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Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2013)
Objective: To determine the association between self reported job insecurity and incident coronary heart disease. Design: A meta-analysis combining individual level data from a collaborative consortium and published studies ...
Workplace Determinants of Social Capital: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from a Finnish Cohort Study
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Objective: To examine which contextual features of the workplace are associated with social capital. Methods: This is a cohort study of 43,167 employees in 3090 Finnish public sector workplaces who responded to a survey ...
Quantifying Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Effects in Clustering of Behaviour-Related Risk Factors: A Multilevel Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: The extent to which neighbourhood characteristics explain accumulation of health behaviours is poorly understood. We examined whether neighbourhood disadvantage was associated with co-occurrence of behaviour-related ...
School Environment as Predictor of Teacher Sick Leave: Data-Linked Prospective Cohort Study
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and psychosocial problems are common in schools worldwide, yet longitudinal research on the issue is scarce. We examined whether the level of or a change in pupil-reported school ...
Patterns of Weight Gain in Middle-Aged and Older US Adults, 1992–2010
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)
Background: Cross-sectional analyses of national data have found that persons with high baseline body mass index (BMI) gain weight faster than persons at the median and that those whose weight was below the median gain ...
Childhood Adversity as a Predictor of Non-Adherence to Statin Therapy in Adulthood
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
Purpose To investigate whether adverse experiences in childhood predict non-adherence to statin therapy in adulthood. Methods: A cohort of 1378 women and 538 men who initiated statin therapy during 2008–2010 after responding ...
Long working hours and cancer risk: a multi-cohort study
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
Background: Working longer than the maximum recommended hours is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but the relationship of excess working hours with incident cancer is unclear. Methods: This ...
Self-Rated Health in the Last 12 Years of Life Compared to Matched Surviving Controls: The Health and Retirement Study
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Self-rated health (SRH) is a valid measure of health status and associated with mortality. Based on individual-level biannual repeat data on SRH we sought to characterize the natural history of poor SRH during the 12 years ...
Comorbidity and Functional Trajectories From Midlife to Old Age: The Health and Retirement Study
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Background. The number of diseases and physical functioning difficulties tend to increase with age. The aim of this study was to examine the trajectories of physical functioning across age groups and whether the trajectories ...
Changes in physical activity during transition to retirement: a cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2016)
Background: Retirement is a major life transition which may affect lifestyle. The aim of this study is to examine within-individual changes in physical activity during the transition from full-time work to retirement. ...