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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Esther García-Esquinas, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Calle del Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain; ...

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 ...

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1 Department of Public Health, Health Inequalities Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Social Psychiatry & Population Mental Health Research Unit, University of Otago, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background It is unclear if adolescent personality predicts mortality into late life, independent of adolescent socioeconomic status (SES). Methods Over 26 000 members of Project Talent, a US ...

Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Dr Eva Rehfuess, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, ...

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 ...

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 ...