European Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Epidemiology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation665
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood311
Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States254
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study133
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects127
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes88
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review86
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence77
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)69
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics67
Authors’ reply to Grundtvig Gram et al.66
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?61
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention59
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula58
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study58
Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths55
Continued decline in the incidence of myocardial infarction beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study of the Swedish population aged 60 and older during 2015–202252
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort45
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register45
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study43
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer43
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting42
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis42
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis40
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?40
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention39
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations38
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China37
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 201635
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study33
Improving the reporting of non-inferiority trials by incorporating non-efficacy benefits: not all non-inferiority trials are created equal33
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research32
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility32
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)32
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial32
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study31
Secondary attack rates of COVID-19 in Norwegian families: a nation-wide register-based study31
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology31
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–201931
The Authors Reply31
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts31
Development in life expectancy with good and poor cognitive function in the elderly European Population from 2004-05 to 201530
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study30
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study29
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods29
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study29
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization29
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden29
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults28
Handling unobserved confounding in the relation between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes: a latent variable strategy28
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study28
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study28
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada28
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review27
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction26
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations25
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures25
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)24
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls24
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update23
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK23
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register23
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization23
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis23
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA22
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden22
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection22
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France22
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse21
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?20
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France20
Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank study20
Immune age and biological age as determinants of vaccine responsiveness among elderly populations: the Human Immunomics Initiative research program20
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic growth in the 37 OECD member states20
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years19
Drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with lower rate of all-cause mortality in individuals with higher rather than lower educational level: findings from the MORGAM project19
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia19
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States18
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-1918
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study18
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study18
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy18
Slow data public health17
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study17
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk16
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States16
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society16
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations16
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden16
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study16
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident16
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-1916
A note of thanks16
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study15
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses15
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank15
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults15
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study15
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment15
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study15
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes15
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial14
The Dutch Early-Stage Melanoma (D-ESMEL) study: a discovery set and validation cohort to predict the absolute risk of distant metastases in stage I/II cutaneous melanoma14
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis14
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-202114
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study14
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study14
Ethnic differences in COVID-19 mortality during the first two waves of the Coronavirus Pandemic: a nationwide cohort study of 29 million adults in England14
Strength in causality: discerning causal mechanisms in the sufficient cause model14
Socioeconomic inequalities in dementia risk among a French population-based cohort: quantifying the role of cardiovascular health and vascular events14
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review13
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?13
Turtles all the way down: do biological mechanisms for epidemiological observations always matter?13
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records13
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses13
Inflammatory potential of the diet and risk of breast cancer in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study13
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial13
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis13
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States13
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study13
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health13
Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of carotid intima-media thickness13
Sex hormone-binding globulin may explain sex differences for glucose homeostasis and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the KORA study12
Prenatal and postnatal exposure to acetaminophen in relation to autism spectrum and attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in childhood: Meta-analysis in six European population-based cohorts12
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes12
Impact of interventions scenarios targeting three main vascular risk factors on the future burden of dementia in France12
Maternal exposure to airborne polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and risk of adverse birth outcomes12
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment12
Diabetes mellitus, prediabetes and the risk of Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 cohort studies with 29.9 million participants and 86,345 cases12
Body fatness across the adult life course and ovarian cancer risk11
Age-specific contribution of contacts to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany11
Self-reported insomnia symptoms, sleep duration, chronotype and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI): a prospective study in the UK Biobank and the HUNT Study11
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on inanimate surfaces: a systematic review and meta-analysis11
The Stockholm early detection of cancer study (STEADY-CAN): rationale, design, data collection, and baseline characteristics for 2.7 million participants11
Familial coaggregation and shared genetic influence between major depressive disorder and gynecological diseases11
A note of thanks10
Dispositional optimism and depression risk in older women in the Nurses´ Health Study: a prospective cohort study10
The underestimated preventive effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: re-analysis and meta-analysis of randomized trials10
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research10
Cohort profile: Guangzhou breast cancer study (GBCS)10
Prioritisation and design of clinical trials10
Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy10
How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?10
Residential exposure to mold, dampness, and indoor air pollution and risk of respiratory tract infections: a study among children ages 11 and 12 in the Danish National Birth Cohort10
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics9
Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study9
Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?9
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank9
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis9
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study9
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women9
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study9
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study8
Risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in smokers lacks causal evidence8
A robust mean and variance test with application to high-dimensional phenotypes8
Re: Subramanian and Kumar. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 cases8
Risk factors for COVID-19-related death, hospitalization and intensive care: a population-wide study of all inhabitants in Stockholm8
A twenty-first century perspective on concepts of modern epidemiology in Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis’ work on puerperal sepsis8
Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases8
10 K: a large‐scale prospective longitudinal study in Israel8
Estimating and displaying population attributable fractions using the R package: graphPAF8
Re: The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category8
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China8
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies8
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition8
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases8
One in five patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy dies from other causes than cardiac or respiratory failure8
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects8
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register study8
Lifestyle risk factors and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the influence of reverse causation in a prospective cohort of 457,021 US adults8
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study8
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study8
The origin of Modern Epidemiology, the book8
Comparative effectiveness and safety of direct acting oral anticoagulants in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation for stroke prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study7
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study7
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination7
Association between body mass index, its change and cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: a community-based, 9-year prospective cohort study7
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations7
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort7
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis7
Risk of congenital malformations and miscarriages following maternal use of oral fluconazole during the first trimester of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis6
Profile of the multicenter cohort of the German Cancer Consortium’s Clinical Communication Platform6
The comparative mortality of an elite group in the long run of history: an observational analysis of politicians from 11 countries6
Re: A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020. Alicandro et al. Eur J Epidemiol 20236
Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis6
Estimated lifetime risk of venous thromboembolism in men and women in a Danish nationwide cohort: impact of competing risk of death6
Gains in life expectancy from decreasing cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality – an analysis of 28 European countries 1995–20196
Target parameters and bias in non-causal change-score analyses with measurement errors6
How to mitigate selection bias in COVID-19 surveys: evidence from five national cohorts6
Maternal antibiotic use and infections during pregnancy and offspring asthma: the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study and a nationwide register cohort6
Cohort profile update: the Johns Hopkins HIV clinical cohort, 1989–20236
Longitudinal variability in mortality predicts COVID-19 deaths6
The Chinese keratoconus (CKC) cohort study6
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption6
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study6
Alcohol intake and risk of glioma: results from three prospective cohort studies6
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and e-cigarette carcinogenicity: time for an evaluation6
Vitamin D food fortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths5
Does having siblings really protect against childhood atopic diseases? A total population and within-family analysis5
The HOPE cohort: cohort profile and evaluation of selection bias5
Longitudinal trajectories of lifetime body shape and prostate cancer angiogenesis5
Circulating vitamin D and breast cancer risk: an international pooling project of 17 cohorts5
A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 20205
Association between maternal cancer and the incidence of cancer in offspring5
Two sample Mendelian Randomisation using an outcome from a multilevel model of disease progression5
Estimating the hazard rate difference from case-cohort studies5
Sedentary behavior and cancer–an umbrella review and meta-analysis5
Association of milk intake with hay fever, asthma, and lung function: a Mendelian randomization analysis5
Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study5
Cardiorespiratory fitness does not offset the increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributed to smoking: a cohort study5
Demystifying the black box: from ignorance to observation to mechanism in cancer research5
Predicting counterfactual risks under hypothetical treatment strategies: an application to HIV5
Lipids, apolipoproteins, carbohydrates, and risk of hematological malignancies5
A municipality-specific analysis to investigate persistent increased incidence rates of childhood leukaemia near the nuclear power plant of Krümmel in Germany5
Fetal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking and male reproductive function in young adulthood5
Habitual coffee consumption and risk of dementia in older persons: modulation by CYP1A2 polymorphism5
Cohort profile: Beijing Healthy Aging Cohort Study (BHACS)5
The influence of growth and sex hormones on risk of alzheimer’s disease: a mendelian randomization study5
Chance, ignorance, and the paradoxes of cancer: Richard Peto on developing preventative strategies under uncertainty5
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer5
Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care5
SARS-CoV-2 elicits non-sterilizing immunity and evades vaccine-induced immunity: implications for future vaccination strategies4
Exposure to different residential indoor characteristics during childhood and asthma in adolescence: a latent class analysis of the Danish National Birth Cohort4
Associations of Global Burden of Diseases study-derived dietary scores with mortality and chronic disease risk: a comprehensive analysis from the prospective NutriNet-Santé study4
The impact of left truncation of exposure in environmental case–control studies: evidence from breast cancer risk associated with airborne dioxin4
Hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism risk in women of menopausal age: a target trial emulation4
Blood pressure, hypertension and the risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies4
On my critical understandings about ‘modern epidemiology’4
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention4
Towards an integrated and life-course approach to the epidemiology of dementia4
Epidemiology of first-time major lower extremity amputations– A Danish Nationwide cohort study from 2010 to 20214
Genetic variants in the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter A1 and risk of age-related macular degeneration4
Milk intake, lactase persistence genotype, plasma proteins and risks of cardiovascular events in the Swedish general population4
Updated findings on temporal variation in radiation-effects on cancer mortality in an international cohort of nuclear workers (INWORKS)4
Circulating lipoprotein (a) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis4
Avoiding collider bias in Mendelian randomization when performing stratified analyses4
Plasma metabolomic profiles for colorectal cancer precursors in women4
Authors’ Reply: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-20214
Adherence to a healthy lifestyle and brain structural imaging markers4
Machine learning in causal inference for epidemiology4
The Danish Nationwide Electrocardiogram (ECG) Cohort4
Re: Frisch & Simonson. Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmar4
The nationwide Finnish anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (FinACAF): study rationale, design, and patient characteristics4
Regression-based estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects when extending inferences from a randomized trial to a target population4
The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category4
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