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Background Despite a concerted policy effort in Europe, social inequalities in health are a persistent problem. Developing a standardised measure of socioeconomic level across Europe will improve the ...

Objective: To determine the incidence and incidence density of adverse events (AEs) in Spanish hospitals (including the pre-hospitalisation period). Method: Retrospective cohort study. Results: The ...

Background Child dental caries is highly prevalent worldwide, with significant treatment costs, but its broader societal ...

Background Immune-mediated processes leading to childhood type 1 diabetes may begin in fetal life. We hypothesised that a ...

Background Immune-mediated processes leading to childhood type 1 diabetes may begin in fetal life. We hypothesised that a maternal inflammatory diet during pregnancy increases offspring risk of type 1 ...

Background Dog ownership has been suggested to encourage physical activity in older adults and may enhance resilience to poor environmental conditions. This study investigates the role of dog ...

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’, may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and health behaviours in the UK ...

Background Maintaining cognitive function is an important aspect of healthy ageing. In this study, we examined age trajectories of cognitive decline in a large nationally representative sample of ...

Four years ago we conducted a systematic review evaluating the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and adult mortality. 1 Up to that point a small number of studies had included ...

The first outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong occurred in the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) on 10 March 2003. 1 The second large scale outbreak occurred in ...