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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 differentials in health: the role of nutrition
TL;DR: Differentials in mortality and morbidity, and their origins; social class, central obesity, and metabolism; social patterning of diet and nutrition; and life-course influences on health inequalities are discussed.
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Ethnic inequalities in health: A review of UK epidemiological evidence
TL;DR: A review of UK epidemiological evidence for ethnic inequalities in health can be found in this article, where the authors focus on the UK's ethnic inequalities, and present a review of the evidence.
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Education and myopia: assessing the direction of causality by mendelian randomisation
Edward Mountjoy,Neil M Davies,Denis Plotnikov,George Davey Smith,Santiago Rodriguez,Cathy Williams,Jeremy A. Guggenheim,Denize Atan +7 more
TL;DR: This study shows that exposure to more years in education contributes to the rising prevalence of myopia, and increasing the length of time spent in education may inadvertently increase the prevalence ofMyopia and potential future visual disability.
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Variations in the G6PC2/ABCB11 genomic region are associated with fasting glucose levels.
Wei-Min Chen,Michael R. Erdos,Anne U. Jackson,Richa Saxena,Serena Sanna,Serena Sanna,Kristi D. Silver,Nicholas J. Timpson,Torben Hansen,Marco Orrù,Maria Grazia Piras,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Cristen J. Willer,Valeriya Lyssenko,Haiqing Shen,Johanna Kuusisto,Shah Ebrahim,Natascia Sestu,William L. Duren,Maria Cristina Spada,Heather M. Stringham,Laura J. Scott,Nazario Olla,Amy J. Swift,Samer S. Najjar,Braxton D. Mitchell,Debbie A Lawlor,George Davey Smith,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Gitte Andersen,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Torben Jørgensen,Jouko Saramies,Timo T. Valle,Timo T. Valle,Thomas A. Buchanan,Alan R. Shuldiner,Edward G. Lakatta,Richard N. Bergman,Manuela Uda,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Antonio Cao,Leif Groop,Karen L. Mohlke,Markku Laakso,David Schlessinger,Francis S. Collins,David Altshuler,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Angelo Scuteri,Richard M. Watanabe +54 more
TL;DR: The results in combination with data reported in the literature suggest that G6PC2, a glucose-6-phosphatase almost exclusively expressed in pancreatic islet cells, may underlie variation in fasting glucose, though it is possible that ABCB11, which is expressed primarily in liver, may also contribute to such variation.
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Blood pressure in young adulthood and mortality from cardiovascular disease
TL;DR: Blood pressure measured in young adult men is positively associated in later life with increased cardiovascular disease mortality and the implication of this finding is that risk of cardiovascular disease starts in early life.