British birth cohort studies
Patterns of adiposity, vascular phenotypes and cognitive function in the 1946 British Birth Cohort
... 1946 British Birth Co- hort) is the oldest of the British Birth Cohort studies [23], and is unique in providing measures of BMI and waist circumference (WC) across the entire ...
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Cross-cohort changes in gender pay differences in Britain from 1972 to 2004: accounting for selection into employment using wage imputation
... This paper examines trends in the labour market position of British women and men from 1972 to 2004, using micro data from three British Birth Cohort Studies, of 1946, 1958 and 1970. ...
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Socio-economic inequalities in profiles of social integration across adulthood: evidence from a British birth cohort study
... further studies using prospective data over 17 years in this population describe five different profiles of change in social integration and clearly demonstrate the heterogeneity of change in social integration in ...
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The origins and innovatory nature of the 1946 British national birth cohort study
... Zuckerman’s studies were nevertheless welcomed both by new Government Departments set up to manage the war, and by the armed forces (Zuckerman 1978, ...experimental studies of injuries associated with blast ...
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Sibling bullying : examining childhood precursors and adverse outcomes in early adulthood using a British longitudinal birth cohort
... 2014). Studies on bird species show that in extreme cases, sibling rivalry may even result in siblicide through enforced starvation, physical aggression or eviction from the nest (Morandini & Ferrer, ...
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Influences on growth: A study of two generations based on the 1958 British Birth Cohort
... a cohort study is often not large enough for less common diseases and as a result the power of any study will be affected when studying the relationship between the exposure and the health ...1946 cohort, ...
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The relationship between affective symptoms and hypertension—role of the labelling effect: the 1946 British birth cohort
... prior studies have produced mixed fi ndings regard- ing the association of HT with common mental ...Further studies are required to con fi rm this observation and to investigate if this is peculiar to ...
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Maternal alcohol intake prior to and during pregnancy and risk of adverse birth outcomes: evidence from a British cohort
... Alcohol intake was averaged to weekly consumption and then divided into categories. This was done so as to better re fl ect the current UK guidelines on alcohol consumption for pregnant women and women trying to conceive, ...
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Age at menopause and lifetime cognitionFindings from a British birth cohort study
... previous studies, which showed transient cognitive decrements in peri- menopause that did not remain post ...previous studies 1 by having repeat cognitive assessments and by adjusting not only for education ...
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Body mass index, occupational activity, and leisure time physical activity: an exploration of risk factors and modifiers for knee osteoarthritis in the 1946 British birth cohort
... Our finding of a multiplicative interaction between lifting and BMI in men is supported by a previous case– control study [6], although not by another prospective study [19]. However, it is important to note that out of ...
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Psychiatric disorder in early adulthood and risk of premature mortality in the 1946 British Birth Cohort
... Many studies have shown an association between psy- chiatric disorder and premature death [1-5], mainly from cardiovascular disease [6-9] and suicide ...Existing studies have significant ...spective ...
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Parental separation and adult psychological distress: evidence for the 'reduced effect' hypothesis?
... the British birth cohorts does not support this hypothesis, but past studies have several limitations which we aim to ...from birth, account for missing data and statistically test ...
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Are objective measures of physical capability related to accelerated epigenetic age? Findings from a British birth cohort
... using data from across 82 studies, compared the SD of age measured in each study with the correlation coefficient found in each study between epigenetic and chronolog- ical age. He found a correlation of 0.49 ...
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Low Childhood IQ and Early Adult Mortality: The Role of Explanatory Factors in the 1958 British Birth Cohort
... association. Studies with more direct measures of delinquency and criminal behavior are needed to test this ...previous studies, including data on birth weight, 5 childhood illness, 6 or ...
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Effect of breast feeding on cognitive performance in a British birth cohort
... psychologists in the relationship between early environmental quality and later cognitive outcomes for children and adults. The stage was set a decade earher when Hunt (1961) argued forcefully that the child's early ...
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Health returns to cognitive capital in the British 1946 birth cohort
... 1946 cohort in relation to risk of cardiovascular disease, as indicated by self-reported smoking, physical exercise, dietary choice and measured hypertension and ...1946 cohort at age 53 (Richards et al ...
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Guest Editorial: Generation X enters middle age
... 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is an ongoing longitudinal study of people born in the United Kingdom in a particular week in ...of birth cohort studies, following the 1946 and 1958 ...
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Musculoskeletal pain in adults born preterm : evidence from two birth cohort studies
... demonstrated, young adults born early preterm were less fit (Tikanmäki et al. 2016) and less physically active than term-born controls (Tikanmäki et al. 2017a). This may predispose adults born preterm to more ...
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Volume 30 - Article 60 | Pages 1639–1652
... time. Studies conducted in the US have found prevalence rates that are three to four times higher over time than in a cross-section (Beck and Beck 1984, 1989), and a recent study found that 43% of urban children ...
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Integrating area-based and national samples in birth cohort studies: the case of Life Study
... A persistent feature, observed internationally, is the decline in response to population surveys. We have discussed how this can be tackled by carrying out adjustments based upon nationally available data, although when ...
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