Gdansk bio‐statistic and epidemiology course

Epidemiology in Action Course

Life course epidemiology and infectious diseases.

There has been a traditional view that divided epidemiology into infectious and chronic diseases. Since we now know that at least 15% of cancers worldwide are caused by infections, 1 that infections frequently have a natural history lasting decades and that the same epidemiological methods can be applied to both infectious and non-infectious diseases, this view can be considered purely historic...

Commentary: Twins, worms and life course epidemiology.

Scientists can be remarkably flexible when investigating the nature of health and survival, taking advantage of populations from roundworms to humans to gain insight. Yet, flexibility can foster concern over generalizability. In this issue of IJE, Öberg et al. provide evidence on the generalizability of findings with twins, one of epidemiology’s most popular special populations, by showing that...

Practice of Epidemiology Statistical Issues in Life Course Epidemiology

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 2 MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom. 3 Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, Unit...

Practice of Epidemiology Dynamic Path Analysis in Life-Course Epidemiology

Life-course epidemiology seeks to better understand the mechanisms that lead to the development of chronic diseases. An example is the mechanism leading from body size to coronary heart disease (CHD); one way to acquire a better understanding of this mechanism is to investigate to what extent it works through other risk factors. In this paper, the dynamic path analysis model is presented as a t...