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Inequalities in death--specific explanations of a general pattern?

Michael Marmot, +2 more
- 05 May 1984 - 
- Vol. 323, Iss: 8384, pp 1003-1006
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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.
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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.

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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

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.

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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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.
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