International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

George Davey Smith

Equal, but different? Ecological, individual and instrumental approaches to understanding determinants of health
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1179-1180; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi273 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorial:

Yoav Ben-Shlomo

Real epidemiologists don't do ecological studies?
IJE Advance Access published on October 26, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1181-1182; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi242 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections:

Donald B Armstrong

The medical aspects of the Framingham Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1183-1187; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi176 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WB Kannel and D Levy

Commentary: Medical aspects of the Framingham Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1187-1188; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi177 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

George W Comstock

Commentary: The first Framingham Study—a pioneer in community-based participatory research
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1188-1190; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi178 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein

Commentary: Donald Budd Armstrong (1886–1968)—pioneering tuberculosis prevention in general practice
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1191-1193; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi192 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Point-Counterpoint:

José A Tapia Granados

Increasing mortality during the expansions of the US economy, 1900–1996
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1194-1202; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi141 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Martin McKee and Marc Suhrcke

Commentary: Health and economic transition
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1203-1206; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi144 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Christopher J Ruhm

Commentary: Mortality increases during economic upturns
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1206-1211; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi143 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ralph Catalano and Benjamin Bellows

Commentary: If economic expansion threatens public health, should epidemiologists recommend recession?
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1212-1213; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi145 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M Harvey Brenner

Commentary: Economic growth is the basis of mortality rate decline in the 20th century—experience of the United States 1901–2000
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1214-1221; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi146 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eric Neumayer

Commentary: The economic business cycle and mortality
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1221-1222; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi147 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ryan D Edwards

Commentary: Work, well-being, and a new calling for countercyclical policy
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1222-1225; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi142 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

José A Tapia Granados

Response: On economic growth, business fluctuations, and health progress
IJE Advance Access published on October 21, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1226-1233; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi207 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cohort Profiles:

HE Syddall, A Aihie Sayer, EM Dennison, HJ Martin, DJP Barker, and C Cooper and the Hertfordshire Cohort Study Group

Cohort Profile: The Hertfordshire Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on June 17, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1234-1242; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi127 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Zhengming Chen, Liming Lee, Junshi Chen, Rory Collins, Fan Wu, Yu Guo, Pamela Linksted, and Richard Peto

Cohort Profile: The Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China (KSCDC)
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1243-1249; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi174 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cochrane Column:

Taryn Young, SA Lewin, J Dick, P Pond, M Zwarenstein, G Aja, B van Wyk, X Bosch-Capblanch, M Patrick, Gill Walt, Richard H Morrow, Simon Lewin, Merrick Zwarenstein, and Judy Dick for the review authors

Cochrane Column
IJE Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1250-1253; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi198 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion:

Eva Salzman

The Oxford University Press, in hospital
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1254; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi173 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Photoessay:

Azra Zyada

Visualizing sense of community and social fragmentation
IJE Advance Access published on February 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1255-1256; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi030 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Special Theme: Health and Economic Change:

Tanja AJ Houweling, Anton E Kunst, Caspar WN Looman, and Johan P Mackenbach

Determinants of under-5 mortality among the poor and the rich: a cross-national analysis of 43 developing countries
IJE Advance Access published on September 13, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1257-1265; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi190 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Myoung-Hee Kim, Mi-Kyung Kim, Bo Youl Choi, and Young-Jeon Shin

Educational disparities in the metabolic syndrome in a rapidly changing society—the case of South Korea
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1266-1273; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi175 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Siobhan C Maty, Susan A Everson-Rose, Mary N Haan, Trivellore E Raghunathan, and George A Kaplan

Education, income, occupation, and the 34-year incidence (1965–99) of Type 2 diabetes in the Alameda County Study
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1274-1281; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi167 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tiffany L Gary and Frederick L Brancati

Commentary: Socioeconomic position and the risk of type 2 diabetes
IJE Advance Access published on November 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1282-1283; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi264 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sally Macintyre, Geoff Der, and John Norrie

Are there socioeconomic differences in responses to a commonly used self report measure of chronic illness?
IJE Advance Access published on September 26, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1284-1290; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi200 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Young-Ho Khang, John W. Lynch, and George A Kaplan

Impact of economic crisis on cause-specific mortality in South Korea
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1291-1301; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi224 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Genetic Epidemiology:

Wenche Nystad, Espen Røysamb, Per Magnus, Kristian Tambs, and Jennifer R Harris

A comparison of genetic and environmental variance structures for asthma, hay fever and eczema with symptoms of the same diseases: a study of Norwegian twins
IJE Advance Access published on April 14, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1302-1309; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi061 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Chun-Chieh Chen, Shi-Yi Yang, Chun-Jen Liu, Chih-Lin Lin, Yun-Fan Liaw, Shi-Ming Lin, Shou-Dong Lee, Pei-Jer Chen, Chien-Jen Chen, and Ming-Whei Yu

Association of cytokine and DNA repair gene polymorphisms with hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1310-1318; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi191 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cosetta Minelli, John R Thompson, Keith R Abrams, Ammarin Thakkinstian, and John Attia

The choice of a genetic model in the meta-analysis of molecular association studies
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1319-1328; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi169 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Diseases:

Susan T Goldstein, Fangjun Zhou, Stephen C Hadler, Beth P Bell, Eric E Mast, and Harold S Margolis

A mathematical model to estimate global hepatitis B disease burden and vaccination impact
IJE Advance Access published on October 25, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1329-1339; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi206 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Victoria Cairns and Jon Godwin

Post-Lyme borreliosis syndrome: a meta-analysis of reported symptoms
IJE Advance Access published on July 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1340-1345; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi129 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Leonard H Sigal and Afton L Hassett

Commentary: ‘What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ Shakespeare W. Romeo and Juliet, II, ii(47–48)
IJE Advance Access published on September 2, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1345-1347; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi180 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Karen J Goodman, Kathleen O'Rourke, R Sue Day, Constance Wang, Zhannat Nurgalieva, Carl V Phillips, Corinne Aragaki, Armando Campos, and J Manuel de la Rosa

Dynamics of Helicobacter pylori infection in a US–Mexico cohort during the first two years of life
IJE Advance Access published on August 2, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1348-1355; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sharon Perry and Julie Parsonnet

Commentary: H. pylori infection in early life and the problem of imperfect tests
IJE Advance Access published on November 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1356-1358; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi243 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theory and Methods:

Chris Frost and Ian R White

The effect of measurement error in risk factors that change over time in cohort studies: do simple methods overcorrect for ‘regression dilution’?
IJE Advance Access published on July 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1359-1368; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi148 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Richard W Morris and Jonathan R Emberson

Commentary: Over-correction for regression dilution bias? Not for blood pressure vs coronary heart disease
IJE Advance Access published on September 2, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1368-1369; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi186 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Matthew P Fox, Timothy L Lash, and Sander Greenland

A method to automate probabilistic sensitivity analyses of misclassified binary variables
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1370-1376; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi184 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James R Marshall

Commentary: About that measurement problem
IJE Advance Access published on November 18, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1376-1377; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi228 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Other Original Papers:

Lucy J Griffiths, A Rosemary Tate, and Carol Dezateux the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group

The contribution of parental and community ethnicity to breastfeeding practices: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on August 18, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1378-1386; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

George J Miller, Jackie A Cooper, and Gloria LA Beckles

Cardiorespiratory fitness, all-cause mortality, and risk of cardiovascular disease in Trinidadian men—the St James survey
IJE Advance Access published on September 16, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1387-1394; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi193 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Prakash C Gupta, Mangesh S Pednekar, DM Parkin, and R Sankaranarayanan

Tobacco associated mortality in Mumbai (Bombay) India. Results of the Bombay Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on October 25, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1395-1402; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi196 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gary J Macfarlane, Matthew Hotopf, Noreen Maconochie, Nick Blatchley, Alison Richards, and Mark Lunt

Long-term mortality amongst Gulf War Veterans: is there a relationship with experiences during deployment and subsequent morbidity?
IJE Advance Access published on October 26, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1403-1408; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi205 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

DH Jaffe, Z Eisenbach, YD Neumark, and O Manor

Does one's own and one's spouse's education affect overall and cause-specific mortality in the elderly?
IJE Advance Access published on September 6, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1409-1416; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi185 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Luís Antônio Benvegnú, Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa, Luiz Augusto Facchini, David H Wegman, and Marinel Mor Dall'Agnol

Work and behavioural problems in children and adolescents
IJE Advance Access published on September 6, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1417-1424; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi187 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Julia Critchley and Imelda Bates

Haemoglobin colour scale for anaemia diagnosis where there is no laboratory: a systematic review
IJE Advance Access published on September 30, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1425-1434; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi195 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]

Letters to the Editor:

Maria Patrizia Carrieri and Diego Serraino

Longevity of popes and artists between the 13th and the 19th century
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1435-1436; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi211 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eugene D Shapiro, Raymond Dattwyler, Robert B Nadelman, and Gary P Wormser

Response to meta-analysis of Lyme borreliosis symptoms
IJE Advance Access published on November 30, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1437-1439; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi241 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Steven E Phillips, Joseph J Burrascano, Nick S Harris, Lorraine Johnson, Patricia V Smith, and Raphael B Stricker

Chronic infection in ‘post-Lyme borreliosis syndrome’
IJE Advance Access published on November 30, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1439-1440; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi240 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Victoria Cairns

Author's response to comments by Sigal and Hassett, Phillips et al., and Shapiro et al.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1440-1443; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi244 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Charles Shey Wiysonge, Jeanne Ngo-Ndjan Mawo, Johnson Muluh Ticha, Emmanuel Nomo, and Muki Shehu Shey

Migration and measles
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1443-1444; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi197 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Reviews:

Shah Ebrahim

MONICA. Monograph and Multimedia Source Book. The World's Largest Study of Heart Disease, Stroke, Risk Factors and Population Trends (1979–2002). Tunstall-Pedoe H. (ed.) WHO, Geneva, 2003, pp. 244, Swiss Fr 45, ISBN: 92-4-156223-4. (with two CD ROMs provided)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1445; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi189 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Zoe Fewell

Measurement Error and Misclassification in Statistics and Epidemiology: Impacts and Bayesian Adjustments. Paul Gustafson. London: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2004, pp. 188, £48.99(HB), ISBN: 1-58488-335-9.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1445-1446; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi199 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

C T K-H Stadtländer

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. David L. Heymann. Washington DC, USA: American Public Health Association, 18th (edn) 2004, pp. 700, US $33.00. ISBN: 0-87553-034-6.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1446-1447; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi210 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stephen Walters

Assessing Quality of Life in Clinical Trials: 2nd edition Analysis and Interpretation. Peter Fayers and Ron Hays (eds). Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 467, ISBN: 0-19-852769-1.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1447-1448; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi221 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Miscellaneous:

Bulletin Board:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1449; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi269 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviewers:

Reviewers
Int. J. Epidemiol. 34: 1450-1452; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi208 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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