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Down Ethnicity and Health
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Editor's Choice Back

George Davey Smith
Big business, big science?
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1-3; doi:10.1093/ije/dym289 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Back

David A Leon
Cities, urbanization and health
IJE Advance Access published on January 10, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 4-8; doi:10.1093/ije/dym271 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections Back

J Alison Glover
The Incidence of Tonsillectomy in School children
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 9-19; doi:10.1093/ije/dym258 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Klim McPherson
Commentary: James Alison Glover (1874–1963), OBE (1919) CBE (1941) MD (1905) DPH (1905) FRCP (1933): health care variations research then and now
IJE Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 19-23; doi:10.1093/ije/dym260 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin J Burton
Commentary: Tonsillectomy—then and now
IJE Advance Access published on January 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 23-25; doi:10.1093/ije/dym259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Wennberg
Commentary: A debt of gratitude to J. Alison Glover
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 26-29; doi:10.1093/ije/dym262 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles Back

EJ Glasson, NH de Klerk, AJ Bass, DL Rosman, LJ Palmer, and CDJ Holman
Cohort Profile: The Western Australian Family Connections Genealogical Project
IJE Advance Access published on July 4, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 30-35; doi:10.1093/ije/dym136 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eiliv Lund, Vanessa Dumeaux, Tonje Braaten, Anette Hjartåker, Dagrun Engeset, Guri Skeie, and Merethe Kumle
Cohort Profile: The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study—NOWAC—Kvinner og kreft
IJE Advance Access published on July 20, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 36-41; doi:10.1093/ije/dym137 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diversion Back

Alun Evans
Commentary: Sibling trials in Banbridge, County Down
IJE Advance Access published on July 23, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 42-45; doi:10.1093/ije/dym140 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Point-Counterpoint Back

Neil Pearce
Corporate influences on epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 46-53; doi:10.1093/ije/dym270 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joanna Haas
Commentary: Epidemiology and the pharmaceutical industry: an inside perspective
IJE Advance Access published on January 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 53-55; doi:10.1093/ije/dym264 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A White, N Robinson, P Egger, M Stender, K Davis, J Weil, and S Bowlin
Commentary: Collaboration between industry-based and academic epidemiologists
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 56-57; doi:10.1093/ije/dym265 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sander Greenland
Commentary: Addressing Corporate Influence Through Ethical Guidelines
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 57-59; doi:10.1093/ije/dym267 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carl V Phillips
Commentary: Lack of scientific influences on epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 59-64; doi:10.1093/ije/dym266 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil Pearce
Response: The distribution and determinants of epidemiologic research
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 65-68; doi:10.1093/ije/dym268 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: Communicable Disease Back

Heiner Raspe, Angelika Hueppe, and Hannelore Neuhauser
Back pain, a communicable disease?
IJE Advance Access published on November 17, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 69-74; doi:10.1093/ije/dym220 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephan Reichenbach and Jeffrey N. Katz
Commentary: When East meets West—comments on ‘back pain as a communicable disease’
IJE Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 74-76; doi:10.1093/ije/dym269 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TB Hallett, GP Garnett, Z Mupamberiyi, and S Gregson
Measuring effectiveness in community randomized trials of HIV prevention
IJE Advance Access published on December 20, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 77-87; doi:10.1093/ije/dym232 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Ben Lopman, Constance Nyamukapa, Phyllis Mushati, Zivai Mupambireyi, Peter Mason, Geoff P Garnett, and Simon Gregson
HIV incidence in 3 years of follow-up of a Zimbabwe cohort—1998–2000 to 2001–03: contributions of proximate and underlying determinants to transmission
IJE Advance Access published on January 18, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 88-105; doi:10.1093/ije/dym255 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Andrew D Cliff, Peter Haggett, and Matthew Smallman-Raynor
An exploratory method for estimating the changing speed of epidemic waves from historical data
IJE Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 106-112; doi:10.1093/ije/dym240 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kelechi E Nnoaham and Aileen Clarke
Low serum vitamin D levels and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 113-119; doi:10.1093/ije/dym247 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Genetic Epidemiology Back

John PA Ioannidis, Paolo Boffetta, Julian Little, Thomas R O’Brien, Andre G Uitterlinden, Paolo Vineis, David J Balding, Anand Chokkalingam, Siobhan M Dolan, W Dana Flanders, Julian PT Higgins, Mark I McCarthy, David H McDermott, Grier P Page, Timothy R Rebbeck, Daniela Seminara, and Muin J Khoury
Assessment of cumulative evidence on genetic associations: interim guidelines
IJE Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 120-132; doi:10.1093/ije/dym159 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy M Frayling
Commentary: Genetic association studies see light at the end of the tunnel
IJE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 133-135; doi:10.1093/ije/dym205 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cosetta Minelli, John R Thompson, Keith R Abrams, Ammarin Thakkinstian, and John Attia
How should we use information about HWE in the meta-analyses of genetic association studies?
IJE Advance Access published on November 23, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 136-146; doi:10.1093/ije/dym234 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ethnicity and Health Back

Tanuja Rastogi, Susan Devesa, Punam Mangtani, Aleyamma Mathew, Nicola Cooper, Roy Kao, and Rashmi Sinha
Cancer incidence rates among South Asians in four geographic regions: India, Singapore, UK and US
IJE Advance Access published on December 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 147-160; doi:10.1093/ije/dym219 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Commentary: Cancer incidence among Asian Indians in India and abroad
IJE Advance Access published on January 6, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 160-161; doi:10.1093/ije/dym249 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Seeromanie Harding, Alison Teyhan, Maria J Maynard, and J Kennedy Cruickshank
Ethnic differences in overweight and obesity in early adolescence in the MRC DASH study: the role of adolescent and parental lifestyle
IJE Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 162-172; doi:10.1093/ije/dym252 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Cardiovascular Diseases Back

Marianne U Jakobsen, Kim Overvad, Jørn Dyerberg, and Berit L Heitmann
Intake of ruminant trans fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease
IJE Advance Access published on December 12, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 173-182; doi:10.1093/ije/dym243 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dariush Mozaffarian
Commentary: Ruminant trans fatty acids and coronary heart disease—cause for concern?
IJE Advance Access published on January 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 182-184; doi:10.1093/ije/dym263 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diabetes Back

Niklas Bergvall, Anna Lindam, Yudi Pawitan, Paul Lichtenstein, Sven Cnattingius, and Anastasia Iliadou
Importance of familial factors in associations between offspring birth weight and parental risk of type-2 diabetes
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 185-192; doi:10.1093/ije/dym167 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert S Lindsay
Commentary: Type 2 diabetes and birth weight—genetic and environmental effects
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 192-193; doi:10.1093/ije/dym256 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Theory and Methods Back

Alireza Olyaee Manesh, Trevor A Sheldon, Kate E Pickett, and Roy Carr-Hill
Accuracy of child morbidity data in demographic and health surveys
IJE Advance Access published on October 2, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 194-200; doi:10.1093/ije/dym202 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other Original Articles Back

Barry Bogin and Maria Inês Varela-Silva
Fatness biases the use of estimated leg length as an epidemiological marker for adults in the NHANES III sample
IJE Advance Access published on January 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 201-209; doi:10.1093/ije/dym254 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rüdiger von Kries, Gabriele Bolte, Ladan Baghi, André Michael Toschke, and for the GME Study Group
Parental smoking and childhood obesity—is maternal smoking in pregnancy the critical exposure?
IJE Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 210-216; doi:10.1093/ije/dym239 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Dirk W Lachenmeier and David Nathan-Maister
Absinthe and tobacco—a new look at an old problem? (comment on: Absinthe—is its history relevant for current public health?)
IJE Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 217-218; doi:10.1093/ije/dym188 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martijn Huisman, Johannes Brug, and Johan P Mackenbach
Reply to Absinthe and tobacco—a new look at an old problem?
IJE Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 219; doi:10.1093/ije/dym189 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews Back

Nicholas Timpson
Epidemiology and Prevention. John Yarnell (ed).
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 220-221; doi:10.1093/ije/dym098 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abigail Fraser
Epidemiological Methods in Life Course Research. A Pickles, B Maughan, M Wadsworth (eds).
IJE Advance Access published on November 17, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 221-222; doi:10.1093/ije/dym221 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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