American Journal of Epidemiology

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Ross L. Prentice, Robert D. Langer, Marcia L. Stefanick, Barbara V. Howard, Mary Pettinger, Garnet L. Anderson, David Barad, J. David Curb, Jane Kotchen, Lewis Kuller, Marian Limacher, and Jean Wactawski-Wende for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators

Combined Analysis of Women's Health Initiative Observational and Clinical Trial Data on Postmenopausal Hormone Treatment and Cardiovascular Disease
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 16, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 589-599; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj079 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS:

Lucia A. Hindorff, Bruce M. Psaty, Christopher S. Carlson, Susan R. Heckbert, Thomas Lumley, Nicholas L. Smith, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Mark J. Rieder, Deborah A. Nickerson, and Alexander P. Reiner

Common Genetic Variation in the Prothrombin Gene, Hormone Therapy, and Incident Nonfatal Myocardial Infarction in Postmenopausal Women
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 8, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 600-607; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj092 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] HTML Page - index.htslp [Request Permissions]  

Debbie A. Lawlor, George Davey Smith, Richard Mitchell, and Shah Ebrahim

Adult Blood Pressure and Climate Conditions in Infancy: A Test of the Hypothesis that Dehydration in Infancy Is Associated with Higher Adult Blood Pressure
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 8, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 608-614; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj085 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karri Silventoinen, Slobodan Zdravkovic, Axel Skytthe, Peter McCarron, Anne Maria Herskind, Markku Koskenvuo, Ulf de Faire, Nancy Pedersen, Kaare Christensen, and Jaakko Kaprio for the GenomEUtwin Project

Association between Height and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality: A Prospective Study of 35,000 Twin Pairs
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 16, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 615-621; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric B. Loucks, Lisa M. Sullivan, Laura J. Hayes, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr., Martin G. Larson, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Emelia J. Benjamin, and Lisa F. Berkman

Association of Educational Level with Inflammatory Markers in the Framingham Offspring Study
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 622-628; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshinori Oishi, Yutaka Kiyohara, Michiaki Kubo, Keiichi Tanaka, Yumihiro Tanizaki, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Yasufumi Doi, Kentaro Shikata, Koji Yonemoto, Tomoko Shirota, Takayuki Matsumoto, and Mitsuo Iida

The Serum Pepsinogen Test as a Predictor of Gastric Cancer: The Hisayama Study
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on January 27, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 629-637; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj088 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susanna C. Larsson, Leif Bergkvist, Edward Giovannucci, and Alicja Wolk

Coffee Consumption and Incidence of Colorectal Cancer in Two Prospective Cohort Studies of Swedish Women and Men
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on January 27, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 638-644; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yong Cui, Xiao-Ou Shu, Yu-Tang Gao, Hui Cai, Meng-Hua Tao, and Wei Zheng

Association of Ginseng Use with Survival and Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Patients
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 16, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 645-653; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj087 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Merete Osler, Merete Nordentoft, and Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

Childhood Social Environment and Risk of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in a Cohort of Danish Men Born in 1953
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on January 27, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 654-661; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

O. S. von Ehrenstein, D. N. Guha Mazumder, M. Hira-Smith, N. Ghosh, Y. Yuan, G. Windham, A. Ghosh, R. Haque, S. Lahiri, D. Kalman, S. Das, and A. H. Smith

Pregnancy Outcomes, Infant Mortality, and Arsenic in Drinking Water in West Bengal, India
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on March 8, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 662-669; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil J. Perkins and Enrique F. Schisterman

The Inconsistency of "Optimal" Cutpoints Obtained using Two Criteria based on the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on January 12, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 670-675; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PRACTICE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY:

James T. Griffin, Christophe Fraser, Luuk Gras, Frank de Wolf, and Azra C. Ghani

The Effect on Treatment Comparisons of Different Measurement Frequencies in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Observational Databases
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 16, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 676-683; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Web Only Appendix [Request Permissions]  

BOOK REVIEWS:

Eldin A. Leighton

Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology By Duncan C. Thomas: ISBN 0-19-515939-X, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, Website: http://www.oupusa.org), 2004, 464 pp., $65 (Hardcover)
American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on February 8, 2006
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 163: 684-685; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj102 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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