International Journal of Epidemiology

Editor's Choice

Shah Ebrahim

Media hype: good or bad for patients and the health care system?
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1199-1200; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn243 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

Lukas Fenner and Matthias Egger

Preventing HIV in resource-limited settings: evidence for action, from cross-sectional surveys
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1201-1203; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn264 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections

Get checked abstract Jeffrey J Segall

Hypothesis: Is Lactose a Dietary Risk Factor for Ischaemic Heart Disease?
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1204-1208; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn169 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William B Grant

Commentary: Ecologic studies in identifying dietary risk factors for coronary heart disease and cancer
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1209-1211; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn172 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Elwood

Commentary: Lactose and ischaemic heart disease: a sweet hypothesis ... but nothing more!
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1211-1213; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn171 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Wael K Al-Delaimy

Commentary: Lactose and ischaemic heart disease: a weak 28-year-old hypothesis
IJE Advance Access published on August 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1214-1216; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn170 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young, Jan Peter Kösters, Peter C Gøtzsche, and Sheana Jones

Cochrane Column
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1217-1219; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn218 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles

Olli T Raitakari, Markus Juonala, Tapani Rönnemaa, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, Leena Räsänen, Matti Pietikäinen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Leena Taittonen, Eero Jokinen, Jukka Marniemi, Antti Jula, Risto Telama, Mika Kähönen, Terho Lehtimäki, Hans K Åkerblom, and Jorma SA Viikari

Cohort Profile: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
IJE Advance Access published on February 8, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1220-1226; doi:10.1093/ije/dym225 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martijn Huisman, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Andrea de Winter, Ruud B Minderaa, Annelies de Bildt, Anja C Huizink, Frank C Verhulst, and Johan Ormel

Cohort Profile: The Dutch ‘TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives’ Survey’; TRAILS
IJE Advance Access published on February 8, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1227-1235; doi:10.1093/ije/dym273 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

WMM Verschuren, A Blokstra, HSJ Picavet, and HA Smit

Cohort Profile: The Doetinchem Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1236-1241; doi:10.1093/ije/dym292 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Photoessay

Catherine Sauvaget, Kunnambath Ramadas, Somanathan Thara, Gigi Thomas, and Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

Tobacco chewing in India
IJE Advance Access published on June 5, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1242-1245; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn097 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special Theme: HIV Infection

Get checked abstract Gregory J Londish and John M Murray

Significant reduction in HIV prevalence according to male circumcision intervention in sub-Saharan Africa
IJE Advance Access published on March 3, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1246-1253; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn038 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Ronald H Gray, Maria J Wawer, Godfrey Kigozi, and David Serwadda

Commentary: Disease modelling to inform policy on male circumcision for HIV prevention
IJE Advance Access published on May 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1253-1254; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn081 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Audrey E Pettifor, Brooke A Levandowski, Catherine MacPhail, Nancy S Padian, Myron S Cohen, and Helen V Rees

Keep them in school: the importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African women
IJE Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1266-1273; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn131 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, G Brahmananda Reddy, M Abdul Ameer, G Mushtaq Ahmed, SP Ramgopal, Mohammed Akbar, Talasila Sudha, and Vemu Lakshmi

Risk factors associated with HIV in a population-based study in Andhra Pradesh state of India
IJE Advance Access published on August 13, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1274-1286; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn161 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yujiang Jia, Jiangping Sun, Lu Fan, Duan Song, Shuming Tian, Yuecheng Yang, Manhong Jia, Lin Lu, Xinhua Sun, Sanguo Zhang, Andrzej Kulczycki, and Sten H Vermund

Estimates of HIV prevalence in a highly endemic area of China: Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province
IJE Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1287-1296; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn196 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wezi M Msisha, Saidi H Kapiga, Felton Earls, and SV Subramanian

Socioeconomic status and HIV seroprevalence in Tanzania: a counterintuitive relationship
IJE Advance Access published on September 27, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1297-1303; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn186 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cancers

Get checked abstract A Lahkola, T Salminen, J Raitanen, S Heinävaara, MJ Schoemaker, H Collatz Christensen, M Feychting, C Johansen, L Klæboe, S Lönn, AJ Swerdlow, T Tynes, and A Auvinen

Meningioma and mobile phone use—a collaborative case-control study in five North European countries
IJE Advance Access published on August 2, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1304-1313; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodolfo Saracci and Neil Pearce

Commentary: Observational studies may conceal a weakly elevated risk under the appearance of consistently reduced risks
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1313-1315; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn200 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gabriel Capellá, Guillem Pera, Núria Sala, Antonio Agudo, Francisco Rico, Giuseppe Del Giudicce, Mario Plebani, Domenico Palli, Heiner Boeing, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Fátima Carneiro, Franco Berrino, Paolo Vineis, Rosario Tumino, Salvatore Panico, Göran Berglund, Henrik Simán, Olof Nyrén, Goran Hallmans, Carmen Martinez, Miren Dorronsoro, Aurelio Barricarte, Carmen Navarro, José R Quirós, Naomi Allen, Tim Key, Sheila Bingham, Carlos Caldas, Jakob Linseisen, Gabriele Nagel, Kim Overvad, Anne Tjonneland, Hendriek C Boshuizen, Petra HM Peeters, Mattijs E Numans, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Antonia Trichopoulou, Eiliv Lund, Mazda Jenab, Rudolf Kaaks, Elio Riboli, and Carlos A González

DNA repair polymorphisms and the risk of stomach adenocarcinoma and severe chronic gastritis in the EPIC-EURGAST study
IJE Advance Access published on July 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1316-1325; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn145 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Margaret Kelaher, Jennifer Cawson, Julie Miller, Anne Kavanagh, David Dunt, and David M Studdert

Use of breast cancer screening and treatment services by Australian women aged 25–44 years following Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis
IJE Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1326-1332; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn090 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reproductive Health

Get checked abstract Lill Trogstad, Per Magnus, Rolv Skjærven, and Camilla Stoltenberg

Previous abortions and risk of pre-eclampsia
IJE Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1333-1340; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn167 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mette C Tollånes, Svein Rasmussen, and Lorentz M Irgens

Caesarean section among relatives
IJE Advance Access published on June 7, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1341-1348; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn100 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Environmental Epidemiology

Get checked abstract Thomas Götschi, Jordi Sunyer, Susan Chinn, Roberto de Marco, Bertil Forsberg, James W Gauderman, Raquel Garcia-Esteban, Joachim Heinrich, Bénédicte Jacquemin, Deborah Jarvis, Michela Ponzio, Simona Villani, and Nino Künzli

Air pollution and lung function in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey
IJE Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1349-1358; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn136 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alana L Hansen, Peng Bi, Philip Ryan, Monika Nitschke, Dino Pisaniello, and Graeme Tucker

The effect of heat waves on hospital admissions for renal disease in a temperate city of Australia
IJE Advance Access published on August 18, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1359-1365; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn165 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Pascal

Commentary: Our next challenge in heatwave prevention
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1365-1366; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn223 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Social Epidemiology

Get checked abstract Merete Osler, Nina S Godtfredsen, and Eva Prescott

Childhood social circumstances and health behaviour in midlife: the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohort
IJE Advance Access published on June 11, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1367-1374; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn115 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Teresa Bago d’Uva, Owen O’Donnell, and Eddy van Doorslaer

Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans
IJE Advance Access published on August 2, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1375-1383; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn146 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carolien van Hooijdonk, Mariël Droomers, Ingeborg M Deerenberg, Johan P Mackenbach, and Anton E Kunst

The diversity in associations between community social capital and health per health outcome, population group and location studied
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1384-1392; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn181 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen J Kunitz

Commentary: Comments on the diversity in associations between community social capital and health
IJE Advance Access published on September 23, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1393-1394; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn203 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular Disease

Get checked abstract Ai Ikeda, Hiroyasu Iso, Ichiro Kawachi, Manami Inoue, and Shoichiro Tsugane for the JPHC Study Group

Type A behaviour and risk of coronary heart disease: The JPHC Study
IJE Advance Access published on July 1, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1395-1405; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn124 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Gallacher

Commentary: Type A behaviour and heart disease: no less inscrutable in Japan
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1406-1407; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn187 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Methodology

Get checked abstract David W Lawson and Ruth Mace

Sibling configuration and childhood growth in contemporary British families
IJE Advance Access published on June 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1408-1421; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other Original Articles

Get checked abstract RHH Groenwold, AW Hoes, KL Nichol, and E Hak

Quantifying the potential role of unmeasured confounders: the example of influenza vaccination
IJE Advance Access published on August 25, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1422-1429; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn173 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tutorial

Get checked abstract John Ludbrook

Analysis of 2 x 2 tables of frequencies: matching test to experimental design
IJE Advance Access published on August 18, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1430-1435; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn162 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

SV Subramanian and Karen Ertel

Is the use of self-rated health measures to assess health inequalities misleading?
IJE Advance Access published on September 23, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1436-1440; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn205 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martijn Huisman, Frank Van Lenthe, and Johan P Mackenbach

Author's Response
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1437-1438; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn206 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer Beam Dowd and Anna Zajacova

Author's response
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1438-1439; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn207 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Archana Singh-Manoux, Martin J Shipley, Marie Zins, and Jane E Ferrie

Author's Response
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1439-1440; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn208 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review

John Cleland

The Wisdom of Whores. E Pisani.
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1441-1442; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn199 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miscellaneous

Books Received
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 1443; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn238 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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