International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

George Davey Smith

Uncertainty and significance
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Editorials:

Philip S Brachman

Infectious diseases—past, present, and future
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 684-686; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg282 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections:

Joseph Berkson

Tests of significance considered as evidence
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 687-691; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg255 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R.A. Fisher

Note on Dr. Berkson’s criticism of tests of significance
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 692; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg256 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Sterne

Commentary: Null points—has interpretation of significance tests improved?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 693-694; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg274 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Stone

Commentary: Worthwhile polemic or transatlantic storm-in-a-teacup?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 694-698; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg273 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Goodman

Commentary: The P-value, devalued
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 699-702; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg294 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diversion:

Tony Harrison

Marked With D.
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Photoessay:

Deborah Padfield and Brian Hurwitz

as if ... visualizing pain
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 704-707; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg283 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Infectious Diseases:

John M Murray, Matthew G Law, Zhanhai Gao, and John M Kaldor

The impact of behavioural changes on the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C among injecting drug users
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 708-714; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg102 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcel Zwahlen and David Vlahov

Commentary: Modelling and understanding differences in human immunodeficiency and hepatitis C virus epidemiology in injection drug users
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 715-716; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg169 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew G Law, Gregory J Dore, Nicky Bath, Sandra Thompson, Nick Crofts, Kate Dolan, Wendy Giles, Paul Gow, John Kaldor, Stuart Loveday, Elizabeth Powell, Jenean Spencer, and Alex Wodak

Modelling hepatitis C virus incidence, prevalence and long-term sequelae in Australia, 2001
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 717-724; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg101 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory L Armstrong

Commentary: Modelling the epidemiology of hepatitis C and its complications
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 725-726; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg266 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brandee L Pappalardo

Influence of maternal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection on vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV): a meta-analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 727-734; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg107 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria de los Angeles Pando, Sergio Maulen, Mercedes Weissenbacher, Rubén Marone, Ricardo Duranti, Liliana Martínez Peralta, Horacio Salomón, Kevin Russell, Monica Negrete, Sergio Sosa Estani, Silvia Montano, José L Sanchez, and Maria Mercedes Ávila

High human immunodeficiency virus type 1 seroprevalence in men who have sex with men in Buenos Aires, Argentina: risk factors for infection
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 735-740; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg104 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos F Cáceres and Ron Stall

Commentary: The human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS epidemic among men who have sex with men in Latin America and the Caribbean: It is time to bridge the gap
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 740-743; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg214 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E Lagarde, M Schim van der Loeff, C Enel, B Holmgren, R Dray-Spira, G Pison, JP Piau, V Delaunay, S M’Boup, I Ndoye, M Coeuret-Pellicer, H Whittle, and P Aaby

Mobility and the spread of human immunodeficiency virus into rural areas of West Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 744-752; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg111 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard G White

Commentary: What can we make of an association between human immunodeficiency virus prevalence and population mobility?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 753-754; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg265 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jim Todd, Lucy Carpenter, Xianbin Li, Jessica Nakiyingi, Ron Gray, and Richard Hayes

The effects of alternative study designs on the power of community randomized trials: evidence from three studies of human immunodeficiency virus prevention in East Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 755-762; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg150 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Iñigo, A Arce, JM Martín-Moreno, R Herruzo, E Palenque, and F Chaves

Recent transmission of tuberculosis in Madrid: application of capture–recapture analysis to conventional and molecular epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 763-769; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg098 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew A Vernon and M Scott McNabb

Commentary: Can capture–recapture analysis of epidemiological and molecular data help us understand recent tuberculosis transmission?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 770-771; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg280 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pedro Más Lago, Howard E Gary, Jr, Luis Sarmientos Pérez, Victor Cáceres, Julio Barrios Olivera, Rosa Palomera Puentes, Marité Bello Corredor, Patricia Jímenez, Mark A Pallansch, and Roberto González Cruz

Poliovirus detection in wastewater and stools following an immunization campaign in Havana, Cuba
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 772-777; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg185 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrizio Pezzotti, Cinzia Piovesan, Federica Michieletto, Francesca Zanella, Giovanni Rezza, and Giovanni Gallo

Estimating the cumulative number of human immunodeficiency virus diagnoses by cross-linking from four different sources
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 778-783; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg202 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JD Cooper and SM Bird

Predicting incidence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from UK dietary exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy for the 1940 to 1969 and post-1969 birth cohorts
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 784-791; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg248 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Azra C Ghani

Commentary: Predicting the unpredictable: the future incidence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 792-793; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg276 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hamid Hussain, Saeed Akhtar, and Debra Nanan

Prevalence of and risk factors associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in prisoners, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 794-799; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg247 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary C White

Commentary: Evaluating the tuberculosis burden in prisoners in Pakistan
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 799-801; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg272 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Smoking:

AG Shaper, SG Wannamethee, and Mary Walker

Pipe and cigar smoking and major cardiovascular events, cancer incidence and all-cause mortality in middle-aged British men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 802-808; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg206 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Health Services Research:

Ichiro Tsuji, Kohko Takahashi, Yoshikazu Nishino, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Shinichi Kuriyama, Yoko Watanabe, Yukiko Anzai, Yoshitaka Tsubono, and Shigeru Hisamichi

Impact of walking upon medical care expenditure in Japan: the Ohsaki Cohort Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 809-814; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg189 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Caroline A Macera

Commentary: Can walking lower medical care costs?
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Gianfranco Domenighetti, Barbara D’Avanzo, Matthias Egger, Franco Berrino, Thomas Perneger, Paola Mosconi, and Marcel Zwahlen

Women’s perception of the benefits of mammography screening: population-based survey in four countries
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 816-821; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg257 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Infection:

Christine Stabell Benn, Carlitos Balé, Halvor Sommerfelt, Henrik Friis, and Peter Aaby

Hypothesis: Vitamin A supplementation and childhood mortality: amplification of the non-specific effects of vaccines?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 822-828; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg208 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles B Stephensen

Commentary: A hypothesis concerning vitamin A supplementation, vaccines, and childhood mortality
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 828; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg284 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Inequality:

Johan P Mackenbach, Vivian Bos, Otto Andersen, Mario Cardano, Giuseppe Costa, Seeromanie Harding, Alison Reid, Örjan Hemström, Tapani Valkonen, and Anton E Kunst

Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 830-837; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg209 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Seppo Koskinen

Commentary: Is there a common background behind growing inequalities in mortality in Western European countries?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 838-839; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg304 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methodology:

TJ Peters, SH Richards, CR Bankhead, AE Ades, and JAC Sterne

Comparison of methods for analysing cluster randomized trials: an example involving a factorial design
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 840-846; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg228 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Respiratory:

Vinod Mishra

Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion and acute respiratory illness in preschool age children in Zimbabwe
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 847-853; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg240 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wichai Aekplakorn, Dana Loomis, Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, Carl Shy, Somkiat Wongtim, and Paipun Vitayanon

Acute effect of sulphur dioxide from a power plant on pulmonary function of children, Thailand
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 854-861; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg237 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fetal Origins Of Adult Health:

Liisa Laurén, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Paul Elliott, Ulla Sovio, Anne Spellman, Mark McCarthy, Pauline Emmett, Imogen Rogers, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Anneli Pouta, Rebecca Hardy, Michael Wadsworth, Gunnhild Helmsdal, Sjurdur Olsen, Chryssa Bakoula, Vasso Lekea, and Iona Millwood

Relationship between birthweight and blood lipid concentrations in later life: evidence from the existing literature
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 862-876; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg201 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DJP Barker

Commentary: Developmental origins of raised serum cholesterol
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Letters to the Editor:

Piet Hein Jongbloet

Is the Mediterranean diet relevant to myocardial infarction? Olive oil consumption versus geographical latitude
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 878-879; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg242 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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

Can dietary fatty acids affect colon cancer risk? Reply to Leitzmann and Giovannucci
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 879-880; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg268 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben A Lopman and Clarence C Tam

Epidemiologists: clinging to coat-tails or donning them?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 880-881; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg260 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ezra Susser and Mervyn Susser

Authors’ response
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 881; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg261 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JD Kark and JH Abramson

Sidney Kark’s contributions to epidemiology and community medicine
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 882-884; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg291 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Melissa Adams, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Per Kragh Andersen, David Haig, Tine Brink Henriksen, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Rolv Terje Lie, Jørn Olsen, Rolv Skjærven, and Allen Wilcox

Sostrup statement on low birthweight
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Book Reviews:

Joy Adamson

Raiding the Gene Pool. The Social Construction of Mixed Race.: Jill Olumide. London: Pluto Press, 2002, pp. 224, £15.99 (PB) ISBN: 0-7453-1764-2; £45.00 (HB) ISBN: 0-7453-1765-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 886; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg251 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ann Oakley

Gender and Social Inequities in Health—A Public Health Issue.: Sarah P Wamala and John Lynch (eds). Lund, Sweden: Studentlitteratur, 2002, pp. 266, SKr 305 ISBN: 9144022026.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 887; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg252 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ezra S Susser and Yuval Y Neria

Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People.: Barry S Levy and Victor W Sidel (eds). New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 377, £35.00 (HB) ISBN: 0-19-515834-2.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 887-888; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg258 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andy Ness

Human Growth and Development.: Noël Cameron (ed.). St Louis: Academic Press, 2002, £50.00, pp. 350. ISBN: 0-12-156651-X.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 888-889; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg259 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dilys Morgan

Smallpox—The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge.: David A Koplow. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 274, £17.95 ISBN: 0-520-23732-3.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 889-890; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg290 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C Arden Pope, III

The Particulate Air Pollution Controversy: A Case Study and Lessons Learned.: Robert F Phalen. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 128, £47.00 ISBN: 1-4020-7225-2.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 890; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg199 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Faina Linkov

Studying Populations: Simplifying Epidemiology Teaching and Learning
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Peter Baldwin

Dawning Answers: How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health.: Valdiserri RO. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 209, £29.95. ISBN: 0-19-514740-5.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 891-892; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg281 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret May

Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Repeated Measurements.: Charles S Davis. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2002, pp. 415, £59.50 (HB) ISBN: 0-387-95370-1.
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Charles du V Florey

Supercourse: Prevention and Internet.: CDROM, WHO Collaborating Center, Dept of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. www.pitt.edu/~super1
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 893; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg215 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ag Shaper

Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Diet, Lifestyle and Risk Factors in the Seven Countries Study.: Kromhout D, Menotti A, Blackburn H (eds). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 267, £90.00. ISBN: 1-4020-7123-X.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 32: 893-894; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg270 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received:

Books Received
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Bulletin Board:

Courses, meetings and conferences listed
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Spotlight:

Spotlight
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