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Research reports

• Neonatal and postneonatal mortality in Germany since unification (1 February, 2000)

  Ellen Nolte, Angela Brand, Ilona Koupilová, Martin McKee
• Own education, current conditions, parental material circumstances, and risk of myocardial infarction in a former communist country (1 February, 2000)

  Martin Bobák, Clyde Hertzman, Zdenka Škodová, Michael Marmot
• Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality (1 February, 2000)

  George Davey Smith, Carole Hart, Mark Upton, David Hole, Charles Gillis, Graham Watt, Victor Hawthorne
• Incidence of myocardial infarction in women. A cohort study of risk factors and modifiers of effect (1 February, 2000)

  G Engström, P Tydén, G Berglund, O Hansen, B Hedblad, L Janzon
• Socioeconomic status and trends in risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the Danish MONICA population, 1982–1992 (1 February, 2000)

  Merete Osler, Lars Ulrik Gerdes, Michael Davidsen, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Mette Madsen, Torben Jørgensen, Marianne Schroll
• Psychosocial aetiology of chronic disease: a pragmatic approach to the assessment of lifetime affective morbidity in an EPIC component study (1 February, 2000)

  P G Surtees, N W J Wainwright, C Brayne
• The predictive value of self assessed general, physical, and mental health on functional decline and mortality in older adults (1 February, 2000)

  Yunhwan Lee
• Overall mortality among patients surviving an episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (1 February, 2000)

  Ana Ruigómez, Luis Alberto García Rodríguez, Göran Hasselgren, Saga Johansson, Mari-Ann Wallander