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Research reports

• Increase of regional total cancer incidence in north Sweden due to the Chernobyl accident? (16 November, 2004)

  Martin Tondel, Peter Hjalmarsson, Lennart Hardell, Göran Carlsson, Olav Axelson
• Fear of racism and health (16 November, 2004)

  Saffron Karlsen, James Yzet Nazroo
• Is the effect of work stress on cardiovascular mortality confounded by socioeconomic factors in the Valmet study? (16 November, 2004)

  E J Bruner, M Kivimäki, J Siegrist, T Theorell, R Luukkonen, H Riihimäki, J Vahtera, J Kirjonen, P Leino-Arjas
• Possible association between heavy computer users and glaucomatous visual field abnormalities: a cross sectional study in Japanese workers (16 November, 2004)

  Masayuki Tatemichi, Tadashi Nakano, Katsutoshi Tanaka, Takeshi Hayashi, Takeshi Nawa, Toshiaki Miyamoto, Hisanori Hiro, Minoru Sugita
• Life course measures of socioeconomic position and self reported health at age 50: prospective cohort study (16 November, 2004)

  Jean Adams, Martin White, Mark S Pearce, Louise Parker
• Confounding by socioeconomic position remains after adjusting for neighbourhood deprivation: an example using smoking and mortality (16 November, 2004)

  Tony Blakely, Darren Hunt, Alistair Woodward
• Multiple sclerosis after infectious mononucleosis: record linkage study (16 November, 2004)

  Michael J Goldacre, Clare J Wotton, Valerie Seagroatt, David Yeates
• Prevalence of comorbid psychiatric illness and substance misuse in primary care in England and Wales (16 November, 2004)

  Martin Frisher, Juliet Collins, David Millson, Ilana Crome, Peter Croft
• Poorer self assessed health in a prospective study of men with screen detected abdominal aortic aneurysm: a predictor or a consequence of screening outcome? (16 November, 2004)

  Theresa M Marteau, Lois G Kim, Jane Upton, Simon G Thompson, Alan P Scott
• Lipid lowering drugs prescription and the risk of peripheral neuropathy: an exploratory case-control study using automated databases (16 November, 2004)

  Giovanni Corrao, Antonella Zambon, Lorenza Bertù, Edoardo Botteri, Olivia Leoni, Paolo Contiero
• Are there socioeconomic gradients in the quality of data held by UK cancer registries? (16 November, 2004)

  Jean Adams, Martin White, David Forman