Samuel H. Preston
News
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Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes have just published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. The full text of their new article "Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988-2014" is now available online. Boston University, where Stokes teaches global health, has published a press release about their findings. Obesity affects the health of more than half of adults in the US and the PSC is proud to support the researchers investigating this epidemic. -
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes are quoted in new Washington Post and Forbes articles about mortality and Diabetes.
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Sam Preston is quoted in new U.S. Health News article about the diabetes death toll.
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1968
Recent Publications
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"Are Major Behavioral and Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Mortality Additive or Multiplicative in Their Effects?" Social Science & Medicine 154 (2016): 93-99. AbstractExport:
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"How smoking affects the proportion of deaths attributable to obesity: assessing the role of relative risks and weight distributions." BMJ Open 6 (2016): e009232. PMCID: PMC4769428 AbstractExport:
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"Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (2016): 572-577. PMCID: PMC4725464 AbstractExport:
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