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Steptoe A

University College London
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Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing

A Steptoe, A Deaton, AA Stone - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Subjective wellbeing and health are closely linked to age. Three aspects of subjective
wellbeing can be distinguished—evaluative wellbeing (or life satisfaction), hedonic …

Positive psychological well-being and mortality: a quantitative review of prospective observational studies

Y Chida, A Steptoe - Psychosomatic medicine, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To review systematically prospective, observational, cohort studies of the
association between positive well-being and mortality using meta-analytic methods. Recent …

[HTML][HTML] Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 …

…, R Rugulies, P Salo, MJ Shipley, J Siegrist, A Steptoe… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but
prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We …

Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women

A Steptoe, A Shankar… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Both social isolation and loneliness are associated with increased mortality, but it is
uncertain whether their effects are independent or whether loneliness represents the …

[HTML][HTML] Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data

…, PJM Westerholm, H Westerlund, M Zins, A Steptoe… - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for
coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation …

Gender differences in food choice: the contribution of health beliefs and dieting

J Wardle, AM Haase, A Steptoe, M Nillapun… - Annals of behavioral …, 2004 - Springer
Background: Gender differences in health behaviors have been reported in many studies
but causal mechanisms have been neglected. Purpose and Methods: This study examines 4 …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic status and the 25× 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1· 7 million men and …

…, P Vollenweider, M Zins, I Kawachi, A Steptoe… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background In 2011, WHO member states signed up to the 25× 25 initiative, a plan to cut
mortality due to non-communicable diseases by 25% by 2025. However, socioeconomic …

Stem cell transcriptome profiling via massive-scale mRNA sequencing

N Cloonan, ARR Forrest, G Kolle, BBA Gardiner… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We developed a massive-scale RNA sequencing protocol, short quantitative random RNA
libraries or SQRL, to survey the complexity, dynamics and sequence content of …

[PDF][PDF] Development of a measure of the motives underlying the selection of food: the food choice questionnaire

A Steptoe, TM Pollard, J Wardle - Appetite, 1995 - ucl.ac.uk
A number of factors are thought to influence people's dietary choices, including health, cost,
convenience and taste, but there are no measures that address healthrelated and non …

Loneliness, social isolation, and behavioral and biological health indicators in older adults.

A Shankar, A McMunn, J Banks, A Steptoe - Health psychology, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: A number of mechanisms have been proposed through which social isolation and
loneliness may affect health, including health-related behavioral and biological factors …