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Unstable resting heart rate trajectory patterns are associated with an increase in incident risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the China-PAR project
Background The association between resting heart rate (RHR) trajectory patterns based on multiple measurements and the risk ...
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Associations of area-level socioeconomic status and individual factors with mortality in China: a nationwide prospective cohort study
2 Shanghai National Clinical Research Center for metabolic Diseases, Key Laboratory for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases of the National Health Commission of the PR China, Shanghai Key Laboratory for ...
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Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us
This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...
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Population frailty trends by education and income levels over a period of 30 years: findings from Swedish registry data
Background Frailty is an age-related health condition affecting an estimated 18% of older adults in Europe and past evidence has shown a relationship between socioeconomic factors and frailty. We ...
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Burden of postmenopausal breast cancer attributable to excess body weight: comparative study of body mass index and CUN-BAE in MCC-Spain study
2 Gerencia de Atencion Primaria, Área de Salud de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates ...
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Impact of cuts to local government spending on Sure Start children’s centres on childhood obesity in England: a longitudinal ecological study
Background Childhood obesity is rising in disadvantaged areas in England. Sure Start children’s centres provide community-based services for children <5 years and their parents, including many ...
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Social inequalities in child development: the role of differential exposure and susceptibility to stressful family conditions
Background Stressful family conditions may contribute to inequalities in child development because they are more common among disadvantaged groups (ie, differential exposure) and/or because their ...
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Defining equity in health
2 International Health and Human Rights Program, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University School of Public Health, USA Correspondence to: Dr P Braveman, ...
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COVID-19: exposing and amplifying inequalities
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Monitoring community responses to the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong: from day 10 to day 62
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Correspondence to: Dr J T F Lau, Centre for Epidemiology ...
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Risk of severe mood and anxiety disorders in the adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide cohort study
Background Growing up with parental alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. This study investigated the risk of mood disorders and of anxiety disorders in the adult ...