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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Panayotes Demakakos, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; p.demakakos{at}ucl.ac.uk High-quality population-based ...

Background Interpersonal violence is a major public health concern with alcohol use a known risk factor. Despite alcohol taxation being an effective policy to reduce consumption; Hong Kong, contrary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background Childhood head injury has been associated with the development of behavioural and psychological problems. This study examined the relationship between head injury in young childhood and ...

Background Longer schooling is associated with better physical, mental and cognitive functioning, but there is controversy as to whether these associations are causal. We examine the long-term health ...

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

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Arnaud Chiolero, Population Health Laboratory (#PopHealthLab), University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland; achiolero{at}gmail.com Too much data? Too much ...