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Childhood and adulthood risk factors for socio-economic differentials in psychological distress: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohortC Power
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Soc Sci Med 55:1989-2004. 2002..Gradients in psychological distress reflect the cumulative effect of multiple adversities experienced from childhood...- Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study)Chris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Int J Epidemiol 35:34-41. 2006 
Socioeconomic position in childhood and early adult life and risk of mortality: a prospective study of the mothers of the 1958 British birth cohortChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London WC1N 1EH, England
Am J Public Health 95:1396-402. 2005..We sought to establish whether women's childhood socioeconomic position influenced their risk of mortality separately from the effects of adult socioeconomic position...- Childhood cognition and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in midadulthood: the 1958 British Birth Cohort StudyChris Power
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
Am J Public Health 100:129-36. 2010..We sought to establish whether associations between childhood cognition and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood are explained by common causes, or adult social position or health behavior... - Childhood adversity still matters for adult health outcomesChris Power
Institute of Child Health, WC1N 1EH, London, UK
Lancet 360:1619-20. 2002 - Child to adult socioeconomic conditions and obesity in a national cohortC Power
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:1081-6. 2003.... 
Psychological health throughout life and adult cortisol patterns at age 45 yChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:87-97. 2011..Our study suggests that psychological ill-health over years and decades "blunts" post-awakening cortisol secretion, possibly reflecting HPA dysregulation due to social stressors...- The contribution of childhood and adult socioeconomic position to adult obesity and smoking behaviour: an international comparisonChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 34:335-44. 2005.... - Life-course influences on health in British adults: effects of socio-economic position in childhood and adulthoodChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 36:532-9. 2007..We assess whether childhood SEP influences disease risk in mid-life, separately from the effect of adult position, and establish how associations vary across multiple measures of disease risk... - Maternal smoking in pregnancy, adult adiposity and other risk factors for cardiovascular diseaseC Power
UCL Institute of Child Health, UK
Atherosclerosis 211:643-8. 2010..To establish whether maternal smoking in pregnancy is associated with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in mid-adulthood and whether associations are explained by postnatal influences... - The influence of birth weight and socioeconomic position on cognitive development: Does the early home and learning environment modify their effects?Chris Power
Institute of Child Health, Centre for Peadiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, United Kingdom
J Pediatr 148:54-61. 2006..To establish whether effects of birth weight and socioeconomic position on cognition are explained or modified by home or learning environments... - Fetal environment and subsequent obesity: a study of maternal smokingChris Power
Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Int J Epidemiol 31:413-9. 2002..We studied maternal smoking during pregnancy to gain insight on how an insult affecting fetal growth might subsequently influence obesity risk through childhood to age 33... - Associations of early growth and adult adiposity with patterns of salivary cortisol in adulthoodChris Power
Center for Pediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:4264-70. 2006..A suspected mediator is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and cortisol regulation. Our prior hypothesis was that cortisol levels are affected by anthropometry at several life stages... - Predictors of low back pain onset in a prospective British studyC Power
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College of London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, England
Am J Public Health 91:1671-8. 2001..This study examined predictors of low back pain onset in a British birth cohort... - Co-occurrence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease by social class: 1958 British birth cohortC Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:1030-5. 2008..To establish whether social differences in multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease are due to a greater strength of association (higher correlation) between risk factors in less advantaged groups... - Combination of low birth weight and high adult body mass index: at what age is it established and what are its determinants?C Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:969-73. 2003..To investigate growth trajectories and predictive factors for those with low birth weight and high adult BMI... - Changes in BMI, duration of overweight and obesity, and glucose metabolism: 45 years of follow-up of a birth cohortChris Power
MRCCentre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Diabetes Care 34:1986-91. 2011..The objective was to establish whether there are effects on adult glucose metabolism of 1) sensitive periods of BMI gain or 2) long duration of overweight and obesity... - The duration and timing of exposure: effects of socioeconomic environment on adult healthC Power
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London, England
Am J Public Health 89:1059-65. 1999.... - Cognitive development and cortisol patterns in mid-life: findings from a British birth cohortChris Power
UCL Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:530-9. 2008..Our results for males, but less so for females, are compatible with a causal relationship in either direction, namely from cortisol to cognitive ability or vice versa... - A prospective study of limiting longstanding illness in early adulthoodC Power
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 29:131-9. 2000.... - Lifecourse influences on health among British adults: effects of region of residence in childhood and adulthoodDavid P Strachan
Division of Community Health Sciences, St George s University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 36:522-31. 2007..We examined inter-regional migrants in Britain to evaluate the relative importance of early and recent exposures for adult cardiorespiratory risk factors, mental ill-health and sensory function... - An intergenerational and lifecourse study of health and mortality risk in parents of the 1958 birth cohort: (II) mortality rates and study representativenessElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Public Health 119:608-15. 2005..This paper evaluates the representativeness of the study population and assesses our success in identifying the biological parents... - Social differences in insulin-like growth factor-1: findings from a British birth cohortMeena Kumari
International Institute for Society and Health, University College London, London, UK
Ann Epidemiol 18:664-70. 2008..Our aim is to examine whether there are social differences in IGF-1 in a cohort of participants between 44 and 45 years of age... - Intergenerational influences on childhood body mass index: the effect of parental body mass index trajectoriesLeah Li
Center for Pediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 89:551-7. 2009..Parental obesity in adulthood is a strong determinant of offspring obesity. Whether parental body mass index (BMI; in kg/m2) at earlier life stages is associated with offspring BMI is unknown... - Prenatal exposures and glucose metabolism in adulthood: are effects mediated through birth weight and adiposity?Claudia Thomas
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Diabetes Care 30:918-24. 2007.... - 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and pre-clinical alterations in inflammatory and hemostatic markers: a cross sectional analysis in the 1958 British Birth CohortElina Hypponen
Medical Research Council Centre for Epidemiology of Child Health and Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
PLoS ONE 5:e10801. 2010..Our aim was to investigate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D, a measure for vitamin D status] concentrations with pre-clinical variations in markers of inflammation and hemostasis... - Gestational age and risk factors for cardiovascular disease: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort followed to mid-lifeRachel Cooper
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 38:235-44. 2009..Associations between gestational age and risk factors for cardiovascular disease have not been fully investigated... - Parental and offspring adiposity associations: insights from the 1958 British birth cohortChris Power
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Ann Hum Biol 38:390-9. 2011.... - Changing social gradients in cigarette smoking and cessation over two decades of adult follow-up in a British birth cohortBarbara J M H Jefferis
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH
J Public Health (Oxf) 26:13-8. 2004..CONCLUSION: Conclusions Social gradients in smoking have become more marked across the lifecourse of this birth cohort. This implies continued socioeconomic inequalities in future health outcomes in a contemporary adult population... - Health inequalities with the National Statistics-Socioeconomic classification: disease risk factors and health in the 1958 British birth cohortKate Atherton
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
Eur J Public Health 17:486-91. 2007..We examined health inequalities for multiple disease risk factors and health outcomes, with particular reference to cardiorespiratory risk in the self-employed... - Body mass index throughout the life-course and blood pressure in mid-adult life: a birth cohort studyLeah Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
J Hypertens 25:1215-23. 2007..The contribution of body mass index (BMI) at different life stages to adult blood pressure (BP) is not well known. We investigated whether changes in BMI across childhood and adulthood, and birthweight, influence BP in mid-adulthood... - Changing influences on childhood obesity: a study of 2 generations of the 1958 British birth cohortAngela Pinot de Moira
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 171:1289-98. 2010..Socioeconomic factors had improved across generations. Parental obesity, maternal employment, and socioeconomic factors may play an increasing role in the childhood obesity epidemic... - Effects of childhood socioeconomic circumstances on persistent smokingBarbara J M H Jefferis
The Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, England
Am J Public Health 94:279-85. 2004..We investigated whether socioeconomic circumstances at different life stages influence persistent smoking... - Birth weight, childhood socioeconomic environment, and cognitive development in the 1958 British birth cohort studyBarbara J M H Jefferis
Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 325:305. 2002..5-1.5% v 2.9-12.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The postnatal environment has an overwhelming influence on cognitive function through to early adulthood, but these strong effects do not explain the weaker but independent association with birth weight... - Social gradients in binge drinking and abstaining: trends in a cohort of British adultsBarbara J M H Jefferis
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:150-3. 2007..To investigate (1) social gradients in non-drinking and binge drinking, and (2) changes in social gradients in drinking with increasing age... - An intergenerational and lifecourse study of health and mortality risk in parents of the 1958 birth cohort: (I) methods and tracingElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Public Health 119:599-607. 2005.... - Type 2 diabetes mellitus in midlife estimated from the Cambridge Risk Score and body mass indexClaudia Thomas
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, England
Arch Intern Med 166:682-8. 2006..We assessed the ability of the CRS to predict glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)) levels and determined whether the CRS was better than body mass index (BMI) at predicting HbA(1c) levels in midlife... - Early environment and child-to-adult growth trajectories in the 1958 British birth cohortLeah Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 80:185-92. 2004..Genetics and environmental conditions early in life are known to influence height. However, evidence is restricted to studies conducted at a specific age, and thus the effect on the entire growth trajectory has been neglected... - Parental growth at different life stages and offspring birthweight: an intergenerational cohort studyElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:168-77. 2004..Maternal height in childhood was positively related to offspring birthweight, while the effect of her BMI was restricted to adulthood... - Childhood psychosocial adversity and adult cortisol patternsChris Power
Medical Research Council MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University College London UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 201:199-206. 2012..Cortisol levels may be altered in childhood in association with maltreatment (neglect, abuse and witnessing abuse) and other adversities, yet little is known about whether effects on cortisol persist into later life... - Physical (in)activity over 20 y in adulthood: associations with adult lipid levels in the 1958 British birth cohortMyung Ki
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Atherosclerosis 219:361-7. 2011..To investigate associations between physical (in)activity at different life-stages and lipids in mid-adulthood, examining the role of potential confounding and mediating factors, such as adiposity... - Associations between parental and offspring adiposity up to midlife: the contribution of adult lifestyle factors in the 1958 British Birth Cohort StudyRachel Cooper
Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and Division of Population Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 92:946-53. 2010..Parent-offspring associations in adiposity are well known, but the extent to which they are explained by modifiable environmental and lifestyle factors remains to be elucidated... - Working patterns and vitamin D status in mid-life: a cross-sectional study of the 1958 British birth cohortMaria Ward
MRC Centre for the Epidemiology of Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Occup Environ Med 68:902-7. 2011..To assess the association between working patterns and vitamin D status in men and women and to determine the potential influence of related lifestyle and socioeconomic factors... - Hypovitaminosis D in British adults at age 45 y: nationwide cohort study of dietary and lifestyle predictorsElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 85:860-8. 2007..Increased awareness of the importance of vitamin D to health has led to concerns about the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in many parts of the world... - Life-time socio-economic position and cortisol patterns in mid-lifeLeah Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:824-33. 2007..Thus, our study provides evidence for effects of chronic adversity on cortisol in mid-adult life... - Child-to-adult body mass index and height trajectories: a comparison of 2 British birth cohortsLeah Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics Medical Research Council Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N1EH, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 168:1008-15. 2008..1% vs. 10.8% in males and 23.7% vs. 14.8% in females). Changes in height and adiposity over a relatively short period of 12 years suggest the likelihood of opposing trends of influences on later disease risk in these populations... - An intergenerational study of birthweight: investigating the birth order effectElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
BJOG 111:377-9. 2004..Our findings suggest that underlying causes of a given birthweight should be taken into account in studies that investigate long term health outcomes... - 25-hydroxyvitamin D, IGF-1, and metabolic syndrome at 45 years of age: a cross-sectional study in the 1958 British Birth CohortElina Hypponen
Center for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
Diabetes 57:298-305. 2008..Physiological interactions between vitamin D and IGF-1 are reported; this is the first study to investigate their combined associations with metabolic syndrome prevalence... - Predicting cardiovascular disease risk factors in midadulthood from childhood body mass index: utility of different cutoffs for childhood body mass indexLeah Li
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 93:1204-11. 2011..Identifying adults at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) on the basis of childhood body mass index (BMI) could be informative for disease prevention but depends on the utility of childhood BMI cutoffs... - Do early life exposures explain associations in mid-adulthood between workplace factors and risk factors for cardiovascular disease?Claudia Thomas
MRC Centre for Epidemiology of Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 39:812-24. 2010..We investigated whether (i) workplace factors are associated with CVD risk factors independently of each other, (ii) workplace factors interact, thereby modifying associations and (iii) associations are explained by early life exposures... - Effects of grandmothers' smoking in pregnancy on birth weight: intergenerational cohort studyElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 327:898. 2003..To investigate the influences on birth weight of maternal smoking during pregnancy across generations... - Prenatal growth, BMI, and risk of type 2 diabetes by early midlifeElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Diabetes Care 26:2512-7. 2003..small size at birth has been associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Our aim was to evaluate how risk of diabetes associated with low birth weight is affected by accumulation of body mass from childhood to adulthood... - Longitudinal physical activity and diet patterns in the 1958 British Birth CohortTessa J Parsons
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:547-54. 2006..We also assessed whether activity level in adulthood was influenced by activity or television viewing in adolescence or early adulthood and to examine change in diet quality and whether any change was related to change in activity level... - Obesity and type 2 diabetes risk in midadult life: the role of childhood adversityClaudia Thomas
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford St, London WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom
Pediatrics 121:e1240-9. 2008.... - Inequalities in self-rated health: explanations from different stages of lifeC Power
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Lancet 351:1009-14. 1998..A greater understanding is needed on the relative importance of different causes. We investigated the contribution of risk factors identified at different life stages to inequalities in self-rated health... - Sedentary behaviour and biomarkers for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in mid-life: the role of television-viewing and sitting at workSnehal M Pinto Pereira
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e31132. 2012..To clarify whether sedentary behaviour is associated with disease-risk, we examined associations for television-viewing and sitting at work... - Physical activity and sedentary behaviour at different life stages and adult blood pressure in the 1958 British cohortTheodora Pouliou
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, UK
J Hypertens 30:275-83. 2012.... - Sex differences in the associations between birthweight and lipid levels in middle-age: findings from the 1958 British birth cohortRachel Cooper
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
Atherosclerosis 200:141-9. 2008..To examine sex differences in birthweight-lipid associations... - Vitamin D status has a linear association with seasonal infections and lung function in British adultsDiane J Berry
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatics and MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Br J Nutr 106:1433-40. 2011..Randomised controlled trials are warranted to investigate the role of vitamin D supplementation on respiratory health and to establish the underlying mechanisms... - Effects of socioeconomic position on inflammatory and hemostatic markers: a life-course analysis in the 1958 British birth cohortFaiza Tabassum
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 167:1332-41. 2008..Risk exposure related to SEP accumulates across the life course and contributes to raised levels of fibrinogen and C-reactive protein, while childhood SEP influences hemostatic markers more than does adult SEP... - Is there an association between hysterectomy and subsequent adiposity?Rachel Cooper
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
Maturitas 58:296-307. 2007.... - Are inequalities in height underestimated by adult social position? Effects of changing social structure and height selection in a cohort studyChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 325:131-4. 2002..To investigate whether changing social structure and social mobility related to height generate (inflate) inequalities in height... - Physical activity and change in body mass index from adolescence to mid-adulthood in the 1958 British cohortTessa J Parsons
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 35:197-204. 2006..Prevention of obesity has focused on childhood as a target period. Our aim was to assess whether frequency of adolescent physical activity affected subsequent body mass index (BMI) gain through to mid-adulthood... - Early life influences on adult leg and trunk length in the 1958 British birth cohortLeah Li
Centre for Pediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Hum Biol 19:836-43. 2007..Short leg length has been associated with increased disease risk. We investigated (1) whether taller childhood stature predicts longer adult leg than trunk length; (2) the effects of early life factors on adult leg/trunk length... - Social inequalities in low birth weight in England and Wales: trends and implications for future population healthK Moser
Office for National Statistics, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:687-91. 2003..To examine social inequalities and trends in low birth weight in England and Wales... - Socioeconomic differences in weight retention, weight-related attitudes and practices in postpartum womenVanessa A Shrewsbury
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Matern Child Health J 13:231-40. 2009..To determine if there is a socioeconomic status (SES) gradient in postpartum weight retention in women living in the UK, and examine SES differences in weight-related attitudes and practices in the postpartum period... - Socio-economic gradients in psychological distress: a focus on women, social roles and work-home characteristicsSharon Matthews
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 54:799-810. 2002..This surprising result therefore implicates factors beyond adult social roles examined here in the development of socio-economic gradients... - Influences on childhood height: comparing two generations in the 1958 British birth cohortLeah Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Int J Epidemiol 33:1320-8. 2004..Genetics and early environment are known to influence height, but evidence is sparse on changes in these influences over time... - Nutritional and other influences in childhood as predictors of adult obesityC Power
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 59:267-72. 2000.... - Vitamin D and chronic widespread pain in a white middle-aged British population: evidence from a cross-sectional population surveyK Atherton
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Ann Rheum Dis 68:817-22. 2009..Vitamin D deficiency has been suggested as a new modifiable risk factor for CWP... - Back pain and obesity in the 1958 British birth cohort. cause or effect?J K Lake
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, UK
J Clin Epidemiol 53:245-50. 2000..78). No significant relationships were found for men. The risk of pain onset among women was evident in relation to BMI at baseline (age 23) and cannot therefore be explained by an effect of back pain on adiposity... - Psychological distress and work and home roles: a focus on socio-economic differences in distressS Matthews
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London
Psychol Med 31:725-36. 2001..CONCLUSION: Explanations for the social gradient differ for men and women. Work may be more important for men than women, but the impact of home factors was not strong during the early adulthood of this cohort... - Shift work and risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a study at age 45 years in the 1958 British birth cohortClaudia Thomas
MRC Centre for Epidemiology of Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Eur J Epidemiol 25:305-14. 2010..Our results highlight night and early morning working associations with an adverse profile of CVD risk factors, which are partly explained by socioeconomic, other occupational factors and health behaviours... - Socioeconomic variation in attitudes to eating and weight in female adolescentsJane Wardle
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, London, England
Health Psychol 23:275-82. 2004..The results support the idea that socioeconomic differences in weight-related attitudes and behaviors may mediate the development of a gradient in weight... - Vitamin D status and glucose homeostasis in the 1958 British birth cohort: the role of obesityElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford St, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
Diabetes Care 29:2244-6. 2006..Obesity is a well-known risk factor for vitamin D deficiency. We evaluated the interrelationship between vitamin D status, body size, and glucose homeostasis, measured by HbA1c (A1C)... - Childhood and adulthood socio-economic position and midlife depressive and anxiety disordersStephen A Stansfeld
Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 192:152-3. 2008..Effects of childhood socio-economic position on adult depressive disorders may be mediated through adult socio-economic position... - Parental diabetes and birth weight of offspring: intergenerational cohort studyElina Hypponen
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 326:19-20. 2003 - Estimated activity patterns in British 45 year olds: cross-sectional findings from the 1958 British birth cohortT J Parsons
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 63:978-85. 2009..To investigate patterns of, and associations between, physical activity at work and in leisure time, television viewing and computer use... - Cigarette consumption and socio-economic circumstances in adolescence as predictors of adult smokingB Jefferis
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Addiction 98:1765-72. 2003..To investigate effects of cigarette consumption level and socio-economic circumstances during adolescence on adult smoking... - Breast feeding and obesity in childhood: cross sectional studyL Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
BMJ 327:904-5. 2003 - Night work, long working hours, psychosocial work stress and cortisol secretion in mid-life: evidence from a British birth cohortC Thomas
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Occup Environ Med 66:824-31. 2009..To examine the relationships between exposure to workplace factors (night work, extended working hours, psychosocial work stress) and cortisol secretion, and to test whether workplace factors interact, resulting in combined effects... - Life course epidemiologyD Kuh
Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London and Royal Free Medical School, Gower Street Campus, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, U.K
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:778-83. 2003 - Are inequalities in height narrowing? Comparing effects of social class on height in two generationsL Li
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH London, UK
Arch Dis Child 89:1018-23. 2004..To determine whether social inequalities in height change across generations... - Social inequalities in health: are there gender differences?S Matthews
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 48:49-60. 1999..The magnitude and explanations for gender differences in SES health inequalities are likely to vary according to life stage and health measure... - Social support at age 33: the influence of gender, employment status and social classS Matthews
Institute of Child Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Soc Sci Med 49:133-42. 1999.... - Physical activity, television viewing and body mass index: a cross-sectional analysis from childhood to adulthood in the 1958 British cohortT J Parsons
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:1212-21. 2005..To investigate how the relationships vary with age and gender and whether any relationships are due to confounding factors... - Changes in diet and physical activity in the 1990s in a large British sample (1958 birth cohort)T J Parsons
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 59:49-56. 2005..To investigate whether adults studied in 1991 and 1999 (at ages 33 and 42 y) improved their diet and their physical activity level, in the direction of recommendations issued during the same period... - Obesity and health inequalitiesC Law
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Obes Rev 8:19-22. 2007 - Diabetes risk in British adults in mid life: a national prevalence study of glycated haemoglobinC Thomas
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabet Med 24:317-21. 2007..Information on the population at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in the UK is scarce. We used data from the 1958 British birth cohort to estimate geographical and socio-economic variations in HbA(1c) in mid life... - Fetal and early life growth and body mass index from birth to early adulthood in 1958 British cohort: longitudinal studyT J Parsons
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
BMJ 323:1331-5. 2001.... - Psychosocial work characteristics and anxiety and depressive disorders in midlife: the effects of prior psychological distressS A Stansfeld
Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
Occup Environ Med 65:634-42. 2008.... - Television viewing and obesity: a prospective study in the 1958 British birth cohortT J Parsons
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 62:1355-63. 2008..To assess whether frequency of television viewing in adolescence (11 and 16 years) or early adulthood (23 years) affected subsequent changes in body mass index (BMI) through to mid-adulthood life, and waist-hip ratio in mid-adulthood... - Adolescent drinking level and adult binge drinking in a national birth cohortB J M H Jefferis
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Addiction 100:543-9. 2005..To assess (i) continuities in binge drinking across adulthood and (ii) the association between adolescent drinking level and adult binge drinking... - Cognitive development in childhood and drinking behaviour over two decades in adulthoodB J M H Jefferis
UCL Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:506-12. 2008.... - Infant feeding and obesity through the lifecourseT J Parsons
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 88:793-4. 2003..Breast feeding was protective against increased BMI at ages 16 and 33 years in females, and at 33 years in males, but this effect was markedly reduced and no longer significant after adjustment for confounding factors... - Physical and psychological effects of injury. Data from the 1958 British birth cohort studyL Li
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
Eur J Public Health 11:81-3. 2001..These results highlight the need for identifying effective strategies for the prevention of road traffic injuries as well as more effective approaches for rehabilitation of the injured... - Loss and representativeness in a biomedical survey at age 45 years: 1958 British birth cohortK Atherton
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:216-23. 2008..A biomedical survey of the 1958 British birth cohort at age 45 years provides a baseline for future studies of chronic disease. The extent and nature of bias in this sample was examined... - Childhood and adulthood psychological ill health as predictors of midlife affective and anxiety disorders: the 1958 British Birth CohortCharlotte Clark
Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:668-78. 2007..Previous studies have not examined whether the risk associated with childhood psychological ill health persists for midlife psychological health... - Offspring birth weight and parental mortality: prospective observational study and meta-analysisGeorge Davey Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 166:160-9. 2007..The stronger association in mothers is consistent with intergenerational effects on intrauterine growth and with the fetal origins hypothesis... - Are common symptoms in childhood associated with chronic widespread body pain in adulthood? Results from the 1958 British Birth Cohort StudyGareth T Jones
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Arthritis Rheum 56:1669-75. 2007..However, it is unknown whether this association persists into adulthood. The aim of the current study was to examine, prospectively, whether children with common symptoms experience an increased risk of chronic widespread pain as adults... - Type 2 diabetes TCF7L2 risk genotypes alter birth weight: a study of 24,053 individualsRachel M Freathy
Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, UK
Am J Hum Genet 80:1150-61. 2007..In conclusion, we have identified the first type 2 diabetes-susceptibility allele to be reproducibly associated with birth weight. Common gene variants can substantially influence normal birth-weight variation...