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401 Smith R
Richard Doll at 85
BMJ 1997; 315: 1031 (full text)

402 Chief Medical Officer
Carbon Monoxide
CMO's Update 16 November 1997; page 2

403 Health & Safety Executive
Gas Appliances: get them checked, keep them safe.
London: Health and Safety Executive 1996.

404 J Epidemiol Community Health 1997; 51: 583-609.

405* Silber WM, Lundberg GD, Musacchio RA
Assessing, Controlling and Assuring the Quality of Medical Information on the Internet.
JAMA 1997; 15: 1244-5

406 Law MR, Morris JK, Wald NJ.
Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and ischeamic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence.
BMJ 1997; 315: 973-80 (full text)

407* Factfile
British Heart Foundation 1/98

408* Batty D, Ebrahin S, Smith G.
Study neglected to examine benefits of exercise
BMJ 1997; 315: 1468 (Letter) (full text)

409 Denollet D, et alia
Circulation
January 1998 (quoted in Independent 20/1/98)

410 Roberts A, Roberts P.
Intensive cardiovascular risk factor intervention in a rural practice: a glimmer of hope?
British Journal of General Practice 1998; 48: 967-970

411 Howard G, Wagenknecht LE, Burke GL, et alia.
Cigarette smoking and progression of atherosclerosis. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. JAMA 1998; 279: 119-24

412 Albert CM et alia.
Fish consumption and risk of sudden cardiac death
The Physicians' Health Study
JAMA 1998; 279: 23-8

413 Some Norfolk Medical Wisdom
Edited by Dr David V Hamilton
BUPA Hospital 1998

414 Griffith
British Heart Journal 1995; 73: 8.

415 Trendaniel J, Boffetta P, Saracci R, Hirsch A.
Non-smoker lung cancer deaths attributable to exposure to spouse's environmental tobacco smoke.
Int J Epidemiol 1997; 26: 939-44

416 Whiteman MC, Fowkes FG, Deary IJ, Editorial
BMJ 1997; 315: 379-80 (full text)

417 Car J, Klifflch W, McGuire A et al
West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study
Br Med Journ 1997; 315: 1577-82

418 Effectiveness of Healthy Eating Interventions
Health Education Authority 1998

419 Murdoch RM, Dargie HJ.
Selection of patients with stable angina for further investigation.
Prescribers' Journal 1998; 38: 1-9

420 Br Med J 1998; 316: 1043-7

421* Hutchison B, Birch B, Evans CE, Goldsmith LJ, Markham BA, Frank J, Paterson M.
Screening for hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: randomised controlled trial of postal questionnaire appraising risk of coronary heart disease.
BMJ 1998; 316: 1208-1213 (full text)

422* Kiley R.
Consumer health information on the Internet.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1998; 91: 202-203

423 Campbell N, et al.
BMJ 1998; 316: 1430-1437 (full text)

424* Stewart-Brown S, Farmer A.
Screening could seriously damage your health.
BMJ 1998; 314:533-4 (full text)

425 N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1650-6

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426 Lancet 1998; 351: 1840-3

427* British Heart Foundation
Cholesterol 1 - Lipids in health and disease
Factfile 06/98

428 Kmietowicz Z.
Cholesterol screening not worthwhile.
BMJ 1998; 316: 725 (full text)

429 Chapman S.
Bans on smoking in public become more commonplace.
BMJ 1998; 316: 727-730 (full text)

430 Sheldon T.
Effective Health Care Bulletin 1998; 4(1)

431 The British Hyperlipidaemia Association
The Management of hyperlipidaemia
Guidelines Vol 4 February 1998 p73 (Medendium)

432* British Heart Foundation
Cholesterol 2 - Lipids: therapeutic options and policies
Factfile 07/98

433 Skolbekken JA.
Communicating the risk reduction achieved by cholesterol reducing drugs.
BMJ 1998; 316: 1956-1958 (full text)

434 Kelly S, Dunnell K, Fox J
Health trends over the last 50 years
Health Trends 1998; 30: 10-15
Ischaemic heart disease Tobacco

435* British Heart Foundation
Physical Activity and the Heart
Factfile 08/98

436* Rosengren A.
Cholesterol: how low is low enough?
BMJ 1998; 317: 425-6 (full text)

437 Erikson G, Liestol K, Bjornholt J, Thaulow B, Sandvik L Erikssen J.
Changes in physical fitness and changes in mortality.
Lancet 1998; 352: 759-62

438 Proceedings of the 4th Cardiovascular Prevention Conference, London, October 1998
Quoted in "GP" 9/10/98

439* Evans P.
Statins may prove too costly
Medical Monitor 14/10/98 pps 16-18

440 Downs JR, Clearfield M, Weis S et al.
Primary prevention of acute coronary events with lovastatin in men and women with average cholesterol levels: results of AFCAPS/TexCAPS.
JAMA 1998; 279:1615-22.

441 Russell MA, Wilson C, Taylor C, Baker CD.
Effect of general practitioners' advice against smoking.
BMJ 1977; 279:(6184) 231-235

442 Bird W.
How 'Healthy Walks' have improved patients' fitness
General Practitioner 27 November 1998 page 71

443 Mennella JA, Beauchamp GK.
Smoking and the flavor of breast milk
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1559-60 Full Text

444 Wannamethee SG et al.
Lancet 1998; 351: 1603-08

445 Vita AJ, Terry RB, Hubert HB, Fries JF.
Aging, Health Risks and Cumulative Disability
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1035-41

446 Liu B, Peto R, Chen Z, Boreham J, Wu Y, Li J, Campbell TC, Chen J.
Emerging tobacco hazards in China: 1. Retrospective proportional mortality study of one million deaths.
BMJ 1998; 317: 1411-22 (full text)

447 Niu S, Yang G, Chen Z, Wang J, Wang G, He X, Schoepff H, Boreham J, Pan H, Peto R.
Emerging tobacco hazards in China: 2. Early mortality results from a prospective study.
BMJ 1998; 317: 1411-22 (full text)

448 JAMA 1998; 280: 1843-8

449 Hingorani AD, Vallance P.
A simple computer program for guiding management of cardiovascular risk factors and prescribing.
BMJ 1999; 318: 101-5 (Full text)

450 Health & Safety Executive
Organisational interventions to reduce the impact of poor work design.
CRR196, ISBN 0 7176, 1632 0