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George Davey Smith
Researcher at University of Bristol
Publications - 2646
Citations - 294406
George Davey Smith is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mendelian randomization. The author has an hindex of 224, co-authored 2540 publications receiving 248373 citations. Previous affiliations of George Davey Smith include Keele University & Western Infirmary.
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Socio-economic position and coronary heart disease risk factors in youth - Findings from the Young Hearts Project in Northern Ireland
TL;DR: Differences in lifestyle by socio-economic position seem to become established in adolescence, however, differences however, are not (yet) reflected in differences in biological risk factors by socioeconomic position.
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Lactase persistence-related genetic variant: population substructure and health outcomes
George Davey Smith,Debbie A Lawlor,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jamil Baban,Matt Kiessling,Ian N. M. Day,Shah Ebrahim +6 more
TL;DR: The C/T−13910 variant was not related to drinking milk or bone health, and was essentially unrelated to a wide range of other lifestyle, health and demographic characteristics, which could contribute to the examination of data for the existence of, and then statistical control for, population substructure in genetic association studies.
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Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men: further evidence from the Whitehall study.
TL;DR: Travel activity was inversely related to mortality attributable to all-causes, coronary heart disease, respiratory disease and lung cancer, whereas the association with stroke was positive and there was evidence for attenuation of some of these associations on adjustment for potentially confounding variables.
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Pain relief after abdominal surgery—a comparison of i.m. morphine, sublingual buprenorphine and self-administered i.v. pethidine
TL;DR: There were no significant differences between analgesic regimens in respect of subjective linear analogue pain scores or static and dynamic lung volumes assessed at 24 and 48 h after operation and 5 days after operation in patients who underwent upper abdominal surgery.
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Education, intelligence and Alzheimer's disease: evidence from a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization study.
Emma L Anderson,Laura D Howe,Kaitlin H Wade,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,W. David Hill,Ian J. Deary,Eleanor Sanderson,Jie Zheng,Roxanna Korologou-Linden,Evie Stergiakouli,George Davey Smith,Neil M Davies,Gibran Hemani +12 more
TL;DR: There is robust evidence for an independent, causal effect of intelligence in lowering AD risk, and the causal effects of educational attainment is likely to be mediated by intelligence.