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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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Adult height and mortality in London: early life, socioeconomic confounding, or shrinkage?

TL;DR: The cause specific variation in the height-mortality association lends little support to the contention that impaired growth in childhood is a marker of general susceptibility to disease in adulthood.
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Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 2. U.S. National and Regional Trends in Income Inequality and Age- and Cause-Specific Mortality

TL;DR: There is little congruence between national trends in income inequality and age- or cause-specific mortality except perhaps for suicide and homicide.
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The Associations of Physical Activity and Adiposity with Alanine Aminotransferase and Gamma-Glutamyltransferase

TL;DR: Findings provide some support for the suggestion that the relation between obesity and diabetes is, at least in part, mediated by liver pathology.
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Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

Claudia L. Satizabal, +375 more
- 21 Oct 2019 - 
TL;DR: This paper identified common genetic variation related to the volumes of the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, brainstem, caudate nucleus, globus pallidus, putamen and thalamus using genome-wide association analyses in almost 40,000 individuals from CHARGE, ENIGMA and UK Biobank.