WHITEHALL-II
Dietary assessment in Whitehall II: comparison of 7d diet diary and food-frequency questionnaire and validity against biomarkers
... The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to examine the agreement and disagreement between a 7 d diet diary (7DD) and a self-administered machine-readable food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) asking about diet in ...
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Social support and the likelihood of maintaining and improving levels of physical activity: the Whitehall II Study
... Background: Evidence on the association between social support and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is scarce and mostly based on cross-sectional data with different types of social support collapsed into a single ...
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Job strain, job demands, decision latitude, and risk of coronary heart disease within the Whitehall II study
... Within Whitehall II, low decision latitude is indeed more common in the lower employment grades, but high demands are usually found in the highest employment ...
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Social inequalities in depressive symptoms and physical functioning in the Whitehall II Study: Exploring a common cause explanation
... the Whitehall II study; and all members of the White- hall II study ...The Whitehall II Study is supported by grants from the Medical Research Council, Health and Safety Executive, ...
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Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study
... The Whitehall II study has been supported by grants from the Medical Research Council; British Heart Foundation; Health and Safety Executive; Department of Health; National Heart Lung and Blood Institute ...
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Prognosis of angina with and without a diagnosis: 11 year follow up in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study
... We thank all participating civil service departments and their welfare, personnel, and establishment officers; Elizabeth McCloy, George Sorrie, and Adrian Semmence of the Civil Service Occupational Health Service; the ...
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Study protocol: the Whitehall II imaging sub study
... The Whitehall II study; WHII Phase 11: Whitehall Two Phase 11 (2011 – 2012); WM: Brain white matter; Y-BOCS: Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale; YMRS: Young mania rating ...
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Does high C reactive protein concentration increase atherosclerosis? : the Whitehall II Study
... Methodology/Principal Findings: We genotyped 3 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) [+1444T.C (rs1130864); +2303G.A (rs1205) and +4899T.G (rs 3093077)] in the CRP gene and assessed CRP and carotid intima-media ...
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Predictors of two forms of attrition in a longitudinal health study involving ageing participants: An analysis based on the Whitehall II study
... phase. Whitehall II did not collect a precise date of retirement; we could de- tect an approximate time from the first phase when a participant said they were retired, but this question was only introduced ...
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Validating self-reported strokes in a longitudinal UK cohort study (Whitehall II): Extracting information from hospital medical records versus the Hospital Episode Statistics database
... The Whitehall II study was adopted by the National Institute for Health Research Stroke Research Network (SRN) and the hospital notes were extracted by a nurse from the SRN if the hospital was covered by ...
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A cross-sectional exploratory analysis between pet ownership, sleep, exercise, health and neighbourhood perceptions: the Whitehall II cohort study
... found that walking a dog was associated with feeling happier about ones neighbourhood, and that non dog owners felt less safe about their neighbourhood. How- ever, as this was a cross-sectional analysis we were lim- ited ...
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A statistical model to describe longitudinal and correlated metabolic risk factors: the Whitehall II prospective study.
... the Whitehall II cohort have investigated trajectories for metabolic risk factors in par- ticipants that progressed to diabetes diagnosis according to different diagnostic tests, and those remaining free ...
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Cross cultural comparison of correlates of quality of life and health status : the Whitehall II Study (UK) and the Western New York Health Study (US)
... Abstract Measures of quality of life (QoL) have been found to be predictors of mortality and morbidity; however, there is still limited understanding of the multifaceted nature of these measures and of potential ...
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Marmot et al -1991 - Health inequalities-among-British-civil-servants-the-Whitehall-II-study-Marmot.pdfView Download
... Our findings show that socioeconomic differences in health status have persisted over the 20 years separating the two Whitehall studies. The relative magnitude of these differences is difficult to assess. In the ...
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Adiponectin, biomarkers of inflammation and changes in cardiac autonomic function: Whitehall II study
... This study has two major findings: (i) Higher baseline levels of hsCRP, IL-6 and IL-1Ra showed associations with larger increases in HR and decreases in several HRV indices after initial adjustment for age, sex and ...
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Psychological distress and cancer incidence in the Whitehall II Study
... Using longitudinal data from the W hitehall II Study, this research investigated w hether elevated distress or depressive symptoms in cancer-free participants was associated w ith in[r] ...
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Gender specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension : the Whitehall II Study
... leep-disordered breathing SDB has been linked to elevated blood pressure and risk of hypertension in several epidemiological observational studies.1–5 Growing evidence indicates that sle[r] ...
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Evaluating the effect of stress management programmes at the work-site on absenteeism reduction:a systematic review
... 7) Marmot MG, Head J, Kivimäki M, et al. Influence of change in psychosocial work characteristics on sickness absence: the Whitehall II study.J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:55-61. [r] ...
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All cause and cause specific mortality rates of patients treated for alcohol use disorders: a meta analysis
... (2004) ‘Different measures of alcohol consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and all-cause mortality: 11-year follow-up of the Whitehall II Cohort Study’,.. Addiction , 99(1), p[r] ...
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Marmot et al 1997 - Contribution of job control and other risk factors to social variation in coronary heart disease.pdfView Download
... Methods Data were collected in the first three phases of examination of men and women in the Whitehall II study. 7372 people were contacted on all three occasions. Mean length of follow-up was 5·3 years. ...
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