Samuel H Preston

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Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Deadweight?--The influence of obesity on longevity
    Samuel H Preston
    N Engl J Med 352:1135-7. 2005
  2. ncbi The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. 1975
    Samuel H Preston
    Bull World Health Organ 81:833-41. 2003
  3. ncbi Sex mortality differences in the United States: the role of cohort smoking patterns
    Samuel H Preston
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia 19104, USA
    Demography 43:631-46. 2006
  4. ncbi The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 1975
    Samuel H Preston
    Int J Epidemiol 36:484-90. 2007
  5. ncbi Modeling obesity histories in cohort analyses of health and mortality
    Samuel H Preston
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Epidemiology 24:158-66. 2013
  6. ncbi Contribution of obesity to international differences in life expectancy
    Samuel H Preston
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Am J Public Health 101:2137-43. 2011
  7. ncbi Estimating smoking-attributable mortality in the United States
    Andrew Fenelon
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6298, USA
    Demography 49:797-818. 2012
  8. ncbi Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala
    Jere R Behrman
    Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6297, USA
    Am J Clin Nutr 90:1372-9. 2009
  9. ncbi Ethnic and religious differentials in Bulgarian mortality, 1993-98
    Iliana V Kohler
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6299, USA
    Popul Stud (Camb) 65:91-113. 2011
  10. ncbi A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries
    Samuel H Preston
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 39:430-8. 2010

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Publications10

  1. ncbi Deadweight?--The influence of obesity on longevity
    Samuel H Preston
    N Engl J Med 352:1135-7. 2005
  2. ncbi The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. 1975
    Samuel H Preston
    Bull World Health Organ 81:833-41. 2003
  3. ncbi Sex mortality differences in the United States: the role of cohort smoking patterns
    Samuel H Preston
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia 19104, USA
    Demography 43:631-46. 2006
    ..Combined with recent changes in smoking patterns, the model suggests that sex differences in mortality will narrow dramatically in coming decades...
  4. ncbi The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 1975
    Samuel H Preston
    Int J Epidemiol 36:484-90. 2007
  5. ncbi Modeling obesity histories in cohort analyses of health and mortality
    Samuel H Preston
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Epidemiology 24:158-66. 2013
    ..Other versions of a duration-of-obesity model also perform well, underscoring the importance of obesity at early adult ages for mortality at older ages...
  6. ncbi Contribution of obesity to international differences in life expectancy
    Samuel H Preston
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Am J Public Health 101:2137-43. 2011
    ..The United States has the highest prevalence of obesity and one of the lowest life expectancies among high-income countries. We investigated the relationship between these 2 phenomena...
  7. ncbi Estimating smoking-attributable mortality in the United States
    Andrew Fenelon
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6298, USA
    Demography 49:797-818. 2012
    ..We suggest that our coefficients are suitable for calculating smoking-attributable mortality in contexts with relatively mature epidemics of cigarette smoking...
  8. ncbi Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala
    Jere R Behrman
    Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6297, USA
    Am J Clin Nutr 90:1372-9. 2009
    ..Better early childhood nutrition improves schooling, adult health, skills, and wages, but there is little evidence regarding its effect on the next generation...
  9. ncbi Ethnic and religious differentials in Bulgarian mortality, 1993-98
    Iliana V Kohler
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6299, USA
    Popul Stud (Camb) 65:91-113. 2011
    ..Suicide mortality is lower for Muslims than for Christian groups of the same ethnicity. Consistent with deteriorating economic conditions over the study period, mortality was rising, particularly for women...
  10. ncbi A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries
    Samuel H Preston
    Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 39:430-8. 2010
    ..This article develops an alternative to the Peto-Lopez method for estimating the number or fraction of smoking-attributable deaths in high-income countries...