The Status Syndrome – Fitness Scholar

Those who won an Academy Award lived four years longer than those who were nominated but did not win (1) – page 21 1
Men over 6 feet tall have over 40 percent lower risk of heart disease than men less than five feet nine inches (2) – page 49 2
Those with high IQ end up higher in social ranking (3) – page 54 2
Grade of employment is a better predictor of health than income (4) – page 78 3
The lower the employment grade, the lower the HDL cholesterol, the higher the plasma triglyceride, the higher the fasting levels of glucose and insulin (5) – page 118 5
Central adiposity may be a result of a complex series of reactions involving cortisol metabolism (6) – page 119 5
Work will be stressful if there is a lack of balance between effort and rewards (7) – page 122 5
People whose jobs are characterized by high demands and low control have a higher risk of developing coronary heart disease than others in jobs with more control (8) – page 123 5
Study showed stronger support for the effects of low control on heart disease than for the adverse effects of high demand (9) – page 123 5
A combination of high demand and low control is harmful to health (10) – page 124 5
We found a relation between low control at work and depressive symptoms (11) – page 124 5
Low control was as an important contributor to the higher rate of heart disease… low control makes a substantial independent contribution (12) – page 126 5
The lower the level of control at work, the greater the risk of developing psychiatric disorder (13) – page 127 5
Low control was a major explanation for the relationship between social status and depressive symptoms (14) – page 127 5
People who reported a lower level of control at home had greater likelihood of depression (15) – page 129 5
Low control at home predicted heart disease in women but not men (16) – page 129 5
A combination of high efforts and low rewards has been shown to be related to risk of coronary heart disease (17) – page 136 5
Low control in the workplace is a factor common to both increased risk of coronary heart disease and depression… Low control may be related to the higher rates in each of the lower social status gradients (18) – page 152 6
Although selection does play a role, there is clear evidence for the protective nature of marriage (19) – page 155 6
Study confirmed higher rates of CHD in lower social status subjects (20) – page 178 7
A protective effect for social relationships was found on the risk of coronary heart disease (21) – page 179 7
Trust and community involvement go down as income inequality rises (22) – page 188 7
The less control men had over their work conditions, the greater their risk for coronary heart disease (23) – page 206 8
The more control people had, the better their health (24) – page 207 8
People whose work was characterized by a high degree of imbalance between effort and reward had a 60 percent greater chance of being in poor health… the importance of low control was also confirmed (25) – page 210 8
The more standardized the environment between families, the less will families appear to matter in genetic studies (26) – page 227 9
A boy with low birth weight became a man with an increased risk of heart disease. That risk showed up most clearly if in adulthood he was of low social position (27) – page 234 9
The greatest risk for high blood pressure were among people who were disadvantaged in childhood and became overweight in adult life (28) – page 235*9
A high level of maternal licking and grooming reduce expression of these genes and leads to lower stress responses to stimuli in adulthood and higher quality of maternal care when the pup herself grows up and becomes a mother (29) – page 235*9?
Children of families with low social status were more affected by stress than children of higher social positions (30) – page 236 9?
Children who were raised in orphanages deprived of nurturing showed profound behavioral disturbances (31) – page 236 9?
In gross changes of child abuse or neglect, there are extreme changes to the brain (32) – page 236 9?
Children of single mothers had more problems than children in intact families (33) – page 236 9?
Women whose parents had divorced showed higher likelihood of depression (34) – page 237 9

Survival in academy award winning actors and actresses
Inequalities in death – specific explanations of a general pattern, Relative contribution of early life and adult socioeconomic factors to adult morbidity in the wii study
Leisure activities and cognitive function in middle age evidence from the whitehall ii study
Effects of income and wealth on chd depression and poor self-rated health in white collar women and men in the whitehall ii study
Social inequality in coronary risk central obesity and the metabolic syndrome evidence from the wii study
Obesity and cortisol
Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment two scientific challenges
Psychosocial factors in the etiology and prognosis of coronary disease a systematic review
Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in the whitehall ii prospective cohort study
Psychosocial factors in the etiology and prognosis of coronary disease a systematic review
Work characteristics predict psychiatric disorder prospective results from the whitehall ii study
Contribution of job control and other risk factors to social variations in coronary heart disease
Work characteristics predict psychiatric disorder prospective results from the whitehall ii study
Social inequalities in depressive symptoms and physical functioning in the tehiwall ii study exploring common cause explanation
The importance of low control at work and home on depression and anxiety do these effects vary by gender and social class
The effect of control at home on chd events in the Whitehall ii study gender differences in psychosocial domestic pathways to social inequalities in chd
Adverse health effects of high effort low reward conditions, Two alternative job stress models and the risk of coronary heart disease
Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in the whitehall ii prospective cohort study, Social inequalities in depressive symptoms and physical functioning in the whihtehall ii study exploring a common cause explanation, Contribution of job control and other risk factors to social variations in coronary heart disease, Work characteristics predict psychiatric disorder prospective results from the whitehall ii study
Marriage selection and mortality patterns inferences and fallacies
Marital status and mortality the national longitudinal mortality study
Gender social relations and their impact on health a comparisons of one or multiple sources of support from close persons
Social capital income inequality and mortality
Association between psychosocial factors at work and non fatal myocardial infarction in a population based case control study in czech men
Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in russia a cross-sectional survey
Psychosocial work characteristics and self rated health in four post communist countries
Implications of the restricted range of family environments for estimates of heritability and nonshared environment in behaviour genetic adoption studies
Size at birth and resilience to effects of poor living conditions
Birth weight, childhood growth and blood pressure at 43 years in a british birth cohort
Like mother like daughter evidence for non genomic transmission of parental behaviour in stress responsivity?
Can poverty get under your skin basal cortisol levels and cognitive function in children form low and high socioeconomic status?
Specificity and heterogeneity in children’s responses to profound institutional privation?
Scars that won’t heal the neurobiology of child abuse?
Children’s emotional and behavioral well being and the family environment findings from the health survey for england?
Pathways between parental divorce and adult depression