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Research reports

Cardiovascular disease

• Seasonal variation in cardiovascular disease risk factors in a subarctic population: the Tromsø Study 1979–2008 (2 August, 2012)

  Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Adrian Gerard Barnett, Kaare Harald Bønaa, Jan Mannsverk, Inger Njølstad, Tom Wilsgaard
• Influence of cigarette smoking on coronary artery and aortic calcium among random samples from populations of middle-aged Japanese and Korean men (29 July, 2012)

  Nobutaka Hirooka, Takashi Kadowaki, Akira Sekikawa, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Jina Choo, Katsuyuki Miura, Tomonori Okamura, Akira Fujiyoshi, Sayaka Kadowaki, Aya Kadota, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Hiroshi Maegawa, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Kamal Masaki, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, Lewis H Kuller, J David Curb, Chol Shin
• Asian dust storm events are associated with an acute increase in stroke hospitalisation (23 July, 2012)

  Jiunn-Horng Kang, Tsai-Ching Liu, Joseph Keller, Herng-Ching Lin

Avoidable mortality

• The effect of healthcare delivery privatisation on avoidable mortality: longitudinal cross-regional results from Italy, 1993–2003 (29 September, 2012)

  Cecilia Quercioli, Gabriele Messina, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee, Nicola Nante, David Stuckler
• Using ‘amenable mortality’ as indicator of healthcare effectiveness in international comparisons: results of a validation study (25 September, 2012) Free

  Johan P Mackenbach, Rasmus Hoffmann, Bernadette Khoshaba, Iris Plug, Grégoire Rey, Ragnar Westerling, Kersti Pärna, Eric Jougla, José Alfonso, Caspar Looman, Martin McKee

Area-based exposures and health

• Association between pre-eclampsia and locally derived traffic-related air pollution: a retrospective cohort study (9 August, 2012)

  Gavin Pereira, Fatima Haggar, Antonia W Shand, Carol Bower, Angus Cook, Natasha Nassar
• Urban neighbourhood unemployment history and depressive symptoms over time among late middle age and older adults (22 August, 2012)

  Richard G Wight, Carol S Aneshensel, Christopher Barrett, Michelle Ko, Joshua Chodosh, Arun S Karlamangla
• Navigating non-positivity in neighbourhood studies: an analysis of collective efficacy and violence (22 August, 2012)

  Jennifer Ahern, Magdalena Cerdá, Sheri A Lippman, Kenneth J Tardiff, David Vlahov, Sandro Galea

Other topics

• Friends are equally important to men and women, but family matters more for men's well-being (1 August, 2012)

  Noriko Cable, Mel Bartley, Tarani Chandola, Amanda Sacker
• Estimating EQ-5D utility values for major health behavioural risk factors in England (29 July, 2012)

  Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Stavros Petrou, Karen Rees, Saverio Stranges
• The role of poverty in explaining health variations in 7-year-old children from different family structures: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (9 August, 2012)

  Anna Pearce, Hannah Lewis, Catherine Law