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    The potential of food environment policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in diets and to improve healthy diets among lower socioeconomic groups: an umbrella review

    Socioeconomic inequalities in diets need to be tackled to improve population diets and prevent obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases. The potential of food environment policies to reduce such ineq...

    Anne Lene Løvhaug, Sabrina Ionata Granheim, Sanne K. Djojosoeparto in BMC Public Health (2022)

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    Understanding the impact of exposure to adverse socioeconomic conditions on chronic stress from a complexity science perspective

    Chronic stress increases chronic disease risk and may underlie the association between exposure to adverse socioeconomic conditions and adverse health outcomes. The relationship between exposure to such condit...

    Loes Crielaard, Mary Nicolaou, Alexia Sawyer, Rick Quax, Karien Stronks in BMC Medicine (2021)

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    Self-reported sleep quality, weight status and depression in young adult twins and siblings

    Research supporting relationships between sleep quality, weight, depression and anxiety has typically examined the relationships separately rather than simultaneously, potentially hampering insights into the c...

    Alexia Sawyer, Abi Fisher, Clare Llewellyn, Alice M. Gregory in BMC Obesity (2015)

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    Weekday and weekend patterns of objectively measured sitting, standing, and step** in a sample of office-based workers: the active buildings study

    There is a growing body of research into the total amount and patterns of sitting, standing and step** in office-based workers and few studies using objectively measured sitting and standing. Understanding t...

    Lee Smith, Mark Hamer, Marcella Ucci, Alexi Marmot, Benjamin Gardner in BMC Public Health (2015)

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    Primary caregiver knowledge of paediatric physical activity recommendations in the United Kingdom and its association with caregiver behaviour: an observational study

    Most children in affluent developed countries do not meet basic physical activity recommendations. This study assessed primary caregiver knowledge of the UK recommendations on physical activity for children an...

    Alexia Sawyer, Lee Smith, Stephanie Schrempft in BMC Public Health (2014)