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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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Association of age at menarche with cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and function in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the associations of menarcheal age with BMI and other cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence and adulthood in a population-based sample of 794 female adolescents aged 9-18 y at baseline and again 3 and 6 y later.
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ZIP-Code-based versus Tract-based Income Measures as Long-Term Risk-adjusted Mortality Predictors

TL;DR: The current study reports on 293,138 middle-aged men screened in 14 states in 1973-1975 for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial and having 25-year mortality follow-up, finding patterns held across various causes of death, for both Blacks and non-Blacks, and with or without adjustment for ZIP-code-based income diversity or tract-based proportion below poverty.
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Diabetes status and post-load plasma glucose concentration in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: findings from the original Whitehall study.

TL;DR: In the present study, diabetes status was related to pancreatic, liver, and lung cancer risk and Cohorts with serially collected data on blood glucose and covariates are required to further examine this area.
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On the Use of the Lasso for Instrumental Variables Estimation with Some Invalid Instruments

TL;DR: In this article, the behavior of the Lasso for selecting invalid instruments in linear instrumental variables models for estimating causal effects of exposures on outcomes was investigated, as proposed recently by Ka...