Table of contents

Research reports

• Illness, disease, and sickness absence: an empirical test of differences between concepts of ill health (23 May, 2005)

  Anders Wikman, Staffan Marklund, Kristina Alexanderson
• Sense of coherence and disability pensions. A nationwide, register based prospective population study of 2196 adult Finns (23 May, 2005)

  Sakari Suominen, Raija Gould, Jari Ahvenainen, Jussi Vahtera, Antti Uutela, Markku Koskenvuo
• Validity of Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale: a systematic review (23 May, 2005)

  Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström
• Maternal diet in pregnancy and offspring height, sitting height, and leg length (23 May, 2005)

  Sam Leary, Andy Ness, Pauline Emmett, George Davey Smith, ALSPAC Study Team
• Length of gestation is associated with mortality from cerebrovascular disease (23 May, 2005)

  Ilona Koupil, David A Leon, Hans O Lithell
• Lifecourse study of bone health at age 49–51 years: the Newcastle thousand families cohort study (23 May, 2005)

  Mark S Pearce, Fraser N Birrell, Roger M Francis, David J Rawlings, Stephen P Tuck, Louise Parker
• Environmental inequality and circulatory disease mortality gradients (23 May, 2005)

  Murray M Finkelstein, Michael Jerrett, Malcolm R Sears
• Can social factors explain sex differences in insomnia? Findings from a national survey in Taiwan (23 May, 2005)

  Ying-Yeh Chen, Ichiro Kawachi, S V Subramanian, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Yue-Joe Lee
• Social dynamics of health inequalities: a growth curve analysis of aging and self assessed health in the British household panel survey 1991–2001 (23 May, 2005)

  Amanda Sacker, Paul Clarke, Richard D Wiggins, Mel Bartley
• Milk consumption, stroke, and heart attack risk: evidence from the Caerphilly cohort of older men (23 May, 2005)

  P C Elwood, J J Strain, Paula J Robson, Ann M Fehily, Janie Hughes, Janet Pickering, Andy Ness
• Sex differences in hospital readmission among colorectal cancer patients (23 May, 2005)

  Juan Ramon González, Esteve Fernandez, Víctor Moreno, Josepa Ribes, Mercè Peris, Matilde Navarro, Maria Cambray, Josep Maria Borràs