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October 2009, Volume 63, Suppl 2

Society for Social Medicine 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting

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  1. Programme
  2. Timetable
  3. Wednesday 9 September, Parallel session A
  4. Thursday 10 September, Parallel session B
  5. Friday 11 September, Parallel session C
  6. Friday 11 September, Parallel session D
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Programme

  • Society for Social Medicine 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting, 9–11 September 2009, the University of Newcastle

    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 i doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735p

Timetable

  • Parallel sessions and speakers

    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 ii-iv doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735q

Wednesday 9 September, Parallel session A

  • Life course CVD: Is accelerated postnatal growth associated with blood pressure in childhood?

    • N. M. Davies,
    • K. Tilling,
    • F. Windmeijer,
    • G. Davey Smith,
    • Y. Ben-Shlomo,
    • M. S. Kramer,
    • R. M. Martin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 1 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701a

  • Life course CVD: Elevated blood pressure in early adulthood as a predictor of later coronary heart disease mortality: up to 83 years follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Health Study

    • L. Gray,
    • I. M. Lee,
    • H. D. Sesso,
    • G. D. Batty
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 2 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701b

  • Life course CVD: Working characteristics and cardiovascular disease: are associations confounded by early life risk factors?

    • C. Thomas,
    • C. Power
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 3 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701c

  • Life course CVD: Lifecourse predictors of adult fibrinogen concentrations: the Newcastle Thousand Families Birth Cohort

    • M. S. Pearce,
    • A. Ahmed,
    • P. W. G. Tennant,
    • L. Parker,
    • N. C. Unwin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 4 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701d

  • Maternal health: Social and biological determinants of reproductive success in Swedish males and females born 1915–1929

    • A. Goodman,
    • I. Koupil
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 5 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701e

  • Maternal health: Trends in maternal obesity and health inequalities in a nationally representative sample of 619 323 births in England, UK, 1989–2007

    • N. Heslehurst,
    • J. Rankin,
    • J. Wilkinson,
    • C. D. Summerbell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 6 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701f

  • Maternal health: Inherited risk of pre-eclampsia: using two approaches for analysis

    • S. Bhattacharya,
    • E. A. Raja,
    • D. M. Campbell,
    • A. J. Lee
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 7 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701g

  • Maternal health: Breastfeeding is associated with improved child cognitive development: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    • M. A. Quigley,
    • C. Hockley,
    • C. Carson,
    • Y. Kelly,
    • M. Renfrew,
    • A. Sacker
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 8 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701h

  • Physical activity: Tracking of physical activity behaviours during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: a systematic review

    • J. M. M. Evans,
    • C. M. Shelia,
    • A. Kirk,
    • I. K. Crombie
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 9 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701i

  • Physical activity: The multiple scales of area effects on health: from evidence to implications for public health practice and policy

    • M. Riva
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 10 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701j

  • Physical activity: The 2008 Great North Run as public health intervention: participant characteristics and changes in physical activity and body mass index from 20 weeks before to 20 weeks after the event

    • J. Adams,
    • M. White
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 11 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701k

  • Physical activity: Healthy eating and physical activity choices in socio-economically disadvantaged women: the role of health literacy

    • J. Edwards,
    • C. Jackson,
    • F. Cheater,
    • J. Holt,
    • M. Robinson
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 12 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701l

  • Inequalities I: Ethnicity and cancer treatment in New Zealand: do Maori patients get a worse deal?

    • S. Hill,
    • D. Sarfati,
    • T. Blakely,
    • B. Robson
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 13 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701m

  • Inequalities I: Socioeconomic differences in statin use after deregulation of simvastatin in the UK: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study

    • I. Forde,
    • T. Chandola,
    • M. G. Marmot,
    • M. Kivimaki
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 14 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701n

  • Inequalities I: Socio-demographic predictors of uptake of MMR immunisation in the lifeways cohort study

    • L. Jessop,
    • C. C. Kelleher,
    • C. Murrin,
    • J. Lotya,
    • D. O’Mahony,
    • A. T. Clarke,
    • U. B. Fallon,
    • H. Johnson,
    • G. Bury,
    • A. Murphy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 15 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701o

  • Inequalities I: Food poverty and dietary quality: is there a relationship?

    • J. Harrington,
    • J. Lutomski,
    • M. Molcho,
    • I. J. Perry
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 16 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701p

  • Mental health: Early menarche is associated with an increased risk for depressive symptoms in adolescent girls in a UK cohort

    • C. Joinson,
    • J. Heron,
    • R. Araya,
    • G. Lewis
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 17 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701q

  • Mental health: Regulatory guidance on prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants to young people: ecological study of effects on international suicide trends

    • B. Wheeler,
    • D. Gunnell,
    • C. Metcalfe,
    • R. Martin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 18 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701r

  • Mental health: Social class differences in anxiety and depression across the life-course: evidence from three cohorts in the west of Scotland

    • M. J. Green,
    • M. Benzeval
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 19 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701s

  • Mental health: Suicide in England and Wales 1861–2005: a time trends analysis

    • K. Thomas,
    • D. Gunnell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 20 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701t

  • Cancer I: Seasonal variation in birth and diagnosis of cancer in children and young people in Northern England, 1968–2005

    • N. O. Basta,
    • P. W. James,
    • A. W. Craft,
    • R. J. Q. McNally
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 21 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701u

  • Cancer I: The epidemiology of bone cancer diagnosed in 0–49-year-olds in northern England, 1981–2002

    • R. G. Feltbower,
    • R. Eyre,
    • P. W. James,
    • K. Blakey,
    • E. Mubwandarikwa,
    • D. Forman,
    • P. A. McKinney,
    • M. S. Pearce,
    • R. J. Q. McNally
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 22 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701v

  • Cancer I: Incidence of central nervous system tumours with the use of hormone replacement therapy

    • V. Benson,
    • K. Pirie,
    • J. Green,
    • G. Reeves,
    • V. Beral
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 23 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701w

  • Cancer I: International trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality in 20 countries from 1980 to 2002

    • A. E. Carsin,
    • E. Masuyer,
    • L. Sharp,
    • P. Autier
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 24 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701x

Thursday 10 September, Parallel session B

  • Lifecourse obesity: Body mass index through life and adult mortality: results from the British 1946 birth cohort

    • B. H. Strand,
    • D. Kuh,
    • I. Shah,
    • J. Guralnik,
    • R. Hardy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 25 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701y

  • Lifecourse obesity: Trajectories of body mass index and overweight in early adulthood and blood pressure at 53 years

    • A. Wills,
    • S. Black,
    • G. Mishra,
    • D. Kuh,
    • R. Hardy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 26 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096701z

  • Lifecourse obesity: Changing influences on childhood obesity: a study of two generations of the 1958 British birth cohort

    • L. Li,
    • A. Pinot de Moira,
    • C. Power
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 27 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719a

  • Lifecourse obesity: Does childcare influence the risk of overweight and obesity in the early years? Findings from the UK millennium cohort study

    • A. Pearce,
    • L. Li,
    • J. Abbas,
    • B. Ferguson,
    • H. Graham,
    • C. Law
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 28 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719b

  • Trends in CVD: Stroke mortality trends for England: modelling the past to predict the future

    • C. J. Sutton,
    • J. Marsden,
    • C. L. Watkins,
    • M. J. Leathley,
    • P. Dey
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 29 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719c

  • Trends in CVD: Choosing metrics in public health assessments: attributing credit for the recent large coronary heart disease mortality decline in the US population

    • H. Gouda,
    • J. A. Critchley,
    • J. Powles,
    • S. Capewell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 30 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719d

  • Trends in CVD: Explaining the massive decline in coronary heart disease mortality in iceland between 1981 and 2006

    • M. O’Flaherty,
    • T. Aspelund,
    • V. Gudnason,
    • B. T. Magnusdottir,
    • K. Andersen,
    • G. Sigurdsson,
    • B. Thorsson,
    • J. Critchley,
    • K. Bennett,
    • S. Capewell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 31 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719e

  • Trends in CVD: 20-Year trends in major coronary risk factors in older British men: assessing the impact of medication use

    • S. L. Hardoon,
    • P. H. Whincup,
    • S. G. Wannamethee,
    • O. Papacosta,
    • M. C. Thomas,
    • L. T. Lennon,
    • A. G. Thomson,
    • S. Capewell,
    • R. W. Morris
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 32 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719f

  • Alcohol: Alcohol consumption and the U-shape relationship with mortality: 8-year follow-up of more than 6000 older men in the Whitehall study

    • N. Bhala,
    • J. Emberson,
    • R. Clarke
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 33 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719g

  • Alcohol: Light drinking during pregnancy: still no risk for socioemotional difficulties or cognitive deficits at 5 years of age? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    • Y. Kelly,
    • A. Sacker,
    • R. Gray,
    • D. Wolke,
    • J. Kelly,
    • M. Quigley
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 34 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719h

  • Alcohol: Longitudinal latent class analysis of alcohol consumption

    • W. J. Harrison,
    • B. M. Bewick,
    • M. S. Gilthorpe,
    • A. J. Hill,
    • R. M. West
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 35 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719i

  • Alcohol: Do imprecise measures of alcohol intake influence drinking recommendations relating to ischaemic heart disease?

    • D. C. Greenwood,
    • J. E. Cade,
    • V. J. Burley,
    • M. S. Gilthorpe
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 36 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719j

  • Adolescents: Social hierarchies in youth: school-based peer hierarchies are more important than family socioeconomic status for stress (cortisol)

    • P. West,
    • H. Sweeting,
    • R. Young,
    • S. Kelly
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 37 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719k

  • Adolescents: Inequalities in the health and well-being of 15-year-old boys and girls in Scotland and the mediating effect of the family meal

    • K. Levin,
    • C. Currie
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 38 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719l

  • Adolescents: Comparison of teenagers’ early same sex and heterosexual behaviour in the UK: data from the share and RIPPLE studies

    • A. Parkes,
    • V. Strange,
    • D. Wight,
    • M. Henderson,
    • K. Buston
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 39 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719m

  • Adolescents: Cigarette and alcohol consumption among young people in England: findings from the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Survey 2008

    • D. Jotangia,
    • E. Fuller
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 40 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719n

  • Methods: A novel approach to testing the lifecourse effect of body sizes on blood pressure in later life using partial least squares regression

    • Y-K. Tu,
    • A. Woolston,
    • P. Baxter,
    • M. S. Gilthorpe
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 41 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719o

  • Methods: The preference effect in an unblinded health promotion intervention trial: how important is it?

    • C. Hayes,
    • C. Collins,
    • M. Geary,
    • C. C. Kelleher
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 42 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719p

  • Methods: The (ab)use of symptom scores in asthma clinical trials: evidence from a systematic review

    • G. Frampton,
    • J. Shepherd
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 43 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719q

  • Methods: An analysis of the structure of the components of metabolic syndrome using matroids

    • A. Woolston,
    • P. D. Baxter,
    • M. S. Gilthorpe,
    • E. Goodman,
    • Y-K. Tu
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 44 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719r

  • Cancer II: Help-seeking behaviour in smokers and ex-smokers with symptoms of lung cancer. The application of an integrated model

    • S. Smith,
    • S. Wyke,
    • U. Macleod,
    • S. Ziebland,
    • N. Campbell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 45 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719s

  • Cancer II: The cost of having cancer: a survey of patients with cancer in Ireland

    • A. Timmons,
    • L. Sharp,
    • A. E. Carsin,
    • N. Donnelly,
    • J. Kelly,
    • J. McCormack,
    • N. Chonghaile,
    • E. O’Donnell,
    • O. Ryan,
    • H. Comber
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 46 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719t

  • Cancer II: Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of British military veterans included in chemical warfare agent experiments at Porton Down

    • L. M. Carpenter,
    • K. M. Venables,
    • L. Linsell,
    • C. Brooks,
    • T. J. Keegan,
    • T. Langdon,
    • P. Doyle,
    • N. E. S. Maconochie,
    • T. Fletcher,
    • M. J. Nieuwenhuijsen,
    • V. Beral
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 47 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719u

  • Cancer II: Equity in cancer patient survival in Finland

    • A. Pokhrel,
    • T. Hakulinen
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 48 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719v

Friday 11 September, Parallel session C

  • Smoking: Can national smoking prevalence be monitored using primary care medical records data?

    • L. Szatkowski,
    • T. Coleman,
    • S. Lewis,
    • A. McNeill
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 49 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719w

  • Smoking: The impact of implementation of smoke-free legislation in England on cotinine levels in adults

    • H. Wardle,
    • S. Nicholson,
    • J. Mindell,
    • R. Craig
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 50 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719x

  • Smoking: The benefits of stopping smoking

    • K. Pirie,
    • R. Peto,
    • G. Reeves,
    • V. Beral
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 51 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719y

  • Smoking: Weight change over eight years in relation to baseline body mass index in a cohort of continuing and quitting smokers

    • D. Lycett,
    • P. Aveyard,
    • M. Munafo,
    • E. Johnstone,
    • M. Murphy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 52 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719z

  • BMI, CVD and mortality: Comparison of the associations of BMI and measures of regional adiposity with coronary heart disease, diabetes and all cause mortality: a study using data from four UK cohorts

    • A. E. Taylor,
    • S. Ebrahim,
    • Y. Ben-Shlomo,
    • R. M. Martin,
    • P. H. Whincup,
    • J. W. Yarnell,
    • S. G. Wannamethee,
    • D. A. Lawlor
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 53 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727a

  • BMI, CVD and mortality: Association of body mass index, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio with mortality in the Scottish Health Surveys

    • J. W. Hotchkiss,
    • A. H. Leyland
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 54 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727b

  • BMI, CVD and mortality: Elevated body mass index in early adulthood as a predictor of later coronary heart disease mortality: up to 82 years follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Health Study

    • G. D. Batty,
    • L. Gray,
    • H. D. Sesso,
    • I-M. Lee
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 55 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727c

  • BMI, CVD and mortality: The long term effects of childbearing and breastfeeding on body mass index in middle aged women results from the Million Women Study

    • K. Bobrow,
    • M. Quigley,
    • J. Green,
    • G. Reeves,
    • V. Beral
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 56 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727d

  • Ethnicity and young people: Explaining the mental health advantage of British Indian children

    • A. Goodman,
    • V. Patel,
    • D. Leon
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 57 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727e

  • Ethnicity and young people: Emergence of ethnic differences in blood pressure in adolescence: the determinants of adolescent social well-being and health longitudinal study

    • E. Lenguerrand,
    • S. Harding,
    • M. Whitrow,
    • M. Maynard,
    • K. Cruickshank,
    • G. Der,
    • A. Teyhan
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 58 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727f

  • Ethnicity and young people: Nutritional composition of the diets of South Ssian, black African Caribbean and white European children in the UK: the Child Heart and Health Study in England

    • A. S. Brock,
    • C. M. Nightingale,
    • C. G. Owen,
    • A. R. Rudnicka,
    • M. C. McNamara,
    • C. J. Prynne,
    • A. M. Stephen,
    • D. G. Cook,
    • P. H. Whincup
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 59 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727g

  • Ethnicity and young people: Patterns of adiposity and obesity among South Asian and white European children: Child Heart and Health Study in England

    • C. M. Nightingale,
    • A. R. Rudnicka,
    • C. G. Owen,
    • D. G. Cook,
    • P. H. Whincup
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 60 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727h

  • Diabetes plus: Prediction scores to identify older adults at high risk for type 2 diabetes

    • S. G. Wannamethee,
    • O. Papacosta,
    • P. Whincup,
    • C. Carson,
    • M. C. Thomas,
    • D. A. Lawlor,
    • S. Ebrahim,
    • N. Sattar
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 61 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727i

  • Diabetes plus: Relative risk of mortality associated with diabetes in Scotland in 2007: a nationwide record linkage study

    • S. Wild
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 62 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727j

  • Diabetes plus: Quantifying the association between tuberculosis and diabetes: a case-control analysis

    • V. Corris,
    • N. Unwin,
    • J. Critchley
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 63 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727k

  • Diabetes plus: Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in South Asian and Black minorities: findings from a population based screening study in London, UK

    • P. Roderick,
    • L. Lightstone,
    • S. Harris,
    • M. Lapsley,
    • M. Dockrell,
    • E. Lim,
    • J. Chambers,
    • J. S. Kooner
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 64 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727l

  • Disability and capability: The association between participation of children with cerebral palsy and the physical, social and attitudinal environment: a cross-sectional European study

    • H. O. Dickinson,
    • A. Colver
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 65 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727m

  • Disability and capability: Twenty-year survival of children born with congenital anomalies: a population-based study

    • P. Tennant,
    • M. Pearce,
    • M. Bythell,
    • J. Rankin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 66 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727n

  • Disability and capability: Measuring locomotor disability: a new scoring mechanism for some familiar items

    • S. Muller,
    • E. Thomas,
    • G. Peat
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 67 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727o

  • Disability and capability: Physical capability and subsequent mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data

    • R. Cooper,
    • D. Kuh,
    • R. Hardy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 68 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727p

  • Ageing: The impact of cataract surgery on health related quality of life and time use in Kenya, Bangladesh and the Philippines

    • S. Polack,
    • C. Eusebio,
    • W. Mathenge,
    • Z. Wadud,
    • A. K. M. Mamunur,
    • A. Foster,
    • H. Kuper
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 69 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727q

  • Ageing: Poverty and blindness: an intervention study to assess the impact of cataract surgery on poverty

    • H. Kuper,
    • S. Polack,
    • C. Eusebio,
    • W. Mathenge,
    • Z. Wadud,
    • R. Mamun,
    • A. Foster
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 70 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727r

  • Ageing: The association between psychosocial status and mortality in older adults: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    • C. C. Craigs,
    • A. O. House,
    • J. Hewison,
    • R. M. West
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 71 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727s

  • Ageing: Health and disease in a UK cohort of 85-year–olds: the Newcastle 85+ study

    • J. Collerton,
    • K. Davies,
    • C. Jagger,
    • A. Kingston,
    • M. Eccles,
    • O. James,
    • J. Bond,
    • L. Robinson,
    • T. Von Zglinicki,
    • C. Martin-Ruiz,
    • T. Kirkwood
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 72 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727t

Friday 11 September, Parallel session D

  • Inequalities II: Context or composition? Exploring the adult health and well-being of British children born in different regions

    • S. Easton
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 73 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727u

  • Inequalities II: Comparison of life course socioeconomic models for cardiovascular risk factors: 1946 birth cohort

    • E. T. Lemelin,
    • G. Mishra,
    • D. Kuh,
    • J. Guralnik,
    • S. Black,
    • R. Hardy
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 74 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727v

  • Inequalities II: Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health: a comparative study of four OECD countries

    • A. Sacker,
    • D. Worts,
    • P. McDonough
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 75 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727w

  • Health service research and evidence based practice: Mind the gap: use of evidence in commentaries on MMR in professional journals (1988–2007)

    • S. Hilton,
    • K. Hunt,
    • M. Langan,
    • V. Hamilton,
    • M. Petticrew,
    • H. Bedford
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 76 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727x

  • Health service research and evidence based practice: Association between volume and outcome for adult general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

    • C. Welch,
    • D. Harrison,
    • K. Rowan
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 77 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727y

  • Health service research and evidence based practice: Independent sector treatment centres: learning from a Scottish case study

    • A. M. Pollock,
    • G. Kirkwood
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 78 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727z

  • Measurement and recognition of adiposity: Accuracy of height and weight data from child health records

    • L. D. Howe,
    • K. Tilling,
    • D. A. Lawlor
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 79 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735a

  • Measurement and recognition of adiposity: Parental recognition of overweight in children aged 6–8 years: findings from the Gateshead Millennium Study

    • A. R. Jones,
    • K. N. Parkinson,
    • R. F. Drewett,
    • R. M. Hyland,
    • A. J. Adamson
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 80 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735b

  • Measurement and recognition of adiposity: A 10-year decline in self-recognition of obesity: trends in sensitivity and specificity from three population surveys in ireland

    • F. Shiely,
    • K. Hayes,
    • J. Lutomski,
    • J. Harrington,
    • H. McGee,
    • C. C. Kelleher,
    • I. J. Perry
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 81 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735c

  • Substance use: A retrospective analysis of changing outcomes for pregnant substance users with the establishment of specialist antenatal services

    • K. Bristow,
    • F. Ibrahim,
    • E. Gilvarry,
    • E. Kaner,
    • P. Moran,
    • J. Rankin
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 82 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735d

  • Substance use: Early adolescent substance use and parental socio economic position earlier in life: birth cohort analyses

    • R. Melotti,
    • J. Heron,
    • M. Hickman,
    • J. Macleod,
    • R. Araya,
    • G. Lewis
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 83 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735e

  • Substance use: The Edinburgh Addiction Cohort: a longitudinal study of survival and long term injecting cessation

    • J. Kimber,
    • L. Copeland,
    • M. Hickman,
    • J. MacLeod,
    • J. McKenzie,
    • D. D. Angelis,
    • J. R. Robertson
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 84 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735f

  • CVD and metabolic syndrome: Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: caution required

    • J. P. Casas,
    • F. C. Taylor,
    • K. J. Ward,
    • M. Burke,
    • T. Moore,
    • G. D. Smith,
    • S. Ebrahim
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 85 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735g

  • CVD and metabolic syndrome: Metabolic health changes in migrants moving from a rural to an urban environment in Tanzania

    • N. Unwin,
    • P. James,
    • R. McNally
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 86 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735h

  • CVD and metabolic syndrome: High burden of cardiovascular disease and risk profile in an elderly eastern German general population—potential explanation for an east–west gradient of cardiovascular mortality: The CARLA Study 2002–2006

    • K. H. Greiser,
    • A. Kluttig,
    • B. Schumann,
    • O. Kuss,
    • J. A. Kors,
    • K. Werdan,
    • C. A. Swenne,
    • J. Haerting
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 87 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735i

  • Methods in ethnicity research: Investigating the association between ethnicity and survival from breast cancer using routinely collected health data: challenges and potential solutions

    • A. Downing,
    • D. Forman,
    • J. D. Thomas,
    • R. M. West,
    • G. Lawrence,
    • M. S. Gilthorpe
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 88 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735j

  • Methods in ethnicity research: Recruiting South Asians to a randomised trial (Prevention of Diabetes and Obesity in South Asians) for the prevention of diabetes: the challenges and achievements

    • A. Douglas
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 89 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735k

  • Methods in ethnicity research: Under-reporting of tobacco use among Bangladeshi women in England; a cross-sectional study

    • M. Roth,
    • A. Aitsi-Selmi,
    • H. Wardle,
    • J. Mindell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 90 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735l

  • Plenary session: Are poor mothers and their infants healthier in richer areas? The protective effect of area socio-economic density

    • C. Albor,
    • K. Pickett,
    • R. G. Wilkinson,
    • D. Ballas
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 91 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735m

  • Plenary session: Secondhand smoke exposure assessed using serum cotinine: associations with myocardial infarction, stroke and cardiovascular risk factors in adult men and women

    • B. J. Jefferis,
    • G. D. O. Lowe,
    • P. Welsh,
    • D. A. Lawlor,
    • S. Ebrahim,
    • S. G. Wannamethee,
    • D. G. Cook,
    • P. H. Whincup
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 92 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735n

  • Plenary session: Cost effectiveness of alternative screening strategies for identifying people at high risk of cardiovascular disease

    • K. Lawson,
    • E. Fenwick,
    • J. Pell
    J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:Suppl 2 93 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096735o

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