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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(5):934-936; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn104
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Tuberculosis down the generations—a comment on ‘Continued studies of Tuberculosis as a generation illness’ by Kr F Andvord

Peter DO Davies

Tuberculosis Research and resource Unit, Cardiothoracic Centre, Thomas Drive, Liverpool L14 3PE, UK.

E-mail: Peter.davies@ctc.nhs.uk

Accepted 29 April 2008

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   Introduction
 
It is 70 years since Andvord first looked at the way tuberculosis affects the human race within successive generations.1 His object was to find the incidence of disease and so the risk of disease to an individual over that person's life time. A method of describing the incidence for different age groups for successive years provides the means to observe the way tuberculosis affects and afflicts a generation from birth, through adult life and into old age. Frost describes this analysis of the change in mortality by age as the most significant of all analyses. ‘For every change in the rate of mortality as we pass from one age to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The analysis
 

   The generation curves
 

   Further evidence from generation curves
 

   Modern studies
 

   Conclusion
 

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