International Journal of Epidemiology

Editorials:

Nicola Low and Matthias Egger

What should we do about screening for genital chlamydia?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 891-893; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.891 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Review:

Thomas R Frieden

Can tuberculosis be controlled?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 894-899; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.894 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

Sutherland

EXTRACTS from Appendix (A) to the Report of the General Board of Health on the Epidemic Cholera of 1848 & 1849
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 900-907; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.900 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephanie J Snow

Commentary: Sutherland, Snow and water: the transmission of cholera in the nineteenth century
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 908-911; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.908 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen Halliday

Commentary: Dr John Sutherland, Vibrio cholerae and ‘predisposing causes’
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 912-914; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.912 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Christopher Hamlin

Commentary: John Sutherland’s Epidemiology of Constitutions
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 915-919; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.915 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

George Davey Smith

Commentary: Behind the Broad Street pump: aetiology, epidemiology and prevention of cholera in mid-19th century Britain
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 920-932; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.920 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion:

Delmore Schwartz
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 933; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.933 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Infectious Diseases:

Besa Smith, Margaret A K Ryan, Gregory C Gray, James M Polonsky, and David H Trump

Tuberculosis infection among young adults enlisting in the United States Navy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 934-939; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.934 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael Clark, Peter Riben, and Earl Nowgesic

The association of housing density, isolation and tuberculosis in Canadian First Nations communities
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 940-945; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.940 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eric A Engels, Elizabeth Clark, Louis M Aledort, James J Goedert, and Denise Whitby

Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection in elderly Jews and non-Jews from New York City
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 946-950; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.946 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Changes over calendar time in the risk of specific first AIDS-defining events following HIV seroconversion, adjusting for competing risks
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 951-958; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.951 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Margaret May

Commentary: The changing face of AIDS
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 959-960; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.959 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S M Mbulaiteye, C Mahe, A Ruberantwari, and J A G Whitworth

Generalizability of population-based studies on AIDS: a comparison of newly and continuously surveyed villages in rural southwest Uganda
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 961-967; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.961 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Amra Uzicanin, Rudi Eggers, Elize Webb, Bernice Harris, Dave Durrheim, Gboyega Ogunbanjo, Veronica Isaacs, Anthony Hawkridge, Robin Biellik, and Peter Strebel

Impact of the 1996–1997 supplementary measles vaccination campaigns in South Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 968-976; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.968 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alan R Hinman

Commentary: Accelerated measles control/measles elimination in southern Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 976-977; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.976 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Claudio Marcos da Silveira, Claudete Iris Kmetzsch, Renate Mohrdieck, Alethea Fagundes Sperb, and D Rebecca Prevots

The risk of aseptic meningitis associated with the Leningrad-Zagreb mumps vaccine strain following mass vaccination with measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1997
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 978-982; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.978 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

K E Fullerton and S E Reef

Commentary: Ongoing debate over the safety of the different mumps vaccine strains impacts mumps disease control
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 983-984; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.983 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cédric Mahé, Pontiano Kaleebu, Amato Ojwiya, and James A G Whitworth

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Western blot: revised diagnostic criteria with fewer indeterminate results for epidemiological studies in Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 985-990; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.985 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Abraham Meima, Lorentz M Irgens, Gerrit J van Oortmarssen, Jan H Richardus, and J Dik F Habbema

Disappearance of leprosy from Norway: an exploration of critical factors using an epidemiological modelling approach
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 991-1000; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.991 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Woon Puay Koh, Mark B Taylor, Kenneth Hughes, S K Chew, C W Fong, M C Phoon, K L Kang, and Vincent TK Chow

Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against Chlamydia pneumoniae in Chinese, Malays and Asian Indians in Singapore
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1001-1007; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1001 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ming-Whei Yu, Hung-Chuen Chang, Pei-Jer Chen, Chun-Jen Liu, Yun-Fan Liaw, Shi-Ming Lin, Shou-Dong Lee, Shee-Chan Lin, Chih-Lin Lin, and Chien-Jen Chen

Increased risk for hepatitis B-related liver cirrhosis in relatives of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in northern Taiwan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1008-1015; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1008 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Katherine V Heath, Keith J Chan, Joel Singer, Michael V O’Shaughnessy, Julio S G Montaner, and Robert S Hogg

Incidence of morphological and lipid abnormalities: gender and treatment differentials after initiation of first antiretroviral therapy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1016-1020; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1016 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cancer:

Anna-Karin Hurtig and Miguel San Sebastián

Geographical differences in cancer incidence in the Amazon basin of Ecuador in relation to residence near oil fields
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1021-1027; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1021 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jack Siemiatycki

Commentary: Epidemiology on the side of the angels
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1027-1029; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1027 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Sander Greenland and Babette Brumback

An overview of relations among causal modelling methods
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1030-1037; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1030 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alessandro Barchielli and Daniela Balzi

Nine-year follow-up of a survey on smoking habits in Florence (Italy): higher mortality among non-responders
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1038-1042; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1038 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cardiovascular Disease:

Mingfang Zhao, Xiao Ou Shu, Fan Jin, Gong Yang, Hong-Lan Li, Da-Ke Liu, Wanqing Wen, Yu-Tang Gao, and Wei Zheng

Birthweight, childhood growth and hypertension in adulthood
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1043-1051; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1043 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rachel Huxley

Commentary: Modifying body weight not birthweight is the key to lowering blood pressure
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1051-1053; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1051 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]

S Goya Wannamethee, A Gerald Shaper, Peter H Whincup, and Mary Walker

Migration within Great Britain and cardiovascular disease: early life and adult environmental factors
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1054-1060; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1054 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Health Services Research:

Günther Heller, Douglas K Richardson, Rainer Schnell, Björn Misselwitz, Wolfgang Künzel, and Stephan Schmidt

Are we regionalized enough? Early-neonatal deaths in low-risk births by the size of delivery units in Hesse, Germany 1990–1999
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1061-1068; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1061 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ciaran S Phibbs

Commentary: Does patient volume matter for low-risk deliveries?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1069-1070; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1069 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tutorial:

Mark Elwood

Forward projection—using critical appraisal in the design of studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1071-1073; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1071 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letter to the Editor:

R Afshari and R S Bhopal

Changing pattern of use of ‘ethnicity’ and ‘race’ in scientific literature
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1074; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1074 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Zubair Kabir

Low birthweight: Revisited
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1075; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1075 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]

Allen J Wilcox

Author’s response
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1075-1076; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1075-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]

Book Reviews:

J Macleod

EMCDDA Insights Series No. 4: Injecting Drug Use, Risk Behaviour and Qualitative Research in the Time of AIDSM. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 2001, EUR 21.00. ISBN: 92-9168-110-5.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1077; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1077 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S M Bernard

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Bjørn Lomborg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 515, £47.50 (HB) ISBN: 0-521-80447-7; £17.95 (PB) ISBN: 0-521-01068-3.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1077; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1077-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cecily Kelleher

Evaluation in Health Promotion. Principles and Perspectives. Rootman I, Goodstadt M, Hyndman B et al. (eds). WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No. 92. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2001, pp. 533, US$109.80. ISBN: 92-890-1359-1; (SwFr85.40 in developing countries).
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1079; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1079 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Paul Dieppe

Epidemiology of the Rheumatic Diseases Second Edition. AJ Silman, MC Hochberg (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 377, £95.00. ISBN: 0192631497.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1079-1080; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1079-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mervyn Susser

Concepts of Epidemiology: An Integrated Introduction to the Ideas, Theories, Principles and Methods of Epidemiology. Raj Bhopal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 346, £27.50 (PB). ISBN: 0-19-263155-1.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1080; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1080 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book News:

Book News
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1081-1082; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1081 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1082-1085; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1082 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News:

News
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1086-1087; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1086 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Spotlight:

Spotlight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1088-1090; doi:10.1093/ije/31.5.1088 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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