International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

George Davey Smith

Epidemiological Freudianism
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1-2; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi010 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorial:

Karin B Michels

A maternalistic approach to prevention
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 3-4; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh391 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

René Dubos, Dwayne Savage, and Russell Schaedler

Lasting effects of early environmental influences
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 5-12; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh309 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gerald W Tannock

Commentary: Remembrance of microbes past
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 13-15; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh380 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Robert A Waterland

Commentary: The global relevance of ‘biological Freudianism’
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 15-17; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh360 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Vivienne Moore

Commentary: Biological Freudianism and the quest for understanding of the social origins of health
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 18-20; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh350 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cohort profiles:

Alun Evans, Veikko Salomaa, Sangita Kulathinal, Kjell Asplund, François Cambien, Marco Ferrario, Markus Perola, Leena Peltonen, Denis Shields, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, and Kari Kuulasmaa for the MORGAM Project

MORGAM (an international pooling of cardiovascular cohorts)
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 21-27; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh327 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Carole L Hart, Pauline L MacKinnon, Graham CM Watt, Mark N Upton, Alex McConnachie, David J Hole, George Davey Smith, Charles R Gillis, and Victor M Hawthorne

The Midspan studies
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 28-34; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh348 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion:

Richard Hugo

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 35; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh310 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Photoessay:

Wendy Hulko

From doctor to ‘silly patient’: seeing beyond the disease label
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 36-39; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh146 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Nutritional Epidemiology:

Jean Adams and Martin White

When the population approach to prevention puts the health of individuals at risk
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 40-43; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh232 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

B Rockhill

Commentary: The message is rarely simple: the J-curve and beyond
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 44-45; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh273 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Marc Chadeau-Hyam and Annick Alpérovitch

Risk of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in France
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 46-52; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh374 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

RG Will

Commentary: The risk of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease: reassurance and uncertainty
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 52-53; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh393 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Volker Mai, Ashima K Kant, Andrew Flood, James V Lacey, Jr, Catherine Schairer, and Arthur Schatzkin

Diet quality and subsequent cancer incidence and mortality in a prospective cohort of women
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 54-60; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh388 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eduardo Villamor, Lara Misegades, Maulidi R Fataki, Roger L Mbise, and Wafaie W Fawzi

Child mortality in relation to HIV infection, nutritional status, and socio-economic background
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 61-68; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh378 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sunmin Lee, Eunyoung Cho, Francine Grodstein, Ichiro Kawachi, Frank B Hu, and Graham A Colditz

Effects of marital transitions on changes in dietary and other health behaviours in US women
IJE Advance Access published on July 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 69-78; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh258 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Jayne F Tierney and Lesley A Stewart

Investigating patient exclusion bias in meta-analysis
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 79-87; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh300 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter Jüni and Matthias Egger

Commentary: Empirical evidence of attrition bias in clinical trials
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 87-88; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh406 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Angela M Wood, Ian R White, Melvyn Hillsdon, and James Carpenter

Comparison of imputation and modelling methods in the analysis of a physical activity trial with missing outcomes
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 89-99; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh297 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Injuries:

Yoshiharu Fukuda, Keiko Nakamura, and Takehito Takano

Cause-specific mortality differences across socioeconomic position of municipalities in Japan, 1973–1977 and 1993–1998: increased importance of injury and suicide in inequality for ages under 75
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 100-109; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh283 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Anton E Kunst

Commentary: Using geographical data to monitor socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: experiences from Japanese studies
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 110-112; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi013 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen W Marshall, Dana P Loomis, Anna E Waller, David J Chalmers, Yvonne N Bird, Kenneth L Quarrie, and Michael Feehan

Evaluation of protective equipment for prevention of injuries in rugby union
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 113-118; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh346 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Barry Pless

Commentary: Mad New Zealanders, tape, and grease: assessing protective equipment for rugby union players
IJE Advance Access published on January 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 119-120; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh379 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Diseases:

Charlotte Lewden, Dominique Salmon, Philippe Morlat, Sibylle Bévilacqua, Eric Jougla, Fabrice Bonnet, Laurence Héripret, Dominique Costagliola, Thierry May, and Geneviève Chêne the Mortality 2000 study group

Causes of death among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy: emerging role of hepatitis and cancers, persistent role of AIDS
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 121-130; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh307 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Marcel Zwahlen and Jens D Lundgren

Commentary: Death in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy: shifting causes, new challenges
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 130-131; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh402 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gang Chen, Wenyao Lin, Fumin Shen, Uchenna H Iloeje, W Thomas London, and Alison A Evans

Chronic hepatitis B virus infection and mortality from non-liver causes: results from the Haimen City cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 132-137; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh339 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Deborah Lehmann, John Vail, Martin J Firth, Nicholas H de Klerk, and Michael P Alpers

Benefits of routine immunizations on childhood survival in Tari, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 138-148; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh262 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter Aaby and Henrik Jensen

Commentary: Contrary findings from Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 149-151; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi011 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Evan Wood, Kathy Li, Cari L Miller, Robert S Hogg, Julio S G Montaner, Martin T Schechter, and Thomas Kerr

Baseline self-perceived risk of HIV infection independently predicts the rate of HIV seroconversion in a prospective cohort of injection drug users
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 152-158; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh357 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Steffanie A Strathdee

Commentary: Targeting HIV interventions to the most at risk—hindsight is 20/20
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 158-159; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh395 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Laurence S Magder, Alan D Fix, Nabiel NH Mikhail, Mostafa K Mohamed, Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, Fatma Abdel-Aziz, Ahmed Medhat, and G Thomas Strickland

Estimation of the risk of transmission of hepatitis C between spouses in Egypt based on seroprevalence data
IJE Advance Access published on January 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 160-165; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh370 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bobby P Smyth, Joe Barry, and Eamon Keenan

Irish injecting drug users and hepatitis C: the importance of the social context of injecting
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 166-172; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh347 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cardiovascular Disease:

Akira Sekikawa, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Wahid Riad Zaky, Takashi Kadowaki, Daniel Edmundowicz, Tomonori Okamura, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Katsuya Egawa, Hideyuki Kanda, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Yoshiyuki Kita, Hiroshi Maegawa, Kenichi Mitsunami, Kiyoshi Murata, Yoshihiko Nishio, Shinji Tamaki, Yoshiki Ueno, and Lewis H Kuller

Much lower prevalence of coronary calcium detected by electron-beam computed tomography among men aged 40–49 in Japan than in the US, despite a less favorable profile of major risk factors
IJE Advance Access published on November 24, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 173-179; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Elizabeth F Hall

Commentary: Use of EBCT in epidemiological studies: the effect of noise and body size on coronary calcium scores
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 179-180; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh397 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Hanna Tolonen, Ulrich Keil, Marco Ferrario, and Alun Evans for the WHO MONICA Project

Prevalence, awareness and treatment of hypercholesterolaemia in 32 populations: results from the WHO MONICA Project
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 181-192; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Other Original Papers:

Leticia Fernández, Yaima Galán, Rosa Jiménez, Ángela Gutiérrez, Marta Guerra, Celia Pereda, Celia Alonso, Elio Riboli, Antonio Agudo, and Carlos González

Sexual behaviour, history of sexually transmitted diseases, and the risk of prostate cancer: a case–control study in Cuba
IJE Advance Access published on September 16, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 193-197; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Pelayo Correa

Commentary: Is prostate cancer an infectious disease?
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 197-198; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh403 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard Doll, Richard Peto, Jillian Boreham, and Isabelle Sutherland

Mortality in relation to alcohol consumption: a prospective study among male British doctors
IJE Advance Access published on January 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 199-204; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh369 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Goya Wannamethee

Commentary: Alcohol and mortality: diminishing returns for benefits of alcohol
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 205-206; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi003 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard Taylor, Dale Bampton, and Alan D Lopez

Contemporary patterns of Pacific Island mortality
IJE Advance Access published on October 1, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 207-214; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh337 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education:

Adrian G Barnett, Jolieke C van der Pols, and Annette J Dobson

Regression to the mean: what it is and how to deal with it
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2004
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 215-220; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh299 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters to the Editor:

FE McKenzie

Polyparasitism
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 221-222; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh399 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Giovanna Raso, Elaine Holmes, Burton H Singer, Eliézer K N'goran, and Jürg Utzinger

Authors' response
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 222-223; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh400 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Giuseppe GL Biondi-Zoccai, Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Antonio Abbate, Luca Testa, and Francesco Burzotta

A simple hint to improve Robinson and Dickersin's highly sensitive PubMed search strategy for controlled clinical trials
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 224-225; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh311 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Karen A Robinson

Authors' response
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 225; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh313 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Miscellaneous:

Book Reviews:

John M Eyler

Vinten-Johansen P, Brody H, Paneth N, Rachman S, and Rip M. Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 pp. 437 + xvi, £30.00 (HB). ISBN: 019513544X
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 226; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh376 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Chitr Sitthi-Amorn

The World Health Report 2003: Rebuilding Health Care System and Health for All. WHO, Switzerland, 2003, pp. 185. ISBN: 92-4-156243-9
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 226-228; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh382 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Constanca Paul

The Burden of Musculoskeletal Conditions at the Start of the New Millennium. Report of a WHO Scientific Group. Geneva: WHO Technical Report Series, 919, 2003, pp. 218. ISBN: 92-4-120919-4
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 228-229; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh383 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Howard S Berliner

To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913–1951) John Farley. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 336, $49.95. (PB). ISBN: 0195166310
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 229-230; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh384 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

H P Lambert

The Conquest of Smallpox: The Impact of Inoculation on Smallpox Mortality in Eighteenth Century Britain. Peter Razzel. London: Caliban Books, 2nd (edn) 2003, pp. 288, £40.00. ISBN: 1-85066-045-X
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 230-231; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh385 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Helena Tunstall

Neighbourhoods and Health. Kawachi I and Berkman LF (eds). New York: Oxford University Press Inc, USA, 2003, pp. 320, £39.50. ISBN 0195138384
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 231-232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh387 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Debbie A Lawlor

Coronary Disease in Women: Evidence Based Diagnosis and Treatment. Leslee J Shaw, and Rita F Redberg (eds). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2004, pp. 431, $125.00, (HB) ISBN: 1-59259-645-2
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh407 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mark Salter

The New Global Threat. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Its Impacts. Tommy Koh, Aileen Plant, Eng Hin Lee. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004, pp. 356, $17.00 (PB) ISBN: 9812386688
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 232-233; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi002 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Books Received:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 234; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh408 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 235; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi042 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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