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Understanding the friendship networks of older Black and Minority Ethnic people living in the United Kingdom

Brenda Hayanga, Dylan Kneale, Ann Phoenix

Social GroupsOlder PeopleSocial NetworksSocial ExclusionSocial InclusionEthnic GroupsWell BeingSocial Behaviour

Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

EconomicsHealthBiology

Biomarkers as precursors of disability

Apostolos Davillas, Stephen Pudney

DisabilityHealthLife Course AnalysisBiology

Boomerang kids and parents’ well-being: adaptation, stressors, and social norms

Marco Tosi

Older PeopleEconomicsWell BeingHealthLife Course AnalysisSociology Of HouseholdsSocial Psychology

Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom

Marco Tosi, Emily Grundy

Older PeopleSocial NetworksLabour MarketWell BeingHealthLife Course AnalysisSocial StratificationSociology Of Households

Systematic underestimation of the epigenetic clock and age acceleration in older subjects

Louis Y. El Khoury, Tyler Gorrie-Stone, Melissa Smart, Amanda Hughes, Yanchun Bao

Older PeopleLife Course AnalysisBiologyGenetics

Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9

Amand F. Schmidt, Michael V. Holmes, David Preiss, Daniel I. Swerdlow, Ghazaleh Fatemifar

HealthBiologyGenetics

Grip strength modifies the association between estimated glomerular filtration rate and all-cause mortality

Per-Ola Sundin, Ruzan Udumyan, Katja Fall, Scott Montgomery

MedicineHealthBiology

P06 Genetics of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the identification of a novel risk locus and clinical subgroup analysis -conference paper abstract-

John Bowes, Annie Yarwood, Samantha Smith, Damian Tarasek, Wendy Thomson

MedicineHealthBiologyGenetics

Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes

David W. Clark, Yukinori Okada, Kristjan H.S. Moore, Dan Mason, Nicola Pirastu

Childbearing: FertilityBiologyGenetics

Unemployment, employment precarity, and inflammation

Rachel C. Sumner, Rachel Bennett, Ann-Marie Creaven, Stephen Gallagher

Labour MarketUnemploymentHealthBiology

The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts

Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Nikita Telkar, Theresa Reiker, Robin G. Walters, Kuang Lin

MedicineDemographyEthnic GroupsHealthBiologyGenetics

The association between self-rated health and underlying biomarker levels is modified by age, gender, and household income: evidence from Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study

M. Pia Chaparro, Amanda Hughes, Meena Kumari, Michaela Benzeval

Social GroupsDemographyIncome DynamicsHealthBiology

Main and interactive effects of inflammation and perceived neighbourhood cohesion on psychological distress: results from a population-based study in the UK

Efstathios Papachristou, Eirini Flouri, Theodora Kokosi, Marta Francesconi

Area EffectsPsychologyWell BeingHealthSocial BehaviourBiology

Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers? A study of 6025 employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Tarani Chandola, Cara L. Booker, Meena Kumari, Michaela Benzeval

Sociology Of LabourLabour MarketWell BeingHealthCaregivingBiology

Early-life inequalities and biological ageing: a multisystem Biological Health Score approach in Understanding Society

Maryam Karimi, Raphaële Castagné, Cyrille Delpierre, Gaëlle Albertus, Eloïse Berger

HealthLife Course AnalysisSocial StratificationBiology

Who is tech savvy? Exploring the adoption of smartphones and tablets: an empirical investigation

Emmanuel Apergis

Information And Communication TechnologiesSocial GroupsOlder PeopleSocial NetworksMediaMarketingDemographyYoung PeopleOrganizations And FirmsSocial Psychology

Informal caregiving patterns and trajectories of psychological distress in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Rebecca E. Lacey, Anne McMunn, Elizabeth Webb

DisabilityOlder PeoplePsychologyWell BeingHealthLife Course AnalysisCaregiving

Neighbourhood-level air pollution and greenspace and inflammation in adults

Emily Midouhas, Theodora Kokosi, Eirini Flouri

Environmental SociologyArea EffectsGeographyHealthBiology

Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

Valérie Turcot, Yingchang Lu, Heather M. Highland, Claudia Schurmann, Anne E. Justice

MedicineScience And TechnologyHealthBiologyGenetics

Self-employment and allostatic load

Pankaj C. Patel, Marcus T. Wolfe, Trenton A. Williams

Management: BusinessLabour MarketOrganizations And FirmsWell BeingHealthBiology

Intergenerational transmission and support for EU membership in the United Kingdom: the case of Brexit

Stuart Fox, Jennifer May Hampton, Esther Muddiman, Chris Taylor

PoliticsOlder PeoplePublic OpinionElections. Electoral BehaviourYoung PeopleLife Course AnalysisSocial AttitudesInternational Economic RelationsSociology Of HouseholdsSocial Psychology

Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

Ayush Giri, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Jacob M. Keaton, Jihwan Park, Chengxiang Qiu

Ethnic GroupsHealthBiologyGenetics

Five-factor model personality traits and verbal fluency in 10 cohorts

Angelina R. Sutin, Yannick Stephan, Rodica Ioana Damian, Martina Luchetti, Jason E. Strickhouser

Older PeoplePsychologyYoung PeopleLife Course Analysis

Guidance for DNA methylation studies: statistical insights from the Illumina EPIC array

Georgina Mansell, Tyler J. Gorrie-Stone, Yanchun Bao, Meena Kumari, Leonard S. Schalkwyk

Statistical AnalysisBiologyGenetics