International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

Shah Ebrahim

Salt and smoking: a role for interventional epidemiology?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 959-960; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi194 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorial:

Shah Ebrahim and Liam Smeeth

Non-communicable diseases in low and middle-income countries: a priority or a distraction?
IJE Advance Access published on September 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 961-966; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi188 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

LK Dahl

Possible role of salt intake in the development of essential hypertension
IJE Advance Access published on September 5, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 967-972; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh317 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Niels Graudal

Commentary: Possible role of salt intake in the development of essential hypertension
IJE Advance Access published on February 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 972-974; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi016 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Paul Elliott

Commentary: Role of salt intake in the development of high blood pressure
IJE Advance Access published on September 5, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 975-978; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi179 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cohort Profiles:

The Antiretroviral Therapy in Lower Income Countries (ART-LINC) Study Group

Cohort Profile: Antiretroviral Therapy in Lower Income Countries (ART-LINC): international collaboration of treatment cohorts
IJE Advance Access published on September 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 979-986; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi164 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Christina Lee, Annette J Dobson, Wendy J Brown, Lois Bryson, Julie Byles, Penny Warner-Smith, and Anne F Young

Cohort Profile: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
IJE Advance Access published on May 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 987-991; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi098 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

JM Najman, W Bor, M O'Callaghan, GM Williams, R Aird, and G Shuttlewood

Cohort Profile: The Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP)
IJE Advance Access published on June 10, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 992-997; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi119 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Photoessay:

Mark Read and Mary Shaw

I Have a Story to Tell: Celebrating 10 Years of CAMFED International
IJE Advance Access published on March 11, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 998-1000; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi040 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cochrane Column:

Taryn Young, L Stead, T Lancaster, John R Hughes, and Karl Fagerstrom

Cochrane Column
IJE Advance Access published on August 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1001-1003; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi171 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion:

David Wheatley

A Pint of Milk
IJE Advance Access published on July 18, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1004; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi137 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Respiratory Diseases and Smoking:

MG Farah, HE Meyer, R Selmer, E Heldal, and G Bjune

Long-term risk of tuberculosis among immigrants in Norway
IJE Advance Access published on March 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1005-1011; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ueli Bollag, Gorana Capkun, Julius Caesar, and Nicola Low

Trends in primary care consultations for asthma in Switzerland, 1989–2002
IJE Advance Access published on May 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1012-1018; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Neil Pearce and Jeroen Douwes

Commentary: Asthma time trends—mission accomplished?
IJE Advance Access published on June 3, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1018-1019; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi115 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Darren Hunt, Tony Blakely, Alistair Woodward, and Nick Wilson

The smoking–mortality association varies over time and by ethnicity in New Zealand
IJE Advance Access published on July 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1020-1028; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi139 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Martin Röösli, Nino Künzli, Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer, and Matthias Egger

Years of life lost attributable to air pollution in Switzerland: dynamic exposure–response model
IJE Advance Access published on May 23, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1029-1035; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

Smoking, quitting, and the risk of cardiovascular disease among women and men in the Asia-Pacific region
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1036-1045; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

KS Woo, Thomas WC Yip, SK Kwong, Ping Chook, and Leo CC Kum

Commentary: Smoking and atherosclerotic diseases in Asia—the implication in global atherosclerosis prevention
IJE Advance Access published on September 14, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1045-1046; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi165 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Naomi Breslau, Nigel Paneth, Victoria C Lucia, and Rachel Paneth-Pollak

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring IQ
IJE Advance Access published on August 5, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1047-1053; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi163 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tony Blakely and Nick Wilson

The contribution of smoking to inequalities in mortality by education varies over time and by sex: two national cohort studies, 1981–84 and 1996–99
IJE Advance Access published on August 18, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1054-1062; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi172 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Methodology:

Paul R Burton, Katrina J Scurrah, Martin D Tobin, and Lyle J Palmer

Covariance components models for longitudinal family data
IJE Advance Access published on April 14, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1063-1077; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

W James Gauderman and David V Conti

Commentary: Models for longitudinal family data
IJE Advance Access published on August 5, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1077-1079; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi156 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen Begg, Chalapati Rao, and Alan D Lopez

Design options for sample-based mortality surveillance
IJE Advance Access published on May 23, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1080-1087; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Maria A Quigley

Commentary: Verbal autopsies—from small-scale studies to mortality surveillance systems
IJE Advance Access published on July 4, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1087-1088; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi135 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

John B Carlin, Lyle C Gurrin, Jonathan AC Sterne, Ruth Morley, and Terry Dwyer

Regression models for twin studies: a critical review
IJE Advance Access published on August 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1089-1099; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cancer:

Xiaomei Ma, Monique B Does, Catherine Metayer, Carolyn Russo, Alan Wong, and Patricia A Buffler

Vaccination history and risk of childhood leukaemia
IJE Advance Access published on June 10, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1100-1109; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Elizabeth E Brown, Denise Whitby, Francesco Vitale, Paola Cordiali Fei, Carla Del Carpio, Vickie Marshall, Anthony J Alberg, Diego Serraino, Angelo Messina, Lorenzo Gafa, and James J Goedert The Classical Kaposi Sarcoma Working Group

Correlates of Human Herpesvirus-8 DNA detection among adults in Italy without Kaposi sarcoma
IJE Advance Access published on July 25, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1110-1117; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi131 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Yolanda Benavente, Natividad Garcia, Eva Domingo-Domenech, Tomás Alvaro, Rebeca Font, Yawei Zhang, and Silvia de Sanjose

Regular use of hair dyes and risk of lymphoma in Spain
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1118-1122; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi109 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Genetics:

Olga Vaccaro, Vincenzo Cuomo, Maurizio Trevisan, Massimo Cirillo, Walter Panarelli, Martino Laurenzi, Mario Mancini, and Gabriele Riccardi On behalf of the Gubbio Study Research Group

Enhanced Na–Li countertransport: a marker of inherited susceptibility to type 2 diabetes
IJE Advance Access published on August 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1123-1128; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi160 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Quanhe Yang, Muin J Khoury, JM Friedman, Julian Little, and W Dana Flanders

How many genes underlie the occurrence of common complex diseases in the population?
IJE Advance Access published on July 25, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1129-1137; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi130 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Other Original Papers:

Nalini Ranjit, Elizabeth A Young, and George A Kaplan

Material hardship alters the diurnal rhythm of salivary cortisol
IJE Advance Access published on June 10, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1138-1143; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Susan U Raymond, Henry M Greenberg, and Stephen R Leeder

Beyond reproduction: Women's health in today's developing world
IJE Advance Access published on June 10, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1144-1148; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

F Janssen AE Kunst for The Netherlands Epidemiology and Demography Compression of Morbidity research group

Cohort patterns in mortality trends among the elderly in seven European countries, 1950–99
IJE Advance Access published on June 17, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1149-1159; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi123 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter C Elwood

Time to value milk
IJE Advance Access published on July 18, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1160-1162; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi136 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters to the Editor:

Peter Razzell and Christine Spence

Social capital and the history of mortality in Britain
IJE Advance Access published on August 17, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1163-1164; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi132 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Simon Szreter

Author's Response
IJE Advance Access published on August 17, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1164-1165; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi133 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Warren G Guntheroth and Philip S Spiers

Infant sleeping position and sudden infant death syndrome: a systematic review
IJE Advance Access published on August 5, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1165-1166; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi154 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ruth Gilbert and Georgia Salanti

Infant sleeping position and sudden infant death syndrome: a systematic review: Authors' response to letter from Guntheroth and Spiers
IJE Advance Access published on August 5, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1166; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi155 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Robert N Curnow

Genetic biases in using ‘Mendelian randomization’ to compare transplantation with chemotherapy
IJE Advance Access published on August 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1167-1168; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi161 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lutz Edler and Annette Kopp-Schneider

Origins of the mutational origin of cancer
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1168-1170; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi134 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

AK Hurtig and M San Sebastián

Epidemiology vs epidemiology: the case of oil exploitation in the Amazon basin of Ecuador
IJE Advance Access published on August 2, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1170-1172; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi151 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Karen Trollope-Kumar

Limitations of the syndromic approach in South Asia
IJE Advance Access published on August 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1173; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi158 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Miscellaneous:

Book Reviews:

George TH Ellison

The Changing Face of Disease: Implications for Society. Nick Mascie-Taylor, Jean Peters, Stephen McGarvey (eds). Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2004, $89.95, ISBN 0-4153-2280-4.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1174-1175; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi159 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Health. Mildred Blaxter (ed.). Polity Press: Cambridge, 2004, £14.99. ISBN 0-7456-3083-9.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1174; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi166 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

K VEDHARA

The Sage Handbook Of Health Psychology. Stephen Sutton, Andrew Baum, Marie Johnston (eds). London: Sage Publications, pp. 448, £85.00. ISBN 0-7619-6849-0.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1175-1176; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi168 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Philip Brachman

Preparedness Against Bioterrorism and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases. Kocik, Janiak, Negut (eds). IOS Press, 2004.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1176-1177; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi182 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Bulletin Board:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1178; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi203 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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