Table of contents

Research Article

• Uses and abuses of multivariate methods in epidemiology. (1 December, 1988)

  S J Evans
• Asthma deaths in England and Wales 1931-85: evidence for a true increase in asthma mortality. (1 December, 1988)

  P Burney
• Field evaluation of the Copal UA-231 automatic sphygmomanometer. (1 December, 1988)

  S Rogers, G D Smith, W Doyle
• Regional differences in mortality from conditions amenable to medical intervention in The Netherlands: a comparison of four time periods. (1 December, 1988)

  J P Mackenbach, A E Kunst, C W Looman, J D Habbema, P J van der Maas
• Deriving relative risks from aggregate data. 1. Theory. (1 December, 1988)

  T Norström
• Deriving relative risks from aggregate data. 2. An application to the relationship between unemployment and suicide. (1 December, 1988)

  T Norström
• Social and regional differences in food and alcohol consumption and their measurement in a national birth cohort. (1 December, 1988)

  F E Braddon, M E Wadsworth, J M Davies, H A Cripps
• A study of the interaction of alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking among French cases of laryngeal cancer. (1 December, 1988)

  P Guénel, J F Chastang, D Luce, A Leclerc, J Brugère
• The joint effects of two factors in the aetiology of oesophageal cancer in Japan. (1 December, 1988)

  K Nakachi, K Imai, Y Hoshiyama, T Sasaba
• Proximal femoral fractures: some determinants of outcome. (1 December, 1988)

  I F Greatorex, A C Gibbs
• Changes in tuberculosis notification rates in the white ethnic group in England and Wales between 1953 and 1983. (1 December, 1988)

  V H Springett, J H Darbyshire, A J Nunn, I Sutherland
• Psychosomatic symptoms, social support and self worth among the elderly in Hong Kong. (1 December, 1988)

  S C Ho, S P Donnan, A Sham
• Relationship of lung function loss to level of initial function: correcting for measurement error using the reliability coefficient. (1 December, 1988)

  L Irwig, H Groeneveld, M Becklake
• The classification of ethnic status using name information. (1 December, 1988)

  A J Coldman, T Braun, R P Gallagher
• Participation in a follow up study of health among unemployed and employed people after a company closedown: drop outs and selection bias. (1 December, 1988)

  L Iversen, S Sabroe