Batty, G. D., Shipley, M. J., Mortensen, L. H., Gale, C. R., Deary, I. J.
OBJECTIVE: Examine the relation between IQ in early adulthood and later coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality, and assess the extent to which established risk factors measured in middle-age might...
Batty, G.D., Kivimäki, M., Gray, L., Smith, G.D., Marmot, M.G., Shipley, M.J.
BACKGROUND: The relation between cigarette smoking and several malignancies is still unclear. We examined the association of cigarette smoking with death attributed to 15 cancer sites, 7 of which are...
Kivimäki, M., Ferrie, J.E., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Singh-Manoux, A., Marmot, M.G., ...
Background: High sickness absence is associated with poor health status, but it is not known whether low levels of sickness absence among people with poor health predict future health improvement....
Batty, G.D., Shipley, M.J., Mortensen, L.H., Boyle, S.H., Barefoot, J., Gronbaek, M., ...
OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of potential mediating factors in explaining the IQ-mortality relation. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 4316 male former Vietnam-era US army personnel with...
Pre-morbid intelligence, the metabolic syndrome and mortality: the Vietnam Experience study (2008)
Batty, G.D., Gale, C.R., Mortensen, L.H., Langenberg, C., Shipley, M.J., Deary, I.J.
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: We examined the relationship between pre-morbid intelligence quotient (IQ) and the metabolic syndrome, and assessed the role of the metabolic syndrome as a mediating factor in the...
Kivimäki, M., Head, J., Ferrie, J.E., Shipley, M.J., Steptoe, A., Vahtera, J., ...
Background Hypertension is assumed to be one of the mechanisms through which job strain (a combination of high work demands and low job control) increases coronary heart-disease risk. However, direct...
Head, J., Kivimäki, M., Siegrist, J., Ferrie, J.E., Vahtera, J., Shipley, M.J., ...
Objectives Sickness absence is a major occupational health problem, but evidence for associations between potentially modifiable psychosocial work factors and sickness absence is still scarce. We...
BMI, obesity, and sickness absence in the Whitehall II study (2007)
Ferrie, J.E., Head, J., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Marmot, M.G., Kivimäki, M.
OBJECTIVE: To study BMI and change in BMI from age 25 as predictors of sickness absence. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Data were collected from 2564 women and 5853 men, who were British civil...
Injustice at work and health: causation, correlation or cause for action? (2007)
Ferrie, J.E., Head, J.A., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Marmot, M.G., Kivimäki, M.
Batty, G.D., Kivimäki, M., Davey Smith, G., Marmot, M.G., Shipley, M.J.
Introduction: In studies of apparently healthy individuals, overweight and obesity, typically assessed using BMI, have been consistently associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality,...
Bogers, R. P., Bemelmans, W. J. E., Hoogenveen, R. T., Boshuizen, H. C., Woodward, M., Khekt, P., ...
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Bogers, R. P., Bemelmans, W. J. E., Hoogenveen, R. T., Boshuizen, H. C., Woodward, M., Khekt, P., ...
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Bogers, R.P., Bemelmans, W.J.E., Hoogenveen, R.T., Boshuizen, H.C., Woodward, M., Knekt, P., ...
Background: The extent to which moderate overweight (body mass index [BMI], 25.0-29.9 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and obesity ( BMI, >= 30.0) are...
Batty, G.D., Gunnell, D., Langenberg, C., Smith, G.D., Marmot, M.G., Shipley, M.J.
Background and objective: Pulmonary function and height may be regarded as adult indices of exposures accumulated across the entire life course and in early life, respectively. As such, we...
Ferrie, J.E., Langenberg, C., Shipley, M.J., Marmot, M.G.
Background: Previous studies have suggested that shorter leg length, not trunk length, may explain the inverse association between height and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. However, investigation...
Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: the Whitehall II study (2006)
Ferrie, J.E., Head, J., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Marmot, M.G.M., Kivimäki, M.
Background: Previous studies of organisational justice and mental health have mostly examined women and have not examined the effect of change in justice. Aim: To examine effects of change in the...
Kivimäki, M., Head, J., Ferrie, J.E., Brunner, E., Marmot, M.G., Vahtera, J., ...
Objective: Evidence regarding the status of job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) is mixed, including both results supporting the risk status and null findings. However,...
Kivimäki, M., Head, J., Ferrie, J.E., Shipley, M.J., Brunner, E., Vahtera, J., ...
Objective: Previous research has focused on overall associations between work stress and body mass index (BMI) ignoring the possibility that stress may cause some people to eat less and lose weight...
Breeze, E., Clarke, R., Shipley, M.J., Marmot, M.G., Fletcher, A.E.
Background: The relevance of body mass index (BMI) to cause-specific mortality in old age is uncertain. Objectives: To examine cause-specific 5 year mortality in old age by BMI in old age and middle...
Relation between blood glucose and coronary mortality over 33 years in the Whitehall Study (2006)
Brunner, E.J., Shipley, M.J., Witte, D.R., Fuller, J.H., Marmot, M.G.
Objective: Glucose intolerance is a risk factor for coronary disease, but there is uncertainty about the shape of the dose-response relationship between glucose level and risk of coronary mortality....
Batty, G.D., Shipley, M.J., Jarrett, R.J., Breeze, E., Marmot, M.G., Davey Smith, G.
Background: The few reports of the association of obesity and/or overweight with total and cardiovascular disease mortality in persons with existing coronary heart disease (CHD) reveal inconsistent...
Langenberg, C., Shipley, M.J., Batty, G.D., Marmot, M.G.
In the Whitehall Study, which followed 17139 male civil servants over 33 years, the association between tall stature and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality differed between employment grades. In...
Ferrie, J.E., Kivimäki, M., Head, J., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Marmot, M.G.
Aim: To compare self-reported sickness absence days in the last 12 months with recorded absences from the employers’ registers for the same period. Methods: Self-reported sickness absence data over...
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...
Kivimäki, M., Ferrie, J.E., Head, J., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Marmot, M.G.
Objective: Organisational justice has been proposed as a new way to examine the impact of psychosocial work environment on employee health. This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment...
Kivimaki, M., Head, J., Ferrie, J.E., Shipley, M.J., Vahtera, J., Marmot, M.G.
Objective: To examine the association between sickness absence and mortality compared with associations between established health indicators and mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Medical...
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)...
Socioeconomic position, health, and possible explanations: a tale of two cohorts. (2002)
Fuhrer, R., Shipley, M.J., Chastang, J.F., Schmaus, A., Niedhammer, I., Stansfeld, S.A., ...
Objectives: We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient....
Ferrie, J.E., Martikainen, P., Shipley, M.J., Marmot, M.G., Stansfeld, S.A., Smith, G.D.
Objectives: To determine whether employment status after job loss due to privatisation influences health and use of health services and whether financial strain, psychosocial measures, or health...
Breeze, E., Fletcher, A.E., Leon, D.A., Marmot, M.G., Clarke, R.J., Shipley, M.J.
Objectives: This study examined (1) the relation of employment grade in middle age to self-reported poor health and functional limitations in old age and (2) whether socioeconomic status at...
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....
Rossum, C.T. Van, Shipley, M.J., Mheen, H. Van De, Grobbee, D.E., Marmot, M.G.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly men. DESIGN: 25 year...
Objective: To assess the risk of death associated with work based and non-work based measures of socioeconomic status before and after retirement age. Design: Follow up study of mortality in relation...
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)...
Batty, G.D., Shipley, M.J., Marmot, M., Davey Smith, G.
ObjectiveWhile several studies have reported on the relation of diabetes status with pancreatic cancer risk, the predictive value of this disorder for other malignancies is unclear. Methods: The...
Breeze, E, Fletcher, A E, Leon, D A, Marmot, M G, Clarke, R J, Shipley, M J
OBJECTIVES: This study examined (1) the relation of employment grade in middle age to self-reported poor health and functional limitations in old age and (2) whether socioeconomic status at...
Socioeconomic Position, Health, and Possible Explanations: A Tale of Two Cohorts
Fuhrer, R., Shipley, M. J., Chastang, J. F., Schmaus, A., Niedhammer, I., Stansfeld, S. A., ...
Objectives. We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient.
Ferrie, J E, Shipley, M J, Marmot, M G, Stansfeld, S A, Smith, G D
OBJECTIVES: This study examined changes in the health status of civil servants whose employment security was threatened. METHODS: Data were derived from a longitudinal cohort of 10,308 men and women,...
Prognosis in adult asthma: a national study.
Markowe, H L, Bulpitt, C J, Shipley, M J, Rose, G, Crombie, D L, Fleming, D M
Although one million people consult their general practitioners for asthma each year, data on the prognosis of this disease are scarce, particularly in adults. Mortality was studied among 2547 adult...
Lichtenstein, M J, Shipley, M J, Rose, G
Systolic and diastolic blood pressures were compared as predictors of death due to coronary heart disease using data on the 10 year mortality outcome from the 18 403 male civil servants, aged 40-64,...
Fibrinogen: a possible link between social class and coronary heart disease.
Markowe, H L, Marmot, M G, Shipley, M J, Bulpitt, C J, Meade, T W, Stirling, Y, ...
Mortality from coronary heart disease in civil servants in the lowest grade of employment has been found to be about three times that of men in the highest grade of employment. As part of an...
Weight and mortality in the Whitehall Study.
Jarrett, R J, Shipley, M J, Rose, G
Ten-year mortality rates in men aged 40-64 years in the Whitehall Study were analysed in relation to weight and height at the initial examination. At ages 40-49 "all-causes" mortality increased with...
Fuller, J H, Shipley, M J, Rose, G, Jarrett, R J, Keen, H
In the Whitehall study of 18 403 male civil servants aged 40-64 years the 10 year mortality rates from coronary heart disease and stroke showed a non-linear relation to two hour blood glucose values,...
What determines mortality risk in male former cigarette smokers?
Ben-Shlomo, Y, Smith, G D, Shipley, M J, Marmot, M G
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to examine what factors determine the mortality experience of male ex-cigarette smokers, those who no longer smoke at all and those who changed to pipe or...
Shipley, M J, Pocock, S J, Marmot, M G
OBJECTIVE--To explore the extent to which the relation between plasma cholesterol concentration and risk of death from coronary heart disease in men persists into old age. DESIGN--18 year follow up...
Explaining socioeconomic differences in sickness absence: the Whitehall II Study.
North, F, Syme, S L, Feeney, A, Head, J, Shipley, M J, Marmot, M G
OBJECTIVE--To describe and explain the socioeconomic gradient in sickness absence. DESIGN--Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II...
Prognosis in adult asthma: a national study.
Markowe, H L, Bulpitt, C J, Shipley, M J, Rose, G, Crombie, D L, Fleming, D M
Although one million people consult their general practitioners for asthma each year, data on the prognosis of this disease are scarce, particularly in adults. Mortality was studied among 2547 adult...
Lichtenstein, M J, Shipley, M J, Rose, G
Systolic and diastolic blood pressures were compared as predictors of death due to coronary heart disease using data on the 10 year mortality outcome from the 18 403 male civil servants, aged 40-64,...
Fibrinogen: a possible link between social class and coronary heart disease.
Markowe, H L, Marmot, M G, Shipley, M J, Bulpitt, C J, Meade, T W, Stirling, Y, ...
Mortality from coronary heart disease in civil servants in the lowest grade of employment has been found to be about three times that of men in the highest grade of employment. As part of an...
Breeze, E, Fletcher, A E, Leon, D A, Marmot, M G, Clarke, R J, Shipley, M J
OBJECTIVES: This study examined (1) the relation of employment grade in middle age to self-reported poor health and functional limitations in old age and (2) whether socioeconomic status at...
Socioeconomic Position, Health, and Possible Explanations: A Tale of Two Cohorts
Fuhrer, R., Shipley, M. J., Chastang, J. F., Schmaus, A., Niedhammer, I., Stansfeld, S. A., ...
Objectives. We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient.
Weight and mortality in the Whitehall Study.
Jarrett, R J, Shipley, M J, Rose, G
Ten-year mortality rates in men aged 40-64 years in the Whitehall Study were analysed in relation to weight and height at the initial examination. At ages 40-49 "all-causes" mortality increased with...
Ferrie, J E, Shipley, M J, Marmot, M G, Stansfeld, S A, Smith, G D
OBJECTIVES: This study examined changes in the health status of civil servants whose employment security was threatened. METHODS: Data were derived from a longitudinal cohort of 10,308 men and women,...
Fuller, J H, Shipley, M J, Rose, G, Jarrett, R J, Keen, H
In the Whitehall study of 18 403 male civil servants aged 40-64 years the 10 year mortality rates from coronary heart disease and stroke showed a non-linear relation to two hour blood glucose values,...
What determines mortality risk in male former cigarette smokers?
Ben-Shlomo, Y, Smith, G D, Shipley, M J, Marmot, M G
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to examine what factors determine the mortality experience of male ex-cigarette smokers, those who no longer smoke at all and those who changed to pipe or...
Shipley, M J, Pocock, S J, Marmot, M G
OBJECTIVE--To explore the extent to which the relation between plasma cholesterol concentration and risk of death from coronary heart disease in men persists into old age. DESIGN--18 year follow up...
Explaining socioeconomic differences in sickness absence: the Whitehall II Study.
North, F, Syme, S L, Feeney, A, Head, J, Shipley, M J, Marmot, M G
OBJECTIVE--To describe and explain the socioeconomic gradient in sickness absence. DESIGN--Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II...
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)...
Batty, G.D., Shipley, M.J., Marmot, M., Davey Smith, G.
ObjectiveWhile several studies have reported on the relation of diabetes status with pancreatic cancer risk, the predictive value of this disorder for other malignancies is unclear. Methods: The...