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Social Inequalities and Mortality in Europe - Results from a Large Multi-National Cohort
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Socio-economic inequalities in mortality are observed at the country level in both North America and Europe. The purpose of this work is to investigate the contribution of specific risk factors to social inequalities in cause-specific mortality using a large multi-country cohort of Europeans.
A total of 3,456,689 person/years follow-up of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and ...
Combined Impact of Lifestyle Factors on Prospective Change in Body Weight and Waist Circumference in Participants of the EPIC-PANACEA Study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
The evidence that individual dietary and lifestyle factors influence a person’s weight and waist circumference is well established; however their combined impact is less well documented. Therefore, we investigated the combined effect of physical activity, nutrition and smoking status on prospective gain in body weight and waist circumference.
We used data of the prospective EPIC-PANACEA study. ...
Determinants of non- response to a second assessment of lifestyle factors and body weight in the EPIC-PANACEA study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
This paper discusses whether baseline demographic, socio-economic, health variables, length of follow-up and method of contacting the participants predict non-response to the invitation for a second assessment of lifestyle factors and body weight in the European multi-center EPIC-PANACEA study.
Over 500.000 participants from several centers in ten European countries recruited between 1992 and 2000 ...