Int. J. Epidemiol. -- Table of Contents (February 2010, 39 [1])

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Contents: Volume 39, Number 1, February 2010 [Index by Author]

Editor's Choice

Editorial

Reprints and Reflections

Diversion

Photoessay

Cochrane Column

Cohort Profiles

Theme: Methodology, Theory and Application

Infectious Diseases

Cancer

Diabetes

Cardiovascular Disease

Social Epidemiology

Pediatrics

Letters to the Editor

Book Reviews

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Editor's Choice

George Davey Smith: The end of the beginning for chronic disease epidemiology
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 1-3; doi:10.1093/ije/dyq011 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorial

Paul Garner and George Davey Smith: Information for decision making: lot quality assurance sampling in the spotlight
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 5-6; doi:10.1093/ije/dyq006 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reprints and Reflections

Richard T LaPiere: Attitudes vs Actions
IJE Advance Access published on January 25, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 7-11; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp398 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Christopher Herrera: Commentary: Ethics and the rhetorical context of human research
IJE Advance Access published on January 25, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 12-16; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp400 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Raymond M Lee: Commentary: LaPiere and methodological opportunism
IJE Advance Access published on January 25, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 16-17; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp399 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Michael W Firmin: Commentary: The seminal contribution of Richard LaPiere’s attitudes vs actions (1934) research study
IJE Advance Access published on January 25, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 18-20; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp401 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lee Sechrest: Commentary: Not all attitudes are created equal
IJE Advance Access published on January 25, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 21-24; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp405 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diversion

George Davey Smith: The antecedents of epidemiological methodology in Arthur Mitchell’s surveillance and care of the insane
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 25-30; doi:10.1093/ije/dyq013 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Photoessay

: Images of remembrance
IJE Advance Access published on February 22, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 31; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn030 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young, Juliana U Ojukwu, Joseph U Okebe, Dafna Yahav, Mical Paul, for the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, and Rebecca Stoltzfus: Cochrane Column
IJE Advance Access published on January 21, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 32-35; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp368 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cohort Profiles

H E Syddall, S J Simmonds, H J Martin, Clare Watson, E M Dennison, C Cooper, A Aihie Sayer, and for the Hertfordshire Cohort Study Group: Cohort profile: The Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS)
IJE Advance Access published on January 8, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 36-43; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn275 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kaarin J Anstey, Julie E Byles, Mary A Luszcz, Paul Mitchell, David Steel, Heather Booth, Colette Browning, Peter Butterworth, Robert G Cumming, Judith Healy, Timothy D Windsor, Lesley Ross, Lauren Bartsch, Richard A Burns, Kim Kiely, Carole L Birrell, Gerald A Broe, Jonathan Shaw, and Hal Kendig: Cohort profile: The Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Ageing (DYNOPTA) project
IJE Advance Access published on January 17, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 44-51; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn276 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS

Akram Pourshams, Hooman Khademi, Akbar Fazeltabar Malekshah, Farhad Islami, Mehdi Nouraei, Ali Reza Sadjadi, Elham Jafari, Nasser Rakhshani, Rasool Salahi, Shahryar Semnani, Farin Kamangar, Christian C Abnet, Bruce Ponder, Nick Day, Sanford M Dawsey, Paolo Boffetta, and Reza Malekzadeh: Cohort Profile: The Golestan Cohort Study—a prospective study of oesophageal cancer in northern Iran
IJE Advance Access published on March 30, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 52-59; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp161 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Theme: Methodology, Theory and Application

Get checked abstract Dale A Rhoda, Soledad A Fernandez, David J Fitch, and Stanley Lemeshow: LQAS: User Beware
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 60-68; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn366 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Marcello Pagano and Joseph J Valadez: Commentary: Understanding practical lot quality assurance sampling
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 69-71; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp406 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Caitlin Biedron, Marcello Pagano, Bethany L Hedt, Albert Kilian, Amy Ratcliffe, Samuel Mabunda, and Joseph J Valadez: An assessment of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to evaluate malaria outcome indicators: extending malaria indicator surveys
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 72-79; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp363 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Monica Leu, Kamila Czene, and Marie Reilly: Bias correction of estimates of familial risk from population-based cohort studies
IJE Advance Access published on October 13, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 80-88; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp304 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract O M Dekkers, E von Elm, A Algra, J A Romijn, and J P Vandenbroucke: How to assess the external validity of therapeutic trials: a conceptual approach
IJE Advance Access published on April 17, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 89-94; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp174 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Peter M Rothwell: Commentary: External validity of results of randomized trials: disentangling a complex concept
IJE Advance Access published on September 23, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 94-96; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp305 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Sandro Galea, Matthew Riddle, and George A Kaplan: Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on October 9, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 97-106; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp296 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Rolf H H Groenwold, David B Nelson, Kristin L Nichol, Arno W Hoes, and Eelko Hak: Sensitivity analyses to estimate the potential impact of unmeasured confounding in causal research
IJE Advance Access published on November 30, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 107-117; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Ula Nur, Lorraine G Shack, Bernard Rachet, James R Carpenter, and Michel P Coleman: Modelling relative survival in the presence of incomplete data: a tutorial
IJE Advance Access published on October 25, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 118-128; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp309 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Infectious Diseases

Get checked abstract Lei Gao, Melanie N Weck, Elke Raum, Christa Stegmaier, Dietrich Rothenbacher, and Hermann Brenner: Sibship size, Helicobacter pylori infection and chronic atrophic gastritis: a population-based study among 9444 older adults from Germany
IJE Advance Access published on July 13, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 129-134; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp250 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Mojgan Hessamfar-Bonarek, Philippe Morlat, Dominique Salmon, Patrice Cacoub, Thierry May, Fabrice Bonnet, Eric Rosenthal, Dominique Costagliola, Charlotte Lewden, Geneviève Chêne, and the Mortalité 2000 & 2005 Study Groups: Causes of death in HIV-infected women: persistent role of AIDS. The ‘Mortalité 2000 & 2005’ Surveys (ANRS EN19)
IJE Advance Access published on October 5, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 135-146; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp300 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Amy C Justice: Commentary: Treated HIV infection is a chronic disease: the case against cause of death analyses
IJE Advance Access published on November 9, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 146-148; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp342 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Knut Lönnroth, Brian G Williams, Peter Cegielski, and Christopher Dye: A consistent log-linear relationship between tuberculosis incidence and body mass index
IJE Advance Access published on October 9, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 149-155; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp308 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cancer

Get checked abstract Naomi Brewer, Neil Pearce, Mona Jeffreys, Barry Borman, and Lis Ellison-Loschmann: Does screening history explain the ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis of cervical cancer in New Zealand?
IJE Advance Access published on October 6, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 156-165; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp303 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Julia E Heck, Julien Berthiller, Salvatore Vaccarella, Deborah M Winn, Elaine M Smith, Oxana Shan'gina, Stephen M Schwartz, Mark P Purdue, Agnieszka Pilarska, Jose Eluf-Neto, Ana Menezes, Michael D McClean, Elena Matos, Sergio Koifman, Karl T Kelsey, Rolando Herrero, Richard B Hayes, Silvia Franceschi, Victor Wünsch-Filho, Leticia Fernández, Alexander W Daudt, Maria Paula Curado, Chu Chen, Xavier Castellsagué, Gilles Ferro, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, and Mia Hashibe: Sexual behaviours and the risk of head and neck cancers: a pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium
IJE Advance Access published on December 18, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 166-181; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp350 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Manuela Marron, Paolo Boffetta, Zuo-Feng Zhang, David Zaridze, Victor Wünsch-Filho, Deborah M Winn, Qingyi Wei, Renato Talamini, Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Erich M Sturgis, Elaine Smith, Stephen M Schwartz, Peter Rudnai, Mark P Purdue, Andrew F Olshan, Jose Eluf-Neto, Joshua Muscat, Hal Morgenstern, Ana Menezes, Michael McClean, Elena Matos, Ioan Nicolae Mates, Jolanta Lissowska, Fabio Levi, Philip Lazarus, Carlo La Vecchia, Sergio Koifman, Karl Kelsey, Rolando Herrero, Richard B Hayes, Silvia Franceschi, Leticia Fernandez, Eleonora Fabianova, Alexander W Daudt, Luigino Dal Maso, Maria Paula Curado, Gabriella Cadoni, Chu Chen, Xavier Castellsague, Stefania Boccia, Simone Benhamou, Gilles Ferro, Julien Berthiller, Paul Brennan, Henrik Møller, and Mia Hashibe: Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk
IJE Advance Access published on October 5, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 182-196; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp291 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Diabetes

Get checked abstract Mariane Héroux, Ian Janssen, Miu Lam, Duck-chul Lee, James R Hebert, Xuemei Sui, and Steven N Blair: Dietary patterns and the risk of mortality: impact of cardiorespiratory fitness
IJE Advance Access published on April 20, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 197-209; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp191 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]

Eric L Ding and Frank B Hu: Commentary: Relative importance of diet vs physical activity for health
IJE Advance Access published on December 3, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 209-211; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp348 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tobias Pischon: Commentary: Physical fitness: confounder or intermediary variable in the association of diet with health outcomes?
IJE Advance Access published on November 24, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 211-213; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp347 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mariane Héroux and Ian Janssen: Author's Response • Dietary patterns and the risk of mortality: impact of cardiorespiratory fitness
IJE Advance Access published on December 3, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 213-214; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp349 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Teruo Nagaya, Hideyo Yoshida, Hidekatsu Takahashi, and Makoto Kawai: Resting heart rate and blood pressure, independent of each other, proportionally raise the risk for type-2 diabetes mellitus
IJE Advance Access published on June 29, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 215-222; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp229 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mercedes R Carnethon: Commentary: Heart rate and blood pressure: risk factors or risk markers?
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 223-224; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp325 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cardiovascular Disease

Get checked abstract Signe Helene Forsdahl, Steinar Solberg, Kulbir Singh, and Bjarne K Jacobsen: Abdominal aortic aneurysms, or a relatively large diameter of non-aneurysmal aortas, increase total and cardiovascular mortality: the Tromsø study
IJE Advance Access published on November 5, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 225-232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp320 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS

Get checked abstract Naohito Tanabe, Hiroyasu Iso, Nao Seki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Hideaki Toyoshima, Akiko Tamakoshi, and for the JACC Study Group: Daytime napping and mortality, with a special reference to cardiovascular disease: the JACC study
IJE Advance Access published on November 9, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 233-243; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp327 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Jin-Ling Tang, Wei-Zhong Wang, Jian-Gang An, Yong-Hua Hu, Shi-Hua Cheng, and Sian Griffiths: How willing are the public to pay for anti-hypertensive drugs for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a survey in a Chinese city
IJE Advance Access published on June 2, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 244-254; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp213 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Sarah M McGhee and Anthony J Hedley: Commentary: The challenge of prevention in China
IJE Advance Access published on January 7, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 254-255; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp381 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Costanza Pizzi, Bianca L De Stavola, and Tom W Meade: Long-term association of routine blood count (Coulter) variables on fatal coronary heart disease: 30-year results from the first prospective Northwick Park Heart Study (NPHS-I)
IJE Advance Access published on July 13, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 256-265; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp245 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Social Epidemiology

JN Morris, Christopher Deeming, Paul Wilkinson, and Alan D Dangour: Action towards healthy living—for all
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 266-273; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp403 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ann Oakley: Appreciation: Jerry [Jeremiah Noah] Morris, 1910–2009
IJE Advance Access published on January 16, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 274-276; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp390 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Dianna M Smith, Steven Cummins, Mathew Taylor, John Dawson, David Marshall, Leigh Sparks, and Annie S Anderson: Neighbourhood food environment and area deprivation: spatial accessibility to grocery stores selling fresh fruit and vegetables in urban and rural settings
IJE Advance Access published on June 2, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 277-284; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp221 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Get checked abstract Aluísio JD Barros, Alícia Matijasevich, Iná S Santos, and Ricardo Halpern: Child development in a birth cohort: effect of child stimulation is stronger in less educated mothers
IJE Advance Access published on August 28, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 285-294; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp272 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS

Susan P Walker: Commentary: Early stimulation and child development
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 294-296; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp316 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Pediatrics

Get checked abstract Man Ki Kwok, C Mary Schooling, Tai Hing Lam, and Gabriel M Leung: Does breastfeeding protect against childhood overweight? Hong Kong's ‘Children of 1997’ birth cohort
IJE Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 297-305; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp274 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Marie-Jo Brion: Commentary: Assessing the impact of breastfeeding on child health: where conventional methods alone fall short for reliably establishing causal inference
IJE Advance Access published on October 28, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 306-307; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp318 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters to the Editor

Silvia Ehrlenbach, Peter Willeit, Stefan Kiechl, Johann Willeit, Markus Reindl, Kathrin Schanda, Florian Kronenberg, and Anita Brandstätter: Raising the bar on telomere epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on January 8, 2010
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 308-317; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp383 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Perviz Asaria, Robert Beaglehole, Dan Chisholm, Thomas A Gaziano, Richard Horton, Steven Leeder, Stephen S. Lim, Colin Mathers, Srinath Reddy, Kathleen Strong, and Janet Voute: Chronic disease prevention: the importance of calls to action
IJE Advance Access published on March 2, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 309-310; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn245 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

G. De Backer and M Kornitzer: Chronic diseases and calls to action
IJE Advance Access published on March 2, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 310-311; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn246 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Shah Ebrahim: Author's Response
IJE Advance Access published on March 2, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 312-313; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn247 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Allan Linneberg: Hygiene hypothesis: wanted—dead or alive
IJE Advance Access published on December 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 313-314; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn269 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Jeroen Douwes and Neil Pearce: Author's Response • Hygiene hypothesis: wanted—dead or alive
IJE Advance Access published on December 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 314-317; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn270 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Reviews

Sourabh Dutta: Clinical Epidemiology: Principles, Methods and Applications for Clinical Research. D E Grobbee and A W Hoes.
IJE Advance Access published on December 21, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 318-319; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn349 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Anke Huss: Environmental Epidemiology—Principles and Methods. RM Merrill.
IJE Advance Access published on April 6, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 319-320; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp005 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

H. Ross Anderson: Adverse Reactions. The Fenoterol Story. Neil Pearce.
IJE Advance Access published on February 11, 2009
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2010 39: 320-321; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp138 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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