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Epidemiology

Research

• Work disability benefits due to musculoskeletal disorders among Brazilian private sector workers (14 May, 2011)

  E R Vieira, P R Albuquerque-Oliveira, A Barbosa-Branco
• Developing and validating a risk scoring tool for chlamydia infection among sexual health clinic attendees in Australia: a simple algorithm to identify those at high risk of chlamydia infection (23 February, 2011)

  Handan Wand, Rebecca Guy, Basil Donovan, Anna McNulty
• Epidemiological study of severe febrile reactions in young children in Western Australia caused by a 2010 trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (30 May, 2011)

  P K Armstrong, G K Dowse, P V Effler, D Carcione, C C Blyth, P C Richmond, G C Geelhoed, F Mascaro, M Scully, T S Weeramanthri
• Using free text information to explore how and when GPs code a diagnosis of ovarian cancer: an observational study using primary care records of patients with ovarian cancer (23 February, 2011)

  A Rosemary Tate, Alexander G R Martin, Aishath Ali, Jackie A Cassell
• Uses and misuses of the STROBE statement: bibliographic study (26 February, 2011)

  Bruno R da Costa, Myriam Cevallos, Douglas G Altman, Anne W S Rutjes, Matthias Egger
• Distribution of 10-year and lifetime predicted risk for cardiovascular disease in the Indian Sentinel Surveillance Study population (cross-sectional survey results) (29 April, 2011)

  Panniyammakal Jeemon, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Mark D Huffman, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Shifalika Goenka, K R Thankappan, V Mohan, Prashant P Joshi, B V M Mohan, F Ahmed, Meera Ramanathan, R Ahuja, Vivek Chaturvedi, Donald M Lloyd-Jones, K Srinath Reddy
• Life expectancy and disparity: an international comparison of life table data (29 July, 2011)

  James W Vaupel, Zhen Zhang, Alyson A van Raalte
• Effects of statin medication on mortality risk associated with type 2 diabetes in older persons: the population-based AGES-Reykjavik Study (29 June, 2011)

  Elin Olafsdottir, Thor Aspelund, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Bolli Thorsson, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Tamara B Harris, Lenore J Launer, Rafn Benediktsson, Vilmundur Gudnason
• Differences in coronary heart disease, stroke and cancer mortality rates between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: the role of diet and nutrition (3 November, 2011)

  Peter Scarborough, Robert David Morgan, Premila Webster, Mike Rayner

Protocol

• Detection and follow-up of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in the Southern Cone of Latin America: the CESCAS I study (26 May, 2011)

  Adolfo Luis Rubinstein, Vilma Edith Irazola, Rosana Poggio, Lydia Bazzano, Matías Calandrelli, Fernando Tomas Lanas Zanetti, Jose Anibal Manfredi, Héctor Olivera, Pamela Seron, Jacqueline Ponzo, Jiang He