International Journal of Epidemiology

Editors Choice

SHAH EBRAHIM

Entelechy, citation indexes, and the association of ideas
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1117-1118; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl201 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

John Lynch

It's not easy being interdisciplinary
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1119-1122; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl200 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections

Eugene Garfield

Citation indexes for science. A new dimension in documentation through association of ideas
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1123-1127; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl189 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eugene Garfield

Commentary: Fifty years of citation indexing
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1127-1128; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl190 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Smith

Commentary: The power of the unrelenting impact factor—Is it a force for good or harm?
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1129-1130; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl191 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miquel Porta, Esteve Fernandez, and Francisco Bolúmar

Commentary: The ‘bibliographic impact factor’ and the still uncharted sociology of epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1130-1135; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl196 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young, JE Ehiri, HOD Ejere, L Magnussen, D Emusu, W King, JS Osberg, Pablo Perel, and Sebastian van As

Cochrane Column
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1136-1139; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl195 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles

Carol Brayne, Cherie McCracken, and Fiona E Matthews

Cohort Profile: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS)
IJE Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1140-1145; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl199 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Per Magnus, Lorentz M Irgens, Kjell Haug, Wenche Nystad, Rolv Skjærven, and Camilla Stoltenberg The Moba Study Group

Cohort profile: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1146-1150; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl170 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Point-Counterpoint

Get checked abstract Paolo Vineis and Marianne Berwick

The population dynamics of cancer: a Darwinian perspective
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1151-1159; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl185 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenneth M Weiss

Commentary: Evolution of action in cells and organisms
IJE Advance Access published on September 20, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1159-1160; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl186 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Fetal and Infant Health

Victor M Hawthorne

Diversion: An Epidemiological Enigma
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1168; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl103 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gordon CS Smith, Imran Shah, Ian R White, Jill P Pell, Jennifer A Crossley, and Richard Dobbie

Maternal and biochemical predictors of spontaneous preterm birth among nulliparous women: a systematic analysis in relation to the degree of prematurity
IJE Advance Access published on July 31, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1169-1177; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl154 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Suzanne Bartington, Lucy J Griffiths, A Rosemary Tate, and Carol Dezateux the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group

Are breastfeeding rates higher among mothers delivering in Baby Friendly accredited maternity units in the UK?
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1178-1186; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael S Kramer, Cande V Ananth, Robert W Platt, and KS Joseph

US Black vs White disparities in foetal growth: physiological or pathological?
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1187-1195; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl125 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Fisher, Janis Baird, Liz Payne, Patricia Lucas, Jos Kleijnen, Helen Roberts, and Catherine Law

Are infant size and growth related to burden of disease in adulthood? A systematic review of literature
IJE Advance Access published on July 15, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1196-1210; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl130 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Niko Speybroeck, Mohsen Naghavi, Kazem Mohammad, Reza Majdzadeh, Bahram Delavar, Hamidreza Jamshidi, and Jeanette Vega

Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1211-1219; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl164 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anh D Ngo, Richard Taylor, Christine L Roberts, and Tuan V Nguyen

Association between Agent Orange and birth defects: systematic review and meta-analysis
IJE Advance Access published on March 16, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1220-1230; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl038 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnold Schecter and John D Constable

Commentary: Agent Orange and birth defects in Vietnam
IJE Advance Access published on August 16, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1230-1232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl135 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

Get checked abstract Sonia S Anand, Fahad Razak, AD Davis, Ruby Jacobs, Vlad Vuksan, Koon Teo, and Salim Yusuf

Social disadvantage and cardiovascular disease: development of an index and analysis of age, sex, and ethnicity effects
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1239-1245; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elisa Huovinen, Tommi Härkänen, Tuija Martelin, Seppo Koskinen, and Arpo Aromaa

Predicting coronary heart disease mortality—assessing uncertainties in population forecasts and death probabilities by using Bayesian inference
IJE Advance Access published on July 14, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1246-1252; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl128 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Capewell

Commentary: Predicting future coronary heart disease deaths in Finland and elsewhere
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1253-1254; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl158 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ageing

Get checked abstract Tommi Sulander, Tuija Martelin, Päivi Sainio, Ossi Rahkonen, Aulikki Nissinen, and Antti Uutela

Trends and educational disparities in functional capacity among people aged 65–84 years
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1255-1261; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vicki A Freedman and Linda G Martin

Commentary: Dissecting disability trends—concepts, measures, and explanations
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1261-1263; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl153 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ralph Catalano and Tim Bruckner

Child mortality and cohort lifespan: a test of diminished entelechy
IJE Advance Access published on May 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1264-1269; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl108 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eileen M Crimmins and Caleb E Finch

Commentary: Do older men and women gain equally from improving childhood conditions?
IJE Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1270-1271; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl194 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Genetics

Get checked abstract Merete Osler, Liselotte Petersen, Eva Prescott, Thomas W Teasdale, and Thorkild I A Sørensen

Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortality
IJE Advance Access published on March 21, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1272-1277; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl045 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christina N Lessov-Schlaggar, Zengchang Pang, Gary E Swan, Qian Guo, Shaojie Wang, Weihua Cao, Jennifer B Unger, C Anderson Johnson, and Liming Lee

Heritability of cigarette smoking and alcohol use in Chinese male twins: the Qingdao twin registry
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1278-1285; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl148 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Public Health Interventions

Get checked abstract Frank F Eves and Rich SW Masters

An uphill struggle: Effects of a point-of-choice stair climbing intervention in a non-English speaking population
IJE Advance Access published on July 18, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1286-1290; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl141 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ross Andersen

Commentary: Stairway to health
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1291; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl205 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methodology

Get checked abstract Sandra M Eldridge, Deborah Ashby, and Sally Kerry

Sample size for cluster randomized trials: effect of coefficient of variation of cluster size and analysis method
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1292-1300; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl129 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Frank de Vries, Corinne de Vries, Cyrus Cooper, Bert Leufkens, and Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa

Reanalysis of two studies with contrasting results on the association between statin use and fracture risk: the General Practice Research Database
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1301-1308; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl147 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christoph R Meier

Commentary: Statins and fracture risk—unresolved questions
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1308-1309; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl136 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Liam Smeeth, Ian Douglas, and Richard Hubbard

Commentary: We still need observational studies of drugs—they just need to be better
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1310-1311; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl134 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CJ Edwards and NK Arden

Commentary: Statins and fracture—why the confusion?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1312-1313; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl137 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Benjamin J Cowling, Irene O L Wong, Lai-Ming Ho, Steven Riley, and Gabriel M Leung

Methods for monitoring influenza surveillance data
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1314-1321; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl162 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other Original Papers

Get checked abstract Maarten F Schim van der Loeff, Akum Aveika Awasana, Ramu Sarge-Njie, Marianne van der Sande, Assan Jaye, Saihou Sabally, Tumani Corrah, Samuel J McConkey, and Hilton C Whittle

Sixteen years of HIV surveillance in a West African research clinic reveals divergent epidemic trends of HIV-1 and HIV-2
IJE Advance Access published on March 16, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1322-1328; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl037 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Serge Eholié and Xavier Anglaret

Commentary: Decline of HIV-2 prevalence in West Africa: good news or bad news?
IJE Advance Access published on July 17, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1329-1330; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl156 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Zhiqiang Wang and Wendy E Hoy

Albuminuria as a marker of the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in non-diabetic Aboriginal Australians
IJE Advance Access published on June 16, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1331-1335; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl115 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Peter Svedberg

Declining child malnutrition: a reassessment
IJE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1336-1346; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl157 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ariana Zeka, James R Sullivan, Pantel S Vokonas, David Sparrow, and Joel Schwartz

Inflammatory markers and particulate air pollution: characterizing the pathway to disease
IJE Advance Access published on July 14, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1347-1354; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl132 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Annette Peters

Commentary: Inflamed about ultrafine particles?
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1355-1356; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl202 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

JOSÉ A TAPIA GRANADOS

Mortality effects of the economic crisis in South Korea
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1357; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl178 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

YOUNG-HO KHANG, JOHN W LYNCH, and GEORGE A KAPLAN

Examining cause-specific mortality effects of economic crisis in a country with rapidly declining total mortality
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1358; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl179 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LAP AH TSE and IGNATIUS TAK-SUN YU

RE: ‘Occupational exposures and risks of liver cancer among Shanghai female textile workers—a case–cohort study’
IJE Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1359; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl203 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PIET HEIN JONGBLOET

Do sunlight and vitamin D reduce the likelihood of colon cancer? Time for a paradigm shift?
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1359-1360; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl206 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JUAN MERLO and BASILE CHAIX

Neighbourhood effects and the real world beyond randomized community trials: a reply to Michael J Oakes
IJE Advance Access published on September 28, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1361-1363; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl211 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MUIN J KHOURY and MARTA GWINN

Genomics, epidemiology, and common complex diseases: let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater!
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1363-1364; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl214 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ANNE BUCHANAN, KENNETH M WEISS, and STEPHANIE M FULLERTON

Genomics, epidemiology, and common complex diseases: let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater! Authors' response
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1364-1365; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl215 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

TERRY N FLYNN

The Elgar companion to health economics. Andrew M Jones (ed.) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006, pp. 565, £125. ISBN-13: 978-1-84542-003-1
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1366-1367; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl180 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DAVID WAINWRIGHT

Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War, Maudsley Monographs 47. Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely, Hove: Psychology Press, £24.95, ISBN 1-84169-580-7
IJE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1367-1368; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl181 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REBECCA ROONEY

Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials: What do the Data Really Tell Us? Stephen D. Simon. OUP, 2006. £65. ISBN 0 19 856760 X
IJE Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1368-1369; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl182 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ANITA GROOS

Childhood obesity—contemporary issues. N Cameron, N G Norgan and G T H Ellison (eds). Boca Raton: Society for the Study of Human Biology Series, CRC Taylor Francis, 2006, pp. 272, £49.99/$89.95. ISBN 0-8493-2857-8.
IJE Advance Access published on August 31, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1369-1370; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl198 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DAVIDSON R GWATKIN

Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth. Théodore H. MacDonald, Radcliffe, Oxford. 2005 £35. ISBN 1 85775 769 6
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1370-1373; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl204 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1374; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl127 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2006 35: 1375; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl221 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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