American Journal of EPIDEMIOLOGY

vol . 149 , no . 1

COMMENTARY

1 Case-Control Studies of the Efficacy of Screening Tests Designed to Prevent the
Incidence of Cancer. Noel S. Weiss

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

5 Active and Passive Cigarette Smoking and the Occurrence of Breast Cancer.
Timothy L. Lash and Ann Aschengrau

13 Previous Lung Disease and Risk of Lung Cancer among Men and Women
Nonsmokers. Susan T. Mayne, Joan Buenconsejo, and Dwight T. Janerich

21 Prospective Study of Diet and Ovarian Cancer. Lawrence H. Kushi, Pamela J. Mink,
Aaron R. Folsom, Kristin E. Anderson, Wei Zheng, DeAnn Lazovich, and Thomas A.
Sellers

32 Traumatic Brain Injury and Time to Onset of Aizheimer's Disease: A Population-
based Study. Peter N. Nemetz, Cynthia Leibson, James M. Naessens, Mary Beard,
Ernre Kokmen, John F. Annegers, and Leonard T. Kurland

41 Self-reported Health Status and Mortality in a Multiethnic US Cohort. Daniel L.
McGee, Youlian Uao, Guichan Cao, and Richard S. Cooper

47 Complex Relation between Increasing Pat Mass and Decreasing High Density
Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels: Evidence from a Population-based Study of
Premenopausal Women. MaryFran Sowers and Catherine Sigler

55 Estimating Prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in a Population of African
Americans with Diabetes Mellitus. James P. Boyle, Michael M. Engelgau, Theodore
J. Thompson, Merilyn G. Goldschmid, Gloria L. Beckles, David S. Timberlake, William
H. Herman, David C. Ziemer, and Daniel L. Gallina

64 Parental Agricultural Work and Selected Congenital Malformations. Ana M.
Garcia, Tony Fletcher, Fernande G. Benavides, and Enrique Orts

75 Is There Really a Heterosexual AIDS Epidemic in the United States? Findings
from a Multisite Validation Study, 1992-1995. R. Monina Klevens, Patricia L. Fleming,
Joyce J. Neat, Jianmin U, and The Mode of Transmission Validation Study Group

85 Time-Series Analysis of the Relation between Influenza Virus and Hospital
Admissions of the Elderly in Ontario, Canada, for Pneumonia, Chronic Lung
Disease, and Congestive Heart Failure. R. E. G. Upshur, Keith Knight, and Vivek Goel

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vol: 149, no: 2, january 1999

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
("Indicates a Brief Original Contribution)

93 Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Breast Cancer: The Framingham Study
Revisited. Yuqing Zhang, Bernard E. Kreger, Joanne F. Dorgan, Greta L. Splansky, L.
Adrienne Cupples, and Ft. Curtis Ellison

102 Invited Commentary: The Framingham Results on Alcohol and Breast Cancer.
Matthew P. Longnecker

105 Authors' Response to "The Framingham Results on Alcohol and Breast Cancer."
Yuqing Zhang, Bernard E. Kreger, Joanne F. Dorgan, Greta L. Splansky, L. Adrienne
Cupples, and P. Curtis Ellison

106 Alcohol Consumption, Cigarette Smoking, and Risk of Benign Prostatic
Hyperplasia. Elizabeth A. Platz, EricB. Fiimm, IchiroKawachi, Graham A. Colditz, Meir
J. Stampfer, Walter C. Willett, and Edward Giovannucci

116 Psychological Disorder and Mortality in French Older Adults: Do Social Relations
Modify the Association? P. Fuhrer, C. Dufouil, T. C. Antonucci, M. J. Shipley, C.
Helmer, and J. F. Dartigues

127 Psychological Stress in the Workplace and Menstrual Function. Laura Fenster,
Kirsten Waller, John Chen, Alan E. Hubbard, Gayle C. Windham, Eric Elkin, and
Shanna Swan

135 Magnetic Field Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality among Electric
Utility Workers. David A. Savitz, Duanping Uao, Antonio Sastre, Fiobert C. Kleckner,
and Robert Kavet

143 Increasing Number and Incidence of Fall-induced Severe Head Injuries in Older
Adults: Nationwide Statistics in Finland in 1970-1995 and Prediction for the
Future. Pekka Kannus, Mika Palvanen, Seppo Niemi, Jari Parkkari, Antero Natri, Ukka
Vuori, and Markku Jarvinen

151 Relation of Calcium, Vitamin D, and Dairy Food Intake to Ischemic Heart Disease
Mortality among Postmenopausal Women. Roberd M. Bostick, Lawrence H. Kushi,
Ying Wu, Katie A. Meyer, Thomas A. Sellers, andAaron Fi. Folsom

162 *Coffee and Tea Intake and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction. Howard D. Sesso, J.
Michael Gaziano. Julie E. Buring, and Charles H. Hennekens

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ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

203 Syringe Exchange and Risk of Infection with Hepatitis B and C Viruses. Holly
Hagan, James P. McGough, Hanne Thiede, Noel S. Weiss, Sharon Hopkins, and E.
Flussell Alexander

214 Invited Commentary: Needle Exchange—No Help for Hepatitis? A. P. Moss and
J. A. Hahn

217 Reply to "Invited Commentary: Needle Exchange—No Help for Hepatitis?" by
Moss and Hahn. Holly Hagan, Noel S. Weiss, Hanne Thiede, Sharon Hopkins, James
P. McGough, and E. Russell Alexander

219 Physical Activity in Elderly Subjects with Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Newly
Diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus. C. A. Baan, Ft. P. Stolk, D. E. Grobbee, J. C. M.
Witteman, and E. J. M. Feskens

228 Comparison of Performance-based and Self-rated Functional Capacity in
Spanish Elderly. MontserratFerrer, Rosa Lamarca, Francesc Orfila, andJordiAlonso

236 Use of Simple Measures of Physical Activity to Predict Stress Fractures in Young
Men Undergoing a Rigorous Physical Training Program. Richard A. Shatter,
Stephanie K. Brodine, Sandra A. Almeida, Karen Maxwell Williams, and Sara Ronaghy
243 Exposure to Environmental and Mainstream Tobacco Smoke and Risk of
Spontaneous Abortion. Gayle C. Windham, Julie Von Behren, Kirsten Waller, and
Laura Fenster

248 Oral Clefts, Transforming Growth Factor Alpha Gene Variants, and Maternal
Smoking: A Population-based Case-Control Study in Denmark, 1991-1994. Kaare
Christensen, Jem Olsen, Bent Nergaard-Pedersen, Olga Basso, Henrik Stevrmg, Lisa
Milhollin-Johnson, and Jeffrey C. Murray

256 Association between Duration of Obesity and Risk of Non-lnsulin-Dependent
Diabetes Mellitus. The Sotetsu Study. Yutaka Sakurai, Koji Teruya, Naoki Shimada,
Takashi Urneda, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takashi Muto, Takefumi Kondo, Kou Nakamura, and
Nobuyuki Yoshizawa

261 Analytical and Biologic Variability in Measures of Hemostasis, Fibrinolysis, and
Inflammation: Assessment and Implications for Epidemiology. Pamela A.
Sakkinen, Elizabeth M. Macy, Peter W. Callas, Elaine S. Comell, Timothy E. Hayes,
Lewis H. Kuller,
.
268 Parallel AnalySES OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLOGI DATA ON rSIDENTIAL rADON,
COFACTORS, AND LUNG CANCER IN SWEDEN




275 ong-term Hormone Replacement Therapy Users Different from Short-term and Never Users? Diana S. M.
LaCroix, Katherine M. Newton, and Nora L. Keenan

282 Accuracy of ICD-9-CM Codes in Detecting Community-acquired Pneumococcal Pneumonia for Incidence
and Vaccine Efficacy Studies. Fiamon E. Guevara, Jay C. Butler, Barbara J. Marston, Joseph F. Pfouffe, Thomas M.
Fife, Jr., and Robert F. Breiman

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

290 Re: Residual Confounding. Jem Olsen and Olga Basso

290 Re: "Male Pesticide Exposure and Pregnancy Outcome." Wilfiam H. James

291 The Authors Reply. David A. Savitz, Kathryn M. Curtis, Tye Arbuckle, and Diane Kaczor

292 Re: "Hormone Replacemeht Therapy and Risk of Hospitalization for Venous Thromboembolism: A Population-
based Study in Southern Europe." Emmanuel Ogerand Pierre-Yves Scarabin

292 The Authors Reply. Cristina Varas-Lorenzo, Luis Afberto Garci'a-Ftodriguez, Chiara Cattaruzzi, Maria Grazia
Troncon, Luisa Agostinis, and Susanne Perez-Gutthann

293 ERRATUM

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ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

295 Role of Schools in the Transmission of Measles in Rural Senegal: Implications for
Measles Control in Developing Countries. Badara Cisse, Peter Aaby, Francois
Simondon, Badara Samb, Masserigne Soumare, and Hitton Whittle

302 Invited Commentary: Vaccine Failure or Failure to Vaccinate? Peter Strebel, Dalya
Guns, Mark Papania, and Stephen Cochi

304 Waning of Vaccine-indImmunity: Is It a Problem in Africa? Peter Aaby,
Badara Cisse, Francois Simondon, Badara Samb, Masserigne Soumare, and Hilton
Whittle

306 Double-Blind Intervention Trial on Modulation of Ozone Effects on Pulmonary
Function by Antioxidant Supplements. Linda Grievink, Aletta G. Zijistra, Xiaodong
Ke, and Bert Brunekreef

315 Asthma Visits to Emergency Rooms and Soybean Unloading in the Harbors of
Valencia and A Coruna, Spain. Ferran Ballester, Joan B. Soriano, Isabel Otero,
Maria Luisa Rivera, Jordi Sunyer, Antoni Merelles, Hector Verea, Julio Mann, and
Josep M. Anto

323 Maternal Second Trimester Serum Tumor Necrosis Factor-a-soluble Receptor p55
(sTNFp55) and Subsequent Risk of Preeclampsia. Michelle A. Williams, Alien
Farrand, Robert Mittendorf, Tanya K. Sorensen, Rosalee W. Zingheim, Geralyn C.
O'Reilly, Irena B. King, Arthur M. Zebelman, and David A. Luthy

330 Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease and Associated Risk Factors In
American Indians: The Strong Heart Study. R. P. Fabsitz, A. N. Sidawy, 0. Go, E. T.
Lee, T. K. Welty, P. B. Devereux, and B. V. Howard

339 Relation between Obesity and Breast Cancer in Young Women. Susan L. Peacock,
Emily White, Janet P. Dating, Lynda F. Voigt, and Kathleen E. Malone

347 Why Do Short Term Workers Have High Mortality? HenrikA. KolstadandJffm Olsen

353 Longitudinal Evaluation of Serovar-specific Immunity to Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Kimberley K. Fox, James C. Thomas, Debra H. Weiner, Ffachael H. Davis, P. Frederick
Sparling, and Myron S. Cohen

359 Epidemiology of Drug- resistant tuberculosis in texas
jeffery paul taylor, (1). david bergmire- sweat, (1). and lucina suarez (2)


366 Influence of Sampling on Estimates of Clustering and Recent Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Derived from DNA Fingerprinting Techniques. J. R. Giynn, E. Vynnycky, and P. E. M. Fine

372 Comparison of Active and Cancer Registry-based Follow-up for Breast Cancer in a Prospective Cohort Study.
lkuko Kato, Paolo Toniolo, Karen L. Koenig, Amy Kahn, Maria Schymura, and Anne Zeieniuch-Jacquotte

379 Reliability of Information on Physical Activity and Other Chronic Disease Risk Factors among US Women
Aged 40 Years or Older. Ross C. Brownson, Amy A. Eyler, Abby C. King, Yuh-Ung Shyu, David R. Brown, and Sharon
M. Homan

392 Capture-Recapture Models Including Covariate Effects. Kate Tilling and Jonathan A. C. Sterne

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VOL: 149, NO: 6, MARCH 1999

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

491 Prospective Study of Intentional Weight Loss and Mortality in Overweight White
Men Aged 40-64 Years. David F. Wiiiiamson, Elsie Pamuk, Michael Thun, Dana
Flanders, Tim Byers, and Clark Heath

504 Prospective Study of Intentionality of Weight Loss and Mortality in Older Women:
The Iowa Women's Health Study. Simone A. French, Aaron R. Folsom, Robert W.
Jeffery, and David F. WiUiamson

515 Invited Commentary on "Prospective Study of Intentional Weight Loss and
Mortality in Overweight White Men Aged 40-64 Years" and "Prospective Study of
Intentionality of Weight Loss and Mortality in Older Women: The Iowa Women's
Health Study." Lew/s H. Kuller

517 Dr. Wiiiiamson Responds to Dr. Kuller. David F. Wiiiiamson

519 French et al. Respond to Dr. Kuller. Simone A. French, Aaron Ft. Folsom, Robert W.
Jeffery, and David F. Wiiiiamson

521 Hypertension, Antihypertensive Medication Use, and Risk of Renal Cell
Carcinoma. Jean A. Shapiro, Michelle A. Williams, Noel S. Weiss, Andy Stergachis,
Andrea Z. LaCroix, and William E. Barlow

531 Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease: A Comparison of Approaches for
Adjusting for Total Energy Intake and Modeling Repeated Dietary Measurements.
Frank B. Hu, MeirJ. Stamp fer, Eric Rimm, AlbertoAscherio, Bernard A. Rosner, Donna
Spiegelman, and Walter C. Willett

541 Agreement between Drug Treatment Data and a Discharge Diagnosis of Diabetes
Mellitus in the Elderly. Robert J. Glynn, Mark Monane, Jerry H. Gurwitz, lgor
Choodnovskiy, and Jerry Avorn

550 Caffeine Consumption and Menstrual Function. Laura Fenster, Chris Quale, Kirsten
Waller, Gayle C. Windham, Eric P. Elkin, Neal Benowitz, and Shanna H. Swan

558 HIV-1 Incidence among Opiate Users in Northern Thailand. David D. Celentano,
Matthew J. Hodge, Myat Htoo Razak, Chris Beyrer, Surinda Kawichai, J. Peter
Cegielski, Kenrad E. Nelson, and Jaroon Jittiwutikarn

565 OnchocerciASIS AND ePILESY: a mATCHED CASE- Control study in the central
african republic
Michel Druet- cabanac, (1) pierre-Marie preux,(1.2) Bernard Bouteille(1.3) patrica Bernet-Bernady,(1) jean Dunand,(4)
Adrian Hopkins,(5) Georges Yaya, (4) Andre Tabo,94) chiara sartoris,(6) waruingi Macharia,(1) and Michel Dumas (1)


Contents Continued from Front Cover

571 inverse Graded Relation between Alcohol Consumption and Active infection with Helicobacter pylori.
Hermann Brenner, Dietrich Pothenbacher, GOnter Bode, and Guido Adier


577 Place Effects for Areas Defined by Administrative Boundaries. Michael H. Boyle and J. Douglas Willms

586 Evaluation of the Quality of an Injury Surveillance System. Colin Macarthur and 1. Barry Pless

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VOL: 149, NO: 7, APRIL 1999

(ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
* Indicates a Brief Original Contribution)

593 Tobacco Smoke Exposure at One Month of Age and Subsequent Risk of SIDS—
A Prospective Study. Terence Dwyer, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, and David Couper

603 Invited Commentary: Disentangling the Separate Effects of Prenatal and
Postnatal Smoking on the Risk of SIDS. P. S. Spiers

607 Authors' Response to "Disentangling the Separate Effects of Prenatal and
Postnatal Smoking on the Risk of SIDS." Terence Dwyer and Anne-Louise Ponsonby

60Maternal Placenta) Abnormality and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
De-Kun U and Soora Wi

612 Reproductive Characteristics and the Age at Inception of the Perimenopause in
a British National Cohort. Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh

621 Plasma Carotenoids, Glutathione 5-Transferase MI and T1 Genetic
Polymorphisms, and Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Independent and
I Interactive Effects. Ming-Whei Yu, Yueh-Hsia Chiu, Yi-Ching Chiang, Chien-Hung
Chen, Tzong-Hsi Lee, Pegina M. Santella, Herng-Der Chem, Yun-Fan Liaw, and Chien-
Jen Chen

630 Serum Dioxin and Cancer in Veterans of Operation Ranch Hand. Norma S.
Ketchum, Joel E. Michaiek, and Joseph E. Burton

640 Smoking and the Occurrence of Aizheimer's Disease: Cross-Sectional and
Longitudinal Data in a Population-based Study. Hui-Xin Wang, Laura Fratiglioni,
Giovanni B. Frisoni, Matti Viitanen, and Bengt Winblad

645 Smoking, Physical Activity, and Active Life Expectancy. Luigi Ferrucci, Grant
Izmirlian, Suzanne Leveille, Caroline L. PhilUps, Maria-Chiara Corti, Dwight B. Brock,
and Jack M. Guralnik

654 Aging Successfully until Death in Old Age: Opportunities for Increasing Active
Life Expectancy. Suzanne G. Leveille, Jack M. Gurainik, Luigi Ferrucci, and Jean A.
Langlois

665 Factor V Arg506Gln Mutation Is Not Associated with Cardiovascular Mortality in
Older Women. Mark Roest, (1-3) , Jan Dirk Banga(2), Marielle J. Tempelman(3), Philip G. de Groot(3),
Diederick E. Grobbee,, (1) jan sixman(3), and Yuonne T. van der schouw(1).


Contents Continued from Front Cover

671 Tuberculin Skin Testing among Economically Disadvantaged Youth in a Pederally Funded Job Training
Program. Alan P. Ufson, Linda L. Halcon, Ann M. Johnston, Charles Ft. Hayman, Peter Hannan, Carol A. Miller, and
Sarah E. Valway

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

680 Re: "Does Body Mass Index Adequately Capture the Relation of Body Composition and Body Size to Health '
Outcomes?" Has-Wemer Hense

681 Re: "Does Body Mass Index Adequately Capture the Relation of Body Composition and Body Size to Health '
Outcomes?" Luis A. Moreno, Ulianne Mur, and Jesus Fleta

681 The Authors Reply. Karin B. Michels, Bernard A. Rosner, and Sander Greenland

682 Re: "Alcohol Consumption and Coronary Heart Disease Morbidity and Mortality." Moussa Sarr


683 The Authors Reply. JOrgen T.Fiehrn,, Su^n J. Bondy, Christopher T. Sempos, and Cuong V. Vuong ',

684 BOOK.REVIEW


686 ERRATUM

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VOL. NO. APRIL 15 , 1999

COMMENTARY

689 Power and Sample 'Size Calculations in Case-Control Studies of Gene-
Environment Interactions: Comments on Different Approaches. Montserrat
Garcia-Closas and Jay H. Lubin

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

693 Asymptotic Bias and Efficiency in Case-Control Studies of Candidate Genes and
Gene-Environment Interactions: Basic Family Designs. John S. Witte, W. James
Gauderman, and Duncan C. Thomas

706 Biased Tests of Association: Comparisons of Allele Frequencies when Departing
from Hardy-Weinberg Proportions. Daniel J. Schaid and Steven J. Jacobsen

712 Chemical Hair Treatments and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome among Black
Women in Central North Carolina. Cheryl Blackmore-Prince, Siobdn D. Harlow, Paul
Gargiullo, Michelle A. Lee, and David A. Savitz \

717 Nausea during Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Defects: A Population-based
Case-Control Study. Roumiana S. Boneva, Cynthia A. Moore, Lorenzo Botto, Lee-
Yang Wong, and J. David Erickson

726 Birth Weight and Length as Predictors for Adult Height. Henrik Toft Serensen,
Svend Sabroe, Kenneth J. Pothman, Matthew Gillman, Flemming Hald Steffensen,
Peer Fischer, and Thorkild 1. A. Serensen

730 Size at Birth and Blood Pressure at 3 Years of Age. The Avon Longitudinal Study
of Pregnancy and Childhood (ALSPAC). Peter H. Whincup, Maria Bredow, Fiona
Payne, Sue Sadler, Jean Golding, and the ALSPAC Study Team

740 Lifetime Low-Level Exposure to Environmental Lead and Children's Emotional
and Behavioral Development at Ages 11-13 Years. The Port Pirie Cohort Study.
J. M. Bums, P. A. Baghurst, M. G. Sawyer, A. J. McMichael, and Shi-lu Tong

750 Comparison of the Entropy Technique with Two Other Techniques for Detecting
Disease Clustering Using Data from Children with High Blood Lead Levels. Joel
B. Swartz, Stephen J. Pothenberg, Senait Teklehaimanot, and Fuad Khan

761 Petroleum Distillate Solvents as Risk Factors for Undifferentiated Connective
Tissue Disease (UCTD). James V. Lacey, Jr., David H. Garabrant, Timothy J. Laing,
Brenda W. Gillespie, Maureen D. Mayes, Brenda C. Cooper, and David Schottenfeld

VOL. 6, NO. 12 PAGES 01 - 16

Air Pollution Control

• Hundreds of counties in 34
states will violate the new fed-
eral ozone standard, environ-
mental groups warn .............3

• A bill to end the use of
methyl tertiary butyl ether in
reformulated gasoline in Cali-
fornia is seen as a way to re-
open the Clean Air Act..........3

• The Electric Power Research
Institute is asking power gen-
erators to participate in a mer-
cury sampling study .............4

• New methods are being
sought to estimate the nation-
wide impact of hazardous air
pollutant emissions...............4

• Updated software used to
estimate emissions of HAPs
and volatile organic com-
pounds is available on the
World Wide Web..................4

• A special report discusses
options EPA is considering to
'speed the permitting of refiner-
ies that may be required to pro-
duce low-sulfur gasoline .......6

Waste Management

• The Department of Transpor-
tation's Research and Special
Programs Administration is
taking steps to clarify its juris-
diction and authority over the
transport of hazardous
materials............................. 7

• A recent court decision up-
holding the use of treatment
variances is seen by some as a
way to inject more flexibility in
the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act's corrective ac-
tion program........................ 7

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VOL: 149, NO: 9, MAY 1999

COMMENTARY

789 Methodological Issues in the Study of Cognitive Decline. Martha dare Morris,
Denis A. Evans, Liesi E. Hebert, and Julia L Bienias

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

794 Cannabis Use and Cognitive Decline in Persons under 65 Years of Age.
Constantine G. Lyketsos, Elizabeth Garrett, Kung-Yee Liang, and James C. Anthony

801 Antioxidant Intake and Risk of Incident Age-related Nuclear Cataracts in the
Beaver Dam Eye Study. Barbara J. Lyie, Julie A. Mares-PerIman, Barbara E. K. Klein,
Ronald Klein, and Janet L. Greger

810 Hip Fractures among Infertile Women. Dale C. Hesdorffer, L. Joseph Melton Hi,
George D. Malkasian, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Louise A. Brinton, and W. Michael O'Fallon

814 Is Maternal Age a Risk Factor for Mental Retardation among Children? Laurina 0.
Williams and Pierre Decoufle

824 Placenta Previa: Preponderance of Male Sex at Birth. Kitaw Demissie, Mary B.
Breckenridge, Lawrence Joseph, and George G. Fthoads

831 Power-Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields and Risk of Childhood Leukemia
in Canada. M. L. McBride, P. P. Gallagher, G. Theriault, B. G. Armstrong, S. Tamaro,
J. J. Spineili, J. E. Deadman, S. Fincham, D. Pobson, and W. Choi

843 Relative Importance of Various Risk Factors for Asymptomatic Carotid
Atherosclerosis versus Coronary Heart Disease Incidence: The Atherosclerosis
Risk in Communities Study. A. R. Sharrett, P. D. Sortie, L. E. Chambless, A. R. Folsom,
P. G. Hutchinson, G. Heiss, and M. Szklo

853 Resting Heart Rate is a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular
Mortality: The Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry. Philip
Greenland, Martha L. Daviglus, Alan R. Dyer, Kiang Liu, Cheng-Fang Huang, Jeffrey J.
Goldberger, and Jeremiah Stamler

863 Group A Streptococcus Carriage among Close Contacts of Patients with Invasive
Infections. Karl Weiss, Michel Laverdiere, Marguerite Lovgren, Jocelyn Delorme,
Louise Poirier, and Claire Beliveau

869 Standardized Lifetime risk

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CONTENT

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Prevalence of People Reporting Sensitivities to Chemicals in a Population-based 1
Survey. Richard Kreutzer, Raymond Ft. Neutra, and Nan Lashuay



Invited Commentary: Sensitivities to Chemicals—-Context and Implications. 13
Howard M. Kipen and Nancy Fiedler



Neutra and Kreutzer Reply to "Invited Commentary: Sensitivities to Chemicals- 17
Context and Implications" by Kipen and Fiedler. Raymond R Neutra and Richard
Kreutzer



Adverse Work and Environmental Conditions Predict Occupational Injuries. The 18
Israeli Cardiovascular Occupational Risk Factors Determination In Israel
(CORDIS) Study. Samuel Melamed, Daniel Yekutieli, Paul Froom, Estela Kristal-
Boneh, and Joseph Hibak



Reduced Excretion of a Melatonin Metabolite in Workers Exposed to 60 Hz 27
Magnetic Fields. James B. Burch, John S. Reif, Michael G. Yost, Thomas J. Keefe,
and Charles A. Pitrat



Association of Antioxidants with Memory in a Multiethnic Elderly Sample Using 37
the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Anthony J. Perkins,
Hugh C. Hendrie, Christopher M. Callahan, Sujuan Gao, Frederick W. Unverzagt, Yong
Xu, Kathleen S. Hall, andSiu L. Hui



Incidence of Testicular Cancer in the United States: Has the Epidemic Begun to 45
Abate? Nikolas D. Pharris-Ciurej, Linda S. Cook, and Noel S. Weiss



Wine and Good Subjective Health. Kari Poikolainen and Erkki Vartiainen 47



Prevalence and Determinants of Prone Sleeping Position in Infants: Results from 51
Two Cross-Sectional Studies on Risk Factors for SIDS in Germany. M. Schlaud, C.
Eberhard, B. Trumann, W. J. Kleemann, C. F. Poets, K. W. Tietze, and F. W. Schwartz



Hepatitis C Prevalence and Risk Factors in the Northern Alberta Dialysis 58
Population. J. Sandhu, J. K. Preiksaitis, P. M. Campbell, K. C. Carriere, and P. A. Hessel



Hyperendemic Focus of 0 Fever Related to Sheep and Wind. Herve Tissot-Dupont, 67
Sylvie Torres, Meyer Nezri, and Didier Ftaoult



Evaluation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire with Weighed Records, Fatty 75
Acids, and Alpha-Tocopherol in Adipose Tissue and Serum. Lene Frost Andersen,
Kari Solvoll, Lars R. K. Johansson, lrma Salminen, Antti Aro, and Christian A. Drevon


Mismeasurement and the Resonance of Strong Confounders: Correlated Errors. James R. Marshall, Janice L. 88
Hastrup, and Joseph S. Ross



Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT) when Only One Parent Is Available: The 1-TDT. Fengzhu Sun, W. Dana 97
Flanders, Quanhe Yang, and Muin J. Khoury



Alcohol Intake Assessment: The Sober Facts. Gerda /. J. Feunekes, Pieter van 't Veer, Wija A. van Staveren, and 105
Frans J. Kok

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