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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(3):481-483; doi:10.1093/ije/dym116
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Editorial

Rising to the challenges and opportunities of life course epidemiology

Yoav Ben-Shlomo

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR.

E-mail: y.ben-shlomo@bristol.ac.uk

Accepted 4 February 2007

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This edition of the International Journal of Epidemiology has four papers1–4 and accompanying commentaries5–7 that can be conveniently clustered under the heading of life course epidemiology. In the concluding chapter of ‘A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology’,8 Diana Kuh and I raised several emerging and common themes that we felt needed to be addressed by future research. These were (i) understanding heterogeneity, (ii) going beyond repeat measures to understand trajectories, (iii) the role of accelerated postnatal weight and height gain and (iv) the use of life cohort cohorts and less conventional designs. All of these topics are addressed to some degree by these publications.

The papers by Strachan1 and Power2 are some of the first to come out from the recent follow-up of the 1958 Birth cohort and these researchers and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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