Cohort Profile: The 1946 National Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development)

The Home and the School

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Grip Strength, Postural Control, and Functional Leg Power in a Representative Cohort of British Men and Women: Associations With Physical Activity, Health Status, and Socioeconomic Conditions

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Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: post war birth cohort study

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Statistical Issues in Life Course Epidemiology

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The life course prospective design: an example of benefits and problems associated with study longevity

Wadsworth, M. E. J., Butterworth, S., Hardy, R., Kuh, D. J., Richards, M., Langenberg, C., Hilder, W. S., & Connor, M. (2003) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00083-2 · Cited by 224

Birthweight, postnatal growth and cognitive function in a national UK birth cohort

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A Life Course Approach to Women's Health

Colhoun, H. M., & Chaturvedi, N. (2002) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192632890.001.0001 · Cited by 212

The imprint of time: childhood, history, and adult life

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Early Hospital Admissions and Later Disturbances of Behaviour and Learning

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Birth Weight, Childhood Size, and Muscle Strength in Adult Life: Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study

Kuh, D. J. (2002) · American Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/aje/kwf099 · Cited by 180

Energy intake and dietary patterns in childhood and throughout adulthood and mammographic density: results from a British prospective cohort

Mishra, G. D., dos‐Santos‐Silva, I., McNaughton, S. A., Stephen, A. M., & Kuh, D. J. (2010) · Cancer Causes & Control · doi:10.1007/s10552-010-9690-7 · Cited by 30

Identification of risk factors for hospital admission using multiple-failure survival models: a toolkit for researchers

Westbury, L. D., Syddall, H. E., Simmonds, S. J., Cooper, C. C., & Sayer, A. A. (2016) · BMC Medical Research Methodology · doi:10.1186/s12874-016-0147-x · Cited by 29

Reduced midlife physical functioning among never married and childless men: evidence from the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study

Guralnik, J. M., Butterworth, S., Patel, K. V., Mishra, G. D., & Kuh, D. J. (2009) · Aging Clinical and Experimental Research · doi:10.1007/bf03325226 · Cited by 29

Leisure-time physical activity across adulthood and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease at age 60–64: A prospective cohort study

Elhakeem, A., Murray, E. T., Cooper, R., Kuh, D. J., Whincup, P. H., & Hardy, R. (2017) · Atherosclerosis · doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2017.11.019 · Cited by 28

Genetic variation underlying common hereditary hyperbilirubinaemia (Gilbert’s syndrome) and respiratory health in the 1946 British birth cohort

Horsfall, L., Hardy, R., Wong, A., Kuh, D. J., & Swallow, D. M. (2014) · Journal of Hepatology · doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2014.07.028 · Cited by 28

Alcohol intake and risk of colorectal cancer: Results from the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium

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Childhood predictors of late‐life diabetes: The case of Mexico

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Association between adolescent emotional problems and metabolic syndrome: The modifying effect of C-reactive protein gene (CRP) polymorphisms

Gaysina, D., Pierce, M. B., Richards, M., Hotopf, M. H., Kuh, D. J., & Hardy, R. (2011) · Brain Behavior and Immunity · doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2011.01.019 · Cited by 29

Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

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Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Five New Loci Associated With Lung Function

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Data Resource Profile: Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER)

O’Neill, D., Benzeval, M., Boyd, A., Calderwood, L., Cooper, C. C., Corti, L., Dennison, E. M., Fitzsimons, E., Goodman, A. T., Hardy, R., et al. (2019) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyz004 · Cited by 27

Socioeconomic inequalities in blood pressure: co-ordinated analysis of 147,775 participants from repeated birth cohort and cross-sectional datasets, 1989 to 2016

Bann, D., Fluharty, M., Hardy, R., & Scholes, S. (2020) · BMC Medicine · doi:10.1186/s12916-020-01800-w · Cited by 29

Lifetime affect and midlife cognitive function: prospective birth cohort study

Richards, M., Barnett, J. H., Xu, M. K., Croudace, T. J., Gaysina, D., Kuh, D. J., Jones, P. B., & the MRC National Survey of Health and Development scientific and data collection team (2013) · The British Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.113.128942 · Cited by 28

An investigation of the healthy migrant hypothesis: Pre-emigration characteristics of those in the British 1946 birth cohort study

Fuller‐Thomson, E., Brennenstuhl, S., Cooper, R., & Kuh, D. J. (2015) · Canadian Journal of Public Health · doi:10.17269/cjph.106.5218 · Cited by 26

Healthy, Active Aging for People and Dogs

McCune, S., & Promislow, D. (2021) · Frontiers in Veterinary Science · doi:10.3389/fvets.2021.655191 · Cited by 34

Associations between APOE and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol genotypes and cognitive and physical capability: the HALCyon programme

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Childhood socioeconomic position and adult mental wellbeing: Evidence from four British birth cohort studies

Wood, N., Bann, D., Hardy, R., Galé, C. R., Goodman, A. T., Crawford, C., & Stafford, M. (2017) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185798 · Cited by 26

Patterns of adiposity, vascular phenotypes and cognitive function in the 1946 British Birth Cohort

Masi, S., Georgiopoulos, G. A., Khan, T. A., Johnson, W., Wong, A., Charakida, M., Whincup, P. H., Hughes, A. D., Richards, M., Hardy, R., et al. (2018) · BMC Medicine · doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1059-x · Cited by 26

Realising health data linkage from a researcher’s perspective: following up the 6-Day Sample of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947

Brett, C. E., & Deary, I. J. (2014) · Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · doi:10.14301/llcs.v5i3.266 · Cited by 25

Patterns of Leisure-Time Physical Activity Participation in a British Birth Cohort at Early Old Age

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Associations of behavioural risk factors and health status with changes in physical capability over 10 years of follow-up: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

Cooper, R., Terrera, G. M., & Kuh, D. J. (2016) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009962 · Cited by 25

Erratum: Prostate cancer risk related to foods, food groups, macronutrients and micronutrients derived from the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium food diaries

Lane, J. A., Oliver, S., Appleby, P., Lentjes, M. A. H., Emmett, P. M., Kuh, D. J., Stephen, A. M., Brunner, E. J., Shipley, M. J., Hamdy, F. C., et al. (2017) · European Journal of Clinical Nutrition · doi:10.1038/ejcn.2017.17 · Cited by 25

Challenges and strategies for cohort retention and data collection in an indigenous population: Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort

Lawrance, M., Sayers, S. M., & Singh, G. (2014) · BMC Medical Research Methodology · doi:10.1186/1471-2288-14-31 · Cited by 24

Investigating the Relationship Between IGF-I, IGF-II, and IGFBP-3 Concentrations and Later-Life Cognition and Brain Volume

Salzmann, A., James, S., Williams, D. M., Richards, M., Cadar, D., Schott, J. M., Coath, W., Sudre, C. H., Chaturvedi, N., & Garfield, V. (2021) · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · doi:10.1210/clinem/dgab121 · Cited by 24

Socioeconomic position and hysterectomy: a cross-cohort comparison of women in Australia and Great Britain

Cooper, R., Lucke, J. C., Lawlor, D. A., Mishra, G. D., Chang, J., Ebrahim, S. B. J., Kuh, D. J., & Dobson, A. J. (2008) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech.2007.071001 · Cited by 24

Adiposity in Early, Middle and Later Adult Life and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Later Life; Findings from the British Regional Heart Study

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Health returns to cognitive capital in the British 1946 birth cohort

Richards, M., Stephen, A. M., & Mishra, G. D. (2010) · Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · doi:10.14301/llcs.v1i3.94 · Cited by 22

Psychiatric disorder in early adulthood and risk of premature mortality in the 1946 British Birth Cohort

Henderson, M., Hotopf, M. H., Shah, I., Hayes, R. D., & Kuh, D. J. (2011) · BMC Psychiatry · doi:10.1186/1471-244x-11-37 · Cited by 22

Is adiposity across life associated with subsequent hysterectomy risk? Findings from the 1946 British birth cohort study

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Appraisals of stressors and common mental disorder from early to mid-adulthood in the 1946 British birth cohort

Hatch, S., Mishra, G., Hotopf, M., Jones, P., & Kuh, D. (2009) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2009.03.021 · Cited by 28

1946 and all that: updating cohort profiles as the participants and investigators age

Smith, G. D. (2011) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyr032 · Cited by 21

Longitudinal profiles of back pain across adulthood and their relationship with childhood factors: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort

Muthuri, S. G., Kuh, D. J., & Cooper, R. (2018) · Pain · doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001143 · Cited by 22

The relationship between pubertal timing and markers of vascular and cardiac structure and function in men and women aged 60–64 years

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Do the associations of body mass index and waist circumference with back pain change as people age? 32 years of follow-up in a British birth cohort

Muthuri, S. G., Cooper, R., Kuh, D. J., & Hardy, R. (2020) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039197 · Cited by 21

Dietary calcium and vitamin D intakes in childhood and throughout adulthood and mammographic density in a British birth cohort

Mishra, G. D., McCormack, V., Kuh, D. J., Hardy, R., Stephen, A. M., & Silva, I. D. S. (2008) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604697 · Cited by 22

Is the Hierarchy of Loss in Functional Ability Evident in Midlife? Findings from a British Birth Cohort

Wloch, E. G., Kuh, D. J., & Cooper, R. (2016) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155815 · Cited by 23

The origins and innovatory nature of the 1946 British national birth cohort study

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Cohort studies in the context of obstetric and gynecologic research: a methodologic overview

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No association between gain in body mass index across the life course and midlife cognitive function and cognitive reserve—The 1946 British birth cohort study

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LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF HUMAN GROWTH AND HEALTH: A REVIEW OF RECENT HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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APOE and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Markers in Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage

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Childhood correlates of adult positive mental well-being in three British longitudinal studies

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Is Intergenerational Social Mobility Related to the Type and Amount of Physical Activity in Mid-Adulthood? Results from the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study

Silverwood, R. J., Pierce, M. B., Nitsch, D., Mishra, G. D., & Kuh, D. J. (2012) · Annals of Epidemiology · doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.03.002 · Cited by 18

Life Course Lens on Aging and Health

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Changes in the body mass index and blood pressure association across time: Evidence from multiple cross-sectional and cohort studies

Bann, D., Scholes, S., Hardy, R., & O’Neill, D. (2021) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106825 · Cited by 20

Study protocol: MyoFit46—the cardiac sub-study of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

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Population sampling in longitudinal suverys

Goldstein, H., Lynn, P. J., Terrera, G. M., Hardy, R., O’Muircheartaigh, C. A., Skinner, C. J., & Lehtonen, R. (2015) · Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · doi:10.14301/llcs.v6i4.345 · Cited by 17

Physical Activity Producing Low, but Not Medium or Higher, Vertical Impacts Is Inversely Related to BMI in Older Adults: Findings From a Multicohort Study

Elhakeem, A., Hannam, K. J., Deere, K. C., Hartley, A. E., Clark, E., Moss, C. L., Edwards, M. H., Dennison, E. M., Gaysin, T., Kuh, D. J., et al. (2017) · The Journals of Gerontology Series A · doi:10.1093/gerona/glx176 · Cited by 17

Adult obesity and mid-life physical functioning in two British birth cohorts: investigating the mediating role of physical inactivity

Pereira, S. M. P., Stavola, B. L. D., Rogers, N. T., Hardy, R., Cooper, R., & Power, C. (2020) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyaa014 · Cited by 17

Is birthweight associated with total and aggressive/lethal prostate cancer risks? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Zhou, C. K., Sutcliffe, S. S., Welsh, J. A., Mackinnon, K., Kuh, D. J., Hardy, R., & Cook, M. B. (2016) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/bjc.2016.38 · Cited by 17

Changes over time in latent patterns of childhood-to-adulthood BMI development in Great Britain: evidence from three cohorts born in 1946, 1958, and 1970

Norris, T., Hamer, M., Hardy, R., Li, L., Ong, K. K., Ploubidis, G. B., Viner, R., & Johnson, W. (2021) · BMC Medicine · doi:10.1186/s12916-021-01969-8 · Cited by 16

Association between obesity and urinary incontinence in older adults from multiple nationwide longitudinal cohorts

Chen, X., Jiang, S., & Yao, Y. (2023) · Communications Medicine · doi:10.1038/s43856-023-00367-w · Cited by 18

Adulthood adiposity affects cardiac structure and function in later life

Saikhan, L. A., Chaturvedi, N., Ghosh, A. K., Hardy, R., & Hughes, A. D. (2024) · European Heart Journal · doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehae403 · Cited by 16

A longitudinal investigation of the impact of typology of urinary incontinence on quality of life during midlife: Results from a British prospective study

Mishra, G. D., Croudace, T. J., Cardozo, L., & Kuh, D. J. (2009) · Maturitas · doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2009.09.015 · Cited by 16

Adolescent Self-control Predicts Midlife Hallucinatory Experiences: 40-Year Follow-up of a National Birth Cohort

Nishida, A., Xu, K. M., Croudace, T. J., Jones, P. B., Barnett, J. H., & Richards, M. (2014) · Schizophrenia Bulletin · doi:10.1093/schbul/sbu050 · Cited by 16

Lifetime cigarette smoking and chronic widespread and regional pain in later adulthood: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study

Bendayan, R., Cooper, R., & Muthuri, S. G. (2018) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021896 · Cited by 16

The effect of mid-life insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes on older-age cognitive state: the explanatory role of early-life advantage

James, S., Wong, A., Tillin, T., Hardy, R., Chaturvedi, N., & Richards, M. (2019) · Diabetologia · doi:10.1007/s00125-019-4949-3 · Cited by 15

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry

Gui, A., Hollowell, A., Wigdor, E. M., MORGAN, M., Hannigan, L. J., Corfield, E. C., Odintsova, V. V., Hottenga, J., Wong, A., Pool, R., et al. (2025) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-025-02145-1 · Cited by 20

Social Health and Change in Cognitive Capability among Older Adults: Findings from Four European Longitudinal Studies

Maddock, J., Gallo, F., Wolters, F. J., Stafford, J., Marseglia, A., Dekhtyar, S., Lenart‐Bugla, M., Verspoor, E., Perry, M., Samtani, S., et al. (2023) · Gerontology · doi:10.1159/000531969 · Cited by 14

NutriLive: An Integrated Nutritional Approach as a Sustainable Tool to Prevent Malnutrition in Older People and Promote Active and Healthy Ageing—The EIP-AHA Nutrition Action Group

Illario, M., Maione, A. S., Rusciano, M. R., Goossens, E., Rauter, A. P., Braz, N. M. D. A. R., Jager‐Wittenaar, H., Somma, C. D., Crola, C., Soprano, M., et al. (2016) · Advances in Public Health · doi:10.1155/2016/5678782 · Cited by 14

Childhood academic ability in relation to cigarette, alcohol and cannabis use from adolescence into early adulthood: Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE)

Williams, J. M., & Hagger‐Johnson, G. (2017) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012989 · Cited by 15

Parental social class and school GCSE outcomes: two decades of evidence from UK household panel surveys

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Physical capability and the advantages and disadvantages of ageing: perceptions of older age by men and women in two British cohorts

Parsons, S., Galé, C. R., Kuh, D. J., Elliott, J., & THE HALCYON STUDY TEAM (2012) · Ageing and Society · doi:10.1017/s0144686x12001067 · Cited by 16

Overcoming Data Gaps in Life Course Epidemiology by Matching Across Cohorts

Kezios, K., Zimmerman, S. C., Buto, P. T., Rudolph, K. E., Calónico, S., Hazzouri, A. Z. A., & Glymour, M. M. (2024) · Epidemiology · doi:10.1097/ede.0000000000001761 · Cited by 15

Validity of two simple measures for estimating life-course socio-economic position in cross-sectional postal survey data in an older population: results from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project (NorStOP)

Lacey, R. J., Belcher, J., & Croft, P. R. (2012) · BMC Medical Research Methodology · doi:10.1186/1471-2288-12-88 · Cited by 14

Visions of the Life Course: Risks, Resources, and Vulnerability

Ferraro, K. F., & Schafer, M. H. (2017) · Research in Human Development · doi:10.1080/15427609.2016.1268895 · Cited by 14

Trends in Visual Health Inequalities in Childhood Through Associations of Visual Function With Sex and Social Position Across 3 UK Birth Cohorts

Bountziouka, V. P., Cumberland, P. M., & Rahi, J. S. (2017) · JAMA Ophthalmology · doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.2812 · Cited by 14

Childhood growth and development and DNA methylation age in mid-life

Maddock, J., Fernandez, J. C., Wong, A., Ploubidis, G. B., Kuh, D. J., Bell, J. T., & Hardy, R. (2021) · Clinical Epigenetics · doi:10.1186/s13148-021-01138-x · Cited by 16

Fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) rs9939609 polymorphism modifies the relationship between body mass index and affective symptoms through the life course: a prospective birth cohort study

Koike, S., Richards, M., Wong, A., & Hardy, R. (2018) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-018-0110-1 · Cited by 14

Birth weight is inversely correlated with blood pressure: population-based study

Salmi, I. A., & Hannawi, S. (2020) · Journal of Hypertension · doi:10.1097/hjh.0000000000002545 · Cited by 14

Socioeconomic inequalities across life and premature mortality from 1971 to 2016: findings from three British birth cohorts born in 1946, 1958 and 1970

Fluharty, M., Hardy, R., Ploubidis, G. B., Pongiglione, B., & Bann, D. (2020) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech-2020-214423 · Cited by 12

Generational, sex, and socioeconomic inequalities in mental and social wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: prospective longitudinal observational study of five UK cohorts

Moreno‐Agostino, D., Fisher, H. L., Hatch, S. L., Morgan, C., Ploubidis, G. B., & Das‐Munshi, J. (2022) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291722003348 · Cited by 17

Cohort Profile: Next Steps—the longitudinal study of people in England born in 1989–90

Wu, A. F.-W., Henderson, M., Brown, M., Adalı, T., Silverwood, R. J., Peycheva, D., & Calderwood, L. (2024) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyae152 · Cited by 13

Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions

Bann, D., Wright, L., Goisis, A., Hardy, R., Johnson, W., Maddock, J., McElroy, E., Moulton, V., Patalay, P., Scholes, S., et al. (2022) · Discover Social Science and Health · doi:10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1 · Cited by 14

Neuroticism in Adolescence and Cognitive Function in Midlife in the British 1946 Birth Cohort: The HALCyon Program

Galé, C. R., Deary, I. J., Kuh, D. J., Huppert, F. A., Richards, M., & the HALCyon Study Team (2009) · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · doi:10.1093/geronb/gbp082 · Cited by 13

Verbal memory and search speed in early midlife are associated with mortality over 25 years’ follow-up, independently of health status and early life factors: a British birth cohort study.

Davis, D. H. J., Cooper, R., Terrera, G. M., Hardy, R., Richards, M., & Kuh, D. J. (2016) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyw100 · Cited by 13

Childhood Cognitive Ability and Age-Related Changes in Physical Capability From Midlife: Findings From a British Birth Cohort Study

Cooper, R., Richards, M., & Kuh, D. J. (2017) · Psychosomatic Medicine · doi:10.1097/psy.0000000000000482 · Cited by 13

A dietary pattern derived using B-vitamins and its relationship with vascular markers over the life course

Maddock, J., Ambrosini, G. L., Griffin, J. L., West, J. A., Wong, A., Hardy, R., & Ray, S. (2018) · Clinical Nutrition · doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2018.06.969 · Cited by 16

From paediatrics to geriatrics: a life course perspective on the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

Kuh, D. J. (2016) · European Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1007/s10654-016-0214-y · Cited by 13

Infant weight gain and adolescent body mass index: comparison across two British cohorts born in 1946 and 2001

Johnson, W., Bann, D., & Hardy, R. (2018) · Archives of Disease in Childhood · doi:10.1136/archdischild-2017-314079 · Cited by 13

Premature and Early Menopause in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease

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