Cancer incidence in British vegetarians (2009)
Key, Tim J., Appleby, P. N., Spencer, Elizabeth A., Travis, Ruth C., Allen, Naomi E., Thorogood, Margaret, ...
Background: Few prospective studies have examined cancer incidence among vegetarians. Methods: We studied 61 566 British men and women, comprising 32 403 meat eaters, 8562 non-meat eaters who did eat...
Foster, Charles, Hillsdon, Melvyn, Jones, Andy, Grundy, Chris, Wilkinson, Paul, Wareham, Nick, ...
Background: Physical activity has been positively associated with a range of objectively measured environmental variables. We explored the relationship of walking and other categories of physical...
Interventions for promoting physical activity (review) (2007)
Foster, C., Hillsdon, M., Thorogood, Margaret
Background Little is known about the effectiveness of strategies to enable people to achieve and maintain recommended levels of physical activity. Objectives To assess the effectiveness of...
Thorogood, Margaret, Connor, Myles, Tollman, Stephen, Lewando Hundt, Gillian, Fowkes, Gerry, Marsh, Jennifer
Abstract Background Rural sub-Saharan Africa is at an early stage of economic and health transition. It is predicted that the 21 st century will see a serious added economic burden from...
Thorogood, Margaret, Connor, Miles, Tollman, Stephen, Lewando Hundt, Gillian, Fowkes, Gerry, Marsh, Jennifer
Background: Rural sub-Saharan Africa is at an early stage of economic and health transition. It is predicted that the 21st century will see a serious added economic burden from non-communicable...
Holt, Tim A, Thorogood, Margaret, Griffiths, Frances, Munday, Stephen
Abstract Background Cardiovascular disease (including coronary heart disease and stroke) is a major cause of death and disability in the United Kingdom, and is to a large extent preventable, by...
Holt, Tim A., Thorogood, Margaret, Griffiths, Frances, Munday, Stephen
Background: Cardiovascular disease (including coronary heart disease and stroke) is a major cause of death and disability in the United Kingdom, and is to a large extent preventable, by lifestyle...
Griffiths, Frances, Lindenmeyer, Antje, Powell, John, Lowe, Pam, Thorogood, Margaret
Reviewer: Murray, E
Griffiths, Frances, Lindenmeyer, Antje, Powell, John, Lowe, Pam, Thorogood, Margaret
Reviewer: Murray, E
Griffiths, Frances, Lindenmeyer, Antje, Powell, John, Lowe, Pam, Thorogood, Margaret
Background: As Internet use grows, health interventions are increasingly being delivered online. Pioneering researchers are using the networking potential of the Internet, and several of them have...
Environmental perceptions and walking in English adults (2004)
Email Alerting, Charles Foster, Melvyn Hillsdon, Margaret Thorogood, Charles Foster, Melvyn Hillsdon, ...
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Marks, Dalya, Thorogood, Margaret, Neil, H. Andrew W., Wonderling, David, Humphries, Steve E.
Background Approximately 110 000 people in the United Kingdom are affected with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). At least 75 per cent are undiagnosed. Treatment with statins is effective but...
Addressing the inverse care law in cardiac services (2003)
Langham, Sue, Basnett, Ian, McCartney, Peter, Normand, Charles, Pickering, Julie, Sheers, Dilwyn, ...
Background Wide variation in rates of angiography and revascularization exist that are not explained by the level of need for these services. The National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease...
Thorogood, Margaret, Arscott, Ann, Walls, Peter, Dunn, Nicholas R., Mann, Ronald D.
In case-control studies it is important that controls selected are representative of the population from which the cases came, to give an unbiased estimate of population exposure. This is difficult...
Thorogood, Margaret, Arscott, Ann, Walls, Peter, Dunn, Nicholas R., Mann, Ronald D.
In case-control studies it is important that controls selected are representative of the population from which the cases came, to give an unbiased estimate of population exposure. This is difficult...
The prevalence of foot problems in older women: a cause for concern (2002)
Dawson, Jill, Thorogood, Margaret, Marks, Sally-Anne, Juszczak, Ed, Dodd, Chris, Lavis, Grahame, ...
Background Painful feet are an extremely common problem amongst older women. Such problems increase the risk of falls and hamper mobility. The aetiology of painful and deformed feet is poorly...
Hillsdon, Melvyn, Thorogood, Margaret, White, Ian, Foster, Charlie
Background Over the last 10 years ‘exercise referral schemes’ have been popular even though the evidence for effectiveness of any one-to-one intervention in primary care is deficient. We report...
Stevens, Warren, Thorogood, Margaret, Kayikki, Seher
Surveys of Turkish speaking people in London found 74% of men and 45% of women were smokers, and knowledge of the health effects of smoking was low. Camden and Islington Health Authority has a...
Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action (2001)
Brunner, Eric, Rayner, Mike, Thorogood, Margaret, Margetts, Barrie M., Hooper, Lee, Summerbell, Carolyn, ...
Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the 20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to the effects of maternal and...
Garcia-Peña, Carmen, Thorogood, Margaret, Armstrong, Ben, Reyes-Frausto, Sandra, Muñoz, Onofre
Background In Mexico, hypertension is a major cause of disability and death in the elderly, but the most effective way to promote behaviour change in old people is unknown. Low resource interventions...
Fahey, Tom, Hyde, Chris, Milne, Ruairidh, Thorogood, Margaret
Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly being used to evaluate the effectiveness of health care interventions. Systematic reviews of RCTs form the basis of the Cochrane...
Thorogood, Margaret, Mann, Jim, McPherson, Klim
The data from the Oxford Vegetarian Study consists of the observation of around 11 000 individuals followed since the early 1980s. There are around 6000 subjects who do not eat meat and 5000 roughly...
Fatal Stroke and Use of Oral Contraceptives: Findings from a Case-Control Study (1992)
Thorogood, Margaret, Mann, Jim, Murphy, Michael, Vessey, Martin
A case-control study of women less than 40 years of age in England and Wales was performed to evaluate the risk of fatal stroke associated with the use of the newer, low-dose oral contraceptives....
Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: results of the MICA case-control study
Dunn, Nicholas, Thorogood, Margaret, Faragher, Brian, De Caestecker, Linda, MacDonald, Thomas M, McCollum, Charles, ...
Mortality in people taking selegiline: observational study
Thorogood, Margaret, Armstrong, Ben, Nichols, Tom, Hollowell, Jen
Objective: To evaluate mortality among patients with Parkinson’s disease receiving different treatment.
Cost effectiveness analysis of different approaches of screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia
Marks, Dalya, Wonderling, David, Thorogood, Margaret, Lambert, Helen, Humphries, Steve E, Neil, H Andrew W
Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: results of the MICA case-control study
Dunn, Nicholas, Thorogood, Margaret, Faragher, Brian, De Caestecker, Linda, MacDonald, Thomas M, McCollum, Charles, ...
Mortality in people taking selegiline: observational study
Thorogood, Margaret, Armstrong, Ben, Nichols, Tom, Hollowell, Jen
Objective: To evaluate mortality among patients with Parkinson’s disease receiving different treatment.
Cost effectiveness analysis of different approaches of screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia
Marks, Dalya, Wonderling, David, Thorogood, Margaret, Lambert, Helen, Humphries, Steve E, Neil, H Andrew W
A community study of diabetes in Oxfordshire
Dornan, Ceri, Fowler, Godfrey, Mann, J. I., Markus, Andrew, Thorogood, Margaret
A mailed questionnaire was used to identify people with diagnosed diabetes in a population of approximately 14,000. A response rate of 90 per cent was obtained and the prevalence of diabetes was...
The care of oral contraceptive users by general practitioners in Oxfordshire
Johnson, Bridget, Thorogood, Margaret
A questionnaire was circulated to a sample of general practitioners in Oxfordshire enquiring about the supervision of women taking oral contraceptives. A high standard of care was being offered and...
Infant feeding and overweight in two Oxfordshire towns
Thorogood, Margaret, Clark, Rosemary, Harker, P., Mann, J. I.
In a study of feeding and growth in the first year of life in two Oxfordshire market towns, the frequency of overweight babies was the same for the 'intervention' town (where a research health...
Thorogood, Margaret, Connor, Myles, Tollman, Stephen, Lewando Hundt, Gillian, Fowkes, Gerry, Marsh, Jennifer
Health promotion in general practice: Authors' reply: OXCHECK study
Muir, John, Lancaster, Tim, Thorogood, Margaret, Yudkin, Pat, Fowler, Godfrey
Holt, Tim A, Thorogood, Margaret, Griffiths, Frances, Munday, Stephen, Stables, David
Targeted cardiovascular disease prevention relies on risk-factor information held in primary care records. A risk algorithm, the ‘e-Nudge’, was applied to data from a population of...