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Why is mortality higher in poorer areas and in more northern areas of England and Wales? J Epidemiol Community Health (1998) 2.78
An uncertain future: the health effects of threats to employment security in white-collar men and women. Am J Public Health (1998) 2.57
Losing life and livelihood: a systematic review and meta-analysis of unemployment and all-cause mortality. Soc Sci Med (2011) 2.23
Working hours as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction in Japan: case-control study. BMJ (1998) 2.15
Employment status, employment conditions, and limiting illness: prospective evidence from the British household panel survey 1991-2001. J Epidemiol Community Health (2004) 2.06
Divided we fall. BMJ (1994) 1.63
Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men in Great Britain. J Epidemiol Community Health (1996) 1.60
The prognosis for individuals on disability retirement. An 18-year mortality follow-up study of 6887 men and women sampled from the general population. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.54
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Why do those out of work because of sickness or disability have a high mortality risk? Evidence from a Scottish cohort. Eur J Public Health (2012) 1.42
Association of returning to work with better health in working-aged adults: a systematic review. Am J Public Health (2012) 1.17
Age at retirement and long term survival of an industrial population: prospective cohort study. BMJ (2005) 1.14
Contribution of main causes of death to social inequalities in mortality in the whole population of Scania, Sweden. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.12
The effects of differential unemployment rate increases of occupation groups on changes in mortality. Am J Public Health (1998) 1.10
Assessing the contribution of unstable employment to mortality in posttransition Russia: prospective individual-level analyses from the Russian longitudinal monitoring survey. Am J Public Health (2009) 1.08
The impact of social, structural and physical environmental factors on transitions into employment among people who inject drugs. Soc Sci Med (2012) 1.07
The effect of job loss on overweight and drinking. J Health Econ (2011) 1.05
Unemployment and early cause-specific mortality: a study based on the Swedish twin registry. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.05
Downsizing of staff is associated with lowered medically certified sick leave in female employees. Occup Environ Med (2003) 1.03
Health effects and acceptance of a physical activity program for older long-term unemployed workers. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2012) 1.02
Do changes in traditional coronary heart disease risk factors over time explain the association between socio-economic status and coronary heart disease? BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2011) 0.94
Mortality from injuries and other causes in a cohort of 21,800 Brazilian steel workers. Occup Environ Med (1996) 0.89
Health conditions sensitive to retirement and job loss among Korean middle-aged and older adults. J Prev Med Public Health (2012) 0.88
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Ethnic differences in unemployment and ill health. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2009) 0.84
Mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters in Hamburg, Germany: a cohort study 1950-2000. Environ Health (2006) 0.82
Urban health challenges in Europe. J Urban Health (2013) 0.81
Effects of short- and long-term unemployment on physical work capacity and on serum cortisol. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2005) 0.81
Assessing fitness for work and writing a "fit note". BMJ (2010) 0.81
Unemployment, public-sector health care expenditure and HIV mortality: An analysis of 74 countries, 1981-2009. J Glob Health (2015) 0.78
Job-loss and weight gain in British adults: Evidence from two longitudinal studies. Soc Sci Med (2015) 0.77
Unemployment and prostate cancer mortality in the OECD, 1990-2009. Ecancermedicalscience (2015) 0.77
Healthy and unhealthy migrant effect on the mortality of immigrants from wealthy countries residing in Spain. Eur J Epidemiol (2010) 0.75
Association between long working hours and serum gamma-glutamyltransferase levels in female workers: data from the fifth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010-2011). Ann Occup Environ Med (2014) 0.75
Cancer-related health behaviours of young people not in education, employment or training ('NEET'): a cross-sectional study. BMC Cancer (2017) 0.75
The Associations Between Retirement and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in China: A 20-Year Prospective Study. Am J Epidemiol (2017) 0.75
Health inequality: what the new British government could do. J R Soc Med (1997) 0.75
A reappraisal of the unemployment-mortality relationship: transitory and permanent effects. J Public Health Policy (2014) 0.75
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Does unemployment cause long-term mortality? Selection and causation after the 1992-96 deep Swedish recession. Eur J Public Health (2016) 0.75
Mortality among patients with schizophrenia and vocational rehabilitation program services under Taiwan's psychiatric care reform. Int J Ment Health Syst (2016) 0.75
Late retirement is not associated with increased mortality, results based on all Swedish retirements 1991-2007. Eur J Epidemiol (2012) 0.75
Effects of economic downturns on child mortality: a global economic analysis, 1981-2010. BMJ Glob Health (2017) 0.75
Longitudinal assessment of daily activity patterns on weight change after involuntary job loss: the ADAPT study protocol. BMC Public Health (2017) 0.75
British Regional Heart Study: cardiovascular risk factors in middle-aged men in 24 towns. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1981) 14.25
Unemployment and suicidal behaviour: a review of the literature. Soc Sci Med (1984) 4.44
Unemployment and mortality: further evidence from the OPCS Longitudinal Study 1971-81. Lancet (1986) 4.03
Unemployment and mortality: comparison of the 1971 and 1981 longitudinal study census samples. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1987) 3.93
Follow-up of subjects in prospective studies based in general practice. J R Coll Gen Pract (1984) 3.88
How independent are "independent" effects? Relative risk estimation when correlated exposures are measured imprecisely. J Clin Epidemiol (1991) 3.37
Self-assessment of health status and mortality in middle-aged British men. Int J Epidemiol (1991) 3.09
Unemployment and mortality in Denmark, 1970-80. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1987) 2.95
Health of unemployed middle-aged men in Great Britain. Lancet (1982) 2.94
Social class, non-employment, and chronic illness: continuing the inequalities in health debate. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1987) 2.91
Definition, measurement, and classification of the syndromes of obesity. Int J Obes (1978) 2.69
Medical progress. Recent evidence supporting psychologic and social risk factors for coronary disease (first of two parts). N Engl J Med (1976) 2.38
Unemployment and mortality among Finnish men, 1981-5. BMJ (1990) 2.38
Mortality by employment status in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. Am J Epidemiol (1990) 2.37
Non-employment and changes in smoking, drinking, and body weight. BMJ (1992) 1.68
Unemployment and health: data and implications. Can J Public Health (1986) 1.55
Long-term unemployment and mortality in Sweden, 1980-1986. Soc Sci Med (1991) 1.32
Unemployment and mortality. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1987) 1.25
British Regional Heart Study: cardiovascular risk factors in middle-aged men in 24 towns. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1981) 14.25
Using patient and general practice characteristics to explain variations in cervical smear uptake rates. BMJ (1994) 9.81
British Regional Heart Study: geographic variations in cardiovascular mortality, and the role of water quality. Br Med J (1980) 5.56
Risk factors for ischaemic heart disease: the prospective phase of the British Regional Heart Study. J Epidemiol Community Health (1985) 5.53
Prevalence of ischaemic heart disease in middle aged British men. Br Heart J (1984) 5.41
Blood lipids in middle-aged British men. Br Heart J (1983) 4.24
Social class differences in ischaemic heart disease in British men. Lancet (1987) 4.09
Follow-up of subjects in prospective studies based in general practice. J R Coll Gen Pract (1984) 3.88
Identifying men at high risk of heart attacks: strategy for use in general practice. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1986) 3.76
Using data from the 1991 census. BMJ (1995) 3.63
Association between serum albumin and mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other causes. Lancet (1989) 3.51
Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales. BMJ (1996) 3.31
Health effects of passive smoking. 6. Parental smoking and childhood asthma: longitudinal and case-control studies. Thorax (1998) 3.19
Cardiovascular risk factors in British children from towns with widely differing adult cardiovascular mortality. BMJ (1996) 3.14
Self-assessment of health status and mortality in middle-aged British men. Int J Epidemiol (1991) 3.09
Changes in physical activity, mortality, and incidence of coronary heart disease in older men. Lancet (1998) 3.08
Early life experience and adult cardiovascular disease: longitudinal and case-control studies. Int J Epidemiol (1991) 3.02
Health of unemployed middle-aged men in Great Britain. Lancet (1982) 2.94
Early influences on blood pressure: a study of children aged 5-7 years. BMJ (1989) 2.90
Sociodemographic variables for general practices: use of census data. BMJ (1995) 2.90
Smoking and drinking by middle-aged British men: effects of social class and town of residence. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1981) 2.87
Performance of a new pubertal self-assessment questionnaire: a preliminary study. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2001) 2.85
The British Regional Heart Study 1975-2004. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 2.72
Reliability of eliciting physical signs in examination of the chest. Lancet (1988) 2.71
Prevalence, detection, and management of cardiovascular risk factors in different ethnic groups in south London. Heart (1997) 2.65
A scoring system to identify men at high risk of a heart attack. Health Trends (1987) 2.58
Recall of diagnosis by men with ischaemic heart disease. Br Heart J (1984) 2.57
Explaining variation in hospital admission rates between general practices: cross sectional study. BMJ (1999) 2.56
Migration and geographic variations in blood pressure in Britain. BMJ (1990) 2.55
Physical activity and stroke in British middle aged men. BMJ (1992) 2.54
Blood pressure in British children: associations with adult blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality. Lancet (1988) 2.51
Using the WHO (Rose) angina questionnaire in cardiovascular epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol (1989) 2.51
Concentrations of high density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, and total cholesterol in ischaemic heart disease. BMJ (1989) 2.47
Size at birth and blood pressure: cross sectional study in 8-11 year old children. BMJ (1997) 2.45
Lifelong teetotallers, ex-drinkers and drinkers: mortality and the incidence of major coronary heart disease events in middle-aged British men. Int J Epidemiol (1997) 2.44
Prospective study of serum gamma-glutamyltransferase and risk of NIDDM. Diabetes Care (1998) 2.42
Genetic neutropenia in people of African origin. Lancet (1971) 2.40
Health effects of passive smoking. 1. Parental smoking and lower respiratory illness in infancy and early childhood. Thorax (1997) 2.36
Prospective study of serum total homocysteine concentration and risk of stroke in middle-aged British men. Lancet (1995) 2.36
Malarial antibodies and autoantibodies to heart and other tissues in the immigrant and indigenous peoples of Uganda. Lancet (1968) 2.35
Height and social class in middle-aged British men. J Epidemiol Community Health (1988) 2.34
Twenty year follow-up of a cohort based in general practices in 24 British towns. J Public Health Med (2000) 2.34
Prospective study of risk factors for development of non-insulin dependent diabetes in middle aged British men. BMJ (1995) 2.31
Children's exposure to passive smoking in England since the 1980s: cotinine evidence from population surveys. BMJ (2000) 2.28
Regression of area mortality rates on explanatory variables: what weighting is appropriate? J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat (1981) 2.26
Necropsy study of endomyocardial fibrosis and rheumatic heart disease in Uganda 1950-1965. Br Heart J (1968) 2.25
Trends in the prevalence of diagnosed atrial fibrillation, its treatment with anticoagulation and predictors of such treatment in UK primary care. Heart (2005) 2.24
Cytomegalovirus infection and progression towards AIDS in haemophiliacs with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Lancet (1989) 2.23
Weight change and duration of overweight and obesity in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care (1999) 2.20
Evolution of statin prescribing 1994-2001: a case of agism but not of sexism? Heart (2003) 2.20
Giving up smoking and the risk of heart attacks. A report from The British Regional Heart Study. Lancet (1986) 2.19
Dietary recommendations for the community towards the postponement of coronary heart disease. Br Med J (1977) 2.08
Physical activity in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: an epidemiological perspective. Sports Med (2001) 2.07
What factors are associated with physical activity in older people, assessed objectively by accelerometry? Br J Sports Med (2008) 2.07
Is body mass index before middle age related to coronary heart disease risk in later life? Evidence from observational studies. Int J Obes (Lond) (2009) 2.05
Effects of alcohol and smoking on blood lead in middle-aged British men. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1982) 2.03
Is the clinical trial evidence about new drugs statistically adequate? Br J Clin Pharmacol (1985) 2.01
Chronic exposure to outdoor air pollution and lung function in adults. Thorax (2009) 1.98
Use of statins in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: is treatment equitable? Heart (2002) 1.98
Infection of colonic epithelial cell lines by type 1 human immunodeficiency virus is associated with cell surface expression of galactosylceramide, a potential alternative gp120 receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1993) 1.96
A critical review of the effect of factory closures on health. Br J Ind Med (1991) 1.95
Migration and geographic variations in ischaemic heart disease in Great Britain. Lancet (1989) 1.95
Validation of patient recall of doctor-diagnosed heart attack and stroke: a postal questionnaire and record review comparison. Am J Epidemiol (1998) 1.92
Marital status, change in marital status, and mortality in middle-aged British men. Am J Epidemiol (1995) 1.89
Geographic variations in cardiovascular mortality in Great Britain. Br Med Bull (1984) 1.88
Trends in secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease in the UK 1994 2005: use of individual and combination treatment. Heart (2007) 1.87
Smoking as a modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes in middle-aged men. Diabetes Care (2001) 1.86
Biochemical and haematological response to alcohol intake. Ann Clin Biochem (1985) 1.84
Age of menarche in contemporary British teenagers: survey of girls born between 1982 and 1986. BMJ (2001) 1.81
British blood cholesterol values and the American consensus. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1985) 1.80
The Dinamap 1846SX automated blood pressure recorder: comparison with the Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer under field conditions. J Epidemiol Community Health (1992) 1.77
ABO blood group and ischaemic heart disease in British men. BMJ (1990) 1.76
High density lipoprotein cholesterol is not a major risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in British men. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1986) 1.73
The effects of adiposity and weight change on forced expiratory volume decline in a longitudinal study of adults. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord (1999) 1.72
Low serum total cholesterol concentrations and mortality in middle aged British men. BMJ (1995) 1.72
Men who do not drink: a report from the British Regional Heart Study. Int J Epidemiol (1988) 1.68
Non-employment and changes in smoking, drinking, and body weight. BMJ (1992) 1.68
Gamma-glutamyltransferase: determinants and association with mortality from ischemic heart disease and all causes. Am J Epidemiol (1995) 1.67
The value of gamma-glutamyltransferase in cardiovascular risk prediction in men without diagnosed cardiovascular disease or diabetes. Atherosclerosis (2008) 1.67
Do maternal and intrauterine factors influence blood pressure in childhood? Arch Dis Child (1992) 1.66
Serum creatinine concentration and risk of cardiovascular disease: a possible marker for increased risk of stroke. Stroke (1997) 1.65
Body weight and mortality in middle aged British men: impact of smoking. BMJ (1989) 1.64
North-south gradients in Britain for stroke and CHD: are they explained by the same factors? Stroke (2003) 1.63
Milk, butter, and heart disease. BMJ (1991) 1.62
Chronic manganese intoxication. Arch Neurol (1974) 1.61
Alcohol and sudden cardiac death. Br Heart J (1992) 1.61
Geographic variation in incidence of coronary heart disease in Britain: the contribution of established risk factors. Heart (2001) 1.60
Blood lead concentration, blood pressure, and renal function. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1984) 1.60