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Research Article

• A two way view of gender bias in medicine. (1 April, 1997)

  M T Ruiz, L M Verbrugge
• Secular pattern of congenital oesophageal atresia. 1959. (1 April, 1997)

  G Knox
• Secular pattern of congenital oesophageal atresia--George Knox, 1959. (1 April, 1997)

  H Dolk
• Cochrane Lecture. All cost effective treatments should be free ... or, how Archie Cochrane changed my life! (1 April, 1997)

  A Williams
• Trends in stroke mortality in Greater London and south east England--evidence for a cohort effect? (1 April, 1997)

  R Maheswaran, D P Strachan, P Elliott, M J Shipley
• Socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity, and stroke mortality in Greater London and south east England. (1 April, 1997)

  R Maheswaran, P Elliott, D P Strachan
• Stroke mortality--secular and geographic trends: comment on papers by Maheswaran and colleagues. (1 April, 1997)

  S Ebrahim
• Geographical and social class differentials in stroke mortality--the influence of early-life factors: comments on papers by Maheswaran and colleagues. (1 April, 1997)

  G D Smith, Y Ben-Shlomo
• Lifelong exposures and the potential for stroke prevention: the contribution of cigarette smoking, exercise, and body fat. (1 April, 1997)

  R Shinton
• Modelling the effects of increased physical activity on coronary heart disease in England and Wales. (1 April, 1997)

  B Naidoo, M Thorogood, K McPherson, L J Gunning-Schepers
• Hazard proximities of childhood cancers in Great Britain from 1953-80. (1 April, 1997)

  E G Knox, E A Gilman
• Body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, and glucose intolerance in Chinese and Europid adults in Newcastle, UK. (1 April, 1997)

  N Unwin, J Harland, M White, R Bhopal, P Winocour, P Stephenson, W Watson, C Turner, K G Alberti
• Deaths from cirrhosis in Poland and Hungary: the impact of different alcohol policies during the 1980s. (1 April, 1997)

  Z Varvasovsky, C Bain, M McKee
• Infectious diseases mortality in central Serbia. (1 April, 1997)

  H D Vlajinac, J M Marinković, N I Kocev, B J Adanja, T D Pekmezović, S B Sipetić, D J Jovanović
• Use of paracetamol for suicide and non-fatal poisoning in the UK and France: are restrictions on availability justified? (1 April, 1997)

  D Gunnell, K Hawton, V Murray, R Garnier, C Bismuth, J Fagg, S Simkin
• Quantitative estimates of the impact of sensitivity and specificity in mammographic screening in Germany. (1 April, 1997)

  P G Warmerdam, H J de Koning, R Boer, P M Beemsterboer, M L Dierks, E Swart, B P Robra
• The effect on compliance of a health education leaflet in colorectal cancer screening in general practice in central England. (1 April, 1997)

  A R Hart, T L Barone, S P Gay, A Inglis, L Griffin, C A Tallon, J F Mayberry
• Predicting the outcome in elderly patients of hospital admission for acute care in Paris, France: construction and initial validation of a simplex index. (1 April, 1997)

  M Zureik, P Lombrail, A Davido, J L Trouillet, B Tran, A Levy, T Lang
• Effects of preventive health services on survival of the elderly living in a community in Osaka, Japan. (1 April, 1997)

  N Nakanishi, K Tatara, T Tatatorige, S Murakami, F Shinsho
• Trench fever among homeless people in Marseille, France: a seroprevalence survey. (1 April, 1997)

  M Rotily, Y Obadia, H Tissot-Dupont, D Raoult
• Accuracy of the family health services authority register in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK as a sampling frame for population studies. (1 April, 1997)

  P G O'Mahony, R G Thomson, H Rodgers, R Dobson, O F James
• Cigarette smoking and health promotion in Nazi Germany. (1 April, 1997)

  R N Procter
• Estimating life expectancy using an age-cohort model: a critique. (1 April, 1997)

  Y B Cheung
• Tuberculosis among homeless people at a temporary shelter in London. (1 April, 1997)

  M Harding, N Brown