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Research reports

• Cumulative life course and adult socioeconomic status and markers of inflammation in adulthood (13 May, 2008)

  R A Pollitt, J S Kaufman, K M Rose, A V Diez-Roux, D Zeng, G Heiss
• Health inequalities among the elderly in western Europe (13 May, 2008)

  S Rueda, L Artazcoz, V Navarro
• Higher mortality in urban neighbourhoods in The Netherlands: who is at risk? (13 May, 2008)

  C van Hooijdonk, M Droomers, I M Deerenberg, J P Mackenbach, A E Kunst
• Cognitive development in childhood and drinking behaviour over two decades in adulthood (13 May, 2008)

  B J M H Jefferis, O Manor, C Power
• Reproductive life events in the population living in the vicinity of a nuclear waste reprocessing plant (13 May, 2008)

  R Slama, O Boutou, B Ducot, A Spira
• IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study (13 May, 2008) Free

  G D Batty, M J Shipley, L H Mortensen, S H Boyle, J Barefoot, M Grønbæk, C R Gale, I J Deary
• Does childhood schooling affect old age memory or mental status? Using state schooling laws as natural experiments (13 May, 2008)

  M M Glymour, I Kawachi, C S Jencks, L F Berkman
• Social and economic correlates of depressive symptoms and perceived stress in South African adults (13 May, 2008)

  R Hamad, L C H Fernald, D S Karlan, J Zinman
• Suicide methods in Europe: a gender-specific analysis of countries participating in the “European Alliance Against Depression” (13 May, 2008)

  A Värnik, K Kõlves, C M van der Feltz-Cornelis, A Marusic, H Oskarsson, A Palmer, T Reisch, G Scheerder, E Arensman, E Aromaa, G Giupponi, R Gusmäo, M Maxwell, C Pull, A Szekely, V Pérez Sola, U Hegerl