Correction for Lawlor et al., BMJ 323 (7312) 541-545.
BMJ 2002;325:580 ( 14 September )

Correction

Sex matters: secular and geographical trends in sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality

The authors of this paper, D A Lawlor and colleagues, have told us that the male:female mortality ratios for lung cancer given in the table are wrong for some countries (BMJ 2001;323:541-5). The values should read: Hong Kong 2.3, Israel 3.1, Romania 6.1, Kyrgyzstan 6.2, Lithuania 11.5, Slovak Republic 8.6, Japan 3.8, Kazakhstan 7.3, Estonia 9.4, Hungary 4.2, Slovenia 6.7, Germany 5.0, New Zealand 2.2, Northern Ireland 2.5, Portugal 6.4, Republic of Korea 4.2, Russian Federation 10.0, Scotland 2.2, England and Wales 2.4, Ireland 2.5, Italy 6.9, Finland 7.2, Latvia 10.1, Sweden 1.9, Macedonia 6.2, Greece 7.0, Netherlands 4.7, Spain 12.9, Norway 2.6, France 7.7, Poland 6.4.

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