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| G D BattySummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men: further evidence from the Whitehall studyG D Batty
Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Eur J Epidemiol 17:863-9. 2001..There was evidence for attenuation of some of these associations on adjustment for potentially confounding variables. Our simplistic measure of physical activity may, in part, explain the weak associations seen...- Leisure time physical activity and coronary heart disease mortality in men symptomatic or asymptomatic for ischaemia: evidence from the Whitehall studyG David Batty
Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
J Public Health Med 25:190-6. 2003..Further, we are unaware of any study to examine if this relationship is modified by the symptomatic nature of the ischaemia... 
Blood pressure and site-specific cancer mortality: evidence from the original Whitehall studyG D Batty
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Br J Cancer 89:1243-7. 2003..The statistically significant blood pressure-cancer associations seen in this large-scale prospective investigation offering high power were scarce and of sufficiently small magnitude as to be attributable to chance or confounding...- Leisure time physical activity and disease-specific mortality among men with chronic bronchitis: evidence from the Whitehall studyG David Batty
Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, England
Am J Public Health 93:817-21. 2003..This study examined the association between leisure time physical activity and cause-specific mortality among male Whitehall Study participants with chronic bronchitis... - Physical activity and coronary heart disease in older adults. A systematic review of epidemiological studiesG David Batty
Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Eur J Public Health 12:171-6. 2002..The purpose of this paper was to explore the relation of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness with CHD in older adults by reviewing relevant studies... - Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men with Type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance: evidence from the Whitehall studyG D Batty
Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Diabet Med 19:580-8. 2002..The aim of the present analysis was to explore this hypothesis using data from a prospective observational study... - Risk of future depression in people who are obese but metabolically healthy: the English longitudinal study of ageingM Hamer
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Mol Psychiatry 17:940-5. 2012..38; 95% CI, 0.88-2.17). The association between obesity and risk of depressive symptoms appears to be partly dependent on metabolic health, although further work is required to confirm these findings... - Haemoglobin A1c, fasting glucose and future risk of elevated depressive symptoms over 2 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of AgeingM Hamer
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Psychol Med 41:1889-96. 2011..We examined the longitudinal associations between diabetes, indicators of glucose metabolism and depressive symptoms over 2 years of follow-up... - 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... 
Temporal trends in diabetes prevalence and key diabetes risk factors in Scotland, 2003-2008M Hamer
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabet Med 28:595-8. 2011..We assessed temporal trends in diabetes prevalence and key diabetes risk factors (obesity, physical activity, smoking) over 5 years in a nationally representative sample...- Associations of diabetes mellitus with site-specific cancer mortality in the Asia-Pacific regionE K K Lam
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Ann Oncol 22:730-8. 2011..Associations between diabetes and site-specific cancer mortality were estimated using time-dependent Cox models, stratified by study and sex, and adjusted for age... - Childhood socioeconomic position, adult socioeconomic position and social mobility in relation to markers of adiposity in early adulthood: evidence of differential effects by gender in the 1978/79 Ribeirao Preto cohort studyA Aitsi-Selmi
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 37:439-47. 2013..However, there are very few data from resource-poor countries where there are reasons to anticipate different gradients. Accordingly, we sought to characterise the nature of the socioeconomic status (SES)-adiposity association in Brazil... - Impact of mental health problems on case fatality in male cancer patientsG D Batty
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Br J Cancer 106:1842-5. 2012..Although mortality rates are elevated in psychiatric patients relative to their healthy counterparts, little is known about the impact of mental health on survival in people with cancer... - Optimal form of operationalizing BMI in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: the original Whitehall studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1926-32. 2008..We examined various BMI operationalizations in relation to mortality from all causes and specific causes... - Diarrhoea in childhood and cause-specific mortality in older age: analyses of 5642 deaths in 33,261 individuals from the Hertfordshire studiesG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 15:494-6. 2008..In the largest study to date to examine the relation, there was no evidence that diarrhoea in early life had an influence on later CHD mortality... - Does obesity modify the effect of blood pressure on the risk of cardiovascular disease? A population-based cohort study of more than one million Swedish menKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Circulation 118:1637-42. 2008..Given the inconsistency of this result, we tested it using a large population-based cohort data set... - 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... - Childhood mental ability in relation to food intake and physical activity in adulthood: the 1970 British Cohort StudyG David Batty
Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, United Kingdom G12 8RZ
Pediatrics 119:e38-45. 2007..The purpose of this work was to examine the relation of scores on tests of mental ability in childhood with food consumption and physical activity in adulthood... - Locus of control at age 10 years and health outcomes and behaviors at age 30 years: the 1970 British Cohort StudyCatharine R Gale
MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
Psychosom Med 70:397-403. 2008.... - Diabetes status and post-load plasma glucose concentration in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: findings from the original Whitehall studyG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK
Cancer Causes Control 15:873-81. 2004..While several studies have reported on the relation of diabetes status with pancreatic cancer risk, the predictive value of this disorder for other malignancies is unclear... - Cognitive function in children and subsequent type 2 diabetes: response to Ollson, Hulting, and MontgomeryG David Batty
Diabetes Care 31:e59; author reply e60. 2008 - IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle-age and later coronary heart disease mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience StudyG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 15:359-61. 2008..Examine the relation between IQ in early adulthood and later coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality, and assess the extent to which established risk factors measured in middle-age might explain this gradient... - Psychological, social and biological determinants of ill health (pSoBid): study protocol of a population-based studyYoga N Velupillai
Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Level 6, 39 St Vincent Place, Glasgow, G1 2ER, UK
BMC Public Health 8:126. 2008.... - Intelligence and carotid atherosclerosis in older people: cross-sectional studyCatharine R Gale
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:769-71. 2008 - 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 - Problem drinking and exceeding guidelines for 'sensible' alcohol consumption in Scottish men: associations with life course socioeconomic disadvantage in a population-based cohort studyG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
BMC Public Health 8:302. 2008..If public health interventions are to be successfully implemented, it is first important to identify correlates of such behaviours, including socioeconomic disadvantage. This was the aim of the present study... - Adult height and lung function as markers of life course exposures: associations with risk factors and cause-specific mortalityG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK
Eur J Epidemiol 21:795-801. 2006..Studies of the association of height and lung function with mortality--which are currently modest in number--will clarify the relative utility of these risk indices and the mechanisms underlying observed patterns of disease risk... - Meta-analysis reported incompatible statistics and omitted pertinent studiesG David Batty
Stroke 35:e79-80; author reply e79-80. 2004 - Article on walking and diabetes omitted some relevant studiesG David Batty
Arch Intern Med 163:2647; author reply 2647-8. 2003 - Socio-economic position and coronary heart disease risk factors in children and young people. Evidence from UK epidemiological studiesG David Batty
Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Eur J Public Health 12:263-72. 2002..This issue could be addressed by analysing some existing but unutilized survey data from the UK... - Physical activity for preventing strokesG David Batty
BMJ 325:350-1. 2002 - Bright children become enlightened adultsIan J Deary
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Psychol Sci 19:1-6. 2008..This study confirms social attitudes as a major, novel field of adult human activity that is related to childhood intelligence differences... - Association of diarrhoea in childhood with blood pressure and coronary heart disease in older age: analyses of two UK cohort studiesG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Int J Epidemiol 36:1349-55. 2007..We examined if episodes of diarrhoea in childhood, a recognized proxy for acute dehydration, were related to measured blood pressure and coronary heart disease in older adults... - 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.... - Adult socioeconomic position and the association between height and coronary heart disease mortality: findings from 33 years of follow-up in the Whitehall StudyClaudia Langenberg
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Pl, London, England, United Kingdom
Am J Public Health 95:628-32. 2005..001) for the highest grades, but 0.84 (95% CI=0.69, 1.03; P=.10) for middle and 0.95 (95% CI=0.75, 1.20; P=.65) for low grades, suggesting that childhood and adult social conditions may interact in their influence on coronary risk... - Education and mortality: the role of intelligenceG David Batty
Lancet 365:1765-6. 2005 - Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment, and adult cardiovascular risk factors: the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort studyDebbie A Lawlor
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS7 8QA, United Kingdom
Am J Public Health 95:1245-51. 2005.... - Early life predictors of childhood intelligence: evidence from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s studyDebbie A Lawlor
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:656-63. 2005..To identify the early life predictors of childhood intelligence... - 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... - 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... - Does IQ explain socioeconomic inequalities in health? Evidence from a population based cohort study in the west of ScotlandG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ
BMJ 332:580-4. 2006..To test the hypothesis that IQ is a fundamental cause of socioeconomic inequalities in health... - Early life predictors of childhood intelligence: findings from the Mater-University study of pregnancy and its outcomesDebbie A Lawlor
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:148-62. 2006.... - Effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring's cognitive ability: empirical evidence for complete confounding in the US national longitudinal survey of youthG David Batty
Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, United Kingdom
Pediatrics 118:943-50. 2006..Numerous studies have reported that maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy is related to lower IQ scores in the offspring. Confounding is a crucial issue in interpreting this association... - Physical fitness and lifetime cognitive changeIan J Deary
Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Neurology 67:1195-200. 2006..To test the hypothesis that physical fitness is associated with more successful cognitive aging... - Physical activity and coronary heart diseaseG David Batty
BMJ 328:1089-90. 2004 - IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood: 1970 British cohort studyCatharine R Gale
Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 6YD
BMJ 334:245. 2007..To examine the relation between IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood... - Decreased risk of death from coronary heart disease amongst men with higher 'femininity' scores: a general population cohort studyKate Hunt
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Int J Epidemiol 36:612-20. 2007..g. smoking), but psychological factors and broader social constructions of gender are rarely considered... - Obesity and overweight in relation to mortality in men with and without type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance: the original Whitehall StudyG David Batty
Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Diabetes Care 30:2388-91. 2007 - Mental ability across childhood in relation to risk factors for premature mortality in adult life: the 1970 British Cohort StudyG David Batty
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:997-1003. 2007..To examine the relation of scores on tests of mental ability across childhood with established risk factors for premature mortality at the age of 30 years... - 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...