The CONSTANCES general-purpose cohort is intended to serve as an epidemiological
research infrastructure accessible to the epidemiologic research community with a focus on …

Background Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for
coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation …

Background In 2011, WHO member states signed up to the 25 × 25 initiative, a plan to cut
mortality due to non-communicable diseases by 25% by 2025. However, socioeconomic …

Importance After an infection by SARS-CoV-2, many patients present with persistent
physical symptoms that may impair their quality of life. Beliefs regarding the causes of these …

Objectives: To investigate the determinants of self rated health (SRH) in men and women in
the British Whitehall II study and the French Gazel cohort study. Methods: The cross …

Background Although overweight and obesity have been studied in relation to individual
cardiometabolic diseases, their association with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is poorly …

Background Governments need to increase the proportion of the population in work in most
developed countries because of ageing populations. We investigated longitudinally how self-…

Background In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world
instituted various public-health measures. Our project aimed to highlight the most significant …

Background Differences in morbidity and mortality between socioeconomic groups constitute
one of the most consistent findings of epidemiologic research. However, research on social …

Background Obesity increases the risk of several chronic diseases, but the extent to which
the obesity-related loss of disease-free years varies by lifestyle category and across …