Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...

The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality ...

1 Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania 2 Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania Correspondence to Dr Tomas Venckunas, Institute of Sport ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of Hong Kong Chinese towards the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study of subjects' opinions ...

Correspondence to Dr Daisy Fancourt, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; d.fancourt{at}ucl.ac.uk Background There is growing research into the ...

Correspondence to Dr S Hajat, Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; shakoor.hajat{at}lshtm.ac.uk Although rapid ...

Background Falls are a significant cause of morbidity after stroke. The aim of this review was to identify, critically appraise and summarise risk prediction models for the occurrence of falling after ...

Correspondence to Dr Carrie J Nobles, Community Psychiatry PRIDE, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 70 Everett Ave., Suite 516, Chelsea, MA 02150, USA; ...

Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Division of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan Background: The aim of this study was to ...

1 Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China 2 HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR ...

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Anne McMunn, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 ...

1 Effective Healthcare Australia, School of Population Health and Health Services Research, University of Sydney, Australia 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada and ...