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G. Davey Smith
Researcher at University of London
Publications - 19
Citations - 4949
G. Davey Smith is an academic researcher from University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diabetes mellitus & Whitehall Study. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications receiving 4739 citations. Previous affiliations of G. Davey Smith include University of Bristol & University College London.
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Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study
Michael Marmot,Stephen Stansfeld,Chandrakant R. Patel,Fiona M North,Jenny Head,Ian R. White,Eric J. Brunner,A Feeney,G. Davey Smith +8 more
TL;DR: There was an inverse association between employment grade and prevalence of angina, electrocardiogram evidence of ischaemia, and symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and self-perceived health status and symptoms were worse in subjects in lower status jobs.
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Should there be a moratorium on the use of cholesterol lowering drugs
G. Davey Smith,J Pekkanen +1 more
TL;DR: An aggressive approach to cholesterol reduction features in most of the official guidelines for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease, and high percentages of the British population would become candidates for drug treatment if the guidelines currently advanced by some authorities were put into practice.
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Deprivation in infancy or in adult life: which is more important for mortality risk?
Yoav Ben-Shlomo,G. Davey Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that previous studies give no strong support for any direct influence of factors acting in early life on adult coronary heart disease mortality risk, and studies which gather data about infancy, childhood, and the full course of adult life are required.
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Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight
Rachel M. Freathy,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Ulla Sovio,Inga Prokopenko,Nicholas J. Timpson,Diane J. Berry,Nicole M. Warrington,E. Widen,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Marika Kaakinen,Leslie A. Lange,Jonathan P. Bradfield,Marjan Kerkhof,Julie A. Marsh,Reedik Mägi,Chen C-M.,Helen N. Lyon,Mirna Kirin,Linda S. Adair,Y S Aulchenko,Amanda J. Bennett,Judith B. Borja,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Pimphen Charoen,Pimphen Charoen,Coin Ljm.,Diana L. Cousminer,de Geus Ejc.,Panagiotis Deloukas,Paul Elliott,David M. Evans,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Beate Glaser,Christopher J. Groves,Hartikainen A-L.,Neelam Hassanali,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Albert Hofman,Holly Jmp.,Elina Hyppönen,Stavroula Kanoni,Bridget A. Knight,J. Laitinen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Wendy L. McArdle,Paul F. O'Reilly,Craig E. Pennell,D S Postma,A Pouta,Adaikalavan Ramasamy,Nigel W. Rayner,Susan M. Ring,Fernando Rivadeneira,Beverley M. Shields,David P. Strachan,Ida Surakka,Anja Taanila,Carla M. T. Tiesler,André G. Uitterlinden,C.M. van Duijn,A. H. Wijga,Gonneke Willemsen,Hong Xiang Zhang,Jianhua Zhao,James F. Wilson,Steegers Eap.,Andrew T. Hattersley,Johan G. Eriksson,Johan G. Eriksson,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Karen L. Mohlke,Grant Sfa.,Hakon Hakonarson,Gerard H. Koppelman,George Dedoussis,Joachim Heinrich,Matthew W. Gillman,Lyle J. Palmer,Timothy M. Frayling,Dorret I. Boomsma,G. Davey Smith,G. Davey Smith,Chris Power,Jaddoe Vwv.,Jarvelin M-R.,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy +89 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors meta-analyzed six genome-wide association (GWA) studies (n = 10,623 Europeans from pregnancy/birth cohorts) and followed up two lead signals in 13 replication studies to identify genetic variants associated with birth weight.
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Smoking as "independent" risk factor for suicide: illustration of an artifact from observational epidemiology?
TL;DR: Data from a large US risk factor study throw up a relation between cigarette smoking and suicide that meets these criteria, yet appears to be biologically implausible, and it is likely that many more such associations are equally spurious, but are protected by their lack of obvious implausibility.