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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:178-180
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Editorial

Geoethnic-sensitive and cross-culture collaborative epidemiological studies

TH Lam and GM Leung

Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong. E-mail: hrmrlth@hkucc.hku.hk

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This issue of International Journal of Epidemiology includes ten papers on cancer: two breast,1,2 two colorectal,3,4 three brain,5–7 one pancreatic,8 one lung,9 and one overall cancer.10 The very large cohort study in Denmark found that women with higher educational attainment had the highest incidence of, and mortality from, breast cancer. The authors concluded that the time trends in social distribution will result in increasing incidence.1 A Sino-US study found that in both American and Chinese women, their babies’ birthweight was positively associated with maternal height, pre-pregnancy body mass index, and weight gain during pregnancy, and most remarkably that the differences in the three maternal variables between women in the two samples fully explained the birthweight difference between the two samples of babies.2 As Chinese women who migrate to the US tend to grow taller and heavier and will have heavier offsprings, the authors predict . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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