption in middle-aged adults is associated with poorer cognitive performance only in the low socio-economic group. Results from the GAZEL cohort studySeverine Sabia
Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Addiction 106:93-101. 2011..To examine the association of alcohol consumption over 10 years with cognitive performance in different socio-economic groups... - Overall diet history and reversibility of the metabolic syndrome over 5 years: the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:2339-41. 2010..We examined the impact of adherence to the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), a set of dietary guidelines targeting major chronic diseases, on metabolic syndrome (MetS) reversion in a middle-aged population... - Persistent depressive symptoms and cognitive function in late midlife: the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
National Institute for Health and Medical Research, INSERM, U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bât 15 16, 16 Ave Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
J Clin Psychiatry 71:1379-85. 2010..We examined the association between depressive symptoms, measured 6 times over an 18-year period, and cognitive deficits in late midlife... - Combined effects of depressive symptoms and resting heart rate on mortality: the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyHermann Nabi
INSERM, U 1018, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
J Clin Psychiatry 72:1199-206. 2011..To examine the combined effects of depressive symptoms and resting heart rate on mortality risk... - Why does lung function predict mortality? Results from the Whitehall II Cohort StudySeverine Sabia
INSERM, U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Bâtiment 15 16, F 94807, Villejuif, France
Am J Epidemiol 172:1415-23. 2010..5% reduction). Taken together, these factors explained 32.5% of the association. Multiple pathways link lung function to mortality; these results show inflammatory markers to be particularly important... - The role of conventional risk factors in explaining social inequalities in coronary heart disease: the relative and absolute approaches to riskArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment 15 16, Villejuif Cedex, France
Epidemiology 19:599-605. 2008..Our objective was to examine whether there is a discrepancy in results obtained using the relative and absolute approaches... - Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle ageTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Br J Psychiatry 195:408-13. 2009..Studies of diet and depression have focused primarily on individual nutrients... - Socioeconomic trajectories across the life course and health outcomes in midlife: evidence for the accumulation hypothesis?Archana Singh-Manoux
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 33:1072-9. 2004..This paper examines (1) accumulation across trichotomous categories of socioeconomic position (SEP), and (2) accumulation in analysis stratified by adult SEP... - Effect of intensity and type of physical activity on mortality: results from the Whitehall II cohort studySeverine Sabia
Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, Villejuif, France
Am J Public Health 102:698-704. 2012..We examined the association of intensity and type of physical activity with mortality... - Predictive utility of the Framingham general cardiovascular disease risk profile for cognitive function: evidence from the Whitehall II studySara Kaffashian
Inserm U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Villejuif Cedex, France
Eur Heart J 32:2326-32. 2011..47; 95% CI: -0.81, -0.11). Conclusion In middle-aged individuals free of cardiovascular disease, an adverse cardiovascular risk profile is associated with poor cognitive function, and decline in at least one cognitive domain in men... - Non-response to baseline, non-response to follow-up and mortality in the Whitehall II cohortJane E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 38:831-7. 2009..Little is known about the associations between non-response to follow-up surveys and mortality, or differences in these associations by socioeconomic position in studies with repeat data collections... - Multiple measures of socio-economic position and psychosocial health: proximal and distal measuresArchana Singh-Manoux
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 31:1192-9; discussion 1199-200. 2002..Model III treats education, a distal measure of SEP, as antecedent to the proximal measures of SEP in the prediction equations linking SEP to health... - Successful aging: the contribution of early-life and midlife risk factorsAnnie Britton
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1098-105. 2008..To test whether early-life factors (education, height, father's social position) and midlife social, behavioral, and psychosocial factors were associated with entering older age without disease and with good functioning... - Arterial stiffness, physical function, and functional limitation: the Whitehall II StudyEric J Brunner
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Hypertension 57:1003-9. 2011..The nature of the link between arterial stiffness and quality of life in older people merits attention... - Using additional information on working hours to predict coronary heart disease: a cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Ann Intern Med 154:457-63. 2011..Long working hours are associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). Adding information on long hours to traditional risk factors for CHD may help to improve risk prediction for this condition... - Decline in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration: lipid-lowering drugs, diet, or physical activity? Evidence from the Whitehall II studyKim Bouillon
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Heart 97:923-30. 2011..To examine the association of lipid-lowering drugs, change in diet and physical activity with a decline in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in middle age... - Anti-depressant medication use and C-reactive protein: results from two population-based studiesMark Hamer
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Brain Behav Immun 25:168-73. 2011..This might be a potential mechanism through which antidepressant medication increases CVD risk. Further data are required to explore the effects of dosage and duration of antidepressant treatment... - Health behaviors from early to late midlife as predictors of cognitive function: The Whitehall II studySeverine Sabia
INSERM U IFR, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Am J Epidemiol 170:428-37. 2009..This study suggests that both the number of unhealthy behaviors and their duration are associated with subsequent cognitive function in later life... - Psychological and somatic symptoms of anxiety and risk of coronary heart disease: the health and social support prospective cohort studyHermann Nabi
INSERM, Villejuif, France
Biol Psychiatry 67:378-85. 2010..This study aims to examine the extent to which the psychological and somatic components of anxiety are predictive of CHD... - Association between common mental disorder and obesity over the adult life courseMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 195:149-55. 2009..Prospective data on the association between common mental disorders and obesity are scarce, and the impact of ageing on this association is poorly understood... - Do psychological factors affect inflammation and incident coronary heart disease: the Whitehall II StudyHermann Nabi
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 28:1398-406. 2008..The purpose of this study was to test whether psychological factors affect inflammation processes to an extent that increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)... - Trends in the association between height and socioeconomic indicators in France, 1970-2003Archana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bât 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Econ Hum Biol 8:396-404. 2010..These results suggest that in France, social inequalities in adult height in absolute terms have remained unchanged across the three decades under examination... - Association of socioeconomic position with health behaviors and mortalitySilvia Stringhini
Inserm U1018, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bât 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
JAMA 303:1159-66. 2010..Previous studies may have underestimated the contribution of health behaviors to social inequalities in mortality because health behaviors were assessed only at the baseline of the study... - Positive and negative affect and risk of coronary heart disease: Whitehall II prospective cohort studyHermann Nabi
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT
BMJ 337:a118. 2008..To examine the associations between positive and negative affect and subsequent coronary heart disease events independently of established risk factors... - Using sickness absence records to predict future depression in a working population: prospective findings from the GAZEL cohortMaria Melchior
National Institutes of Health and Medical Research INSERM U687, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Am J Public Health 99:1417-22. 2009..We tested the hypothesis that sickness absence from work predicts workers' risk of later depression... - Do psychological attributes matter for adherence to antihypertensive medication? The Finnish Public Sector Cohort StudyHermann Nabi
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Hypertens 26:2236-43. 2008..We examined the importance of several psychological attributes (sense of coherence, optimism, pessimism, hostility, anxiety) with regard to antihypertensive medication adherence assessed by pharmacy refill records... - Hostility and trajectories of body mass index over 19 years: the Whitehall II StudyHermann Nabi
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Am J Epidemiol 169:347-54. 2009..016 units (P = 0.023) annually over the follow-up period as compared with persons in the lowest quartile. The authors conclude that the difference in BMI as a function of hostility levels in men is not stable over time... - Body mass index over the adult life course and cognition in late midlife: the Whitehall II Cohort StudySeverine Sabia
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Am J Clin Nutr 89:601-7. 2009..The extent to which cognition in late midlife is influenced by lifetime obesity is unclear... - The association between heart rate variability and cognitive impairment in middle-aged men and women. The Whitehall II cohort studyAnnie Britton
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Neuroepidemiology 31:115-21. 2008..To examine the relationship between reduced heart rate variability (HRV) and cognitive function in middle-aged adults in the general population... - Does personality predict mortality? Results from the GAZEL French prospective cohort studyHermann Nabi
INSERM, U687 IFR69, Saint Maurice, F 94415 France
Int J Epidemiol 37:386-96. 2008..We aim to test the independent association of 10 personality traits, from three major conceptual models, with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the French GAZEL cohort... - Smoking history and cognitive function in middle age from the Whitehall II studySeverine Sabia
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Unité 687, IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Bâtiment 15 16, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Arch Intern Med 168:1165-73. 2008..We examine the association between smoking history and cognitive function in middle age and estimate the risk of death and of nonparticipation in cognitive tests among smokers... - High blood pressure was associated with cognitive function in middle-age in the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, Unit 687, HNSM, Saint Maurice, France
J Clin Epidemiol 58:1308-15. 2005..However, it remains unclear if this association extends to younger age groups. The objective of this study was to examine the association between hypertension and a range of cognitive abilities in middle aged men and women... - The effect of control at home on CHD events in the Whitehall II study: Gender differences in psychosocial domestic pathways to social inequalities in CHDTarani Chandola
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, International Centre for Health and Society, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:1501-9. 2004..Psychosocial domestic conditions may have a greater effect on the health of women compared with men... - Association between metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms in middle-aged adults: results from the Whitehall II studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 32:499-504. 2009..We examined whether the metabolic syndrome is associated with the onset of depressive symptoms in a cohort of middle-aged British civil servants... - Low HDL cholesterol is a risk factor for deficit and decline in memory in midlife: the Whitehall II studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687 IFR69, Hopital Paul Brousse, Bât 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 28:1556-62. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between fasting serum lipids and short-term verbal memory in middle-aged adults... - Education attenuates the association between dietary patterns and cognitionTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 27:147-54. 2009..As individual food items are not consumed in isolation, we examined the association between dietary patterns and cognitive function, with special attention to the role of education in this association... - Low pessimism protects against stroke: the Health and Social Support (HeSSup) prospective cohort studyHermann Nabi
INSERM Unité 687, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Stroke 41:187-90. 2010..To date, the association between these psychological variables and risk of stroke remains unclear. We examined the relationship between pessimism and the 7-year incidence of stroke... - Inflammatory markers and cognitive function in middle-aged adults: the Whitehall II studyDavid Gimeno
International Institute for Society and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Medical School, London, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:1322-34. 2008..To assess whether C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are associated with low cognitive performance and decline in middle-aged adults... - Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse: how does it relate to cognitive function in mid-life?Archana Singh-Manoux
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Ann Epidemiol 15:572-8. 2005.... - Does cognitive reserve shape cognitive decline?Archana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U1018, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France
Ann Neurol 70:296-304. 2011..Our objective is to examine the impact of 3 markers of reserve from different points in the life course on cognitive function and decline in late adulthood... - The importance of cognitive aging for understanding dementiaArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U1018 Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health Hôpital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment 15 16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Age (Dordr) 32:509-12. 2010.... - Do socioeconomic factors shape weight and obesity trajectories over the transition from midlife to old age? Results from the French GAZEL cohort studyAline Dugravot
INSERM U1018 Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Villejuif, France
Am J Clin Nutr 92:16-23. 2010..Obesity is a contemporary epidemic that does not affect all age groups and sections of society equally... - Effect of Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 on the association between health behaviors and cognitive function in late midlifeSeverine Sabia
INSERM, U1018 Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Bâtiment 15 16, F 94807, Villejuif, France
Mol Neurodegener 5:23. 2010.... - Does depression predict coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease equally well? The Health and Social Support Prospective Cohort StudyHermann Nabi
INSERM U687 IFR69, Villejuif, France
Int J Epidemiol 39:1016-24. 2010..This study aimed to compare the importance of depression for CHD and CBVD within the same population of adults free of apparent cardiovascular disease... - Vascular disease and cognitive function: evidence from the Whitehall II StudyArchana Singh-Manoux
International Center for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London, United Kingdom
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1445-50. 2003..To test the hypothesis of an inverse association between indicators of vascular disease and cognitive function in the general, stroke-free population... - IQ, socioeconomic status, and early death: The US National Longitudinal Survey of YouthMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Psychosom Med 71:322-8. 2009..To assess whether the association between cognitive ability (IQ) and early mortality is mediated by socioeconomic status (SES) or whether the association between SES and mortality reflects a spurious association caused by IQ... - [Life-course approach to cognitive ageing]Severine Sabia
INSERM U687, Hopital Paul Brousse, 16, avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Bâtiment 15 16, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France
Med Sci (Paris) 26:319-24. 2010..We discuss results relating to age, socioeconomic factors and vascular risk factors... - Role of socialization in explaining social inequalities in healthArchana Singh-Manoux
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, International Centre for Health and Society, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Soc Sci Med 60:2129-33. 2005..Four key areas that would benefit from research within the socialization framework are identified: health behaviours, psychological vulnerability, social skills and future time perspective... - Social status and health: a comparison of British civil servants in Whitehall-II with European- and African-Americans in CARDIANancy Adler
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1034-45. 2008..Overall, relationships of SSS and health were stronger for Whitehall-II and white CARDIA participants than for blacks in CARDIA...