Int. J. Epidemiol. -- Table of Contents (30 [5])

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Contents: Volume 30, Number 5: October 2001   [Index by Author]      Other Issues:

       Editorials

       Review

       Reiterations

       Point-Counterpoint

       Special Theme: Ethnicity

       Infectious Disease

       Methodology

       Cardiovascular disease and Diabetes

       Social Epidemiology

       Brief Report

       Celebration

       Miscellaneous

       Book Review

       Book News

       Bulletin Board

       News

       Spotlight

       Erratum

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Editorials:

Nish Chaturvedi: Ethnicity as an epidemiological determinant—crudely racist or crucially important?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 925-927; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.925
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Review:

Patrick Bateson: Fetal experience and good adult design
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 928-934; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.928 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reiterations:

The South-East London Screening Study: A controlled trial of multiphasic screening in middle-age: results of the South-East London Screening Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 935-940; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.935 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Walter Holland: Commentary: A history of the South-East London Screening Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 940-942; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.940 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Godfrey Fowler: Commentary: GP ‘check-ups’ still of limited value
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 942-943; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.942 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen Leeder: Commentary: Learning in Lambeth— the South-East London Screening Study revisited
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 944-945; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.944 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jeremiah Stamler: Commentary: On the report of the South-East London Screening Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 946-947; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.946 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Point-Counterpoint:

Gerard GMH Swaen, Olga Teggeler, and Ludovic GPM van Amelsvoort: False positive outcomes and design characteristics in occupational cancer epidemiology studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 948-954; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.948 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael B Bracken: Commentary: Toward systematic reviews in epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 954-957; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.954 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David A Savitz: Commentary: Prior specification of hypotheses: cause or just a correlate of informative studies?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 957-958; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.957 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Ethnicity:

Gertraud Maskarinec, Lixin Meng, and Giske Ursin: Ethnic differences in mammographic densities
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 959-965; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.959 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M Niti and TP Ng: Temporal trends and ethnic variations in amenable mortality in Singapore 1965–1994: the impact of health care in transition
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 966-973; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.966 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ragnar Westerling: Commentary: Evaluating avoidable mortality in developing countries—an important issue for public health
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 973-975; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.973 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michele D Pineda, Emily White, Alan R Kristal, and Vicky Taylor: Asian breast cancer survival in the US: a comparison between Asian immigrants, US-born Asian Americans and Caucasians
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 976-982; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.976 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jeannette Lee, Derrick Heng, Kee Seng Chia, Suok Kai Chew, Bee Yian Tan, and Kenneth Hughes: Risk factors and incident coronary heart disease in Chinese, Malay and Asian Indian males: the Singapore Cardiovascular Cohort Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 983-988; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.983 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MC Gulliford, D Mahabir, B Rocke, S Chinn, and R Rona: Overweight, obesity and skinfold thicknesses of children of African or Indian descent in Trinidad and Tobago
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 989-998; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.989 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Shiriki Kumanyika and Nicolas Stettler: Commentary: Getting ahead of the childhood obesity curve
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 999-1000; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.999 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fernando C Barros, Cesar G Victora, and Bernardo L Horta: Ethnicity and infant health in Southern Brazil. A birth cohort study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1001-1008; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1001 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Colin M Fischbacher, Raj Bhopal, Nigel Unwin, Martin White, and KGMM Alberti: The performance of the Rose angina questionnaire in South Asian and European origin populations: a comparative study in Newcastle, UK
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1009-1016; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1009 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Disease:

Mazrura Sahani, Umesh D Parashar, Roslinah Ali, Premalatha Das, MS Lye, Marzukhi M Isa, Mohammad T Arif, Thomas G Ksiazek, and M Sivamoorthy: Nipah virus infection among abattoir workers in Malaysia, 1998–1999
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1017-1020; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1017 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WJ Bellini: Commentary: Paramyxoviruses, pigs and abattoirs
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1020-1021; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1020 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sabrina S Plitt, Colin L Soskolne, E Anne Fanning, and Stephen C Newman: Prevalence and determinants of tuberculin reactivity among physicians in Edmonton, Canada: 1996–1997
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1022-1028; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1022 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Pedro Más Lago, Victor M Cáceres, Miguel A Galindo, Howard E Gary, Jr, Marlen Valcarcel, Julio Barrios, Luis Sarmiento, Ivonee Avalos, Jose A Bravo, Rosa Palomera, Marite Bello, Roland W Sutter, Mark A Pallansch, and Ciro A de Quadros: Persistence of vaccine-derived poliovirus following a mass vaccination campaign in Cuba: implications for stopping polio vaccination after global eradication
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1029-1034; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1029 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stanley A Plotkin: Commentary: Cuba libre de poliovirus
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1034; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1034 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Methodology:

JA Luan, MY Wong, NE Day, and NJ Wareham: Sample size determination for studies of gene-environment interaction
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1035-1040; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1035 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Paul Burton: Commentary: Gene-environment interactions: fundamental yet elusive
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1040-1041; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1040 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Héctor M Colón, Rafaela R Robles, and Hardeo Sahai: The validity of drug use responses in a household survey in Puerto Rico: comparison of survey responses of cocaine and heroin use with hair tests
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1042-1049; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1042 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andreas Stang, Wolfgang Ahrens, Katja Bromen, Cornelia Baumgardt-Elms, Ingeborg Jahn, Christa Stegmaier, Susanne Krege, and Karl-Heinz Jöckel: Undescended testis and the risk of testicular cancer: importance of source and classification of exposure information
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1050-1056; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1050 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cardiovascular disease and Diabetes:

Pierre Ducimetière, Jean-Bernard Ruidavets, Michèle Montaye, Bernadette Haas, and John Yarnell: Five-year incidence of angina pectoris and other forms of coronary heart disease in healthy men aged 50–59 in France and Northern Ireland: the Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction (PRIME) Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1057-1062; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1057 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Houterman, WMM Verschuren, CM Oomen, CM Boersma-Cobbaert, and D Kromhout: Trends in total and high density lipoprotein cholesterol and their determinants in The Netherlands between 1993 and 1997
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1063-1070; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1063 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Konrad Jamrozik, Carole A Spencer, Michael M Lawrence-Brown, and Paul E Norman: Does the Mediterranean paradox extend to abdominal aortic aneurysm?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1071-1075; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1071 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

John Powles: Commentary: Mediterranean paradoxes continue to provoke
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1076-1077; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1076 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Yoshitaka Murakami and Yasuo Ohashi: Projected number of diabetic renal disease patients among insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus children in Japan using a Markov model with probabilistic sensitivity analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1078-1083; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1078 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Barbara Thorand, Angela D Liese, Marie-Hélène Metzger, Peter Reitmeir, Andrea Schneider, and Hannelore Löwel: Can inaccuracy of reported parental history of diabetes explain the maternal transmission hypothesis for diabetes?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1084-1089; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1084 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Social Epidemiology:

MV Zunzunegui, F Béland, and A Otero: Support from children, living arrangements, self-rated health and depressive symptoms of older people in Spain
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1090-1099; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1090 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Paul Aylin, Sara Morris, Jon Wakefield, Ana Grossinho, Lars Jarup, and Paul Elliott: Temperature, housing, deprivation and their relationship to excess winter mortality in Great Britain, 1986–1996
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1100-1108; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1100 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Caroline TM van Rossum, Martin J Shipley, Harry Hemingway, Diederick E Grobbee, Johan P Mackenbach, and Michael G Marmot: Seasonal variation in cause-specific mortality: Are there high-risk groups? 25-year follow-up of civil servants from the first Whitehall study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1109-1116; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1109 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard Mitchell: Commentary: Short days—shorter lives: studying winter mortality to get solutions
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1116-1118; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1116 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lena Kilander, Lars Berglund, Merike Boberg, Bengt Vessby, and Hans Lithell: Education, lifestyle factors and mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer. A 25-year follow-up of Swedish 50-year-old men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1119-1126; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1119 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eric Brunner: Commentary: Education, education, education
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1126-1128; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1126 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Youfa Wang: Cross-national comparison of childhood obesity: the epidemic and the relationship between obesity and socioeconomic status
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1129-1136; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1129 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jeffery Sobal: Commentary: Globalization and the epidemiology of obesity
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1136-1137; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1136 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Brief Report:

Jordi Sunyer and Xavier Basagaña: Particles, and not gases, are associated with the risk of death in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1138-1140; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1138 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Celebration:

Virginia Berridge: Jerry Morris
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1141-1145; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1141 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

George Davey Smith: The uses of 'Uses of Epidemiology'
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1146-1155; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1146 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Iain Chalmers: Comparing like with like: some historical milestones in the evolution of methods to create unbiased comparison groups in therapeutic experiments
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1156-1164; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1156 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael Marmot: From Black to Acheson: two decades of concern with inequalities in health. A celebration of the 90th birthday of Professor Jerry Morris
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1165-1171; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1165 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Liam J Donaldson: 1969 revisited: reflections on Tomorrow's Community Physician
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1172-1178; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1172 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

TW Meade: Cardiovascular disease—linking pathology and epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1179-1183; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1179 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ralph S Paffenbarger, Jr, Steven N Blair, and I-Min Lee: A history of physical activity, cardiovascular health and longevity: the scientific contributions of Jeremy N Morris, DSc, DPH, FRCP
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1184-1192; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1184 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Adrianne E Hardman: Physical activity and health: current issues and research needs
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1193-1197; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1193 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kelly Loughlin: Epidemiology, social medicine and public health. A celebration of the 90th birthday of Professor JN Morris
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1198-1199; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1198 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Miscellaneous:

N Krieger: Essay Review: The Rorschach Test of Race/Ethnicity: Review of Health and Ethnicity. Helen Macbeth and Prakash Shetty (eds). (Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series; 41); London: Taylor & Francis, 2001.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1200-1201; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1200 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review:

Martin Mckee: Betrayal of Trust: L Garrett. New York: Hyperion, 2000, pp.754, $30. ISBN 0-7868-6522-9.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1202; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1202 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ebrahim Shah: Poverty, Inequality and Health. An International Perspective: D Leon, G Walt (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1202-1203; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1202-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

John Lynch: Understanding Health Inequalities: H Graham (ed). Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1203-1204; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1203 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Scott Orford: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications: P Elliott, J Wakefield, N Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.494, £65.00. ISBN: 0-19-262941-7.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1204-1205; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1204 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book News:

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Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1206-1207; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1206 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

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Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1208-1212; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1208 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News:

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Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1213-1215; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1213 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Spotlight:

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Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1216-1220; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1216 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Erratum:

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Int. J. Epidemiol. 30: 1220; doi:10.1093/ije/30.5.1220 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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