Mamun, Abdullah A., O'Callaghan, Michael, Callaway, Leonie, Williams, Gail, Najman, Jake, Lawlor, Debbie A.
Height and Site-specific Cancer Risk: A Cohort Study of a Korean Adult Population (2009)
Sung, Joohon, Song, Yun-Mi, Lawlor, Debbie A., Smith, George Davey, Ebrahim, Shah
To evaluate the association between height and risk of cancer in an East Asian, middle-income population, the authors followed up a cohort of 788,789 Koreans (449,214 men and 339,575 women) aged...
Munafò, Marcus R., Timpson, Nicholas J., David, Sean P., Ebrahim, Shah, Lawlor, Debbie A.
Introduction: Many studies have investigated the association of the dopamine type-2 receptor (DRD2) Taq1A polymorphism with tobacco use and cigarette smoking behaviors, but findings remain equivocal....
Stamatakis, Emmanuel, Hamer, Mark, Lawlor, Debbie A.
Intense domestic physical activity (IDPA) is promoted by preventive health campaigns, but this recommendation is not supported by evidence. The authors used data from the 1995, 1998, and 2003...
Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review. (2008)
Whincup, Peter H, Kaye, Samantha J, Owen, Christopher G, Huxley, Rachel, Cook, Derek G, Anazawa, Sonoko, ...
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Nic J Timpson, Mikkel Christensen, Debbie A Lawlor, Tom R Gaunt, Ian N Day, Shah Ebrahim, ...
Background: Variation in the perception of bitter tastes has been associated with eating behavior, body composition, and cardiovascular disease. Recent observations have implicated 2 common...
Kivimäki, Mika, Smith, George Davey, Timpson, Nic J., Lawlor, Debbie A., Batty, G. David, Kähönen, Mika, ...
Aims Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants related to environmentally modifiable risk factors in an attempt to improve causal inference from observational data. We examined the effect of...
Kivimäki, Mika, Lawlor, Debbie A., Smith, George Davey, Eklund, Carita, Hurme, Mikko, Lehtimäki, Terho, ...
Genetic association studies have used variants in the C-reactive protein (CRP) gene to estimate causal effects of lifelong circulating CRP levels on disease endpoints. However, the extent to which...
Trayers, Tanya, Lawlor, Debbie A.
Background From a public health theoretical perspective, there is acknowledgement that synchronized policies, which address both individual and area level risks to health, are important to reduce...
Callaway, Leonie K., McIntyre, H. David, O'Callaghan, Michael, Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M., Lawlor, Debbie A.
Obesity is an important risk factor for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, but most cases of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy occur in women of normal weight. There may be predisposing factors...
Al Mamun, Abdullah, Lawlor, Debbie A., Alati, Rosa, O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
Lawlor, Debbie A., Leon, David A., Rasmussen, Finn
The interpretation of the inverse association of birth weight with adult blood pressure after adjustment for concurrent size has been debated. In a large sample (n = 378,707) of Swedish men aged 18...
Osler, Merete, Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie, Laursen, Bjarne, Lawlor, Debbie A
Background It has been suggested that cognitive function in childhood is a modifiable risk factor for adult injury. This study examines the relationship between cognitive function measured at the age...
Physical Activity and Common Mental Disorder: Results from the Caerphilly Study (2007)
Wiles, Nicola J., Haase, Anne M., Gallacher, John, Lawlor, Debbie A., Lewis, Glyn
The authors examined associations between leisure-time and occupational physical activity and common mental disorder (CMD), defined as anxiety and depression, using data from a cohort of middle-aged...
Alharbi, Khalid K., Spanakis, Emmanuel, Tan, Karen, Smith, Matt J., Aldahmesh, Mohammed A., O'Dell, Sandra D., ...
Identification of unknown mutations has remained laborious, expensive, and only viable for studies of selected cases. Population-based "reference ranges" of rarer sequence diversity are not...
Mamun, Abdullah Al, Lawlor, Debbie A., Alati, Rosa, O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
Mamun, Abdullah A., Lawlor, Debbie A., Cramb, Susanna, O'Callaghan, Michael, Williams, Gail, Najman, Jake
It has been suggested that sleeping problems are causally associated with obesity in early life, but most studies examining this association have been cross-sectional. The authors used a...
Mamun, Abdullah Al, Lawlor, Debbie A., Alati, Rosa, O’Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
Lawlor, Debbie A., Smith, George Davey, O'Callaghan, Michael, Alati, Rosa, Mamun, Abdullah A., Williams, Gail M., ...
The fetal overnutrition hypothesis proposes that greater maternal adiposity results in increased obesity throughout life in the offspring. The authors examined the associations between parental...
Mamun, Abdullah Al, Lawlor, Debbie A., Cramb, Susanna, O'Callaghan, Michael, Williams, Gail, Najman, Jake
It has been suggested that sleeping problems are causally associated with obesity in early life, but most studies examining this association have been cross-sectional. The authors used a...
Alati, Rosa, Lawlor, Debbie A., Mamun, Abdullah Al, Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M., O'Callaghan, Michael, ...
It is unclear whether there is a fetal origin of adult depression. In particular, previous studies have been unable to adjust for the potential effect of maternal depression during pregnancy on any...
Patel, Rita, Lawlor, Debbie A., Ebrahim, Shah
Background. Socio-economic inequalities in health may be due to differential uptake of preventive and therapeutic medical services. Objectives. To examine socio-economic position and self-reported...
Physical Activity and Common Mental Disorder: Results from the Caerphilly Study (2007)
Wiles, Nicola J., Haase, Anne M., Gallacher, John, Lawlor, Debbie A., Lewis, Glyn
The authors examined associations between leisure-time and occupational physical activity and common mental disorder (CMD), defined as anxiety and depression, using data from a cohort of middle-aged...
Lawlor, Debbie A, Leon, David A, Rasmussen, Finn
The interpretation of the inverse association of birth weight with adult blood pressure after adjustment for concurrent size has been debated. In a large sample (n = 378,707) of Swedish men aged 18...
Mary Shaw, Debbie A. Lawlor, Jake M. Najman
In many industrialised countries teenage pregnancy and teenage parenthood have in recent years been identified as social and public health problems that need to be tackled. A number of studies have...
Mamun, Abdullah Al, Lawlor, Debbie A., Alati, Rosa, O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
The authors used a population-based birth cohort of 3,253 children (52% males) born in Brisbane, Australia, between 1981 and 1984 to prospectively examine whether maternal smoking during pregnancy...
Mary Shaw, Debbie A. Lawlor, Jake M. Najman
In many industrialised countries teenage pregnancy and teenage parenthood have in recent years been identified as social and public health problems that need to be tackled. A number of studies have...
Mamun, Abdullah Al, Lawlor, Debbie A., Alati, Rosa, O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
The authors used a population-based birth cohort of 3,253 children (52% males) born in Brisbane, Australia, between 1981 and 1984 to prospectively examine whether maternal smoking during pregnancy...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Davey Smith, George, Mitchell, Richard, Ebrahim, Shah
The authors hypothesized that individuals born in the early 20th century who experienced the hottest and driest summers during infancy would be more likely to have suffered severe infant diarrhea and...
Cohort Profile: The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Study (2006)
Leon, David A, Lawlor, Debbie A, Clark, Heather, Macintyre, Sally
Trayers, Tanya, Deem, Rosemary, Fox, Kenneth R., Riddoch, Chris J., Ness, Andy R., Lawlor, Debbie A.
ObjectiveTo explore the perspectives of four groups of stakeholders to proposed improvements to the built environment--a neighbourhood renewal consisting of a home zone development and an extension...
Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Lawlor, Debbie A., Tynelius, Per, Gunnell, David
The authors investigated the association of body mass index (BMI) with suicide in a record linkage study based on the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing...
Patel, Rita, Lawlor, Debbie A, Ebrahim, Shah
Background. Socio-economic inequalities in health may be due to differential uptake of preventive and therapeutic medical services. Objectives. To examine socio-economic position and self-reported...
Tilling, Kate, Lawlor, Debbie A., Davey Smith, George, Chambless, Lloyd, Szklo, Moyses
The authors aimed to investigate the relation between components of adult height (leg and trunk length) and atherosclerosis in middle age, using data from 12,254 participants (aged 44–65 years) in...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Timpson, Nick, Ebrahim, Shah, Day, Ian NM, Smith, George Davey
Aims One previous study among women with established coronary heart disease found a gene-treatment interaction between the oestrogen receptor gene (ESR1) and hormone replacement in their association...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Timpson, Nick, Ebrahim, Shah, Day, Ian N.M., Smith, George Davey
Aims One previous study among women with established coronary heart disease found a gene–treatment interaction between the oestrogen receptor gene (ESR1) and hormone replacement in their...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Tynelius, Per, Davey Smith, George, Rasmussen, Finn
Previous studies have lacked sufficient power to assess associations between early-life socioeconomic position and adult cause-specific mortality. The authors examined associations of parental social...
Cohort Profile: The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Study (2006)
Leon, David A, Lawlor, Debbie A, Clark, Heather, Macintyre, Sally
Osler, Merete, Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie, Laursen, Bjarne, Lawlor, Debbie A
Background It has been suggested that cognitive function in childhood is a modifiable risk factor for adult injury. This study examines the relationship between cognitive function measured at the age...
Al Mamun, Abdullah, Lawlor, Debbie A., Alati, Rosa, O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
The authors used a population-based birth cohort of 3,253 children (52% males) born in Brisbane, Australia, between 1981 and 1984 to prospectively examine whether maternal smoking during pregnancy...
Trayers, Tanya, Deem, Rosemary, Fox, Kenneth R., Riddoch, Chris J., Ness, Andy R., Lawlor, Debbie A.
Objective To explore the perspectives of four groups of stakeholders to proposed improvements to the built environment—a neighbourhood renewal consisting of a home zone development and an extension...
Trayers, Tanya, Deem, Rosemary, Fox, Kenneth R., Riddoch, Chris J., Ness, Andy R., Lawlor, Debbie A.
ObjectiveTo explore the perspectives of four groups of stakeholders to proposed improvements to the built environment--a neighbourhood renewal consisting of a home zone development and an extension...
Patel, Rita, Lawlor, Debbie A, Ebrahim, Shah
Background. Socio-economic inequalities in health may be due to differential uptake of preventive and therapeutic medical services. Objectives. To examine socio-economic position and self-reported...
Email Alerting, Debbie A Lawlor, G David Batty, Ian J Deary, Sally Macintyre, ...
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Taylor, Benjamin, Rehm, Jurgen, Alati, Rosa, Lawlor, Debbie A., Najman, Jake M., Williams, Gail M., ...
Mamun, Abdullah A., Lawlor, Debbie A., O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jake M.
Weight reduction in clinical populations of severely obese children has been shown to have beneficial effects on blood pressure, but little is known about the effect of weight gain among children in...
Alati, Rosa, Lawlor, Debbie A., Najman, Jake M., Williams, Gail M., Bor, William, O'Callaghan, Michael
Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Lawlor, Debbie A., Tynelius, Per, Gunnell, David
The authors investigated the association of body mass index (BMI) with suicide in a record linkage study based on the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Sattar, Naveed, Smith, George Davey, Ebrahim, Shah
The mechanisms linking obesity and inactivity to diabetes mellitus are unclear. Recent studies have shown associations of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) with...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Tooth, Leigh, Lee, Christina, Dobson, Annette
Objectives To assess the associations between three measurements of socioeconomic position (SEP) - education, occupation and ability to cope on available income - and cardiovascular risk factors in...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Tooth, Leigh, Lee, Christina, Dobson, Annette
Objectives To assess the associations between three measurements of socioeconomic position (SEP) – education, occupation and ability to cope on available income – and cardiovascular risk factors...
Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Lawlor, Debbie A., Tynelius, Per, Gunnell, David
The authors investigated the association of body mass index (BMI) with suicide in a record linkage study based on the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Tooth, Leigh, Lee, Christina, Dobson, Annette
Objectives To assess the associations between three measurements of socioeconomic position (SEP) - education, occupation and ability to cope on available income - and cardiovascular risk factors in...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Najman, Jake M., Sterne, Jonathan, Williams, Gail M., Ebrahim, Shah, Smith, George Davey
Background-We examined the associations of a range of parental and early life characteristics with systolic blood pressure at 5 years of age. Methods and Results-Information from 3864 children who...
Adamson, Joy, Lawlor, Debbie A., Ebrahim, Shah
Objectives: to examine the association of chronic degenerative diseases with locomotor activity limitation and social participation among older British women. Methods: cross-sectional survey of 4,286...
Lawlor, Debbie A, Whincup, Peter, Emberson, Jonathan R, Rees, Karen, Walker, Mary, Ebrahim, Shah
Background. Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) among older individuals is associated with considerable benefit. Methods. In this study, we have examined the extent of secondary...
(Mis)use of Factor Analysis in the Study of Insulin Resistance Syndrome (2004)
Lawlor, Debbie A., Ebrahim, Shah, May, Margaret, Davey Smith, George
Over the last decade, factor analysis has been used increasingly to describe patterns of simultaneous occurrence of the central components of the insulin resistance syndrome. In this paper, the...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Ebrahim, Shah, Davey Smith, George
The aim of this study was to determine whether a sex difference exists in the association between birth weight and systolic blood pressure. A meta-analysis of all observational studies (n =...
RE: "ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATION USE AND BREAST CANCER RISK" (2000)
Lawlor, Debbie A., Beebe, Katherine L., Zaninelli, Rocco, Trock, Bruce, Cotterchio, Michelle, Kreiger, Nancy
Kivimäki, Mika, Smith, George Davey, Timpson, Nic J., Lawlor, Debbie A., Batty, G. David, Kähönen, Mika, ...
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
Galobardes, Bruna, Shaw, Mary, Lawlor, Debbie A, Lynch, John W
This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how data are elicited...
Lawlor, Debbie A., Clark, Heather, Leon, David A.
Objectives. We examined associations between childhood intelligence and hospital admissions for injuries in adulthood.
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2)
Galobardes, Bruna, Shaw, Mary, Lawlor, Debbie A, Lynch, John W
This is the second part of a glossary on indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research (the first part was published in the January issue of the journal).
Kivimäki, Mika, Lawlor, Debbie A., Smith, George Davey, Kouvonen, Anne, Virtanen, Marianna, Elovainio, Marko, ...
Objectives. We examined the associations between socioeconomic position, co-occurrence of behavior-related risk factors, and the effect of these factors on the relative and absolute socioeconomic...
Lindgren, Cecilia M., Heid, Iris M., Randall, Joshua C., Lamina, Claudia, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Qi, Lu, ...
To identify genetic loci influencing central obesity and fat distribution, we performed a meta-analysis of 16 genome-wide association studies (GWAS, N = 38,580) informative for adult waist...
Lindgren, Cecilia M., Heid, Iris M., Randall, Joshua C., Lamina, Claudia, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Qi, Lu, ...