List of works by David A Leon

A measure of alcohol consumption in late adolescence associated with liver disease after 39 years of follow-up is insufficient to guide alcohol safe limits

scientific article published on 09 April 2018

A systematic review of allostatic load in relation to socioeconomic position: Poor fidelity and major inconsistencies in biomarkers employed.

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Accuracy of adults' recall of childhood social class: findings from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study.

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Acute alcohol-related dysfunction as a predictor of employment status in a longitudinal study of working-age men in Izhevsk, Russia.

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

Adiposity in middle and old age and risk of death from dementia: 40-year follow-up of 19,000 men in the Whitehall study

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis

scientific article published in December 2016

Air pollution and infant mortality in the Czech Republic, 1986-88.

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Alcohol and Russian mortality: a continuing crisis

scientific article published on 04 August 2009

Alcohol and cardiovascular mortality in Moscow; new evidence of a causal association.

scientific article published on December 1998

Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia: understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family

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Alcohol and premature death in Estonian men: a study of forensic autopsies using novel biomarkers and proxy informants

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Alcohol consumption and public health in Russia

scientific article published in The Lancet

Alcohol consumption and self-reported (SF12) physical and mental health among working-aged men in a typical Russian city: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Alcohol increases circulatory disease mortality in Russia: acute and chronic effects or misattribution of cause?

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Alcohol is implicated in the fluctuations in cardiovascular disease in Russia since the 1980s.

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Alcohol policy in a Russian region: a stakeholder analysis

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Alcohol-related dysfunction in working-age men in Izhevsk, Russia: an application of structural equation models to study the association with education

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Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

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Association between childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position and pregnancy induced hypertension: results from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published on January 2005

Association of body mass index and obesity measured in early childhood with risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in middle age: findings from the aberdeen children of the 1950s prospective cohort study

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Association of childhood intelligence with risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published on 15 August 2008

Associations between childhood intelligence and hospital admissions for unintentional injuries in adulthood: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

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Associations of Gestational Age and Intrauterine Growth With Systolic Blood Pressure in a Family-Based Study of 386 485 Men in 331 089 Families

Availability and characteristics of nonbeverage alcohols sold in 17 Russian cities in 2007.

scientific article published on 11 November 2008

BMI peak in infancy as a predictor for later BMI in the Uppsala Family Study.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Between-study differences in grip strength: a comparison of Norwegian and Russian adults aged 40-69 years

scientific article published in December 2021

Biological theories, evidence, and epidemiology

scientific article published on 26 November 2004

Birth characteristics and adult cancer incidence: Swedish cohort of over 11,000 men and women.

scientific article published on July 2005

Birth weight and psychological distress at age 45-51 years: results from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published in July 2005

Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review

scientific article published in December 2008

Birth weight is inversely associated with incident coronary heart disease and stroke among individuals born in the 1950s: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 29 August 2005

Birth weight, hypertension and "white coat" hypertension: size at birth in relation to office and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure

scientific article published in August 2005

Blood cholesterol and vascular mortality by age, sex, and blood pressure: a meta-analysis of individual data from 61 prospective studies with 55,000 vascular deaths

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Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

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Body-mass index and risk of 22 specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of 5·24 million UK adults

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Born in Bradford, a cohort study of babies born in Bradford, and their parents: protocol for the recruitment phase

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Breast cancer in Swedish women before age 50: evidence of a dual effect of completed pregnancy

scientific article published on July 1995

Breast-feeding influences on later life--cardiovascular disease.

scientific article published on January 2009

Cancer incidence in South Asian migrants to England, 1986-2004: unraveling ethnic from socioeconomic differentials

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Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: Evidence and interpretations

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Changes in life expectancy in Russia in the mid-1990s

scientific article published in March 2001

Child mental health differences amongst ethnic groups in Britain: a systematic review

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Childhood cognitive ability and age at menopause: evidence from two cohort studies

scientific article published on 21 July 2005

Childhood intelligence, educational attainment and adult body mass index: findings from a prospective cohort and within sibling-pairs analysis

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Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment, and adult cardiovascular risk factors: the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Childhood temperament and long-term sickness absence in adult life

scientific article published in March 2009

Cities, urbanization and health

scientific article published on 10 January 2008

Cohort profile: the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study

scientific article published on February 2006

Commentary: Alcohol, child development and harm to others: a 'hard' problem

scientific article published on August 2012

Commentary: N Eberstadt's 'The health crisis in the USSR' and sustainable mortality reversal in the post-Soviet space during communism and after

scientific article published on 4 December 2006

Commentary: Preston and mortality trends since the mid-1970s.

scientific article published on 5 June 2007

Commentary: The development of the Ounsteds' theory of maternal constraint--a critical perspective.

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

Comparative performance of biomarkers of alcohol consumption in a population sample of working-aged men in Russia: the Izhevsk Family Study

scientific article published on 5 July 2013

Comparing health inequalities across time and place--rate ratios and rate differences lead to different conclusions: analysis of cross-sectional data from 22 countries 1991-2001.

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Completeness and usability of ethnicity data in UK-based primary care and hospital databases.

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Data on births by ethnic group now available for England and Wales

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Deaths from alcohol and violence in Moscow: socio-economic determinants

scientific article published in March 1998

Differences in body composition between infants of South Asian and European ancestry: the London Mother and Baby Study

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Disparities in length of life across developed countries: measuring and decomposing changes over time within and between country groups

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Do socioeconomic disadvantages persist into old age? Self-reported morbidity in a 29-year follow-up of the Whitehall Study.

scientific article published in February 2001

Does the primary school attended influence self-reported health or its risk factors in later life? Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Study.

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Early life factors, childhood cognition and postal questionnaire response rate in middle age: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study

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Early life predictors of childhood intelligence: evidence from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study.

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Educational level and adult mortality in Russia: an analysis of routine data 1979 to 1994.

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Effect of social class in childhood and adulthood on adult mortality

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

Ethnic differences in the clustering and outcomes of health behaviours during pregnancy: results from the Born in Bradford cohort. ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

Excess mortality in Russia and its regions compared to high income countries: An analysis of monthly series of 2020

scientific article published on 17 December 2021

Failed or misleading adjustment for confounding

scientific article published on August 1993

Family socioeconomic position at birth and future cardiovascular disease risk: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

Fetal, developmental, and parental influences on childhood systolic blood pressure in 600 sib pairs: the Uppsala Family study

scientific article published on 14 November 2005

Fetal, developmental, and parental influences on cystatin C in childhood: the Uppsala Family Study

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Further evidence of a dual effect of a completed pregnancy on breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Genetic regulation of birth weight and fasting glucose by a common polymorphism in the islet cell promoter of the glucokinase gene

scientific article published in February 2005

Global epidemic of cardiovascular disease

scientific article published in The Lancet

Growth trajectory matters: interpreting the associations among birth weight, concurrent body size, and systolic blood pressure in a cohort study of 378,707 Swedish men.

scientific article published on 10 March 2007

Hazardous alcohol consumption is a major factor in male premature mortality in a typical Russian city: prospective cohort study 2003-2009.

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Hazardous alcohol consumption is associated with increased levels of B-type natriuretic peptide: evidence from two population-based studies

scientific article published on 5 May 2013

Hazardous alcohol drinking and premature mortality in Russia: a population based case-control study

scientific article published on June 2007

Health and health systems in the Commonwealth of Independent States

scientific article published on March 2013

History of childbearing and colorectal cancer risk in women aged less than 60: an analysis of Swedish routine registry data 1960-1984.

scientific article published on April 1996

Hospital contacts with alcohol problems prior to liver cirrhosis or pancreatitis diagnosis.

scientific article published in December 2017

How does progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor? Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data

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How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study

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Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984-94: artefact, alcohol, or what?

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Hypertension in sub-saharan Africa: a systematic review

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Hypertensive target organ damage in Ghanaian civil servants with hypertension

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INTERHEART.

scientific article published in January 2005

INTERHEART.

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Identifying the determinants of premature mortality in Russia: overcoming a methodological challenge

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Illegally produced alcohol

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Imagining a better place: trust, care, and progress in medicine.

scientific article published on April 2015

Increased risk of schizophrenia from additive interaction between infant motor developmental delay and obstetric complications: evidence from a population-based longitudinal study

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Increasing social variation in birth outcomes in the Czech Republic after 1989

scientific article published on 01 September 1998

Infant mortality, stomach cancer, stroke, and coronary heart disease: ecological analysis.

scientific article published on June 2000

Intergenerational correlations in size at birth and the contribution of environmental factors: The Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study, Sweden, 1915-2002.

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Intergenerational determinants of offspring size at birth: a life course and graphical analysis using the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Study (ACONF).

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Intrauterine Growth and Intelligence Within Sibling Pairs: Findings From the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Cohort

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Is the effect of low birth weight on cardiovascular mortality mediated through high blood pressure?

scientific article published on January 1999

Ischaemic heart disease and low birth weight: a test of the fetal-origins hypothesis from the Swedish Twin Registry

scientific article published in January 1994

Know Your Heart: Rationale, design and conduct of a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular structure, function and risk factors in 4500 men and women aged 35-69 years from two Russian cities, 2015-18

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Know Your Heart: Rationale, design and conduct of a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular structure, function and risk factors in 4500 men and women aged 35-69 years from two Russian cities, 2015-18

scientific article published in 2018

Left atrial diameter, left ventricle filling indices, and association with all-cause mortality: Results from the population-based Tromsø Study

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

Length of gestation is associated with mortality from cerebrovascular disease.

scientific article published on June 2005

Lifetime reproductive output over two generations in patients with psychosis and their unaffected siblings: the Uppsala 1915–1929 Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study

scientific article published on 06 March 2009

Limits to causal inference based on Mendelian randomization: a comparison with randomized controlled trials

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Liver cirrhosis mortality rates in Britain from 1950 to 2002: an analysis of routine data

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Liver cirrhosis mortality rates in Britain, 1950 to 2002

scientific article published in The Lancet

Long-term trends in the longevity of scientific elites: evidence from the British and the Russian academies of science

scientific article published on 15 September 2011

Low birth weight persists in South Asian babies born in England and Wales regardless of maternal country of birth. Slow pace of acculturation, physiological constraint or both? Analysis of routine data

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Minding the gap: changes in life expectancy in the Baltic States compared with Finland

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Morning cortisol does not mediate the association of size at birth with blood pressure in children born from full-term pregnancies

scientific article published in June 2005

Number of hospital contacts with alcohol problems predicts later risk of alcoholic liver cirrhosis

scientific article published on 10 March 2018

Obesity in urban civil servants in Ghana: association with pre-adult wealth and adult socio-economic status.

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Parity, age at first childbirth, and risk of ovarian cancer

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Paternal age and schizophrenia: a population based cohort study

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Paternal and maternal influences on differences in birth weight between Europeans and Indians born in the UK

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Patterns in the relationship between life expectancy and gross domestic product in Russia in 2005-15: a cross-sectional analysis

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Patterns of smoking in Russia.

scientific article published on January 1998

Pharmacological treatment of hypertension and hyperlipidemia in Izhevsk, Russia.

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Prevalence and socio-economic distribution of hazardous patterns of alcohol drinking: study of alcohol consumption in men aged 25-54 years in Izhevsk, Russia

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Prevalence and sociodemographic determinants of tobacco use among adults in Pakistan: findings of a nationwide survey conducted in 2012.

scientific article published on 03 September 2013

Prevalence, detection, management, and control of hypertension in Ghanaian civil servants.

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Re: "Alcohol consumption in young adults and incident hypertension: 20-year follow-up from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study".

scientific article published on 5 August 2010

Recessions and mortality: subtle but informative effects

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Reed Elsevier and the arms trade revisited

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Reply to: "Anthropometric measures in the risk assessment of obese individuals"

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Representativeness and optimal use of body mass index (BMI) in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)

scientific article (publication date: 13 September 2013)

Risk for alcoholic liver cirrhosis after an initial hospital contact with alcohol problems: A nationwide prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies.

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Season of birth and childhood intelligence: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published in September 2006

Secular trends in mortality by stroke subtype in the 20th century: a retrospective analysis

scientific article published in The Lancet

Self-reported health as a predictor of mortality: A cohort study of its relation to other health measurements and observation time

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Self-reported symptoms of chronic cough and breathlessness in working-age men in the city of Izhevsk, Russia: associations with cardiovascular disease risk factors and comorbidities

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Separating within and between effects in family studies: an application to the study of blood pressure in children.

scientific article published on September 2004

Sex-specific relevance of diabetes to occlusive vascular and other mortality: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual data from 980 793 adults from 68 prospective studies.

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Size at birth and hypertension in longitudinally followed 50-70-year-old men.

scientific article published on July 1997

Social class and mortality in occupational cohorts

Social determinants of birthweight, ponderal index and gestational age in Sweden in the 1920s and the 1980s

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Social transition and substance abuse

scientific article published in September 2005

Socio-demographic predictors of dimensions of the AUDIT score in a population sample of working-age men in Izhevsk, Russia

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Socio-economic position across the life course and hysterectomy in three British cohorts: a cross-cohort comparative study

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Socioeconomic factors and height of preschool children in the Czech Republic

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

Statistical issues in life course epidemiology.

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Surrogate Alcohol Drinking in Estonia

scientific article published on 04 April 2011

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

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The HIM (Health for Izhevsk Men) trial protocol

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its public health consequences

scientific article published in 2022

The association between anthropometric measures of adiposity and the progression of carotid atherosclerosis

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

The association of ambient outdoor temperature throughout pregnancy and offspring birthweight: findings from theAberdeen Children of the 1950scohort

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

The associations of birthweight, gestational age and childhood BMI with type 2 diabetes: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort

scientific article published on 21 September 2006

The cognitive cost of being a twin: evidence from comparisons within families in the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study

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The composition of surrogate alcohols consumed in Russia

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The contribution of obesity to carotid atherosclerotic plaque burden in a general population sample in Norway: The Tromsø Study

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

The efficacy of a brief intervention in reducing hazardous drinking in working age men in Russia: the HIM (Health for Izhevsk men) individually randomised parallel group exploratory trial

scientific article published on 4 November 2011

The foetal origins of adult disease: interpreting the evidence from twin studies.

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The impact of alcohol consumption on patterns of union formation in Russia 1998-2010: an assessment using longitudinal data

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The management of acute myocardial infarction in the Russian Federation: protocol for a study of patient pathways.

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

The prevalence of wholly attributable alcohol conditions in the United Kingdom hospital system: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Tolerance of suicide, religion and suicide rates: an ecological and individual study in 19 Western countries

scientific article published in September 1997

Trends in European life expectancy: a salutary view

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Understanding the rapid increase in life expectancy in South Korea

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What can trends in hospital deaths from COVID-19 tell us about the progress and peak of the pandemic? An analysis of death counts from England announced up to 25 April 2020

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

What online searches tell us about public interest and potential impact on behaviour in response to Minimum Unit Pricing of alcohol in Scotland

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Why do British Indian children have an apparent mental health advantage?

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Why is the death rate from lung cancer falling in the Russian Federation?

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Women's risk of repeat abortions is strongly associated with alcohol consumption: a longitudinal analysis of a Russian national panel study, 1994-2009

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Wood dust exposure and cancer incidence: a retrospective cohort study of furniture workers in Estonia

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Work-related assault injuries among nurses

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

World mortality 1950-2000: divergence replaces convergence from the late 1980s.

scientific article published on 16 March 2005

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