International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice:

Shah Ebrahim

Obesity, fat, and public health
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 1-2; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi311 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial:

Debbie A Lawlor and Nish Chaturvedi

Treatment and prevention of obesity—are there critical periods for intervention?
IJE Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 3-9; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi309 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections:

Lester Breslow

Public health aspects of weight control
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 10-12; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi249 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lester Breslow

Commentary: On ‘public health aspects of weight control’
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 12-14; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi250 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca K Simmons and Nicholas J Wareham

Commentary: Obesity is not a newly recognized public health problem—a commentary of Breslow's 1952 paper on ‘public health aspects of weight control’
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 14-16; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi251 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Bain

Commentary: What's past is prologue
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 16-17; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi267 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ricardo Uauy and Karen Lock

Commentary: The importance of addressing the rise of overweight and obesity—progress or lack of action during the last fifty years?
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 18-20; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi266 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Benjamin Caballero and Youfa Wang

Commentary: Obesity and mortality—light at the end but still a long tunnel
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 21-22; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi252 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S Jay Olshansky

Commentary: Prescient visions of public health from Cornaro to Breslow
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 22-23; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi283 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Photoessay:

Felicia Webb, Andrew Prentice, and Felicia Webb

Obesity amidst poverty
IJE Advance Access published on October 27, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 24-30; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi204 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cochrane Column:

Taryn Young, L Stead, T Lancaster, Derek Yach, and Yussuf Saloojee

Cochrane Column
IJE Advance Access published on January 4, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 31-33; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi280 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles:

Chris Power and Jane Elliott

Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study)
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 34-41; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi183 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hazel M Inskip, Keith M Godfrey, Siân M Robinson, Catherine M Law, David JP Barker, and Cyrus Cooper and the SWS Study Group

Cohort profile: The Southampton Women's Survey
IJE Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 42-48; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi202 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Wadsworth, Diana Kuh, Marcus Richards, and Rebecca Hardy

Cohort Profile: The 1946 National Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development)
IJE Advance Access published on October 4, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 49-54; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi201 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Point-Counterpoint:

Paul Campos, Abigail Saguy, Paul Ernsberger, Eric Oliver, and Glenn Gaesser

The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral panic?
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 55-60; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi254 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Soowon Kim and Barry M Popkin

Commentary: Understanding the epidemiology of overweight and obesity—a real global public health concern
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 60-67; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi255 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susie Orbach

Commentary: There is a public health crisis—its not fat on the body but fat in the mind and the fat of profits
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 67-69; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi256 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven N Blair and Michael J LaMonte

Commentary: Current perspectives on obesity and health: black and white, or shades of grey?
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 69-72; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine M Flegal

Commentary: The epidemic of obesity—what's in a name?
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 72-74; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi260 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim Lobstein

Commentary: Obesity—public health crisis, moral panic or a human rights issue?
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 74-76; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi257 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

June Stevens, Jill E McClain, and Kimberly P Truesdale

Commentary: Obesity claims and controversies
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 77-78; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi258 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neville Rigby

Commentary: Counterpoint to Campos et al.
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 79-80; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi261 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Campos, Abigail Saguy, Paul Ernsberger, Eric Oliver, and Glenn Gaesser

Response: lifestyle not weight should be the primary target
IJE Advance Access published on December 23, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 81-82; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi299 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

MB Snijder, RM van Dam, M Visser, and JC Seidell

What aspects of body fat are particularly hazardous and how do we measure them?
IJE Advance Access published on December 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 83-92; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi253 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew M Prentice

The emerging epidemic of obesity in developing countries
IJE Advance Access published on December 2, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 93-99; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi272 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Cummins and Sally Macintyre

Food environments and obesity—neighbourhood or nation?
IJE Advance Access published on December 7, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 100-104; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi276 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Papers:

Leopold Fezeu, Etienne Minkoulou, Beverley Balkau, André-Pascal Kengne, Paschal Awah, Nigel Unwin, George KMM Alberti, and Jean-Claude Mbanya

Association between socioeconomic status and adiposity in urban Cameroon
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 105-111; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi214 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yun Mi Song

Commentary: Varying relation of socioeconomic status with obesity between countries at different stages of development
IJE Advance Access published on November 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 112-113; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi227 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KD Monyeki, HCG Kemper, and PJ Makgae

The association of fat patterning with blood pressure in rural South African children: the Ellisras Longitudinal Growth and Health Study
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 114-120; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi219 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aimin Chen, Michael L Pennell, Mark A Klebanoff, Walter J Rogan, and Matthew P Longnecker

Maternal smoking during pregnancy in relation to child overweight: follow-up to age 8 years
IJE Advance Access published on October 31, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 121-130; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi218 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kylie Ball and Gita D Mishra

Whose socioeconomic status influences a woman's obesity risk: her mother's, her father's, or her own?
IJE Advance Access published on November 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 131-138; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi216 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Blane

Commentary: The place in life course research of validated measures of socioeconomic position
IJE Advance Access published on November 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 139-140; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi217 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zhengming Chen, Gonghuan Yang, Maigeng Zhou, Margaret Smith, Alison Offer, Jieming Ma, Lijun Wang, Hongchao Pan, Gary Whitlock, Rory Collins, Shiru Niu, and Richard Peto

Body mass index and mortality from ischaemic heart disease in a lean population: 10 year prospective study of 220 000 adult men
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 141-150; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi215 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Trentham-Dietz, HB Nichols, JM Hampton, and PA Newcomb

Weight change and risk of endometrial cancer
IJE Advance Access published on November 8, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 151-158; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi226 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wang Hong Xu, Yong Bing Xiang, Wei Zheng, Xianglan Zhang, Zhi Xian Ruan, Jia Rong Cheng, Yu-Tang Gao, and Xiao-Ou Shu

Weight history and risk of endometrial cancer among Chinese women
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 159-166; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi223 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Penelope M Webb

Commentary: Weight gain, weight loss, and endometrial cancer
IJE Advance Access published on January 4, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 166-168; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi301 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Breeze, Robert Clarke, Martin J Shipley, Michael G Marmot, and Astrid E Fletcher

Cause-specific mortality in old age in relation to body mass index in middle age and in old age: follow-up of the Whitehall cohort of male civil servants
IJE Advance Access published on November 12, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 169-178; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi212 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh

Commentary: BMI and mortality in the elderly—a life course perspective
IJE Advance Access published on January 4, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 179-180; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi302 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hye Soon Park, Yun-Mi Song, and Sung-Il Cho

Obesity has a greater impact on cardiovascular mortality in younger men than in older men among non-smoking Koreans
IJE Advance Access published on November 3, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 181-187; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi213 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alan J. Flint and Eric B. Rimm

Commentary: Obesity and cardiovascular disease risk among the young and old—is BMI the wrong benchmark?
IJE Advance Access published on January 4, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 187-189; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi298 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TA Hillier, A Fagot-Campagna, E Eschwège, S Vol, M Cailleau, and B Balkau and the D.E.S.I.R. Study group

Weight change and changes in the metabolic syndrome as the French population moves towards overweight: The D.E.S.I.R. Cohort
IJE Advance Access published on December 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 190-196; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi281 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tessa J Parsons, Orly Manor, and Chris Power

Physical activity and change in body mass index from adolescence to mid-adulthood in the 1958 British cohort
IJE Advance Access published on December 22, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 197-204; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi291 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Photoreview:

Mary Shaw

The Fat Baby: Stories by Eugene Richards
IJE Advance Access published on July 4, 2005
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 205-206; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi138 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

RICHARD KLEIN

Essay Review of: The Obesity Epidemic: Science and Ideology. Michael Gard and Jan Wright (eds). Routledge, pp. 218, £22.99, 2005, ISBN: 0415318963.
IJE Advance Access published on January 5, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 207-208; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi262 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

WALTER HOLLAND

A Life in Public Health. An insider's retrospective. Lester Breslow, NY: Springer Publishing Co., 2004, pp. 248, $53.80. ISBN: 0-8261-2714-2.
Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 208-209; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi112 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miscellaneous:

Bulletin Board:

Int. J. Epidemiol. 35: 210; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi305 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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