Correspondence to Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ben.armstrong{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background It is well known that high ambient ...

Background: South Asian people in the UK and other western countries have elevated rates of coronary heart disease (CHD). Psychosocial factors contribute to CHD risk, but information about ...

Background Previous research has often shown that morbidity and disability are hinged to negative events and exposures that can accumulate over the life course, but less clear is their impact on ...

OBJECTIVES To test associations between non-specific low back pain and several risk factors when definitions of low back pain vary. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS A ...

Background Although there is longstanding evidence of the short-term benefits of promoting rapid growth for young children in low-income settings, more recent studies suggest that early weight gain ...

Background Previous studies have indicated that taller individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer. Death from cancer and other specific causes have also been linked to height, but the ...

With the rise of -omics disciplines and biobank research, personal data and biosamples crossing national borders pose new ethical questions. In this article, informed consent, as originally conceived, ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk to human health of the plant bracken (Pteridium sp). DESIGN: An evaluation of studies of human and animal populations exposed to bracken, together with a review of expert ...

Correspondence to Menghan Gao, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; menghan.gao{at}ki.se Background Endometriosis is a chronic condition affecting ...

2 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Dr Laura D Howe, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limberg Mental Health Research Network, EURON, Maastricht University, Netherlands 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 2 Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Correspondence to: Sandra L Martin ...