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01-12-2008 | Editorial

Recent trends in publications in the European Journal of Epidemiology

Author: Albert Hofman

Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Issue 12/2008

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In this last issue of 2008 I take the opportunity to report some observations on recent trends in articles published in the EJE. In the first decade after Antonio Sanna founded the Journal in 1985 the emphasis was clearly on infectious diseases. Over half of the papers were in this category, and the methods papers generally also were on infectious diseases. This gradually changed after Claude Hannoun took over as editor-in-chief in 1995. He published a growing proportion of articles on chronic diseases, in particular cardiovascular disease. In recent years, the Journal has published increasingly papers on epidemiologic and statistical methods, on the objectives and study design of new epidemiologic studies, on genetic epidemiology, and on developmental epidemiology. Here I will review some of the highlights of the articles published in recent years, including those on infectious diseases. …

Schmidt ME, Slanger T, Chang-Claude J, Wahrendorf J, Steindorf K. Evaluation of a short retrospective questionnaire for physical activity in women. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:575–85.PubMedCrossRef

Orsini N, Bellocco R, Bottai M, Pagano M, Wolk A. Reproducibility of the past year and historical self-administered total physical activity questionnaire among older women. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:363–8.PubMedCrossRef

Jurek AM, Maldonado G, Greenland S, Church TR. Exposure-measurement error is frequently ignored when interpreting epidemiologic study results. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:871–6.PubMedCrossRef

Tolonen H, Helakorpi S, Talala K, Helasoja V, Martelin T, Prattala R. 25-Year trends and socio-demographic differences in response rates: Finnish adult health behaviour survey. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:409–15.PubMedCrossRef

Iwasaki M, Yamamoto S, Otani T, Inoue M, Hanaoka T, Sobue T, et al. Generalizability of relative risk estimates from a well-defined population to a general population. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:253–62.PubMedCrossRef

Groenwold RH, Hoes AW, Hak E. Confounding in publications of observational intervention studies. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:413–5.PubMedCrossRef

Flanders WD. On the relationship of sufficient component cause models with potential outcome (counterfactual) models. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:847–53.PubMedCrossRef

Ekman A, Dickman PW, Klint A, Weiderpass E, Litton JE. Feasibility of using web based questionnaires in large population-based epidemiological studies. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:103–11.PubMedCrossRef

Richiardi L, Baussano I, Vizzini L, Douwes J, Pearce N, Merletti F. Feasibility of recruiting a birth cohort through the Internet: the experience of the NINFEA cohort. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:831–7.PubMedCrossRef

10.

Kallberg H, Ahlbom A, Alfredsson L. Calculating measures of biological interaction using R. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:571–3.PubMedCrossRef

11.

Danesh J, Saracci R, Berglund G, Feskens E, Overvad K, Panico S, et al. EPIC heart: the cardiovascular component of a prospective study of nutritional, lifestyle and biological factors in 520, 000 middle-aged participants from 10 European countries. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:129–41.PubMedCrossRef

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Hofman A, Breteler MM, van Duijn CM, Krestin GP, Pols HA, Stricker BH, et al. The Rotterdam Study: objectives and design update. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:819–29.PubMedCrossRef

13.

Jaddoe VW, Mackenbach JP, Moll HA, Steegers EA, Tiemeier H, Verhulst FC, et al. The Generation R Study: design and cohort profile. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:475–84.PubMedCrossRef

14.

Jaddoe VW, Bakker R, van Duijn CM, van der Heijden AJ, Lindemans J, Mackenbach JP, et al. The Generation R Study Biobank: a resource for epidemiological studies in children and their parents. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:917–23.PubMedCrossRef

15.

Clarisse B, Nikasinovic L, Poinsard R, Just J, Momas I. The Paris prospective birth cohort study: which design and who participates? Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:203–10.PubMedCrossRef

16.

Ronningen KS, Paltiel L, Meltzer HM, Nordhagen R, Lie KK, Hovengen R, et al. The biobank of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study: a resource for the next 100 years. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:619–25.PubMedCrossRef

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Stolk RP, Rosmalen JG, Postma DS, de Boer RA, Navis G, Slaets JP, et al. Universal risk factors for multifactorial diseases: Life-lines: a three-generation population-based study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2008;23:67–74.PubMedCrossRef

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Pereira TV, Rudnicki M, Pereira AC, Pombo-de-Oliveira MS, Franco RF. Do polymorphisms of 5, 10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene affect the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia? Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:885–6.PubMedCrossRef

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Zintzaras E, Koufakis T, Ziakas PD, Rodopoulou P, Giannouli S, Voulgarelis M. A meta-analysis of genotypes and haplotypes of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:501–10.PubMedCrossRef

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Cottone M, Renda MC, Mattaliano A, Oliva L, Fries W, Criscuoli V, et al. Incidence of Crohn’s disease and CARD15 mutation in a small township in Sicily. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:887–92.PubMedCrossRef

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Portoles O, Sorli JV, Frances F, Coltell O, Gonzalez JI, Saiz C, et al. Effect of genetic variation in the leptin gene promoter and the leptin receptor gene on obesity risk in a population-based case-control study in Spain. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:605–12.PubMedCrossRef

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Janssens AC, van Duijn CM. Towards predictive genetic testing of complex diseases. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:869–70.PubMedCrossRef

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Jaddoe VW, Witteman JC. Hypotheses on the fetal origins of adult diseases: contributions of epidemiological studies. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:91–102.PubMedCrossRef

24.

Silva AA, Mehta Z, O’Callaghan FJ. Duration of breast feeding and cognitive function: population based cohort study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:435–41.PubMedCrossRef

25.

Vos LE, Oren A, Bots ML, Gorissen WH, Grobbee DE, Uiterwaal CS. Birth size and coronary heart disease risk score in young adulthood. The Atherosclerosis Risk In Young Adults (ARYA) study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:33–8.PubMedCrossRef

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Pollitt RA, Kaufman JS, Rose KM, Diez-Roux AV, Zeng D, Heiss G. Early-life and adult socioeconomic status and inflammatory risk markers in adulthood. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:55–66.PubMedCrossRef

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Lawlor DA, Cooper AR, Bain C, Davey Smith G, Irwin A, Riddoch C, et al. Associations of birth size and duration of breast feeding with cardiorespiratory fitness in childhood: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Eur J Epidemiol. 2008;23:411–22.PubMedCrossRef

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Tu YK, Manda SO, Ellison GT, Gilthorpe MS. Revisiting the interaction between birth weight and current body size in the foetal origins of adult disease. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:565–75.PubMedCrossRef

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Koupil I, Shestov DB, Sparén P, Plavinskaja S, Parfenova N, Vågerö D. Blood pressure, hypertension and mortality from circulatory disease in men and women who survived the siege of Leningrad. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:223–34.PubMedCrossRef

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Olsen SF, Østerdal ML, Salvig JD, Kesmodel U, Henriksen TB, Hedegaard M, et al. Duration of pregnancy in relation to seafood intake during early and mid pregnancy: prospective cohort. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:749–58.PubMedCrossRef

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Geleijnse JM, Witteman JC, Stijnen T, Kloos MW, Hofman A, Grobbee DE. Sodium and potassium intake and risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality: the Rotterdam Study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:763–70.PubMedCrossRef

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Nabet C, Lelong N, Ancel PY, Saurel-Cubizolles MJ, Kaminski M. Smoking during pregnancy according to obstetric complications and parity: results of the EUROPOP study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:715–21.PubMedCrossRef

33.

Strandberg-Larsen K, Rod Nielsen N, Nybo Andersen AM, Olsen J, Grønbaek M. Characteristics of women who binge drink before and after they become aware of their pregnancy. Eur J Epidemiol. 2008;23:565–72.PubMedCrossRef

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Gravseth HM, Bjerkedal T, Irgens LM, Aalen OO, Selmer R, Kristensen P. Life course determinants for early disability pension: a follow-up of Norwegian men and women born 1967–1976. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:533–43.PubMedCrossRef

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Tomaso H, Mooseder G, Dahouk SA, Bartling C, Scholz HC, Strauss R, et al. Seroprevalence of anti-Yersinia antibodies in healthy Austrians. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:77–81.PubMedCrossRef

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de Greeff SC, Spanjaard L, Dankert J, Hoebe CJ, Nagelkerke N, de Melker HE. Underreporting of meningococcal disease incidence in the Netherlands: results from a capture-recapture analysis based on three registration sources with correction for false positive diagnoses. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:315–21.PubMedCrossRef

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Christensen PB, Kringsholm B, Banner J, Thomsen JL, Cowan S, Stein GF, et al. Surveillance of HIV and viral hepatitis by analysis of samples from drug related deaths. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:383–7.PubMedCrossRef

38.

Deuffic-Burban S, Costagliola D. Including pre-AIDS mortality in back-calculation model to estimate HIV prevalence in France, 2000. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:389–96.PubMedCrossRef

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Magoni M, Alberto M, Signorini Liana S, Donato Francesco D. Do environmental factors influence the occurrence of acute meningitis in industrialized countries? An epidemic of varying aetiology in northern Italy. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:465–8.CrossRef

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Gerlich M, Gschwend P, Uchtenhagen A, Krämer A, Rehm J. Prevalence of hepatitis and HIV infections and vaccination rates in patients entering the heroin-assisted treatment in Switzerland between 1994 and 2002. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:545–9.PubMedCrossRef

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Eveillard M, Lancien E, de Lassence A, Branger C, Barnaud G, Benlolo JA, et al. Impact of the reinforcement of a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Control Programme: a 3-year evaluation by several indicators in a French University Hospital. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:551–8.PubMedCrossRef

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Chatzipanagiotou S, Economou M, Papavasileiou C, Ioannidis A, Ioannidou V, Papavasileiou E, et al. Incidence of bacterial and viral enteric pathogens in children with gastroenteritis over a one year-period, in Attica, Greece. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:613–4.PubMedCrossRef

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Kourbatova EV, Leonard MK Jr, Romero J, Kraft C, del Rio C, Blumberg HM. Risk factors for mortality among patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis at an academic inner-city hospital in the US. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:715–21.PubMedCrossRef

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Guerrin-Tran E, Thiolet J-M, Rousseau C, Henry S, Poirier C, Che D, et al. An evaluation of data quality in a network for surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to antituberculosis drugs in Ile-de-France region–2001–2002. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:783–5.PubMedCrossRef

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Ioannidis A, Nicolaou C, Legakis NJ, Ioannidou V, Chatzipanagiotou S. The first database comprised of flagellin gene (flaA) types of Campylobacter jejuni human clinical isolates from Greece. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:823–9.PubMedCrossRef

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Kohl I, Němeček V, Summerová MR, Chlíbek RK, Nad’ová K, Mináriková O. Long-term protective effect of post-exposure Havrix^TM administration during viral hepatitis Type A outbreaks. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21:893–9.PubMedCrossRef

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Locquet C, Marande JL, Choudat D, Vidal-Trecan G. Hepatitis B vaccination in women healthcare workers: a seroepidemiological survey. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:113–9.PubMedCrossRef

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Lobacheva T, Asikainen T, Giesecke J. Risk factors for developing tuberculosis in remand prisons in St Petersburg, Russia—a case-control study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:121–7.PubMedCrossRef

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Quoilin S, Hutse V, Vandenberghe H, Claeys F, Verhaegen E, De Cock L, et al. A population-based prevalence study of hepatitis A, B and C virus using oral fluid in Flanders, Belgium. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:195–202.PubMedCrossRef

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Saadatian-Elahi M, Mekki Y, Del Signore C, Lina B, Derrough T, Caulin E, et al. Seroprevalence of varicella antibodies among pregnant women in Lyon-France. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:405–9.PubMedCrossRef

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Davidovici BB, Balicer RD, Klement E, Green MS, Mendelson E, Smetana Z, et al. Comparison of the dynamics and correlates of transmission of Herpes Simplex Virus–1 (HSV–1) and Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) in a sample of the Israeli population. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:641–6.PubMedCrossRef

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Deuffic-Burban S, Losina E, Wang B, Gabillard D, Messou E, Divi N, et al. Estimates of opportunistic infection incidence or death within specific CD4 strata in HIV-infected patients in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire: impact of alternative methods of CD4 count modelling. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:737–44.PubMedCrossRef

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Syrjänen K, Shabalova I, Petrovichev N, Kozachenko V, Zakharova T, Pajanidi J, et al. Smoking is an independent risk factor for oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) infections but not for high-grade CIN. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:723–35.PubMedCrossRef

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Camoni L, Salfa MC, Regine V, Pasqualini C, Borghi V, Icardi G, et al. HIV incidence estimate among non-nationals in Italy. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:813–7.PubMedCrossRef

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Lake IR, Harrison FC, Chalmers RM, Bentham G, Nichols G, Hunter PR, et al. Case-control study of environmental and social factors influencing cryptosporidiosis. Eur J Epidemiol. 2007;22:805–11.PubMedCrossRef

Title: Recent trends in publications in the European Journal of Epidemiology
Author: Albert Hofman
Publication date: 01-12-2008
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology / Issue 12/2008
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-008-9305-8

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