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Brendan T Smith

Public Health Ontario/Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Verified email at oahpp.ca
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Associations between childhood socioeconomic position and adulthood obesity

LC Senese, ND Almeida, AK Fath, BT Smith… - Epidemiologic …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease
and all-cause mortality. Obesity in adulthood may be a biologic mechanism. Objectives …

Life-course socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Framingham Offspring Study

BT Smith, JW Lynch, CS Fox, S Harper… - American Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Evidence is lacking on whether the duration and timing of low socioeconomic position (SEP)
across a person's life course may be associated with incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (…

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 workplace outbreaks by industry sector and their associated household transmission, Ontario, Canada, January to June, 2020

M Murti, C Achonu, BT Smith, KA Brown… - … of occupational and …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To analyze workplace outbreaks by industry sector in the first wave of the pandemic,
and associated household cases. Methods: Number, size, and duration of outbreaks …

Validity of self‐reported recall of anthropometric measures in early life: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

V De Rubeis, S Bayat, LE Griffith, BT Smith… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Overweight and obesity in early life are risk factors for many adult‐onset chronic diseases.
The objective of this study was to assess the validity of self‐reported recall of early life …

[HTML][HTML] Neighbourhood-level socio-demographic characteristics and risk of COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study

…, S Akingbola, N Daneman, CM Warren, BT Smith - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objectives We aimed to estimate associations between COVID-19 incidence and mortality
with neighbourhood-level immigration, race, housing, and socio-economic characteristics. …

Neighbourhood-level risk factors of COVID-19 incidence and mortality

…, KA Brown, N Daneman, SA Buchan, BT Smith - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background Racialized and low income communities face disproportionally high rates of
coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection and death. However, data on inequities in COVID-19 …

Incidence of outbreak-associated COVID-19 cases by industry in Ontario, Canada, 1 April 2020–31 March 2021

…, S Menon, KA Brown, T van Ingen, BT Smith - Occupational and …, 2022 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives The objective of our study was to estimate the rate of workplace outbreak-associated
cases of COVID-19 by industry in labour market participants aged 15–69 years who …

Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 2019

C Benny, BT Smith, E Hyshka… - J Epidemiol …, 2023 - jech.bmj.com
Background Deaths due to suicide, drug overdose and alcohol-related liver disease, collectively
known as ‘deaths of despair’, have been markedly increasing since the early 2000s and …

Interrupted time series analysis of Canadian legal cannabis sales during the COVID‐19 pandemic

MJ Armstrong, N Cantor, BT Smith… - Drug and alcohol …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction There were repeated reports of increased cannabis sales, use and health
impacts in Canada during the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, it was unclear whether the …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic position and consumption of sugary drinks, sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% juice among Canadians: a cross-sectional analysis of the …

…, Y Li, LC Rosella, H Manson, BT Smith - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Objective The aim of this study was to describe sugary drink (beverages with free sugars),
sugar-sweetened beverage (beverages with added sugars, SSB) and 100% juice (beverages …