Cohort Profile: the Whitehall II study.

By Michael Marmot, E. Brunner. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2005

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Association of socioeconomic position with health behaviors and mortality. (2010, methodology): “The British Whitehall II cohort was established in 1985 to examine the socioeconomic gradient in health and disease among 10 308 civil servants.(22) All civil servants, aged 35 to 55 years and working in 20 departments in London, England, were invited to participate by letter and 73% agreed.”
Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? (2008, methodology): “Full details of the clinical examinations are reported elsewhere.(11) Ethical approval for the Whitehall II study was obtained from the University College London Medical School Committee on the ethics of human research.”
Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes. (2020, background): “This is because the experience of stress on its own is unlikely to give rise to disease within the confines of most study designs (notable exceptions being epidemiological cohorts which benefit from longitudinal follow-ups extending over many decades (Marmot & Brunner, 2005).”