Longitudinal Associations of Smoke-Free Policies and Incident Cardiovascular Disease

Smoke-Free Workplace Policies and Organizational Attraction

Companies adopt smoke-free workplace policies to improve health of their employees, but how severely such policies are enforced can have an impact on non-smoking employees as well and can also affect employees' view about their companies. The current study examined the extent to which perceived severity of and organizational support for a smoke-free workplace policy affected employees’ attracti...

Are smoke-free policies good for business?

Longitudinal associations between neighbourhood walkability and incident childhood asthma

Methods We evaluated the association between neighbourhood walkability and incident childhood asthma using prospectively-collected administrative data at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Among the 1997-2003 birth cohorts of children living in Toronto, neighbourhood quintile of walkability was reported using a validated walkability index with 4 dimensions: population density, dwel...

Obesity and Subtypes of Incident Cardiovascular Disease

BACKGROUND Obesity is a risk factor for various subtypes of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure (HF), and stroke. Nevertheless, there are limited comparisons of the associations of obesity with each of these CVD subtypes, particularly regarding the extent to which they are unexplained by traditional CVD mediators. METHODS AND RESULTS We followed...

Television Viewing and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Prospective Associations and Mediation Analysis in the EPIC Norfolk Study

BACKGROUND Although television viewing time is detrimentally associated with intermediate cardiovascular risk factors, the relationship with incident total (i.e. combined fatal and non-fatal) cardiovascular disease (CVD), non-fatal CVD and coronary heart disease is largely unknown. This study examined whether television viewing time is associated with these three outcomes, independently of phys...