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Editor's Choice Back

Shah Ebrahim
The riches of cohorts
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 223-224; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn027 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Back

Shah Ebrahim
Chronic diseases and calls to action
IJE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 225-230; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn016 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

UK Biobank: Editorial Back

Teri A Manolio
Biorepositories—at the bleeding edge
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 231-233; doi:10.1093/ije/dym282 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

UK Biobank: Methods Back

Paul Elliott, and Tim C Peakman on behalf of UK Biobank
The UK Biobank sample handling and storage protocol for the collection, processing and archiving of human blood and urine
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 234-244; doi:10.1093/ije/dym276 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reprints and Reflections Back

M Ounsted, A Scott, and C Ounsted
Transmission through the female line of a mechanism constraining human fetal growth
IJE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 245-250; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sven Cnattingius
Commentary: On ‘Transmission through the female line of a mechanism constraining human fetal growth’—does it exist?
IJE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 250-252; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn009 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark A Hanson and Keith M Godfrey
Commentary: Maternal constraint is a pre-eminent regulator of fetal growth
IJE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 252-254; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn015 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Per Magnus
Commentary: A need for unconstrained thinking on foetal growth
IJE Advance Access published on February 26, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 254-255; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn026 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A Leon
Commentary: The development of the Ounsteds’ theory of maternal constraint—a critical perspective
IJE Advance Access published on February 29, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 255-259; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn034 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cohort Profiles Back

Terry L Butler, Gary E Fraser, W Lawrence Beeson, Synnøve F Knutsen, R Patti Herring, Jacqueline Chan, Joan Sabaté, Susanne Montgomery, Ella Haddad, Susan Preston-Martin, Hannelore Bennett, and Karen Jaceldo-Siegl
Cohort Profile: The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2)
IJE Advance Access published on August 27, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 260-265; doi:10.1093/ije/dym165 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Adrian C Sleigh, Sam-ang Seubsman, Chris Bain, and the Thai Cohort Study Team
Cohort Profile: The Thai Cohort of 87 134 Open University students
IJE Advance Access published on October 2, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 266-272; doi:10.1093/ije/dym161 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Janis Paterson, Teuila Percival, Philip Schluter, Gerhard Sundborn, Max Abbott, Sarnia Carter, Esther Cowley-Malcolm, Jim Borrows, Wanzhen Gao, and the PIF Study Group
Cohort Profile: The Pacific Islands Families (PIF) Study
IJE Advance Access published on September 10, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 273-279; doi:10.1093/ije/dym171 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Life Course Epidemiology Back

Eero Kajantie, David J P Barker, Clive Osmond, Tom Forsén, and Johan G Eriksson
Growth before 2 years of age and serum lipids 60 years later: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study
IJE Advance Access published on February 11, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 280-289; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D Gimeno, J E Ferrie, M Elovainio, L Pulkki-Raback, L Keltikangas-Jarvinen, C Eklund, M Hurme, T Lehtimäki, J Marniemi, J S A Viikari, O T Raitakari, and M Kivimäki
When do social inequalities in C-reactive protein start? A life course perspective from conception to adulthood in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
IJE Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 290-298; doi:10.1093/ije/dym244 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Juan P Casas
Commentary: Social class, C-reactive protein and coronary heart disease
IJE Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 299-300; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn025 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Mandy B Belfort, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Janet W Rich-Edwards, Ken P Kleinman, Emily Oken, and Matthew W Gillman
Maternal iron intake and iron status during pregnancy and child blood pressure at age 3 years
IJE Advance Access published on February 8, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 301-308; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Environmental Epidemiology Back

A Fouillet, G Rey, V Wagner, K Laaidi, P Empereur-Bissonnet, A Le Tertre, P Frayssinet, P Bessemoulin, F Laurent, P De Crouy-Chanel, E Jougla, and D Hémon
Has the impact of heat waves on mortality changed in France since the European heat wave of summer 2003? A study of the 2006 heat wave
IJE Advance Access published on January 13, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 309-317; doi:10.1093/ije/dym253 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jordi Sunyer
Commentary: Evaluating response to heat waves
IJE Advance Access published on March 6, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 317-318; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn020 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jianguo Tan
Commentary: People's vulnerability to heat wave
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 318-320; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn023 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amir Sapkota, Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Dhaval H Jetly, Soma Roychowdhury, Rajesh P Dikshit, Paul Brennan, Mia Hashibe, and Paolo Boffetta
Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of hypopharyngeal/laryngeal and lung cancers: a multicentric case–control study from India
IJE Advance Access published on January 30, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 321-328; doi:10.1093/ije/dym261 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ana M García, Antonio Sisternas, and Santiago Perez Hoyos
Occupational exposure to extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields and Alzheimer disease: a meta-analysis
IJE Advance Access published on February 1, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 329-340; doi:10.1093/ije/dym295 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Röösli
Commentary: Epidemiological research on extremely low frequency magnetic fields and Alzheimer's disease—biased or informative?
IJE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 341-343; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn024 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Infectious Diseases Back

Jan H Kolaczinski, Richard Reithinger, Dagemlidet T Worku, Andrew Ocheng, John Kasimiro, Narcis Kabatereine, and Simon Brooker
Risk factors of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: a case-control study in Pokot territory of Kenya and Uganda
IJE Advance Access published on January 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 344-352; doi:10.1093/ije/dym275 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sonia L Fankem, Charles Shey Wiysonge, and Catherine A Hankins
Letter to the Editor: Male circumcision and the risk of HIV infection in men who have sex with men
IJE Advance Access published on October 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 353-355; doi:10.1093/ije/dym203 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susana Scott, Joel Mossong, William J Moss, Felicity T Cutts, and Simon Cousens
Predicted impact of the HIV-1 epidemic on measles in developing countries: results from a dynamic age-structured model
IJE Advance Access published on January 30, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 356-367; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn007 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Methodology Back

Pietro Ferrari, Nicholas E Day, Hendriek C Boshuizen, Andrew Roddam, Kurt Hoffmann, Anne Thiébaut, Guillem Pera, Kim Overvad, Eiliv Lund, Antonia Trichopoulou, Rosario Tumino, Bo Gullberg, Teresa Norat, Nadia Slimani, Rudolf Kaaks, and Elio Riboli
The evaluation of the diet/disease relation in the EPIC study: considerations for the calibration and the disease models
IJE Advance Access published on January 6, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 368-378; doi:10.1093/ije/dym242 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donna Spiegelman
Commentary: Calculations of EPIC proportions
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 379-381; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn036 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Anne M Jurek, Sander Greenland, and George Maldonado
Brief Report: How far from non-differential does exposure or disease misclassification have to be to bias measures of association away from the null?
IJE Advance Access published on January 9, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 382-385; doi:10.1093/ije/dym291 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other Original Articles Back

Hermann Nabi, Mika Kivimäki, Marie Zins, Marko Elovainio, Silla M Consoli, Sylvaine Cordier, Pierre Ducimetière, Marcel Goldberg, and Archana Singh-Manoux
Does personality predict mortality? Results from the GAZEL French prospective cohort study
IJE Advance Access published on February 8, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 386-396; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Sioned Hurt, Nurul Alam, Greet Dieltiens, Nasrin Aktar, and Carine Ronsmans
Duration and magnitude of mortality after pregnancy in rural Bangladesh
IJE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 397-404; doi:10.1093/ije/dym274 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T P van Staa, L Smeeth, I Persson, J Parkinson, and H G M Leufkens
What is the harm–benefit ratio of Cox-2 inhibitors?
IJE Advance Access published on February 8, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 405-413; doi:10.1093/ije/dym296 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Murielle Bochud, Arnaud Chiolero, Robert C Elston, and Fred Paccaud
A cautionary note on the use of Mendelian randomization to infer causation in observational epidemiology
IJE Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 414-416; doi:10.1093/ije/dym186 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim
Reply
IJE Advance Access published on September 22, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 416-417; doi:10.1093/ije/dym187 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews Back

Andy Ness
Rise and shine. Sunlight technology and health. Simon Carter.
IJE Advance Access published on December 25, 2007
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 418; doi:10.1093/ije/dym251 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sunil S Amrith
The health of populations: general theories and particular realities. Stephen J. Kunitz.
IJE Advance Access published on January 30, 2008
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 418-421; doi:10.1093/ije/dym288 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum Back

J Pildal, A Hróbjartsson, K J Jørgensen, J Hilden, D G Altman, and P C Gøtzsche
Impact of allocation concealment on conclusions drawn from meta-analyses of randomized trials
Int. J. Epidemiol. 2008 37: 422; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn046 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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