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Staff Member Biography

Dr David Batty

position: Wellcome Trust Fellow and Senior Lecturerprogrammes: Social and Spatial Patterning of Health, Social Patterning of Health over the Lifecourse

Contact Details

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phone: 07776248332

Address

Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London, WC1E 6BT

Biography and Interests

David has studied in Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol and London, and has worked in London, Copenhagen, Recife (Brazil) and Sydney. The focus of his research is to understand how psychological, biological, behavioural and social factors from across the life course, and between generations, influence the risk of important chronic disease in adulthood such as cardiovascular disease, selected cancers, and mental illness. The ultimate aim of this body of research is disease prevention. He is a Wellcome Trust Fellow; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London; Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow; and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology where he is also a Programme Leader (Cognitive Epidemiology). David teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the UK and abroad. He left the Unit in July 2010 but is continuing to collaborate with Unit staff on several projects.

Publications

Batty GD, Hamer M, Der G. Does somatic illness explain the association between common mental disorder and elevated mortality? Fndings from extended follow-up of study members in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey [Epub ahead of print]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2012.

Hamer M, Kengne AP, Batty GD, Cooke D, Stamatakis E. Temporal trends in diabetes prevalence and key diabetes risk factors in Scotland, 2003–2008. Diabetic Medicine 2011;28:595-8.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Gunnell D, Smith GD, Ferrie JE, Clarke R, Marmot MG, Kivimäki M. Height loss and future coronary heart disease in London: the Whitehall II study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011; 65:461-4.

Calvin CM, Batty GD, Lowe GD, Deary, I J. Childhood intelligence and midlife inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers: The National Child Development Study (1958) Cohort. Health Psychology 2011;30:710-8.

Calvin CM, Deary IJ, Fenton C, Roberts B, Der G, Leckenby N, Batty DG. Intelligence in youth and all-cause-mortality: systematic review with meta-analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology 2011; 40:626-44.

Czernichow S, Kengne AP, Huxley RR, Batty GD, de Galan B, Grobbee D, Pillai A, Zoungas S, Marre M, Woodward M, Neal B, Chalmers J. Comparison of waist-to-hip ratio and other obesity indices as predictors of cardiovascular disease risk in people with type-2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study from ADVANCE. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation 2011; 18:312-9.

Czernichow S, Kengne AP, Stamatakis E, Hamer M, Batty GD. Body mass index, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio: which is the better discriminator of cardiovascular disease mortality risk? Evidence from an individual-participant meta-analysis of 82864 participants from nine cohort studies. Obesity Reviews 2011; 12:680-7.

Ginty AT, Phillips AC, Der G, Deary IJ, Carroll D. Heart rate reactivity is associated with future cognitive ability and cognitive change in a large community sample. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2011;82:167-74.

Gray L, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Batty GD. Association of body mass index in early adulthood and middle-age with future site-specific cancer mortality: the Harvard Alumni Health Study. Annals of Oncology 2012;23:753-759.

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Gray L, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Batty GD. Blood pressure in early adulthood, hypertension in middle-age, and future cardiovascular disease mortality: the Harvard Alumni Health Study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2011; 58:2396-403.

Gray L, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Batty GD. Body weight in early and mid-adulthood in relation to subsequent coronary heart disease mortality: 80 years follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Study (Research Letter). Archives of Internal Medicine 2011; 171:1768-70.

Hamer M, Batty GD, Marmot MG, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimaki M. Anti-depressant medication use and C-reactive protein: results from two population-based studies. Brain Behavior and Immunity 2011; 25:168-73.

Hamer M, Batty GD, Seldenrijk A, Kivimäki M. Antidepressant medication use and future risk of cardiovascular disease: the Scottish Health Survey. European Heart Journal 2011; 32:437-44.

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Hamer M, Ford T, Stamatakis E, Dockray S, Batty GD. Objectively measured secondhand smoke exposure and mental health in children: evidence from the Scottish Health Survey. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2011; 165:326-31.

Kivimäki M, Jokela M, Hamer M, Geddes JR, Ebmeier K, Kumari M, Singh-Manoux A, Hingorani A, Batty GD. Examining overweight and obesity as risk factors for common mental disorders using fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genotype-instrumented analysis: The Whitehall II Study, 1985-2004. American Journal of Epidemiology 2011; 173:421-9.

Lam EK, Batty GD, Huxley RR, Martiniuk AL, Barzi F, Lam TH, Lawes CM, Giles GG, Welborn T, Ueshima H, Tamakoshi A, Woo J, Kim HC, Fang X, Czernichow S, Woodward M. Associations of diabetes mellitus with site-specific cancer mortality in the Asia-Pacific region. Annals of Oncology 2011; 22:730-8.

McCartney G, Collins C, Walsh D, Batty GD. Accounting for Scotland's excess mortality: towards a synthesis: Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2011.

McCartney G, Mahmood L, Leyland AH, Batty GD, Hunt KM. Contribution of smoking- and alcohol-related deaths to the gender gap in mortality: evidence from 30 European countries. Tobacco Control 2011; 20:166-8.

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Monasta L, Batty GD, Macaluso A, Ronfani L, Lutje V, Bavcar A, van Lenthe FJ, Brug J, Cattaneo A. Interventions for the prevention of overweight and obesity in preschool children: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Obesity Reviews 2011; 12:e107-8.

Packard C, Bezylak V, McLean JS, Batty GD, Ford I, Burns H, Cavanagh J, Deans KA, Henderson M, McGinty A, Millar K, Sattar N, Shiels PG, Velupillai YN, Tannahill C. Early life socioeconomic adversity is associated in adult life with chronic inflammation, carotid atherosclerosis, poorer lung function and decreased cognitive performance: a cross-sectional, population-based study. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:42.

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Phillips AC, Batty GD, Gale CR, Lord JM, Arlt W, Carroll D. Major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and their comorbidity: Associations with cortisol in the Vietnam Experience Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2011; 36:682-90.

Phillips AC, Batty GD, van Zanten JJ, Mortensen LH, Deary IJ, Calvin CM, Carroll D. Cognitive ability in early adulthood is associated with systemic inflammation in middle age: the Vietnam experience study. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 2011; 25:298-301.

Phillips AC, Carroll D, Gale CR, Drayson M, Batty GD. Lymphocyte cell counts in middle age are positively associated with subsequent all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2011; 104:319-24.

Shiels PG, McGlynn LM, MacIntyre A, Johnson PCD, Batty GD, Burns H, Cavanagh J, Deans KA, Ford I, McConnachie A, McGinty A, McLean JS, Millar K, Sattar N, Tannahill C, Velupillai YN, Packard CJ. Accelerated Telomere attrition is associated with relative household income, Diet and inflammation in the pSoBid cohort. PLoS ONE 2011; 6:e22521.

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Batty DG, Kivimäki M, Deary IJ. Intelligence, education and mortality (editorial). British Medical Journal 2010; 340:c563

Batty GD, Barzi F, Woodward M, Jamrozik K, Woo J, Kim HC, Ueshima H, Huxley RR, for the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Adult height and cancer mortality in Asia: the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Annals of Oncology 2010; 21:646-54.
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Batty GD, Der G, Benzeval M, Deary IJ. Does IQ predict cardiovascular disease mortality as strongly as other risk factors? Comparison of effect estimates using the Twenty-07 prospective cohort study . European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2010; 17:24-7.

Batty GD, Li Q, Czernichow S, Neal B, Zoungas S, Huxley R, Patel A, De Galan BE, Woodward M, Hamet P, Harrap SB, Poulter N, Chambers J, Advance Collaborative Group. Erectile dysfunction and later cardiovascular disease in men with type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study based on the ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified-Release Controlled Evaluation) trial. Journal of the American College of Cardiologists 2010; 56:1908-13.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Kivimäki M, Marmot MG, Smith GD. Walking pace, leisure time physical activity, and resting heart rate in relation to disease-specific mortality in London: 40 years follow-up of the original Whitehall study. An update of our work with Professor Jerry N. Morris (1910-2009). Annals of Epidemiology 2010; 20:661-9.

Czernichow S, Ninomiya T, Huxley R, Kengne AP, Batty GD, Grobbee DE, Woodward M, Neal B, Chalmers J. Impact of blood pressure lowering on cardiovascular outcomes in normal weight, overweight, and obese individuals: the Perindopril Protection Against Recurrent Stroke Study trial. Hypertension 2010; 55:1193-8.

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Gale CR, Batty GD, Tynelius P, Deary IJ, Rasmussen F. Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent hospitalisation for mental disorders. Epidemiology 2010; 21:70-7.

Gale CR, Kivimäki M, Lawlor DA, Carroll D, Phillips AC, Batty DG. Fasting glucose, diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and depression: the Vietnam experience study. Biological Psychiatry 2010; 67:189-92.

Gray L, Batty GD, Craig P, Stewart C, Whyte B, Findlayson B, Leyland AH. Cohort Profile: The Scottish Health Surveys Cohort: linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 39:345-50.

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Gray L, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Batty GD. What is the predictive value of established risk factors for total and cardiovascular disease mortality when measured before middle-age? pooled analyses of two prospective cohort studies from Scotland. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2010; 17:106-12.

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Hart CL, Batty GD, Morrison DS, Mitchell RJ, Smith GD. Obesity, overweight and liver disease in the Midspan prospective cohort studies. International Journal of Obesity 2010; 34:1051-9.

Hart CL, Morrison DS, Batty GD, Mitchell RJ, Davey Smith G. Effect of body mass index and alcohol consumption on liver disease: analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies. British Medical Journal 2010; 340:c1240.

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Johnson W, Kyvik KO, Batty GD, Mortensen EL, Skytthe A, Deary IJ. Education reduces the effects of genetic susceptibility to poor physical health. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 39:406-14.

Kivimäki M, Tabak AG, Batty GD, Ferrie JE, Nabi H, Marmot MG, Witte DR, Singh-Manoux A, Shipley MJ. Incremental predictive value of adding past blood pressure measurements to the Framingham Hypertension Risk Equation. The Whitehall II Study. Hypertension 2010; 55:1058-62.

Phillips AC, Carroll D, Thomas GN, Gale CR, Deary IJ, Batty GD. The influence of multiple indices of socioeconomic disadvantage across the adult life course on the metabolic syndrome: the Vietnam Experience Study. Metabolism 2010; 59:1164-71.

Thomas GN, Phillips AC, Carroll D, Gale CR, Batty GD. The metabolic syndrome adds utility to the prediction of mortality over its components: The Vietnam Experience Study. Atherosclerosis 2010; 210:256-61.

Virtanen M, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Oksanen T, Tuisku K, Salo P, Terho K, Elovainio M, Batty GD, Kivimäki M. Patient overcrowding on hospital wards as a predictor of future specific mental disorders among staff: prospective cohort study. Journal of Clinical Psychology 2010; 71:1308-12.

von Stumm S, Macintyre S, Batty DG, Clark H, Deary IJ. Intelligence, social class of origin, childhood behavior disturbance and education as predictors of status attainment in midlife in men: The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. Intelligence 2010; 38:202-11.

Whitley E, Batty DG, Gale CR, Deary IR, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent risk of unintentional injury over two decades: cohort study of 1,109,475 Swedish men. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2010; 64:419-25.

Whitley E, Batty GD, Gale CR, Deary IJ, Tynelius P, Rasmussen P. Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent risk of assault: cohort study of 1,120,998 Swedish men. Psychosomatic Medicine 2010; 72:390-6.

Alves J, Gale C, Mutrie N, Correia J, Batty GD. A six month exercise intervention among inactive and overweight Favela-Residing women in Brazil: The Caranguejo Exercise Trial . American Journal of Public Health 2009; 99:76-80.

Batty GD, Gale C, Tynelius P, Deary IJ, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood, socio-economic position, and unintentional injury mortality by middle-age: cohort study of over one million Swedish men. American Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 169:606-15.

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Batty GD, Horta BL, Davey Smith G, Barros FC, Victora C. Early life diarrhoea and later blood pressure in a developing country: the 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009; 63:163-5.

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Batty GD, Hunt K, Emslie C, Lewars H, Gale C. Alcohol problems and all-cause mortality in men and women: predictive capacity of a clinical screening tool in a 21 year follow-up of a large, UK-wide, general population-based survey. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2009; 66:317-21.

Batty GD, Kivimäki M, Morrison D, Davey Smith G, Huxley R, Clarke R, Marmot M, Shipley M. Risk factors for pancreatic cancer mortality: Extended follow-up of the original Whitehall Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2009; 18:673-5.

Batty GD, Lewars H, Emslie C, Gale C, Hunt K. Internationally recognised guidelines for 'sensible' alcohol consumption: is exceeding them actually detrimental to health and social circumstances? Evidence from a population-based cohort study. Journal of Public Health 2009; 31:360-5.

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Batty GD, Shipley M, Macintyre S, Der G, Mortensen L, Dundas R, Deary IJ. Does IQ explain the socioeconomic gradient in mortality? Comparison with the explanatory power of classic risk factors in the Vietnam Experience Study. European Heart Journal 2009; 30:1903-9.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Gunnell D, Huxley R, Kivimäki M, Woodward M, Lee CM, Smith GD. Height, wealth, and health: an overview with new data from three longitudinal studies. Economics and Human Biology 2009; 7:137-52.

Batty GD, Wang Y, Brouilette SW, Shiels P, Packard C, Moore J, Samani N, Ford I. Socioeconomic status and telomere length: the West of Scotland Primary Prevention Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009; 63:839-41.

Batty GD, Wennerstad KM, Deary IJ, Smith GD, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood and mortality by middle age: cohort study of 1 million Swedish men. Epidemiology 2009; 20:100-9.

Carroll D, Phillips AC, Gale CR, Batty DG. Generalized anxiety and major depressive disorders, their comorbidity and hypertension in middle-aged men [Epub ahead of print]. Psychosomatic Medicine 2009.

Carroll D, Phillips AC, Thomas GN, Gale CR, Deary IJ, Batty GD. Generalised anxiety disorder, is associated with metabolic syndrome in the Vietnam Experience Study. Biological Psychiatry 2009; 66:91-3.

Deans KA, Bezlyak V, Ford I, Batty GD, Burns H, Cavanagh J, de Groot E, McGinty A, Millar K, Shiels PG, Tannahill C, Velupillai YN, Sattar N, Packard CJ. Differences in atherosclerosis according to area level socioeconomic deprivation: cross sectional, population based study. British Medical Journal 2009; 339:b4170.

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Deary IJ, Gale CR, Stewart MCM, Fowkes FGR, Murray GD, Batty GD, Price JF. Intelligence and persisting with medication for two years: prospective analysis of a randomised controlled trial of aspirin for asymptomatic atherosclerosis. Intelligence 2009; 37:607-12.

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Der G, Batty GD, Deary IJ. The association between IQ in adolescence and a range of health outcomes at 40 in the 1979 US National Longitudinal Study of Youth. Intelligence 2009; 37:573-80.

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Emslie C, Lewars H, Batty GD, Hunt K. Are there gender differences in levels of heavy, binge and problem drinking? Evidence from three generations in the west of Scotland. Public Health 2009; 123:12-14.

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Gale C, Batty GD, Cooper C, Deary IJ. Psychomotor coordination and intelligence in childhood and health in adulthood- testing the System Integrity hypothesis. Psychosomatic Medicine 2009; 71:675-81.

Gale C, Johnston W, Deary IJ, Schoon I, Batty GD. Intelligence in girls and their subsequent smoking behaviour as mothers: the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 38:173-81.

Huxley R, Lee CMY, Barzi F, Timmermeister L, Czernichow S, Perkovic V, Grobbee DE, Batty DG, Woodward M. Coffee, decaffeinated coffee, and tea consumption in relation to incident type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Archives of Internal Medicine 2009; 169:2053-63.

Jokela M, Batty GD, Deary IJ, Gale CR, Kivimäki M. Low childhood IQ and early adult mortality: The role of explanatory factors in the 1958 British Birth Cohort. Pediatrics 2009; 124:e380-8.

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Kivimäki M, Batty GD, Singh-Manoux A, Ferrie JE, Tabak AG, Jokela M, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ. Validating the Framingham Hypertension Risk Score. Results From the Whitehall II Study. Hypertension 2009; 54:496-501.

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Kivimäki M, Batty GD, Singh-Manoux A, Nabi H, Sabia S, Ferrie JE, Akbaraly T, Tabac A, Vahtera J, Marmot MG, Jokela M. Association between common mental disorder and obesity over the adult life course. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 195:149-55.

Kivimäki M, Gimeno D, Ferrie JE, Batty GD, Oksanen T, Jokela M, Virtanen M, Salo P, Akbaraly TN, Elovainio M, Pentti J, Vahtera J. Socioeconomic position, psychosocial work environment and cerebrovascular disease among women: The Finnish public sector study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 38:1265-71.

Kivimäki M, Lawlor DA, Singh-Manoux A, Batty GD, Ferrie JE, Shipley MJ, Nabi H, Sabia S, Marmot MG, Jokela M. Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort study. British Medical Journal 2009; 339:b3785.

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Kvaavik E, Meyer HE, Tell GS, Klepp KL, Batty GD. Physical fitness and physical activity at age 13 years as predictors of cardiovascular disease risk factors at ages 15, 25, 33 and 40 years: extended follow-up of the Oslo Youth Study. Pediatrics 2009; 123:e80-6.

Lawlor DA, Andersen AM, Batty GD. Birth cohort studies: past, present and future. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 38:897-902.

Lee CMY, Barzi F, Woodward M, Batty GD, Giles GC, Wong JW, Jamrozik K, Lan TH, Ueshima H, Kim HC, Gu DF, Schooling M, Huxley R, for the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Adult height and the risks of cardiovascular disease and major causes of death in the Asia-Pacific region: 21,000 deaths in 510,000 men and women. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 38:1060-71.

Moran P, Klinteberg BAF, Batty GD, Vagero D. Brief report: childhood intelligence predicts hospitalization with personality disorder in adulthood: evidence from a population-based study in Sweden. Journal of Personality Disorders 2009; 23:535-40.

Morrison D, Batty GD. The advantages of being called NICE. A systematic review of journal article titles using the acronym for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Journal of Public Health 2009; 31:127-30.

Phillips AC, Batty GD, Gale C, Deary IJ, Osborne D, MacIntyre K, Carroll D. Generalised anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and their comorbidity as predictors of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: the Vietnam Experience Study. Psychosomatic Medicine 2009; 71:395 - 403.

Roberts B, Der G, Deary IJ, Batty GD. Reaction time and established risk factors for total and cardiovascular disease mortality: Comparison of effect estimates in the follow-up of a large, UK-wide, general-population based survey. Intelligence 2009; 37:561-6.

Silventoinen K, Magnusson PKE, Neovius M, Sundström J, Batty GD, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. The interacting effect of blood pressure and obesity on the risk of cardiovascular disease: a population-based cohort study of one million Swedish men. Circulation 2009; 118:1637-42.

Silventoinen K, Magnusson PKE, Tynelius P, Batty GD, Rasmussen F. Association of body size and muscle strength with incidence of coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases: a population-based cohort study of one million Swedish men. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 38:110-8.

von Stumn S, Gale C, Batty GD, Deary IJ. Childhood intelligence, locus of control and behaviour disturbance as determinants of intergenerational social mobility: the 1970 British Cohort Study. Intelligence 2009; 37:329-40.

Weiss A, Gale CR, Batty GD, Deary IJ. Emotionally stable, intelligent men live longer: The Vietnam experience study. Psychosomatic Medicine 2009; 71:385-94.

Batty DG, Barzi F, Huxley R, Chang CY, Jee SH, Jamrozik K, Kim HC, Fang X, Lam TH, Woodward M, APCSC Writing Committee. Obesity and liver cancer mortality in Asia: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Cancer Epidemiology 2009; 33:469-72.
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Batty GD, Gale CR. Impact of resurvey non-response on the associations between baseline risk factors and cardiovascular disease mortality: prospective cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2009; 63:952-5.
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Batty GD, Mortensen L, Gale C, Shipley M, Roberts B, Deary IJ. IQ in early adulthood, risk factors in middle-age and later cancer mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. Psycho-oncology 2009; 18:1122-6.
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Batty GD, Victora CG, Lawlor DA. Establishing family based life course studies in low and middle income countries. In: Lawlor DA, Mishra GD, eds. Family Matters: designing, analysing and understanding family based studies in life course epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009:129-50.

Deary IJ, Batty GD, Gale CR. Corrigendum to “Childhood intelligence predicts voter turnout, voting preferences, and political involvement in adulthood: the 1970 British Cohort Study” Intelligence 2009; 37:325.

Gale CR, Hatch SL, Batty GD, Deary IJ. Intelligence in childhood and risk of psychological distress in adulthood: the 1958 National Child Development Survey and the 1970 British Cohort Study. Intelligence 2009; 37:592-9.

Hunt K, Batty GD. Gender and socio-economic inequalities in health. In: Graham H, editor. Understanding Health Inequalities. Second ed. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2009.

Huxley R, Nakamura K, Lam TH, Barzi F, Whitlock G, Batty GD, Czernichows S, Ueshima H, Kim HC, Wong JW, Fang X, Feigin V, Woodward M, for The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Impact of cigarette smoking on the relationship between body mass index and coronary heart disease: 3264 stroke and 2706 CHD events in 378579 individuals in the Asia Pacific region. BMC Public Health 2009; 9:294.

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Kivimäki M, Tabak AG, Batty GD, Singh-Manoux A, Jokela M, Akbaraly TN, Witte DR, Brunner EJ, Marmot MG, Lawlor DA. Hyperglycaemia, type 2 diabetes and depressive symptoms: the British Whitehall II study. Diabetes Care 2009; 32:1867-9.
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Leon DA, Lawlor DA, Clark H, Batty GD, Macintyre S. Association of childhood intelligence with risk of mortality: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study. Intelligence 2009; 37:520-8.

Richards M, Black S, Mishra G, Gale CR, Deary IJ, Batty GD. Childhood IQ and the metabolic syndrome: the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study. Intelligence 2009; 37:567-72.

Batty G, Gale C, Mortensen L, Langenberg C, Shipley M, Deary I. Pre-morbid intelligence, the metabolic syndrome and mortality: the Vietnam Experience Study. Diabetologia 2008; 51:436-43.
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Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Cooper C, Gale CR. Diarrhoea in childhood and cause-specific mortality in older age: analyses of 5,642 deaths in 33,261 individuals from the Hertfordshire studies. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation 2008; 15:494-6.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Schoon I, Emslie C, Hunt K, Gale C. Childhood mental ability and adult alcohol intake and alcohol problems: The 1970 British Cohort study. American Journal of Public Health 2008: 98; 2237-43.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Tengstrom A, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood and later risk of death by homicide: cohort study of 1 million men. British Journal of Psychiatry 2008; 193:461-5.

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Batty GD, Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Marmot M, Shipley MJ. Post-challenge blood glucose concentration and stroke mortality in non-diabetic men in London: 38 year follow-up of the original Whitehall prospective cohort study. Diabetologia 2008; 51:1123-6.
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Batty GD, Kivimaki M, Gray L, Smith GD, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Cigarette smoking and site-specific cancer mortality: testing uncertain associations using extended follow-up of the original Whitehall study. Annals of Oncology 2008; 19:996-1002.
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Batty GD, Lewars H, Emslie C, Benzeval M, Hunt K. Problem drinking and exceeding guidelines for 'sensible' alcohol consumption in Scottish men: associations with life course socioeconomic disadvantage in a population-based cohort study. BMC Public Health 2008; 8:302.
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Batty GD, Mortensen L, Gale C, Deary IJ. Is low IQ related to risk of death by homicide? Testing an hypothesis using data from the Vietnam Experience Study. Psychiatry Research 2008; 161:112-5.
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Batty GD, Shipley M, Gale CR, Mortensen L, Deary IJ. Does IQ predict cardiovascular disease mortality as strongly as other risk factors? Comparison of effect estimates using the Vietnam Experience Study. Heart 2008; 94:1541-4.

Batty GD, Shipley M, Mortensen L, Boyle S, Barefoot J, Gronbaek M, Gale C, Deary IJ. IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle-age, and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2008; 62:522-31.
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Batty GD, Shipley M, Mortensen L, Gale C, Deary IJ. IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle-age and later coronary heart disease mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation 2008; 15:359-61.
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Deary IJ, Batty GD, Gale CR. Bright children become enlightened adults. Psychological Science 2008; 19:1-6.
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Deary IJ, Batty GD, Pattie A, Gale CR. More intelligent, more dependable children live longer: A 55-year longitudinal study of a representative sample of the Scottish nation. Psychological Science 2008; 19:874-80.

Der G, Batty GD, Deary IJ. Results from the PROBIT breastfeeding trial may have been over-interpreted (letter). Archives of General Psychiatry 2008; 65:1456-7.

Gale C, Batty GD, Deary IJ. Locus of control and intelligence in childhood and health outcomes and behaviour in adulthood: the 1970 British Cohort Study. Psychosomatic Medicine 2008; 70:397-403.
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Gale C, Deary IJ, Batty GD. Intelligence and carotid atherosclerosis in older people: cross-sectional study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2008; 56:769-71.

Gale CR, Deary IJ, Boyle SH, Barefoot J, Mortensen LH, Batty GD. Cognitive ability in early adulthood and risk of five specific psychiatric disorders in mid life: the Vietnam Experience Study. Archives of General Psychiatry 2008; 65:1410-8.

Kivimäki M, Davey Smith G, Timpson NJ, Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Kähönen M, Juonala M, Rönnemaa T, Viikari JSA, Lehtimäki T, Raitakari OT. Lifetime body mass index and later atherosclerosis risk in young adults: examining causal links using Mendelian randomization in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. European Heart Journal 2008; 29:2552-60.

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Kivimäki M, Ferrie JE, Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Elovainio M, Marmot M, Shipley MJ. Optimal form of operationalising BMI in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: the original Whitehall study. Obesity 2008; 16:1926-32.
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Kivimäki M, Shipley M, Ferrie JE, Singh-Manoux A, Batty GD, Chandola T, Marmot MG, Davey Smith G. Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort study. Lancet 2008; 372:1648-54.

Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Clark H, Macintyre S, Leon DA. The association of childhood intelligence with risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology 2008; 23:695-706.

Modig-Wennerstad K, Silventoinen K, Batty GD, Tynelius P, Bergman L, Rasmussen F. Association between offspring intelligence and parental mortality: a population-based cohort study of one million Swedish men and their parents. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2008; 62:722-7.
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Velupillai Y, Packard C, Batty GD, Sattar N, Millar K, Cavanagh J, Ford I, Burns H, Deans KA, Tannahill C. Psychological, social and biological determinants of ill health (pSoBid): study protocol of a population-based study. BMC Public Health 2008; 8:126.
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Alves J, Gale C, Souza E, Batty GD. Effect of physical exercise on bodyweight in overweight children: a randomised controlled trial in a Brazilian slum. Cadernos de Saúde Pública (Reports in Public Health) 2008; 24:s353-9.

Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Alves JG, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Association of obesity and overweight with disease-specific mortality in men according to coronary heart disease status at study induction: further evidence from the Whitehall study. Salud(i)Ciencia 2008; 16:183-8.

Batty GD, Shipley M, Davey Smith G, Kivimäki M, Barzi F, Mitchell R, Marmot M, Huxley R. Obesity and liver disease mortality in the original Whitehall study. International Journal of Obesity 2008; 32:1741-4.
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Deary IJ, Batty GD, Gale CR. Childhood intelligence predicts voter turnout, voting preferences, and political involvement in adulthood: the 1970 British Cohort Study. Intelligence 2008; 36:548-55.

Batty GD, Alves JG, Correia J, Lawlor DA. Examining life-course influences on chronic disease: the importance of birth cohort studies from low- and middle- income countries. An overview. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 2007; 40:1277-1286.
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Batty GD, Davey Smith G, Fall CHD, Aihie Sayer A, Dennison E, Cooper C, Gale C. Association of diarrhoea in childhood with blood pressure and coronary heart disease in older age: analyses of two UK cohort studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 36:1349-55.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Gottfredson L. Premorbid (early life) IQ and later mortality risk: systematic Review. Annals of Epidemiology 2007; 17:278-288.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Macintyre S. Childhood IQ in relation to risk factors for premature mortality in middle-aged persons: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007; 61:241-247.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Schoon I, Gale C. Childhood mental ability in relation to cause-specific accidents in adulthood - the 1970 British Cohort Study. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2007; 100:405-414.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Schoon I, Gale C. Mental ability across childhood in relation to risk factors for premature mortality in adult life: the 1970 British Cohort Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007; 61:997-1003
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Batty GD, Kivimaki M, Smith GD, Marmot MG, Shipley MJ. Obesity and overweight in relation to mortality in men with and without type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance: The original Whitehall study. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:2388-91.
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Batty GD. Commentary: Examining life-course influences on chronic disease: the Ribeirão Preto and São Luis birth cohorts. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological research 2007; 40:1159-1162.
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Gale C, Deary IJ, Schoon I, Batty GD. IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood: 1970 British cohort study. British Medical Journal 2007; 334:245-248.

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Hunt K, Lewars H, Emslie C, Batty GD. Decreased risk of death from coronary heart disease amongst men with higher 'femininity' scores: a general population cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 36:612-620.
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Lawlor D, Morton S, Batty GD, Macintyre S, Clark H, Davey Smith G. Obstetrician-assessed maternal health at pregnancy predicts offspring future health. PLoS ONE 2007; 2:e666.
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Batty G, Modig Wennerstad K, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D, Deary IJ, Tynelius P, Rasmussen F. IQ in early adulthood and later cancer risk: cohort study of one million Swedish men. Annals of Oncology 2007; 18:21-28.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Schoon I, Gale C. Childhood mental ability in relation to food intake and physical activity in adulthood, the 1970 British cohort study. Pediatrics 2007; 119:38-45.
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Batty GD, Gale CR, Chandola T, Deary IJ. Early life IQ, risk factors, and later cardiovascular disease: new data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort and a systematic review (Quociente de Inteligência na Infância, Fatores de Risco e Doença Cardiovascular na Vida Adulta: Revisão Sistemática e Dados Recentes do Estudo de Coorte Inglês de 1958) In: Alves JG, Sampaio-Carneiro M, eds. Prevention of adult chronic diseases in infancy and adolescence (Prevenção de Doenças do Adulto na Infância e na Adolescência) Rio de janeiro: Medbook, 2007:29-46.

Deary IJ, Batty GD. Cognitive epidemiology: a glossary of terms. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2007; 61:378-384.
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Gale C, Batty GD. Preface for "Prevention of adult chronic diseases in infancy and adolescence" ("Prevenção de doenças crônicas da vida adulta na infância e adolescência"). In: Alves JG, Sampaio-Carneiro M, eds. Prevention of adult chronic diseases in infancy and adolescence(Prevenção de Doenças do Adulto na Infância e na Adolescência). Rio de janeiro: Medbook, 2007:xv-xvi.

Batty GD, Gunnell D, Langenberg C, Smith GD, Marmot M, Shipley M. Adult height and lung function as markers of life course exposures: Associations with risk factors and cause-specific mortality. European Journal of Epidemiology 2006; 21:795-801.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Jarrett RJ, Breeze E, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Obesity and overweight in relation to coronary heart disease and stroke in men with existing ischaemia: evidence from the original Whitehall study. Heart 2006; 92:886-92.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Langenberg MG, Davey Smith G. Adult height in relation to mortality from 14 cancer sites in men in London (UK): evidence from the original Whitehall study. Annals of Oncology 2006; 17:157-66.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ, Macintyre S. Childhood IQ and life course socio-economic position in relation to alcohol-induced hangovers in adulthood: The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2006; 60:872-874.
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Batty GD, Der G, Deary IJ. Effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring cognitive ability: Empirical evidence for complete confounding in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Pediatrics 2006; 118:943-950.
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Batty GD, Der G, Macintyre S, Deary IJ. Does IQ explain socio-economic inequalities in health? Evidence from a population-based cohort study in the West of Scotland. British Medical Journal 2006; 332:580-584.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Jarrett RJ, Breeze E, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Obesity and overweight in relation to coronary heart disease and stroke in men with existing ischaemia: evidence from the original Whitehall study. Heart 2006; 92:886-892.
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Chandola T, Deary IJ, Blane D, Batty GD. Childhood IQ in relation to obesity and weight gain in adult life: The National Child Development (1958) Study. International Journal of Obesity (London) 2006; 30:1422-1432.
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Deary IJ, Batty GD. Commentary: Pre-morbid IQ and later health-the rapidly evolving field of cognitive epidemiology. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006; 35:670-672.
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Deary IJ, Whalley L, Batty GD, Starr J. Physical fitness and lifetime cognitive change. Neurology 2006; 67:1195-1200.
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Der G, Batty GD, Deary IJ. Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis. British Medical Journal 2006; 333:945-948.
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Lawlor DA, Najman JM, Batty GD, O'Callaghan MJ, Williams GM, Bor W. Early life predictors of childhood intelligence: Findings from the Mater University study of pregnancy and its outcomes. Paediatric Perinatal Epidemiology 2006; 20:148-162.
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Batty GD, Lawlor DA, Macintyre S, Clark H, Leon DA. Accuracy of adults' recall of childhood social class: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2005; 59:898-903.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Jarrett RJ, Breeze E, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Obesity and overweight in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: evidence from the original Whitehall study. International Journal of Obesity 2005; 29:1267-74.
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Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Morton SMB, Clark H, Macintyre S, Leon DA. Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment and adult cardiovascular risk factors: The Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:1245-51.
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Batty GD, Mortensen L, Andersen A, Osler M. Childhood intelligence in relation to adult coronary heart disease and stroke risk: evidence from a Danish birth cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2005; 19:452-459.
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Batty GD, Mortensen L, Osler M. Childhood intelligence in relation to adult psychiatric disorder: evidence from the 1953 Danish male birth cohort study. British Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 187:180-181.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Jarrett RJ, Breeze E, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Obesity and overweight in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: evidence from the original Whitehall study. International Journal of Obesity 2005; 29:1267-1274.
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Chandola T, Deary I, Blane D, Batty G. Childhood IQ in relation to adult obesity and weight gain: evidence from the 1958 birth cohort study. DOHaD meeting. Toronto, Canada, 2005.

Langenberg C, Shipley M, Batty GD, Marmot M. Adult socioeconomic position and the association between height and coronary heart disease mortality: findings from 33 years of follow-up in the Whitehall Study. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:628-632.
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Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Morton SMB, Clark H, Macintyre S, Leon DA. Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment and adult cardiovascular risk factors: The Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:1245-1251.
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Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Morton SMB, Deary IJ, Macintyre S, Ronalds G, Leon DA. Early life predictors of childhood intelligence: Evidence from the Aberdeen Children of the1950s cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2005; 59:656-663.
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Osler M, Andersen A, Batty G, Holstein B. Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parents. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2005; 59:38-41.

Osler M, Andersen AMN, Batty GD, Holstein B. Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations: A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parents. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2005; 59:38-41.
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Batty GD, Deary IJ. Early life intelligence and adult health (editorial). British Medical Journal, 2004:585-586.
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Batty GD, Morton SMB, Campbell D, Clarke H, Davey Smith G, Hall M, Macintyre S. 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. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2004; 18:221-239.
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Batty GD, Shipley MA, Davey Smith G. Meta-analysis reported inconsistent findings and ommitted relevant studies (letter reporting new data). Stroke 2004; 35:e79-80.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Diabetes status and post-load plasma glucose concentratetion in relation to site-specific cancer mortality: findings from the original Whitehall study. Cancer Causes and Control 2004; 15:873-881.
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Osler M, Batty GD. Early life cognition and adult mortality experience: do brighter children become healthier adults? (commentary). International Journal of Epidemiology, 2004; 33:414-415.

Osler M, Nybo Andersen A-M, Lund R, Batty GD, Orsted Andersen C, Trab Damsgaard M, Due P, Holstein BE. Revitalising the Metropolit 1953 male birth cohort: Background, aims and some preliminary results. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2004; 18:385-394.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Blood pressure and site-specific cancer mortality in men: evidence from the Whitehall study. British Journal of Cancer 2003; 89:1243-1247.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Leisure time physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men with chronic bronchitis: evidence from the Whitehall study. American Journal of Public Health 2003; 93:817-821.
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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Leisure time physical activity and coronary heart disease mortality in men symptomatic or asymptomatic for ischaemia: evidence from the Whitehall study. Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003; 25:190-196.
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Batty GD, Lee I-M. Physical activity for preventing strokes. Better designed studies suggest that it is effective (editorial). British Medical Journal 2002; 325:350-1.

Batty GD, Leon DA. Socio-economic position and coronary heart disease risk factors in children and young people. Evidence from UK epidemiological studies. European Journal of Public Health 2002; 12:263-72.

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Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men with type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance: evidence from the Whitehall study. Diabetic Medicine 2002; 19:580-8.

Batty GD. Physical activity and coronary heart disease in older adults. A review of epidemiological studies. European Journal of Public Health 2002; 12:171-6.

Batty GD. The relation of cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity to total mortality, coronary heart disease, stroke and cancer: evidence from two prospective cohort studies (summary of PhD thesis). European Journal of Public Health 2002; 12:77.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Marmot M, Davey Smith G. Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in men: further evidence from the Whitehall study. European Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 17:863-9.

Davey Smith G, Shipley MJ, Batty GD, Morris JN, Marmot M. Physical activity and cause-specific mortality in the Whitehall Study. Public Health 2001; 114:308-15.

Batty GD, Thune I. Does physical activity prevent cancer? Evidence suggests protection against colon cancer and probably breast cancer (editorial) (Repeat publication). British Medical Journal-USA 2001; 1:13-4.

Batty GD. Reliability of a physical activity questionnaire in middle-aged men. Public Health 2000; 114:474-6.