Issue 9/2008
Content (9 Articles)
Commentary
Problems in using incidence to analyze risk factors in follow-up studies
J. Pekkanen, J. Sunyer
Methods
Does population mixing measure infectious exposure in children at the community level?
John C. Taylor, Graham R. Law, Paul J. Boyle, Zhiqiang Feng, Mark S. Gilthorpe, Roger C. Parslow, Gavin Rudge, Richard G. Feltbower
Mortality
The burden of mortality of obesity at middle and old age is small. A life table analysis of the US Health and Retirement Survey
Mieke Reuser, Luc Bonneux, Frans Willekens
Cardiovascular Diseases
Incident solar radiation and coronary heart disease mortality rates in Europe
Alfred Wong
Locomotor Diseases
Differences in precision in bone mineral density measured by SXA and DXA: the NOREPOS study
Lisa Forsén, Gro K. Rosvold Berntsen, Haakon E. Meyer, Grethe S. Tell, Vinjar Fønnebø
Gastro-Intestinal Diseases
Changes in the prevalence of dyspepsia and Helicobacter pylori infection after 17 years: The Sørreisa gastrointestinal disorder study
Anne Mette Asfeldt, Bjørn Straume, Sonja Eriksson Steigen, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Jon Florholmen, Bjørn Bernersen, Roar Johnsen, Eyvind J. Paulssen
Allergy
Helicobacter pylori-infection status and childhood living conditions are associated with signs of allergic diseases in an occupational population
Petra Ina Pfefferle, Alexander Krämer
Infectious Diseases
Reduction of urinary tract infections acquired in an intensive care unit during a 10-year surveillance program
Philippe Vanhems, Dominique Baratin, Nicolas Voirin, Anne Savey, Emmanuelle Caillat-Vallet, Marie-Hélène Metzger, Alain Lepape