International Journal of Epidemiology

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GEORGE DAVEY SMITH

Mensuration, Mendel, and a 19th century public health justification for US imperialism
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 811-813; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl171 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

Karin B Michels

The women's health initiative—curse or blessing?
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 814-816; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl133 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract Richard S Cooper, Joan F Kennelly, and Pedro Orduñez-Garcia

Health in Cuba
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 817-824; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl175 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Photoessay

John Darwell

Legacy: inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone
IJE Advance Access published on July 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 827-831; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl123 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Muki Shehu Shey, Jonathan Sterne, Peter Brocklehurst, Jennifer S Read, Muhammad Ali Dhansay, and Charles Shey Wiysonge

Cochrane Column
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 832-835; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl138 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles

Jane Elliott and Peter Shepherd

Cohort Profile: 1970 British Birth Cohort (BCS70)
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 836-843; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl174 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chaoqiang Jiang, G Neil Thomas, Tai Hing Lam, C Mary Schooling, Weisen Zhang, Xiangqian Lao, Peymane Adab, Bin Liu, Gabriel M Leung, and Kar Keung Cheng

Cohort Profile: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study, a Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Birmingham collaboration
IJE Advance Access published on July 14, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 844-852; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl131 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Intergenerational Influences on Health

Get checked abstract Núria Ribas-Fitó, Beth C Gladen, John W Brock, Mark A Klebanoff, and Matthew P Longnecker

Prenatal exposure to 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis (p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (p,p'-DDE) in relation to child growth
IJE Advance Access published on April 10, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 853-858; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl067 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Linda Titus-Ernstoff, Rebecca Troisi, Elizabeth E Hatch, Lauren A Wise, Julie Palmer, Marianne Hyer, Raymond Kaufman, Ervin Adam, William Strohsnitter, Kenneth Noller, Arthur L Herbst, Jennifer Gibson-Chambers, Patricia Hartge, and Robert N Hoover

Menstrual and reproductive characteristics of women whose mothers were exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol (DES)
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 862-868; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl106 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anusha H Hemachandra, Mark A Klebanoff, Anne K Duggan, Janet B Hardy, and Susan L Furth

The association between intrauterine growth restriction in the full-term infant and high blood pressure at age 7 years: results from the Collaborative Perinatal Project
IJE Advance Access published on June 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 871-877; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl080 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter H Whincup and Christopher G Owen

Commentary: Early life determinants of blood pressure in childhood—where do we go from here?
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 877-879; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl150 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ruth Morley, Janet McCalman, and John B Carlin

Birthweight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857–1900 in Melbourne, Australia
IJE Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 880-885; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl032 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DJP Barker

Commentary: Birthweight and coronary heart disease in a historical cohort
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 886-887; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl151 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ethnicity and Health

Get checked abstract Yin Paradies

A systematic review of empirical research on self-reported racism and health
IJE Advance Access published on April 3, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 888-901; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl056 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Strange fruit
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 902; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl173 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gopal K Singh and Robert A Hiatt

Trends and disparities in socioeconomic and behavioural characteristics, life expectancy, and cause-specific mortality of native-born and foreign-born populations in the United States, 1979–2003
IJE Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 903-919; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl089 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Razum

Commentary: Of salmon and time travellers—musing on the mystery of migrant mortality
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 919-921; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl143 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mendelian Randomization

Get checked abstract Juan P Casas, Tina Shah, Jackie Cooper, Emma Hawe, Alex D McMahon, Dairena Gaffney, Christopher J Packard, Denis S O'Reilly, Irene Juhan-Vague, John S Yudkin, Elena Tremoli, Maurizio Margaglione, Giovanni Di Minno, Anders Hamsten, Teake Kooistra, Jeffrey W Stephens, Steven J Hurel, Shona Livingstone, Helen M Colhoun, George J Miller, Leonelo E Bautista, Tom Meade, Naveed Sattar, Steve E Humphries, and Aroon D Hingorani

Insight into the nature of the CRP–coronary event association using Mendelian randomization
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 922-931; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl041 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Robert J Glynn

Commentary: Genes as instruments for evaluation of markers and causes
IJE Advance Access published on July 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 932-934; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl107 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bernard Keavney, John Danesh, Sarah Parish, Alison Palmer, Sarah Clark, Linda Youngman, Marc Delépine, Mark Lathrop, Richard Peto, and Rory Collins The International Studies of Infarct Survival (ISIS) Collaborators

Fibrinogen and coronary heart disease: test of causality by ‘Mendelian randomization’
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 935-943; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl114 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Tom W Meade, Steve E Humphries, and Bianca L De Stavola

Commentary: Fibrinogen and coronary heart disease—test of causality by ‘Mendelian’ randomization by Keavney et al.
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 944-947; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl149 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bodil Hammer Bech, Herman Autrup, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Tine Brink Henriksen, and Jørn Olsen

Stillbirth and slow metabolizers of caffeine: comparison by genotypes
IJE Advance Access published on June 16, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 948-953; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lise Lotte N Husemoen, Ulla Toft, Mogens Fenger, Torben Jørgensen, Niels Johansen, and Allan Linneberg

The association between atopy and factors influencing folate metabolism: is low folate status causally related to the development of atopy?
IJE Advance Access published on June 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 954-961; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl094 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Social Epidemiology

Get checked abstract Laura Kauhanen, Hanna-Maaria Lakka, John W Lynch, and Jussi Kauhanen

Social disadvantages in childhood and risk of all-cause death and cardiovascular disease in later life: a comparison of historical and retrospective childhood information
IJE Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 962-968; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl046 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gopal K Singh and Mohammad Siahpush

Widening socioeconomic inequalities in US life expectancy, 1980–2000
IJE Advance Access published on May 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 969-979; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl083 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Danny Dorling

Commentary: The fading of the dream: widening inequalities in life expectancy in America
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 979-980; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl126 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tony Blakely, June Atkinson, Vivienne Ivory, Sunny Collings, Jenny Wilton, and Philippa Howden-Chapman

No association of neighbourhood volunteerism with mortality in New Zealand: a national multilevel cohort study
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 981-989; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl088 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ichiro Kawachi

Commentary: Social capital and health: making the connections one step at a time
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 989-993; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl117 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ligia RS Kerr-Pontes, Maurício L Barreto, Clara MN Evangelista, Laura C Rodrigues, Jorg Heukelbach, and Hermann Feldmeier

Socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioural risk factors for leprosy in North-east Brazil: results of a case–control study
IJE Advance Access published on April 27, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 994-1000; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl072 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Respiratory Disease

Get checked abstract Bharat Thyagarajan, David R Jacobs, George G Apostol, Lewis J Smith, Cora E Lewis, and O Dale Williams

Plasma fibrinogen and lung function: the CARDIA Study
IJE Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1001-1008; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl049 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Don D Sin and SF Paul Man

Commentary: Fuelling the fire—systemic inflammation and development of lung disease in the general community
IJE Advance Access published on April 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1008-1010; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl082 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cancer

Get checked abstract Laurence S Freedman, Nancy Potischman, Victor Kipnis, Douglas Midthune, Arthur Schatzkin, Frances E Thompson, Richard P Troiano, Ross Prentice, Ruth Patterson, Raymond Carroll, and Amy F Subar

A comparison of two dietary instruments for evaluating the fat–breast cancer relationship
IJE Advance Access published on May 3, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1011-1021; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl085 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sheila A Bingham and Nicholas Day

Commentary: Fat and breast cancer: time to re-evaluate both methods and results?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1022-1024; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl142 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular Disease

Get checked abstract Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

The impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the age-related excess risk of coronary heart disease
IJE Advance Access published on March 31, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1025-1033; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl058 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kay-Tee Khaw, Rupert Jakes, Sheila Bingham, Ailsa Welch, Robert Luben, Nicholas Day, and Nicholas Wareham

Work and leisure time physical activity assessed using a simple, pragmatic, validated questionnaire and incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in men and women: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer in Norfolk prospective population study
IJE Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1034-1043; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl079 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Infectious Diseases

Get checked abstract Michael Emch, Mohammad Ali, Jin-Kyung Park, Mohammad Yunus, David A Sack, and John D Clemens

Relationship between neighbourhood-level killed oral cholera vaccine coverage and protective efficacy: evidence for herd immunity
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1044-1050; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl100 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract JS Heyworth, G Glonek, EJ Maynard, PA Baghurst, and J Finlay-Jones

Consumption of untreated tank rainwater and gastroenteritis among young children in South Australia
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1051-1058; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl105 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hiroshi Nishiura

Epidemiology of a primary pneumonic plague in Kantoshu, Manchuria, from 1910 to 1911: statistical analysis of individual records collected by the Japanese Empire
IJE Advance Access published on May 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1059-1065; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl091 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1066; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl122 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methodology

Get checked abstract Alisa M Goldstein, Marie-Gabrielle Dondon, and Nadine Andrieu

Unconditional analyses can increase efficiencyin assessing gene–environment interaction of the case-combined-control design
IJE Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1067-1073; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl048 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stephen R Cole, Haitao Chu, and Sander Greenland

Multiple-imputation for measurement-error correction
IJE Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1074-1081; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl097 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian R White

Commentary: Dealing with measurement error: multiple imputation or regression calibration?
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1081-1082; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl139 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other Original Papers

Get checked abstract Annett Arntzen, Sven Ove Samuelsen, Anne Kjersti Daltveit, and Camilla Stoltenberg

Post-neonatal mortality in Norway 1969–95: a cause-specific analysis
IJE Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1083-1089; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl047 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Amnon Sonnenberg

Causes underlying the birth-cohort phenomenon of peptic ulcer: analysis of mortality data 1911–2000, England and Wales
IJE Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1090-1097; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl093 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barry Marshall

Commentary: A unifying mathematical hypothesis for the epidemiology of Helicobacter-associated diseases—plurality should not be assumed without necessity
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1097-1098; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl159 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

JAMIE PEARCE and DANNY DORLING

The place of population change in explaining geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1099-1100; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl146 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MIRANDA J PALLAN, KK CHENG, and PEYMANÉ ADAB

Obesity prevention: life course approach vs continuing environmental ‘detoxification’
IJE Advance Access published on June 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1100-1101; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl109 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SUMMER SHERBURNE HAWKINS and CATHERINE LAW

Treatment and prevention of obesity—are there critical periods for intervention?
IJE Advance Access published on June 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1101; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl110 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DEBBIE A LAWLOR and NISH CHATURVEDI

Author's response to comments by Pallan, Cheng and Adab, and Hawlins and Law
IJE Advance Access published on July 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1102; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl111 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BOLAJOKO O OLUSANYA and ANGELA A OKOLO

Revisiting the ten questions questionnaire for developing countries
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1103; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl161 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REINER HANEWINKEL and BARBARA ISENSEE

One for every 113 inhabitants: cigarette vending machines in Germany
IJE Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1104-1105; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl092 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

ANDREW BOULLE

HIV/AIDS in South Africa. SS Abdool Karim, Q Abdool Karim. Cambridge University Press, September 2005, £35. ISBN 0521616298
IJE Advance Access published on May 9, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1106; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl086 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

HUGH TUNSTALL-PEDOE

Preventing Chronic Diseases. A Vital Investment: WHO Global Report. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2005. pp 200. CHF 30.00. ISBN 92 4 1563001. Also published on http://www.who.int/chp/chronic_disease_report/en/
IJE Advance Access published on July 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1107; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl098 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

HELEN MOORE and CAROLYN SUMMERBELL

Obesity Prevention And Public Health. David Crawford and Robert W Jeffrey (eds). Oxford University Press, pp. 352, £49.50, 2005, ISBN: 0-19-856600-X.
IJE Advance Access published on July 12, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1108; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl118 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CAROLYN STEPHENS

Social Injustice and Public Health. Barry S Levy and Victor W Sidel (eds). Oxford University Press, £35.99, 2006, ISBN: 0-19 517185-3.
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1108-1109; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl119 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ROBERT (BOB) FRYATT

Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. Davidson R Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff and Abdo S Yazbeck (eds). USA: The World Bank, pp. 300, $30 (Paperback), 2005, ISBN: 0821359614.
IJE Advance Access published on July 12, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1109-1110; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl120 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

GEORGE A KAPLAN

Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition. M Marmot and R Wilkinson (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 376, $57.50. ISBN: 9780198565895.
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1111-1112; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl121 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mel Bartley

Dr Golem: How to think about medicine. Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch. University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 241, $25.
IJE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1112-1114; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl152 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1115; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl172 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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