Background: The Mediterranean diet is characterized by the preferential use of olive oil (OO)
and has been associated with health benefits possibly mediated by its bioactive compounds …

Across today's developed world, there is a clear mortality gradient by socioeconomic status
for all ages. It is often taken for granted that this gradient was as strong—or even stronger …

A century after the Spanish Flu, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to
socioeconomic and occupational differences in mortality in the earlier pandemic. The …

Introduction Maternal characteristics and mother–adolescent relationships are thought to
affect the emotional development of adolescents. Adolescents can learn to regulate their …

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Abstract The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing
Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal …

Studies have shown that long-lived individuals seem to pass their survival advantage on to
their offspring. Offspring of long-lived parents had a lifelong survival advantage over …

This study examines the historical evolution of socioeconomic disparities in adult mortality,
with a focus on European societies. Despite the widespread improvements in population …

The objective of this study is to gain more comprehensive knowledge about social inequality
in mortality in pre-industrial periods. With this aim, we have reconstructed the life courses of …

reference group. Our results show that about a quarter of the disabled individuals did marry,
even though their marital propensities were significantly lower than those of non-disabled …