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Research reports

• Do older adults become more depressed with age in Taiwan? The role of social position and birth cohort (12 April, 2009)

  C Chiao, L-J Weng, A Botticello
• Maternal social characteristics and mortality from injuries among infants and toddlers in Estonia (23 April, 2009)

  S Tiikkaja, K Rahu, I Koupil, M Rahu
• Culture, risk factors and mortality: can Switzerland add missing pieces to the European puzzle? (21 April, 2009) Free

  D Faeh, C Minder, F Gutzwiller, M Bopp, for the Swiss National Cohort Study Group
• Socioeconomic position and hypertension: a study of urban civil servants in Ghana (29 April, 2009)

  J Addo, L Smeeth, D A Leon
• Genetic influences on adult body mass index followed over 29 years and their effects on late-life mobility: a study of twin sisters (19 March, 2009)

  A Ortega-Alonso, S Sipilä, U M Kujala, J Kaprio, T Rantanen
• Variation of daily warm season mortality as a function of micro-urban heat islands (14 April, 2009)

  A Smargiassi, M S Goldberg, C Plante, M Fournier, Y Baudouin, T Kosatsky
• Patterns of co-authorship in international epidemiology (3 May, 2009)

  K H Jacobsen
• Hookworm in rural Spain, 1910–1960: shifting paradigms around the Civil War (8 April, 2009)

  E Rodríguez-Ocaña, A Menéndez-Navarro