237 white and black populations suggest that uncontrolled confounding is at play. Studies from populations of different faiths would be of interest, as would randomized trials of religious engagement. A systematic review of randomized trials of the effects of prayer is 'too inconclusive to guide those wishing to uphold or refute the effect of intercessory prayer on health care outcomes'. 7 Gett...

1 Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Population and Family Health Science, Bloomberg Sch...

BACKGROUND A greater burden of stroke risk factors in general is associated with a higher risk for stroke among people of lower than those of higher socioeconomic position. The relative impact of individual stroke risk factors is still unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied the relations between socioeconomic position, measured as household income and length of education, and all hospital ad...

BACKGROUND Ample evidence has shown that early-life social conditions are associated with mortality later in life. However, little attention has been given to the strength of these effects across specific age intervals from birth to old age. In this paper, we study the effect of the family's socioeconomic position and mother's marital status at birth on all-cause mortality at different age inte...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare associations of childhood and adult socioeconomic position with cardiovascular risk factors measured in adulthood. To estimate the effects of adult socioeconomic position after adjustment for childhood circumstances. DESIGN Cross sectional survey, using the relative index of inequality method to compare socioeconomic differences at different life stages. SETTING ...

BACKGROUND whether socioeconomic position over the life course influences the wellbeing of older people similarly in different societies is not known. OBJECTIVE to investigate the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in life satisfaction among individuals in early old age and the influence of the welfare state regime on the associations. DESIGN comparative study using data from Wave 2 an...

Associations between obesity and adverse health outcomes, including cardiorespiratory disease, diabetes, and cancer, are well documented. These diseases are likely to pose ever increasing public health problems as the prevalence of obesity increases. The prevention of obesity requires an understanding of its determinants throughout the lifecourse. A recent review concluded that childhood socioe...