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| Samuel H PrestonSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Deadweight?--The influence of obesity on longevitySamuel H Preston
N Engl J Med 352:1135-7. 2005
The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. 1975Samuel H Preston
Bull World Health Organ 81:833-41. 2003
Sex mortality differences in the United States: the role of cohort smoking patternsSamuel 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...
The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 1975Samuel H Preston
Int J Epidemiol 36:484-90. 2007
Modeling obesity histories in cohort analyses of health and mortalitySamuel 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...
Contribution of obesity to international differences in life expectancySamuel 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...
Estimating smoking-attributable mortality in the United StatesAndrew 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...
Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in GuatemalaJere 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...
Ethnic and religious differentials in Bulgarian mortality, 1993-98Iliana 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...
A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countriesSamuel 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...
