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Inequalities in death--specific explanations of a general pattern?
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In the Whitehall study, 17 530 civil servants were classified according to employment grade, and their mortality was recorded over 10 years, showing a steep inverse relation between grade and mortality.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1984-05-05. It has received 1437 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compensation law of mortality & Whitehall Study.read more
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Compressed sensing
TL;DR: It is possible to design n=O(Nlog(m)) nonadaptive measurements allowing reconstruction with accuracy comparable to that attainable with direct knowledge of the N most important coefficients, and a good approximation to those N important coefficients is extracted from the n measurements by solving a linear program-Basis Pursuit in signal processing.
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Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions.
TL;DR: The effort-reward imbalance model is proposed to assess adverse health effects of stressful experience at work: reciprocity of exchange in occupational life where high-cost/low-gain conditions are considered particularly stressful.
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Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study
Michael Marmot,Stephen Stansfeld,Chandrakant R. Patel,Fiona M North,Jenny Head,Ian R. White,Eric J. Brunner,A Feeney,G. Davey Smith +8 more
TL;DR: There was an inverse association between employment grade and prevalence of angina, electrocardiogram evidence of ischaemia, and symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and self-perceived health status and symptoms were worse in subjects in lower status jobs.
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Weight in infancy and death from ischaemic heart disease.
TL;DR: Measurements that promote prenatal and postnatal growth may reduce deaths from ischaemic heart disease and may be especially important in boys who weigh below 7.5 pounds (3.4 kg) at birth.
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Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient.
Nancy E. Adler,Thomas Boyce,Margaret A. Chesney,Sheldon Cohen,Susan Folkman,Robert L. Kahn,S. Leonard Syme +6 more
TL;DR: There is evidence of a graded association with health at all levels of SES, an observation that requires new thought about domains through which SES may exert its health effects.
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Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years' observations on male British doctors
TL;DR: In this article, the British Medical Association forwarded to all British doctors a questionnaire about their smoking habits, and 34440 men replied, with few exceptions, all men who replied in 1951 have been followed for 20 years.
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Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents
Lisa F. Berkman,S L Syme +1 more
TL;DR: The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts.
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The contribution of the social environment to host resistance: the fourth wade hampton frost lecture
TL;DR: I count myself honored indeed to be included among those who have been chosen to present this, the Wade Hampton Frost Lecture, and for this I must thank my very wise chief, Dr. Sidney L. Kark, who introduced me to the papers, particularly the section on tuberculosis.