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Editorials Back

George Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim
Epidemiology—is it time to call it a day?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 1-11; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kate Tilling
Capture-recapture methods—useful or misleading?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 12-14; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.12 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Back

JE Harding
The nutritional basis of the fetal origins of adult disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 15-23; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.15 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reiterations Back

E Schairer and E Schöniger
Lung cancer and tobacco consumption
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 24-27; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.24 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hans Ulrich Schairer
Commentary: In memoriam of my father, Prof. Dr. med. Dietrich Eberhard Schairer
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 28-29; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.28 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sir Richard Doll
Commentary: Lung cancer and tobacco consumption
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 30-31; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.30 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert N Proctor
Commentary: Schairer and Schöniger's forgotten tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 31-34; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.31 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susanne Zimmermann, Matthias Egger, and Uwe Hossfeld
Commentary: Pioneering research into smoking and health in Nazi Germany— The ‘Wissenschaftliches Institut zur Erforschung der Tabakgefahren’ in Jena
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 35-37; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.35 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E Ernst
Commentary: The Third Reich—German physicians between resistance and participation
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 37-42; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.37 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Point-Counterpoint Back

Gerhard A Zielhuis and Lambertus ALM Kiemeney
Social epidemiology? No way
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 43-44; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.43 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy Krieger
Commentary: Society, biology and the logic of social epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 44-46; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.44 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KI Macdonald
Commentary: Social epidemiology. A way?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 46-47; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.46 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Klim McPherson
Commentary: Epidemiology? Keep it broad and deep
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 48; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.48 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jay S Kaufman
Commentary: Social epidemiology? Way!
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 48-49; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.48-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Siegrist
Commentary: Social epidemiology— a promising field
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 50; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.50 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerhard A Zielhuis and Lambertus ALM Kiemeney
Response
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 51; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.51 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Article Back

CM Law, P Egger, O Dada, H Delgado, E Kylberg, P Lavin, G-H Tang, H von Hertzen, AW Shiell, and DJP Barker
Body size at birth and blood pressure among children in developing countries
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 52-57; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.52 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CS Yajnik
Commentary: Fetal origins of cardiovascular risk—nutritional and non-nutritional
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 57-59; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.57 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gary M Shaw, Karen Todoroff, Suzan L Carmichael, Donna M Schaffer, and Steve Selvin
Lowered weight gain during pregnancy and risk of neural tube defects among offspring
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 60-65; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.60 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

YB Cheung, PSF Yip, and JPE Karlberg
Fetal growth, early postnatal growth and motor development in Pakistani infants
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 66-72; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.66 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan HP van der Meulen
Commentary: Early growth and cognitive development
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 72-74; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.72 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter M Nilsson, Per Nyberg, and Per-Olof Östergren
Increased susceptibility to stress at a psychological assessment of stress tolerance is associated with impaired fetal growth
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 75-80; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.75 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elke Raum, Birgit Arabin, Martin Schlaud, Ulla Walter, and Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz
The impact of maternal education on intrauterine growth: a comparison of former West and East Germany
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 81-87; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.81 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yvonne J Kelly, James Y Nazroo, Anne McMunn, Richard Boreham, and Michael Marmot
Birthweight and behavioural problems in children: a modifiable effect?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 88-94; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.88 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Beth Terry and Ezra Susser
Commentary: The impact of fetal and infant exposures along the life course
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 95-96; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.95 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A Leon
Commentary: Getting to grips with fetal programming—aspects of a rapidly evolving agenda
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 96-98; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.96 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Theory and Methods Back

Javier Llorca and Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez
Competing risks analysis using Markov chains: impact of cerebrovascular and ischaemic heart disease in cancer mortality
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 99-101; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.99 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Wohlfahrt and Per Kragh Andersen
Commentary: Secular trends in the context of competing risks
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 102-103; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.102 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

HA Waldron
Are plague pits of particular use to palaeoepidemiologists?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 104-108; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.104 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charlotte A Roberts and Anne Grauer
Commentary: Bones, bodies and representivity in the archaeological record
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 109-110; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.109 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JK Cruickshank, JC Mbanya, R Wilks, B Balkau, N McFarlane-Anderson, and T Forrester
Sick genes, sick individuals or sick populations with chronic disease? The emergence of diabetes and high blood pressure in African-origin populations
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 111-117; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.111 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cancer Back

Alina V Brenner, Zuoyuan Wang, Ruth A Kleinerman, Longde Wang, Shouzhi Zhang, Catherine Metayer, Katherine Chen, Suwen Lei, Hongxing Cui, and Jay H Lubin
Previous pulmonary diseases and risk of lung cancer in Gansu Province, China
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 118-124; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.118 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrey G Noshchenko, Kirsten B Moysich, Alexandra Bondar, Pavlo V Zamostyan, Vera D Drosdova, and Arthur M Michalek
Patterns of acute leukaemia occurrence among children in the Chernobyl region
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 125-129; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.125 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular Disease Back

Simin Liu, I-Min Lee, Umed Ajani, Stephen R Cole, Julie E Buring, and JoAnn E Manson
Intake of vegetables rich in carotenoids and risk of coronary heart disease in men: The Physicians' Health Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 130-135; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.130 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

FG De Waart, EG Schouten, AFH Stalenhoef, and FJ Kok
Serum carotenoids, {alpha}-tocopherol and mortality risk in a prospective study among Dutch elderly
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 136-143; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.136 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

AR Ness
Commentary: Beyond beta-carotene—antioxidants and cardiovascular disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 143-144; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.143 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Truelsen, Eva Prescott, Peter Lange, Peter Schnohr, and Gudrun Boysen
Lung function and risk of fatal and non-fatal stroke. The Copenhagen City Heart Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 145-151; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.145 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lindsey Dow and Shah Ebrahim
Commentary: Lung function and risk of fatal and non-fatal stroke—The Copenhagen City Heart Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 152-153; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.152 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mental Health Back

J Neeleman
A continuum of premature death. Meta-analysis of competing mortality in the psychosocially vulnerable
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 154-162; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.154 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eunice Rodriguez, Edward A Frongillo, and Pinky Chandra
Do social programmes contribute to mental well-being? The long-term impact of unemployment on depression in the United States
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 163-170; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jane E Ferrie
Commentary: Do social programmes contribute to mental well-being? The long-term impact of unemployment on depression in the US
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 170-172; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.170 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Respiratory Back

Alistair W Stewart, Ed A Mitchell, Neil Pearce, David P Strachan, and Stephan K Weiland
The relationship of per capita gross national product to the prevalence of symptoms of asthma and other atopic diseases in children (ISAAC)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 173-179; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.173 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guy B Marks
Commentary: Geographical heterogeneity of asthma
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 179-180; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.179 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brief Report Back

David C Paik, David V Saborio, Ruben Oropeza, and Harold P Freeman
The epidemiological enigma of gastric cancer rates in the US: was grandmother's sausage the cause?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 181-182; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.181 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Tsung O Cheng
Siesta and coronary artery disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 183; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.183 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hannia Campos
Author's Response
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 183; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.183-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review Back

Catherine Pope
Qualitative research methods: a health focus: PL Rice, D Ezzy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 291. ISBN: 0 195 50610 3
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 185; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.185 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew W Roddam
Mathematical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Model Building, Analysis and Interpretation: O Diekmann and JAP Heesterbeek, 2000, Chichester: John Wiley pp. 303, £39.95. ISBN 0-471-49241-8
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 186; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.186 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicola Low
Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice: KE Nelson, CM Williams, NMH Graham (eds) MD, USA: Aspen Publishers Inc. 2001, pp.748, US$79.00, ISBN: 0-8342-1766-X.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 186; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.186-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Last
Ethics, Politics and Public Health: Essay review of recent books on public health ethics: Beauchamp DE, Steinbock B (eds): New Ethics for the Public's Health. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Feldman EA, Bayer R (eds): Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Callahan D (ed.): Promoting Healthy Behavior; How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility? Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 187-188; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.187 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book News Back

Book News
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 188; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.188 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Conference Report Back

Shah Ebrahim
Conference Report
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 189; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.189 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bulletin Board Back

Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 190-193; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.190 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News Back

News
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 194-195; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.194 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight Back

Spotlight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2001 30: 196-199; doi:10.1093/ije/30.1.196 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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