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Research reports

• Race, neighbourhood characteristics and disparities in chemotherapy for colorectal cancer (3 December, 2009)

  Y Hao, H Landrine, A Jemal, K C Ward, A R Bayakly, J L Young, W D Flanders, E M Ward
• Road safety in the political agenda: the impact on road traffic injuries (3 December, 2009) Free

  Ana M Novoa, Katherine Pérez, Elena Santamariña-Rubio, Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo, Rogelio Cozar, Josep Ferrando, Rosana Peiró, Aurelio Tobías, Pilar Zori, Carme Borrell
• Is adult height related to the risk of having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? (8 December, 2009)

  K Ward, R Hubbard
• Coffee, green tea, black tea and oolong tea consumption and risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease in Japanese men and women (8 December, 2009)

  Yohei Mineharu, Akio Koizumi, Yasuhiko Wada, Hiroyasu Iso, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Chigusa Date, Akio Yamamoto, Shogo Kikuchi, Yutaka Inaba, Hideaki Toyoshima, Takaaki Kondo, Akiko Tamakoshi, and the JACC study Group
• Advanced maternal age and the risk of perinatal death due to intrapartum anoxia at term (18 August, 2010)

  Dharmintra Pasupathy, Angela M Wood, Jill P Pell, Michael Fleming, Gordon C S Smith
• Grandparental caregiving, income inequality and respiratory infections in elderly US individuals (8 December, 2009)

  Steven A Cohen, Emily M Agree, Saifuddin Ahmed, Elena N Naumova
• A two-county comparison of the HOUSES index on predicting self-rated health (3 May, 2010)

  Michael C Butterfield, Arthur R Williams, Tim Beebe, Dawn Finnie, Heshan Liu, Juliette Liesinger, Jeff Sloan, Philip H Wheeler, Barbara Yawn, Young J Juhn
• Occupational, social, and relationship hazards and psychological distress among low-income workers: implications of the ‘inverse hazard law’ (15 August, 2010)

  Nancy Krieger, Afamia Kaddour, Karestan Koenen, Anna Kosheleva, Jarvis T Chen, Pamela D Waterman, Elizabeth M Barbeau
• Which measure of quality of life performs best in older age? A comparison of the OPQOL, CASP-19 and WHOQOL-OLD (18 August, 2010)

  Ann Bowling, Paul Stenner
• Smoking trends in Switzerland, 1992–2007: a time for optimism? (28 April, 2010)

  Pedro Marques-Vidal, João Cerveira, Fred Paccaud, Jacques Cornuz