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Editor's Choice Back

George Davey Smith
Smoking and lung cancer: causality, Cornfield and an early observational meta-analysis
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1169-1171; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp317 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Back

Michaeline Bresnahan, Guohua Li, and Ezra Susser
Hidden in plain sight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1172-1174; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp293 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections Back

Jerome Cornfield, William Haenszel, E. Cuyler Hammond, Abraham M. Lilienfeld, Michael B. Shimkin, and Ernst L. Wynder
Smoking and lung cancer: recent evidence and a discussion of some questions
IJE Advance Access published on September 22, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1175-1191; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp289 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David R Cox
Commentary: Smoking and lung cancer: reflections on a pioneering paper
IJE Advance Access published on September 22, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1192-1193; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp290 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan P Vandenbroucke
Commentary: ‘Smoking and lung cancer’—the embryogenesis of modern epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on September 22, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1193-1196; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp292 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcel Zwahlen
Commentary: Cornfield on cigarette smoking and lung cancer and how to assess causality
IJE Advance Access published on September 22, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1197-1198; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp294 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joel B Greenhouse
Commentary: Cornfield, Epidemiology and Causality
IJE Advance Access published on September 22, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1199-1201; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp299 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles Back

Niels Obel, Frederik N Engsig, Line D Rasmussen, Mette V Larsen, Lars H Omland, and Henrik T Sørensen
Cohort Profile: The Danish HIV Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on September 17, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1202-1206; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn192 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rohan Hazra, Sonia K Stoszek, Laura Freimanis Hance, Jorge Pinto, Heloisa Marques, Mario Peixoto, Jorge Alarcon, Marisa Mussi-Pinhata, Leslie Serchuck, and for the NISDI Pediatric Study Group 2008
Cohort Profile: NICHD International Site Development Initiative (NISDI): a prospective, observational study of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children at clinical sites in Latin American and Caribbean countries
IJE Advance Access published on November 26, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1207-1214; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn239 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michaela Benzeval, Geoff Der, Anne Ellaway, Kate Hunt, Helen Sweeting, Patrick West, and Sally Macintyre
Cohort Profile: West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in the Community
IJE Advance Access published on October 17, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1215-1223; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn213 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Special Theme: Autism Back

Marissa King and Peter Bearman
Diagnostic change and the increased prevalence of autism
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1224-1234; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp261 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tony Charman, Andrew Pickles, Susie Chandler, Lorna Wing, Susan Bryson, Emily Simonoff, Tom Loucas, and Gillian Baird
Commentary: Effects of diagnostic thresholds and research vs service and administrative diagnosis on autism prevalence
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1234-1238; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp256 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Rutter
Commentary: Fact and artefact in the secular increase in the rate of autism
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1238-1239; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp257 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Irva Hertz-Picciotto
Commentary: Diagnostic change and the increased prevalence of autism
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1239-1241; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp258 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric Fombonne
Commentary: On King and Bearman
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1241-1242; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Bearman and Marissa King
Author's Response Commentaries on diagnostic accretion and the increased prevalence of measured autism
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1243-1244; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp263 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natasha Nassar, Glenys Dixon, Jenny Bourke, Carol Bower, Emma Glasson, Nick de Klerk, and Helen Leonard
Autism spectrum disorders in young children: effect of changes in diagnostic practices
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1245-1254; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp260 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Psychiatric Epidemiology Back

J B Kirkbride, T Croudace, J Brewin, K Donoghue, P Mason, C Glazebrook, I Medley, G Harrison, J E Cooper, G A Doody, and P B Jones
Is the incidence of psychotic disorder in decline? Epidemiological evidence from two decades of research
IJE Advance Access published on August 25, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1255-1264; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn168 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Social Epidemiology Back

Mika Kivimäki, David Gimeno, Jane E Ferrie, G David Batty, Tuula Oksanen, Markus Jokela, Marianna Virtanen, Paula Salo, Tasnime N Akbaraly, Marko Elovainio, Jaana Pentti, and Jussi Vahtera
Socioeconomic position, psychosocial work environment and cerebrovascular disease among women: the Finnish public sector study
IJE Advance Access published on January 20, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1265-1271; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn373 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vera Skalická, Frank van Lenthe, Clare Bambra, Steinar Krokstad, and Johan Mackenbach
Material, psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical factors in the explanation of relative socio-economic inequalities in mortality: evidence from the HUNT study
IJE Advance Access published on August 6, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1272-1284; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp262 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão de Albuquerque, Wayner V Souza, Ulisses R Montarroyos, George T N Diniz, Carlos F Luna, and Laura C Rodrigues
Is it better to be rich in a poor area or poor in a rich area? A multilevel analysis of a case–control study of social determinants of tuberculosis
IJE Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1285-1296; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp224 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Suzanne Marks
Commentary: Socio-economic determinants of tuberculosis in Recife, Brazil
IJE Advance Access published on August 31, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1295-1296; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp284 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer B Dowd, Amanda M Simanek, and Allison E Aiello
Socio-economic status, cortisol and allostatic load: a review of the literature
IJE Advance Access published on August 31, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1297-1309; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp277 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takeo Fujiwara and Ichiro Kawachi
Is education causally related to better health? A twin fixed-effect study in the USA
IJE Advance Access published on June 15, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1310-1322; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp226 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mia Madsen and Merete Osler
Commentary: Strengths and limitations of the discordant twin-pair design in social epidemiology. Where do we go from here?
IJE Advance Access published on July 29, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1322-1323; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp264 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kelechi E Nnoaham, Gary Sacks, Mike Rayner, Oliver Mytton, and Alastair Gray
Modelling income group differences in the health and economic impacts of targeted food taxes and subsidies
IJE Advance Access published on May 29, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1324-1333; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp214 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Beata Jablonska, Lene Lindberg, Frank Lindblad, Finn Rasmussen, Viveca Östberg, and Anders Hjern
School performance and hospital admissions due to self-inflicted injury: a Swedish national cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on June 25, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1334-1341; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp236 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Environmental Epidemiology Back

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Katholiki Georgiades, and Michael H Boyle
Maternal smoking, biofuel smoke exposure and child height-for-age in seven developing countries
IJE Advance Access published on July 21, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1342-1350; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp253 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James M Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Ravilla D Thulasiraj, Christian L Coles, S Sheeladevi, Elizabeth L Yanik, and Lakshmi Rahmathullah
Exposure to indoor biomass fuel and tobacco smoke and risk of adverse reproductive outcomes, mortality, respiratory morbidity and growth among newborn infants in south India
IJE Advance Access published on September 16, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1351-1363; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp286 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Genetic Epidemiology Back

Ulf Strömberg, Jonas Björk, Paolo Vineis, Karin Broberg, and Eleftheria Zeggini
Ranking of genome-wide association scan signals by different measures
IJE Advance Access published on September 4, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1364-1373; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil E Rice, Stefania Bandinelli, Anna Maria Corsi, Luigi Ferrucci, Jack M Guralnik, Michelle A Miller, Meena Kumari, Anna Murray, Tim M Frayling, and David Melzer
The paraoxonase (PON1) Q192R polymorphism is not associated with poor health status or depression in the ELSA or INCHIANTI studies
IJE Advance Access published on August 3, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1374-1379; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp265 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Perinatal Epidemiology Back

Qiaoyi Zhang, Cande V Ananth, Zhu Li, and John C Smulian
Maternal anaemia and preterm birth: a prospective cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on July 3, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1380-1389; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp243 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosa Alati, Jacob M Najman, Michael O’Callaghan, William Bor, Gail M Williams, and Alexandra Clavarino
Fetal growth and behaviour problems in early adolescence: findings from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy
IJE Advance Access published on July 27, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1390-1400; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp252 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Amandine Cournil, Aminata Ndiaye Coly, Aldiouma Diallo, and Kirsten Bork Simondon
Enhanced post-natal growth is associated with elevated blood pressure in young Senegalese adults
IJE Advance Access published on August 6, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1401-1410; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp255 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Dave McGeoghegan, Keith Binks, Michael Gillies, Steve Jones, and Steve Whalley
Author's Response Comments on the study of McGeoghegan et al.
IJE Advance Access published on July 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1411; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn123 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naila Dinani, Nicola R Wood, and Iain J Robbé
Exposure to alcohol use in motion pictures and teen drinking in Germany
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1412; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn053 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reiner Hanewinkel, Susanne E Tanski, and James D Sargent
Author's Response
IJE Advance Access published on March 24, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1413-1414; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn054 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews Back

Roy Richard Grinker
Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion. Michael Fitzpatrick.
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1415-1417; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp242 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zena Stein
Autism's False Prophets. Paul Offit.
IJE Advance Access published on September 7, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1417-1419; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp267 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Truelsen
Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550–1850. Peter Razzell.
IJE Advance Access published on August 25, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1419-1420; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn175 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lois Kim
Survival Analysis for Epidemiologic and Medical Research. Steve Selvin.
IJE Advance Access published on September 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1420-1421; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn190 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum Back

Charles F Turner, Alia Al-Tayyib, Susan M Rogers, Elizabeth Eggleston, Maria A Villarroel, Anthony M Roman, James R Chromy, and Phillip C Cooley
Improving epidemiological surveys of sexual behaviour conducted by telephone
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009 38: 1422; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp302 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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