Invited commentary: consequential(ist) epidemiology: let's seize the day.

Invited commentary: screening as a nuisance variable in cancer epidemiology: methodological considerations.

A large literature has developed over the last two decades around methods for evaluating the effects and benefits of screening procedures for cancer. In contrast, the role of screening for cancer as a nuisance variable is one that has as yet received little attention. This is unfortunate, because, as Noel Weiss points out in the lead commentary in this issue of the Journal (1), screening proced...

Invited commentary: pertussis, a forgotten killer.

Invited commentary: a further look at dietary questionnaire validation.

Invited Commentary Invited Commentary: Dietary Pattern Analysis

The analytic approaches used in nutritional epidemiology for dietary pattern analyses share common characteristics with those of genetic epidemiology. In this issue of the Journal, Gorst-Rasmussen et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2011;173(10):1097–1104) discuss one such approach. Application of methods used in genetic pattern analyses to nutritional epidemiology could prove valuable but raises important...

Invited commentary: should we estimate incidence for undefined populations?