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List of works by David A Leon

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Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

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Blood cholesterol and vascular mortality by age, sex, and blood pressure: a meta-analysis of individual data from 61 prospective studies with 55,000 vascular deaths

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Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review

scientific article published in December 2008

Body-mass index and risk of 22 specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of 5·24 million UK adults

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Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984-94: artefact, alcohol, or what?

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Hypertension in sub-saharan Africa: a systematic review

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

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Liver cirrhosis mortality rates in Britain from 1950 to 2002: an analysis of routine data

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Hazardous alcohol drinking and premature mortality in Russia: a population based case-control study

scientific article published on June 2007

Parity, age at first childbirth, and risk of ovarian cancer

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Paternal age and schizophrenia: a population based cohort study

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Statistical issues in life course epidemiology.

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Changes in life expectancy in Russia in the mid-1990s

scientific article published in March 2001

Birth weight is inversely associated with incident coronary heart disease and stroke among individuals born in the 1950s: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 29 August 2005

Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

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Completeness and usability of ethnicity data in UK-based primary care and hospital databases.

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Accuracy of adults' recall of childhood social class: findings from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study.

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Educational level and adult mortality in Russia: an analysis of routine data 1979 to 1994.

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Limits to causal inference based on Mendelian randomization: a comparison with randomized controlled trials

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Alcohol and Russian mortality: a continuing crisis

scientific article published on 04 August 2009

Air pollution and infant mortality in the Czech Republic, 1986-88.

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The composition of surrogate alcohols consumed in Russia

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Born in Bradford, a cohort study of babies born in Bradford, and their parents: protocol for the recruitment phase

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Trends in European life expectancy: a salutary view

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Glucose tolerance and resistance to insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in men aged 70 years in relation to size at birth

scientific article published on October 1, 1998

Prevalence and socio-economic distribution of hazardous patterns of alcohol drinking: study of alcohol consumption in men aged 25-54 years in Izhevsk, Russia

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Patterns of smoking in Russia.

scientific article published on January 1998

Secular trends in mortality by stroke subtype in the 20th century: a retrospective analysis

scientific article published in The Lancet

Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment, and adult cardiovascular risk factors: the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Alcohol and cardiovascular mortality in Moscow; new evidence of a causal association.

scientific article published on December 1998

BMI peak in infancy as a predictor for later BMI in the Uppsala Family Study.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Ischaemic heart disease and low birth weight: a test of the fetal-origins hypothesis from the Swedish Twin Registry

scientific article published in January 1994

Birth weight and psychological distress at age 45-51 years: results from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published in July 2005

Birth characteristics and adult cancer incidence: Swedish cohort of over 11,000 men and women.

scientific article published on July 2005

Association of body mass index and obesity measured in early childhood with risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in middle age: findings from the aberdeen children of the 1950s prospective cohort study

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Representativeness and optimal use of body mass index (BMI) in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)

scientific article (publication date: 13 September 2013)

Alcohol is implicated in the fluctuations in cardiovascular disease in Russia since the 1980s.

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Association of childhood intelligence with risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published on 15 August 2008

Length of gestation is associated with mortality from cerebrovascular disease.

scientific article published on June 2005

Child mental health differences amongst ethnic groups in Britain: a systematic review

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How does progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor? Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data

scientific article published on 11 November 2005

Early life predictors of childhood intelligence: evidence from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study.

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Effect of social class in childhood and adulthood on adult mortality

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

Alcohol increases circulatory disease mortality in Russia: acute and chronic effects or misattribution of cause?

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Genetic regulation of birth weight and fasting glucose by a common polymorphism in the islet cell promoter of the glucokinase gene

scientific article published in February 2005

Differences in body composition between infants of South Asian and European ancestry: the London Mother and Baby Study

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The associations of birthweight, gestational age and childhood BMI with type 2 diabetes: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort

scientific article published on 21 September 2006

Tolerance of suicide, religion and suicide rates: an ecological and individual study in 19 Western countries

scientific article published in September 1997

The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study: background, methods and follow-up information on a new resource for the study of life course and intergenerational influences on health

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Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: Evidence and interpretations

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