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Research reports

• Birth weight is inversely associated with coronary heart disease in post-menopausal women: findings from the British women’s heart and health study (16 January, 2004)

  D A Lawlor, G Davey Smith, S Ebrahim
• Birth characteristics of offspring and parental diabetes: evidence for the fetal insulin hypothesis (16 January, 2004)

  G Davey Smith, J A C Sterne, P Tynelius, F Rasmussen
• Seasonal congestive heart failure mortality and hospitalisation trends, Quebec 1990–1998 (16 January, 2004)

  D Ehrmann Feldman, R Platt, V Déry, C Kapetanakis, D Lamontagne, A Ducharme, N Giannetti, M Frenette, E J Beck
• Low job control and myocardial infarction risk in the occupational categories of Kaunas men, Lithuania (16 January, 2004)

  V Malinauskiene, T Theorell, R Grazuleviciene, R Malinauskas, A Azaraviciene
• Geochemistry of ground water and the incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finland (16 January, 2004)

  A Kousa, E Moltchanova, M Viik-Kajander, M Rytkönen, J Tuomilehto, T Tarvainen, M Karvonen
• Case-control study of the association between kava use and ischaemic heart disease in Aboriginal communities in eastern Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) Australia (16 January, 2004)

  A R Clough, Z Wang, R S Bailie, C B Burns, B J Currie
• Skin cancer in people with multiple sclerosis: a record linkage study (16 January, 2004)

  M J Goldacre, V Seagroatt, D Yeates, E D Acheson
• Country of birth, socioeconomic position, and healthcare expenditure: a multilevel analysis of Malmö, Sweden (16 January, 2004)

  A Beckman, J Merlo, J W Lynch, U-G Gerdtham, M Lindström, T Lithman