Objective: To examine the association between hypertensive diseases of pregnancy (gestational
hypertension and pre-eclampsia) and the development of circulatory diseases in later …

Background. Chronic pain is known to be very common in the community. Less is known about
the epidemiology of more significant or severe chronic pain. The impact of chronic pain in …

Background Little is known about whether contemporary hormonal contraception is associated
with an increased risk of breast cancer. Methods We assessed associations between the …

Objectives To determine whether maternal obesity during pregnancy is associated with
increased mortality from cardiovascular events in adult offspring. Design Record linkage cohort …

Objective To examine the absolute risks or benefits on cancer associated with oral contraception,
using incident data. Design Inception cohort study. Setting Royal College of General …

Little is known about the course of chronic pain in the community. Such information is
needed for the prevention and management of chronic pain. We undertook a 4-year follow-up …

Aims This study was designed to evaluate whether survival rates in patients with heart failure
( HF ) are better than those in patients with diagnoses of the four most common cancers in …

Objective. To assess the prevalence of ear, nose and throat (ENT) symptoms experienced
by individuals living in Scotland, and their use of GP or hospital services for these problems. …

2 Introduction organisations, academia, pharmacy, general practice and clinical pharmacology,
and was chaired by Dr Patricia Wilkie, a lay member of the CSM. The first meeting was …

Objective To see if the mortality risk among women who have used oral contraceptives
differs from that of never users. Design Prospective cohort study started in 1968 with mortality …