Objectives To estimate 10 year decline in cognitive function from longitudinal data in a middle
aged cohort and to examine whether age cohorts can be compared with cross sectional …

The purpose of this study was twofold—(1) investigate the role of subjective social status as
a predictor of ill-health, with a further exploration of the extent to which this relationship could …

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 …

Context Previous studies may have underestimated the contribution of health behaviors to
social inequalities in mortality because health behaviors were assessed only at the baseline …

Objective: To examine, among middle-aged individuals, if subjective socioeconomic status (SES)
predicts health status and change in health status over time better than objective SES. …

Sleep dysregulation is a feature of dementia but it remains unclear whether sleep duration
prior to old age is associated with dementia incidence. Using data from 7959 participants of …

Background Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but
prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We …

BackgroundStudies of diet and depression have focused primarily on individual nutrients.AimsTo
examine the association between dietary patterns and depression using an overall diet …

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 research productivity in the field of frailty has risen exponentially in
recent years, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the measurement of this syndrome. …