George Davey Smith

TL;DR: This editorial considers recent socioeconomic differences in mortality and their causes in the United Kingdom and the United States.

TL;DR: Poorer socioeconomic circumstance was associated with greater stroke risk, with adverse early-life circumstances of particular importance.

TL;DR: The associations between insulin-like growth factor-I and prostate cancer, premenopausal breast cancer, and colon cancer are shown, and the effects are sizeable and stronger than the effects seen in relation to most previously reported risk factors.

TL;DR: The relation between childhood socioeconomic position and adult cardiovascular mortality is examined in 3,750 individuals whose families took part in the Carnegie survey of family diet and health in England and Scotland between 1937 and 1939, indicating that the effects of socioeconomic influences upon particular cardiovascular diseases differ according to the age at which they are experienced.

TL;DR: The results suggest therapies that target albuminuria-increasing processes could have antihypertensive effects that are amplified through inhibition of this feed-forward loop, and imply that albuminuria could increase risk of cardiovascular disease through blood pressure.