Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? (2008)
Chandola, T., Britton, A., Brunner, E., Hemingway, H., Malik, M., Kumari, M., ...
Aims: To determine the biological and behavioural factors linking work stress with coronary heart disease (CHD). Methods and results: A total of 10 308 London-based male and female civil servants...
Increased sickness absence in diabetic employees: what is the role of co-morbid conditions? (2007)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Virtanen, M., Elovainio, M., Hemingway, H.
AIMS: Diabetes is thought to be associated with increased risk of sickness absence in working populations. We examined the contribution of co-morbidity to this association. METHODS: Records of...
Britton, A., Shipley, M., Malik, M., Hnatkova, K., Hemingway, H., Marmot, M.
Previous cross-sectional studies have shown that heart rate (HR) and HR variability (HRV) are influenced by several behavioral, biologic, and psychosocial factors. There are very few longitudinal...
Outcome of stable angina in a working population: the burden of sickness absence (2007)
Hemingway, H., Vahtera, J., Virtanen, M., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
BACKGROUND: The decline in acute event rates among patients with stable angina emphasizes the need for outcome events that are commonly experienced, externally observed and sensitive to changing...
Griffin, S.C., Barber, J.A., Manca, A., Sculpher, M.J., Thompson, S.G., Buxton, M.J., ...
Objective: To assess whether revascularisation that is considered to be clinically appropriate is also cost effective. Design: Prospective observational study comparing cost effectiveness of coronary...
Junghans, C., Feder, G., Timmis, A.D., Eldridge, S., Sekhri, N., Black, N., ...
Background: Conventional guidelines have limited effect on changing physicians’ test ordering. We sought to determine the effect of patient-specific ratings vs conventional guidelines on...
Nicholson, A., Kuper, H., Hemingway, H.
Aims: With negative treatment trials, the role of depression as an aetiological or prognostic factor in coronary heart disease (CHD) remains controversial. We quantified the effect of depression on...
Chen, R., Kumar, S., Timmis, A., Feder, G., Yaqoob, M.M., Hemingway, H.
Mild to moderate renal impairment has recently been associated with increased cardiovascular mortality. However, gender differences in the association of mild to moderate renal impairment with the...
Junghans, C., Feder, G.S., Hemingway, H., Timmis, A.D., Jones, M.M.
Objective To evaluate the effect of opt-in compared with opt-out recruitment strategies on response rate and selection bias. Design Double blind randomised controlled trial. Setting Two general...
Depression in older people in rural China (2005)
Chen, R., Wei, L., Hu, Z., Qin, X., Copeland, J.R.M., Hemingway, H.
Background: In Western countries depression is the most common psychiatric condition in older persons and related to low socioeconomic status and low social supports. Along with social deprivation,...
Does autonomic function link social position to coronary risk? The Whitehall II study (2005)
Hemingway, H., Shipley, M., Brunner, E., Britton, A., Malik, M., Marmot, M.
Background - Laboratory and clinical studies suggest that the autonomic nervous system responds to chronic behavioral and psychosocial stressors with adverse metabolic consequences and that this may...
Working while ill as a risk factor for serious coronary events: the Whitehall II study (2005)
Kivimäki, M., Head, J., Ferrie, J.E., Hemingway, H., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., ...
Objectives. Although sick, some people take no time off work, a phenomenon called "sickness presenteeism." This study examined the association between sickness presenteeism and incidence of serious...
Influence of practices' ethnicity and deprivation access to angiography: an ecological study (2004)
Jones, M., Ramsay, J., Crook, A., Hemingway, H., Feder, G.
Background: Coronary heart disease is more common among some ethnic minority groups (particularly people from the Indian sub-continent living in Europe and North America) and in socially deprived...
Britton, A., Shipley, M., Marmot, M., Hemingway, H.
Objective: To determine whether access to cardiac procedures and drugs contributes to social and ethnic differences in coronary heart disease in a population setting. Design: Prospective study with...
The role of physician decision making in age-related inequalities in healthcare (2003)
Harries, C., Forrest, D., Harvey, N., Bowling, A., Hemingway, H.
Hemingway, H., Shipley, M., Britton, A., Page, M., Macfarlane, P., Marmot, M.
Objective: To investigate the prognosis of angina among people with and without diagnosis by a doctor and an abnormal cardiovascular test result. Design: Prospective cohort study with a median follow...
Brunner, E.J., Hemingway, H., Walker, B.R., Page, M., Clarke, P., Juneja, M., ...
Background: The causes of metabolic syndrome (MS), which may be a precursor of coronary disease, are uncertain. We hypothesize that disturbances in neuroendocrine and cardiac autonomic activity (CAA)...
Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective study (2001)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Ferrie, J.E., Hemingway, H., Pentti, J.
Objectives: To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and...
Philpott, S., Boynton, P., Feder, G., Hemingway, H.
Although the prevalence of angina in women is increasing, women are less likely than men to undergo invasive management of coronary disease. Gender differences in language use may contribute to...
Rossum, C.T. Van, Shipley, M.J., Hemingway, H., Grobbee, D.E., Mackenbach, J.P., Marmot, M.G.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the seasonal effect on all-cause and cause-specific mortality and to identify high-risk groups. METHODS: A 25-year follow-up of 19,019 male civil servants aged 40-69 years....
Summary points: In healthy populations, prospective cohort studies show a possible aetiological role for type A/hostility (6/14 studies), depression and anxiety (11/11 studies), psychosocial work...
Hemingway, H., Stafford, M., Stansfeld, S., Shipley, M., Marmot, M.
Objective: To measure within-person change in scores on the short form general health survey (SF-36) by age, sex, employment grade, and disease status. Design: Longitudinal study with a mean of 36...
Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in Whitehall II (prospective cohort) study (1997)
Bosma, H., Marmot, M.G., Hemingway, H., Nicholson, A.C., Brunner, E., Stansfeld, S.A.
Objective: To determine the association between adverse psychosocial characteristics at work and risk of coronary heart disease among male and female civil servants. Design: Prospective cohort study...
Brunner, E.J., Hemingway, H., Walker, B.R., Page, M., Clarke, P., Juneja, M., ...
Background-The causes of metabolic syndrome (MS), which may be a precursor of coronary disease, are uncertain. We hypothesize that disturbances in neuroendocrine and cardiac autonomic activity (CAA)...
Hood, S, Taylor, S, Roeves, A, Crook, A M, Tlusty, P, Cohen, J, ...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is a serious, common, and growing problem. Hospital admissions, which account for the bulk of health service costs associated with heart failure, are becoming more frequent....
Evaluation of a computer-generated discharge summary for patients with acute coronary syndromes.
Archbold, R A, Laji, K, Suliman, A, Ranjadayalan, K, Hemingway, H, Timmis, A D
The discharge summary from hospital to community physician contributes importantly to patient management, but deficiencies in its preparation are well documented. We sought to determine the...
Hemingway, H, Nicholson, A, Stafford, M, Roberts, R, Marmot, M
OBJECTIVES: This study measured the association between socioeconomic status and the eight scale scores of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36 (SF-36) general health survey in the Whitehall II...
Hood, S, Taylor, S, Roeves, A, Crook, A M, Tlusty, P, Cohen, J, ...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is a serious, common, and growing problem. Hospital admissions, which account for the bulk of health service costs associated with heart failure, are becoming more frequent....
Hemingway, H, Nicholson, A, Stafford, M, Roberts, R, Marmot, M
OBJECTIVES: This study measured the association between socioeconomic status and the eight scale scores of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36 (SF-36) general health survey in the Whitehall II...
Evaluation of a computer-generated discharge summary for patients with acute coronary syndromes.
Archbold, R A, Laji, K, Suliman, A, Ranjadayalan, K, Hemingway, H, Timmis, A D
The discharge summary from hospital to community physician contributes importantly to patient management, but deficiencies in its preparation are well documented. We sought to determine the...
Brunner, E.J., Hemingway, H., Walker, B.R., Page, M., Clarke, P., Juneja, M., ...
Background-The causes of metabolic syndrome (MS), which may be a precursor of coronary disease, are uncertain. We hypothesize that disturbances in neuroendocrine and cardiac autonomic activity (CAA)...
Griffin, S C, Barber, J A, Manca, A, Sculpher, M J, Thompson, S G, Buxton, M J, ...
Objective To assess whether revascularisation that is considered to be clinically appropriate is also cost effective.
Hemingway, H, Crook, A, Banerjee, S, Dawson, J, Feder, G, Magee, P, ...
OBJECTIVE—To determine whether ratings of coronary angiography appropriateness derived by an expert panel on hypothetical patients are associated with actual angiographic findings, mortality, and...
Population need for coronary revascularisation: are national targets for England credible?
Martin, R M, Hemingway, H, Gunnell, D, Karsch, K R, Baumbach, A, Frankel, S
Objective: To estimate the need for coronary revascularisation, by using an incidence of indications approach, among 45–84 year olds with stable angina, unstable angina, and acute myocardial...
Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in Whitehall II (prospective cohort) study.
Bosma, H., Marmot, M. G., Hemingway, H., Nicholson, A. C., Brunner, E., Stansfeld, S. A.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between adverse psychosocial characteristics at work and risk of coronary heart disease among male and female civil servants. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study...
Is the SF-36 a valid measure of change in population health? Results from the Whitehall II Study.
Hemingway, H., Stafford, M., Stansfeld, S., Shipley, M., Marmot, M.
OBJECTIVE: To measure within-person change in scores on the short form general health survey (SF-36) by age, sex, employment grade, and disease status. DESIGN: Longitudinal study with a mean of 36...
Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective study
Kivimaki, M, Vahtera, J, Ferrie, J, Hemingway, H, Pentti, J
OBJECTIVES—To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and...
Hemingway, H., Shipley, M., Macfarlane, P., Marmot, M.
OBJECTIVES—To determine the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in people with and without prevalent CHD at baseline. DESIGN—Cohort study with...
Marmot, M, Shipley, M, Brunner, E, Hemingway, H
STUDY OBJECTIVE—To determine the relative contribution of adult compared with early life socioeconomic status as predictors of morbidity attributable to coronary heart disease (CHD), chronic...
Mein, G, Martikainen, P, Hemingway, H, Stansfeld, S, Marmot, M
Background: To determine whether retirement at age 60 is associated with improvement or deterioration in mental and physical health, when analysed by occupational grade and gender.
Stafford, M., Hemingway, H., Stansfeld, S. A., Brunner, E., Marmot, M.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: (1) To identify behavioural and biological correlates of poor physical functioning and (2) to determine whether such associations are independent of disease. DESIGN: Potential...
Hemingway, H., Shipley, M., Stansfeld, S., Shannon, H., Frank, J., Brunner, E., ...
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To explore the previously stated hypothesis that risk factors for atherothrombotic disease are associated with back pain. DESIGN: Prospective (mean of four years of follow up) and...