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Chronic postsurgical pain increases postoperative depression risk
Purpose This retrospective cohort study aimed to investigate the association between chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) and the ...
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Prevalence of congenital heart defects in people with Down syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background The prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHD) in Down syndrome (DS) varies considerably across studies (from 16 ...
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Time series analysis of air pollution and mortality: effects by cause, age and socioeconomic status
METHODS All causes, respiratory and cardiovascular mortality were analysed and the role of age and socioeconomic status in modifying associations between mortality and air pollution were investigated.
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Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda
Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways production and consumption are organised in Marxist and non-Marxist traditions. The ...
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Heat-related impacts on all-cause emergency hospitalisation differ by area deprivation and urbanicity: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Japan
Background Climate-related health impacts have been a global public health concern. Identifying vulnerable populations is critical in implementing adaptation strategies. This study aimed to examine ...
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Effect of social support on memory ageing of middle-aged and older cancer survivors: a marginal structural modelling approach
Background While social support is associated with better cognitive health among cancer-free individuals, this relationship is understudied among cancer survivors. We investigated whether overall ...
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How are policy makers using evidence? Models of research utilisation and local NHS policy making
National Primary Care Research and Development Centre at Salford, Public Health Research Resource Centre, The University of Salford, Humphrey Booth House, Hulme Place, The Crescent, Salford M5 4 NY ...
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Leg length, insulin resistance, and coronary heart disease risk: The Caerphilly Study
BACKGROUND Adult height has been inversely associated with coronary heart disease risk in several studies. The mechanism for this association is not well understood, however, and this was investigated ...
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Recovery from work: testing the effects of chronic internal and external workload on health and well-being
2 Department of Psychology, Norwegian Inland University of Applied Sciences, HHS Elverum, Norway Correspondence to Leif W Rydstedt, Department of Psychology, Norwegian Inland University of Applied ...
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Negative health selection into physically light occupations.
Department of Social Medicine, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Health selection, which transfers workers with health problems from physically heavy to physically light occupations, may be a factor ...
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Discovering environmental causes of disease
Although chronic diseases are primarily environmental (ie, not genetic) in origin, the particular environmental causes of these diseases are poorly understood. A WHO study of worldwide cancer ...