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Types of diet, obesity, and incident type 2 diabetes: Findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study

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Cross-sectional metabolic subgroups and 10-year follow-up of cardiometabolic multimorbidity in the UK Biobank

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The association between telomere length and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a prospective study

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A proteomic signature of healthspan

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Associations Between Macronutrients From Different Dietary Sources and Serum Lipids in 24 639 UK Biobank Study Participants

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Visual Impairment and Risk of Dementia in 2 Population-Based Prospective Cohorts: UK Biobank and EPIC-Norfolk

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Residential greenspace and risk of cancer: A prospective cohort study from the UK Biobank

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Association between cardiovascular health metrics and retinal ageing

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Habitual Coffee, Tea, and Caffeine Consumption, Circulating Metabolites, and the Risk of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity

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Polygenic prediction of occupational status GWAS elucidates genetic and environmental interplay in intergenerational transmission, careers and health in UK Biobank

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Effects of increased body mass index on employment status: a Mendelian randomisation study

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Associations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D status and vitamin D supplementation use with mortality due to 18 frequent cancer types in the UK Biobank cohort

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Associations between unilateral amblyopia in childhood and cardiometabolic disorders in adult life: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Biobank

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Quality of plant-based diets and frailty incidence: a prospective analysis of UK biobank participants

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Sex differences in experiences of multiple traumas and mental health problems in the UK Biobank cohort

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Associations of Childhood Maltreatment and Genetic Risks With Incident Heart Failure in Later Life

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Impact of Persisting Amblyopia on Socioeconomic, Health, and Well-Being Outcomes in Adult Life: Findings From the UK Biobank

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Reduced muscle strength (dynapenia) in women with obesity confers a greater risk of falls and fractures in the UK Biobank

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Glycemic status and its association with retinal age gap: Insights from the UK biobank study

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A semi-supervised approach for rapidly creating clinical biomarker phenotypes in the UK Biobank using different primary care EHR and clinical terminology systems

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Insulin resistance-related indices, genetic risk, and the risk of cardiovascular disease in individuals with preclinical or clinical obesity: a large prospective cohort study in the UK biobank

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Understanding Factors That Cause Tinnitus: A Mendelian Randomization Study in the UK Biobank

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Associations and predictive performance of 11 anthropometric measures with incident type 2 diabetes: A prospective cohort study from the UK Biobank

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Associations of plasma omega‐6 and omega‐3 fatty acids with overall and 19 site‐specific cancers: A population‐based cohort study in UK Biobank

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Association between fish oil supplementation and cancer risk according to fatty fish consumption: A large prospective population‐based cohort study using UK Biobank

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Public awareness and attitudes toward biobank and sample donation: A regional Chinese survey

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Self-reported walking pace: A simple screening tool with lowest risk of all-cause mortality in those that ‘walk the talk’

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Sex hormones and the risk of myocardial infarction in women and men: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank

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Influence of social deprivation on morbidity and all-cause mortality of cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cohort analysis of the UK Biobank cohort

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Estimating diagnostic noise in panel-based genomic analysis

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Associations of accelerometer-measured sleep duration with incident cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality

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Multifactorial disorders and polygenic risk scores: predicting common diseases and the possibility of adverse selection in life and protection insurance

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Associations of cognitive performance with cardiovascular magnetic resonance phenotypes in the UK Biobank

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Heart rate response and recovery during exercise predict future delirium risk—A prospective cohort study in middle- to older-aged adults

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Dynamic association of ambient air pollution with incidence and mortality of pulmonary hypertension: A multistate trajectory analysis

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Association of five diet scores with severe NAFLD incidence: A prospective study from UK Biobank

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Self-reported childhood adversity, unhealthy lifestyle and risk of new-onset chronic kidney disease in later life: A prospective cohort study

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An observational analysis of frailty in combination with loneliness or social isolation and their association with socioeconomic deprivation, hospitalisation and mortality among UK Biobank participants

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Physical frailty, genetic predisposition, and incident arrhythmias

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Reweighting a Swedish health questionnaire survey using extensive population register and self-reported data for assessing and improving the validity of longitudinal associations

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Exploring the Underlying Mechanisms Linking Adiposity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study of 404,332 UK Biobank Participants

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Higher potassium intake is associated with a lower risk of chronic kidney disease: population-based prospective study

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Chronic pain in multiple sites is associated with cardiovascular dysfunction: an observational UK Biobank cohort study

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High cognitive reserve attenuates the risk of dementia associated with cardiometabolic diseases

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Associations Between Relative Grip Strength and the Risk of 15 Cancer Sites

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Dietary Patterns and Practices and Leucocyte Telomere Length: Findings from the UK Biobank

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Genetic mechanisms, brain structures, and peripheral biomarkers mediate the relationship between physical frailty and neuropsychiatric disorders

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Chronic pain and COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality: a UK Biobank cohort study

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Mechanism of the association between sleep quality and mortality in middle-aged and older adults: A prospective study analysis of the UK Biobank

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Daily stair climbing, disease susceptibility, and risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: A prospective cohort study

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Role of residential greenspace in the trajectory of major neurological disorders: A longitudinal study in UK Biobank

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