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Newest firstThe term "long COVID" (LC) was coined in spring 2020 by individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19, but it took until December 2020 for clinical codes to be created in order to record persistent post-COVID-19 illness and referrals within electronic health records (EHRs). Analysis of whole-population EHR databases have helped understand the epidemiology of LC; yet concerns exist about the completeness of…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundHealth services across the UK struggled to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many treatments were postponed or cancelled, although the impact was mitigated by new models of delivery. While the scale of disruption has been studied, much less is known about if this disruption impacted health outcomes. The aim of our paper is to examine whether there is an association between individuals experiencing disru…
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic and associated national lockdowns created unprecedented disruption to healthcare, with reduced access to services and planned clinical encounters postponed or cancelled. It was widely anticipated that failure to obtain timely treatment would cause progression of illness and increased hospital admissions. Additional concerns were that social and spatial inequalities would widen given…
Open article record in new tab ↗AIMS: We investigate the extent of and factors associated with denial of previously reported cannabis and other illicit drug use, and assess the potential of hair testing for measuring substance use in general population samples. DESIGN: Birth cohort study. SETTING: United Kingdom, 1991-present. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 3643 participants who provided hair and self-report measures of cannabis and other illicit drug…
Open article record in new tab ↗Highlights•Lifeskills training is for 10–11 year olds and covers many safety domains.•Evaluated using longitudinal cohort data linked to hospital attendance data.•Attendance at A&E common but hospital admissions coded as due to an accident rare.•Lifeskills attendance associated with some reported safer behaviours in adolescence.•Use of cycle helmets and reflective/fluorescent clothing low overall. PurposeTo evalua…
Open article record in new tab ↗AbstractAimsTo investigate the relationship between cannabis and tobacco use by age 15 and subsequent educational outcomes.DesignBirth cohort study.SettingEngland.ParticipantsThe sample was drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children; a core sample of 1155 individuals had complete information on all the variables.MeasurementsThe main exposures were cannabis and tobacco use at age 15 assessed in…
Open article record in new tab ↗IntroductionSubstance use is associated with common mental health disorders, but the causal effect of specific substances is uncertain. We investigate whether adolescent cannabis and cigarette use is associated with incident depression and anxiety, while attempting to account for confounding and reverse causation.MethodsWe used data from ALSPAC, a UK birth cohort study, to investigate associations between cannabis…
Open article record in new tab ↗AimsTo investigate the prevalence of cannabis use and problem use in boys and girls at age 16 years, and to investigate the role of adversity in early life and of conduct disorder between the ages of 4 and 13 years as risk factors for these outcomes.DesignBirth cohort study.SettingEngland.ParticipantsA total of 4159 (2393 girls) participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) birth coh…
Aims: Teenagers in the UK report some of the highest rates of alcohol use in Europe. We identify patterns of alcohol use in early adolescence and relate these to hazardous and harmful alcohol use at age 16. Methods: In a UK birth cohort, we analysed repeated measures of alcohol use from age 13 to 15 in a sample of 7100 adolescents. Data on drinking frequency and typical consumption when drinking were modelled sepa…
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