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G. David Batty is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with a concentration on general health professions, health, clinical psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist has contributed to topics including health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 clinical research studies, birth, development, and health, COVID-19 and mental health, health, environment, and cognitive aging, workplace health and well-being, as well as homelessness and social issues.

Notable recent publications by G. David Batty include:

  • Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort study and individual participant meta-analysis, 2020, BMJ
  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of hospitalization for COVID-19: A community-based cohort study of adults in the United Kingdom, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with G. David Batty include:

  • Mika Kivimäki
  • Mark Hamer
  • Catharine R. Galé
  • Philipp Frank
  • Jaana Pentti

The scientist's research output has been published in various venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet Public Health

G. David Batty's work largely pertains to the investigation of health patterns, risk factors, and social determinants affecting public health outcomes. The research spans analyses of socioeconomic influences on health, lifestyle factors impacting disease progression, and the effects of clinical and environmental factors on population health and chronic disease incidence.

Best Publications

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Association between psychological distress and mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies

    Tom C Russ;Emmanuel Stamatakis;Mark Hamer;John M Starr

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study.

    Mika Kivimäki;G David Batty;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Martin J Shipley

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

    Camille Lassale;G. David Batty;Amaria Baghdadli;Felice Jacka

  • Type 2 Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Dementia in Women Compared With Men: A Pooled Analysis of 2.3 Million People Comprising More Than 100,000 Cases of Dementia.

    Saion Chatterjee;Sanne A.E. Peters;Mark Woodward;Mark Woodward;Silvia Mejia Arango

  • Premorbid (early life) IQ and Later Mortality Risk: Systematic Review

    G. David Batty;Ian J. Deary;Linda S. Gottfredson

  • Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis

    Geoff Der;G David Batty;Ian J Deary

  • Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK.

    Mark Hamer;Mika Kivimäki;Catharine R. Gale;G. David Batty

  • Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities

    Ian J. Deary;Alexander Weiss;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;G. David Batty

  • Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort study and individual participant meta-analysis

    G David Batty;G David Batty;Catharine R Gale;Catharine R Gale;Mika Kivimäki;Ian J Deary

  • Measures of frailty in population-based studies: an overview

    Kim Bouillon;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mark Hamer;Severine Sabia

  • Influence of individual and combined health behaviors on total and cause-specific mortality in men and women: the United Kingdom health and lifestyle survey.

    Elisabeth Kvaavik;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Giske Ursin;Rachel Huxley

  • Effect of body mass index and alcohol consumption on liver disease: analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies

    Carole L Hart;David S Morrison;G David Batty;Richard J Mitchell

  • Intelligence in youth and all-cause-mortality: systematic review with meta-analysis

    Catherine M Calvin;Ian J Deary;Candida Fenton;Beverly A Roberts

  • Long Working Hours and Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Katriina Heikkilä;Markus Jokela;Jane E. Ferrie

  • Metabolically healthy obesity and risk of mortality Does the definition of metabolic health matter

    Guy-Marino Hinnouho;Sébastien Czernichow;Aline Dugravot;G. David Batty

  • Psychological distress in relation to site specific cancer mortality: pooling of unpublished data from 16 prospective cohort studies.

    G. David Batty;Thomas Russ;Emmanuel Stamatakis;Mika Kivimaki

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Catharine R. Gale
Catharine R. Gale University of Southampton
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Mark Hamer
Mark Hamer University College London
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
Markus Jokela
Markus Jokela University of Helsinki
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Martin J. Shipley
Martin J. Shipley University College London

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