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Research reports

• Mortality and causes of death among drugged drivers (5 November, 2009)

  Karoliina Karjalainen, Tomi Lintonen, Antti Impinen, Pia Mäkelä, Ossi Rahkonen, Pirjo Lillsunde, Aini Ostamo
• Relatedness and HLA-DRB1 typing may discriminate the magnitude of the genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis using a household contact model (19 August, 2009)

  N Lucena-Silva, M D Baliza, A E S Martins, N H S Deghaide, K M Teixeira, L C Rodrigues, R Ximenes, E A Donadi, M d F P M de Albuquerque
• Uptake of treatment for osteoporosis and compliance after bone density measurement in the community (13 August, 2009)

  M-N Dugard, T J Jones, M W J Davie
• Changing stroke mortality trends in middle-aged people: an age–period–cohort analysis of routine mortality data in persons aged 40 to 69 in England (11 October, 2009)

  Chris J Sutton, Jenny Marsden, Caroline L Watkins, Michael J Leathley, Paola Dey
• The impact of social context on socio-demographic risk factors for suicide: a synthesis of data from case–control studies (14 October, 2009)

  M J Crawford, B Kuforiji, P Ghosh
• Socio-economic status, ethnicity and geographical variations in acceptance rates for renal replacement therapy in England and Wales: an ecological study (23 October, 2009)

  Udaya P Udayaraj, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Paul Roderick, Anna Casula, David Ansell, Charles R V Tomson, Fergus J Caskey
• Inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality: the role of behavioural, physiological and social risk factors (12 October, 2009)

  Alison Beauchamp, Anna Peeters, Rory Wolfe, Gavin Turrell, Linton R Harriss, Graham G Giles, Dallas R English, John McNeil, Dianna Magliano, Stephen Harrap, Danny Liew, David Hunt, Andrew Tonkin
• Polypharmacy and its correlates in village health clinics across 10 provinces of Western China (23 October, 2009)

  Lifang Dong, Hong Yan, Duolao Wang