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Research Article

• Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. (1 October, 1996)

  J Brind, V M Chinchilli, W B Severs, J Summy-Long
• Incidence of hypertension and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and associated risk factors in a rapidly developing Caribbean community: the St James survey, Trinidad. (1 October, 1996)

  G J Miller, G H Maude, G L Beckles
• Relation between the longitudinal development of lipoprotein levels and biological parameters during adolescence and young adulthood in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (1 October, 1996)

  J W Twisk, H C Kemper, G J Mellenbergh, W van Mechelen
• Factors related to total cholesterol and blood pressure in British 9 year olds. (1 October, 1996)

  R J Rona, S Qureshi, S Chinn
• Menopause, menstrual and reproductive history, and bone density in northern Italy. (1 October, 1996)

  F Parazzini, E Bidoli, S Franceschi, D Schinella, F Tesio, C La Vecchia, R Zecchin
• Deprivation and mortality in non-metropolitan areas of England and Wales. (1 October, 1996)

  E G Jessop
• Air pollution and mortality in Valencia, Spain: a study using the APHEA methodology. (1 October, 1996)

  F Ballester, D Corella, S Pérez-Hoyos, A Hervás
• Methadone maintenance treatment and HIV risk-taking behaviour among injecting drug users in Berlin. (1 October, 1996)

  K Stark, R Müller, U Bienzle, I Guggenmoos-Holzmann
• Cost effectiveness of personal health education in primary care for people with angina in the greater Belfast area of Northern Ireland. (1 October, 1996)

  C O'Neill, C Normand, M Cupples, A McKnight
• Predicting the workload in urban general practice in The Netherlands from Jarman's indicators of deprivation at patient level. (1 October, 1996)

  S A Reijneveld
• Does a shorter length of hospital stay affect the outcome and costs of hysterectomy in southern England? (1 October, 1996)

  A Clarke, P Rowe, N Black
• The Harstad injury prevention study: community based prevention of fall-fractures in the elderly evaluated by means of a hospital based injury recording system in Norway. (1 October, 1996)

  B Ytterstad
• The undesirable consequences of controlling for birth weight in perinatal epidemiological studies. (1 October, 1996)

  E Blair
• Proxies for healthcare need among populations: validation of alternatives--a study in Quebec. (1 October, 1996)

  S Birch, J Eyles, K B Newbold
• Small area statistics as markers for personal social status in the Scottish heart health study. (1 October, 1996)

  M Woodward
• Calcium intake among women aged 40-76 in Sweden. Study Group MRS SWEA. Multiple Risk Survey on Swedish Women for Eating Assessment. (1 October, 1996)

  K Michaëlsson, R Bergström, L Holmberg, H Mallmin, A Wolk, S Ljunghall
• Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and cardiovascular risk factors in a multicultural workforce. (1 October, 1996)

  R K Scragg, A Fraser, P A Metcalf
• Enhancing sustainable vaccination programmes in an unstable world: a social science perspective. (1 October, 1996)

  P H Streefland