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Research Article

• Public health implications of ageing. (1 October, 1997)

  S Ebrahim
• A community based stroke register in a high risk area for stroke in north west England. (1 October, 1997)

  X Du, J Sourbutts, K Cruickshank, A Summers, N Roberts, E Walton, S Holmes
• Dietary vitamin C and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women in Washington State, USA. (1 October, 1997)

  S G Leveille, A Z LaCroix, T D Koepsell, S A Beresford, G Van Belle, D M Buchner
• An estimate of chronic disease burden and some economic consequences among the elderly Hong Kong population. (1 October, 1997)

  J Woo, S C Ho, S G Chan, A L Yu, Y K Yuen, J Lau
• Customary physical activity and survival in later life: a study in Nottingham, UK. (1 October, 1997)

  K Morgan, D Clarke
• Physical illness and disability among elderly people in England and Wales: the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. The Analysis Group. (1 October, 1997)

  C J Parker, K Morgan, M E Dewey
• Has regional variation in mortality rates declined since 1931, and in all age groups, in Britain? A re-analysis using formal statistical modelling. (1 October, 1997)

  R Ecob, C Robertson, G Watt
• What happened to life expectancy in Spain in the 1980s? (1 October, 1997)

  L Chenet, M McKee, A Otero, I Ausin
• Prediction of coronary heart disease mortality in Busselton, Western Australia: an evaluation of the Framingham, national health epidemiologic follow up study, and WHO ERICA risk scores. (1 October, 1997)

  M W Knuiman, H T Vu
• The uptake and costs of guidelines for stroke in a district of southern England. (1 October, 1997)

  C D Wolfe, N Stojcevic, A G Rudd, F Warburton, R Beech
• Reduction in hospital admissions for pneumonia in non-institutionalised elderly people as a result of influenza vaccination: a case-control study in Spain. (1 October, 1997)

  J Puig-Barberà, S Márquez-Calderón, A Masoliver-Fores, F Lloria-Paes, A Ortega-Dicha, M Gil-Martín, M J Calero-Martínez
• Trends in, and transitions to, institutional residence among older people in England and Wales, 1971-91. (1 October, 1997)

  E Grundy, K Glaser
• Issues of recruitment and maintaining high response rates in a longitudinal study of older hospital patients in England--pathways through care study. (1 October, 1997)

  B A Gregson, M Smith, J Lecouturier, N Rousseau, H Rodgers, J Bond
• Development of a scale to measure symptoms of anxiety and depression in the general UK population: the psychiatric symptom frequency scale. (1 October, 1997)

  M Lindelow, R Hardy, B Rodgers
• Development of a modified Winchester disability scale--the elderly at risk rating scale. (1 October, 1997)

  I P Donald
• Discriminative power of the health status questionnaire 12 in relation to age, sex, and longstanding illness: findings from a survey of households in Great Britain. (1 October, 1997)

  A Bowling, J Windsor
• Screening in primary health care for undiagnosed tremor in an elderly population in Wales. (1 October, 1997)

  R J Meara, S Bisarya, J P Hobson
• Estimating the incidence of hip fractures in East Germany from hospital discharge statistics. (1 October, 1997)

  M Wildner, W Casper, K E Bergmann
• How good is Sullivan's method for monitoring changes in population health expectancies? (1 October, 1997)

  J J Barendregt, L Bonneux, P J van der Maas
• Smoking and Alzheimer's disease: an alternative hypothesis. (1 October, 1997)

  B D Cox, M J Whichelow
• The evaluation of agreement on continuous variables by the intraclass correlation coefficient. (1 October, 1997)

  L Prieto, R Lamarca, A Casado, J Alonso