European Journal of Epidemiology

Article	Citations
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	262
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	139
Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States	130
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	90
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	88
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	87
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	71
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	69
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	66
Authors’ reply to Grundtvig Gram et al.	65
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	61
Trends in kidney cancer: exploring the impact of sex and age on stage of disease, and prognosis during the past three decades in Denmark—a DaRenCa study	60
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	59
Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths	57
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 2015–2022	53
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	45
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	45
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	45
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	44
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	43
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	42
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	41
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	41
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	38
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	37

Improving the reporting of non-inferiority trials by incorporating non-efficacy benefits: not all non-inferiority trials are created equal	35
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	35
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study	34
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	34
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	33
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	33
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–2019	32
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	32
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	32
The Authors Reply	32
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	32
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study	31
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology	31
Development in life expectancy with good and poor cognitive function in the elderly European Population from 2004-05 to 2015	31
Handling unobserved confounding in the relation between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes: a latent variable strategy	30
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study	30
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	30
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	30
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden	29
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults	29
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study	28
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	28
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization	28
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study	27
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	26
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	26
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	25
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods	25
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol	25
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction	23
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures	23
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)	23
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update	22
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register	22
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection	22
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls	22
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)	21
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability	21
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization	20
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations	20
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK	20
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden	19
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic growth in the 37 OECD member states	19
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia	19
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse	19
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?	19
Immune age and biological age as determinants of vaccine responsiveness among elderly populations: the Human Immunomics Initiative research program	19

Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank study	19
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France	19
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-19	18
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years	18
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 project	18
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA	17
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study	17
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France	16
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	16
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	16
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden	16
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	16
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study	16
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident	16
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	16
Slow data public health	16
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	15
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	15
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	15
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	15
A note of thanks	15
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States	15
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	14
Socioeconomic inequalities in dementia risk among a French population-based cohort: quantifying the role of cardiovascular health and vascular events	14
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	14
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	14
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults	14
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	14
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	14
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	14
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	14
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	14
Strength in causality: discerning causal mechanisms in the sufficient cause model	13
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial	13
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study	13
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	13
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	13
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer	13
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	13
Inflammatory potential of the diet and risk of breast cancer in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study	13
Ethnic differences in COVID-19 mortality during the first two waves of the Coronavirus Pandemic: a nationwide cohort study of 29 million adults in England	13
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 melanoma	13
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer	13
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	13
Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of carotid intima-media thickness	12
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	12
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 cases	12
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	12
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States	12
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health	11
Maternal exposure to airborne polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and risk of adverse birth outcomes	11
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis	11
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?	11
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records	11
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes	11
Turtles all the way down: do biological mechanisms for epidemiological observations always matter?	11
Age-specific contribution of contacts to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany	10
The Stockholm early detection of cancer study (STEADY-CAN): rationale, design, data collection, and baseline characteristics for 2.7 million participants	10
Body fatness across the adult life course and ovarian cancer risk	10
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 Study	10
Familial coaggregation and shared genetic influence between major depressive disorder and gynecological diseases	10
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment	10
Sex hormone-binding globulin may explain sex differences for glucose homeostasis and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the KORA study	10
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid and risk of gout: a cohort study integrating genetic predisposition and metabolomics	10
Impact of interventions scenarios targeting three main vascular risk factors on the future burden of dementia in France	10
Prioritisation and design of clinical trials	9
Cohort profile: Guangzhou breast cancer study (GBCS)	9
How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?	9
Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study	9
Dispositional optimism and depression risk in older women in the Nurses´ Health Study: a prospective cohort study	9
The underestimated preventive effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: re-analysis and meta-analysis of randomized trials	9
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on inanimate surfaces: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
A note of thanks	9
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study	9
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research	9
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 Cohort	9
Health as a means to flourishing	9

Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	9
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study	9
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	8
Risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in smokers lacks causal evidence	8
One in five patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy dies from other causes than cardiac or respiratory failure	8
Estimating and displaying population attributable fractions using the R package: graphPAF	8
A robust mean and variance test with application to high-dimensional phenotypes	8
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics	8
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women	8
A twenty-first century perspective on concepts of modern epidemiology in Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis’ work on puerperal sepsis	8
Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases	8
What can be learned when multiple analysts arrive at different estimates	8
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study	8
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases	8
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank	8
Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?	8
The origin of Modern Epidemiology, the book	8
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition	8
Risk tools for predicting long-term sequelae based on symptom profiles after known and undetected SARS-CoV-2 infections in the population	8
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects	8
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations	7
Association between body mass index, its change and cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: a community-based, 9-year prospective cohort study	7
Risk factors for COVID-19-related death, hospitalization and intensive care: a population-wide study of all inhabitants in Stockholm	7
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis	7
Possible selection bias in register-based obesity studies	7
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register study	7
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination	7
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study	7
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort	7
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China	7
Re: Subramanian and Kumar. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 cases	7
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	6
Re: The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category	6
Lifestyle risk factors and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the influence of reverse causation in a prospective cohort of 457,021 US adults	6
The Chinese keratoconus (CKC) cohort study	6
The comparative mortality of an elite group in the long run of history: an observational analysis of politicians from 11 countries	6
How to mitigate selection bias in COVID-19 surveys: evidence from five national cohorts	6
Risk of congenital malformations and miscarriages following maternal use of oral fluconazole during the first trimester of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study	6
Gains in life expectancy from decreasing cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality – an analysis of 28 European countries 1995–2019	6
Profile of the multicenter cohort of the German Cancer Consortium’s Clinical Communication Platform	6
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption	6
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and e-cigarette carcinogenicity: time for an evaluation	6
Maternal antibiotic use and infections during pregnancy and offspring asthma: the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study and a nationwide register cohort	6
Estimated lifetime risk of venous thromboembolism in men and women in a Danish nationwide cohort: impact of competing risk of death	6
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: design and cohort update 2025	6
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies	6
Target parameters and bias in non-causal change-score analyses with measurement errors	6
Longitudinal variability in mortality predicts COVID-19 deaths	6
Re: A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020. Alicandro et al. Eur J Epidemiol 2023	6
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study	6
The HOPE cohort: cohort profile and evaluation of selection bias	5
Estimating the hazard rate difference from case-cohort studies	5
Alcohol intake and risk of glioma: results from three prospective cohort studies	5
Longitudinal trajectories of lifetime body shape and prostate cancer angiogenesis	5
Fetal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking and male reproductive function in young adulthood	5
Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	5
A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020	5
Demystifying the black box: from ignorance to observation to mechanism in cancer research	5
Cohort profile update: the Johns Hopkins HIV clinical cohort, 1989–2023	5
Cardiorespiratory fitness does not offset the increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributed to smoking: a cohort study	5
The influence of growth and sex hormones on risk of alzheimer’s disease: a mendelian randomization study	5
Sedentary behavior and cancer–an umbrella review and meta-analysis	5
Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis	5
A municipality-specific analysis to investigate persistent increased incidence rates of childhood leukaemia near the nuclear power plant of Krümmel in Germany	5
Does having siblings really protect against childhood atopic diseases? A total population and within-family analysis	5
Habitual coffee consumption and risk of dementia in older persons: modulation by CYP1A2 polymorphism	5
Association of milk intake with hay fever, asthma, and lung function: a Mendelian randomization analysis	5
Cohort profile: Beijing Healthy Aging Cohort Study (BHACS)	5
Circulating vitamin D and breast cancer risk: an international pooling project of 17 cohorts	5
Vitamin D food fortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths	4
On my critical understandings about ‘modern epidemiology’	4
Towards an integrated and life-course approach to the epidemiology of dementia	4
Avoiding collider bias in Mendelian randomization when performing stratified analyses	4
Plasma metabolomic profiles for colorectal cancer precursors in women	4
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 Denmar	4
Lipids, apolipoproteins, carbohydrates, and risk of hematological malignancies	4
Association between maternal cancer and the incidence of cancer in offspring	4
Updated findings on temporal variation in radiation-effects on cancer mortality in an international cohort of nuclear workers (INWORKS)	4
The Danish Nationwide Electrocardiogram (ECG) Cohort	4
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	4
The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category	4
The impact of left truncation of exposure in environmental case–control studies: evidence from breast cancer risk associated with airborne dioxin	4
Marital status and risk of cardiovascular disease – a multi-analyst study in epidemiology	4
Circulating lipoprotein (a) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis	4
Two sample Mendelian Randomisation using an outcome from a multilevel model of disease progression	4
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer	4
Hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism risk in women of menopausal age: a target trial emulation	4
Authors’ Reply: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	4
Regression-based estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects when extending inferences from a randomized trial to a target population	4
SARS-CoV-2 elicits non-sterilizing immunity and evades vaccine-induced immunity: implications for future vaccination strategies	4
Milk intake, lactase persistence genotype, plasma proteins and risks of cardiovascular events in the Swedish general population	4
Predicting counterfactual risks under hypothetical treatment strategies: an application to HIV	4
Chance, ignorance, and the paradoxes of cancer: Richard Peto on developing preventative strategies under uncertainty	4