The Whitehall Organs

The Whitehall Study

In the WVhitehall study, 18,388 subjects aged 40-64 years completed a questionnaire on intermittent claudication. Of these subjects, 0.8% (147) and 1% (175) were deemed to have probable intermittent claudication and possible intermittent claudication, respectively. Within the 17-year follow-up period, 38% and 40% of the probable and possible cases, respectively, died. Compared with subjects wit...

Overweight and stroke in the Whitehall study.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine the risk of increasing overweight for death from stroke. DESIGN This was a prospective cohort study, in which the main outcome measure was the mortality ratio for stroke with increasing body mass index. SETTING Civil service departments, Whitehall, London. SUBJECTS Participants were 17,753 men aged 40 to 64 years. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS 208 ...

The Whitehall II Prospective Cohort Study

Prospective data on depressive symptoms and blood pressure are scarce, and the impact of age on this association is poorly understood. The present study examines longitudinal trajectories of depressive episodes and the probability of hypertension associated with these trajectories over time. Participants were 6889 men and 3413 women, London-based civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline, ...

Cohort Profile: the Whitehall II study.

The Whitehall studies have come to be closely associated with the investigation of socioeconomic differences in physical and mental illness and mortality: the social gradient.1,2 That was not the initial purpose of the first Whitehall study. Donald Reid and Geoffrey Rose set up Whitehall, in the 1960s, as a kind of British Framingham:3 ‘Framingham’ insofar as it was a longitudinal study of card...

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