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Research reports

• Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929–1937 (24 March, 2011)

  David Stuckler, Christopher Meissner, Price Fishback, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee
• Modelling the impact of a healthy diet on cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality (15 December, 2010)

  Peter Scarborough, Kelechi E Nnoaham, Dushy Clarke, Simon Capewell, Mike Rayner
• A new approach to compare the predictive power of metabolic syndrome defined by a joint interim statement versus its components for incident cardiovascular disease in Middle East Caucasian residents in Tehran (4 November, 2010)

  F Hadaegh, A Zabetian, D Khalili, M Safarkhani, W Philip T James, F Azizi
• The influence of concern about crime on levels of psychological distress in the former Soviet Union (29 October, 2010)

  Bayard Roberts, Andrew Stickley, Mark Petticrew, Martin McKee
• Exploring relationships between racism, housing and child illness in remote indigenous communities (30 November, 2010)

  Naomi Priest, Yin Paradies, Matthew Stevens, Ross Bailie
• Impact of alcohol intake on total mortality and mortality from major causes in Japan: a pooled analysis of six large-scale cohort studies (10 December, 2010)

  Manami Inoue, Chisato Nagata, Ichiro Tsuji, Yumi Sugawara, Kenji Wakai, Akiko Tamakoshi, Keitaro Matsuo, Tetsuya Mizoue, Keitaro Tanaka, Shizuka Sasazuki, Shoichiro Tsugane, for the Research Group for the Development and Evaluation of Cancer Prevention Strategies in Japan
• Biomass fuel and risk of tuberculosis: a case–control study from Northern India (30 November, 2010)

  P V M Lakshmi, Navkiran Kaur Virdi, J S Thakur, Kirk R Smith, Michael N Bates, Rajesh Kumar
• Hospital discharge data for assessing myocardial infarction events and trends, and effects of diagnosis validation according to MONICA and AHA criteria (19 October, 2010)

  Alessandro Barchielli, Daniela Balzi, Paola Naldoni, Anna Teresa Roberts, Francesco Profili, Francesco Dima, Luigi Palmieri
• Air pollution and mortality in New Zealand: cohort study (21 October, 2010)

  Simon Hales, Tony Blakely, Alistair Woodward