Background Both loneliness and mental health represent important public health themes with stable or even worsening ...

Background Australian and international studies have reported an attenuation in previous declines in acute coronary syndrome ...

Objectives Using Coronial data, this observational study describes and compares the characteristics of work-related fatal injury (WRFI) in Indigenous Māori and non-Māori workers to identify ...

Background Weight loss at older ages appears to be associated with higher mortality in Western and some East Asian countries, despite differences in the prevalence of obesity; whether it is relevant ...

Background The death of a family member has been linked to higher mortality for those grieving. However, much less is known about different types of health problems of the surviving sibling during ...

4 Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany Correspondence to Dr Jochen Klenk, Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, ...

Background Using data from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study, we investigate the association between socioeconomic ...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would ...

Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the ...

The current recognition of the importance of perceived health status as a predictor of need for, and utilisation of, health services has led to attempts to produce indicators which assess subjective ...