Since mental health outcomes are shaped by a complex interplay of social, economic and environmental factors, considerable ...

Objectives Cognitive decline among middle-aged and older adults is an increasing public health concern, and household cooking ...

Background There is ongoing controversy whether antidepressant use alters suicide risk in adults with depression and other treatment indications. Methods Systematic review of observational studies, ...

Alcohol is a major, neglected driver of preventable harm in the UK and internationally, and these harms fall disproportionately on disadvantaged communities.1 2 Yet, political action remains limited ...

Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but whether its effects are comparable in women and men is unknown. Methods PubMed MEDLINE was ...

Background Education is recognised as a strong determinant of health. Yet there is increasing concern that health in adolescence may also influence educational attainments and future life chances. We ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA 2 Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Correspondence to: Dr M A Hernán Department ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The authors investigated whether patients who have survived an acute episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (PUB) have an excess long term all cause mortality compared with the general ...

Background Previous studies have suggested that some medications may influence dementia risk. We conducted a hypothesis-generating medication-wide association study to investigate systematically the ...

BACKGROUND Half a century of research has provided consensual evidence of major personal requisites of adult health in nutrition, physical activity and psychosocial relations. Their minimal money ...

Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK Correspondence to Professor Stephen Peckham, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 ...

Background The early identification of individuals at risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has major public health implications for Alzheimer’s disease prevention. Objective This study aims to ...