Baseline recruitment and analyses of nonresponse of the Heinz Nixdorf recall study: Identifiability of phone numbers as the major determinant of response A. StangS. MoebusK. H. Jöckel Methods Pages: 489 - 496
Case-mix adjusted odds ratios as an alternative way to compare hospital performances Alessandra CaponDomenico Di LalloLea Panepuccia OriginalPaper Pages: 497 - 500
Occupational social class and mortality in a population of men economically active: The contribution of education and employment situation Enrique RegidorElena RondaVicente Domínguez Mortality Pages: 501 - 508
Mortality from venous thromboembolism in young Swedish women and its relation to pregnancy and use of oral contraceptives – an approach to specifying rates Eva SamuelssonKarin HedenmalmIngemar Persson Cardiovascular Diseases Pages: 509 - 516
Adolescence as possible critical temporal window for blood pressure short term monitoring in boys and girls Vincenzo MaggisanoFlavia ChiarottiAlberto Loizzo OriginalPaper Pages: 517 - 524
Increasing total prevalence rate of cases with Down syndrome in Hungary Julia MétnekiAndrew E. Czeizel Genetic Epidemiology Pages: 525 - 535
Age, bodyweight, smoking habits and the risk of severe osteoarthritis in the hip and knee in men Bengt JärvholmStefan LewoldEva Vingård Locomotor Diseases Pages: 537 - 542
Trends in voluntary HIV testing in general practices in France between 1987 and 2002 Véronique MassariYves DorléansAntoine Flahault Infectious Diseases Pages: 543 - 547
CONCOR, an initiative towards a national registry and DNA-bank of patients with congenital heart disease in the Netherlands: Rationale, design, and first results E.T. Vander VeldeJ. W. J. VriendBarbara J. M. Mulder New Study Pages: 549 - 557
A rare case of localized mucosal leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum in an immunocompetent italian host Chiara CasolariGiovanni GuaraldiLivio Presutti Letter to the Editor Pages: 559 - 561