International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

Shah Ebrahim

The lessons of history
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 177; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg173 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials:

TH Lam and GM Leung

Geoethnic-sensitive and cross-culture collaborative epidemiological studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 178-180; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg067 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

Sidney L Kark

The social pathology of syphilis in Africans
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 181-186; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg025 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Costa Gazi

Commentary: The legacy of Sidney Kark
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 187; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg028 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Priscilla S Reddy, Anthony D Mbewu, and Coceka M Nogoduka

Commentary: Sexually transmitted infection in South Africa: 50 years after Sidney Kark
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 187-189; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg026 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Landon Myer, Chelsea Morroni, and Ezra S Susser

Commentary: The social pathology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 189-192; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg027 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Cancer:

Pagona Lagiou, Chung-Cheng Hsieh, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Biao Xu, Joanne Wuu, Lorelei Mucci, Rulla Tamimi, Hans-Olov Adami, and Sven Cnattingius

Birthweight differences between USA and China and their relevance to breast cancer aetiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 193-198; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg047 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mona Okasha

Commentary: Inter-ethnic studies of breast cancer risk
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 198-199; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg053 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

André Nkondjock, Bryna Shatenstein, Patrick Maisonneuve, and Parviz Ghadirian

Assessment of risk associated with specific fatty acids and colorectal cancer among French-Canadians in Montreal: a case-control study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 200-209; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg048 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael F Leitzmann and Edward L Giovannucci

Commentary: Can dietary fatty acids affect colon cancer risk?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 209-210; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg068 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Janice M Pogoda, William Lijinsky, Elizabeth A Holly, Beth A Mueller, and Susan Preston-Martin

Maternal prenatal exposure to nitrosatable drugs and childhood brain tumours
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 211-217; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg050 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Hella Danø, Otto Andersen, Marianne Ewertz, Jørgen Holm Petersen, and Elsebeth Lynge

Socioeconomic status and breast cancer in Denmark
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 218-224; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg049 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter D Inskip, Robert E Tarone, Elizabeth E Hatch, Timothy C Wilcosky, Howard A Fine, Peter M Black, Jay S Loeffler, William R Shapiro, Robert G Selker, and Martha S Linet

Sociodemographic indicators and risk of brain tumours
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 225-233; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg051 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Volker Mai, Andrew Flood, Ulrike Peters, James V Lacey, Jr, Catherine Schairer, and Arthur Schatzkin

Dietary fibre and risk of colorectal cancer in the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project (BCDDP) follow-up cohort
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 234-239; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg052 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Debbie A Lawlor and Andy R Ness

Commentary: The rough world of nutritional epidemiology: Does dietary fibre prevent large bowel cancer?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 239-243; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg060 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Paridou, E Velonakis, I Langner, H Zeeb, M Blettner, and A Tzonou

Mortality among pilots and cabin crew in Greece, 1960–1997
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 244-247; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg056 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Julie Von Behren and Peggy Reynolds

Birth characteristics and brain cancers in young children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 248-256; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg057 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Manami Inoue, Kazuo Tajima, Toshiro Takezaki, Nobuyuki Hamajima, Kaoru Hirose, Hidemi Ito, and Suketami Tominaga

Epidemiology of pancreatic cancer in Japan: a nested case-control study from the Hospital-based Epidemiologic Research Program at Aichi Cancer Center (HERPACC)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 257-262; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg062 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michaela Kreuzer, Michael Gerken, Joachim Heinrich, Lothar Kreienbrock, and H-Erich Wichmann

Hormonal factors and risk of lung cancer among women?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 263-271; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg064 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Diseases:

Kathryn A Kohler, W Gary Hlady, Kaushik Banerjee, and Roland W Sutter

Outbreak of poliomyelitis due to type 3 poliovirus, northern India, 1999–2000: injections a major contributing factor
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 272-277; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg011 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Neal A Halsey

Commentary: Poliomyelitis and unnecessary injections
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 278-279; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg071 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Wim van der Hoek, Flemming Konradsen, Priyanie H Amerasinghe, Devika Perera, MK Piyaratne, and Felix P Amerasinghe

Towards a risk map of malaria for Sri Lanka: the importance of house location relative to vector breeding sites
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 280-285; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg055 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Lindström

Airborne infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life in southern Sweden, 1766–1894
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 286-294; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg061 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

G Doblhammer

Commentary: Infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 294-295; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg066 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alexander K Rowe, Faustin Onikpo, Marcel Lama, and Michael S Deming

Risk and protective factors for two types of error in the treatment of children with fever at outpatient health facilities in Benin
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 296-303; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg063 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Joël Coste and Jacques Pouchot

A grey zone for quantitative diagnostic and screening tests
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 304-313; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg054 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Markus Battaglia and Daniel Pewsner

Commentary: Black and white or shades of grey?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 314-315; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg065 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Other Original Papers:

Mugdha Potnis-Lele and Anita Kar

Modification of family size in families reporting history of haemophilia from Maharashtra, India
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 316-320; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg058 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Reviews:

Andrew Haines

Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Third Assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.: JT Houghton, Y Ding, DJ Griggs, M Noguer, PJ van der Winden, X Dai. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 881, £34.95 (HB) ISBN: 0-21-01495-6; £90.00 (HB) ISBN: 0-521-80767-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 321; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg059 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David Schottenfeld

Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology.: Hans-Olov Adami, David Hunter, Dimitrios Trichopoulos (eds). New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002, pp. 624, $75.00, £49.50 (HB) ISBN: 0-19-510969-4.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 322; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg090 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Terry N Flynn

Distributing Health Care. Economic and Ethical Issues.: Paul Dolan and Jan Abel Olsen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 153, £27.50. ISBN: 0-19-263253-1.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 323; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg174 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Books Received:

Books Received
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 324; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg069 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 325. [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Spotlight:

Spotlight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 326-329; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg113 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Erratum:

Erratum
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 330; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg149 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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