Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults in midlife compared to their counterparts in the US.
A ‘tough love’ parenting style is the most effective approach to preventing teenagers from binge drinking, a new study claims
A new study by Oxford researcher Mark Taylor suggests a strong relationship between reading in your teens and being in a professional or managerial job in your thirties.
Statistics confirm that children who watch more than two hours of television a day at the weekend risk becoming obese adults. And despite health warnings, the rate of exercise has not increased among adults who are overweight as the result of inactivity.
A questionnaire sent out to Head Teachers in 1986, when BCS70 cohort members were aged 16, has recently been keyed, cleaned, and linked to 4,592 individual cohort members. Now fully documented, the dataset was deposited by CLS at the UK Data Archive, and is now available for download (study number 5225).
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