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Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: To investigate the association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and all cause mortality. Design: Prospective population based study. Setting: UK Biobank.
Anderson, Jana, Celis-Morales, Carlos A., Gill, Jason M.R., Guo, Yibing, Lyall, Donald M., Mackay, Daniel F., Maldonado, Reno, Pell, Jill P., Sattar, Naveed, Steell, Lewis, Welsh, Paul   +10 more
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Associations between the geriatric nutritional risk index and the risk of and mortality associated with chronic kidney disease in older individuals

BMC Public Health
Background Malnutrition is a complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Whether malnutrition, assessed via the geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI), is associated with the incidence and risk of CKD in older individuals remains unclear. Methods Data
Peilin Zou, Yucong Zhang, Liangkai Chen, Man Liu, Hao Nie, Hongyu Gao, Cuntai Zhang, Jinhua Yan   +7 more
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The impact of confounding on the associations of different adiposity measures with the incidence of cardiovascular disease: a cohort study of 296 535 adults of white European descent [PDF]

, 2018
Aims: The data regarding the associations of body mass index (BMI) with cardiovascular (CVD) risk, especially for those at the low categories of BMI, are conflicting. The aim of our study was to examine the associations of body composition (assessed by
Anderson, Jana, Celis-Morales, Carlos A., Gill, Jason M.R., Gray, Stuart R., Iliodromiti, Stamatina, Lyall, Donald M., Mackay, Daniel F., Nelson, Scott M., Pell, Jill P., Sattar, Naveed, Welsh, Paul   +10 more
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Risk factors and mortality associated with multimorbidity in people with stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a study of 8,751 UK Biobank participants [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Multimorbidity is common in stroke, but the risk factors and effects on mortality remain poorly understood. Objective: To examine multimorbidity and its associations with sociodemographic/lifestyle risk factors and all-cause mortality in UK ...
Gallacher, Katie I., Jani, Bhautesh D., Lee, Duncan, Mair, Frances S., McQueenie, Ross, Nicholl, Barbara   +5 more
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Accuracy of Patient Self-Report of Stroke: A Systematic Review from the UK Biobank Stroke Outcomes Group.

PLoS ONE, 2015
ObjectiveWe performed a systematic review of the accuracy of patient self-report of stroke to inform approaches to ascertaining and confirming stroke cases in large prospective studies.MethodsWe sought studies comparing patient self-report against a ...
Rebecca Woodfield, UK Biobank Stroke Outcomes Group, UK Biobank Follow-up and Outcomes Working Group, Cathie L M Sudlow   +3 more
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Relationships between estimated autozygosity and complex traits in the UK Biobank [PDF]

, 2018
Inbreeding increases the risk of certain Mendelian disorders in humans but may also reduce fitness through its effects on complex traits and diseases. Such inbreeding depression is thought to occur due to increased homozygosity at causal variants that ...
Evans, Luke M, Johnson, Emma C, Keller, Matthew C   +2 more
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UK Biobank Data: Come and Get It

Science Translational Medicine, 2014
UK Biobank invites scientists to make use of the vast (and growing) amounts of data in this open-access resource for public health research.
Allen, N, Sudlow, C, Peakman, T, Collins, R   +3 more
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Impact of detecting potentially serious incidental findings during multi-modal imaging [version 3; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2018
Background: There are limited data on the impact of feedback of incidental findings (IFs) from research imaging.  We evaluated the impact of UK Biobank’s protocol for handling potentially serious IFs in a multi-modal imaging study of 100,000 participants
Lorna M Gibson, Thomas J Littlejohns, Ligia Adamska, Steve Garratt, Nicola Doherty, UK Biobank Imaging Working Group, Joanna M Wardlaw, Giles Maskell, Michael Parker, Roger Brownsword, Paul M Matthews, Rory Collins, Naomi E Allen, Jonathan Sellors, Cathie LM Sudlow   +14 more
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Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders [PDF]

, 2016
Personality is influenced by genetic and environmental factors1 and associated with mental health. However, the underlying genetic determinants are largely unknown.
A Okbay, A Ramasamy, AE Poropat, Anders M Dale, Andrew Schork, B Bulik-Sullivan, B Devlin, B Franke, B Howie, BK Bulik-Sullivan, BM Henn, C Giambartolomei, CA Rietveld, Carol Franz, CG DeYoung, Chi-Hua Chen, Chun-Chieh Fan, CJ Soto, CJ Willer, D Falush, D Trabzuni, Daniel J Smith, David A Hinds, DF Gudbjartsson, DJ Smith, Dominic Holland, DP Hibar, DR Nyholt, E Green, G Bjornsdottir, Gyda Bjornsdottir, HC So, HN Kim, Hreinn Stefansson, J Van Os, J Yang, JA Gray, JH Barnett, JK Pickrell, JM Hettema, Joyce Y Tung, JR Gulcher, K Åberg, Kari Stefansson, Karolina Kauppi, KS Kendler, L Mezquita, Linda K McEvoy, LR Goldberg, MA Distel, MH de Moor, MH de Moor, Michael O'Donovan, Min-Tzu Lo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Olav B Smeland, Ole A Andreassen, P Bůžková, R Plomin, R Tabarés-Seisdedos, RA Power, RA Power, RJ Pruim, S Jakobwitz, S Purcell, S Ripke, SBG Eysenck, SL Karalunas, SM van den Berg, SM van den Berg, SR Browning, T Insel, T Vukasović, TA Greenwood, Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson, TJ Trull, V Boraska, Valentina Escott-Price, WK Thompson, Y Hu, Y Ono, Y Wang, Yunpeng Wang   +82 more
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Impact of detecting potentially serious incidental findings during multi-modal imaging [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2018
Background: There are limited data on the impact of feedback of incidental findings (IFs) from research imaging.  We evaluated the impact of UK Biobank’s protocol for handling potentially serious IFs in a multi-modal imaging study of 100,000 participants
Lorna M Gibson, Thomas J Littlejohns, Ligia Adamska, Steve Garratt, Nicola Doherty, UK Biobank Imaging Working Group, Joanna M Wardlaw, Giles Maskell, Michael Parker, Roger Brownsword, Paul M Matthews, Rory Collins, Naomi E Allen, Jonathan Sellors, Cathie LM Sudlow   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source