George Davey Smith

Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, Di Angelantonio E, Sarwar N, Perry P, Kaptoge S, Ray KK, Thompson A, Wood AM, Lewington S, Sattar N, Packard CJ, Collins R, Thompson SG, Danesh J. Major lipids, apoliproteins and risk of vascular disease. JAMA 2009;302:1993-2000.

Alvarado BE, Harper S, Platt R, Davey Smith G, Lynch J. Would achieving healthy-people targets reduce both population levels and social disparities in heart disease? Circulation: Cardiovacular Quality and Outcomes 2009 ;2:598-606.

Kivimaki M, Batty GD, Singh-Manoux A, Ferrie JE, Tabak AG, Jokela M, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ. Validating the Framingham hypertension risk score: results from the Whitehall II Study. Hypertension 2009;54: 496-501 . doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.132373

Zuccolo L, Fitz-Simon N, Gray R, Ring SM, Sayal K, Davey Smith G, Lewis SJ . A non-synonymous variant in ADH1B is strongly associated with prenatal alcohol use in a European sample of pregnant women. Human Molecular Genetics 2009;18:4457-4466; doi:10.1093/hmg/ddp388

Welsh P, Polisecki E, Robertson M, Jahn S, Buckley BM, de Craen AJM, Ford I, Jukema IW, Macfarlane PW, Packard CJ, Stott DJ, Westendorp RGJ, Shepherd J, Hingorani AD, Davey Smith G, Schaefer E, Sattar N. Unraveling the directional link between adiposity and inflammation: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation approach. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2009;95:93-99.

Steer CD, Emmett PM, Lewis SJ, Davey Smith G, Tobias J. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism is associated with spinal BMD in 9-year-old children. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2009; 24: 117-124.

Ferrie JE, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Mindell J, Breeze E, Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ. Cardiorespiratory risk factors as predictors of 40-year mortality in women and men. Heart 2009; 95 :1250-1257.

Pausova Z, Aileen C, Syme A, Abarahamowicz M, Xiao Y, Leonard G, Perron M, Richer L, Veilette S, Davey Smith G, Seda O, Tremblay J, Hamet P, Gaudet D, Paus T. A common variant of the FTO gene is associated not only with increased adiposity but also with elevated blood pressure in French-Canadians. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics 2009; 2009;2:260-269.

Golding J, Steer C, Emmett P, Bartoshuk LM, Horwood J, Davey Smith G. Associations between the ability to detect a bitter taste, dietary behaviour and growth: a preliminary report. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 2009; 1170:553-7.

Murad A, Lewis S, Davey Smith G, Collin S, Chen L, Hamdy F, Donovan J, Martin RM. PTGS2-899G > C and prostate cancer risk: a population-based nested case-control study (ProtecT) and a systematic review with meta-analysis. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Disease 2009 12 , 296–300.

Collin SM, Metcalfe C, Zuccolo L,Lewis SJ, Chen L, Cox A, Davis M, Lane AJ, Donovan J, DaveySmith G, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Gudmundsson J, Sulem P,Rafnar T, Benediktsdottir KR,Eeles RA, Guy M, Kote-Jarai Z, UK Genetic Prostate Cancer StudyGroup, Morrison J, Olama AMA, Stefansson K, Easton DF, Martin RM. Association of Folate-Pathway Gene Polymorphisms with the Risk of Prostate Cancer: a Population-Based Nested Case-Control Study, Systematic Review, and Meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18: 2528–39.

Matijasevich A, Victora CG, Golding J, Barros FC, Menezes AM, Araujo CL, Davey Smith G. Socioeconomic position and overweight among adolescents: data from birth cohort studies in Brazil and the UK. BMC Public Health 2009 ; 9 :105.

Mortensen L, Diderichsen F, Davey Smith G, Andersen A-M. The social gradient in birth weight at term: quantification of the mediating role of maternal smoking and body mass index. Human Reproduction 2009 ; 24:2629.

Freathy R, Ring SM, Shields B, Galobardes B, Knight B, Weedon MN, Davey Smith G, Frayling TM, Hattersley. A common genetic variant in the 15q24 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene cluster (CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4) is associated with a reduced ability of women to quit smoking in pregnancy. Human Molecular Genetics 2009; 18: 2922–2927.

Ong KK, Elks CE, Li S, Zhao JH, Luan J, Andersen LB, Bingham SA, Brage S, Davey Smith G, Ekelund U, Gillson CJ, Glaser B, Golding J, Hardy R, Khaw K-T, Kuh D, Luben R, Marcus M, McGeehin MA, Ness AR, Northstone K, Ring SM, Rubin C, Sims MA, Song K, Strachan DP, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Waterworth DM, Wong A, Deloukas P, Barroso I, Mooser V, Loos RJ, Wareham NJ. Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty. Nature Genetics 2009; 41: 729-733.

Shugart YY, Chen L, Day IMN, Lewis SJ, Timpson NJ, Abdollahi MR, Ring SM, Ebrahim S, Golding J, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G. Two British women studies replicated the association between the Val66Met polymorphism in the Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and BMI. European Journal of Human Genetics 2009; 17:1050-5

Lewis S, Leary S, Davey Smith G, Ness A. Body composition at age 9 years, maternal folate intake during pregnancy and methyltetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T genoptye. British Journal of Nutrition 2009, 102:493-6

Prospective Studies Collaboration. Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 proposective studies. The Lancet 2009; 373: 1083 – 1096.

Fraser A, Harris R, Sattar N, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA. Alanine aminotransferase, gamma-glutamylytransferase and incident diabetes: The British Women's Heart and Health Study and meta-analysis. Diabetes Care 2009; 32: 741-750.

Batty D, Shipley M, Gunnell D, Huxley R, Kivimaki M, Woodward M, Ying CM, Davey Smith G. Height, wealth and health: An overview with new data from three longitudinal studies. Economics and Human Biology 2009; 7: 137-152.

Hart CL, Davey Smith G. Alcohol consumption and use of acute and mental health hospital services in the West of Scotland Collaborative prospective cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009; 63 :703-707.

Batty GD, Kivimaki M, Morrison D, Huxley R, Davey Smith G, Clarke R, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Risk factors for pancreatic cancer mortality: extended follow-up of the original Whitehall Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Preventions 2009; 18: 673-675.

Brennan P, McKay J, Moore L, Zaridze D, Mukeria A, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Bencko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Chow W-H, Rothman N, Chabrier A, Gaborieau V, Timpson NJ, Hung RJ and Davey Smith G . Obesity and cancer: Mendelian randomization approach utilizing the FTO genotype . Int J Epidemiol 2009;38:971-975.

The Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration. Liporotein(a) concentration and the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and nonvascular mortality. JAMA 2009; 302: 412-423.

Sung J, Son Yun-Mi, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S. Height and site-specific cancer risk: a cohort study of Korean adult population. Am J Epidemiol 2009, 170: 53-65.

Freathy RM, Bennett AJ, Ring SM, Shields B, Groves CJ, Timpson NJ, Weedon MN, Zeggini E, Lindgren CM, Lango H, Perry JRB, Pouta A, Hypponen E, Power C, Elliott P, Strachan DP, Jarvelin MR, Davey Smith G, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, Hattersley AT. Type 2 diabetes risk alleles are associated with reduced size at birth. Diabetes 2009;58:1428-1433.

P D Gluckman, P Bateson, A S Beedle, Z A Bhutta, M A Hanson, C Law, K V Anokhin, P Bougnères, G R Chandak, P Dasupta, G Davey Smith, P T Ellison, T Forrester, S F Gilbert, E Jablonka, H Kaplan, A M Prentice, S J Simpson, R Uauy & M J West-Eberhard. Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease. Lancet 2009;373: 1654-1657.

Timpson NJ , Tobias JH , Richards JB , Soranzo N , Duncan EL , Sims AM , Whittaker P , Kumanduri V , Zhai G , Glaser B , Eisman J , Jones G , Nicholson G , Prince R , Seeman E , Spector T , Brown MA , Peltonen L , Davey Smith G , Deloukas P , Evans DM . Common variants in the region around Osterix are associated with bone mineral density and growth in childhood. Hum Mol Genet. 2009; 18:1510-1517.

Subramanian SV, Ackerson LK, Davey Smith G, John NA. Association of maternal height with child mortality, anthropometric failure and anemia in India. JAMA 2009 ;301:1691-1701.

Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Upton MN, Watt GCM. Alcohol consumption behaviours and social morbility in men and women of the Midspan Family Study. Alcohol and Alcoholism 2009; 44: 332-6.

Mortensen LH, Diderichsen F, Davey Smith G and Nybo Andersen AM. Time is on whose side? Time trends in the association between maternal social disadvantage and offspring fetal growth. A study of 1 409 339 births in Denmark, 1981–2004 . J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63;281-285.

Weedon MN, Lettre G, Freathy RM, Lindgren C, Voight BF, Perry JRB, Elliot KS, Burtt NP, Shields B, Zeggini E, Guiducci C, Lango H, Timpson NJ, Hackett R, Ardlie K, Tobias JH, Ness AR, Ring SM, Peltonen L, Salomaa V, Palmer CN, Morris AD, Groop LC, Lyssenko V, Saxena R. The Diabetes Genetics Initiative, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Davey Smith G, Hattersley AT, Hirschhorn JN, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM. A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population. Nature Genetics 2007;39:1245-1250.

Kinra S, Rameshwar Sarma KW, Ghafoorunissa SA , Vishnu Vardhana Rao M, Ravikumar R, Mohan V, Wilkinson IB, Cockcroft JR, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. Integration of supplemental nutrition with public health programmes in pregnancy and early childhood reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in rural Indian adolescents: Long term follow-up of the Hyderabad Nutritional Trial. BMJ 2008;337; 438-441.

Lawlor DA, Harbord RM, Timpson NJ, Lowe GDO, Rumley A, Gaunt TR, Baker I, Yarnell JWG, Kivimäki M, Kumari M, Norman PE, Jamrozik K, Hankey GJ, Almeida OP, Flicker L, Warrington N, Marmot MG, Ben-Shlomo Y, Palmer LJ, Day INM, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The association of C-reactive protein and CRP genotype with coronary heart disease: Findings from five studies with 4,610 cases amongst 18,637 participants. PLoS One 2009;8:e3011.

Schatzkin A, Abnet CC, Cross AJ, Gunter M, Pfeiffer R, Gail M, Lim U, Davey Smith G. Mendelian Randomization: How it can-and cannot-help confirm causal relations between nutrition and cancer. Cancer Prev Res 2009; 2:104-13 .

Willer CJ, Speliotes EK, Loos RJF, Li S, Lindgren CM, Heid IM, Berndt SI, Elliott AL, Jackson AU, Lamina C, Lettre G, Lim N, Lyon HN, McCarroll SA, Papadakis K, Qi L, Randall JC, Roccasecca RM, Sanna S, Scheet P, Weedon MN, Wheeler E, Hua Zhao J, Jacobs LC, Prokopenko I, Soranzo N, Tanaka T, Timpson NJ, Almgren P, Bennett A, Bergman RN, Bingham SA, Bonnycastle LL, Brown M, Burtt NP, Chines P, Coin L, Collins FS, Connell JM, Cooper C, Davey Smith G, Dennison EM, Deodhar P, Elliott P, Erdos MR, Estrada K, Evans DM, Gianniny L, Gieger C, Gillson CJ, Guiducci C, Hackett R, Hadley D, Hall AS, Havulinna AS, Hebebrand J, Hofman A, Isomaa B, Jacobs KB, Johnson T, Jousilahti P, Jovanovic Z, Khaw KT, Kraft P, Kuokkannen M, Kuusisto J, Laitinen J, Lakatta EG, Luan J, Luben RN, Mangino M, McArdle WL, Meitinger T, Mulas A, Munroe PB, Narisu N, Ness AR, Northstone K, O'Rahilly S, Purmann C, Rees MG, Ridderstråle M, Ring SM, Rivadeneira F, Ruokonen A, Sandhu MS, Saramies J, Scott LJ, Scuteri A, Silander K, Sims MA, Song K, Stephens J, Stevens S, Stringham HM, Tung YCL, Valle TT, Van Duijn CM, Vimaleswaran KS, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Wallace C, Watanabe RM, Waterworth DM, Watkins N, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Witteman JCM, Zeggini E, Zhai G, Zillikens MC, Altshuler D, Caulfield MJ, Chanock SJ, Farooqi IS, Ferrucci L, Guralnik JM, Hattersley AT, Hu FB, Jarvelin MR, Laakso M, Mooser V, Ong KK, Ouwehand WH, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Spector TD, Tuomi T, Tuomilehto J, Uda M, Uitterlinden AG, Wareham NJ, Deloukas P, Frayling TM, Groop LC, Hayes RB, Hunter DJ, Mohlke KL, Peltonen L, Schlessinger D, Strachan DP, Wichmann HE, McCarthy MI, Boehnke M, Barroso I, Abecasis GR, Hirschhorn JN. Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation. Nature Genetics 2009; 41 , 25 – 34.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Kivimaki M, Barzi F, Davey Smith G, Mitchell R, Marmot MG. Huxley R. Obesity and overweight in relation to liver disease mortality in men: 38 year follow-up of the original Whitehall study. International Journal of Obesity 2009; 32: 1741–1744.

Fraser A, May M, Lowe G, Rumley A, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA. Interleukin-6 and incident coronary heart disease: results from the British Women's Heart and Health study. Atherosclerosis 2009; 202: 567-572.

Pearce MS, Relton CL, Unwin NC, Adamson AJ, Davey Smith G. The relation between diarrhoeal episodes in infancy and both blood pressure and sodium intake in later life: The Newcastle Thousand Families Study. J Human Hypertension 2008; 22 , 582–584.

Loos RJF, Lindgren CM, Li S, Wheeler E, Zhao JH, Prokopenko I, Inouye M, Freathy RM, Attwood AP, Beckmann JS, Berndt SI, The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, Bergmann S, Bennett AJ, Bingham SA, Bochud M, Brown M, Cauchi S, Connell JM, Cooper C, Davey Smith G, Day I, Dina C, De S, Dermitzakis ET, Doney ASF, Elliott KS, Elliott P, Evans DM, Farooqi IS, Froguel P, Ghori J, Groves CJ, Gwilliam R, Hadley D, Hall AS, Hattersley AT, Hebebrand J, Heid IM, KORA, Herrera B, Hinney A, Hunt SE, Jarvelin MR, Johnson T, Jolley JDM, Karpe F, Keniry A, Khaw KT, Luben RN, Mangino M, Marchini J, McArdle WL, McGinnis R, Meyre D, Munroe PB, Morris AD, Ness AR, Neville MJ, Nica AC, Ong KK, O'Rahilly S, Owen KR, Palmer CNA, Papadakis K, Potter S, Pouta A, Qi L, Nurses' Health Study, Randall JC, Rayner NW, Ring SM, Sandhu MS, Scherag A, Sims MA, Song K, Soranzo N, Speliotes EK, Diabetes Genetics Initiative, Syddall HE, Teichmann SA, Timpson NJ, Tobias JH, Uda M, The SardiNIA Study, Vogel CIG, Wallace C, Waterworth DM, Weedon MN, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Willer CJ, FUSION , Wraight VL, Yuan X, Zeggini E, Hirschhorn JE, Strachan DP, Ouwehand WH, Caulfield MJ, Samani NJ, Frayling TM, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Mooser V, Deloukas P, McCarthy MI, Wareham NJ & Barroso I. Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nature Genetics 2008; 40: 768-775.

Sayal K, Heron J, Golding J, Alati R, Davey Smith G, Gray R, Emond A. Binge pattern of alcohol consumption during pregnancy and childhood mental health outcomes: longitudinal population-based study. Pediatrics . 2009;123:289-96.

Little J, Higgins JP, Ioannidis JP, Moher D, Gagnon F, von Elm E, Khoury MJ, Cohen B, Davey-Smith G, Grimshaw J, Scheet P, Gwinn M, Williamson RE, Zou GY, Hutchings K, Johnson CY, Tait V, Wiens M, Golding J, van Duijn C, McLaughlin J, Paterson A, Wells G, Fortier I, Freedman M, Zecevic M, King R, Infante-Rivard C, Stewart A, Birkett N. Strengthening the Reporting of Genetic Association studies (STREGA): an extension of the STROBE Statement. Ann Intern Med . 2009 Feb 3;150:206-15. (Reprinted in Eur J Epidem 2009;24:37-55; Human Genet 2009;125:131-151; PLoS Medicine 2009;6:151163; J Clin Epidemiol 2009; doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.12.004.

Kramer MS, Matush L, Vanilovich I, Platt RW, Bogdanovich N, Sevkovskaya Z, Dzikovich I, Sishko G, Coller J-P, Martin RM, Davey Smith G, Gilman MW, Chlamers B, Hodnett E, Shaprio S. A Randomized breast-feeding promotion intervention did not reduce child obesity in Belarus. Journal of Nutrition 2009; 139:417S-421S.

Miranda JJ, Davies AR, Davey Smith G, Smeeth L, Cabrera L, Gilman RH, Garcia HH, Ortega YR, Cama VA. Frequency of diarrhoea as a predictor of elevated blood pressure in children. J Hypertens. 2009 ;27:259-265.

Schumacher W, Cockcroft J, Timpson NJ, McEniery C, Gallacher J, Rumley A, Lowe G, Davey Smith G, Wilkinson I, Ben-Shlomo Y. Association between C-reactive protein genotype, circulating levels, and arterial pulse wave velocity. Hypertension 2009; 53: 150-157.

Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Timpson NJ, Baban J, Kiessling M, Day INM, Ebrahim S. Lactase persistence related genetic variant: population substructure and health outcomes. European Journal of Human Genetics 2009;17:357-367.

Batty GD, Horta BL, Davey Smith G, Barros FC, Victora C. Early life diarrhea and later blood pressure in a developing country: the 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2009; 63: 163-165.

The Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Measures to assess the prognostic ability of the stratified cox proportional hazards model. Statistics in Medicine 2009; 28 :389–411.

Vescio MF, Brookes ST, Sterne J, Moore L, Rezza G, Davey Smith G. Mortality at ages 50-59 and deprivation at early and late stages of the lifecourse in Wales. J Epidemiol and Community Health 2009;63:56-63.

Batty GD, Wennerstad KM, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D, Deary IJ, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood and mortality by middle-age: cohort study of one million Swedish men. Epidemiology 2009;20:100-109.

Timpson NJ, Sayers A, Davey Smith G, Tobias JH. How Does Body Fat Influence Bone Mass in Childhood? A Mendelian Randomisation Approach. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2009:24:522-533.

Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Correcting for multivariate measurement error by regression calibration in meta-analyses of epidemiological studies. Statistics in Medicine. 2009; 28:1067–1092.

2008

Owen CG, Whincup PH, Kaye SJ, Martin RM, Davey Smith G, Cook DG for the EARLYREAD (Early Risk Exposures in Adult Disease) Collaboration. Does initial breast feeding lead to lower blood cholesterol in adult life? A quantitative review of the evidence. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2008; 2008; 88: 305–314.

Sattar N, Watt P, Cherry L, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA. High molecular weight adiponectin is not associated with incident coronary heart disease in older women: prospective case control study nested within the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2008; 93: 1846-1849.

Danesh J, Hingorani A, Wensley F, Casas JP, Smeeth L, Samani NJ, Hall A, Whincup P, Morris R, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Timpson NJ, Ebrahim S, Brown M, Sandhu M, Reiner A, Psaty B, Lange L, Cushman M, Tracy R, Nordestgaard BG, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Zacho J, Hung J, Thompson P, Beilby J, Palmer LJ, Fowkes, Lowe G, Tzoulaki I, Kumari M, Overvad K, Khaw KT, Benjamin E, Chiodini B, Franzosi M, Norman PE, Hankey GJ, Jamrozik K, Rimm E, Pai J, Psaty B, Heckbert S, Bis J, Yusuf S, Anand S, Engort J, Collins R, Melander O, Berglund G, Ladenvall P, Johansson L, Jansson J-H, Hallmans G, Humphries S, Manson J, Saleheen D, Danesh J, Frossard P, Sattar N, Robertson M, Shepherd J, Schaefer E, Hofman A, Witteman JCM, Kardys I, de Faire U, Bennet A, O'Reilly D, McMahon A, Packard C, Clarke R, Kumari M, Greenland P, Manson J, Casas JP, Franzosi M, Nordestgaard BG, Smeeth L, Bowden J, Di Angelantonio E, Shah T, Thompson S, Verzilli C, Walker M, Whittaker J, Yusuf S. Collaborative pooled analysis of data on C-reactive protein gene variants and coronary disease: judging causality by Mendelian randomization. Eur J Epidemiology 2008; 23: 531–540.

Kivimäki M, Ferrie JE, Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Elovainio M, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Optimal form of operationalising BMI in relation to mortality: the original Whitehall study. Obesity 2008; 16: 1926-1932.

Chen WM, Erdos MR, Jackson AU, Saxena R, Sanna S, Silver KD, Timpson NJ, Hansen TB, Orrù M, Piras MG, Bonnycastle LL, Willer CJ, Lyssenko V, Shen H, Kuusisto J, Ebrahim S, Sestu N, Duren WL, MC Spada, Stringham HM, Scott LJ, Olla N, Swift AJ, Najjar S, Mitchell BD, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ben Shlomo Y, Andersen G, Borch-Johnsen K, Jørgensen T, Saramies J, Valle TT, Buchanan TA, Shuldiner AR, Lakatta E, Bergman RN, Uda M, Tuomilehto J, Pedersen O, Cao A, Groop L, Mohlke KL, Laakso M, Schlessinger, Collins FS, Altshuler D, Abecasis GR, Boehnke M, Scuteri A, Watanabe RM. V ariations in the G6PC2/ABCB11 genomic region are associated with fasting glucose levels. J. Clin. Invest 2008; 118: 2620 –2628.

Batty GD, Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Post-challenge blood glucose concentration and stroke mortality rates in non-diabetic men in London: 38-year follow-up of the original Whitehall prospective cohort study. Diabetologia 2008; 51: 1123–1126.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Cherry L, Watt P, Sattar N. The association of insulin-like-growth factor 1 (IGF-1) with incident coronary heart disease in women: findings from the prospective British Women's Heart and Health Study. Atherosclerosis 2008; 201: 198–204.

Galobardes B, McCarron P, Jeffreys M, Davey Smith G. Medical history of respiratory disease in early life relates to morbidity and mortality in adulthood. Thorax 2008; 630: 423-429.

Brion M-J, Ness AR, Davey Smith G, Emmett P, Rogers I, Whincup P, Lawlor DA. Sodium intake in infancy and blood pressure at 7 years: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children . European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007; 62: 1162 – 1169

Alati R, Macleod, Hickman M, Sayal K, May M, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA. Intrauterine exposure to alcohol and tobacco use associated with IQ in childhood. Findings from a parental-offspring comparison within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Pediatric Research 2009;64:659-666.

Kivimäki M, Shipley MJ, Ferrie JE, Singh-Manoux A, Batty GD, Chandola T, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study. Lancet 2008;372:1648-1654.

Hart CL, Davey Smith G. Alcohol consumption and mortality and hospital admissions in men from the Midspan Collaborative cohort study. Addiction:103;1979-1986.

Kivimäki M, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Elovainio M, Jokela M, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Vahtera J, Taittonen L, Juonala M, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. Association of age at menarche with cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure and function in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study. Am J Clin Nutr 2008;87:1876-1882.

Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Timpson N, Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Kähönen M, Juonala M, Rönnemaa, Viikari JSA, Lehtimäki T, Raitakari OT. Lifetime Body Mass Index and later atherosclerosis risk in young adults: examining causal links using Mendelian randomisation approach in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study. European Heart Journal 2008;29:2552-2560.

Whitley E, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G, Holly JMP, Martin RM. Childhood circumstances and anthropometry: The Boyd Orr Cohort. Annals of Human of Biology 2008;35:518-534.

Timpson NJ, Emmett PM, Frayling TM, Rogers I, Hattersley AT, McCarthy MI, Davey Smith G. The fat mass- and obesity- associated locus and dietary intake in children. Am J Clin Nutr 2008;88:971-978.

Chen L, Lawlor DA, Lewis SJ, Wei Y, Abdollahi MR, Timpson NJ, Day INM, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Shugart YY. Genetic association study of BDNF in Depression: Finding from two cohort studies and a meta-analysis. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2008 Sep 5;147B(6):814-21.

Macleod J, Hickman M, Bowen E, Alati R, Tiling K, Davey Smith G. Parental drug use, early adversities, later childhood problems and children's use of tobacco and alcohol at age 10: birth cohort study. Addiction 2008;103:1731-1743.

Batty GD, Alves JG, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ, Davey Smith G. Obesity and mortality in men according to coronary heart disease status. Salud(i)Ciencia 16; 183-188.

Tobin MD, Timpson NJ, Wain Ldear V, Ring S, Jones LR, Emmett PM, Palmer TM, Ness AR, Samani NJ, Davey Smith G, Burton PR. Common variation in the WNK1 gene and blood pressure in childhood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Hypertension 2008; 52:1-6.

Ben-Shlomo Y, McCarthy A, Hughes R, Tilling K, Davey Smith G. Immediate postnatal growth is associated with blood pressure in young adulthood: the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. Hypertension 2008;52:638-644.

Weidinger S, Baurecht H, Wagenpfeil S, Henderson J, Novak N, Sandilands A, Chen H, Rodriguez E, O'Regan GM, Watson R, Liao H, Zhao Y, Barker JNWN, Allen M, Reynolds N, Meggitt S, Northstone K, Davey Smith G, Strobl C, Stahl C, Kneib T, Klopp N, Bieber T, Behrendt H, Palmer CNA, Wichmann HE, Ring J, Illig T, McLean WHI, Irvine AD. Analysis of the individual and aggregate genetic contributions of previously identified serine peptidase inhibitor Kazal type 5 (SPINK5) , kallikrein-related peptidase 7 (KLK7) , and filaggrin (FLG) polymorphisms to eczema risk. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008; 122: 560-568.

Lewis SJ, Lawlor DA, Nordestgaard BG, Tybjærg-Hansen A, Ebrahim S , Zacho J, Ness A, Leary S, Davey Smith G. The methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T genotype and the risk of obesity in three large population-based cohorts. European Journal of Endocrinology 2008;159:35-40.

Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Cooper C, Gale CR. Diarrhoea in childhood and cause-specific mortality in older age: analyses of 33,261 individuals from the Hertfordshire studies. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2008;15:494-496.

Brunner EJ, Kivimäki M, Witte DR, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Cooper J, Miller M, Lowe GDO, Rumley A, Casas JP, Shah T, Humphries SE, Hingorani AD, Marmot MG, Timpson NJ, Kumari M. Inflammation, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes - Mendelian Randomization Using CRP Haplotypes Points Upstream. PLoS Medicine 2008 ; 5: e155.

Fraser A, Hughes R, McCarthy A, Tiling K, Davies D, Rumley A, Lowe GDO, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. Early life growth and hemostatic Factors. The Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2008;168:179-187.

Lawlor DA, Cooper AR, Bain C, Davey Smith G, Irwin A, Riddoch C, Ness A. Associations of birth size and duration of breast feeding with cardiorespiratory fitness in childhood: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). European Journal of Epidemiology 2008 ; 23: 411-422.

Chen L, Davey Smith G, Harbord R, Lewis S. Alcohol intake and blood pressure: a systematic review implementing Mendelian Randomization approach. PLoS Medicine 2008; 5: 461.

Bjorge T, Engeland A, Tverdal A, Davey Smith G. Body mass index in adolescence in relation to cause-specific mortality: A follow-up of 230,000 Norwegian adolescents. Am J Epidemiol 2008; 163:30-37.

Davey Smith G, Timpson N, Ebrahim S. Strengthening causal inference in cardiovascular epidemiology through Mendelian randomization. Annals of Medicine 2008; 12:1-18.

Lawlor DA, Harbord RM, Sterne JAC, Timpson NJ, Davey Smith G. Mendelian randomization : Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology . Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27:1133-1163.

Brion MJA. Leary SD, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ness AR. Modifiable maternal exposures and offspring blood pressure: a review of epidemiological studies of maternal age, diet and smoking. Paediatric Research 2008;63:593-598.

Metcalfe C. Macleod J, Davey Smith G, Hart CL. The scope for biased recall of risk-factor exposure in case-control studies: Evidence from a cohort study of scottish. Scand J Public Health 2008; 36:442-445.

Kelaher M, Paul S, Lambert H, Ahmad W, Davey Smith G. The impact of different measures of socioeconomic position on the relationship between ethnicity and health. Annals of Epidemiology 2008;18:351-356.

Bekkering GE, Harris RJ, Thomas S, Mayer AMB, Beynon R, Ness AR, Harbord RM, Bain C, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC. How Much of the Data Published in Observational Studies of the Association between Diet and Prostate or Bladder Cancer Is Usable for Meta-Analysis? Am J Epidemiol 2008;167:1017–1026.

Freathy RM, Timpson NJ, Lawlor DA, Pouta A, Ben-Shlomo Y, Ruokonen A, Ebrahim S, Shields B, Zeggini E, Weedon WM, Lindgren CM, Lango H, Melzer D, Ferrucci L, Paolisso G, Dphil MJN, Karpe F, Palmer CAN, Morris AD, Elliott P, Jarvelin MR, Davey Smith G, McCarthy MI, Hattersley AT, Frayling TM. Common variation in the FTO gene alters diabetes-related metabolic traits to extent expected, given its effect on BMI. Diabetes 2008, 57; 1419-1426.

Lawlor DA, Song YM, Sung J, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The Association of Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease in a Population With Low Cholesterol Levels: A Study of 648 346 Men From the Korean National Health System Prospective Cohort Study . Stroke 2008;39:760-767.

Batty GD, Kivimaki M, Gray L, Davey Smith G, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Cigarette smoking and site-specific cancer mortality: testing uncertain associations using extended follow-up of the original Whitehall study. Annals of Oncology 2008;19:996-1002.

Galobardes B, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. Is the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality established? Update of a systematic review. JECH 2008'62:387-390.

Kuh D, Mishra GD, Black S, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Okell L, Wadsworth M, Hardy R. Offspring birth weight, gestational age and maternal characteristics in relation to glucose status at age 53 years: evidence from a national birth cohort. Diabetic Medicine 2008; 25: 530-535.

Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Mendelian randomization: can genetic epidemiology help redress the failures of observational epidemiology? Human Genetics 2008;123:15-33

Henderson J, Northstone K, Lee SP, Liao H, Zhao Y, Mukhopadhyay S, Davey Smith G, Palmer CAN, McLean I, Irvine AD. The burden of disease associated with filaggrin mutations: a population based, longitudinal birth cohort study. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008; 121:872-877.

Martin RM, Gunnel D, Whitley E, Nicolaides A, Griffin M, Georgiou N, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Holly JMP. Associations of insulin-like growthy factors (IGF)-I, IGF-II, IGF binding protein (IGFBP)-2 and IGFBP-3 with ultrasound measures of a atherosclerosis and plaque stability in an older adult population. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008; 93: 1331-8.

Lawlor DA, Harbord RM, Sterne JAC, Timpson N, Davey Smith G. Mendelian randomization using genes as instruments for making casual inference in epidemiology. Statistics in Medicine 2008, 27:1133-1163.

Murray LJ, McCarron P, McCorry RB, Anderon LA, Lane AJ, Johnston BT, Davey Smith G, Harvey RF. Inverse association between gastroesophageal reflux and blood pressure: results of a large community based study. BMC Gastroenterology 2008; 8: 10.

Kivimäki M, Honkonen T, Wahlbeck K, Elovainio M, Pentti J, Klaukka T, Virtanen M, Vahtera J. Organisational downsizing and increased use of psychcotropic drugs among employees who remain in employment. J Epidemiol and Community Health 2007; 61: 154-8.

Bekkering GE, Harris RJ, Thomas S, Mayer AB, Beynon R, Ness AR, Harbord RM, Bain C, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC. How much data published in observational studies of the association between diet and prostate or bladder cancer are usable for meta-analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2008: DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn005.

Lawlor DA, Timpson NJ, Harbord R, Leary S, Ness A, McCarthy M, Frayling TM, Hattersley AT, Davey Smith G. Exploring the developmental overnutrition hypothesis using parental-offspring associations and FTO as an instrumental variable. PLoS Medicine 2008;5:484-493.

Tillin T, Forouhi NG, Davey Smith G, McKeigue PM, Chaturvedi N. Cardiovascular disease mortality in relation to childhood and adulthood socio-economic markers in British South Asian men. Heart 2008;94:476-481.

Mortensen LH, Diderichsen F, Amtzen A, Gissler M, Cnattngius S, Schnor O, Davey Smith G, Andersend A-M N. Social inequality in fetal growth: a comparative study of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the period 1981-2000. J Epidemiol Community Health 2008; 62: 325-331.

Singh-Manoux A, Dugravot A, Davey Smith G, Subramanyam M, Subramanian SV. Adult Education and Child Mortality in India: The influence of caste, household wealth, and urbanization. Epidemiology 2008;19:294-301.

Kelaher M, Paul S, Lambert H, Ahmad W, Paradies Y, Davey Smith G. Discrimination and health in an English study. Social Science and Medicine 2008;66:1627-1636.

Lawlor DA, Song YM, Sung J, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The Association of Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease in a Population with low cholesterol levels: A Study of 648 346 Men From the Korean National Health System Prospective Cohort Study. Stroke 2008;39:760-767.

Davey Smith G. Editors choice: Big business, big science? Int J Epidemiol 2008;37:1-3.

Grandjean P, Bellinger D, Bergman A, Cordier S, Davey Smith G, Eskenazi B, Gee D, Gray K, Hanson M, van den Hazel P, Heindel JJ, Heinzow B, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hu H, Huang TK, Jensen TK, Landrigan PJ, McMillen C, Murata K, Ritz B, Schoeters G, Skakkebaek NE, Skerfving S, Weihe P. The Faroes Statement: Human Health Effects of Developmental Exposure to Chemicals in Our Environment. Nordic Pharmacological Society: Basic & Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology 2008;102:73-75.

Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Ben-Shlomo B, Timpson N, Harbord R, Christensen M, Baban J, Kiessling M, Day I, Gaunt T, Davey Smith G. Alcohol dehydrogenase type 1C (ADH1C) variants, alcohol consumption traits, HDL cholesterol and risk of coronary heart disease in women and men: British Women's Heart & Health Study and Caerphilly cohorts. Atherosclerosis. 2008;196:871-878.

Fraser A, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA.. The associations between birthweight and adult markers of liver damage and function. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2008;22:12-21.

Leary SD, Ness AR, Davey Smith G, Mattocks C, Deere K, Blair SN, Riddoch C. Physical activity and blood pressure in childhood – Findings from a population-based study. Hypertension 2008;51:92-98.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Neaton JD, Davey Smith G for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) Census-based and personally reported income measures as long-term risk-adjusted mortality predictors. Public Health 2008;121:898-901.

Jeffreys M, Warren R, Highnam R, Davey Smith G. Breast cancer risk factors and a novel measure of volumetric breast density: cross-sectional study. British Journal of Cancer 2008;98:210-216.

Granell R. Heron J, Lewis S, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC, Henderson J. The association between mother and child MTHFR C677T polymorphisms, dietary folate intake and childhood atopy in a population-based, longitudinal birth cohort. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 2008;38:320-328.

Mattocks C, Ness A, Leary S, Tilling K, Blair SN, Shield J, Deere K, Saunders J, Kirkby J, Davey Smith G, Wells J, Wareham N, Reilly J, Riddoch C. Use of accelerometers in a large field based study of children: protocols, design issues and effects on precision. J Physical Activity and Health 2008;5:S94-S107.

Galobardes B, McCarron P, Jeffreys M, Davey Smith G. Association between number of siblings and cause-specific mortality in the Glasgow Alumni Cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology 2008;23:89-93.

Willer CJ, Sanna S, Jackson AU, Scuteri A, Bonnycastle LL, Clarke R, Heath SC, Timpson NJ, Najjar SS, Stringham HM, Strait J, Duren WL, Maschio A, Busonero F, Mulas A, Albai G, Swift AJ, Morken MA, Narisu N, Bennett D, Parish S, Shen H, Galan P, Meneton P, Hercberg S, Zelenika D, Chen WM, Li Y, Scott LJ, Scheet PA, Sundvall J, Watanabe RM, Nagaraja R, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G, Shuldiner AR, Collins R, Bergman RN, Uda M, Tuomilehto GR, Cao A, Collins FS, Lakatta E, Lathrop M, Boehnke M, Schlessinger D, Mohlke KL, Abecasis GR. Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery disease. Nature Genetics 2008;40:161-169.

Sanna S, Jackson AU, Nagaraja R, Willer CJ, Chen W-M, Bonnycastle LL, Shen H, Timpson N, Lettre G, Usala G, Chines PS, Stringham HM, Scott LJ, Dei M, Lai S, Albai G, Crisponi L, Naitza S, Doheny KF, Pugh EW, Shlomo YB, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Bergman RN, Watanabe RM, Uda M, Tuomilehto J, Coresh J, Hirschhorn JN, Shuldiner AR, Schlessinger D, Collins FS, Davey Smith G, Boerwinkle E, Cao A, Boehnke M, Abecasis GR, Mohlke KL. Common variants in the GDF5 - UQCC region are associated with variation in human height. Nature Genetics 2008;40:198-203.

Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Harbord R, Timpson NJ, Day I, Ebrahim S. Clustered Environments and Randomized Genes: a fundamental distinction between conventional and genetic epidemiology. PLoS Medicine 2008;4:1985-1992.

Davey Smith G. Assessing intrauterine influences on offspring health outcomes: can epidemiological findings yield robust results? Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology 2008;102:245-256.

Fraser A, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA. The associations between height components (leg and trunk length) and adult levels of liver enzyme. J Epidemiol Community Health 2008; 62: 48-53.

Naess Ø, Claussen B, Davey Smith G, Leyland AH. Life course influence of residential area on cause-specific mortality. J Epidemiol Community Health 2008; 62: 29-34.

2007

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Kelly A, Sattar N, Ebrahim S. Plasma leptin and coronary heart disease risk: Prospective case control study of British women. Obesity 2007; 15: 1694 –1701.

Timpson N , Heron J, Paabo S, Davey Smith G, Enard W. No evidence for brain-related selection of ASPM and MCPH1 in humans. Science, 2007;317:1036b.

Romundstad PR, Davey Smith G, Nilsen TL, Vatten LJ. Associations of prepregnancy cardiovascular risk factors with the offspring's birth weight. Am J Epidemiol 2007; 166: 1359-64.

Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Fall CHD, Sayer AA, Dennison E, Cooper C, Gale CR. Association of diarrhoea in childhood with blood pressure and prevalent coronary heart disease in older age: analyses of two UK cohort studies. Int J Epidemiol 2007; 36: 1349-55.

Granell R. Heron J, Lewis S, Smith GD, Sterne JAC, Henderson J. The association between mother and child MTHFR C677T polymorphisms, dietary folate intake and childhood atopy in a population-based, longitudinal birth cohort. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 2007 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02902.x

Næss Ø, Claussen B; Davey Smith G. Housing conditions in childhood and cause-specific adult mortality: The effect of sanitary conditions and economic deprivation on 55,761 men in Oslo Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2007; 35:570-6.

Naess Ø , Piro FR, Nafstad P, Davey Smith G, Leyland AH. Air Pollution, Social Deprivation, and Mortality: A Multilevel Cohort Study. Epidemiology 2007; 18: 686-94.

Michael S Kramer, Lidia Matush, Irina Vanilovich, Robert W Platt, Natalia Bogdanovich, Zinaida Sevkovskaya, Irina Dzikovich, Gyorgy Shishko, Jean-Paul Collet, Richard M Martin, George Davey Smith, Matthew W Gillman, Beverley Chalmers, Ellen Hodnett, Stanley Shapiro for the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) Study Group . Effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on child height, weight, adiposity, and blood pressure at age 6.5 years: evidence from a large randomized trial . Am J Clin Nutr 2007; 86: 1717-21.

Prospective Studies Collaboration. Blood cholesterol and vascular mortality by age, sex, and blood pressure: a meta-analysis of individual data from 61 prospective studies with 55 000 vascular deaths. Lancet 2007; 370: 1829-40.

Mohammad R. Abdollahi, Tom R. Gaunt, Shuwen Huang, Santiago Rodríguez, George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim, Debbie A Lawlor, Ian N M Day. Homogeneous assay of rs4343, an ACE I/D proxy, and an analysis in the British Women's Heart and Health Study (BWHHS). Disease Markers 2007;24:11-17.

Crawley E, Davey Smith G. Is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) heritable in children, and if so why does it matter? Arch Dis Child 2007; 92: 1058-61.

Magnussen EB, Vatten LJ, Lund-Nilsen TI, Salvensen KA, Davey Smith G, Romundstad PR. Pre-pregnancy cardiovascular risk factors as predictors of preeclampsia: population based cohort study. BMJ 2007; 335: 978.

Fraser A, Harris R, Sattar N, Ebrahim S, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA. Gamma-Glutamyltransferase is associated with incident vascular events independently of alcohol intake: Analysis of the British Women's Heart and Health Study and meta-analysis. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascualr Biology 2007; 27: 2729-35.

Vedhara K, Miles J, Crown A, McCarthy A, Shanks N, Davies D, Lightman S, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. Relationship of early childhood illness with adult cortisol in the Barry Caerphilly Growth (BCG) cohort. Psychoeuroendocrinology 2007; 32: 865-73.

Highnam R, Jeffreys M, McCormack V, Warren R, Davey Smith G. Comparing measurements of breast density. Phys. Med. Biol 2007; 52: 5881-95.

Romundstad PR, Davey Smith G, nIlsen TIL, Vatten LJ. Associations of prepregnancy cardiovascular risk factors with the offspring's birth weight. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 doi: 10.1093/aje/kwm272.

Davey Smith G, Steer C, Leary S, Ness A. Is there an intra-uterine influence on obesity? Evidence from parent-child associations in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007;92:876-880.

Naess O, Strand BH, Davey Smith G. Childhood and adulthood: socioeconomic position across 20 causes of death: a prospective cohort study of 800 00 Norwegian men and women. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61: 1004-1009.

Fewell Z, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC. The impact of residual and unmeasured confounding in epidemiological studies; a simulation study. Am J Epidemiol 2007;166:646-655. doi:10.1093/aje/kwm165

McCarthy A, Hughes R, Tilling K, Davies D, Daevy Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. Birth weight; postnatal, infant, and childhood growth; and obesity in young adulthood: evidence from the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2007; 86: 907-13.

Weedon MN, Lettre G, Freathy RM, Lindgren C, Voight BF, Perry JRB, Elliot KS, Burtt NP, Shields B, Zeggini E, Guiducci C , Lango H, Timpson NJ, Hackett R, Ardlie K, Tobias JH, Ness AR, Ring SM, Peltonen L, Salomaa V, Palmer CN, Morris AD, Groop LC, Lyssenko V, Saxena R. The Diabetes Genetics Initiative, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, George Davey-Smith, Andrew T Hattersley, Joel N Hirschhorn, Mark I McCarthy, Timothy M Frayling. A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population. Nature Genetics 2007;39:1245-1250.

Lawlor DA, Fraser A, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Independent associations of fasting insulin, glucose, and glycated haemoglobin with stroke and coronary heart disease in older women. PLoS Medicine 2007;4:1396-1404.

Timpson NJ, Heron J, Day INM, Ring SM, Bartoshuk LM, Horwood J, Emmett P, Davey Smith G. Refining associations between TAS2R38 diplotypes and the 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) taste test: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. BMC Genetics, 2007;8:51. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-8-51

Kivimäki M, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Eklund C, Hurme M, Lehtimäki T, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. Variants in the CRP gene as a measure of life-long differences in average C-reactive protein levels: the cardiovascular risk in Young Finns study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007;166:760-764. Doi: 10.1093/aje/kwm151

Batty GD, Kivimaki M, Davey Smith G, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Obesity and overweight in relation to mortality in men with and without type 2 diabetes.impaired glucose tolerance: 35 years of follow-up in the original Whitehall study. Diabetes Care 2007;30:2388-2391.

Lawlor DA, Hart CL, Hole DJ, Gunnell D, Davey-Smith G. Body mass index in middle life and future risk of hospital admission for psychoses or depression: findings from the Renfrew/Paisley study. Psychological Medicine, 2007; 37:1151-61.

Fraser A, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA. A comparison of associations of alanine-aminotransferase and gamma-glutamyltransferase with fasting glucose, fasting insulin and glycated hemoglobin in women with and without diabetes. Hepatology 2007; 46:158-65.

Rasul F, Stansfeld SA, Davey Smith G, Ben Shlomo Y, Gallacher J . Psychological distress, physical illness and risk of myocardial infarction in the Caerphilly study. Psychological Medicine 2007; 37:1305-13.

Macleod J, Metcalfe C, Davey Smith G, Hart C. Does consideration of either psychological or material disadvantage improve coronary risk prediction? Prospective observational study of Scottish men. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61:833-7

Subramanian SV, Kawachi I, Davey Smith G. Income inequality and the double burden of under- and over- nutrition in India. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007;61:802-809.

Batty GD, Wennerstad KM, Davey Smith G, Deary IJ, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood and later cancer risk: cohort study of one million Swedish men. Annals of Oncology 2007;18:21-28.

Lawlor DA, Patel R, Fraser A, Davey-Smith G, Ebrahim S. The association of life course socioeconomic position with diagnosis, treatment, control and survival of women with diabetes: findings from the British Women's Heart & Health Study. Diabetic Medicine. 2007;24:892-900.

Lawlor DA, Morton S, Batty DG, Macintyre S, Clark H, Davey Smith G. Obstetrician-assessed maternal health at pregnancy predicts offspring future health. PloS one 2007;2:e666.

Tu YK, Galobardes B, Davey Smith G, McCarron P, Jeffreys M, Gilthorp MS. Associations between tooth loss and mortality patterns in the Glasgow Alumni Cohort. Heart 2007;93:1098-1103.

Lawlor DA, Morton S, Batty DG, Macintyre S, Clark H, Davey Smith G. Obstetrician-assessed maternal health at pregnancy predicts offspring future health. PloS one 2007; 2: e666.

Sacerdote C, Guarrera S 2 , Davey Smith G 3 , Grioni S 4 , Krogh V, Masala G, Mattiello A, Palli D. Lactase Persistence and Bitter Taste Response: Instrumental Variables and Mendelian Randomization in Epidemiologic Studies of Dietary Factors and Cancer Risk. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007;166:576-581.

Davey Smith G, Hyppönen E, Power C, Lawlor DA. Offspring birth weight and parental mortality: Prospective Observational Study and Meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007;166:160-169.

Fewell Z, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC. Invited commentary: Fuel for Debate. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007.

Galobardes B, Lynch J, Davey-Smith G. Measuring socioeconomic position in health research. British Medical Bulletin. 2007; 81 & 82: 21-37.

Martin RM, Goodall SH, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G. Breast feeding in infancy and social mobility:60-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr cohort. Arch. Dis. Child. 2007:92;317-321.

Huxley R, Owen CG, Whincup PH, Cook DG, Rich-Edwards J, Davey Smith G, Collins R. Is birthweight a risk factor for ischemic heart disease in later life? Am J Clin Nutr 200;85:1244-50.

Brion MJA, Leary SD, Davey Smith G, Ness AR. Similar associations of parental prenatal smoking suggest child blood pressure is not influenced by intrauterine effects. Hypertension, 2007;49:1422-1428

Frayling TM, Timpson NJ, Weedon MN, Zeggini E, Freathy RM, Lindgren CM, Perry JR, Elliott KS, Lango H, Rayner NW, Shields B, Harries LW, Barrett JC, Ellard S, Groves CJ, Knight B, Patch AM, Ness AR, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Ring SM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Jarvelin MR, Sovio U, Bennett AJ, Melzer D, Ferrucci L, Loos RJ, Barroso I, Wareham NJ, Karpe F, Owen KR, Cardon LR, Walker M, Hitman GA, Palmer CN, Doney AS, Morris AD, Davey-Smith G; The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium; Hattersley AT, McCarthy MI. A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity. Science. 2007;316:889894. DOI: 10.1126/science.1141634.

Toschke AM, Martin RM, von Kries R, Wells J, Davey Smith G, Ness AR. Infant feeding method and obesity: body mass index and dualenergy X-ray absorptiometry measurements at 9-10 y of age from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)1-3. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007;85:1578-85.

Freathy RM, Weedon MN, Bennett A, Hypp ö nen E, Relton CL, Knight B, Shields B, Parnell KS, Groves CJ, Ring SM, Pembrey ME, Ben-Shlomo Y, Strachan DP, Power C, Jarvelin MR, McCarthy MI, Davey Smith G, Hattersley AT, Frayling TM. Type 2 diabetes TCF7L2 risk genotypes alter birth weight: a study of 24,053 individuals. American Journal of Human Genetics 2007;80:1150-1161.

Kivimäki M, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Kouvonen A, Virtanen M, Elovainio M, Vahtera J. Socioeconomic Position, Co-occurrence of Behaviour-related Risk Factors, and Coronary Heart Disease: The Finnish Public Sector Study. Am J Public Health 2007;97:874-879.

Frobisher C, Tiling K, Emmett PM, Maynard M, Ness AR, Davey Smith G, Frankel SJ, Gunnell DJ. Reproducibility measures and their effect on diet-cancer associations in the Boyd Orr cohort. Journal of Epidemiology. 2007;61:434-440.

Sung J, Song YM, Choi YH, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Hepatitis B virus seropositivity and the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction. Stroke 2007;38:1436-1441.

Davey Smith G. Boyd Orr Lecture. Life-course approaches to inequalities in adult chronic disease risk. Proceeding of the Nutrition Society 2007;66:216-236.

Hart CL, Hole DJ, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Lever TF. Effect of conjugal bereavement on mortality of the bereaved spouse in participants of the Renfrew/Paisley study. JECH 2007;61:455-460.

Harper S, Lynch J, Burris S, Davey Smith G. Trends in the Black-White life expectancy gap in the United States, 1983-2003. JAMA 2007;297:1224-1232.

Kivimaki M, Gunnell D, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Pentti J, Virtanen M, Elovaino M, Klaukka T, Vahtera J. Social inequalities in antidepressant treatment and mortality: a longitudinal register study. Psychological Medicine 2007;37:373-382.

Metcalfe C, Davey Smith G, Macleod J, Hart C. The role of self-reported stress in the development of breast cancer and prostate cancer: A prospective cohort study of employed males and females with 30 years of follow-up. Eur J Cancer 2007;43:1060-10.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, O'Callaghan M, Alati R, Mamun AA, Williams GM, Najman JM. Epidemiologic evidence for the fetal overnutrition hypothesis: Findings from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomes. Am J Epidemiol 2007;165:418-424.

Hart CL, Hole J, Davey Smith G. How many cases of Type 2 diabetes mellitus are due to being overweight in middle age? Evidence from the Midspan prospective cohort studies using mention of diabetes mellitus on hospital discharge or death records. Diabetic Medicine 2007;24:73-80.

Meirhaeghe A, Boreham CAG, Murray LJ, Richard F, Davey Smith G, Young IS, Amouyel P. A possible role for the PPARG Pro12ala polymorphism in preterm birth. Diabetes 2007;56: 494-498.

Seminara D, Khoury MJ, O'Brien TR, Manolio T, Gwinn ML, Little J, Higgins JPT, Bernstein JL, Boffetta P, Bondy M, Bray MS, Brenchley PE, Buffler PA, Casas JP, Chokkalingam AP, Danesh J, Davey Smith G, Dolan S, Duncan R, Gruis NA, Hashibe M, Hunter D, Jarvelin M-J, Malmer B, Maraganore DM, Newton-Bishop JA, Riboli E, Salanti G, Taioli E, Timpson N, Uitterlinden AG, Vineis P, Wareham N, Winn D, Zimmern R, Ioannidis JPA. The Emergence of Networks in Human Genome Epidemiology - Challenges & Opportunities. The Changing Face of Epidemiology 2007; 18(1); 1-8.

Lawlor DA, Hübinette A, Tynelius P, Leon DA, Davey Smith G, Rasmussen F. The associations of gestational age and intrauterine growth with systolic blood pressure in a family based study of 386,485 men in 331,089 families. Circulation 2007;115:562-568.

Meirhaeghe A, Boreham CAG, Murray LJ, Richard F, Davey Smith G, Young IS, Amouyel P. A possible role for the PPARG Pro12ala polymorphism in preterm birth. Diabetes 2007;56: 494-498.

Batty GD, Wennerstad KM, Davey-Smith G, Gunnell D, Deary IJ, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood and later cancer risk: cohort study of one million Swedish men. Annals of Oncology. 2007. 18: 21-28

Gunnell D, Lewis S, Wilkinson J, Georgieva L, Davey-Smith G, Day INM, Holly JMP, O'Donovan, MC, Owen MJ, Kirov G, Zammitt S. IGF1, Growth pathway polymorphisms and schizophrenia: A pooling study. Amercian Journal of Medical Genetics Part B (Neuropsychiatric Genetics). 2007. 144B: 117-120

Davey Smith G. Commentary. Capitalising on Mendelian randomisation to assess the effects of treatments. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2007;100:432-435.

2006

Næss Ø, Davey-Smith G, Claussen B, Leyland AH. Life course influence of residential area on cause specific mortality. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 2006;62:329-336.

Hart CL, Hole DJ, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G. Obesity and use of acute hospital services in participants of the Renfrex/Paisley study. Journal of Public Health 2006;29(1):53-56.

Owen CG, Martin RM, Whincup PH, Davey Smith G, Cook DG. Does breastfeeding influence risk of type 2 diabetes in later life? A quantitative analysis of published evidence. Am J Clin Nutr 2006;84:1043-1054.

Alharbi KK, Spanakis E, Tan K, Smith MJ, Aldahmesh MA, O'Dell SD, Sayer AA, Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, O'Rahilly S, Farooqi S, Cooper C, Phillips DIW, Day INM. Prevalence and functionality of paucimorphic and private MC4R mutations in a large, unselected European British population, scanned by meltMADGE (p 294-302) . Human Mutation 2006:28; 294-30.

Leary SD, Davey Smith G, Rogers IS, Reilly JJ, Wells JCK, and Ness AR. Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Fat and Lean Mass in Childhood. Obesity 2006;14:2284-2293.

Batty GD, Gunnell D, Langenberg C, Davey Smith G, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Adult height and lung function as markers of life course exposures: associations with risk factors and cause-specific mortality. Eur J Epidemiol 2006, 21:795-801

Weedon MN, Clark VJ, Qian Y, Ben-Shlomo Y, Timpson N, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Pembrey ME, Ring S, Wilkin TJ, Voss LD, Jeffery AN, Metcalf B, Ferrucci L, Corsi AM, Murray A, melzer D, Knight B, Shields B, Davey Smith G, Hattersley AT, Rienzo AD, Frayling TM. A common haplotype of the glucokinase gene alters fasting glucose and birth weight: association in six studies and population-genetics analyses. Am J Hum Genet 2006;79:991-1001.

Subramanian SV, Davey Smith G, Subramanyam M. Indigenous Health and Socioeconomic Status in India. PloS Medicine 2006:3; 1794-1804.

Lawlor DA, Clark H, Davey Smith G, Leon DA. Intrauterine Growth and Intelligence Within Sibling Pairs: Findings From the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Cohort. Pediatrics 2006; 117:e894-902.

Lawlor DA, Gaunt TR, Hinks LJ, Davey Smith G, Timpson N, Day IN, Ebrahim S. The association of the PON1 Q192R polymorphism with complications and outcomes of pregnancy: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health cohort study. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2006;20:244-50.

Lawlor DA, Hart CL, Hole DJ, Davey Smith G. Reverse causality and confounding and the associations of overweight and obesity with mortality. Obesity 2006;2006:2294-2304.

Tilling K, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Chambless L, Szklo M. The relation between components of adult height and intimal-medial thickness in middle age. the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2006, 164:136-42.

Highnam R, Pan X, Warren R, Jeffreys M, Davey Smith G, Brady M. Breast composition measurements using retrospective standard mammogram form (SMF). Physics in Medicine and Biology 2006; 51:2695-713

Sandhu S, Davey Smith G, Holly J, Cole TJ, Ben-Shlomo Y. Timing of Puberty Determines Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 in Late Adulthood. Jounral of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2006, 91:3150-7.

Abdollahi MR, Guthrie PAI. Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Day INM. Integrated Single Label Liquid Phase Assay of APOE Codons 112 and 158 and Lipoprotein Study in British Women. Clinical Chemistry 2006, 52:1420-3

Hooper L, Thompson RL, Harrison RA, Summerbell CD, Ness AR, Moore HJ, Worthington HV, Durrington PN, Higgins JPT, Capps NE, Riemersma RA, Ebrahim SBJ, Davey Smith G. Risks and benefits of omega3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer: a systematic review. BMJ 2006;332:752-60

Black A, Murray L, Cardwell C, Davey Smith G, McCarron P. Secular trends in heart rate in young adults, 1949 to 2004: analyses of cross-sectional studies. Heart 2006;92:468-473.

Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Juonala M, Ferrie JE, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Elovainio M, Pulkki-Råback L, Vahtera J, Leino M, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. Socioeconomic position in childhood and adult cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure and function: the cardiovascular risk in Young Finns Study. Heart 2006,92:474-80.

Shultis WA, Leary SD, Ness AR, Scott J, Martin RM, Whincup PH, Davey Smith G and the ALSPAC Study Team. Haemoglobin A1c is not a surrogate for glucose and insulin measures for investigating the early-life and childhood determinants of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes in healthy children. Diabetic Medicine 2006;23:1357-1363.

Owen CG, Martin RM, Whincup PH, Davey Smith G, Cook DG. Does breast feeding influence risk of type 2 diabetes in later life? A quantitive analysis of published evidence. Am J Clin Nutr 2006;84:1043-1054.

Lewis SJ, Harbord RM, Harris R, Davey Smith. Meta-analyses of observational and genetic association studies of folate intakes or levels and breast cancer risk. J Natl Cancer Inst 2006;98:1607-1622.

Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Elovainio M, Pulkki L, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Taittonen L, Raitakari OT, Viikari JSA. Socioeconomic circumstances in childhood and blood pressure in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. Ann Epidemiol 2006;16:737-742.

Rogers IS, Ness AR, Steer CD, Wells JCK, Emmett PE, Reilly JR, Tobias J, Davey Smith G. Associations of size at birth and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measures of lean and fat mass at 9 to 10y of age. Am J Clin Nutr 2006;84:739-747.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Clark H, Leon DA. The associations of birth weight, gestational age and childhood body mass index with type II diabetes: findings from the Abderdeen Children of the 1950's Cohort. Diabetologia 2006;49:2614-2617.

Lawlor DA, Sterne JAC, Tynelius P, Davey Smith G, Rasmussen F. The association of childhood socioeconomic position with cause-specific mortality in a prospective record linkage study of 1,839,384 individuals. Am J Epidemiol 2006;164:907-915.

Ebrahim S, Sung J, Song YM, Ferrer RL, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G. Serum cholesterol, haemorrhagic stroke, ischaemic stroke, and myocardial infarction: Korean national health system prospective chort study. BMJ 2006; 333: 22-25; doi:10.1136/bmj.38855.610324.80

Pembroke TPI, Rasul F, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Stansfeld SA. Psychosocial distress and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Renfrew and Paisley (MIDSPAN) study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:789-792.

Bray I, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G. Advanced paternal age - How old is too old? J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:851-853.

Jeffreys M, Lawlor DA, Golobardes B, McCarron P, Kinra S, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Lifecourse weight patterns and adult onset diabetes: the Glasgow Alumni and British Women's Heart and Health studies. International Journal of Obesity2006;30:507-512.

Davies A, Davey Smith G, May MT, Ben-Shlomo Y. Association between birth weight and blood pressure is robust, amplifies with age, and may be underestimated. Hypertension 2006;48:431-436. DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000236551.00191.61

Martin RM, Holly JMP, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D. Associations of adiposity from childhood into adulthood with insulin resistance and the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system: 65 year follow-up of the Boyd Orr Cohort. J Clin Endocrin Metab 2006;91:3287-3295.

Subramanian SV, Davey Smith G. Patterns, distribution, and determinants of under- and overnutrition: a population-based study of women in India. AmJ Clin Nutr 2006;84:633-640.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Davey Smith G, Neaton JD for the Muliple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. ZIP-code based versus tract-based income measures as long-term-adjusted mortality predictors. Am J Epid 2006;164:586-590

Ferrie JE, Shipley MJ, Breeze E, Davey Smith G. Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: Baseline findings from the GPO study. Public Health 2006;120:685-695.

Davies AA, Davey Smith G, Harbord R, Bekkering GE, Sterne JAC, Beynon R, Thomas S. Nutritional interventions and outcome in patients with cancer or preinvasive lesions: systematic review. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006;98:961-73.

Abdollahi MR, Guthrie PAI, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Day INM. Integrated single-label liquid phase assay of APOE codons 112 and 158 and lipoprotein study in British Women. Clinical Chemistry 2006; 52: 1420-23.

Tilling K, Lalwor DA, Davey Smith G, Chambless L, Szklo M. The relation between components of adult height and intimal-medial thickness in the middle age: the Atherosclerosis Risk in the Community Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2006; 164 (2) 136-142.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Jarrett RJ, Breeze E, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Obesity and overweight in relation to disease-specific mortality in men with and without existing coronary heart disease in London: the original Whitehall Study. Heart 2006; 92: 886-92.

Leary S, Davey Smith G, Ness A, ALSPAC Study team. Smoking during pregnancy and components of stature in the offspring. Am J Hum Biol 2006,18:502-512.

Davey Smith G, Gwinn M, Ebrahim S, Palmer L, Khoury MJ. Make it HuGE: human genome epidemiology reviews, population health , and the IJE. Int J Epidemiol 2006;35:507-510.

Lawlor DA, Timpson N, Ebrahim S, Day INM, Davey Smith G. The association of oestrogen receptor a-haplotypes with cardiovascular risk factors in the British Women's Heart and Health Study. European Heart Journal 2006;91:1597-604.

Mannino DM, Watt G, Hole D, Gillis C, Hart C, McConnachie A, Davey Smith G, Upton M, Hawthorne V, Sin DD, Man SFP, Van Eeden S, Mapel DW, Vestbo J. The natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. European Respiratory Journal 2006;27:626-642

Lewis SJ, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Araya R, Timpson N, Day INM, Ebrahim S. The thermolabile variant of MTHFR is associated with depression in the British Women's Heart and Health Study and a meta-analysis. Molecular Psychiatry 2006;11:352-360

Lawlor DA, Clark H, Davey Smith G, Leon DA. Childhood intelligence, educational attainment and adult body mass index: findings from a perspective cohort and within sibling-pairs analysis. Int J Obesity 2006;1.

Highnam R, Pan X, Warren R, Jeffreys M, Davey Smith G, Brady M. Breast composition measurements using retrospective standard mammogram form (SMF) . Phys. Med. Biol 2006:51;2695-2713).

Lyngdoh T, Kinra S, Ben-Shlomo Y, Reddy S, Prabhakaran D, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S and the Indian Migration Study Group. Sib-recruitment for studying migration and its impact on obesity and diabetes. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2006; 3:2

Jeffreys M, Warren R, Highnam R, Davey Smith G. Initial experiences of using an automated volumetric measure of breast density: the standard mammogram form. Br J Radiol 2006 79: 378-382.

Lawlor DA, Clark H, Davey Smith G, Leon DA. Intrauterine Growth and Intelligence within sibling pairs: Findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Cohort. Pediatrics 2006;117:894-902.

Galobardes B, Davey Smith G, Jeffreys M, McCarron P. Childhood socioeconomic circumstances predict specific causes of death in adulthood: the Glasgow Student Cohort Study. J Epidemiol. Community Health 2006;60:527-529.

Bray I, Gunnell D, Holly JMP, Middleton N, Davey Smith G, Martin RM. Associations of childhood and adulthood height and the components of height with insulin-like growth factor (IGF) levels in adulthood: 65 year follow-up of the Boyd Orr cohort. J Clin Endocrin Metab 2006;91:1382-1389.

Subramanian SV, Nandy S, Irving M, Gordon D, Lambert H, Davey Smith G. The Mortality Divide in India: The Differntial Contributions of Gender Casts, and Standard of Living Across the Life Course. Am J Publ Health 2006;96:818-825.

Kinra S, Davey Smith G, Jeffreys M, Gunnell D, Galobardes B, McCarron P. Association between sibship size and allergic diseases in the Glasgow Alumni Study. Thorax 2006;61:48-53.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Does the new International Diabetes Federation definition of the metabolic syndrome predict CHD any more strongly than older definitions? Findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Diabetologia 2006;49:41-48.

Davey Smith G. Cochrane Lecture: Randomised by (your) god: robust inference from an observational study design. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:382-388.

Lynch J, Davey Smith G, Harper S, Bainbridge K. Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approaches. JECH 2006;60:436-441

Taylor MD, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Starr JM, Hole DJ, Whalley LJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood IQ and social factors on smoking behaviour, lung function and smoking-related outcomes in adulthood: Linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan Studies. British Journal of Health Psychology 2005; 10:399-410

Lewis SJ, Baker I, Davey Smith G. Meta-analysis of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and pulmonary tuberculosis risk. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2006;9:1174-1177.

Lawlor DA, Gaunt TR, Hinks LJ, Davey Smith G, Timpson N, Day INM, Ebrahim S. The association of the PON1 Q192R polymorphism with complications and outcomes of pregnancy: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health cohort study. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2006;20:244-250.

Ness AR, Leary S, Reilly J, Wells J, Tobias J, Clark E, Davey Smith G and the ALSPAC study team. The social patterning of fat and lean mass in a contemporary cohort of children. International Journal of Paediatric Obesity 2006;1:56-61.

Barford A, Dorling D, Davey Smith G, Shaw M. Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere. BMJ 2006;332:808.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Mithcell R, Ebrahim S. Adult blood pressure and climate conditions in infancy: a test of the hypothesis that dehydration in infancy is associated with higher adult blood pressure. Am J Epidemiol 2006;163:608-614.

Christensen MB, Lawlor DA, Gaunt TR, Howell MW, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Day INM, Genotype of galectin 2 (LGALS2) is associated with insulin-glucose profile in the British Women's Heart and Health Study, Diabetologia 2006;49:673-677.

Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Juonala M, Ferrie JE, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Elovainio M, Pulkki-Råback L, Vahtera J, Leino M, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. Socioeconomic position in childhood and adult function: cardiovascular risk in young Finns study. Heart 2006; 92: 474-80.

Dorling D, Shaw M, Davey Smith G. Global inequalities in life expectancy 1950-2000: rapid increase since the 1980s mainly due to AIDS/HIV. BMJ 2006;332:662-664.

Davey Smith G, Galobardes B, Jeffreys M, McCarron P. Trends in resting pulse rate among students attending Glasgow University between 1948 and 1968: analyses of cross sectional surveys. International Journal of Obesity 2006;30:380-381.

McCarron MO, Davey Smith G, McCarron P. Secular stroke trends: early life factors and future prospects. QJM 2006,99:117-122.

Galobardes B, Davey Smith G, Lynch JW. Systematic review of the influence of childhood socioeconomic circumstances on risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Ann Epidemiol 2006; 16: 91-104.

Lawlor DA, Owen CG, Davies AA, Whincup PH, Ebrahim S, Cook DG, Davey Smith G. Sex differences in the association between birth weight and total cholesterol. A meta-analysis. Ann Epidemiol 2006; 16 (1): 19-25.

Song Y-M, Ferrer RL, Cho S-I, Sung J, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Socioeconomic position and cardiovascular disease in men. The Korean National Health Service prospective cohort study. Am J Publ Health 2006;96:152-159.

Andersen LB, Boreham CAG, Young IS, Davey Smith G, Galagher AM, Murray L. Insulin sensitivity and clustering of coronary heart disease risk factors in young adults. The Northern Ireland Young Hearts Study. Preventive Medicine 2006;42:73-77

Galobardes B, Shaw M, Lawlor DA, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. JECH Glossary : Indicators of Socioeconomic Position (Part II). J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:95-101.

Carroll D, Davey Smith G, Phillips AC, Ring C, West P. Birthweight, adult blood pressure, and blood pressure reactions to acute psychological stress. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60: 144-5.

Davey Smith G, Leary S, Ness A. Could dehydration in infancy lead to high blood pressure? J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60:142-3.

Galobardes B, Shaw M, Lawlor DA, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. JECH Glossary : Indicators of Socioeconomic Position (Part I). J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60: 7-12

Ioannidis JPA, Gwinn M, Little J, Higgins JPT, Bernstein JL, Boffetta P, Bondy M, Bray MS, Brenchley PE, Buffler PA, Casas JP, Chokkalingam A, Danesh J, Davey Smith G, Dolan S, Duncan R, Gruis NA, Hartge P, Hashibe M, Hunter DJ, Jarvelin MR, Malmer B, Maraganore DM, Newton-Bishop JA, O'Brien TR, Petersen G, Riboli E, Salanti G, Seminara D, Smeeth L, Taioli E, Timpson N, Uitterlinden AG, Vineis P, Wareham N, Winn DM, Zimmern R, Khoury MJ and The Human Genome Epidemiology Network and the Network of Investigator Networks. A road map for efficient and reliable human genome epidemiology. Nature Genetics 2006;38:3-5.

2005

Macleod J, Oakes R, Oppenkowski T, Stokes-Lampard H, Copello A, Crome I, Davey Smith G, Egger M, Hickman M, Judd A. The psychosocial consequences of drug misuse: a systematic review of longitudinal studies. Executive summary. Drugs Education, Prevention and Policy 2005;12:85-89.

Charakida M, Donald AE, Terese M, Leary S, Halcox JP, Ness A, Davey Smith G, Golding J, Klein NJ, Deanfield JE, ALSPAC Study Team. Endothelial dysfunction in childhood infection. Circulation 2005;111:1660-1665.

Deary IJ, Taylor MD, Hart C, Wilson V, Davey Smith G, Blane D, Starr JM. Intergenerational social mobility and mid-life status attainment:influences of childhood intelligence, childhood social factors, and education. Intelligence 2005;33:455-72.

Martin RM, Mittleton N, Gunnell D, Owen CG, Davey Smith G. Breastfeeding and cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort and a systematic review with meta-analysis. Journal National Cancer Institute 2005 ;97:1446-1457.

Song YM, Kwon SU, Sung J, Ebrahim S, Smith GD, Sunwoo S, Yun YS. Different risk factor profiles between subtypes of ischemic stroke. A case-control in Korean men. Eur J Epidemiol 2005; 20: 605-12

Sandhu J, Ben-Shlomo Y, Cole TJ, Holly J, Davey Smith, G. The impact of childhood . body mass index on timing of puberty, adult stature and obesity: A follow-up study based on adolescent anthropometry recorded at Christ's Hospital (1936-1964). Int. J Obesity 2005;30:14-22.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Langenberg C, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Adult height in relation to mortality from 14 cancer sites in men in London (UK): evidence from the original Whitehall study. Annals of Oncology 2005;17:157-166.

Claussen B, Smits J, Naess O, Davey Smith G. Intragenerational mobility and mortality in oslo: Social selection versus social causation. Soc Sci Med 2005;61:2513-2520.

Kinra S, Baumer JH, Davey Smith G. Early growth and childhood obesity: a historical cohort study. Arch Dis Child 2005; 90: 1122-1127.

Kivimaki M, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Keltikangas-Jarvinen, Elovainio M, Vahtera J, Pulkki-Rabaak L, Taittonen L, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. Early socioeconomic position and blood pressure in childhood and adulthood: the cardiovascular risk in young Finns study. Hypertension 2006; 47: 39-44.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Jarrett RJ, Breeze E, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Obesity and overweight in relation to organ-specific cancer mortality in London (UK): findings from the original Whitehall study. Int J Obesity 2005; 29: 1267-1274.

Owen CG, Martin RM, Whincup PH, Davey Smith G, Gillman MW, Cook DG. The effect of breastfeeding on mean body mass index throughout life: a quantitative review of published and unpublished observational evidence. Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2005; 82: 1298-307.

Timpson NJ, Lawlor DA, Harbord RM, Gaunt TR, Day INM, Palmer LJ, Hattersley AT, Ebrahim S, Lowe GDO, Rumley A, Davey Smith G. C-reactive protein and its role in metabolic syndrome: mendelian randomisation study. Lancet 2005;366:1954-1959.

Martin RM, Gunnell D, Owen CG, Davey Smith G. Breastfeeding and childhood cancer: a systematic review with meta-analysis. International Journal of Cancer 2005;117:1020-1031.

Naess O, Leyland AH, Davey Smith G. Contextual effect on mortality of neighbourhood level education explained by earlier life deprivation. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005; 59: 1058-59

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Thompson C, Sattar N. Plasma adiponectin levels are associated with insulin resistance but do not predict future risk of coronary heart disease in women. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2005;90:5677-5683

Davey Smith G, Ebrahim G. Folate Supplementation and cardiovascular Disease. Lancet 2005;366:1679-1681

Subramanian SV, Nandy S, Kelly M, Gordon D, Davey Smith G. Role of socioeconomic markers and state prohibition policy in predicting alcohol consumption amongst men and women in India: a multilevel analysis of the 1998-9 national family health survey. Bull WHO 2005; 83: 829-838

Lewis SJ, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. A Meta-analysis of the MTHFR 677C?T polymorphism and Coronary Heart Disease: Does the totality of evidence support a causal role for homocysteine and the preventive potential of folate? BMJ 2005;331:1053-1056

Brindle PM, McConnachie A, Upton MN, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Watt GCM. The accuracy of the Framingham risk-score in different socio-economic groups: a prospective study. Br J Gen Pract 2005;55:838-845.

Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Lewis S, Hansell AL, Palmer LJ, Burton PJ. Genetic epidemiology and public health: hope, hype, and future prospects. Lancet 2005; 366: 1484-98.

Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Plasma Fibrinogen Level and the Risk of major Cardiovascular Diseases and Nonvascular Mortality. JAMA 2005; 294;1799-1809.

Martin RM ,Middleton N ,Gunnell D, Owen CG, Davey Smith G. Breast-Feeding and Cancer: The Boyd Orr Cohort and a Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005;97:1446-57

Davey Smith G, Harbord R, Milton J, Ebrahim S, and Sterne JAC. Does Elevated Plasma Fibrinogen Increase the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease?: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of Genetic Association Studies. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., Oct 2005; 25: 2228-2233.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The association of birth weight with adult lung function: findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study and a meta-analysis. Thorax 2005; 60: 851-858.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Neaton JD, Davey Smith G, for the Multiple Risk Factor. Latino Risk-and Income-Adjusted Mortality in the Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). Am J Epidemiol 2005; 162: 569-578.

Macleod J, Davey Smith G, Metcalfe C, Hart C. Is subjective social status a more important determinant of health than objective social status? Evidence from a prospective observational study of Scottish men. Social Science and Medicine 2005;61:1916-1929.

Lawlor DA, Ronalds G, Clark H, Davey Smith G, Leon DA. Birthweight is inversely associated with incident coronary heart disease and stroke among individuals born in the 1950s: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s prospective cohort study. Circulation 2005;112:1414-1418.

Kivimaki M, Lawlor DA, Juonala M, Davey Smith G, Elovainio M, Keltikangas-Jarvinen L, Vahtera J, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. Lifecourse socioeconomic position, C-reactive protein and carotin intima-media thickness in young adults: The cardiovascular risk in young Finns study. ATVB 2005:25;2197-2202

Hart DL, Deary IJ, Davey Smith G, Upton MN, Whalley LJ, Starr JM, Hole DJ, Wilson V, Watt GCM. Childhood IQ of parents related to characteristics of their offspring: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 to the Midspan family study. J Biosocial Science 2005;37:623-639.

Lewis S, Davey Smith G. Alcohol, ALDH2 and esophageal cancer: A meta-analysis which illustrates the potentials and limitations of a Mendelian randomization approach. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005;14:1967-1971.

Roberts RJ, Leary SD, Davey Smith G, Ness AR, The ALSPAC Study Team. Maternal age in pregnancy and offspring blood pressure in childhood in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Journal of Human Hypertension 2005.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Adverse socio-economic position across the lifecourse increases coronary heart disease risk cumulatively: Findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:785-793

Martin R, Gunnell D, Pemberton J, Frankel S, Davey Smith G. The Boyd Orr cohort: an historical cohort study based on the 65 year follow-up of the Carnegie Survey of Diet and Health (1937-9). Int J Epidemiol 2005;34:742-749.

Power C, Hypponen E, Davey Smith G. Socioeconomic Position in Childhood and Early Adult Life and Risk of Mortality: A Prospective Study of the Mothers of the 1958 British Birth Cohort. Am J Public Health 2005; 95:1396-1402.

Lawlor DA, Riddoch CJ, Page AS, Andersen LB, Wedderkopp N, Harro M, Stansbie D, Davey Smith G. Infant feeding and components of the metabolic syndrome: findings from the European Youth Heart Study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005;90:582-588.

Leary SD, Ness AR, Emmett PM, Davey Smith G, Headley JE. Maternal diet in pregnancy and offspring blood pressure. Arch Dis Child 2005;90:492-493.

Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y, Beswick A, Yarnell J, Lightman S, Elwood P. Cortisol, testosterone and coronary heart disease: prospective evidence from the Caerphilly study. Circulation 2005;112:332-340.

Lynch J, Harper S, Kaplan GA, Davey Smith G. Associations between income inequality and mortality among US States: The importance of time period and source of income data. Am J Publ Health 2005;95:1424-1430.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Davey Smith G, Neaton JD, Stamler J. Race/ethnicity, income, major risk factors, and cardiovascular disease mortality. Am J Publ Health 2005;95:1417-1423.

Power C, Hyppönen E, Davey Smith G. Socio-economic position in childhood and in early adult life and mortality in women: prospective study of mothers of the 1958 British birth cohort. Am J Public Health 2005;95:1396-1402.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Kundu D, Bruckdorfer KR, Whincup PH, Davey Smith G. Vitamin C is not associated with coronary heart disease risk once life course socioeconomic position is taken into account: Prospective findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Heart 2005;91:1086-1087.

Lawlor DA, Harro M, Wedderkopp N, Bo Andersen L, Sardinha LB, Riddoch CJ, Page AS, Anderssen SA, Froberg K, Stansbie D, Davey Smith G. Association of socioeconomic position with insulin resistance among children from Denmark, Estonia, and Portugal: cross sectional study. BMJ 2005;331:183-7.

Metcalfe C, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC, Heslop P, Macleod J, Hart CL. Cause specific hospital admission and mortality among working men: Association with socio-economic circumstances in childhood and adult life, and the mediating role of daily stress. European Journal of Public Health 2005;15: 238-244.

Song Y-M, Kwon SU, Sung J, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Sunwoo S, Yun YS. Different risk factor profiles between subtypes of ischemic stroke. A case-control study in Korean men. European Journal of Epidemiology 2005;20:605-612.

Magnusson PKE, Gunnell D, Tynelius P, Davey Smith G, Rasmussen F. Strong inverse association between height and suicide in a large cohort of Swedish males. Evidence of early life origins of suicidal behaviour? Am J Psychiatry 2005;162:1373-1375.

Martin RM, Ebrahim S, Griffin M, Davey Smith G, Nicolaides AN, Georgiou N, Watson S, Frankel S, Holly JMP, Gunnell D. Breastfeeding and atherosclerosis. Intima-media thickness and plaques at 65-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr cohort. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2005;25:1482-1488.

Alharbi KK, Aldahmesh MA, Spanakis E, Haddad L, Whittall RA, Chen X-h, Rassoulian H, Smith MJ, Sillibourne J, Ball NJ, Graham NJ, Briggs PJ, Simpson IA, Phillips DIW, Lawlor DA, Ye S, Humphries SE, Cooper C, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S, Eccles DM, Day INM. Mutation scanning by meltMADGE: validations using BRCA1 and LDLR, and demonstration of the potential to identify severe, moderate, silent, rare and paucimorphic mutations in the general population. Genome Research 2005; 15:967-77.

Lawlor DA, Riddoch CJ, Page AS, Anderssen SA, Froberg K, Harro M, Stansbie D, Davey Smith G. The association of birthweight and contemporary size with insulin resistance among children from Estonia and Denmark: findings from the European Youth Heart Study. Diabetic Medicine 2005;22:921-930.

Ness AR, Maynard M, Frankel S, Davey Smith G, Frobisher C, Leary SD, Emmett PM, Gunnell D. Diet in childhood and adult cardiovascular and all cause mortality: the Boyd Orr Cohort. Heart 2005;91:894-898.

Hyppönen E, Davey Smith G, Shepherd P, Power C. An intergenerational and lifecourse study of health and mortality risk in parents of the 1958 birth cohort (II): Mortality rates and study representativeness. Public Health 2005;119:608-615.

Hyppönen E, Davey Smith G, Shepherd P, Power C. An intergenerational and lifecourse study of health and mortality risk in parents of the 1958 birth cohort (I): Methods and tracing. Public Health 2005;119:599-607.

Weedon MN, Frayling TM, Shields B, Knight B, Turner T, Metcalf BS, Voss L, Wilkin TJ, McCarthy A, Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G, Ring S, Jones R, Golding J, ALSPAC study team, Byberg L, Mann V, Axelsson T, Syvanen A-C, Leon D, Hattersley AT. Genetic regulation of birth weight and fasting glucose by a common polymorphism in the islet cell promoter of the glucokinase gene. Diabetes 2005;54:576-581.

Lynch J, Davey Smith G. A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology. Ann Rev Public Health 2005;26:1-35.

Næss Ø, Claussen B, Thelle DS, Davey Smith G. Four indicators of socioeconomic position: relative ranking across causes of death. Scand J Public Health 2005;33:215-221.

Davey Smith G, Sterne J, Tynelius P, Lawlor DA, Rasmussen. Birth weight of offspring and subsequent cardiovascular mortality of parents. Epidemiology 2005;16:563-569.

Galobardes B, Davey Smith G, Jeffreys M, Kinra S, McCarron P. Acne in adolescence and cause-specific mortality: lower coronary heart disease but higher prostate cancer mortality. The Glasgow Alumni Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161:1094-1101.

Martin RM, Holly JMP, Davey Smith G, Ness AR, Emmett P, Rogers IM, Gunnell D. Could associations between breastfeeding and insulin-like growth factors underlie associations of breastfeeding with adult chronic disease? The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Clinical Endocrinology 2005;62:728-737.

Leary S, Ness A, Emmett P, Davey Smith G. Maternal diet in pregnancy and offspring height, sitting height and leg length. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:467-472.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Holly J, McCarthy A, Savage P, Davies D, Davey Smith G. Prenatal and postnatal milk supplementation and adult insulin-like growth factor I: Long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005;14:1336-1339

Lawlor DA, Sattar N, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. The associations of physical activity and adiposity with alanine aminotransferase and gamma-glutamylytransferase. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161:1081-1088.

Hart CL, Taylor MD, Davey Smith G, Whalley LJ, Starr JM, Hole DJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood IQ and all-cause mortality before and after age 65: Prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. Brit J Health Psych 2005;10:153-165.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Rumley A, Lowe GDO, Ebrahim S. Associations of fibrinogen and C-reactive protein with prevalent and incident coronary heart disease are attenuated by adjustment for confounding factors: British Women’s Heart and Health study. Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2005;93:955-963.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Timpson N, Davey Smith G. Avoiding milk is associated with a reduced risk of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome: findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Diabetic Medicine 2005;22:808-811.

Lewis SJ, Zammit S, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G. A meta-analysis of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism and schizophrenia risk. Am J Med Genetics 2005;135B:2-4.

Taylor MD, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Whalley LJ, Hole DJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood IQ and marriage by mid-life: the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. Personality and Individual Differences 2005;38:1621-1630

Timpson N, Christensen M, Lawlor DA, Gaunt TR, Day IN, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. TAS2R38 (phenylthiocarbamide) haplotypes, coronary heart disease traits and eating behaviour in the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2005;81:1005-11.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G. Early life determinants of adult blood pressure. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 2005;14:259-264.

Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. What can mendelian randomisation tell us about modifiable behavioural and environmental exposures. BMJ 2005;330:1076-9.

Owen CG, Martin RM, Whincup PH, Davey Smith G, Cook DG. Effect of infant feeding on the risk of obesity across the lifecourse; a quantitative review of published evidence. Pediatrics 2005;115:1367-1377.

Shaw M, Davey Smith G, Dorling D. Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress. BMJ 2005;330:1016-21.

Macleod J, Salisbury C, Low N, McCarthy A, Sterne JAC, Holloway A, Patel R, Sanford E, Morcom A, Horner P, Davey Smith G, Skidmore S, Herring A, Caul O, Hobbs R, Egger M. Coverage and uptake of systematic postal screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis and prevalence of infection in the United Kingdom general population: cross-sectional study. BMJ 2005;330:940-2.

Davey Smith G, Lawlor D, Harbord R, Timpson N, Rumley A, Lowe G, Day I, Ebrahim S. Association of C-reactive protein with blood pressure and hypertension: lifecourse confounding and Mendelian randomisation tests of causality. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology 2005;25:1051-1056.

Nandy S, Irving M, Gordon D, Subramanian SV, Davey Smith G. Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India. Bull WHO 2005;83:210-216.

Lawlor DA, Ben-Shlomo Y, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Stansfeld SA, Yarnell JWG, Gallacher JEJ. Insulin resistance and depressive symptoms in middle aged men: findings from the Caerphilly prospective cohort study. BMJ 2005;330:705-706.

Charles DHM, Ness AR, Campbell D, Davey Smith G, Whitley E, Hall MH. Folic acid supplements in pregnancy and birth outcome: re-analysis of a large randomised controlled trial and update of Cochrane review. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2005;19:112-124.

Propper C, Eachus J, Chan P, Pearson N, Davey Smith G. Access to health care resources in the UK: the case of care for arthritis. Health Economics 2005;14:391-406.

Davey Smith G, Bracha Y, Svendsen KH, Neaton JD, Haffner SM, Kuller LH. Incidence of Type II Diabetes in the Randomized Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Ann Intern Med 2005;142:313-322.

Hart CL, MacKinnon PL, Watt GCM, Upton MN, McConnachie A, Hole DJ, Davey Smith G, Gillis CR, and Hawthorne VM. The Midspan studies. Int J Epidemiol. 2005;34:28-34.

Lawlor DA, Leon DA, Davey Smith G. The association of ambient outdoor temperature throughout pregnancy and offspring birthweight: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950’s cohort. Brit J Obs Gynae 2005;112;647-657.

Rasul F, Stansfeld SA, Hart CL, Davey Smith G. Psychological distress, physical illness, and risk of coronary heart disease. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:140-145.

Martin RM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Gunnell D, Elwood P, Yarnell JWG, Davey Smith G. Breast feeding and cardiovascular disease risk factors, incidence, and mortality: the Caerphilly Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:121-129.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Patel R, Ebrahim S. Life-course socioeconomic position, area deprivation, and Coronary Heart Disease: Findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Am J Pub Health 2005;95:91-97.

Martin RM, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G. Breastfeeding in infancy and blood pressure in later life: systematic review and meta analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161:15-26.

2004

Davey Smith G, Lynch J. Commentary: Social capital, social epidemiology and disease aetiology. Int J Epidemiol 2004;33:691-700.

Davey Smith G, Shaw M. Cultures of health, cultures of illness. British Medical Bulletin 2004;69:1-7.

Krieger N, Davey Smith G. "Bodies count", and body counts: social epidemiology and embodying inequality. Epidemiologic Reviews 2004;26:92-103.

Sheehan J, Perry IJ, Reilly M, Salim A, Collins M, Tworney EM, Daly A, Loingsigh SN, Elwood P, Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G. QT dispersion, QT maximum and risk of cardiac death in the Caerphilly Heart Study. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2004;11:63-68.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Smoking before the birth of a first child is not associated with increased risk of breast cancer: findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health cohort study and a meta-analysis. Brit J Cancer 2004;91:512-518.

Low N, McCarthy A, Macleod J, Salisbury C, Horner P, Roberts T, Campbell R, Herring A, Skidmore S, Sanford E, Sterne J, Davey Smith G, Graham A, Huengsberg M, Ross J, Egger M. The Chlamydia screening studies: rationale and design. Sex Transm Infect 2004;80:342-348.

Gunnell D, Berney L, Holland P, Maynard M, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Frankel S. Does the misreporting of adult body size depend upon an individual’s height and weight? Int J Epidemiol 2004;33:1398-1399.

Charles D, Ness AR, Campbell D, Davey Smith G, Hall MH. Taking folate in pregnancy and risk of maternal breast cancer. BMJ 2004;329:1375-1376.

Nybo Andersen AM, Hansen KD, Andersen PK, Davey Smith G. Advanced Paternal Age and Risk of fetal Death: A Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol 2004;160:1214-1222.

Jeffreys M, Warren R, Gunnell D, McCarron P, Davey Smith G. Life course breast cancer risk factors and adult breast density. Cancer Causes and Control 2004;15:947-955.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Diabetes status and post-load plasma glucose concentration in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: findings from the original Whitehall study. Cancer Causes and Control 2004;15:873-881.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Socioeconomic position and hormone replacement therapy use: Explaining the discrepancy in evidence from observational and randomized controlled trials. Am J Public Health 2004;94:2149-2154.

Tang LP, Macleod JA, Hobbs DR, Wharton BA, Davey Smith G, Stewart PM. Fetal origins of adult disease: tracing and recruitment of offspring whose mothers participated in a trial of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy – the Sorrento experience. Nutrition Bulletin 2004;29:310-316.

Rasul F, Stansfeld SA, Hart CL, Gillis CR, Davey Smith G. Psychological distress, physical illness and mortality risk. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2004;57:231-236.

Davey Smith G. A conversation with Jerry Morris. Epidemiology 2004;15:770-773.

Cho HJ, Song YM, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Trends in socio-economic differentials in cigarette smoking behaviour between 1990 and 1998: a large prospective study in Korean men. Public Health 2004;118:553-558.

Macleod J, Oakes R, Oppenkowski T, Stokes-Lampard H, Copello A, Crome I, Davey Smith G, Egger M, Hickman M, Judd A. How strong is the evidence that illicit drug use by young people is an important cause of psychological or social harm? Methodological and policy implications of a systematic review of longitudinal, general population studies. Drugs Education, Prevention and Policy 2004;11:281-297.

Lawlor DA, Najman JM, Sterne J, Williams GM, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Associations of parental, birth, and early life characteristics with systolic blood pressure at 5 years of age. Circulation 2004;110:2417-2423.

Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Collaborative meta-analysis of prospective studies of plasma fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2004;11:9-17.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Association between childhood socioeconomic status and coronary heart disease risk among postmenopausal women: Findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Am J Publ Health 2004;94:1386-1392.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The metabolic syndrome and coronary heart disease in older women: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Diabetic Medicine 2004;21:906-913.

Watkins D, McCarron P, Murray L, Cran G, Boreham C, Robson P, McGartland C, Davey Smith G, Savage M. Trends in blood pressure over 10 years in adolescents: analyses of cross sectional surveys in the Northern Ireland Young Hearts project. BMJ 2004;329:139-141.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Whincup P, Sterne J, Papacosta O, Wannamethee G, Dhanjil S, Griffin M, Nicolaides AN, Davey Smith G. Sex differences in body fat distribution and carotid intima media thickness: cross sectional survey using date from the British regional heart study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:700-704.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Commentary: The hormone replacement – coronary heart disease conundrum: is this the death of observational epidemiology? Int J Epidemiol 2004;33:464-467.

Lawlor DA, Day INM, Gaunt TR, Hinks LJ, Briggs PJ, Kiessling M, Timpson N, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. The association of the PONI Q192R polymorphism with coronary heart disease: findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health cohort study and a meta-analysis. BMC Genetics 2004;5:17.

Jeffreys M, Davey Smith G, Martin RM, Frankel S, Gunnell D. Short report: Childhood Body Mass index and Later Cancer Risk: A 50-year Follow-up of the Boyd Orr Study. Int J Cancer 2004;112:348-351.

Galobardes B, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. Childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality in adulthood: systematic review and interpretation. Epidemiologic Reviews 2004;26:7-21.

Brookes ST, Whitley E, Egger M, Davey Smith G, Mulheran PA, Peters TJ. Subgroup analyses in randomized trials: risks of subgroup-specific analyses; power and sample size for the interaction test. J Clin Epidemiol 2004;57:229-236.

Næss Ø, Claussen B, Davey Smith G. Relative impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic conditions on cause specific mortality in men. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:597-598.

Næss Ø, Claussen B, Thelle DS, Davey Smith G. Cumulative deprivation and cause specific mortality. A census based study of life course influences over three decades. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:599-603.

Lawlor DA, Taylor M, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D, Ebrahim S. Associations of components of adult height with coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women: the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Heart 2004;90:745-749.

Lynch J, Davey Smith G, Harper S, Hillemeier M. Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 2. US National and regional trends in income inequality and age- and cause-specific mortality. The Milbank Quarterly 2004;82:355-400.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, May M, Davey Smith G. (Mis)use of factor analysis in the study of insulin resistance syndrome. Am J Epidemiol 2004;159:1013-1018.

McCarron P, Davey Smith G, Hattersley AT, ALSPAC Study Team. Type 2 diabetes in grandparents and birth weight in offspring and grandchildren in the ALSPAC study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:517-522.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Bruckdorfer KR, Kundu D, Ebrahim S. Those confounded vitamins: what can we learn from the differences between observational versus randomised trial evidence? Lancet 2004;363:1724-27.

Davies AA, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y, Litchfield P. Low birth weight is associated with higher adult total cholesterol concentration in men. Circulation 2004;110:1258-1262.

Tilling K, Davey Smith G, Chambless L, Rose K, Stevens J, Lawlor D, Szklo M. The relationship between birth weight and intima-media thickness in middle-aged adults. Epidemiology 2004;15:557-564.

Batty GD, Morton SMB, Campbell D, Clark H, Davey Smith G, Hall M, Macintyre S, Leon DA. The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study: background methods and follow-up information on a new resource for the study of life course and intergenerational influences on health. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2004; 18:221-239.

Starr JM, Taylor MD, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Whalley LJ, Hole DJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood mental ability and blood pressure at midlife: linking the Scottish Mental survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. Journal of Hypertension 2004; 22:893-898.

Hyppönen E, Power C, Davey Smith G. Parental growth at different life stages and offspring birthweight – an intergenerational cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2004;18:168-177.

Macleod J, Oakes R, Copello A, Crome I, Egger M, Hickman M, Oppenkowski T, Stokes-Lampard H, Davey Smith G. Psychological and social sequelae of cannabis and other illicit drug use by young people: a systematic review of longitudinal, general population studies. Lancet 2004;363:1579-88.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Hyperinsulinaemia and increased risk of breast cancer: findings from the British women’s heart and health study. Cancer Causes and Control 2004;15:267-275.

Martin RM, Davey Smith G, Mangtani P, Tilling K, Frankel S, Gunnell D. Breastfeeding and cardiovascular mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort and a systematic review with meta-analysis. European Heart Journal 2004;25;778-786.

Martin RM, Davey Smith G, Frankel S, Gunnell D. Parent’s growth in childhood and the birth weight of their offspring. Epidemiology 2004;15:308-316.

Lynch J, Harper S, Davey Smith G, Ross N, Wolfson M, Dunn J. US regional and national cause-specific mortality and trends in income inequality: descriptive findings. Demographic Research 2004;2:183-228.

Ness AR, Ashfield-Watt PAL, Whiting JM, Davey Smith G, Hughes J, Burr ML. The long-term effect of dietary advice on the diet of men with angina: the diet and angina randomized trial. J Hum Nutr Dietet 2004: 17:117-119.

Subramanian SV, Nandy S, Kelly M, Gordon D, Davey Smith G. Patterns and distribution of tobacco consumption in India: cross sectional multilevel evidence from the 1998-99 National Family History Survey. BMJ 2004;328:801-806

Sattar N, McConnachie A, O’Reily D, Upton MN, Greer IA, Davey Smith G, Watt G. Inverse association between birthweight and C-reactive protein concentrations in the MIDSPAN family study. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2004;24:583-587

Hart CL, Taylor MD, Davey Smith G, Whalley LJ, Starr JM, Hole DJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood IQ and cardiovascular disease in adulthood: prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. Social Science and Medicine 2004;59:2131-2138.

Song Y-M, Sung J, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Body mass index and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. A prospective study in Korean men. Stroke 2004;35:831-836.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Associations of measures of lung function with insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Diabetologia 2004;47:195-203.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Mitchell R, Ebrahim S. Temperature at birth, coronary heart disease, and insulin resistance: cross sectional analyses of the British women's heart and health study. Heart 2004;90:381-388.

Wannamethee SG, Lawlor DA, Whincup PH, Walker M, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Birth weight of offspring and paternal insulin resistance and paternal diabetes in late adulthood: cross sectional survey. Diabetologia 2004;47:12-18.

Lynch J, Davey Smith G, Harper S, Hillemeier M, Ross N, Kaplan GA, Wolfson M. Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A Systematic review. Millbank Quarterly 2004;82:5-99

Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Mendelian randomization: prospects, potentials, and limitations. Int J Epidemiol 2004;33:30-42.

Martin RM, Ness AR, Gunnell D, Emmett P, Davey Smith G. Does breast-feeding in infancy lower blood pressure in childhood? The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Circulation 2004;109:1259-1266.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Association between self-reported childhood socioeconomic position and adult lung function: findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Thorax 2004;59:199-203.

Davey Smith G, Harbord R, Ebrahim S. Fibrinogen, C-reactive protein and coronary heart disease: does Mendelian randomization suggest the associations are non-causal? QJM 2004;97:163-166.

Subramanian SV, Nandy S, Kelly M, Gordon D, Davey Smith G. Health behaviour in context. Exploratory multi-level analysis of smoking, drinking and tobacco chewing in four states. Economic and Political Weekly 2004;February 14:684-693.

Upton MN, Davey Smith G, McConnachie A, Hart CL, Watt GCM. Maternal and personal cigarette smoking synergize to increase airflow limitation in adults. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2004;169:479-487.

Cullum A, McCarthy A, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC, Ben-Shlomo Y. Dietary restraint and the mis-reporting of anthropometric measures by middle aged adults. Int J Obesity 2004;28:426-433.

Song YM, Sung J, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Shin Y, Ebrahim S. Blood pressure, haemorrhagic stroke, and ischaemic stroke: the Korean national prospective occupational cohort study. BMJ 2004;328:324-325.

Davey Smith G, Mertens T. What's said and what's done: simulated client visits as a method for assessing sexually transmitted disease consultations. Public Health 2004;118:96-103

Mitchell SMS, Hattersley AT, Knight B, Turner T, Metcalf BS, Voss LD, Davies D, McCarthy A, Wilkin TJ, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y, Frayling TM. Lack of support for a role of the Insulin Gene Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Minisatellite (INS-VNTR) Locus in Fetal Growth or Type 2 Diabetes-Related Intermediate Traits in United Kingdom Populations. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2004;89:310-317.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Birth weight is inversely associated with coronary heart disease in post-menopausal women: findings from the British women’s heart and health Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:120-125.

Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. Birth characteristics of offspring and parental diabetes: evidence for the fetal insulin hypothesis. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:126-128.

2003

Lynch J, Harper S, Davey Smith G. Commentary: Plugging leaks and repelling boarders - where to next for the SS income inequality? Int J Epidemiol 2003;32:1029-1036.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Association of insulin resistance with depression: cross sectional findings from the British women's heart and health study. BMJ 2003;327:1383-1384.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The association of socio-economic position across the life course and age at menopause: the British Women's Heart and Health Study. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2003;110:1078-108.

Gunnell D, May M, Ben-Shlomo Y, Yarnell J, Davey Smith G. Height, leg length and cancer: The Caerphilly Study. Nutrition and Cancer 2003;47:34-39.

Power C, Li L, Manor O, Davey Smith G. Combination of low birth weight and high adult body mass index: at what age is it established and what are its determinants? J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:969-973.

McCarron P, Gunnell D, Harrison GL, Okasha M, Davey Smith G. Temperament in young adulthood and later mortality: prospective observational study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:888-892.

Bachmann MO, Eachus J, Hopper CD, Davey Smith G, Propper C, Pearson N, Williams S, Tallon D, Frankel S. Socio-economic inequalities in diabetes complications, control, attitudes and health service use: a cross-sectional study. Diabetic Medicine 2003;20:921-929.

Jeffries M, McCarron P, Gunnell D, McEwen J, Davey Smith G. Body mass index in early and mid-adulthood, and subsequent mortality: a historical cohort study. International Journal of Obesity 2003;27:1391-1397.

Vescio MF, Davey Smith G, Giampaoli S. Socio-economic position, overall and cause specific mortality in an Italian rural population. European Journal of Epidemiology 2003;18:1051-1058

Hyppönen,E Power C, Davey Smith G. Prenatal growth, BMI and risk of type 2 diabetes by early midlife. Diabetes Care 2003;26:2512-7.

Hyppönen E, Davey Smith G, Power C. Effects of grandmothers’ smoking in pregnancy on birth weight: intergenerational cohort study. BMJ 2003;327:898.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Blood pressure and site-specific cancer mortality: evidence from the original Whitehall study. British Journal of Cancer 2003;89:1243-1247.

Hart C, Taylor MD, Davey Smith G, Whalley LJ, Starr JM, Hole DJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood IQ, social class, deprivation and their relationships with mortality and morbidity risk in later life: prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. Psychosomatic Medicine 2003;65:877-883.

Kelaher M, Paul S, Lambert H, Ahmad W, Fenton S, Davey Smith G. Ethnicity, health and health services utilisation in a British study. Critical Public Health 2003;13:231-249.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Leisure time physical activity and coronary heart disease mortality in men symptomatic or asymptomatic for ischaemia: evidence from the Whitehall study. Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003;25:190-196.

Song YM, Davey Smith G, Sung J. Adult height and cause-specific mortality: a large prospective study of Korean men. Am J Epidemiol 2003;158:479-485.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Holly J, McCarthy A, Savage P, Davies D, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G. An investigation of fetal, postnatal and childhood growth with insulin-like growth factor I and binding protein 3 in adulthood. Clinical Endocrinology 2003;59:366-373.

Metcalfe C, Davey Smith G, Wadsworth E, Sterne JAC, Heslop P, Macleod J, Smith A. A contemporary validation of the Reeder Stress Inventory. British Journal of Health Psychology 2003;8:83-94.

Martikainen P, Adda J, Ferrie JE, Davey Smith G, Marmot M. Effects of income and wealth on GHQ depression and poor self rated health in white collar women and men in the Whitehall II study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:718-723.

Shaw M, Tunstall H, Davey Smith G. Seeing social position: visualizing class in life and death. Int J Epidemiology 2003;32:332-335.

Martin RM, Sterne JAC, Gunnell D, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, Frankel S. NHS waiting lists and evidence of national or local failure: analysis of health service data. BMJ 2003;326:188-92.

Kreiger N, Northridge M, Gruskin S, Quinn M, Briebel D, Davey Smith G, Bassett M, Rehkopf DH, Miller C and the HIA “promise and pitfalls” conference group. Assessing health impact assessment: multidisciplinary and international perspectives. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:659-662.

Ferrie JE, Shipley MJ, Stansfeld SA, Davey Smith G, Marmot M. Future uncertainty and socioeconomic inequalities in health: the Whitehall II study. Social Science and Medicine 2003;57:637-646.

McCarron P, Okasha M, McEwen J, Davey Smith G. Association between course of study at university and cause-specific mortality. J R Soc Med 2003;96:384-388.

Jeffreys M, Warren R, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D. Breast density: agreement of measures from film and digital image. British Journal of Radiology 2003;76:561-563.

Macleod J, Davey Smith G. Psychosocial factors and public health: a suitable case for treatment. Authors’ reply. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:553-556.

Macleod J, Davey Smith G. Psychosocial factors and public health: a suitable case for treatment. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:565-570.

Metcalfe C, Davey Smith G, Sterne JAC, Heslop P, Macleod J, Hart C. Frequent job change and associated health. Soc Sci Med 2003;56:1-15.

Kinra S, Davey Smith G, Okasha M, McCarron P, McEwen J. Is maternal transmission of coronary heart disease risk stronger than paternal transmission? Heart 2003;89:834-838.

Fallon UB, Virtamo J, Young I, McMaster D, Ben-Shlomo Y, Wood N, Whitehead AS, Davey Smith G. Homocysteine and cerebral infarction in Finnish male smokers. Stroke 2003;34:1359-1363.

Lawlor DA, Okasha M, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Associations of adult measures of childhood growth with breast cancer: findings from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study. British Journal of Cancer 2003;89:81-87.

Lawlor DA, Frankel S, Shaw M, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Smoking and ill health: does lay epidemiology explain the failure of smoking cessation programs among deprived populations? Am J Public Health 2003;93:266-270.

Okasha M, McCarron P, McEwen J, Durnin J, Davey Smith G. Childhood social class and adulthood obesity: findings from the Glasgow Alumni Cohort. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:508-509.

Martin RM, McCarthy A, Davey Smith G, Davies DP, Ben-Shlomo Y. Infant nutrition and blood pressure in early adulthood: the Barry Caerphilly Growth study. Am J Clin Nutr 2003;77:1489-1497.

Taylor MD, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Starr JM, Hole DJ, Whalley LJ, Wilson V, Deary IJ. Childhood mental ability and smoking cessation in adulthood: prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:464-465.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Whincup P, Wannamethee G, Papacosta O, Dhanjil S, Griffin M, Nicolaides AN, Ebrahim S. Association between offspring birth weight and atherosclerosis in middle aged men and women: British Regional Heart Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:462-463.

Hyppönen E, Davey Smith G, Power C. Parental diabetes and brith weight of offspring: intergenerational cohort study. BMJ 2003;326:19-20.

Pearce N, Davey Smith G. Is social capital the key to inequalities in health? Am J Publ Health 2003;93:122-129.

Davey Smith G. Effect of passive smoking on health. BMJ 2003;326:1048-9.

Okasha M, McCarron P, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D. Trends in body mass index from 1948 to 1968: results from the Glasgow Alumni Cohort. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2003;27:638-40.

Claussen B, Davey Smith G, Thelle D. Impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on cause specific mortality: The Oslo Mortality Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:40-45.

Okasha M, McCarron, Gunnell D, Davey Smith G. Exposures in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood and breast cancer risk: a systematic review of the literature. Breast Cancer Research 2003;78:223-276.

Hart CL, Davey Smith G. Relationship between number of siblings and adult mortality and stroke risk: 25 year follow up of men in the Collaborative study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:385-391.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Leisure time physical activity and cause-specific mortality among men with chronic bronchitis: evidence from the Whitehallfont study. Am J Public Health 2003;93:817-821.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Association between leg length and offspring birthweight: partial explanation for the trans-generational association between birthweight and cardiovascular disease: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2003;17:148-155.

Hart CL, Deary IJ, Taylor MD, MacKinnon PL, Davey Smith G, Whalley LJ, Wilson V, Hole DJ, Starr JM. The Scottish Mental Survey 1932 linked to the Midspan studies: a prospective investigation of childhood intelligence and future health. Public Health 2003;117:187-195.

Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. 'Mendelian randomization': can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease? Int J Epidemiol 2003;32:1-22.

Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Lifecourse influences on insulin resistance. Diabetes Care 2003;26:97-103.

Frankel S, Davey Smith G, Donovan J, Neal D. Screening for prostate cancer. Lancet 2003;361:1122-28.

Metcalfe C, Davey Smith G, Macleod J, Heslop P, Hart C. Self-reported stress and subsequent hospital admissions as a result of hypertension, varicose veins and haemorrhoids. Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003;25:62-68.

Colhoun HM, McKeigue PM, Davey Smith G. Problems of reporting genetic associations with complex outcomes. Lancet 2003;361:865-72.

Lawlor DA, Emberson JR, Ebrahim S, Whincup PH, Wannamethee SG, Walker M, Davey Smith G. Is the association between parity and coronary heart disease due to biological effects of pregnancy or adverse lifestyle risk factors associated with child-rearing? Findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study and the British Regional Heart Study. Circulation 2003;107;1254-58.

Maynard M, Gunnell D, Emmett P, Frankel S, Davey Smith G. Fruit, vegetables, and antioxidants in childhood and risk of adult cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:218-225.

Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G, May M, Yarnell J. Shaving, coronary heart disease, and stroke. Am J Epidemiol 2003;157:234-238.

Gunnell D, Whitley E, Upton MN, McConnachie A, Davey Smith G, Watt GCM. Associations of height, leg length and lung function with cardiovascular risk factors in the Midspan Family Study. J Epidemiol community Health 2003;57:141-146.

2002

Macleod J, Davey Smith G. Stress and the heart: 50 years of progress? Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:1111-1113.

Okasha M, Gunnell D, Holly J, Davey Smith G. Childhood growth and adult cancer. Best Practice and Research Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2002;16:225-241.

Stocks N, Patel R, Sparrow J, Davey Smith G. Prevalence of cataract in the Speedwell Cardiovascular Study: a cross-sectional survey of men aged 65-83. Eye 2002;16:275-80.

MacLeod J, Davey Smith G, Heslop P, Metcalfe C, Carroll D, Hart C. Limitations of adjustment for reporting tendency in observational studies of stress and self reported coronary heart disease. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:76-77.

Neville C, Murray L, Boreham C, Gallagher A, Twisk J, Robson P, Savage J, Kemper H, Ralston S, Davey Smith G. Relationship between physical activity and bone mineral status in young adults: The Northern Ireland Young Hearts Project. Bone 2002;30:792-8.

Yudkin JS, May M, Elwood P, Yarnell JWG, Greenwood R, Davey Smith G. Concentrations of proinsulin like molecules predict coronary heart disease risk independently of insulin: prospective data from the Caerphilly Study. Diabetologie 2002;45:327-336.

McCarron P, Davey Smith G, Okasha M. Secular changes in blood pressure in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: systematic review of trends from 1948-1998. J Human Hypertension 2002;16:677-689.

Gallagher AM, Savage MJ, Murray LJ, Davey Smith G, Young IS, Robson PJ, Neville CE, Cran G, Strain JJ, Boreham CA. A longitudinal study through adolescence to adulthood: The Young Hearts Project, Northern Ireland. Public Health 2002;116:332-240.

Prospective Studies Collaboration. Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies. Lancet 2002;360:1903-1913.

Rasul F, Stansfeld SA, Hart CL, Gillis C, Davey Smith G. Common mental disorder and physical illness in the Renfrew and Paisley (MIDSPAN) study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2002;53:1163-1170.

Lawlor D, Davey Smith G, Leon D, Sterne J, Ebrahim S. Secular trends in mortality by stroke subtype in the 20th century: a retrospective analysis. Lancet 2002;360:1818-23.

Ferrie J, Shipley M, Davey Smith G, Stansfeld S, Marmot M. Change in health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:922-926.

Carroll D, Ebrahim S, Tilling K, Macleod J, Davey Smith G. Admissions for myocardial infarction and World Cup football: database survey. BMJ 2002;325:1439-1442.

Davey Smith G. Behind the Broad Street pump: aetiology, epidemiology and prevention of cholera in mid-19th century Britain. Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:920-932.

The Homocysteine Studies Collaboration. Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke. JAMA 2002;288:2015-2022.

Martin RM, Davey Smith G, Mangtani P, Frankel S, Gunnell D. Association between breastfeeding and growth: the Boyd Orr cohort study. Arch Dis Childhood 2002;87:F193-F201.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and heatlh study. BMJ 2002;325:805-807.

Hooper L, Bartlett C, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Systematic review of long term effects of advice to reduce dietary salt in adults. BMJ 2002;325:628-632.

Shaw M, Dorling D, Davey Smith G. Mortality and political climate: how suicide rates have risen during periods of Conservative government, 1901-2000. (Editorial) J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:723-725.

Okasha M, McCarron P, McEwen J, Davey Smith G. Body mass index in early adulthood and cancer mortality: a retrospective cohort study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:780-784.

Gunnell D, Rasul F, Stansfield SA, Hart CL, Davey Smith G. Gender differences in self-reported minor mental disorder and its association with suicide. A 20 year follow-up of the Renfrew and Paisley cohort. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2002;37:457-459.

Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. Data dredging, bias, or confounding. BMJ 2002;325:1437-1438.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Birth weight of offspring and insulin resistance in late adulthood: cross sectional survey. BMJ 2002;325:359-362.

Heslop P, Davey Smith G, Metcalfe C, Macleod J, Hart C. Sleep duration and mortality: the effect of short or long sleep duration on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in working men and women. Sleep Medicine 2002;3:305-314.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. The association between components of adult height and Type II diabetes and insulin resistance: British Women’s Heart and Health Study. Diabetologia 2002;45:1097-1106.

Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Role of endogenous oestrogen in aetiology of coronary heart disease: analysis of age related trends in coronary heart disease and breast cancer in England and Wales and Japan. BMJ 2002;325:311-2.

Lawlor D, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Is there a sex difference in the association between birth weight and systolic blood pressure in later life? Findings from a meta-regression analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2002;156:1100-1104.

Davey Smith G, Hart C. Lifecourse socioeconomic and behavioural influences on cardiovascular disease mortality: the Collaborative study. Am J Publ Health 2002;92:1295-1298.

McGuigan F, Murray L, Gallagher A, Davey Smith G, Neville C, van’t Hof R, Boreham C, Ralston S. Genetic and environmental determinants of peak bone mass in young men and women. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2002;17:1273-1279.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men with Type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance: evidence from the Whitehall study. Diabetic Medicine 2002;19:580-588.

Batty D, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men: further evidence from the Whitehall Study. European J Epidemiol 2002;17:863-869.

Frayling T, Hattersley A, McCarthy A, Holly J, Mitchell S, Gloyn A, Owen K, Davies D, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. A putative functional polymorphism in the IGF-I gene: association studies with type 2 diabetes, adult height, glucose tolerance and fetal growth in UK populations. Diabetes 2002;51:2313-2316.

Lynch J, Davey Smith G. Commentary: Income inequality and health: The end of the story? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:549-551.

Ness AR, Hughes J, Elwood PC, Davey Smith G, Burr ML. The long-term effect of dietary advice in men with coronary disease: follow-up of the Diet and Reinfarction trial (DART). European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2002; 56: 512-518

Macleod J, Davey Smith G, Heslop P, Metcalfe C, Carroll D, Hart C. Psychological stress and cardiovascular disease: empirical demonstration of bias in a prospective observational study on Scottish men. BMJ 2002;324:1247-51.

Davey Smith G, Dorling D, Mitchell R, Shaw M. Health inequalities in Britain: continuing increases up to the end of the 20th century. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:434-435.

Heslop P, Davey Smith G, Metcalfe C, Macleod J, Hart C. Change in job satisfaction, and its association with self-reported stress, cardiovascular risk factors and mortality. Soc Sci Med 2002;54:1589-1599.

McCarron P, Okasha M, McEwen J, Davey Smith G. Height in young adulthood and risk of death from cardiorespiratory disease: A prospective study of male former students of Glasgow University, Scotland. Am J Epidemiol 2002;155:683-687.

Egger M, Ebrahim S, Davey Smith G. Where now for meta-analysis? Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:1-5.

Davey Smith, Susser E. Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser and epidemiology: observation, causation and action. Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:34-37.

Orford S, Dorling D, Mitchell R, Shaw M, Davey Smith G. Life and death of the people of London: a historical GIS of Charles Booth's inquiry. Health & Place 2002;8:25-35.

Murray L, McCarron P, Bailie K, Middleton R, Davey Smith G, Dempsey S, McCarthy A, Gavin A. Association of early life factors and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in childhood: historical cohort study. Br J Cancer 2002;86:356-361.

Ebrahim S, May M, Ben Shlomo Y, McCarron P, Frankel S, Yarnell J, Davey Smith G. Sexual intercourse and risk of ischaemic stroke and coronary heart disease: the Caerphilly study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:99-102.

Ness AR, Gunnell D, Hughes J, Elwood PC, Davey Smith G, Burr ML. Height, body mass index and survival in men with coronary disease: follow-up of the diet and reinfarction trial (DART). J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:218-219.

Ness AR, Frankel SJ, Gunnell DJ, Davey Smith G. Are we still dying for a tan? J Cosmetic Dermatology 2002;1:43-46.

May M, McCarron P, Stansfeld S, Ben-Shlomo Y, Gallacher J, Yarnell J, Davey Smith G, Elwood P, Ebrahim S. Does Psychological Distress Predict the Risk of Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack?: The Caerphilly Study. Stroke 2002;33 7-12.

1996

Davey Smith G, Egger M. Understanding it all: health meta-theories, and mortality trends. BMJ 1996;313:1584-5.

Davey Smith G, Dorling D. "I'm alright, John": voting patterns and mortality in England and Wales, 1981-92. BMJ 1996;313:1573-7.

Blane D, Hart C L, Davey Smith G, Gillis C R, Hole D J, Hawthorne V M. Association of cardiovascular disease risk factors with socioeconomic position during childhood and during adulthood. BMJ 1996;313:1434-8.

Frankel S, Elwood P, Sweetnam P, Yarnell J, Davey Smith G. Birthweight, body-mass index in middle age, and incident coronary heart disease. Lancet 1996;348:1478-80.

Carroll D, Davey Smith G, Sheffield D, Willemsen G, Sweetnam PM, Gallacher JEJ, Elwood PC. Blood pressure reactions to the cold pressor test and the prediction of future blood pressure status: data from the Caerphilly study. Journal of Human Hypertension 1996;10:777-780.

Whitehead AS, Bertrandy S, Finnan F, Butler A, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. Frequency of the apolipoprotein E (4 allele in a case-control study of early onset Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1996;61:347-351.

Davey Smith G, Phillips AN. Passive smoking and health: should we believe Philip Morris's "experts"? BMJ 1996;313:929-33.

Phillips AN, Wannamethee SG, Walker M, Thomson A, Davey Smith G. Life expectancy in men who have never smoked and those who have smoked continuously: 15 year follow up of large cohort of middle aged British men. BMJ 1996;313:907-8.

Davey Smith G. Low blood cholesterol and non-atherosclerotic disease mortality: where do we stand? European Heart Journal 1997;18:6-9.

Hole DJ, Watt GCM, Davey Smith G, Hart CL, Gillis CR, Hawthorne VM. Impaired lung function and mortality risk in men and women: findings from the Renfrew and Paisley prospective population study. BMJ 1996;313:711-5.

O'Reilly F, Finnan F, Allwright S, Davey Smith G, Ben-Shlomo Y. The effects of caring for a spouse with Parkinson's disease on social, psychological and physical well-being. Br J General Practice 1996;46:507-512.

Phillips AN, Davey Smith G, Johnson MA. Will we ever know when to treat HIV infection? BMJ 1996;313:608-10.

Davey Smith G, Phillips AN. Inflation in epidemiology: "The proof and measurement of association between two things" revisited. BMJ 1996;312:1659-61.

Blane DB, Bartley M, Davey Smith G. Disease aetiology and materialist explanations of socio-economic mortality differentials. Eur J of Publ Health 1997;7:385-391.

Carroll D, Davey Smith G, Sheffield D, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG. The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Hostility, and Blood Pressure Reactions to Mental Stress in Men: Data From the Whitehall II Study. Health Psychology 1997;16:131-136.

Brunner E, Davey Smith G, Marmot M, Canner R, Beksinska M, O'Brien J. Childhood social circumstances and psychosocial and behavioural factors as determinants of plasma fibrinogen. Lancet 1996;347:1008-13.

Eachus J, Williams M, Chan P, Davey Smith G, Grainge M, Donovan J, Frankel S. Deprivation and Cause Specific Morbidity: Evidence from the Somerset and Avon Survey of Health. BMJ 1996;312:287-92.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Whitehead AS, Davey Smith G. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and motor neurone disease. Clinical and pathological overlap may suggest common genetic and environmental factors (editorial). BMJ 1996;312:724.

Davey Smith G. Income inequality and mortality: why are they related? (editorial). BMJ 1996;312:987-988.

Davey Smith G, Wentworth D, Neaton JD, Stamler R, Stamler J. Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality Risk among Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: II. Black Men. Am J Public Health 1996;86:497-504.

Davey Smith G, Neaton JD, Wentworth D, Stamler R, Stamler J. Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality Risk among Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: I. White Men. Am J Public Health 1996;86:486-496.

Frankel SJ, Elwood P, Sweetnam P, Yarnell J, Davey Smith G. Birthweight, Adult Risk Factors and Incident Coronary Heart Disease: The Caerphilly Study. Public Health 1996;110:139-143.

Gunnell DJ, Frankel SJ, Nanchahal K, Braddon FEM, Davey Smith G. Lifecourse exposure and later disease: a follow-up study based on a survey of family diet and health in pre-war Britain (1937-1939). Public Health 1996;110:85-94.

Herrmann B, Espinoza F, Rivera Villegas R, Davey Smith G, Ramos A, Egger M. Genital chlamydial infection among women in Nicaragua: validity of direct fluorescent antibody testing, prevalence, risk factors and clinical manifestations. Genitourin Med 1996;72:20-26. 1997;26:508-515.

Haffner SM, Shaten J, Stern MP, Davey Smith G, Kuller L, (for the MRFIT Research Group). Low Levels of Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin and Testosterone Predict the Development of Non-Insulin dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Men. Am J Epidemiol 1996;143:889-97.

Carroll D, Davey Smith G, Bennett P. Some observations on health and socio-economic status. Journal of Health Psychology 1996;1:23-39.

1995

Kantharaj K, Mertens TE, Davey Smith G, Mugrditchian D, Van Dam CJ, Radhakrishnan KM. Sexually Transmitted Disease Services in Madras: Could their role in AIDS prevention be strengthened? Indian Journal of Public Health 1995;39:93-99.

Gorter AC, Sanchez G, Pauw J, Perez RM, Sandiford P, Davey Smith G. Diarrea infantil en la Nicaragua rural: creencias y prácticas de salud tradicionales. Bol Oficina Sanit Panam 1995;119:377-390.

Prospective Studies Collaboration. Cholesterol, diastolic blood pressure, and stroke: 13,000 strokes in 450,000 people in 45 prospective cohorts. Lancet 1995;346:1647-53.

Ferrie JE, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG, Stansfeld S, Davey Smith G. Health effects of anticipation of job change and non-employment: longitudinal data from the Whitehall II study. BMJ 1995;311:1264-9.

Egger M, Davey Smith G. Risks and benefits of treating mild hypertension: a misleading meta-analysis? Journal of Hypertension 1995;13:813-815.

Watt GCM, Hart CL, Hole DJ, Davey Smith G, Gillis CR, Hawthorne VM. Risk factors for cardiorespiratory and all cause mortality in men and women in urban Scotland: 15 year follow up. Scottish Medical Journal 1995;40:108-112.

Hawthorne VM, Watt GCM, Hart CL, Hole DJ, Davey Smith G, Gillis CR. Cardiorespiratory disease in men and women in urban Scotland: Baseline characteristics of the Renfrew/Paisley (Midspan) study population. Scottish Medical Journal 1995;40:102-107.

Wilson PMJ, Sullivan F, Hussein S, Davey Smith G. Examination of the effects of emotional disturbance and its detection on general practice patients' satisfaction with the consultation. Br J General Practice 1995;45:304-309.

Carroll D, Davey Smith G, Sheffield D, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG. Pressor reactions to psychological stress and predction of future blood pressure: data from the Whitehall II study. BMJ 1995;310:771-776.

Egger M, Davey Smith G. Misleading meta-analysis (editorial). BMJ 1995;310:752-754.

Leon D, Davey Smith G, Shipley M, Strachan D. Adult height and mortality in London: early life, socioeconomic confounding, or shrinkage? J Epidemiol Community Health 1995;49:5-9.

1994

Egger M, Ferrie J, Gorter A, González S, Butiérrez R, Pauw J, Davey Smith G. Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas acerca del SIDA entre estudiantes de escuelas secundarias de Managua. Bol Oficina Sanit Panam 1994;117:12-21.

Davey Smith G, Morris JN. Increasing inequalities in the health of the nation (editorial). BMJ 1994;309:1453-1454.

Mertens T, Caraël M, Sato P, Cleland J, Ward H, Davey Smith G. Prevention indicators for evaluating the progress of national AIDS programmes. AIDS 1994;8:1359-1369.

McCarron PG, Davey Smith G, Womersley JJ. Deprivation and mortality in Glasgow: changes from 1980-1992. BMJ 1994;309:1481-1482

Davey Smith G, Egger M. Chi trae beneficio dai trattamenti medici? Informazioni sui farmaci 1994;18:69-72.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G. Dietary Fat and Multiple Sclerosis. International Multiple Sclerosis Journal 1994;1:61-67.

von Overbeck J, Egger M, Davey Smith G, Schoep M, Ledergerber B, Furrer H, Malinverni R. Survival in HIV infection: do sex and category of transmission matter? AIDS 1994;8:1307-1313.

Bartley M, Power C, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ. Birth weight and later socioeconomic disadvantage: evidence from the 1958 British cohort study. BMJ 1994;309:1475-1478.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G, Shipley M, Marmot MG. What determines mortality risk in male former cigarette smokers? Am J Publ Health 1994;84:1235-1242.

Davey Smith G, Egger M. The cholesterol papers: statistical problems. BMJ 1994;308:1025-27.

Davey Smith G. Increasing the accessibility of data (editorial). BMJ 1994;308:1519-1520.

Blane D, Bartley M, Davey Smith G, Filakti H, Bethune A, Harding S. Social patterning of medical mortality in youth and early adulthood. Soc Sci Med 1994;39:361-366.

Davison C, Macintyre S, Davey Smith G. The potential social impact of predictive genetic testing for susceptibility to common chronic diseases. Sociol Health Illness 1994;16:340-371.

Davey Smith G, Blane D, Bartley M. Explanations for socio-economic differentials in mortality: evidence from Britain and elsewhere. Eur J Pub Health 1994;4:131-144.

Phillips AN, Davey Smith G. Cigarette smoking as a potential cause of cervical cancer: has confounding been controlled? Int J Epidemiol 1994;23:42-49

Davey Smith G, Ströbele SA, Egger M. Smoking and health promotion in Nazi Germany. J Epidemiol Community Health 1994;48:220-223.

Carroll D, Davey Smith G, Bennett P. Health and socio-economic status. The Psychologist 1994;7:122-125.

Davey Smith G, Egger M. Who benefits from medical interventions? (Editorial). BMJ 1994;308:72-74.

1993

Sheldon TA, Song F, Davey Smith G, Freemantle N, Mason J, Long A. Cholesterol screening and cholesterol lowering treatment. Quality in Health Care 1993;2:134-137.

Phillips AN, Davey Smith G. The design of prospective epidemiological studies: more subjects or better measurements? J Clin Epidemiol 1993;46:1203-1211.

Davey Smith G. Blood cholesterol and non-coronary mortality. Coronary Artery Dis 1993;4:860-866.

Egger M, Ferrie J, Gorter A, Gonzlez S, Gutirrez R, Pauw J, Davey Smith G. HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and practices among Managuan secondary school students. Bull Pan Am Health Org 1993;27:360-369.

Davey Smith G, Sheldon T. Cholesterol and cholesterol lowering drugs in 1993 (editorial). J Irish Coll Physicians and Surgeons 1993;22:255-256.

Holzer BR, Egger M, Teuscher T, Koch S, Mboya DM, Davey Smith G. Childhood anaemia in Africa: to transfuse or not transfuse? Acta Tropica 1993;55:47-51.

Davey Smith G, Egger M. Socioeconomic differentials in wealth and health (editorial). BMJ 1993;307:1085-6.

Shaten BJ, Davey Smith G, Kuller LH, Neaton JD. Risk factors for the development of type II diabetes among men enrolled in the usual care group of the MRFIT. Diabetes Care 1993;16:1331-1339.

Brunner EJ, Marmot MG, White IR, O'Brien JR, Etherington MD, Slavin BM, Kearney EM, Davey Smith G. Gender and employment grade differences in blood cholesterol, apolipoproteins and haemostatic factors in the Whitehall II study. Atherosclerosis 1993;102:195-207.

Davey Smith G, Sheldon T. Colesterolo, diminuzione del colesterolo e mortalità. Eur J Med Updating 1993;3:9-12.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G, Shipley M, Marmot MG. Magnitude and causes of mortality differences between married and unmarried men. J Epidemiol Community Health 1993;47:200-205.

Low N, Egger M, Gorter A, Sandiford P, Gonzlez A, Pauw J, Ferrie J, Davey Smith G. AIDS in Nicaragua: epidemiological, political and sociocultural perspectives. Int J Health Services 1993;23:685-702.

Kuh D, Davey Smith G. When is mortality risk determined? Historical insights into a current debate. Social History of Medicine 1993;6:101-123.

Carroll D, Bennett P, Davey Smith G. Socio-economic health inequalities: their origins and implications. Psychology and Health 1993:8:295-316.

Davey Smith G, Song F, Sheldon TA. Cholesterol lowering and mortality: the importance of considering initial level of risk. BMJ 1993;306:1367-1373.

Gorter A, Miranda E, Davey Smith G, Ortells P, Low N. How many people actually use condoms? An investigation of motel clients in Managua. Soc Sci Med 1993;36:1645-1647.

Davey Smith G, Gorter A, Hoppenbrouwer J, Sweep RMP, Gonzalez C, Morales P, Pauw J, Sandiford P. The cultural construction of childhood diarrhoea in rural Nicaragua: relevance for epidemiology and health promotion. Soc Sci Med 1993;36:1613-1624.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Finnan F, Allwright S, Davey Smith G. The epidemiology of Parkinson's disease in the Republic of Ireland: observations from routine data sources. Irish Med J 1993;86:190-192.

Sheldon TA, Davey Smith G, Bevan G. Weighting in the dark: resource allocation in the new NHS. BMJ 1993; 306:835-839.

Egger M, Davey Smith G, Song F, Sheldon TA. Making sense of meta-analysis. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 1993;2:65-72.

Stansfeld SA, Davey Smith G, Marmot MG. Association between physical and psychological morbidity in Whitehall II study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1993;37:1-12.

Blane D, Davey Smith G, Bartley M. Social selection: what does it contribute to social class differences in health? Sociol Health Illness 1993;15:1-15.

Sheldon TA, Davey Smith G. Consensus conferences as drug promotion. Lancet 1993;341:100-102.

1992

Davey Smith G, Carroll D, Rankin S, Rowan D. Socioeconomic differentials in mortality: evidence from Glasgow graveyards. BMJ 1992;305:1554-1557.

Egger M, Davey Smith G. Meta-analysen. Pharma-kritik 1992;14:53-56.

Davey Smith G, Egger M. Socioeconomic differences in mortality in Britain and the U.S. (editorial). Am J Publ Health 1992;82:1079-1081.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G, Marmot MG. Dietary fat in the epidemiology of multiple sclerosis: has the situation been adequately assessed? Neuroepidemiology 1992;11:214-225.

Davey Smith G, Egger M, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG. Post-challenge glucose concentration, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes and cancer mortality in men. Am J Epidemiol 1992;136:1110-14.

Blane DB, Davey Smith G, Bartley M. Injustices in the healthcare system: are the wealthier healthier? Pharmaco Economics 1992;2:261-266.

Davey Smith G, Egger M. Cross-design synthesis: a new strategy for studying medical outcomes (editorial). Lancet 1992;340:944-946.

Egger M, Davey Smith G, Teuscher A. Human insulin and hypoglycaemia: need for a large randomised trial. BMJ 1992;305:351-355.

Davey Smith G, Phillips AN, Neaton JD. Smoking as "independent" risk factor for suicide: illustration of an artifact from observational epidemiology? Lancet 1992;340:709-712.

Davey Smith G, Phillips AN. Confounding in epidemiological studies: why "independent" effects may not be all they seem. BMJ 1992;305:757-9.

Davey Smith G, Morris JN. Assessment of physical activity, and physical fitness, in population surveys. J Epidemiol Community Health 1992;46:89-91.

Davison C, Frankel S, Davey Smith G. The limits of lifestyle: re-assessing 'fatalism' in the popular culture of illness prevention. Soc Sci Med 1992;34:675-685.

Davey Smith G, Neaton J, Ben-Shlomo Y, Shipley M, Wentworth D. Serum cholesterol concentration and primary malignant brain tumors: A prospective study. Am J Epidemiol 1992;135:259-265.

Low N, Arauz R, Gorter A, Guevara M, González A, Sequeira G, Morgan N, Rocha R, Serna R, González A, Davey Smith G. Conocimientos acerca del SIDA de la población adulta de Managua. Bol Oficina Sanit Panam 1992;112:319-326.

Davey Smith G, Pekkanen J. Should there be a moratorium on the use of cholesterol lowering drugs? BMJ 1992;304:431-4.

Davey Smith G, Shipley M, Marmot MG, Rose G. Plasma cholesterol concentration and mortality: The Whitehall Study. JAMA 1992;267:70-76.

Phillips AN, Davey Smith G. Bias in relative odds estimation owing to imprecise measurement of correlated exposures. Statistics in Medicine 1992;11:953-961.

1991

Sandiford P, Coyle E, Davey Smith G. Why Nicaraguan children survive: moving beyond scenario thinking. Links: Health and Development Report 1991;8:14-16.

Egger M, Gschwend S, Davey Smith G, Zuppinger K. Increasing incidence of hypoglycaemic coma in children with IDDM. Diabetes Care 1991;14:1001-1005.

Davey Smith G. Bartley M, Blane D. Black on class and health. Journal of Public Health Medicine 1991;13:350-357.

Phillips A, Davey Smith G. How independent are "independent" effects? Relative risk estimation when correlated exposures are measured imprecisely. J Clin Epidemiol 1991;44:1223-31.

Frankel SJ, Davison C, Davey Smith G. Lay epidemiology and the rationality of responses to health education. Br J General Practice 1991;41:428-430.

Davey Smith G, Leon D, Shipley MJ, Rose G. Socio-economic differentials in cancer among men. Int J Epidemiol 1991;20:339-45.

Egger M, Davey Smith G, Teuscher AU, Teuscher A. Influence of Human Insulin on symptoms and awareness of hypoglycaemia: A randomised double blind crossover trial. BMJ 1991;303:622-626.

Egger M, Davey Smith G, Imhoof H, Teuscher A. Risk of severe hypoglycaemia in insulin treated diabetic patients transferred to human insulin: A case-control study. BMJ 1991;303:617-21.

Marmot MG, Davey Smith G, Stansfeld S, Patel C, North F, Head J, White I, Brunner E, Feeney A. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study. Lancet 1991;337:1387-94.

Davey Smith G. Second thoughts on the Jarman index (editorial). BMJ 1991;302:359-60.

Ben-Shlomo Y, Davey Smith G. Deprivation in infancy or in adult life: which is more important for mortality risk? Lancet 1991;337:530-34.

Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ. Confounding of occupation and smoking: its magnitude and consequences. Soc Sci Med 1991;32:1297-1300.

Davison C, Davey Smith G, Frankel SJ. Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox: the implications of coronary candidacy for health education. Sociol Health Illness 1991;13:1-19.

Davey Smith G, Marmot MG. Trends in mortality in Britain: 1920-1986. Ann Nutr Med 1991;35(suppl 1):53-63.

Gorter AC, Sandiford P, Davey Smith G, Pauw JP. Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoeal disease in Nicaragua: results from a case-control study. Int J Epidemiol 1991;20:527-33.

Sandiford P, Morales P, Gorter AC, Coyle EF, Davey Smith G. Why do child mortality rates fall? An analysis of the Nicaraguan experience. Am J Public Health 1991;81:30-7.

1990

Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ, Rose G. Intermittent claudication, heart disease risk factors, and mortality. Circulation 1990;82:1925-31.

Davey Smith G, Bartley M, Blane D. The Black Report on socioeconomic inequalities in health 10 years on. BMJ 1990;301:373-77.

Davey Smith G, Phillips AN. Declaring independence: why we should be cautious. J Epidemiol Community Health 1990;44:257-8.

Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ, Rose G. Magnitude and causes of socio-economic differentials in mortality: further evidence from the Whitehall Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 1990;44:265-270.

Blane D, Davey Smith G, Bartley M. Social class differences in years of potential life lost: size, trends and principal causes. BMJ 1990;301:429-32.

1989

Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Why are the Japanese living longer? BMJ 1989;299:1547-51.

Davison C, Frankel SJ, Davey Smith G. Inheriting heart trouble: the relevance of common-sense ideas to preventive measures. Health Education Research 1989;4:329-40.

Gallagher JEJ, Davey Smith G. A framework for the adaptation of psychological questionnaires for epidemiological use. Psychological Med 1989;19:709-17.

Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ. Plasma cholesterol concentration and primary brain tumours. BMJ 1989;299:26-7.

Sandiford P, Gorter A, Davey Smith G, Pauw J. Determinants of drinking water quality in rural Nicaragua. Epidemiology and Infection 1989;102:429-38.

Davey Smith G. Comprehensive Cardiovascular Community Control Programmes in Europe. Abstracts of Hygiene and Communicable Diseases 1989;64(5):R1-R3.

1988

Elwood PC, Davey Smith G, Yarnell JWG, Toothill C. Two Welsh surveys of blood lead and blood pressure. Environmental Health Perspectives 1988;78:119-21.

Rogers S, Davey Smith G, Doyle W. Field evaluation of the Copal UA-231 automated sphygmomanometer. J Epidemiol Community Health 1988;42:321-24.

Elwood PC, Yarnell JWG, Oldham PD, Catford JC, Nutbeam D, Davey Smith G, Toothill C. Blood pressure and blood lead in surveys in Wales. Am J Epidemiol 1988;127:942-45.

George Davey Smith

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