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Rebecca Hardy

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ID3749249
NAMERebecca Hardy
GIVEN NAMESRebecca
FAMILY NAMEHardy
SIGNATUREHARDY R
AFFILIATIONSGita Mishra, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, and Diana Kuh are with the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, England. At the time of the study, Helen Kok was with the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Russell Ecob is with the MRC Hearing and Communications Research Group, University of Manchester, UK.
ORCID0000-0003-4953-273X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS101
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX7
  • Attitudes among the Australian public toward AI and CCTV in suicide prevention research: A mixed methods study

    Open Access•Rebecca Hardy, Kate Glastonbury et al.•ARTICLE•American Psychologist•2024

    Research is underway exploring the use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) for suicide prevention research in public locations where suicides occur. Given the sensitive nature and potential implications of this research, this study explored ethical concerns the public may have about research of this nature. Developed based on the principle of respect, a survey was administered to a representative sample of…

  • The consequences of early menopause and menopause symptoms for labour market participation

    Open Access•Alex Bryson, G Conti et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    Using a difference-in-difference estimator we identify the causal impact of early menopause and menopause symptoms on the time women spend in employment through to their mid-50s. We find the onset of early natural menopause (before age 45) reduces months spent in employment by 9 percentage points once women enter their 50s compared with women who do not experience early menopause. Early menopause is not associated with a difference in full-time e…

  • Childhood correlates of adult positive mental well-being in three British longitudinal studies

    Natasha Wood, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 32

    Background Previous evidence has shown how experiences within childhood, such as parenting and socioeconomic conditions, are associated later on in life with adult mental well-being. However, these studies tend to focus on childhood experiences in isolation, and fewer studies have investigated how multiple aspects of the childhood environment, including both socioeconomic and psychosocial aspects, are associated with adult positive mental well-be…

  • Socioeconomic inequalities across life and premature mortality from 1971 to 2016: Findings from three British birth cohorts born in 1946, 1958 and 1970

    Open Access•Meg Fluharty, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2021•References: 15

    Introduction Disadvantaged socioeconomic position (SEP) in early and adult life has been repeatedly associated with premature mortality. However, it is unclear whether these inequalities differ across time, nor if they are consistent across different SEP indicators. Methods British birth cohorts born in 1946, 1958 and 1970 were used, and multiple SEP indicators in early and adult life were examined. Deaths were identified via national statistics …

  • Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult cardiovascular health, independently of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position

    Open Access•Eleanor M Winpenny, L D Howe et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 29

    BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular health shows significant socioeconomic inequalities, however there is little understanding of the role of early adulthood in generation of these inequalities. We assessed the contribution of socioeconomic trajectories during early adulthood (16-24 years) to cardiovascular health in mid-adulthood (46 years). METHODS: Participants from the 1970 British Cohort Study with socioeconomic data available in early adulthood were…

  • The Relationship of Early-Life Adversity With Adulthood Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Status in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development

    Ellie Robson, Tom Norris et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2020

    OBJECTIVE: Evidence linking early-life adversity with an adverse cardiometabolic profile in adulthood is equivocal. This study investigates early-life adversity in relation to weight and cardiometabolic health status at ages 60 to 64 years. METHODS: We included 1059 individuals from the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development. Data on adversity between ages 0 to 15 years were used to create a cumulative childhood psychosocial adversity sco…

  • Associations Between Factors Across Life and One-Legged Balance Performance in Mid and Later Life: Evidence From a British Birth Cohort Study

    Open Access•Joanna M Blodgett, Rachel Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Sports and Active…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 81

    This study identified numerous risk factors across life that are associated with one-legged balance performance and highlighted diverse patterns of association with age, suggesting that there are opportunities to intervene in early, mid and later life. A multifactorial approach to intervention, at both societal and individual levels, may have more benefit than focusing on a single risk factor

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open Access•NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.•ARTICLE•Nature•2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Open Access•Bin Zhou, James Bentham et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2017

    BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …

    Open Access•Leandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • Intergenerational social mobility and leisure-time physical activity in adulthood: A systematic review

    Ahmed Elhakeem, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2017

  • Modeling Exposure to Multiple Childhood Social Risk Factors and Physical Capability and Common Affective Symptoms in Later Life

    Open Access•Rishi Caleyachetty, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging and Health•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    The cumulative social risk approach and the use of factor analysis to identify contexts of social risk, may offer viable methods for linking multiple childhood social risk exposure to aging outcomes

  • Socioeconomic conditions across life related to multiple measures of the endocrine system in older adults: Longitudinal findings from a British birth cohort study

    Open Access•David Bann, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 70

    Lower SEP was associated with an adverse hormone profile across multiple endocrine axes. SEP differences in endocrine function may partly underlie inequalities in health and function in later life, and may reflect variations in biological rates of ageing. Further studies are required to assess the likely functional relevance of these associations

  • Lifetime Socioeconomic Inequalities in Physical and Cognitive Aging

    Louise Hurst, Mark Stafford et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2013•Cited by: 13•References: 40

    Objectives. We examined the relationship between childhood and adult socioeconomic position (SEP) and objectively assessed, later-life functioning. Methods. We used the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development data to examine performance at 60 to 64 years (obtained in 2006–2011) for a representative UK sample. We compared 9 physical and cognitive performance measures (forced expiratory volume, forced vital capacity, ha…

  • Childhood, adolescent and early adult body mass index in relation to adult mortality: Results from the British 1946 birth cohort

    Open Access•Bjorn H Strand, Bjørn Heine Strand et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    BACKGROUND: Adult body mass index (BMI) has been consistently related to mortality, but little is known about the impact of earlier life BMI on adult mortality. The aim is to investigate the impact of childhood, adolescent and early adult BMI on premature adult all-cause mortality. METHODS: The British 1946 cohort study was used to assess the association of BMI in childhood, adolescence and adulthood with mortality 26-60 years (332 deaths). 4462 …

  • Four-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices: Infant feeding peer support trial - follow-up

    Open Access•Anja Scheiwe, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2010

    In a 4-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial, this study aimed to evaluate the longer-term effects of a peer-led infant feeding intervention that was delivered during the first year of life. The original intervention used monthly home visits from trained volunteers to improve infant feeding practices among a sample of low-income mothers in two disadvantaged London boroughs. Outcome measures at follow-up included children's eating and dr…

  • Lifetime Cognitive Performance is Associated With Midlife Physical Performance in a Prospective National Birth Cohort Study

    Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2009

    OBJECTIVES: To examine whether measures of cognitive performance across life are related to physical performance at age 53 years, allowing for potential confounders. METHODS: In a large representative British birth cohort of men and women (N = 2135) the associations between cognitive performance across life (i.e., standardized cognition scores at ages 15, 43, and 53 years and changes in verbal memory and search speed scores between 43 and 53 year…

  • Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort

    Open Access•Diana Kuh, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2009•Cited by: 7•References: 35

    Poor childhood and adult socio-economic conditions, lower childhood cognitive ability and cigarette smoking are all associated with adult mortality risk. Using data on 4458 men and women aged 60 years from a British birth cohort study, we investigated the extent to which these risk factors are part of the same pathway linking childhood experience to adult survival. Compared with women from non-manual origins, men from non-manual origins, women an…

  • Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohort

    Open Access•Stephani L Hatch, Peter Blundell Jones et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2007•Cited by: 15•References: 57

  • Cohort Profile: The 1946 National Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development)

    Michael Wadsworth, Diana Kuh et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2006

    The first of the British National Birth Cohort studies aimed to address two health and social policy questions of importance in the years before the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. The first question, identified by the Royal Commission on Population, asked why the national fertility rate had been falling consistently since the middle of the 19th century. A proposed explanation was that the ‘medical and other costs asso…

  • Neighborhood Social Capital and Dental Injuries in Brazilian Adolescents

    Marcos Pascoal Pattussi, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    Objectives. Evidence suggests that communities with higher levels of social capital have better health, but this association has not been explored specifically in relation to dental injury. We investigated the association between social capital and dental injury. Methods. We conducted a multilevel study assessed individual and neighborhood effects on dental injury of 1302 14- to 15-year-old adolescents in 39 schools of Distrito Federal, Brazil. C…

  • Cessation of Hormone Replacement Therapy After Reports of Adverse Findings From Randomized Controlled Trials: Evidence From a British Birth Cohort

    Gita D Mishra, Gita Mishra et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•References: 17

    Objectives. We examined the cessation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) among British women, by educational level, social class, and cardiovascular risk factors, at the time of publicity about 2 clinical trials of HRT that were halted after adverse findings. Methods. A total of 1387 women aged 57 years reported their monthly HRT use between January 2002 and February 2003. A succession of regression-based time-series models were fitted to detec…

  • Social Circumstances and Education: Life Course Origins of Social Inequalities in Metabolic Risk in a Prospective National Birth Cohort

    C Langenberg, Diana Kuh et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 26

    Objectives. We investigated the relative importance of education and childhood and adult social class in the risk of metabolic syndrome. Methods. We conducted a prospective birth cohort study of 1311 men and 1318 women aged 53 years in 1999, when metabolic syndrome components were measured. Logistic regression analyses were used to calculate relative index of inequality estimates. Results. Relative to men and women at the highest education levels…

  • Lung Function and Cognitive Ability in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study

    Marcus Richards, D P Strachan et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2005

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the association between forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and cognitive ability in midlife in the normal population. METHODS: Multiple regression was used to test associations between FEV1 and cognitive function in 1778 men and women in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, also known as the British 1946 birth cohort. Analyses were adjusted for sex, body size (birth weig…

  • Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohort

    Open Access•Marcus Richards, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2003•Cited by: 14•References: 22

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  • Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohort

    Open Access•Stephani L Hatch, Peter Blundell Jones et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2007•Cited by: 15•References: 57

  • Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohort

    Open Access•Marcus Richards, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2003•Cited by: 14•References: 22

  • Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife

    Open Access•Diana Kuh, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2002•Cited by: 14•References: 61

  • Lifetime Socioeconomic Inequalities in Physical and Cognitive Aging

    Louise Hurst, Mark Stafford et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2013•Cited by: 13•References: 40

    Objectives. We examined the relationship between childhood and adult socioeconomic position (SEP) and objectively assessed, later-life functioning. Methods. We used the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development data to examine performance at 60 to 64 years (obtained in 2006–2011) for a representative UK sample. We compared 9 physical and cognitive performance measures (forced expiratory volume, forced vital capacity, ha…

  • Social Circumstances and Education: Life Course Origins of Social Inequalities in Metabolic Risk in a Prospective National Birth Cohort

    C Langenberg, Diana Kuh et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 26

    Objectives. We investigated the relative importance of education and childhood and adult social class in the risk of metabolic syndrome. Methods. We conducted a prospective birth cohort study of 1311 men and 1318 women aged 53 years in 1999, when metabolic syndrome components were measured. Logistic regression analyses were used to calculate relative index of inequality estimates. Results. Relative to men and women at the highest education levels…

  • Neighborhood Social Capital and Dental Injuries in Brazilian Adolescents

    Marcos Pascoal Pattussi, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    Objectives. Evidence suggests that communities with higher levels of social capital have better health, but this association has not been explored specifically in relation to dental injury. We investigated the association between social capital and dental injury. Methods. We conducted a multilevel study assessed individual and neighborhood effects on dental injury of 1302 14- to 15-year-old adolescents in 39 schools of Distrito Federal, Brazil. C…

  • Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort

    Open Access•Diana Kuh, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2009•Cited by: 7•References: 35

    Poor childhood and adult socio-economic conditions, lower childhood cognitive ability and cigarette smoking are all associated with adult mortality risk. Using data on 4458 men and women aged 60 years from a British birth cohort study, we investigated the extent to which these risk factors are part of the same pathway linking childhood experience to adult survival. Compared with women from non-manual origins, men from non-manual origins, women an…

  • Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult cardiovascular health, independently of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position

    Open Access•Eleanor M Winpenny, L D Howe et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 29

    BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular health shows significant socioeconomic inequalities, however there is little understanding of the role of early adulthood in generation of these inequalities. We assessed the contribution of socioeconomic trajectories during early adulthood (16-24 years) to cardiovascular health in mid-adulthood (46 years). METHODS: Participants from the 1970 British Cohort Study with socioeconomic data available in early adulthood were…

  • The Influence of Education and Family Background on Women's Earnings in Midlife: Evidence from a British national birth cohort study

    Diana Kuh, Josephine Head et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•1997•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Studies which have investigated the influence of education on adult earnings are almost exclusively concerned with men and take little account of family influences on either education or later earnings. Those studies which have information on women's earnings focus on gender differentials rather than differences between women in opportunities and outcomes. This paper which examines the influence of education and family background on the midlife e…

  • Childhood correlates of adult positive mental well-being in three British longitudinal studies

    Natasha Wood, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 32

    Background Previous evidence has shown how experiences within childhood, such as parenting and socioeconomic conditions, are associated later on in life with adult mental well-being. However, these studies tend to focus on childhood experiences in isolation, and fewer studies have investigated how multiple aspects of the childhood environment, including both socioeconomic and psychosocial aspects, are associated with adult positive mental well-be…

  • Modeling Exposure to Multiple Childhood Social Risk Factors and Physical Capability and Common Affective Symptoms in Later Life

    Open Access•Rishi Caleyachetty, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging and Health•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    The cumulative social risk approach and the use of factor analysis to identify contexts of social risk, may offer viable methods for linking multiple childhood social risk exposure to aging outcomes

  • Childhood, adolescent and early adult body mass index in relation to adult mortality: Results from the British 1946 birth cohort

    Open Access•Bjorn H Strand, Bjørn Heine Strand et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    BACKGROUND: Adult body mass index (BMI) has been consistently related to mortality, but little is known about the impact of earlier life BMI on adult mortality. The aim is to investigate the impact of childhood, adolescent and early adult BMI on premature adult all-cause mortality. METHODS: The British 1946 cohort study was used to assess the association of BMI in childhood, adolescence and adulthood with mortality 26-60 years (332 deaths). 4462 …

  • The consequences of early menopause and menopause symptoms for labour market participation

    Open Access•Alex Bryson, G Conti et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    Using a difference-in-difference estimator we identify the causal impact of early menopause and menopause symptoms on the time women spend in employment through to their mid-50s. We find the onset of early natural menopause (before age 45) reduces months spent in employment by 9 percentage points once women enter their 50s compared with women who do not experience early menopause. Early menopause is not associated with a difference in full-time e…

  • Associations Between Factors Across Life and One-Legged Balance Performance in Mid and Later Life: Evidence From a British Birth Cohort Study

    Open Access•Joanna M Blodgett, Rachel Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Sports and Active…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 81

    This study identified numerous risk factors across life that are associated with one-legged balance performance and highlighted diverse patterns of association with age, suggesting that there are opportunities to intervene in early, mid and later life. A multifactorial approach to intervention, at both societal and individual levels, may have more benefit than focusing on a single risk factor

  • Socioeconomic conditions across life related to multiple measures of the endocrine system in older adults: Longitudinal findings from a British birth cohort study

    Open Access•David Bann, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 70

    Lower SEP was associated with an adverse hormone profile across multiple endocrine axes. SEP differences in endocrine function may partly underlie inequalities in health and function in later life, and may reflect variations in biological rates of ageing. Further studies are required to assess the likely functional relevance of these associations

  • Change in psychological and vasomotor symptom reporting during the menopause

    Open Access•Roger Hardy, Rebecca Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2002•Cited by: 1•References: 49

  • The Influence of Education and Family Background on Women's Earnings in Midlife: Evidence from a British national birth cohort study

    Diana Kuh, Josephine Head et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•1997•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Studies which have investigated the influence of education on adult earnings are almost exclusively concerned with men and take little account of family influences on either education or later earnings. Those studies which have information on women's earnings focus on gender differentials rather than differences between women in opportunities and outcomes. This paper which examines the influence of education and family background on the midlife e…

  • Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: Post war birth cohort study

    Open Access•Diana Kuh, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ•2002

    Objective: To examine premature mortality in adults in relation to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood. Design: Nationally representative birth cohort study with prospective information on socioeconomic conditions. Setting: England, Scotland, and Wales. Study members: 2132 women and 2322 men born in March 1946 and followed until age 55 years. Main outcome measures: Deaths between 26 and 54 years of age notified by the NHS central …

  • Long-term effects of breast-feeding in a national birth cohort: Educational attainment and midlife cognitive function

    Open Access•Marcus Richards, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2002

    Objective: A recent meta-analysis showed that breast-feeding confers a 3.2 point increment in cognitive function through adolescence. Little is known, however, about possible longer-term effects of breast-feeding. We investigated the effect of breast-feeding on educational attainment, and on a range of cognitive skills in midlife, in the British 1946 birth cohort. Objective: Design: Regression analyses were used to test the association between br…

  • Change in psychological and vasomotor symptom reporting during the menopause

    Open Access•Roger Hardy, Rebecca Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2002•Cited by: 1•References: 49

  • Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife

    Open Access•Diana Kuh, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2002•Cited by: 14•References: 61

  • Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohort

    Open Access•Marcus Richards, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2003•Cited by: 14•References: 22

  • Lung Function and Cognitive Ability in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study

    Marcus Richards, D P Strachan et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2005

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the association between forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and cognitive ability in midlife in the normal population. METHODS: Multiple regression was used to test associations between FEV1 and cognitive function in 1778 men and women in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, also known as the British 1946 birth cohort. Analyses were adjusted for sex, body size (birth weig…

  • Cohort Profile: The 1946 National Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development)

    Michael Wadsworth, Diana Kuh et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2006

    The first of the British National Birth Cohort studies aimed to address two health and social policy questions of importance in the years before the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. The first question, identified by the Royal Commission on Population, asked why the national fertility rate had been falling consistently since the middle of the 19th century. A proposed explanation was that the ‘medical and other costs asso…

  • Neighborhood Social Capital and Dental Injuries in Brazilian Adolescents

    Marcos Pascoal Pattussi, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    Objectives. Evidence suggests that communities with higher levels of social capital have better health, but this association has not been explored specifically in relation to dental injury. We investigated the association between social capital and dental injury. Methods. We conducted a multilevel study assessed individual and neighborhood effects on dental injury of 1302 14- to 15-year-old adolescents in 39 schools of Distrito Federal, Brazil. C…

  • Cessation of Hormone Replacement Therapy After Reports of Adverse Findings From Randomized Controlled Trials: Evidence From a British Birth Cohort

    Gita D Mishra, Gita Mishra et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•References: 17

    Objectives. We examined the cessation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) among British women, by educational level, social class, and cardiovascular risk factors, at the time of publicity about 2 clinical trials of HRT that were halted after adverse findings. Methods. A total of 1387 women aged 57 years reported their monthly HRT use between January 2002 and February 2003. A succession of regression-based time-series models were fitted to detec…

  • Social Circumstances and Education: Life Course Origins of Social Inequalities in Metabolic Risk in a Prospective National Birth Cohort

    C Langenberg, Diana Kuh et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 26

    Objectives. We investigated the relative importance of education and childhood and adult social class in the risk of metabolic syndrome. Methods. We conducted a prospective birth cohort study of 1311 men and 1318 women aged 53 years in 1999, when metabolic syndrome components were measured. Logistic regression analyses were used to calculate relative index of inequality estimates. Results. Relative to men and women at the highest education levels…

  • Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohort

    Open Access•Stephani L Hatch, Peter Blundell Jones et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2007•Cited by: 15•References: 57

  • Lifetime Cognitive Performance is Associated With Midlife Physical Performance in a Prospective National Birth Cohort Study

    Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2009

    OBJECTIVES: To examine whether measures of cognitive performance across life are related to physical performance at age 53 years, allowing for potential confounders. METHODS: In a large representative British birth cohort of men and women (N = 2135) the associations between cognitive performance across life (i.e., standardized cognition scores at ages 15, 43, and 53 years and changes in verbal memory and search speed scores between 43 and 53 year…

  • Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort

    Open Access•Diana Kuh, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2009•Cited by: 7•References: 35

    Poor childhood and adult socio-economic conditions, lower childhood cognitive ability and cigarette smoking are all associated with adult mortality risk. Using data on 4458 men and women aged 60 years from a British birth cohort study, we investigated the extent to which these risk factors are part of the same pathway linking childhood experience to adult survival. Compared with women from non-manual origins, men from non-manual origins, women an…

  • Four-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices: Infant feeding peer support trial - follow-up

    Open Access•Anja Scheiwe, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2010

    In a 4-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial, this study aimed to evaluate the longer-term effects of a peer-led infant feeding intervention that was delivered during the first year of life. The original intervention used monthly home visits from trained volunteers to improve infant feeding practices among a sample of low-income mothers in two disadvantaged London boroughs. Outcome measures at follow-up included children's eating and dr…

  • Childhood, adolescent and early adult body mass index in relation to adult mortality: Results from the British 1946 birth cohort

    Open Access•Bjorn H Strand, Bjørn Heine Strand et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    BACKGROUND: Adult body mass index (BMI) has been consistently related to mortality, but little is known about the impact of earlier life BMI on adult mortality. The aim is to investigate the impact of childhood, adolescent and early adult BMI on premature adult all-cause mortality. METHODS: The British 1946 cohort study was used to assess the association of BMI in childhood, adolescence and adulthood with mortality 26-60 years (332 deaths). 4462 …

  • Lifetime Socioeconomic Inequalities in Physical and Cognitive Aging

    Louise Hurst, Mark Stafford et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2013•Cited by: 13•References: 40

    Objectives. We examined the relationship between childhood and adult socioeconomic position (SEP) and objectively assessed, later-life functioning. Methods. We used the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development data to examine performance at 60 to 64 years (obtained in 2006–2011) for a representative UK sample. We compared 9 physical and cognitive performance measures (forced expiratory volume, forced vital capacity, ha…

  • Socioeconomic conditions across life related to multiple measures of the endocrine system in older adults: Longitudinal findings from a British birth cohort study

    Open Access•David Bann, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 70

    Lower SEP was associated with an adverse hormone profile across multiple endocrine axes. SEP differences in endocrine function may partly underlie inequalities in health and function in later life, and may reflect variations in biological rates of ageing. Further studies are required to assess the likely functional relevance of these associations

  • Modeling Exposure to Multiple Childhood Social Risk Factors and Physical Capability and Common Affective Symptoms in Later Life

    Open Access•Rishi Caleyachetty, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Aging and Health•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    The cumulative social risk approach and the use of factor analysis to identify contexts of social risk, may offer viable methods for linking multiple childhood social risk exposure to aging outcomes

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Open Access•Bin Zhou, James Bentham et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2017

    BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …

    Open Access•Leandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • Intergenerational social mobility and leisure-time physical activity in adulthood: A systematic review

    Ahmed Elhakeem, Roger Hardy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2017

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open Access•NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.•ARTICLE•Nature•2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • The Relationship of Early-Life Adversity With Adulthood Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Status in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development

    Ellie Robson, Tom Norris et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2020

    OBJECTIVE: Evidence linking early-life adversity with an adverse cardiometabolic profile in adulthood is equivocal. This study investigates early-life adversity in relation to weight and cardiometabolic health status at ages 60 to 64 years. METHODS: We included 1059 individuals from the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development. Data on adversity between ages 0 to 15 years were used to create a cumulative childhood psychosocial adversity sco…

  • Associations Between Factors Across Life and One-Legged Balance Performance in Mid and Later Life: Evidence From a British Birth Cohort Study

    Open Access•Joanna M Blodgett, Rachel Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Sports and Active…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 81

    This study identified numerous risk factors across life that are associated with one-legged balance performance and highlighted diverse patterns of association with age, suggesting that there are opportunities to intervene in early, mid and later life. A multifactorial approach to intervention, at both societal and individual levels, may have more benefit than focusing on a single risk factor

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