International Journal of Epidemiology

Editorials:

Pekka Martikainen, Mel Bartley, and Eero Lahelma

Psychosocial determinants of health in social epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1091-1093; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1091 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stanislav V Kasl and Beth A Jones

Social epidemiology: towards a better understanding of the field
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1094-1097; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1094 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Jeroen Douwes and Neil Pearce

Asthma and the westernization ‘package’
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1098-1102; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1098 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections:

IMcDG Stewart

Coronary disease and modern stress
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1103-1107; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1103 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Platt

Commentary (1951): Coronary disease and modern stress
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1108-1109; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1108 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

S Leonard Syme

Commentary: Modern stress and coronary heart disease: still problematic
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1109-1110; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1109 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

John Macleod and George Davey Smith

Commentary: Stress and the heart, 50 years of progress?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1111-1113; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1111 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen A Stansfeld

Commentary: The problem with stress: minds, hearts and disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1113-1116; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1113 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Point-Counterpoint:

Robert Beaglehole and Paul Magnus

The search for new risk factors for coronary heart disease: occupational therapy for epidemiologists?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1117-1122; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1117 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Marmot

Commentary: Occupational therapy or the major challenge?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1122-1124; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1122 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

FJ Nieto

Commentary: The epidemiology of self-deprecation
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1124-1127; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1124 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

CM Law

Commentary: Using research evidence to promote cardiovascular health in children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1127-1129; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1127 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Philip Greenland, Samuel S Gidding, and Russell P Tracy

Commentary: Lifelong prevention of atherosclerosis: the critical importance of major risk factor exposures
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1129-1134; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1129 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Beaglehole and Paul Magnus

Response: Coronary heart disease prevention: act now, research at leisure
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1134-1135; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1134 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Diversion:

WH Auden

Brothers who when the sirens roar ...
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1136-1137; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1136 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G Davey Smith

Commentary: WH Auden, GA Auden and psychosomatic aetiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1137-1138; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1137 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Psychosocial:

Andrew E Clark and Andrew J Oswald

A simple statistical method for measuring how life events affect happiness
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1139-1144; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1139 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ruut Veenhoven

Commentary: The units of utility
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1144-1146; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1144 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Sunmin Lee, Graham Colditz, Lisa Berkman, and Ichiro Kawachi

A prospective study of job strain and coronary heart disease in US women
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1147-1153; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1147 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johannes Siegrist

Commentary: Work stress and coronary heart disease—a gender (role) specific association?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1154; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1154 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Vera Keefe, Papaarangi Reid, Clint Ormsby, Bridget Robson, Gordon Purdie, Joanne Baxter, and Ngäti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated

Serious health events following involuntary job loss in New Zealand meat processing workers
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1155-1161; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johan P Mackenbach, Jeanette G Simon, Caspar WN Looman, and Inez MA Joung

Self-assessed health and mortality: could psychosocial factors explain the association?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1162-1168; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1162 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Rosvall, P-O Östergren, B Hedblad, S-O Isacsson, L Janzon, and G Berglund

Work-related psychosocial factors and carotid atherosclerosis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1169-1178; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1169 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deirdre Lane, Douglas Carroll, Christopher Ring, D Gareth Beevers, and Gregory Y H Lip

In-hospital symptoms of depression do not predict mortality 3 years after myocardial infarction
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1179-1182; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1179 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steinar Krokstad, Roar Johnsen, and Steinar Westin

Social determinants of disability pension: a 10-year follow-up of 62 000 people in a Norwegian county population
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1183-1191; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Archana Singh-Manoux, Paul Clarke, and Michael Marmot

Multiple measures of socio-economic position and psychosocial health: proximal and distal measures
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1192-1199; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1192 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geoff Der

Commentary: Structural equation modelling in epidemiology: some problems and prospects
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1199-1200; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1199 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Tacettin Inandi, Omur Cinar Elci, Ahmet Ozturk, Mucahit Egri, Aytac Polat, and Tahir K Sahin

Risk factors for depression in postnatal first year, in eastern Turkey
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1201-1207; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1201 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Motoki Iwasaki, Tetsuya Otani, Rumiko Sunaga, Hiroko Miyazaki, Liu Xiao, Naren Wang, Sasazawa Yosiaki, and Shosuke Suzuki

Social networks and mortality based on the Komo-Ise cohort study in Japan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1208-1218; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1208 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Smita LS Halder, John McBeth, Alan J Silman, David G Thompson, and Gary J Macfarlane

Psychosocial risk factors for the onset of abdominal pain. Results from a large prospective population-based study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1219-1225; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1219 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger Jones

Commentary: Functional abdominal pain: another unexplained physical symptom
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1225-1226; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1225 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

DH Sykes, D Arveiler, CP Salters, J Ferrieres, E McCrum, P Amouyel, A Bingham, M Montaye, J-B Ruidavets, B Haas, P Ducimetiere, and AE Evans

Psychosocial risk factors for heart disease in France and Northern Ireland: The Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction (PRIME)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1227-1234; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1227 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fetal Origins:

DJP Barker, JG Eriksson, T Forsén, and C Osmond

Fetal origins of adult disease: strength of effects and biological basis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1235-1239; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1235 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wei Yuan, Olga Basso, Henrik T Sorensen, and Jorn Olsen

Fetal growth and hospitalization with asthma during early childhood: a follow-up study in Denmark
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1240-1245; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1240 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Theory and Methods:

Tony Blakely and Clare Salmond

Probabilistic record linkage and a method to calculate the positive predictive value
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1246-1252; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1246 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reinhard Voss, Paul Cullen, Helmut Schulte, and Gerd Assmann

Prediction of risk of coronary events in middle-aged men in the Prospective Cardiovascular Münster Study (PROCAM) using neural networks
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1253-1262; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1253 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret May

Commentary: Improved coronary risk prediction using neural networks
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1262-1264; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1262 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Essay Review:

David Wainwright

Policing the heart
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1265-1267; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1265 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor:

Angelika De Bree, WM Monique Verschuren, Daan Kromhout, Louise I Mennen, Henk J Blom, Earl S Ford, S Jay Smith, Donna F Stroup, Karen K Steinberg, Patricia W Mueller, and Stephen B Thacker

Homocysteine and coronary heart disease: the importance of a distinction between low and high risk subjects
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1268-1272; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1268 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Walter Holland, S Hajat, and A Haines

Cold temperature and consultations for respiratory and cardiovascular disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1272-1274; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1272 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Franklin White, Ezra Susser, and Mervyn Susser

The case for an epidemiology of terrorism
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1273-1274; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1273 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Michaela Bertuzzi, Alessandra Tavani, Eva Negri, Carlo La Vecchia, Elena Fernández Jarne, Manuel Serrano-Martinez, and Miguel A Martínez González

Olive oil consumption and risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction in Italy
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1274-1277; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1274 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Pierre Buekens

Toward a consensus on ‘race’ and birthweight distributions
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1277; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1277 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Deborah Lawlor

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease. The Current Status of Research and Practice.: AR Genazzani. London UK, New York USA: The Parthenon Publishing Group, 2001, pp. 188, US$77.95 ISBN: 1 84214 038 8.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1278-1279; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1278 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M Last

Public Health Law and Ethics; A Reader: Lawrence O Gostin (ed.). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002, pp. 521 + xxxi, US$35.00 (PB) ISBN: 0–520–23174–0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1279; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1279 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Cousens

Epidemiologic Analysis: A Case-oriented Approach.: Steve Selvin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 323, £57.00 ISBN: 0195144899
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1279-1280; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1279-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Michele Clouse

The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe.: Samuel K Cohn Jr. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 318, US$65.00 (HB) ISBN: 0-340-70646-5.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1280-1281; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1280 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

V Raman Kutty

Just and Lasting Change. When Communities Own Their Futures.: Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E Taylor. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. 350, £13.50. ISBN: 0-8018-6825-4.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1281-1282; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1281 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Rees Jones

Work Stress. The Making of a Modern Epidemic.: David Wainright and Michael Calnan. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 2002, pp. 240, £17.99 (PB) ISBN: 0 335 20707 3, £55.00. (HB) ISBN: 0 335 20208 1.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1282-1283; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1282 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Wessely

A War of Nerves. Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914–1994.: Ben Shephard. London: Pimlico Books, 2002, pp. 487, £12.50. ISBN: 0-7126-6783-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1284-1285; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1284 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Una Fallon

Homocysteine in Health and Disease.: Ralph Carmel, Donald W Jocobsen. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2001, pp. 510, £100.00 (HB). ISBN: 0-521-65319-3.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1285-1286; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1285 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Rachael Gooberman-Hill

Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography and Being Female in America.: G Frank. Berkeley, USA: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 284, £13.95 (PB). ISBN: 0-520-21716-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1286; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1286 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Abla Mehio-Sibai and Marwan Khawaja

War or Health? A Reader.: Ilkka Taipale et al. (eds). New York: Zed Books, 2002, pp. 652, £16.95 (PB) ISBN: 1-86549-951-0, £55.00 (HB) ISBN: 1-86549-950-2.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1286-1287; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1286-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Julian Tudor Hart

Health Care in Central Asia.: Martin McKee, Judith Healy, Jane Falkingham (eds). European Observatory on Health Care Systems series. Buckingham/Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2002, pp. 213 + xiv, £22.50 (PB). ISBN: 0335209262; £65 (HB) ISBN 0335209270.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1287; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1287 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

AG Shaper

Bacchic Medicine. Wine and Alcohol Therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox.: Harry W Paul. Amsterdam, New York: Editions Rodopi, 2001, pp. 341, US$28, EUR 30 (PB) ISBN: 90 420 1111 4; US$75, EUR 80 (HB) ISBN: 90 420 1121 1.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1287-1288; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1287-a [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Brindle

Evidence-based Medicine Toolkit.: Douglas Badenoch, Carl Heneghan. London: BMJ Books, 2002, pp. 64, £9.95. ISBN: 0-7279-1601-7.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1288-1289; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1288 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [Request Permissions]  

Bulletin board:

Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1290-1292; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1290 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight:

Spotlight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 31: 1293-1296; doi:10.1093/ije/31.6.1293 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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