This conference series has been somewhat dominated by papers on experience from the UK. The first conference in Thredbo in May 1989 featured a large number of papers on the early experience of bus deregulation in Britain which occurred in October 1986. Papers that come to mind include general reviews by Beesley and by White and Turner and case studies by Hills (on Scotland) and by Donald and Pi...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether blood pressure levels in adult life are related to the mother's fetal growth and size at birth. DESIGN A follow-up study of men and women whose mothers' or fathers' size at birth was recorded in Preston, Lancashire, UK. SUBJECTS Two hundred and twenty-eight men and women born in Preston, Lancashire, UK, and still living in Lancashire. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES B...

Tobacco use is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world. Two methods of estimating the number of deaths attributable to smoking use mortality from lung cancer as an indicator of the damage from smoking. We re-estimate the coefficients of one of these, the Preston/Glei/Wilmoth model, using recent data from U.S. states. We calculate smoking-attributable fractions for the...

The United States experienced unprecedented declines in mortality during the twentieth century. The age-adjusted death rate decreased by 74 percent, and life expectancy increased by 56 percent, or 30 years (Bernard Guyer et al. 2000). Seventy percent of the increase in longevity occurred during the first half of the century, driven by a reduction in infectious disease mortality, the leading cau...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relation between fetal growth and cognitive function in adult life. DESIGN A follow up study of men and women whose birth weights and other measurements of body size had been recorded at birth. SETTING Hertfordshire, Preston, and Sheffield. SUBJECTS 1576 men and women born in Hertfordshire, Sheffield, or Preston between 1920 and 1943. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Inte...