Objectives The lack of a common definition for precarious employment (PE) severely
hampers the comparison of studies within and between countries, consequently reducing …

Background Grip strength, walking speed, chair rising and standing balance time are
objective measures of physical capability that characterise current health and predict …

Background: The aim of this study is first, to investigate the association between periods of
unemployment and mental distress, adjusting for previous health status, and second, to …

Background High blood pressure, blood glucose, serum cholesterol, and BMI are risk factors
for cardiovascular diseases and some of these factors also increase the risk of chronic …

Context Longitudinal studies indicate that a lower IQ score increases risk of schizophrenia.
Preliminary evidence suggests there is no such effect for nonpsychotic bipolar disorder. To …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term cardiac effects of
depression and anxiety assessed at a young age, when reverse causation is not feasible …

Background: Unemployment is associated with increased risk of mortality. It is, however, not
clear to what extent this is causal, or whether other risk factors remain uncontrolled for. The …

BackgroundThere is now strong evidence that cannabis use increases the risk of psychoses
including schizophrenia, but the relationship between cannabis and different psychotic …

Aims: This study examined the relation between self-rated health (SRH) and mortality
among young men, and factors in youth and adolescence that could explain the relation …

Abstract Background Immigrants in Sweden have a higher rate of mental illness than the
native Swedes. This study investigated to what extent the association between immigrant …