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Longitudinal effects of social background on educational and occupational pathways within early and strong school tracking [PDF]

, 2013
peer reviewedTransitions from education to work are subject to person-related factors and institutional opportunity structures. Life course research increasingly focuses on longitudinal effects of social background on educational and occupational ...
Bergman, Manfred Max, Hupka-Brunner, Sandra, SAMUEL, Robin   +2 more
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Comparison of mitochondrial DNA sequences from whole blood and lymphoblastoid cell lines

Scientific Reports, 2022
Lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) provide an unlimited source of genomic DNA for genetic studies. Here, we compared mtDNA sequence variants, heteroplasmic or homplasmic, between LCL (sequenced by mitoRCA-seq method) and whole blood samples (sequenced ...
Chunyu Liu, Jessica L. Fetterman, Xianbang Sun, Kaiyu Yan, Poching Liu, Yan Luo, Jun Ding, Jun Zhu, Daniel Levy   +8 more
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How did the mental health symptoms of children and adolescents change over early lockdown during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the UK?

JCPP Advances, 2021
Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused extensive disruption to the lives of children and young people. Understanding the psychological effects on children and young people, in the context of known risk factors is crucial to mitigate the effects of ...
Polly Waite, Samantha Pearcey, Adrienne Shum, Jasmine A. L. Raw, Praveetha Patalay, Cathy Creswell   +5 more
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The stall in fertility decline in rural, northeast, South Africa: the contribution of a self-settled, Mozambican, refugee sub-population [PDF]

, 2014
Using longitudinal data from the Agincourt Health and socio-Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in rural South Africa, this paper examines the role of the fertility of self-settled, former Mozambican refugee sub-population on the stall in fertility ...
Collinson, Mark A, Collinson, Mark A., Tollman, Stephen M., Tollman, Stephen, Williams, Jill,, Tollman, Stephen M.,, Williams, Jill, Ibisomi, Latifat,, Ibisomi, Latifat, Collinson, Mark A.,   +9 more
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Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in UK longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ Mental Health, 2023
Background People who live alone experience greater levels of mental illness; however, it is unclear whether the COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionately negative impact on this demographic.Objective To describe the mental health gap between those who ...
Nish Chaturvedi, Laurie A Tomlinson, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Rohini Mathur, Kevin Wing, Emily Herrett, Kathryn E Mansfield, Praveetha Patalay, Kishan Patel, Ruth E Costello, Ellen J Thompson, Amir Mehrkar, Eoin McElroy, Michael J Green, Richard J Silverwood, Rosie Mansfield, Jane Maddock, Richard John Shaw, Sebastian Bacon, John Tazare, Giorgio Di Gessa, Dominik M Piehlmaier, Charlotte Huggins, Alex S F Kwong, Jingmin Zhu, Anthony Matthews, Alasdair Henderson, Lucy Bridges, Jacques Wels   +28 more
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Cannabis Use and Psychosis: A Longitudinal Population-based Study [PDF]

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2002
Cannabis use may increase the risk of psychotic disorders and result in a poor prognosis for those with an established vulnerability to psychosis. A 3-year follow-up (1997-1999) is reported of a general population of 4,045 psychosis-free persons and of 59 subjects in the Netherlands with a baseline diagnosis of psychotic disorder.
J, van Os, M, Bak, M, Hanssen, R V, Bijl, R, de Graaf, H, Verdoux   +5 more
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Joint Effects of Physical Activity and BMI on Risk of Hypertension in Women: A Longitudinal Study

Journal of Obesity, 2014
Introduction. There is debate as to whether physical activity counteracts the adverse effect of weight on health outcomes. We investigated how physical activity modifies the effect of body mass index (BMI) on hypertension risk. Methods.
Caroline Jackson, Gerrie-Cor Herber-Gast, Wendy Brown   +2 more
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Measuring social norms related to handwashing: development and psychometric testing of measurement scales in a low-income urban setting in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To design and test the psychometric properties of four context-specific norm-related scales around handwashing with soap after toilet use: (1) perceived handwashing descriptive norms (HWDN); (2) perceived handwashing injunctive norms (HWIN ...
Simon Cousens, Jim McCambridge, George Ploubidis, Patrick Nguipdop-Djomo, Maud Akissi Amon-Tanoh, Maria Knight Lapinski, Patrice Konan Blon, Hermann Aka Kouamé   +7 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood and adolescent body-mass index, weight, and height from 1953 to 2015: an analysis of four longitudinal, observational, British birth cohort studies

The Lancet Public Health, 2018
Summary: Background: Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood body-mass index (BMI) have been documented in high-income countries; however, uncertainty exists with regard to how they have changed over time, how inequalities in the composite parts (ie ...
David Bann, PhD, William Johnson, PhD, Leah Li, PhD, Diana Kuh, ProfPhD, Rebecca Hardy, ProfPhD   +4 more
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The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration: a trusted research environment for the longitudinal research community.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives The COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study utilises data from Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) and whole-population NHS databases: yet no resource existed linking multiple LPS to COVID-19 records.
Andy Boyd, Robin Flaig, Jacqui Oakley, Kirsteen Campbell, Katharine Evans, Stella McLachlan, Richard Thomas, Emma Turner   +7 more
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