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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN WALKING (FOR LEISURE, TRANSPORT AND IN TOTAL) ACROSS ADULT LIFE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Pollard, TM, Wagnild, JM

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P16 Gender differences in walking (for leisure, transport and in total) across adult life: a systematic review by Pollard, TM, Wagnild, JM

“…BackgroundThe possibility of gender differences in walking practices has largely been ignored, but an understanding of whether and how walking practices differ…”
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Development of a Measure of the Motives Underlying the Selection of Food: the Food Choice Questionnaire by STEPTOE, ANDREW, POLLARD, TESSA M., WARDLE, JANE

“…A number of factors are thought to influence people's dietary choices, including health, cost, convenience and taste, but there are no measures that address…”
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Changes in mental well-being, blood pressure and total cholesterol levels during workplace reorganization: The impact of uncertainty by Pollard, Tessa M.

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of uncertainty caused by large-scale workplace reorganization, on psychological well-being, blood pressure…”
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Stress, social support and health-related behavior: A study of smoking, alcohol consumption and physical exercise by Steptoe, Andrew, Wardle, Jane, Pollard, Tessa M., Canaan, Lynn, Davies, G.Jill

“…The effects of academic examination stress on health behavior was assessed in university students. It was hypothesized that the anticipation of examinations…”
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The optimal timing of blood collection during the menstrual cycle for the assessment of endogenous sex hormones: Can interindividual differences in levels over the whole cycle be assessed on a single day? by AHMAD, Naseer, POLLARD, Tessa M, UNWIN, Nigel

“…The objective of this study was to identify the optimal timing of sampling during the menstrual cycle for assessment of interindividual variation in exposure…”
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Motives underlying healthy eating: using the Food Choice Questionnaire to explain variation in dietary intake by Pollard, T M, Steptoe, A, Wardle, J

“…The Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ), which measures the reported importance to a given individual of nine factors underlying food choice, and a food frequency…”
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Are Changes in Blood Pressure and Total Cholesterol Related to Changes in Mood? An 18-Month Study of Men and Women by Pollard, Tessa M, Schwartz, Joseph E

“…The authors investigated the within-person association of reported mood with blood pressure and total cholesterol (TC) levels, each assessed 4 times over an…”
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Social networks and coronary heart disease risk factors in South Asians and Europeans in the UK by Pollard, Tessa M., Carlin, Leslie E., Bhopal, Raj, Unwin, Nigel, White, Martin, Fischbacher, Colin

“…Objectives. To compare the social networks of South Asian (Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis) and European-origin participants in the Newcastle Heart…”
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Physiological consequences of everyday psychosocial stress by Pollard, T M

“…A large body of data has been accumulated concerning physiological responses in people exposed to stressors in laboratories. Adrenaline and cortisol have…”
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Trends in sex differences in mortality from heart disease: oestrogen may contribute to variation in mortality by Pollard, Tessa M, Fischbacher, Colin, Unwin, Nigel

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Measuring demographic group differences in cardiovascular reactivity to stress using a mental challenge in the laboratory: problems of interpretation by POLLARD, TESSA M

“…[...]it is worth pointing out that cardiovascular reactions to mental arithmetic are correlated with reactions to other commonly used stress challenges, 1-5…”
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Effects of academic examination stress on eating behavior and blood lipid levels by Pollard, T M, Steptoe, A, Canaan, L, Davies, G J, Wardle, J

“…The influence of academic examination stress on eating behavior and lipid profiles and the moderating effect of dietary restraint, trait anxiety, and social…”
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Environmental change and cardiovascular disease: A new complexity by Pollard, Tessa M.

“…Cardiovascular disease has for many years been considered a lifestyle disease, caused by westernisation or modernisation. The most important lifestyle risk…”
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Modernisation and children's blood pressure: On and off the tourist trail in Nepal by Pollard, Tessa M., Ward, Gill A., Thornley, Jeremy, Wooster, Gordon, Wooster, Jeanette, Panter-Brick, Catherine

“…Blood pressure and anthropometric measurements were taken for 231 children between 11 and 14 years in the Annapurna area of Central Nepal, a popular tourist…”
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Geographic Distributions of Within-Population Variability in Blood Pressure by POLLARD, T.M., BRUSH, G., HARRISON, G.A.

“…Data on mean blood pressure with standard deviation were extracted from the medical and anthropologie literature for as many populations as possible. The…”
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Human Frontiers, Environments, and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures by Pollard, Tessa M.

“…"Human frontiers, environments, and disease: Past patterns, uncertain futures" by Tony McMichael is reviewed…”
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Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations by Pollard, T. M.

“…"Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations" by Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan is reviewed…”
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