International Journal of Epidemiology

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Editor's Choice
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh082 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial:

Ruth Gilbert

Prenatal screening for group B streptococcal infection: gaps in the evidence
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 2-8; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh062 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections:

Martjin B Katan

Apolipoprotein E isoforms, serum cholesterol, and cancer
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 9; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh312 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martijn B Katan

Commentary: Mendelian randomization, 18 years on
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 10-11; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh023 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bernard Keavney

Commentary: Katan's remarkable foresight: genes and causality 18 years on
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 11-14; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh056 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Keith Wheatley and Richard Gray

Commentary: Mendelian randomization—an update on its use to evaluate allogeneic stem cell transplantation in leukaemia
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 15-17; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg313 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Brennan

Commentary: Mendelian randomization and gene–environment interaction
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 17-21; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh033 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Duncan C Thomas and David V Conti

Commentary: The concept of ‘Mendelian Randomization’
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 21-25; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh048 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin D Tobin, Cosetta Minelli, Paul R Burton, and John R Thompson

Commentary: Development of Mendelian randomization: from hypothesis test to ‘Mendelian deconfounding’
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 26-29; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh016 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim

Mendelian randomization: prospects, potentials, and limitations
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 30-42; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh132 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Point-Counterpoint:

David A Freedman, Diana B Petitti, and James M Robins

On the efficacy of screening for breast cancer
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 43-55; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg275 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter C Gøtzsche

On the benefits and harms of screening for breast cancer
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 56-64; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh014 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anthony B Miller

Commentary: A defence of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) study and the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 64-65; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh015 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Baum

Commentary: False premises, false promises and false positives—the case against mammographic screening for breast cancer
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 66-67; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh022 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donald Berry

Commentary: Screening mammography: a decision analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 68; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh034 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A Freedman, Diana B Petitti, and James M Robins

Rejoinder
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 69-73; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh061 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Perinatal and early-life influences on disease:

Pat Doyle, Noreen Maconochie, Graham Davies, Ian Maconochie, Margo Pelerin, Susan Prior, and Samantha Lewis

Miscarriage, stillbirth and congenital malformation in the offspring of UK veterans of the first Gulf war
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 74-86; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh049 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rajesh Kumar, Sutapa Bandyopadhyay, Arun Kumar Aggarwal, and Madhu Khullar

Relation between birthweight and blood pressure among 7–8 year old rural children in India
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 87-91; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh239 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen and Merete Osler

Birth dimensions, parental mortality, and mortality in early adult age: a cohort study of Danish men born in 1953
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 92-99; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg195 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dóra Chor, Eduardo Faerstein, George A Kaplan, John W Lynch, and Claudia S Lopes

Association of weight change with ethnicity and life course socioeconomic position among Brazilian civil servants
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 100-106; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg277 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roshni R Patel, Philip Steer, Pat Doyle, Mark P Little, and Paul Elliott

Does gestation vary by ethnic group? A London-based study of over 122 000 pregnancies with spontaneous onset of labour
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 107-113; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg238 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A Savitz

Commentary: Ethnic differences in gestational age exist, but are they ‘normal’?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 114-115; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh041 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jordi Sunyer, Carme Puig, Maties Torrent, Oscar Garcia-Algar, Ignasi Calicó, Laura Muñoz-Ortiz, Maria Barnes, and Paul Cullinan on behalf of the AMICS study

Nitrogen dioxide is not associated with respiratory infection during the first year of life
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 116-120; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh037 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Hardy, Michael EJ Wadsworth, Claudia Langenberg, and Diana Kuh

Birthweight, childhood growth, and blood pressure at 43 years in a British birth cohort
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 121-129; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh027 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kirsten B Simondon, Eric Elguero, Adama Marra, Aldiouma Diallo, Peter Aaby, and François Simondon

Season of birth is not associated with risk of early adult death in rural Senegal
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 130-136; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg279 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sophie E Moore, Anthony JC Fulford, P Kim Streatfield, Lars Åke Persson, and Andrew M Prentice

Comparative analysis of patterns of survival by season of birth in rural Bangladeshi and Gambian populations
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 137-143; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh007 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DA Lawlor

Commentary: The art and science of epidemiology: governed by the seasons?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 144-146; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh030 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charlotte M Wright and Louise Parker

Forty years on: the effect of deprivation on growth in two Newcastle birth cohorts
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 147-152; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg187 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan Chinn and Roberto J Rona

Commentary: The relation of growth to socioeconomic deprivation
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 152-153; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh263 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Saskia J te Velde, Isabel Ferreira, Jos WR Twisk, Coen DA Stehouwer, Willem van Mechelen, and Han CG Kemper

Birthweight and arterial stiffness and blood pressure in adulthood—Results from the Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 154-161; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh011 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian B Wilkinson and John R Cockcroft

Commentary: Birthweight arterial stiffness and blood pressure: in search of a unifying hypothesis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 161-162; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh050 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Infectious Diseases:

Per Gustafson, Victor F Gomes, Cesaltina S Vieira, Paulo Rabna, Rémonie Seng, Peter Johansson, Anita Sandström, Renée Norberg, Ida Lisse, Badara Samb, Peter Aaby, and Anders Nauclér

Tuberculosis in Bissau: incidence and risk factors in an urban community in sub-Saharan Africa
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 163-172; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh026 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] Erratum [Request Permissions]  

Ana Lucia Sampaio Sgambatti de Andrade, João Guimarães de Andrade, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Simonne Almeida e Silva, Renato Maurício de Oliveira, Maria Selma Neves Costa, Cristina Borges Laval, Luiza Helena Vilela Ribeiro, and Jose Luis Di Fabio

Effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae b conjugate vaccine on childhood pneumonia: a case-control study in Brazil
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 173-181; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh025 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca J Garten, Shenghan Lai, Jinbing Zhang, Wei Liu, Jie Chen, David Vlahov, and Xiao-Fang Yu

Rapid transmission of hepatitis C virus among young injecting heroin users in Southern China
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 182-188; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh019 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular Disease:

Matthew F Yuyun, Kay-Tee Khaw, Robert Luben, Ailsa Welch, Sheila Bingham, Nicholas E Day, and Nicholas J Wareham

Microalbuminuria independently predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in a British population: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) population study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 189-198; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh008 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Respiratory Disease:

Sam Gibbs, Heidi Surridge, Ruth Adamson, Bernard Cohen, Graham Bentham, and Richard Reading

Atopic dermatitis and the hygiene hypothesis: a case-control study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 199-207; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg267 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis S Pilotto, Monika Nitschke, Brian J Smith, Dino Pisaniello, Richard E Ruffin, Heather J McElroy, James Martin, and Janet E Hiller

Randomized controlled trial of unflued gas heater replacement on respiratory health of asthmatic schoolchildren
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 208-211; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh018 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan M Samet and Michelle L Bell

Commentary: Nitrogen dioxide and asthma redux
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 215-216; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh045 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cancer:

Edward Giovannucci, Eric B Rimm, Yan Liu, and Walter C Willett

Height, predictors of C-peptide and cancer risk in men
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 217-225; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh020 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor:

William H. James

Do gonadal hormones confound between parental smoking and offspring sex ratio?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 226; doi:10.1093/ije/dyg328 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Essay Review:

Zena A Stein and Mervyn Susser

Essay Review: Measured intelligence in childhood, social class and adult outcomes across Poland's sociopolitical transitions, 1945–1995
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 227-230; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh036 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miscellaneous:

Jon Heron

Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis for Epidemiology—A Practical Guide. Jos W R Twisk, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 318 £24.95 (PB) ISBN: 0-521-52580-2, £65.00 (HB) ISBN: 0-521-81976-8.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 231; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh038 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh135 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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