International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

Shah Ebrahim

Cohorts, infants and children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1165-1166; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh368 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials:

David A Leon

Biological theories, evidence, and epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on November 26, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1167-1171; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh389 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Manolis Kogevinas, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, and Jorn Olsen

Collaboration is needed to co-ordinate European birth cohort studies
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1172-1173; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh318 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

P Armitage and R Doll

The age distribution of cancer and a multi-stage theory of carcinogenosis
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1174-1179; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh216 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Steven A Frank

Commentary: Mathematical models of cancer progression and epidemiology in the age of high throughput genomics
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1179-1181; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh222 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Suresh H Moolgavkar

Commentary: Fifty years of the multistage model: remarks on a landmark paper
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1182-1183; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh288 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard Doll

Commentary: The age distribution of cancer and a multistage theory of carcinogenesis
IJE Advance Access published on November 2, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1183-1184; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh359 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cohort Profile:

Mary Walker, PH Whincup, and AG Shaper

The British Regional Heart Study 1975–2004
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1185-1192; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh295 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion:

Michael Hofmann

My Father at Fifty
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1193; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh286 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology:

Shingairai A Feresu, Siobán D Harlow, and Godfrey B Woelk

Risk factors for prematurity at Harare Maternity Hospital, Zimbabwe
IJE Advance Access published on November 2, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1194-1201; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sybil Pinchinat, Catherine Enel, Gilles Pison, Géraldine Duthé, Emmanuel Lagarde, François Simondon, and Kirsten B Simondon

No improvement in weight-for-age of young children in southern Senegal, 1969–1992, despite a drastic reduction in mortality. Evidence from a growth monitoring programme
IJE Advance Access published on April 22, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1202-1208; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh174 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Beth A Mueller, Susan Searles Nielsen, Susan Preston-Martin, Elizabeth A Holly, Sylvaine Cordier, Graziella Filippini, Raphael Peris-Bonet, and NW Choi

Household water source and the risk of childhood brain tumours: results of the SEARCH International Brain Tumor Study
IJE Advance Access published on November 26, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1209-1216; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh215 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David Forman

Commentary: Nitrites, nitrates and nitrosation as causes of brain cancer in children: epidemiological challenges
IJE Advance Access published on November 26, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1216-1218; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh390 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mary Schooling, Gabriel M Leung, Edward D Janus, Sai Yin Ho, Anthony J Hedley, and Tai Hing Lam

Childhood migration and cardiovascular risk
IJE Advance Access published on November 26, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1219-1226; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh221 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sanjay Kinra

Commentary: Can conventional migration studies really identify critical age-period effects?
IJE Advance Access published on November 26, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1226-1227; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh340 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter Razzell, Christine Spence, and Karen Vines

Poverty, birthweight, and infant weight gain in Hertfordshire, 1923–1939
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1228-1233; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh226 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter C Hindmarsh

Commentary: Catch-up growth in humans—a comment on poverty, birthweight, and infant weight gain in Hertfordshire
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1234-1235; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh271 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Irvin Emanuel, Christy Kimpo, and Victoria Moceri

The association of maternal growth and socio-economic measures with infant birthweight in four ethnic groups
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1236-1242; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh269 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]

Irvin Emanuel, Christy Kimpo, and Victoria Moceri

The association of grandmaternal and maternal factors with maternal adult stature
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1243-1248; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh268 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]

Susan MB Morton

Commentary: The child is the mother of the woman: Intergenerational associations in maternal anthropometry
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1249-1251; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh355 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Zhong-Cheng Luo, William J Kierans, Russell Wilkins, Robert M Liston, Soo-Hong Uh, and Michael S Kramer for the British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency

Infant mortality among First Nations versus non-First Nations in British Columbia: temporal trends in rural versus urban areas, 1981–2000
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1252-1259; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh290 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mercedes de Onis, Monika Blössner, Elaine Borghi, Richard Morris, and Edward A Frongillo

Methodology for estimating regional and global trends of child malnutrition
IJE Advance Access published on November 12, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1260-1270; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh202 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James R Hargreaves, Mark A Collinson, Kathleen Kahn, Samuel J Clark, and Stephen M Tollman

Childhood mortality among former Mozambican refugees and their hosts in rural South Africa
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1271-1278; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh257 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Harding, MG Rosato, and JK Cruickshank

Lack of change in birthweights of infants by generational status among Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean, and Black African mothers in a British cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on May 20, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1279-1285; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh186 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jean-François Etard, Jean-Yves Le Hesran, Aldiouma Diallo, Jean-Pierre Diallo, Jean-Louis Ndiaye, and Valérie Delaunay

Childhood mortality and probable causes of death using verbal autopsy in Niakhar, Senegal, 1989–2000
IJE Advance Access published on November 29, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1286-1292; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh259 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

EL Korenromp, F Arnold, BG Williams, BL Nahlen, and RW Snow

Monitoring trends in under-5 mortality rates through national birth history surveys
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1293-1301; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh182 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Saul S Morris

Commentary: Monitoring trends in under-5 mortality: better believe it's true
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1302-1303; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh289 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ruth Morley, John B Carlin, and Terence Dwyer

Maternal calcium supplementation and cardiovascular risk factors in twin offspring
IJE Advance Access published on November 29, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1304-1309; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh284 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eduardo Bergel and José M Belizán

Commentary: Maternal calcium intake and offspring cardiovascular risk factors
IJE Advance Access published on November 29, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1309-1310; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh362 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ulrika Uddenfeldt Wort, Ian M Hastings, Anders Carlstedt, TK Mutabingwa, and Bernard J Brabin

Impact of El Niño and malaria on birthweight in two areas of Tanzania with different malaria transmission patterns
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1311-1319; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh256 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Leah Li and Chris Power

Influences on childhood height: comparing two generations in the 1958 British birth cohort
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1320-1328; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh325 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Diseases:

Mirjam I Bakker, Mochammad Hatta, Agnes Kwenang, William R Faber, Stella M van Beers, Paul R Klatser, and Linda Oskam

Population survey to determine risk factors for Mycobacterium leprae transmission and infection
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1329-1336; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh266 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

F Mauny, JF Viel, P Handschumacher, and B Sellin

Multilevel modelling and malaria: a new method for an old disease
IJE Advance Access published on July 8, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1337-1344; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh274 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Other Original Papers:

Theodora Psaltopoulou, Philippos Orfanos, Androniki Naska, Dimitrios Lenas, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, and Antonia Trichopoulou

Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in a general population sample of 26 913 adults in the Greek EPIC study
IJE Advance Access published on June 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1345-1352; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh249 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Masuma Khatun, Christina Ahlgren, and Anne Hammarström

The influence of factors identified in adolescence and early adulthood on social class inequities of musculoskeletal disorders at age 30: a prospective population-based cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1353-1360; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh237 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Marcel Zwahlen and Peter Jüni

Commentary: Difficulties in disentangling causes of social class inequities in musculoskeletal health
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1360-1361; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh349 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Claudio F Lanata, Igor Rudan, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Lana Tomaskovic, Thomas Cherian, Martin Weber, and Harry Campbell

Methodological and quality issues in epidemiological studies of acute lower respiratory infections in children in developing countries
IJE Advance Access published on May 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1362-1372; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh229 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NE Day, MY Wong, S Bingham, KT Khaw, R Luben, KB Michels, A Welch, and NJ Wareham

Correlated measurement error—implications for nutritional epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1373-1381; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh138 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rupert W Jakes, Nicholas E Day, Robert Luben, Ailsa Welch, Sheila Bingham, Jo Mitchell, Susie Hennings, Kirsten Rennie, and Nicholas J Wareham

Adjusting for energy intake—what measure to use in nutritional epidemiological studies?
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1382-1386; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh181 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Donna Spiegelman

Commentary: Correlated errors and energy adjustment—where are the data?
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1387-1388; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh315 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and Debate:

Sander Greenland

Interval estimation by simulation as an alternative to and extension of confidence intervals
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1389-1397; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh276 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David Gunnell, Lee Berney, Paula Holland, Maria Maynard, David Blane, George Davey Smith, and Stephen Frankel

Does the misreporting of adult body size depend upon an individual's height and weight? Methodological debate
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1398-1399; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh301 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mark S Gilthorpe and Yu-Kang Tu

Mathematical coupling: a multilevel approach
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1399-1400; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh302 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ian R White

Assessing correlation between reporting errors and true values: untestable assumptions are unavoidable
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1400-1401; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh303 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jon Rasbash and Harvey Goldstein

Mathematical coupling: a simpler approach
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1401-1402; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh304 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mark S Gilthorpe, Yu-Kang Tu, and David Gunnell

A coda: oversimplification, implicit assumptions, and measurement error
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1402-1403; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh305 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters to the Editor:

Peter C Gøtzsche

Misleading quotations and other errors persist in rejoinder on breast cancer screening
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1404; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh353 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cornelia J Baines

In search of the best available version of the truth
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1404-1405; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh238 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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

Authors' response
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1405-1406; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh242 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tsung-Hsueh Lu

Earthquake and suicide: bringing context back into disaster epidemiological studies
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1406-1409; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh234 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Yiing-Jenq Chou and Nicole Huang

Response
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1409-1410; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh236 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Oliver Razum and Hajo Zeeb

Inequity, acculturation and the ‘Mediterranean paradox’
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1411-1412; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh244 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Myriam Khlat

Author's response
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1412; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh246 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tou Choi and Stephen R Cole

A family of ordered logistic regression models fit by data expansion
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1413; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh240 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Miscellaneous:

Book Reviews:

Isobel Bray

Interpreting Epidemiologic Evidence: Strategies for Study Design and Analysis. David A Savitz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 336, £34.50 (HB). ISBN: 0-19-510840-X.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1414; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh158 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Joy Adamson

Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioural Research. Tashakkori A, Teddlie C (eds). Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2003, pp.768, £77.00 ISBN: 0-7619-2073-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1414-1415; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh243 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael Bloor

The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology. Bloom SW. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 348, £16.99 (PB) ISBN: 0-19-514929-7
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1415-1416; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh334 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kate Wood

The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa. Nattrass N. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 224, £19.95 (PB). ISBN: 0521548640.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1416-1417; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh344 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Elisabeth Meloni Vieira

Primary Mother Care and Population. Mola G, Thornton J, Breen M, Bullough C, Guillebaud J, Addo F (eds). Published privately by Maurice King, 2003, pp. 416, £7.50. ISBN: 0-9544212-0-5.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1417-1418; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh345 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Selena Gray

Accessing Health Care. Responding to Diversity. Healy J, Mckee M (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. 256, AUS$ 140.00 (HB). ISBN: 0198516185.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1418; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh356 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Simon Bond and BO FU

Essential Medical Statistics (2nd edn). Kirkwood BR, Sternc JAC. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 288, $52.95 (PB). ISBN 0865428719.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1418-1419; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh364 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Books Received:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1420; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh343 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1421; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh415 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviewers:

REVIEWERS: September 2003–August 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 33: 1422-1423; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh351 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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