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Life-course origins of social inequalities in adult immune cell markers of inflammation in a developing southern Chinese population: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyDouglas A West
School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, SAR, China
BMC Public Health 12:269. 2012..Inflammation may be a mechanism linking socioeconomic position (SEP) with cardiovascular disease. In a large sample of older residents of Guangzhou, in southern China, we examined the association of life course SEP with inflammation...- Childhood meat eating and inflammatory markers: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyC M Schooling
School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
BMC Public Health 11:345. 2011..We tested this hypothesis, using recalled childhood meat eating as a proxy for childhood nutrition, in southern China... - Estimated birth weight and adult cardiovascular risk factors in a developing southern Chinese population: a cross sectional studyC M Schooling
School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
BMC Public Health 10:270. 2010..We studied the association of birth weight and cardiovascular risk, using birth rank as an instrumental variable, in Southern China... - The influence of in-pregnancy smoking cessation programmes on partner quitting and women's social support mobilization: a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN89131885]Paul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
BMC Public Health 5:80. 2005..Smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy could influence a woman's social behaviour and her partner's smoking behaviour, but this has not been examined in any published randomized trials... - The risk of colorectal cancer with symptoms at different ages and between the sexes: a case-control studyWilliam Hamilton
Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, 25 Belgrave Road, Bristol, BS8 2AA, UK
BMC Med 7:17. 2009..Although the presenting features of the cancer are well described, the risks they convey are less well known. This study aimed to quantify the risk of cancer for different symptoms, across age groups and in both sexes... - Adding fluoride to water suppliesK K Cheng
Public Health Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 335:699-702. 2007 
The change-in-stage and updated smoking status results from a cluster-randomized trial of smoking prevention and cessation using the transtheoretical model among British adolescentsP Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Prev Med 33:313-24. 2001..The transtheoretical model (TTM) and computer technology are promising technologies for changing health behavior, but there is little evidence of their effectiveness among adolescents...- The influence of school culture on smoking among pupilsPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:1767-80. 2004..27), respectively. Adjustment for pupil-level smoking risk factors had little effect. School culture is an independent risk factor for adolescent smoking. Schools providing effective support and control might protect pupils from smoking... - A methodological and substantive review of the evidence that schools cause pupils to smokePaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:2253-65. 2004..However, under-control and over-control of confounding and lack of theoretical underpinning precludes definitive conclusions on how particular school characteristics influence pupils' smoking... - Is inter-school variation in smoking uptake and cessation due to differences in pupil composition? A cohort studyPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Health Place 11:55-65. 2005.... - Is advice to stop smoking from a midwife stressful for pregnant women who smoke? Data from a randomized controlled trialPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Prev Med 40:575-82. 2005..There are no randomized trials examining whether intensive advice to pregnant smokers is more stressful than standard care... - Systemic hypertension and glaucoma: mechanisms in common and co-occurrenceM J S Langman
Department of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK
Br J Ophthalmol 89:960-3. 2005..To determine whether systemic hypertension and glaucoma might coexist more often than expected, with possible implications for treatment... - Mechanisms of recurrence of Ta/T1 bladder cancerRichard T Bryan
Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Ann R Coll Surg Engl 92:519-24. 2010..However, the relative importance and timing of these mechanisms is currently unknown. Our objective was to postulate the incidence and timing of these mechanisms by investigating the location of bladder cancer recurrences over time... - A randomized controlled trial of smoking cessation for pregnant women to test the effect of a transtheoretical model-based intervention on movement in stage and interaction with baseline stagePaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Br J Health Psychol 11:263-78. 2006..To examine whether, as predicted by the transtheoretical model (TTM), stage-matched interventions will be more effective than stage-mismatched interventions... 
The West Midlands Bladder Cancer Prognosis Programme: rationale and designMaurice P Zeegers
Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
BJU Int 105:784-8. 2010..This might represent a model for the future investigation of urological and other malignancies...- A case-control study of elderly patients with acute respiratory illness: effect of influenza vaccination on admission to hospital in winter 2003-2004R E Jordan
Health Protection Research and Development Unit, Health Protection Agency, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Vaccine 25:7909-13. 2007..2 (95%CI 0.8, 1.9). Policy makers should not rely solely on influenza vaccine routinely having a large effect on winter pressures, and should focus on additional preventive strategies... - Social deprivation and breast cancerAliki Taylor
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
J Public Health Med 25:228-33. 2003..This cross-sectional study was carried out in a population-based setting in Worcestershire to investigate the relationship between social deprivation and other potential prognostic factors... - A cluster randomised controlled trial of smoking cessation in pregnant women comparing interventions based on the transtheoretical (stages of change) model to standard careT Lawrence
The Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Tob Control 12:168-77. 2003..To evaluate the effectiveness in helping pregnant women stop smoking of two interventions (Pro-Change for a healthy pregnancy) based on the transtheoretical model of behaviour change (TTM) compared to current standard care... - Effect of anti-inflammatory drugs on overall risk of common cancer: case-control study in general practice research databaseM J Langman
Department of Medicine University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT
BMJ 320:1642-6. 2000..To examine whether anti-inflammatory drug treatment protects against the commoner cancers in the United Kingdom... - Does smoking status influence the prognosis of bladder cancer? A systematic reviewP Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
BJU Int 90:228-39. 2002..To summarize, in a systematic review, the evidence for the effect of stopping smoking on recurrence, cancer-specific and all cause-mortality among smokers with newly diagnosed bladder cancer... - Cluster randomised controlled trial of expert system based on the transtheoretical ("stages of change") model for smoking prevention and cessation in schoolsP Aveyard
Department of Public Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 319:948-53. 1999..To examine whether a year long programme based on the transtheoretical model of behaviour change, incorporating three sessions using an expert system computer program and three class lessons, could reduce the prevalence of teenage smoking... - Can the stages of change for smoking acquisition be measured reliably in adolescents?Paul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Prev Med 35:407-14. 2002..was to examine the reliability of the algorithm... - The risk of smoking in relation to engagement with a school-based smoking interventionPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Soc Sci Med 56:869-82. 2003..The best explanation is that disengagement from school, an established risk factor for smoking, generalises to disengagement from didactic school-based health promotion programmes... - A controlled trial of an expert system and self-help manual intervention based on the stages of change versus standard self-help materials in smoking cessationPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Addiction 98:345-54. 2003..To examine the population impact and effectiveness of the Pro-Change smoking cessation course based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) compared to standard self-help smoking cessation literature... - The importance of social sources of cigarettes to school studentsE Croghan
Behavioural Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Tob Control 12:67-73. 2003..To discover the importance of social sources of tobacco to young people as opposed to commercial sources; to describe the peer market for cigarettes in schools and the consequences for young people of their involvement in it... - Bristol, Shipman, and clinical governance: Shewhart's forgotten lessonsM A Mohammed
Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK
Lancet 357:463-7. 2001.... - Does stage-based smoking cessation advice in pregnancy result in long-term quitters? 18-month postpartum follow-up of a randomized controlled trialTerry Lawrence
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK
Addiction 100:107-16. 2005..It has been claimed that TTM-based interventions will continue to create quitters after the end of the intervention period... - Association of the metabolic syndrome with vascular disease in an older Chinese population: Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyX Q Lao
Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
J Endocrinol Invest 29:989-96. 2006..The prevalence of the MS is alarmingly high in this older Chinese population. Comprehensive strategies are needed for prevention and treatment of the MS to reduce the increased societal burden of cardiovascular disease in China... - Parity and the metabolic syndrome in older Chinese women: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyX Q Lao
Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 65:460-9. 2006.... - Snoring and vascular risk factors and disease in a low-risk Chinese population: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyG Neil Thomas
Department of Community Medicine, and School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam
Sleep 29:896-900. 2006..CONCLUSION: Increasing snoring frequency was associated with an increasing prevalence of risk factors and self-reported vascular disease. Snoring may a useful marker for increased risk of vascular disease... - The risk of preterm delivery in women from different ethnic groupsPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
BJOG 109:894-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Factors associated with deprivation and marital status explain about half of the excess of preterm births in Afro-Caribbeans, but not Africans. The risk of preterm delivery might not be related to deprivation in Asians... - Life-course origins of social inequalities in metabolic risk in the population of a developing countryC M Schooling
Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Am J Epidemiol 167:419-28. 2008.... - Exposure to power frequency electric fields and the risk of childhood cancer in the UKJ Skinner
Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort s Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
Br J Cancer 87:1257-66. 2002..59-1.35) for all malignancies. With exposure modelled as a continuous variable, odds ratios for an increase in the principal metric of 10 V m(-1) were close to unity for all disease categories, never differing significantly from one... - Passive smoking exposure and risk of COPD among adults in China: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyP Yin
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Lancet 370:751-7. 2007..We examined the relation between passive smoking and COPD and respiratory symptoms in an adult Chinese population... - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): a community-based prevalence surveyL Abudu
Public Health Department, Worcestershire Health Authority, Worcester
Epidemiol Infect 126:351-6. 2001..Six per cent (4/63) of S. aureus isolates were MRSA and 2 of the 4 MRSA carriers reported previous contact with health facilities. The prevalence of MRSA colonization in the general adult population in Birmingham appears to be low... - Childhood cancer in the south Asian population of England (1990-1992)C Cummins
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Br J Cancer 84:1215-8. 2001..Aetiological investigation is required... - Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortalityPeymane Adab
Lancet 361:1391; author reply 1391-2. 2003 - Risk factors for squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus in women: a case-control studyL Sharp
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, UK
Br J Cancer 85:1667-70. 2001..08, 95% CI 0.01-0.56). Comparison with a parallel study of adenocarcinoma indicated a common protective effect of a healthy diet but otherwise distinct risk factors... - The importance of anaemia in diagnosing colorectal cancer: a case-control study using electronic primary care recordsW Hamilton
Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, 25 Belgrave Road, Bristol BS8 2AA, UK
Br J Cancer 98:323-7. 2008..7% (5.7, 11). Current guidance for urgent investigation of anaemia misses some patients with a moderate risk of cancer, particularly men... - Is leg length a biomarker of childhood conditions in older Chinese women? The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyC M Schooling
Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:160-6. 2008..It was hypothesised that in transitioning populations better childhood conditions may bring forward puberty and thus decrease leg length, counteracting the overall positive effect of a favourable childhood environment on leg growth... - Update on effects of screening mammographyK K Cheng
Lancet 360:339; author reply 339-40. 2002 - c-Reactive protein and the metabolic syndrome in older Chinese: Guangzhou Biobank Cohort StudyX Q Lao
Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
Atherosclerosis 194:483-9. 2007.... - Obesity prevention: life course approach vs continuing environmental 'detoxification'Miranda J Pallan
Int J Epidemiol 35:1100-1; author reply 1102. 2006 - Does smoking influence survival in cancer patients through effects on respiratory and vascular disease?Taane G Clark
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, UK
Eur J Cancer Prev 15:87-90. 2006..Mortality among cancer patients might fall if more assistance in stopping smoking was provided for patients who have smoking-related cancers... - Strategies for reducing maternal mortalityAbdul Jokhio
Lancet 368:2122. 2006