Greenspace exposure and non-injury mortality in UK Biobank

Understanding visual impairment in UK Biobank.

Dear Editor, In their recent article, Dawes et al. report prevalence estimates for visual impairment and dual sensory problems in middle age and associations between visual impairment and demographic factors, using data from UK Biobank. UK Biobank recruited half a million individuals with a subsample of 122 000 having an enhanced ophthalmic examination which included distance visual acuity and ...

Psychological distress, neuroticism, and cause-specific mortality: early prospective evidence from UK Biobank

BACKGROUND It is well established that psychological distress (depression and anxiety) is related to an increased risk of mortality. The personality trait of neuroticism, reflecting a relatively stable tendency towards negative emotions, has also been associated with elevated rates of death in some studies. Accordingly, we tested the possibility that it is the neuroticism trait itself, rather t...

UK Biobank: opportunities for cardiovascular research.

Publisher Rights Statement: VC The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is pro...

UK Biobank: a model for public engagement?

Whilst in other applications of genetic technology the public debate has begun only when a piece of research has been completed, public consultations on biobanking began in 2000, before the funding for UK Biobank was even agreed, and have continued throughout its development. UK Biobank has obvious attractions for the British public. It is being set up specifically as a resource for research in...

Role of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council.