Lennart Råstam

TL;DR: The discovery of associated variants in unsuspected genes and outside coding regions illustrates the ability of genome-wide association studies to provide potentially important clues to the pathogenesis of common diseases.

TL;DR: Moves of variation in logistic regression should be promoted in social epidemiological and public health research as efficient means of quantifying the importance of the context of residence for understanding disparities in health and health related behaviour.

TL;DR: The statistical idea of clustering emerges as appropriate for quantifying “contextual phenomena” that is of central relevance in social epidemiology.

TL;DR: Self-reported information on weight and height in an adult population is validated and a useful algorithm to assess the prevalence of obesity based on self‐reported information is found.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether there is clustering within neighbourhoods, to which extent neighbourhood level differences are explained by the individual composition of the neighbourhoods, whether the contextual phenomenon differs in magnitude for different groups of people, and whether neighbourhood context modifies individual level associations.