Cohort Profile: The Health Survey for England

A Procedure for Objective Respondent Selection within the Household

Kish, L. (1949) · Journal of the American Statistical Association · doi:10.1080/01621459.1949.10483314 · Cited by 1,218

Childhood obesity and overweight prevalence trends in England: evidence for growing socioeconomic disparities

Stamatakis, E. A., Wardle, J., & Cole, T. J. (2009) · International Journal of Obesity · doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.217 · Cited by 424

Prevalence, diagnosis and relation to tobacco dependence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a nationally representative population sample

Shahab, L., Jarvis, M. J., Britton, J. R., & West, R. (2006) · Thorax · doi:10.1136/thx.2006.064410 · Cited by 325

25-year Trends and Socio-demographic Differences in Response Rates: Finnish Adult Health Behaviour Survey

Tolonen, H. K., Helakorpi, S., Talala, K. M., Helasoja, V. V., Martelin, T. P., & Prättälä, R. (2006) · European Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1007/s10654-006-9019-8 · Cited by 288

Continued Improvement in Hypertension Management in England

Falaschetti, E., Chaudhury, M., Mindell, J. S., & Poulter, N. R. (2009) · Hypertension · doi:10.1161/hypertensionaha.108.125617 · Cited by 247

A national census of care home residents

Bowman, C. (2004) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afh177 · Cited by 208

Trends in obesity among adults in England from 1993 to 2004 by age and social class and projections of prevalence to 2012

Zaninotto, P., Head, J. A., Stamatakis, E. A., Wardle, H., & Mindell, J. S. (2008) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech.2008.077305 · Cited by 151

Time trends in childhood and adolescent obesity in England from 1995 to 2007 and projections of prevalence to 2015

Stamatakis, E. A., Zaninotto, P., Falaschetti, E., Mindell, J. S., & Head, J. A. (2010) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech.2009.098723 · Cited by 138

Vitamin D concentrations among people aged 65 years and over living in private households and institutions in England: population survey

Hirani, V., & Primatesta, P. (2005) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afi153 · Cited by 129

Assessment of physical activity levels in South Asians in the UK: findings from the Health Survey for England

Williams, E. D., Stamatakis, E., Chandola, T., & Hamer, M. (2010) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech.2009.102509 · Cited by 128

An Examination of Who Is Eligible and Who Is Receiving Bariatric Surgery in England: Secondary Analysis of the Health Survey for England Dataset

Desogus, D., Menon, V., Singhal, R., & Oyebode, O. O. (2019) · Obesity Surgery · doi:10.1007/s11695-019-03977-3 · Cited by 40

Is Dog Ownership Associated with Mental Health? A Population Study of 68,362 Adults Living in England

Liu, S., Powell, L., Chia, D., Russ, T. C., McGreevy, P. D., Bauman, A. E., Edwards, K. M., & Stamatakis, E. (2019) · Anthrozoös · doi:10.1080/08927936.2019.1673033 · Cited by 36

Systematic review of the effectiveness of the health inequalities strategy in England between 1999 and 2010

Holdroyd, I., Vodden, A., Srinivasan, A., Kuhn, I. L., Bambra, C. L., & Ford, J. A. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063137 · Cited by 41

Pulmonary function as a risk factor for dementia death: an individual participant meta-analysis of six UK general population cohort studies

Russ, T. C., Starr, J. M., Stamatakis, E. A., Mika Kivimaki, B., & Batty, G. D. (2015) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech-2014-204959 · Cited by 35

Psychological distress and infectious disease mortality in the general population

Hamer, M., Mika Kivimaki, B., Stamatakis, E. A., & Batty, G. D. (2018) · Brain Behavior and Immunity · doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2018.12.011 · Cited by 35

Did hardening occur among smokers in E ngland from 2000 to 2010?

Docherty, G., McNeill, A. D., GARTNER, C. E., & Szatkowski, L. C. (2013) · Addiction · doi:10.1111/add.12359 · Cited by 35

Physical Activity Intervention for Loneliness (PAIL) in community-dwelling older adults: a randomised feasibility study

Shvedko, A. V., Thompson, J. L., Greig, C. A., & Phillips, A. C. (2020) · Pilot and Feasibility Studies · doi:10.1186/s40814-020-00587-0 · Cited by 37

Estimating population prevalence of potential airflow obstruction using different spirometric criteria: a pooled cross-sectional analysis of persons aged 40–95 years in England and Wales

Scholes, S., Moody, A., & Mindell, J. S. (2014) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005685 · Cited by 33

Elevated inflammatory biomarkers during unemployment: modification by age and country in the UK

Hughes, A., McMunn, A., Bartley, M., & Meena Kumari, B. (2015) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech-2014-204404 · Cited by 32

Socioeconomic position and mortality risk of smoking: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Lewer, D., McKee, M., Gasparrini, A., Reeves, A., & de Oliveira, C. M. (2017) · European Journal of Public Health · doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckx059 · Cited by 33

Dog Ownership and Mortality in England: A Pooled Analysis of Six Population-based Cohorts

Ding, D., Bauman, A. E., Sherrington, C., McGreevy, P. D., Edwards, K. M., & Stamatakis, E. A. (2017) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2017.09.012 · Cited by 32

The impact of self-report inaccuracy in the UK Biobank and its interplay with selective participation

Schoeler, T., Pingault, J., & Kutalik, Z. (2024) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02061-w · Cited by 42

Adherence to aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise guidelines and associations with psychological distress: A cross-sectional study of 14,050 English adults

Cocker, K. A. D., Teychenne, M. J., White, R. L., & Bennie, J. A. (2020) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106192 · Cited by 32

Prevalence of and factors associated with herpes zoster in England: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England

Cadogan, S. L., Mindell, J. S., Breuer, J., Hayward, A. C., & Warren‐Gash, C. (2022) · BMC Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1186/s12879-022-07479-z · Cited by 31

Social class, employment status and inequality in psychological well-being in the UK: Cross-sectional and fixed effects analyses over two decades

Richards, L., & Paškov, M. (2016) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.042 · Cited by 30

Combination of dynapenia and abdominal obesity affects long-term physical performance trajectories in older adults: sex differences

Máximo, R. D. O., de Oliveira, D. C., Ramírez, P. C., Luiz, M. M., de Souza, A. F., Delinocente, M. L. B., Steptoe, A., de Oliveira, C. M., & Alexandre, T. D. S. (2022) · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · doi:10.1093/ajcn/nqac023 · Cited by 30

Prevalence, progress, and subgroup disparities in pharmacological antidepressant treatment of those who screen positive for depressive symptoms: A repetitive cross-sectional study in 19 European countries

Chen, S., Ford, T. J., Jones, P. B., & Cardinal, R. N. (2022) · The Lancet Regional Health - Europe · doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100368 · Cited by 36

Employment status and income as potential mediators of educational inequalities in population mental health: Table 1

Katikireddi, S. V., Niedzwiedz, C. L., & Popham, F. (2016) · European Journal of Public Health · doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckw126 · Cited by 30

Arterial stiffening is a heritable trait associated with arterial dilation but not wall thickening: a longitudinal study in the twins UK cohort

Cecelja, M., Jiang, B., Keehn, L., Hussain, T., Vieira, M. S., Phinikaridou, A., Greil, G. F., Spector, T. D., & Chowienczyk, P. (2018) · European Heart Journal · doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy165 · Cited by 30

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Incident Prefrailty and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older People: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Kojima, G., Iliffe, S., Jivraj, S., & Walters, K. R. (2020) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu12123882 · Cited by 29

Explanatory factors for health inequalities across different ethnic and gender groups: data from a national survey in England

Mindell, J. S., Knott, C. S., Fat, L. N., Roth, M. A., Manor, O., Soskolne, V., & Daoud, N. (2014) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech-2014-203927 · Cited by 28

Using longitudinal data from the Health Survey for England to resolve discrepancies in thresholds for haemoglobin in older adults

Mindell, J. S., Moody, A., Ali, A., & Hirani, V. (2012) · British Journal of Haematology · doi:10.1111/bjh.12121 · Cited by 29

Assessment of Relative Utility of Underlying vs Contributory Causes of Death

Batty, G. D., Galé, C. R., Mika Kivimaki, B., & Bell, S. (2019) · JAMA Network Open · doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.8024 · Cited by 28

Investigating the effect of England's smoke-free private vehicle regulation on changes in tobacco smoke exposure and respiratory disease in children: a quasi-experimental study

Faber, T., Mizani, M. A., Sheikh, A., Mackenbach, J. P., Reiss, I. K. M., & Been, J. V. (2019) · The Lancet Public Health · doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30175-6 · Cited by 28

Role of age and exposure duration in the association between metabolic syndrome and risk of incident dementia: a prospective cohort study

Qureshi, D., Luben, R., Hayat, S. A., Talarico, R., Allen, N. E., Kuźma, E., & Littlejohns, T. J. (2024) · The Lancet Healthy Longevity · doi:10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.100652 · Cited by 28

Modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors as predictors of dementia death: pooling of ten general population-based cohort studies

Batty, G. D., Russ, T. C., Starr, J. M., Stamatakis, E. A., & Mika Kivimaki, B. (2014) · Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine · doi:10.1186/1477-5751-13-8 · 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

Big data and data repurposing - using existing data to answer new questions in vascular dementia research

Doubal, F., Ali, M., Batty, G. D., Charidimou, A., Eriksdotter, M., Hofmann‐Apitius, M., Kim, Y., Levine, D. A., Mead, G. E., Mucke, H. A., et al. (2017) · BMC Neurology · doi:10.1186/s12883-017-0841-2 · Cited by 26

Population-level trends in the distribution of body mass index in England, 1992–2013

Green, M. A., Subramanian, S. V., & Razak, F. A. (2016) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206468 · Cited by 25

The Effect of Pre-Analytical Conditions on Blood Metabolomics in Epidemiological Studies

Ferreira, D. L. S., Maple, H. J., Goodwin, M., Brand, J. S., Yip, V., Min, J. L., Groom, A., Lawlor, D. A., & Ring, S. M. (2019) · Metabolites · doi:10.3390/metabo9040064 · Cited by 25

Has the UK Healthy Start voucher scheme been associated with an increased fruit and vegetable intake among target families? Analysis of Health Survey for England data, 2001–2014

Pearson, R. J., Moody, A., Oyebode, O. O., & Mindell, J. S. (2018) · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · doi:10.1136/jech-2017-209954 · Cited by 25

Cancer-related health behaviours of young people not in education, employment or training (‘NEET’): a cross-sectional study

Stewart, C. H., Berry, P., Przulj, D., & Treanor, C. (2017) · BMC Cancer · doi:10.1186/s12885-017-3157-0 · Cited by 25

Regional differences in mental health stigma—Analysis of nationally representative data from the Health Survey for England, 2014

Bhavsar, V., Schofield, P., Das‐Munshi, J., & Henderson, C. (2019) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210834 · Cited by 27

Availability and use of UK based ethnicity data for health research

Mathur, R., Grundy, E. M. D., Smeeth, L. L., & RES-576-25-0037 (2013) · NCRM EPrints Repository (National Centre for Research Methods) · doi:10.5258/ncrm/ncrm.00003040 · Cited by 26

Trends in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity prevalence: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England

Broadbent, P., Shen, Y., Pearce, A., & Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) · Archives of Disease in Childhood · doi:10.1136/archdischild-2023-325844 · Cited by 24

Income-based inequalities in hypertension and in undiagnosed hypertension: analysis of Health Survey for England data

Scholes, S., Conolly, A., & Mindell, J. S. (2020) · Journal of Hypertension · doi:10.1097/hjh.0000000000002350 · Cited by 24

Number of Pregnancies and Trajectory of Frailty Index: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Kojima, G., Ogawa, K., Iliffe, S., Taniguchi, Y., & Walters, K. R. (2020) · Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2020.04.010 · Cited by 24

Joint Associations of Alcohol Consumption and Physical Activity With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality

Soedamah‐Muthu, S. S., Neve, M. D., Shelton, N. J., Tielemans, S. M. A. J., & Stamatakis, E. A. (2013) · The American Journal of Cardiology · doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.03.040 · Cited by 24

Low gait speed is better than frailty and sarcopenia at identifying the risk of disability in older adults

de Souza, A. F., Máximo, R. D. O., Ramírez, P. C., Máximo, R. D. O., Luiz, M. M., Delinocente, M. L. B., Steptoe, A., de Oliveira, C. M., & Alexandre, T. D. S. (2025) · Age and Ageing · doi:10.1093/ageing/afaf104 · Cited by 35

Investigating the relationship between smoking and subjective welfare

Churchill, S. A., & Farrell, L. (2017) · Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics · doi:10.1016/j.socec.2017.08.003 · Cited by 23

Socioeconomic inequalities in adult oral health across different ethnic groups in England

DELGADO-ANGULO, E. K., Mangal, M., & Bernabé, E. (2019) · Health and Quality of Life Outcomes · doi:10.1186/s12955-019-1156-3 · Cited by 23

Uncontrolled Diabetes as an Associated Factor with Dynapenia in Adults Aged 50 Years or Older: Sex Differences

Nebuloni, C. C., Máximo, R. D. O., de Oliveira, C. M., & Alexandre, T. D. S. (2019) · The Journals of Gerontology Series A · doi:10.1093/gerona/glz257 · Cited by 23

Earlier menopause is associated with higher risk of incident frailty in community‐dwelling older women in England

Kojima, G., Taniguchi, Y., Aoyama, R., & Urano, T. (2022) · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · doi:10.1111/jgs.17838 · Cited by 23

Does the Framingham cardiovascular disease risk score also have predictive utility for dementia death? An individual participant meta-analysis of 11,887 men and women

Russ, T. C., Hamer, M., Stamatakis, E., Starr, J. M., Batty, G. D., & Mika Kivimaki, B. (2013) · Atherosclerosis · doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.02.020 · Cited by 23

Comparison of Health Examination Survey Methods in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, England, Scotland, and the United States

Mindell, J. S., Moody, A., Vecino-Ortiz, A. I., Alfaro, T., Frenz, P., Scholes, S., González, S. A., Margozzini, P., de Oliveira, C. M., Sánchez‐Romero, L. M., et al. (2017) · American Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/aje/kwx045 · Cited by 23

Association between urinary biomarkers of total sugars intake and measures of obesity in a cross-sectional study

Campbell, R., Tasevska, N., Jackson, K. G., Sági‐Kiss, V., di Paolo, N., Mindell, J. S., Lister, S. J., Khaw, K., & Kuhnle, G. (2017) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179508 · Cited by 23

Exploring potential reasons for Glasgow’s ‘excess’ mortality: results of a three-city survey of Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester

Walsh, D., McCartney, G., McCullough, S., Pol, M. M. V. D., Buchanan, D., & Jones, R. (2013) · Cited by 22

Changes in cardiovascular disease risk and behavioural risk factors before the introduction of a health check programme in England

Alageel, S., Wright, A. J., & Gulliford, M. C. (2016) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.08.025 · Cited by 25

Inequalities in participation and time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity: a pooled analysis of the cross-sectional health surveys for England 2008, 2012, and 2016

Scholes, S., & Mindell, J. S. (2020) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-020-08479-x · Cited by 22

Why are suicidal thoughts less prevalent in older age groups? Age differences in the correlates of suicidal thoughts in the English Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007

Cooper, C., Rantell, K. R., Blanchard, M. R., McManus, S., Dennis, M., Brugha, T. S., Jenkins, R., Meltzer, H., & Bebbington, P. (2015) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2015.02.010 · Cited by 21

Prevalence and types of sexual inactivity in Britain: analyses of national cross-sectional probability survey data

Ueda, P., & Mercer, C. H. (2019) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030708 · Cited by 21

Examining associations between physical activity and cardiovascular mortality using negative control outcomes

Hamer, M., Bauman, A. E., Bell, J. A., & Stamatakis, E. (2018) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyy272 · Cited by 19

Generalisability of Results from UK Biobank: Comparison With a Pooling of 18 Cohort StudiesPreprint

Batty, G. D., Galé, C. R., Mika Kivimaki, B., Deary, I. J., & Bell, S. (2019) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/19004705 · Cited by 20

Impaired Glucose Metabolism among Those with and without Diagnosed Diabetes and Mortality: A Cohort Study Using Health Survey for England Data

Gordon-Dseagu, V., Mindell, J. S., Steptoe, A., Moody, A., Wardle, J., Demakakos, P., & Shelton, N. J. (2015) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119882 · Cited by 19

The Surveillance of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep: Protocol for the Development and Feasibility Evaluation of a Novel Measurement System

Crowley, P., Ikeda, E., Islam, S. M. S., Kildedal, R., Jacobsen, S. S., Larsen, J. R., Johansson, P. J., Hettiarachchi, P., Aadahl, M., Mork, P. J., et al. (2022) · JMIR Research Protocols · doi:10.2196/35697 · Cited by 19

Quantifying Policy Options for Reducing Future Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in England: A Modelling Study

Scholes, S., Bajekal, M., Norman, P. D., O’Flaherty, M., Hawkins, N. M., Mika Kivimaki, B., Capewell, S., & Raine, R. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069935 · Cited by 18

Depressive symptoms, prediabetes, and incident diabetes in older English adults

Graham, E. A., Au, B., & Schmitz, N. (2016) · International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · doi:10.1002/gps.4634 · Cited by 18

Trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors by BMI category among adults in England, 2003‐2018

Scholes, S., Fat, L. N., & Mindell, J. S. (2021) · Obesity · doi:10.1002/oby.23184 · Cited by 18

Estimating the population health burden of musculoskeletal conditions using primary care electronic health records

Yu, D., Peat, G., Jordan, K. P., Bailey, J., Prieto‐Alhambra, D., Robinson, D. E., Strauss, V. Y., Walker-Bone, K. E., Silman, A. J., Mamas, M. A., et al. (2021) · Lara D. Veeken · doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keab109 · Cited by 17

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

Community severance and health – A novel approach to measuring community severance and examining its impact on the health of adults in Great Britain

Higgsmith, M., Stockton, J. C., Anciães, P. R., Scholes, S., & Mindell, J. S. (2022) · Journal of Transport & Health · doi:10.1016/j.jth.2022.101368 · Cited by 17

Does the use of prediction equations to correct self-reported height and weight improve obesity prevalence estimates? A pooled cross-sectional analysis of Health Survey for England data

Scholes, S., Fat, L. N., Moody, A., & Mindell, J. S. (2023) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061809 · Cited by 17

Investigating obesity as a risk factor for influenza‐like illness during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic using the Health Survey for England

Murphy, R., Fragaszy, E., Hayward, A. C., & Warren‐Gash, C. (2016) · Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses · doi:10.1111/irv.12420 · Cited by 17

Are differential consumption patterns in health-related behaviours an explanation for persistent and widening social inequalities in health in England?

Stait, E., & Calnan, M. (2016) · International Journal for Equity in Health · doi:10.1186/s12939-016-0461-2 · Cited by 17

Differences in the prevalence of prediabetes, undiagnosed diabetes and diagnosed diabetes and associated factors in cohorts of Brazilian and English older adults

dos Santos, E. S. M., Máximo, R. D. O., de Andrade, F. B., de Oliveira, C. M., Lima‐Costa, M. F., & Alexandre, T. D. S. (2020) · Public Health Nutrition · doi:10.1017/s1368980020003201 · Cited by 16

Who Self-Weighs and What Do They Gain From It? A Retrospective Comparison Between Smart Scale Users and the General Population in England

Sperrin, M., Rushton, H., Dixon, W. G., Normand, A., Villard, J., Chieh, A. Y., & Buchan, I. E. (2016) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.4767 · Cited by 16

Origins and Development of Health Survey Methods

Johnson, T. P. (2014) · doi:10.1002/9781118594629.ch1 · Cited by 16

A victory for statins or a defeat for diet policies? Cholesterol falls in Poland in the past decade: A modeling study

Bandosz, P., O'Flaherty, M., Rutkowski, M., Kypridemos, C., Guzman-Castillo, M., Gillespie, D. O. S., Solnica, B., Pencina, M. J., Wyrzykowski, B., Capewell, S., et al. (2015) · International Journal of Cardiology · doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.03.079 · Cited by 15

Comparing self-rated health among exclusive e-cigarette users and traditional cigarette smokers: an analysis of the Health Survey for England 2019

Adebisi, Y. A., & Bafail, D. A. (2024) · Internal and Emergency Medicine · doi:10.1007/s11739-024-03817-y · Cited by 15

Is individual smoking behaviour influenced by area-level ethnic density? A cross-sectional electronic health database study of inner south-east London

Mathur, R., Schofield, P., Smith, D. M., Gilkes, A., White, P. T., & Hull, S. (2017) · ERJ Open Research · doi:10.1183/23120541.00130-2016 · Cited by 15

A review of the use of health examination data from the Health Survey for England in government policy development and implementation

Oyebode, O. O., & Mindell, J. S. (2014) · Archives of Public Health · doi:10.1186/2049-3258-72-24 · Cited by 15

Prevalence of overweight and obesity and associated factors among women of childbearing age in Brazil

Lyrio, A. O., Souza, E. S., Conceição, S. D. S., Batista, J. E. T., Brito, S. M., Gomes‐Filho, I. S., Figueiredo, A. C. M. G., & da Cruz, S. S. (2021) · Public Health Nutrition · doi:10.1017/s1368980021000409 · Cited by 14

Are Social Inequalities Widening in Generalised and Abdominal Obesity and Overweight among English Adults?

Howel, D., Stamp, E., Chadwick, T. J., Adamson, A., & White, M. J. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079027 · Cited by 14

Four-year stability of anthropometric and cardio-metabolic parameters in a prospective cohort of older adults

Jackson, S. E., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Beeken, R. J., Gunter, M. J., Steptoe, A., & Wardle, J. (2015) · Biomarkers in Medicine · doi:10.2217/bmm.14.78 · Cited by 14

Self-rated health and multimorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes

Umeh, K. F. (2021) · Journal of Health Psychology · doi:10.1177/13591053211001419 · Cited by 16

Modelling tool to support decision-making in the NHS Health Check programme: workshops, systematic review and co-production with users

O’Flaherty, M., Lloyd‐Williams, F., Capewell, S., Boland, A., Maden, M., Collins, B., Bandosz, P., Hyseni, L., & Kypridemos, C. (2021) · Health Technology Assessment · doi:10.3310/hta25350 · Cited by 14

Impact of informal care on the mental health of caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alfonzo, L. F., Taouk, Y., Emerson, E., & King, T. L. (2023) · Journal of Public Health · doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdad193 · Cited by 12

Well-being, physical activity and long-term conditions: cross-sectional analysis of Health Survey for England 2016

Harvey, C., Ratcliffe, P., & Gulliford, M. C. (2020) · Public Health · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.013 · Cited by 13

Income-based inequalities in self-reported moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among adolescents in England and the USA: a cross-sectional study

Scholes, S., & Mindell, J. S. (2021) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040540 · Cited by 12

Pre-notification letter type and response rate to a postal survey among women who have recently given birth

Todd, A. L., Porter, M., Williamson, J., Patterson, J. A., & Roberts, C. L. (2015) · BMC Medical Research Methodology · doi:10.1186/s12874-015-0097-8 · Cited by 12

Combined Effect of Dynapenia (Muscle Weakness) and Low Vitamin D Status on Incident Disability

Borim, F. S. A., Alexandre, T. D. S., Neri, A. L., Máximo, R. D. O., Silva, M. F., & de Oliveira, C. M. (2018) · Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2018.06.006 · Cited by 12

Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain

Potente, C., Präg, P., & Monden, C. W. S. (2023) · Journal of Health and Social Behavior · doi:10.1177/00221465221143089 · Cited by 15

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Is Abdominal Obesity a Risk Factor for the Incidence of Vitamin D Insufficiency and Deficiency in Older Adults? Evidence from the ELSA Study

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Asking about Sex in General Health Surveys: Comparing the Methods and Findings of the 2010 Health Survey for England with Those of the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles

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Does adequate physical activity attenuate the associations of alcohol and alcohol‐related cancer mortality? A pooled study of 54 686 British adults

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Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in behavioural non-communicable disease risk factors: analysis of repeated cross-sectional health surveys in England between 2003 and 2019

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Ethnic differences in multimorbidity after accounting for social-economic factors, findings from The Health Survey for England

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Association between physical activity and frailty transitions in middle-aged and older adults: a nationwide longitudinal study

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Regional Variation in Unmet Need for Metabolic Surgery in England: a Retrospective, Multicohort Analysis

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Association of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency with Risk of Incidence of Disability in Basic Activities of Daily Living in Adults >50 Years of Age

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U-Shaped Association Between Body Mass Index and Psychological Distress in a Population Sample of 114,218 British Adults

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