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October 2009 - Volume 63 - Suppl 2

Society for Social Medicine 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: 63 (Suppl 2)

Programme

Society for Social Medicine 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting, 9–11 September 2009, the University of Newcastle (9 September, 2009) Free

Timetable

Parallel sessions and speakers (9 September, 2009) Free

Wednesday 9 September, Parallel session A

Life course CVD: Is accelerated postnatal growth associated with blood pressure in childhood? (9 September, 2009) Free
N. M. Davies, K. Tilling, F. Windmeijer, G. Davey Smith, Y. Ben-Shlomo, M. S. Kramer, R. M. Martin
Life course CVD: Elevated blood pressure in early adulthood as a predictor of later coronary heart disease mortality: up to 83 years follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Health Study (9 September, 2009) Free
L. Gray, I. M. Lee, H. D. Sesso, G. D. Batty
Life course CVD: Working characteristics and cardiovascular disease: are associations confounded by early life risk factors? (9 September, 2009) Free
C. Thomas, C. Power
Life course CVD: Lifecourse predictors of adult fibrinogen concentrations: the Newcastle Thousand Families Birth Cohort (9 September, 2009) Free
M. S. Pearce, A. Ahmed, P. W. G. Tennant, L. Parker, N. C. Unwin
Maternal health: Social and biological determinants of reproductive success in Swedish males and females born 1915–1929 (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Goodman, I. Koupil
Maternal health: Trends in maternal obesity and health inequalities in a nationally representative sample of 619 323 births in England, UK, 1989–2007 (9 September, 2009) Free
N. Heslehurst, J. Rankin, J. Wilkinson, C. D. Summerbell
Maternal health: Inherited risk of pre-eclampsia: using two approaches for analysis (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Bhattacharya, E. A. Raja, D. M. Campbell, A. J. Lee
Maternal health: Breastfeeding is associated with improved child cognitive development: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (9 September, 2009) Free
M. A. Quigley, C. Hockley, C. Carson, Y. Kelly, M. Renfrew, A. Sacker
Physical activity: Tracking of physical activity behaviours during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: a systematic review (9 September, 2009) Free
J. M. M. Evans, C. M. Shelia, A. Kirk, I. K. Crombie
Physical activity: The multiple scales of area effects on health: from evidence to implications for public health practice and policy (9 September, 2009) Free
M. Riva
Physical activity: The 2008 Great North Run as public health intervention: participant characteristics and changes in physical activity and body mass index from 20 weeks before to 20 weeks after the event (9 September, 2009) Free
J. Adams, M. White
Physical activity: Healthy eating and physical activity choices in socio-economically disadvantaged women: the role of health literacy (9 September, 2009) Free
J. Edwards, C. Jackson, F. Cheater, J. Holt, M. Robinson
Inequalities I: Ethnicity and cancer treatment in New Zealand: do Maori patients get a worse deal? (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Hill, D. Sarfati, T. Blakely, B. Robson
Inequalities I: Socioeconomic differences in statin use after deregulation of simvastatin in the UK: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study (9 September, 2009) Free
I. Forde, T. Chandola, M. G. Marmot, M. Kivimaki
Inequalities I: Socio-demographic predictors of uptake of MMR immunisation in the lifeways cohort study (9 September, 2009) Free
L. Jessop, C. C. Kelleher, C. Murrin, J. Lotya, D. O’Mahony, A. T. Clarke, U. B. Fallon, H. Johnson, G. Bury, A. Murphy
Inequalities I: Food poverty and dietary quality: is there a relationship? (9 September, 2009) Free
J. Harrington, J. Lutomski, M. Molcho, I. J. Perry
Mental health: Early menarche is associated with an increased risk for depressive symptoms in adolescent girls in a UK cohort (9 September, 2009) Free
C. Joinson, J. Heron, R. Araya, G. Lewis
Mental health: Regulatory guidance on prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants to young people: ecological study of effects on international suicide trends (9 September, 2009) Free
B. Wheeler, D. Gunnell, C. Metcalfe, R. Martin
Mental health: Social class differences in anxiety and depression across the life-course: evidence from three cohorts in the west of Scotland (9 September, 2009) Free
M. J. Green, M. Benzeval
Mental health: Suicide in England and Wales 1861–2005: a time trends analysis (9 September, 2009) Free
K. Thomas, D. Gunnell
Cancer I: Seasonal variation in birth and diagnosis of cancer in children and young people in Northern England, 1968–2005 (9 September, 2009) Free
N. O. Basta, P. W. James, A. W. Craft, R. J. Q. McNally
Cancer I: The epidemiology of bone cancer diagnosed in 0–49-year-olds in northern England, 1981–2002 (9 September, 2009) Free
R. G. Feltbower, R. Eyre, P. W. James, K. Blakey, E. Mubwandarikwa, D. Forman, P. A. McKinney, M. S. Pearce, R. J. Q. McNally
Cancer I: Incidence of central nervous system tumours with the use of hormone replacement therapy (9 September, 2009) Free
V. Benson, K. Pirie, J. Green, G. Reeves, V. Beral
Cancer I: International trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality in 20 countries from 1980 to 2002 (9 September, 2009) Free
A. E. Carsin, E. Masuyer, L. Sharp, P. Autier

Thursday 10 September, Parallel session B

Lifecourse obesity: Body mass index through life and adult mortality: results from the British 1946 birth cohort (9 September, 2009) Free
B. H. Strand, D. Kuh, I. Shah, J. Guralnik, R. Hardy
Lifecourse obesity: Trajectories of body mass index and overweight in early adulthood and blood pressure at 53 years (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Wills, S. Black, G. Mishra, D. Kuh, R. Hardy
Lifecourse obesity: Changing influences on childhood obesity: a study of two generations of the 1958 British birth cohort (9 September, 2009) Free
L. Li, A. Pinot de Moira, C. Power
Lifecourse obesity: Does childcare influence the risk of overweight and obesity in the early years? Findings from the UK millennium cohort study (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Pearce, L. Li, J. Abbas, B. Ferguson, H. Graham, C. Law
Trends in CVD: Stroke mortality trends for England: modelling the past to predict the future (9 September, 2009) Free
C. J. Sutton, J. Marsden, C. L. Watkins, M. J. Leathley, P. Dey
Trends in CVD: Choosing metrics in public health assessments: attributing credit for the recent large coronary heart disease mortality decline in the US population (9 September, 2009) Free
H. Gouda, J. A. Critchley, J. Powles, S. Capewell
Trends in CVD: Explaining the massive decline in coronary heart disease mortality in iceland between 1981 and 2006 (9 September, 2009) Free
M. O’Flaherty, T. Aspelund, V. Gudnason, B. T. Magnusdottir, K. Andersen, G. Sigurdsson, B. Thorsson, J. Critchley, K. Bennett, S. Capewell
Trends in CVD: 20-Year trends in major coronary risk factors in older British men: assessing the impact of medication use (9 September, 2009) Free
S. L. Hardoon, P. H. Whincup, S. G. Wannamethee, O. Papacosta, M. C. Thomas, L. T. Lennon, A. G. Thomson, S. Capewell, R. W. Morris
Alcohol: Alcohol consumption and the U-shape relationship with mortality: 8-year follow-up of more than 6000 older men in the Whitehall study (9 September, 2009) Free
N. Bhala, J. Emberson, R. Clarke
Alcohol: Light drinking during pregnancy: still no risk for socioemotional difficulties or cognitive deficits at 5 years of age? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (9 September, 2009) Free
Y. Kelly, A. Sacker, R. Gray, D. Wolke, J. Kelly, M. Quigley
Alcohol: Longitudinal latent class analysis of alcohol consumption (9 September, 2009) Free
W. J. Harrison, B. M. Bewick, M. S. Gilthorpe, A. J. Hill, R. M. West
Alcohol: Do imprecise measures of alcohol intake influence drinking recommendations relating to ischaemic heart disease? (9 September, 2009) Free
D. C. Greenwood, J. E. Cade, V. J. Burley, M. S. Gilthorpe
Adolescents: Social hierarchies in youth: school-based peer hierarchies are more important than family socioeconomic status for stress (cortisol) (9 September, 2009) Free
P. West, H. Sweeting, R. Young, S. Kelly
Adolescents: Inequalities in the health and well-being of 15-year-old boys and girls in Scotland and the mediating effect of the family meal (9 September, 2009) Free
K. Levin, C. Currie
Adolescents: Comparison of teenagers’ early same sex and heterosexual behaviour in the UK: data from the share and RIPPLE studies (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Parkes, V. Strange, D. Wight, M. Henderson, K. Buston
Adolescents: Cigarette and alcohol consumption among young people in England: findings from the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Survey 2008 (9 September, 2009) Free
D. Jotangia, E. Fuller
Methods: A novel approach to testing the lifecourse effect of body sizes on blood pressure in later life using partial least squares regression (9 September, 2009) Free
Y-K. Tu, A. Woolston, P. Baxter, M. S. Gilthorpe
Methods: The preference effect in an unblinded health promotion intervention trial: how important is it? (9 September, 2009) Free
C. Hayes, C. Collins, M. Geary, C. C. Kelleher
Methods: The (ab)use of symptom scores in asthma clinical trials: evidence from a systematic review (9 September, 2009) Free
G. Frampton, J. Shepherd
Methods: An analysis of the structure of the components of metabolic syndrome using matroids (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Woolston, P. D. Baxter, M. S. Gilthorpe, E. Goodman, Y-K. Tu
Cancer II: Help-seeking behaviour in smokers and ex-smokers with symptoms of lung cancer. The application of an integrated model (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Smith, S. Wyke, U. Macleod, S. Ziebland, N. Campbell
Cancer II: The cost of having cancer: a survey of patients with cancer in Ireland (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Timmons, L. Sharp, A. E. Carsin, N. Donnelly, J. Kelly, J. McCormack, N. Chonghaile, E. O’Donnell, O. Ryan, H. Comber
Cancer II: Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of British military veterans included in chemical warfare agent experiments at Porton Down (9 September, 2009) Free
L. M. Carpenter, K. M. Venables, L. Linsell, C. Brooks, T. J. Keegan, T. Langdon, P. Doyle, N. E. S. Maconochie, T. Fletcher, M. J. Nieuwenhuijsen, V. Beral
Cancer II: Equity in cancer patient survival in Finland (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Pokhrel, T. Hakulinen

Friday 11 September, Parallel session C

Smoking: Can national smoking prevalence be monitored using primary care medical records data? (9 September, 2009) Free
L. Szatkowski, T. Coleman, S. Lewis, A. McNeill
Smoking: The impact of implementation of smoke-free legislation in England on cotinine levels in adults (9 September, 2009) Free
H. Wardle, S. Nicholson, J. Mindell, R. Craig
Smoking: The benefits of stopping smoking (9 September, 2009) Free
K. Pirie, R. Peto, G. Reeves, V. Beral
Smoking: Weight change over eight years in relation to baseline body mass index in a cohort of continuing and quitting smokers (9 September, 2009) Free
D. Lycett, P. Aveyard, M. Munafo, E. Johnstone, M. Murphy
BMI, CVD and mortality: Comparison of the associations of BMI and measures of regional adiposity with coronary heart disease, diabetes and all cause mortality: a study using data from four UK cohorts (9 September, 2009) Free
A. E. Taylor, S. Ebrahim, Y. Ben-Shlomo, R. M. Martin, P. H. Whincup, J. W. Yarnell, S. G. Wannamethee, D. A. Lawlor
BMI, CVD and mortality: Association of body mass index, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio with mortality in the Scottish Health Surveys (9 September, 2009) Free
J. W. Hotchkiss, A. H. Leyland
BMI, CVD and mortality: Elevated body mass index in early adulthood as a predictor of later coronary heart disease mortality: up to 82 years follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Health Study (9 September, 2009) Free
G. D. Batty, L. Gray, H. D. Sesso, I-M. Lee
BMI, CVD and mortality: The long term effects of childbearing and breastfeeding on body mass index in middle aged women results from the Million Women Study (9 September, 2009) Free
K. Bobrow, M. Quigley, J. Green, G. Reeves, V. Beral
Ethnicity and young people: Explaining the mental health advantage of British Indian children (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Goodman, V. Patel, D. Leon
Ethnicity and young people: Emergence of ethnic differences in blood pressure in adolescence: the determinants of adolescent social well-being and health longitudinal study (9 September, 2009) Free
E. Lenguerrand, S. Harding, M. Whitrow, M. Maynard, K. Cruickshank, G. Der, A. Teyhan
Ethnicity and young people: Nutritional composition of the diets of South Ssian, black African Caribbean and white European children in the UK: the Child Heart and Health Study in England (9 September, 2009) Free
A. S. Brock, C. M. Nightingale, C. G. Owen, A. R. Rudnicka, M. C. McNamara, C. J. Prynne, A. M. Stephen, D. G. Cook, P. H. Whincup
Ethnicity and young people: Patterns of adiposity and obesity among South Asian and white European children: Child Heart and Health Study in England (9 September, 2009) Free
C. M. Nightingale, A. R. Rudnicka, C. G. Owen, D. G. Cook, P. H. Whincup
Diabetes plus: Prediction scores to identify older adults at high risk for type 2 diabetes (9 September, 2009) Free
S. G. Wannamethee, O. Papacosta, P. Whincup, C. Carson, M. C. Thomas, D. A. Lawlor, S. Ebrahim, N. Sattar
Diabetes plus: Relative risk of mortality associated with diabetes in Scotland in 2007: a nationwide record linkage study (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Wild
Diabetes plus: Quantifying the association between tuberculosis and diabetes: a case-control analysis (9 September, 2009) Free
V. Corris, N. Unwin, J. Critchley
Diabetes plus: Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in South Asian and Black minorities: findings from a population based screening study in London, UK (9 September, 2009) Free
P. Roderick, L. Lightstone, S. Harris, M. Lapsley, M. Dockrell, E. Lim, J. Chambers, J. S. Kooner
Disability and capability: The association between participation of children with cerebral palsy and the physical, social and attitudinal environment: a cross-sectional European study (9 September, 2009) Free
H. O. Dickinson, A. Colver
Disability and capability: Twenty-year survival of children born with congenital anomalies: a population-based study (9 September, 2009) Free
P. Tennant, M. Pearce, M. Bythell, J. Rankin
Disability and capability: Measuring locomotor disability: a new scoring mechanism for some familiar items (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Muller, E. Thomas, G. Peat
Disability and capability: Physical capability and subsequent mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data (9 September, 2009) Free
R. Cooper, D. Kuh, R. Hardy
Ageing: The impact of cataract surgery on health related quality of life and time use in Kenya, Bangladesh and the Philippines (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Polack, C. Eusebio, W. Mathenge, Z. Wadud, A. K. M. Mamunur, A. Foster, H. Kuper
Ageing: Poverty and blindness: an intervention study to assess the impact of cataract surgery on poverty (9 September, 2009) Free
H. Kuper, S. Polack, C. Eusebio, W. Mathenge, Z. Wadud, R. Mamun, A. Foster
Ageing: The association between psychosocial status and mortality in older adults: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (9 September, 2009) Free
C. C. Craigs, A. O. House, J. Hewison, R. M. West
Ageing: Health and disease in a UK cohort of 85-year–olds: the Newcastle 85+ study (9 September, 2009) Free
J. Collerton, K. Davies, C. Jagger, A. Kingston, M. Eccles, O. James, J. Bond, L. Robinson, T. Von Zglinicki, C. Martin-Ruiz, T. Kirkwood

Friday 11 September, Parallel session D

Inequalities II: Context or composition? Exploring the adult health and well-being of British children born in different regions (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Easton
Inequalities II: Comparison of life course socioeconomic models for cardiovascular risk factors: 1946 birth cohort (9 September, 2009) Free
E. T. Lemelin, G. Mishra, D. Kuh, J. Guralnik, S. Black, R. Hardy
Inequalities II: Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health: a comparative study of four OECD countries (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Sacker, D. Worts, P. McDonough
Health service research and evidence based practice: Mind the gap: use of evidence in commentaries on MMR in professional journals (1988–2007) (9 September, 2009) Free
S. Hilton, K. Hunt, M. Langan, V. Hamilton, M. Petticrew, H. Bedford
Health service research and evidence based practice: Association between volume and outcome for adult general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (9 September, 2009) Free
C. Welch, D. Harrison, K. Rowan
Health service research and evidence based practice: Independent sector treatment centres: learning from a Scottish case study (9 September, 2009) Free
A. M. Pollock, G. Kirkwood
Measurement and recognition of adiposity: Accuracy of height and weight data from child health records (9 September, 2009) Free
L. D. Howe, K. Tilling, D. A. Lawlor
Measurement and recognition of adiposity: Parental recognition of overweight in children aged 6–8 years: findings from the Gateshead Millennium Study (9 September, 2009) Free
A. R. Jones, K. N. Parkinson, R. F. Drewett, R. M. Hyland, A. J. Adamson
Measurement and recognition of adiposity: A 10-year decline in self-recognition of obesity: trends in sensitivity and specificity from three population surveys in ireland (9 September, 2009) Free
F. Shiely, K. Hayes, J. Lutomski, J. Harrington, H. McGee, C. C. Kelleher, I. J. Perry
Substance use: A retrospective analysis of changing outcomes for pregnant substance users with the establishment of specialist antenatal services (9 September, 2009) Free
K. Bristow, F. Ibrahim, E. Gilvarry, E. Kaner, P. Moran, J. Rankin
Substance use: Early adolescent substance use and parental socio economic position earlier in life: birth cohort analyses (9 September, 2009) Free
R. Melotti, J. Heron, M. Hickman, J. Macleod, R. Araya, G. Lewis
Substance use: The Edinburgh Addiction Cohort: a longitudinal study of survival and long term injecting cessation (9 September, 2009) Free
J. Kimber, L. Copeland, M. Hickman, J. MacLeod, J. McKenzie, D. D. Angelis, J. R. Robertson
CVD and metabolic syndrome: Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: caution required (9 September, 2009) Free
J. P. Casas, F. C. Taylor, K. J. Ward, M. Burke, T. Moore, G. D. Smith, S. Ebrahim
CVD and metabolic syndrome: Metabolic health changes in migrants moving from a rural to an urban environment in Tanzania (9 September, 2009) Free
N. Unwin, P. James, R. McNally
CVD and metabolic syndrome: High burden of cardiovascular disease and risk profile in an elderly eastern German general population—potential explanation for an east–west gradient of cardiovascular mortality: The CARLA Study 2002–2006 (9 September, 2009) Free
K. H. Greiser, A. Kluttig, B. Schumann, O. Kuss, J. A. Kors, K. Werdan, C. A. Swenne, J. Haerting
Methods in ethnicity research: Investigating the association between ethnicity and survival from breast cancer using routinely collected health data: challenges and potential solutions (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Downing, D. Forman, J. D. Thomas, R. M. West, G. Lawrence, M. S. Gilthorpe
Methods in ethnicity research: Recruiting South Asians to a randomised trial (Prevention of Diabetes and Obesity in South Asians) for the prevention of diabetes: the challenges and achievements (9 September, 2009) Free
A. Douglas
Methods in ethnicity research: Under-reporting of tobacco use among Bangladeshi women in England; a cross-sectional study (9 September, 2009) Free
M. Roth, A. Aitsi-Selmi, H. Wardle, J. Mindell
Plenary session: Are poor mothers and their infants healthier in richer areas? The protective effect of area socio-economic density (9 September, 2009) Free
C. Albor, K. Pickett, R. G. Wilkinson, D. Ballas
Plenary session: Secondhand smoke exposure assessed using serum cotinine: associations with myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular risk factors in adult men and women (9 September, 2009) Free
B. J. Jefferis, G. D. O. Lowe, P. Welsh, D. A. Lawlor, S. Ebrahim, S. G. Wannamethee, D. G. Cook, P. H. Whincup
Plenary session: Cost effectiveness of alternative screening strategies for identifying people at high risk of cardiovascular disease (9 September, 2009) Free
K. Lawson, E. Fenwick, J. Pell

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