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

Background Negative associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health are well documented. However, ...

Background Underemployment is an increasing feature of global labour markets. However, the mental health impacts of underemployment remain relatively under-researched. Longitudinal evidence is ...

Background Urban neighbourhoods contain a range of positive mental health determinants, however exposure to violence also can occur in public neighbourhood spaces (e.g. physical violence, verbal ...

Background Social prescribing (SP) enables healthcare professionals to link patients with non-medical interventions available in the community to address underlying socioeconomic and behavioural ...

Background This study aimed to explore the impact of social activity frequency on mid- and long-term overall survival in older Chinese people. Methods The association between social activity frequency ...

Background Income is one of the most widely used indicators of socioeconomic position in studies of health inequalities. Despite its frequent use, no empirical-driven guidelines exist on how to ...

Too much data? Too much information? The COVID-19 pandemic has made the case. The WHO coined the term ‘infodemic’ to describe the issue of overabundance of information, including misinformation, ...

Methods The study population of this observational historic cohort study consisted of subjects with DM, who had purchased for at least one insulin prescription and/or one oral antidiabetic between ...

Background Uterine fibroids (UFs) are the most common form of sex steroid hormone-dependent benign tumours that grow in the walls of the uterus. Several observational studies have examined 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 ...