1. COMMENTARY: Benjamin Gompertz revisited

   • Luc Bonneux

   OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 472

2. REVIEW: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

   • Esther A. Croes
   • Cornelia M. van Duijn

   ReviewPaper Pages: 473 - 477

3. The validity of self-reported leisure time physical activity, and its relationship to serum cholesterol, blood pressure and body mass index. A population based study of 332,182 men and women aged 40–42 years

   • Nibia Aires
   • Randi Selmer
   • Dag Thelle

   Legacy Pages: 479 - 485

4. Serum cotinine as a marker of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in epidemiological studies: The experience of the MATISS project

   • F. Seccareccia
   • P. Zuccaro
   • S. Giampaoli>

   Legacy Pages: 487 - 492

5. Assessment of alcohol consumption by mailed questionnaire in epidemiological studies: Evaluation of misclassification using a dietary history interview and biochemical markers

   • Sofia Carlsson
   • Niklas Hammar
   • Tapani Rönnemaa

   Legacy Pages: 493 - 501

6. On the relationship between human all-cause mortality and age

   • H. Kesteloot
   • X. Huang

   Legacy Pages: 503 - 511

7. Years of life lost due to premature mortality in Italy

   • Sergio Mariotti
   • Paola D'Errigo
   • Karen Freeman

   Legacy Pages: 513 - 521

8. Serum uric acid and risk for development of hypertension and impaired fasting glucose or Type II diabetes in Japanese male office workers

   • N. Nakanishi
   • M. Okamoto
   • K. Tatara

   Legacy Pages: 523 - 530

9. Tobacco and alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle and overweightness in France: A multilevel analysis of individual and area-level determinants

   • Basile Chaix
   • Pierre Chauvin

   Legacy Pages: 531 - 538

10. Birth weight and risk of angina pectoris: Analysis in Swedish twins

    • A. Hubinette
    • S. Cnattingius
    • P. Lichtenstein

    Legacy Pages: 539 - 544

11. Evaluating a campaign to detect early stage breast tumors in the United States

    • Ralph Catalano
    • Liana Winett
    • William Satariano

    Legacy Pages: 545 - 550

12. Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infection in the general population and selected groups in South-Western Greece

    • C.A. Gogos
    • K.P. Fouka
    • A. Skoutelis

    Legacy Pages: 551 - 557

13. Search for hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection in hepatitis C patients in north-eastern Poland. Comparison with anti-HDV prevalence in chronic hepatitis B

    • S. Chlabicz
    • A. Grzeszczuk
    • A. Panasiuk

    Legacy Pages: 559 - 561

14. Hepatitis C virus infection in injection drug users in Bavaria: Risk factors for seropositivity

    • Markus Backmund
    • Kirsten Meyer
    • Dieter Eichenlaub

    Legacy Pages: 563 - 568

15. Comparison of the effectiveness of two mumps vaccines during an outbreak in Switzerland in 1999 and 2000: A case–cohort study

    • Jean-Luc Richard
    • Marcel Zwahlen
    • Hans C. Matter

    Legacy Pages: 569 - 577

16. Malaria in Turkey: A review of 33 cases

    • A. Mert
    • R. Ozaras
    • Y. Aktuglu

    Legacy Pages: 579 - 582

17. Seroprevalence of HTLV-I and HTLV-II infection among immigrants in northern Italy

    • F. Ansaldi
    • M. Comar
    • N. Manca

    Legacy Pages: 583 - 588

18. LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No incident cases of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Spanish studentsafter two years of follow-up

    • C. Stock
    • A. Krämer
    • L. Sainz-Suberviola

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 589 - 589

19. Instructions for Authors

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 591 - 593