International Journal of Epidemiology

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Get checked abstract Douglas L Weed

Interpreting epidemiological evidence: how meta-analysis and causal inference methods are related
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 387-390; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.387 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles

Get checked abstract EG Knox

Childhood cancers, birthplaces, incinerators and landfill sites
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 391-397; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.391 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hui-qing Li, Shi-quan Jin, Hai-xiu Xu, and David B Thomas

The decline in the mortality rates of cervical cancer and a plausible explanation in Shandong, China
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 398-404; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.398 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wei-Cheng You, Jun-Ling Ma, Wei-dong Liu, Mitchell H Gail, Yun-Sheng Chang, Lian Zhang, Yuan-Reng Hu, Joseph F Fraumeni, Jr, and Guang-Wei Xu

Blood type and family cancer history in relation to precancerous gastric lesions
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 405-407; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.405 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Laurent Briollais, Agnès Chompret, Michel Guilloud-Bataille, Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets, Marie-Françoise Avril, and Florence Demenais

Patterns of familial aggregation of three melanoma risk factors: great number of naevi, light phototype and high degree of sun exposure
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 408-415; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.408 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jean-Luc Bulliard and Brian Cox

Cutaneous malignant melanoma in New Zealand: trends by anatomical site, 1969–1993
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 416-423; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.416 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Baruch Modan, Lital Keinan, Tzvia Blumstein, and Siegal Sadetzki

Cancer following cardiac catheterization in childhood
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 424-428; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.424 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hannia Campos and Xinia Siles

Siesta and the risk of coronary heart disease: results from a population-based, case-control study in Costa Rica
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 429-437; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.429 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Martin Lindström, Bertil S Hanson, Eric Brunner, Elisabet Wirfält, Sölve Elmståhl, Irene Mattisson, and Per-Olof Östergren

Socioeconomic differences in fat intake in a middle-aged population: report from the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 438-448; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.438 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Keiko Ogawa, Ichiro Tsuji, Keishi Shiono, and Shigeru Hisamichi

Increased acute myocardial infarction mortality following the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in Japan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 449-455; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.449 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract D Gunnell, L Berney, P Holland, M Maynard, D Blane, S Frankel, and G Davey Smith

How accurately are height, weight and leg length reported by the elderly, and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 456-464; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.456 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Eugene Lilienfeld

Decreasing mortality from pulmonary embolism in the United States, 1979–1996
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 465-469; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.465 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jan Sundquist and Marilyn Winkleby

Country of birth, acculturation status and abdominal obesity in a national sample of Mexican–American women and men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 470-477; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.470 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shah Ebrahim, S Goya Wannamethee, Peter Whincup, Mary Walker, and A Gerald Shaper

Locomotor disability in a cohort of British men: the impact of lifestyle and disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 478-486; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.478 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hilde H Holte, Kristian Tambs, and Tor Bjerkedal

Manual work as predictor for disability pensioning with osteoarthritis among the employed in Norway 1971–1990
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 487-494; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.487 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lars Age Johansson and Ragnar Westerling

Comparing Swedish hospital discharge records with death certificates: implications for mortality statistics
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 495-502; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.495 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Eduard F van Beeck, Gerard JJ Borsboom, and Johan P Mackenbach

Economic development and traffic accident mortality in the industrialized world, 1962–1990
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 503-509; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.503 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Richard Garfield and Cheng-Shuin Leu

A multivariate method for estimating mortality rates among children under 5 years from health and social indicators in Iraq
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 510-515; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.510 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jari Parkkari, Pekka Kannus, Seppo Niemi, Seppo Koskinen, Mika Palvanen, Ilkka Vuori, and Markku Järvinen

Childhood deaths and injuries in Finland in 1971–1995
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 516-523; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.516 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Domenico Fedele, Angela Bortolotti, Carlo Coscelli, Fausto Santeusanio, Liliane Chatenoud, Enrico Colli, Maurizio Lavezzari, Marina Landoni, Fabio Parazzini, and Gruppo Italiano Studio Deficit Erettile nei Diabetici

Erectile dysfunction in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics in Italy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 524-531; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.524 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Graziella Bruno, Gianfranco Pagano, Fabrizio Faggiano, Alberto De Salvia, and Franco Merletti

Effect of Sardinian heritage on risk and age at onset of type 1 diabetes: a demographic case-control study of Sardinian migrants
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 532-535; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.532 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract AA Ismail, NJ Beeching, GV Gill, and MA Bellis

How many data sources are needed to determine diabetes prevalence by capture-recapture?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 536-541; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.536 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract T Andersson, U Högberg, and S Bergström

Community-based prevention of perinatal deaths: lessons from nineteenth-century Sweden
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 542-548; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.542 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bin B Jalaludin, Tien Chey, Brian I O'Toole, Wayne T Smith, Anthony G Capon, and Stephen R Leeder

Acute effects of low levels of ambient ozone on peak expiratory flow rate in a cohort of Australian children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 549-557; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.549 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christopher Dye, Zhao Fengzeng, Suzanne Scheele, and Brian Williams

Evaluating the impact of tuberculosis control: number of deaths prevented by short-course chemotherapy in China
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 558-564; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.558 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jan CM Hendriks, Kevin JP Craib, Paul J Veugelers, Hans AM van Druten, Roel A Coutinho, Martin T Schechter, and Godfried JP van Griensven

Secular trends in the survival of HIV-infected homosexual men in Amsterdam and Vancouver estimated from a death-included CD4-staged Markov model
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 565-572; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.565 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Italian Register for HIV Infection in Children Writing Committee:, L Galli, M de Martino, P-A Tovo, C Gabiano, and M Zappa

Predictive value of the HIV paediatric classification system for the long-term course of perinatally infected children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 573-578; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.573 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract HA Stirnadel, F Al-Yaman, B Genton, MP Alpers, and TA Smith

Assessment of different sources of variation in the antibody responses to specific malaria antigens in children in Papua New Guinea
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 579-586; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.579 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pia Mustakangas, Seppo Sarna, Pirkko Ämmälä, Marketta Muttilainen, Pentti Koskela, and Marjaleena Koskiniemi

Human cytomegalovirus seroprevalence in three socioeconomically different urban areas during the first trimester: a population-based cohort study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 587-591; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.587 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Gdalevich, Dani Cohen, Isaac Ashkenazi, Daniel Mimouni, Ofer Shpilberg, and Jeremy D Kark

Helicobacter pylori infection and subsequent peptic duodenal disease among young adults
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 592-595; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.592 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

Maria Blettner, Hagen Scherb, Eveline Weigelt, Irene Brüske-Hohlfeld, and Alfred Körblein

European stillbirth proportion and Chernobyl
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 596-599; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.596 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sérgio De A Nishioka, John Bennett, Catherine Breen, Jennifer Macia, and John Boring

Topical Antibiotic use and Circumcision-Associated Neonatal Tetanus: Protective Factor or Indicator of Good Wound Care?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 600-601; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.600 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review

Margot Gosney

Validation of exceptional longevity. Odense Monograph on Population Ageing.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 602; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.602 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book News

Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950–94.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 602; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.602-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bulletin Board

Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 603-605; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.603 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News

Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 606; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.606 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight

Int. J. Epidemiol. 2000 29: 607-608; doi:10.1093/ije/29.3.607 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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