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A systematic review on health resilience to economic crises [PDF]

, 2015
Background The health effects of recent economic crises differ markedly by population group. The objective of this systematic review is to examine evidence from longitudinal studies on factors influencing resilience for any health outcome or health ...
A Antonovsky, A Dregan, A Hauksdottir, A Lammintausta, A Ostamo, A Reeves, AA Agudelo-Suarez, Aaron Reeves, AM Almedom, AM Doherty, B Barr, Bayard Roberts, BH Thomas, C Bambra, CB McClure, D Moher, D Pyper, D Stuckler, D Stuckler, DA Leon, Daisuke Nishi, David Stuckler, DG Gudmundsdottir, F Borgonovi, F Walsh, H Viinamaki, IH Kim, J Bor, JA Lopez Bernal, JT Macy, K Sargent-Cox, K Wada, Ketevan Glonti, M Castleden, M Economou, M Gili, M Karanikolos, M Rahmqvist, M Rutter, M Suhrcke, Martin McKee, N Garmezy, N Kondo, P Hajdu, P Martikainen, R Johnson, S Evans-Lacko, S Luthar, S Montgomery, SV Katikireddi, T Astell-Burt, Vladimir S. Gordeev, WY Lee, Y Goryakin, Yevgeniy Goryakin   +54 more
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Detection of risk factors for obesity in early childhood with quantile regression methods for longitudinal data [PDF]

, 2008
This article compares and discusses three different statistical methods for investigating risk factors for overweight and obesity in early childhood by means of the LISA study, a recent German birth cohort study with 3097 children.
Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Fenske, Nora, Höhle, Michael, Rzehak, Peter   +3 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in blood pressure: co-ordinated analysis of 147,775 participants from repeated birth cohort and cross-sectional datasets, 1989 to 2016

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background High blood pressure (BP) is a key modifiable determinant of cardiovascular disease and a likely determinant of other adverse health outcomes.
David Bann, Meg Fluharty, Rebecca Hardy, Shaun Scholes   +3 more
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Systematic review of birth cohort studies in South East Asia and Eastern Mediterranean regions [PDF]

, 2011
Few longitudinal studies of children have taken place in the developing world, despite child mortality being concentrated there. This review summarises the methodologies and main outcomes of longitudinal studies of pre-school children (0 to 59 months) in
Campbell, Harry, McKinnon, Rachel
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Describing the geographical linkage between the UK Millennium Cohort Study and crime incidents in England and Wales

International Journal of Population Data Science
Background Enhancing longitudinal cohort studies by linking routine external data to them is increasingly used to evaluate how local environments impact participants' outcomes (e.g.
Nicolas Libuy, Emla Fitzsimons, David Church   +2 more
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The Effect of Targeted Incentives on Response Rates and Representativeness: Evidence From the Next Steps Age 32 Survey

Survey Research Methods
This paper analyses the effect on response rate and non-response bias of tailoring the level of monetary incentives offered to participants in a longitudinal study, depending on sample members’ response propensity. Specifically, we test whether offering
Alessandra Gaia, Matt Brown, Tugba Adali, Stella Fleetwood, Christy Lai   +4 more
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Knee extension rate of torque development and peak torque: associations with lower extremity function

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2018
Background With aging, the ability to generate muscle force decreases, contributing to declines in physical functions such as walking. While most studies assess muscle force by peak torque, the rate of torque development (RTD) reflects a dynamic ...
Yusuke Osawa, Stephanie A. Studenski, Luigi Ferrucci   +2 more
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Handling Attrition in Longitudinal Studies: The Case for Refreshment Samples [PDF]

, 2013
Panel studies typically suffer from attrition, which reduces sample size and can result in biased inferences. It is impossible to know whether or not the attrition causes bias from the observed panel data alone.
Deng, Yiting, Hillygus, D. Sunshine, Reiter, Jerome P., Si, Yajuan, Zheng, Siyu   +4 more
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Development of the early axon scaffold in the rostral brain of the small spotted cat shark (Scyliorhinus canicula) embryo [PDF]

, 2014
International audienceThe cat shark is increasingly used as a model for Chondrichthyes, an evolutionarily important sister group of the bony vertebrates that include teleosts and tetrapods.
Schubert, Frank, Ware, Michelle, Waring, Colin   +2 more
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The validation of short eating disorder, body dysmorphia, and Weight Bias Internalisation Scales among UK adults

Journal of Eating Disorders
Background When collecting data from human participants, it is often important to minimise the length of questionnaire-based measures. This makes it possible to ensure that the data collection is as engaging as possible, while it also reduces response ...
Dorottya Lantos, Darío Moreno-Agostino, Lasana T. Harris, George Ploubidis, Lucy Haselden, Emla Fitzsimons   +5 more
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