G David Batty

..Examine the association of oral disease with future dementia/cognitive decline in a cohort of people with type 2 diabetes...

..As part of the 'IPD-Work' (Individual-participant-data meta-analysis in working populations) consortium, we compared different versions of the demands and control scales available in 17 European cohort studies...

..Given that physical illness is related to both exposure and outcome, it may explain this relation through confounding or mediation...

..To examine gender differentials in the association between life course socioeconomic disadvantage and the risk of exceeding internationally recognised weekly and daily guidelines for 'sensible' alcohol consumption and problem drinking...

..The determinants of prostate cancer--aside from established but non-modifiable risk factors of increased age, black ethnicity, and a positive family history--are poorly understood...

..To explore this issue, studies with repeat measurements of height are required, but, to date, such data have been lacking...

..The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between erectile problems in men and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality...

..To examine this, we assessed the associations of antidepressant use with change in glucose levels and incidence of undiagnosed and diagnosed diabetes...

..We sought to examine whether adding information on job strain to the Framingham model improves its predictive power in a low-risk working population...

..To examine the association between low intelligence (IQ) and increased risk of assault. Previous studies have been relatively small, have not adjust for socioeconomic status, and have not examined method-specific assaults...

..To compare the strength of the association between intelligence quotient (IQ) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality with the predictive power for established risk factors...

..We examined the potential relation of mental ability test scores at age 10 years with alcohol problems and alcohol intake at age 30 years...

..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...

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..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...

..89-2.12), or socioeconomic status [clerical (low) versus professional/executive, 0.95; 0.59-1.51] offered any predictive value for pancreatic cancer mortality. These results were unchanged following control for a range of covariates...

..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...

..These findings suggest that IQ may have an important role both in the etiology of injuries and in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in injury mortality...

..To examine the association of physiological, behavioural and social characteristics in pre-middle age with future total and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality...

..We assessed this issue in an occupational cohort study comparing low with high socioeconomic groups...

..We therefore examined the association between physical activity and inflammatory markers over a 10-year follow-up period...

..The health and social impact of drinking in excess of internationally recognized weekly (>21 units in men; >14 units in women) and daily (>4 units in men; >3 units in women) recommendations for 'sensible' alcohol intake are largely unknown...

..We examined various BMI operationalizations in relation to mortality from all causes and specific causes...

..This was the objective of the present study..

..However, little is known about the effect of parental IQ on the mental health outcomes of their children...

..To examine antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of diabetes...

..To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether dose-response relations exist...

..To explore associations between IQ measured in early adulthood and subsequent hospital admissions for attempted suicide and to explore the role of psychosis and examine associations of IQ with specific methods of attempted suicide...

..Some studies have dealt with this problem by excluding patients with cancers predating their psychiatric illness; others have not considered the issue...

..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...

..This study suggests that lower weight men have an increased risk of attempted suicide and that associations may extend into the "normal" BMI range...

..To examine the recent suggestion that impaired fasting glucose may protect against depression, whereas a diagnosis of diabetes might then result in depression...

..Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure has been related to various somatic health outcomes, although very little is known about the association between SHS exposure and mental health...

..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...

..It has been suggested that dietary patterns are associated with future risk of depressive symptoms. However, there is a paucity of prospective data that have examined the temporality of this relation...

..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...

..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...

..Obesity is associated with low-grade inflammation, but the long-term effects of weight change on inflammation are unknown...

..This has led to the suggestion that poor psychosocial work environments provide important additional explanatory power. However, little evidence is available for women...

..We examined whether diet, assessed in midlife, using dietary patterns and adherence to the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), is associated with aging phenotypes, identified after a mean 16-year follow-up...

..Prospective data on the association between common mental disorders and obesity are scarce, and the impact of ageing on this association is poorly understood...

..To examine antidepressant medication use as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and weight gain...

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..To examine associations between psychological distress, glucose metabolism, and death. There is limited information about the long-term prognosis of diabetic patients with psychological distress...

..g. smoking, obesity), assessed in middle age, in explaining the IQ-cancer relation...

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..Little is known about psychological risk factors in cerebrovascular disease. We examined the association between psychological distress and risk of death due to cerebrovascular disease...

..We sought to examine the association of early adulthood blood pressure with cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, while accounting for middle-age hypertension...

..The aim was to compare risk factors for stroke and ischemic heart disease (IHD) in a large general population cohort...

..To examine the association between objectively assessed secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure and mental health in a representative sample of British children...

..These findings suggest that labeling individuals as hypertensive, rather than having elevated blood pressure, per se, may partially explain the greater levels of distress in patients treated for hypertension...

..Additionally, the link between IQ and cause-specific mortality has been little explored...

..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...

..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...

..We examined the effect of lifetime body mass index (BMI) on adult carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and various atherosclerotic risk factors by using both Mendelian randomization and conventional analyses...

..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...

..Risk factors for homicide are emerging; however, the predictive value of IQ, for which there is a strong prima facie case, has yet to be examined...

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..To examine the capacity of existing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk algorithms widely used in primary care, to predict frailty...

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..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...

..We examined the combined effects of hypertension and common mental disorder on mortality in participants with both treated and untreated hypertension...

..We analysed the relation between job strain and coronary heart disease with a meta-analysis of published and unpublished studies...

..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...

..g. smoking), but psychological factors and broader social constructions of gender are rarely considered...

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..BMI, whether categorised according to current guidelines for Asian groups or World Health Organisation recommendations, was not associated with liver cancer in any of our analyses...

..Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is considered a benign condition. We investigate case-fatality following an incident hospitalization for NCCP and determine whether previous psychiatric hospitalization is associated with short-term mortality...

..In this report, the authors explain the difference between these two approaches and evaluate reflective and formative modelling for the prediction of health outcomes...

..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...

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..The aim of the present analyses was to examine the association between cortisol, DHEA sulphate (DHEAS) and the cortisol:DHEAS ratio and mortality...

..A postal questionnaire to all traced surviving cohort members has also been distributed...

..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...

..Mika Kivimaki and colleagues discuss new research that shows an association between shift work and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes among nurses...

..To describe the use of NICE, the acronym for the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, as both an adjective and noun in peer-reviewed journal article titles...

..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...

..The purpose of the present report is to systematically locate, evaluate, and interpret the findings of all such studies...