Table of contents

Research reports

• Geographical variation in life expectancy at birth in England and Wales is largely explained by deprivation (13 January, 2005)

  Laura M Woods, Bernard Rachet, Michael Riga, Noell Stone, Anjali Shah, Michel P Coleman
• Breast feeding and cardiovascular disease risk factors, incidence, and mortality: the Caerphilly study (13 January, 2005)

  Richard M Martin, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, David Gunnell, Peter Elwood, John W G Yarnell, George Davey Smith
• Long term effect of breast feeding: cognitive function in the Caerphilly cohort (13 January, 2005)

  P C Elwood, Janet Pickering, J E J Gallacher, Janie Hughes, David Davies
• Overweight and obesity and weight change in middle aged men: impact on cardiovascular disease and diabetes (13 January, 2005)

  S Goya Wannamethee, A Gerald Shaper, Mary Walker
• Psychological distress, physical illness, and risk of coronary heart disease (13 January, 2005)

  F Rasul, S A Stansfeld, C L Hart, G Davey Smith
• Is the rate of biological aging, as measured by age at diagnosis of cancer, socioeconomically patterned? (13 January, 2005)

  Jean Adams, Martin White, David Forman
• Does material disadvantage explain the increased risk of adverse health, educational, and behavioural outcomes among children in lone parent households in Britain? A cross sectional study (13 January, 2005)

  Nick Spencer
• Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries (13 January, 2005)

  Roberto De Vogli, Ritesh Mistry, Roberto Gnesotto, Giovanni Andrea Cornia
• Influence of material and behavioural factors on occupational class differences in health (13 January, 2005)

  Mikko Laaksonen, Eva Roos, Ossi Rahkonen, Pekka Martikainen, Eero Lahelma
• Who you live with and where you live: setting the context for health using multiple membership multilevel models (13 January, 2005)

  Tarani Chandola, Paul Clarke, Richard D Wiggins, Mel Bartley