Table of contents

Research reports

• Relationship between the achievement of successive periodic health examinations and the risk of dying. Appraisal of a prevention scheme (5 May, 2012)

  Joseph Henny, Amélie Paulus, Michel Helfenstein, Thierry Godefroy, René Guéguen
• Ethnic inequalities in incidence, survival and mortality from abdominal aortic aneurysm in New Zealand (5 July, 2012)

  Peter Sandiford, Damien Mosquera, Dale Bramley
• Does an electrocardiogram add predictive value to the rose angina questionnaire for future coronary heart disease? 10-year follow-up in a Middle East population (27 April, 2012)

  Davood Khalili, Farzad Hadaegh, Noushin Fahimfar, Gita Shafiee, Farhad Sheikholeslami, Arash Ghanbarian, Fereidoun Azizi
• Longitudinal patterns in physical activity and sedentary behaviour from mid-life to early old age: a substudy of the Whitehall II cohort (12 July, 2012)

  Mark Hamer, Mika Kivimaki, Andrew Steptoe
• Socio-demographic determinants of worsening in frailty among community-dwelling older people in 11 European countries (27 April, 2012)

  Astrid Etman, Alex Burdorf, Tischa J M Van der Cammen, Johan P Mackenbach, Frank J Van Lenthe
• Gender differences in the relationship between religiosity and health-related behaviour among adolescents (8 May, 2012)

  Lukas Pitel, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Peter Kolarcik, Peter Halama, Sijmen A Reijneveld, Jitse P van Dijk
• A Swiss neighbourhood index of socioeconomic position: development and association with mortality (20 June, 2012)

  Radoslaw Panczak, Bruna Galobardes, Marieke Voorpostel, Adrian Spoerri, Marcel Zwahlen, Matthias Egger, for the Swiss National Cohort and the Swiss Household Panel
• Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D₃ and D₂ with academic performance in childhood: findings from a prospective birth cohort

  (9 April, 2012)

  Anna-Maija Tolppanen, Adrian Sayers, William D Fraser, Debbie A Lawlor
• Past and present socioeconomic circumstances and psychotropic medication: a register-linkage study (21 April, 2012)

  Elina Mauramo, Tea Lallukka, Mikko Laaksonen, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen, Eero Lahelma
• Seven-year hospital and nursing home care use according to age and proximity to death: variations by cause of death and socio-demographic position (27 April, 2012)

  Pekka Martikainen, Michael Murphy, Niina Metsä-Simola, Unto Häkkinen, Heta Moustgaard
• Income inequalities in case death of ischaemic heart disease in the Netherlands: a national record-linked study (8 June, 2012)

  Irina Stirbu, Caspar Looman, Geesje J Nijhof, Petra G Reulings, Johan P Mackenbach
• Do home-visit programs for mothers with infants reduce parenting stress and increase social capital in Japan? (30 March, 2012)

  Takeo Fujiwara, Keiko Natsume, Makiko Okuyama, Takuyo Sato, Ichiro Kawachi
• Risk of invasive pneumococcal disease in people admitted to hospital with selected immune-mediated diseases: record linkage cohort analyses (6 April, 2012)

  Clare J Wotton, Michael J Goldacre