European Journal of Epidemiology

Article	Citations
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	628
On my critical understandings about ‘modern epidemiology’	300
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women	238
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	125
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	118
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	86
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis	83
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	73
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics	70
Unidirectional and bidirectional causation between smoking and blood DNA methylation: evidence from twin-based Mendelian randomisation	63
Ageing-related markers and risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease: a prospective study in the EPIC-Heidelberg cohort	59
A note of thanks	58
Associations of milk, dairy products, calcium and vitamin D intake with risk of developing Parkinson´s disease within the EPIC4ND cohort	58
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study	56
Regression-based estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects when extending inferences from a randomized trial to a target population	56
The impact of left truncation of exposure in environmental case–control studies: evidence from breast cancer risk associated with airborne dioxin	53
Second wave of COVID-19 in Brazil: younger at higher risk	51
Association between cancer and dementia risk in the UK Biobank: evidence of diagnostic bias	43
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	42
Correction: Is the association of overweight and obesity with colorectal cancer underestimated? An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	42
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	42
Slow data public health	42
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	41
Lipidomics and pancreatic cancer risk in two prospective studies	40
The effect of farming environment on asthma; time dependent or universal?	40

Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study	38
The PROactive cohort study: rationale, design, and study procedures	38
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	37
Polymorphisms in genes of melatonin biosynthesis and signaling support the light-at-night hypothesis for breast cancer	37
Milk intake, lactase persistence genotype, plasma proteins and risks of cardiovascular events in the Swedish general population	37
Congenital anomalies during Covid-19: artifact of surveillance or a real TORCH?	34
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	33
Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	32
Coronary deaths during Midsummer festival in Finland: miseries of long, light nights	31
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	31
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden	31
Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 mortality: prospective cohort study	30
Self-medication among general population in the European Union: prevalence and associated factors	30
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States	30
Thoughts on Miettinen’s “Causal and preventive interdependence: Elementary Principles.”	30
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study	30
Measuring mortality arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of vaccination	30
The association between pre-pregnancy and first-trimester hair cortisol and preterm birth: a causal inference model	29
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	29
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Life-course social participation and physical activity in midlife: longitudinal associations in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)	29
Avoiding collider bias in Mendelian randomization when performing stratified analyses	28
Flu advice in the U.S. news media changed during the COVID-19 pandemic but not the evidence	28
Maternal fatty acid intake and human embryonic growth: the Rotterdam Periconception Cohort	28
Hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism risk in women of menopausal age: a target trial emulation	28
The Authors’ Reply: Statins and post-stroke dementia	27
Cohort profile: the Food Chain Plus (FoCus) cohort	27
The long-term relation between physical activity and executive function in the Rotterdam Study	27
Plasma metabolomic profiles for colorectal cancer precursors in women	26
Low and high pancreatic amylase is associated with pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis	26
Use of systemic hormonal contraception and risk of attempted suicide: a nested case–control study	26
Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population: Analysis of nationwide serosurvey data in the Netherlands	26
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident	26
Estimates and Forecasts on the Burden of Prediabetes and Diabetes in Adult and Elderly Population in Turkiye	25
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	25
Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States	25
Low-dose aspirin and risk of breast cancer: a Norwegian population-based cohort study of one million women	24
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	24
Work stress and loss of years lived without chronic disease: an 18-year follow-up of 1.5 million employees in Denmark	23
The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category	23
Lifestyle and metabolic factors for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Mendelian randomization study	22
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	22
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank	22
Non-efficacy benefits and non-inferiority margins: a scoping review of contemporary high-impact non-inferiority trials in clinical cardiology	22
Generalizability of trial criteria on amyloid-lowering therapy against Alzheimer’s disease to individuals with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer’s disease in the general population	22
The Danish Nationwide Electrocardiogram (ECG) Cohort	22
Survey sampling design in wave 1 of the Global Flourishing Study	21
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study	20
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	20
A comparison of statistical methods to predict the residual lifetime risk	20

Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?	19
A note of thanks	19
Miettinen revisited: Causal and preventive interdependence. Elementary principles. Scan J Work Environ Health 1982;8:168	19
Genetic variants in the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter A1 and risk of age-related macular degeneration	19
Adherence to a healthy lifestyle and brain structural imaging markers	18
Authors’ reply to Grundtvig Gram et al.	18
Towards an integrated and life-course approach to the epidemiology of dementia	18
Years of life lost methods must remain fully equitable and accountable	18
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	17
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	17
Inferring fetal growth restriction as rare, severe, and stable over time	17
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	17
Re: Subramanian and Kumar. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 cases	16
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	16
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	16
Association of infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss with the risk of dementia	16
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	16
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study	16
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	16
Adiposity and the risk of dementia: mediating effects from inflammation and lipid levels	15
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Sweden—Did it differ across socioeconomic groups?	15
Risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in smokers lacks causal evidence	15
A twenty-first century perspective on concepts of modern epidemiology in Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis’ work on puerperal sepsis	15
Exposure to different residential indoor characteristics during childhood and asthma in adolescence: a latent class analysis of the Danish National Birth Cohort	15
The association between meat and fish consumption and bladder cancer risk: a pooled analysis of 11 cohort studies	15
Occupational exposure to asbestos and risk of kidney cancer: an updated meta-analysis	15
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	15
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	14
SARS-CoV-2 elicits non-sterilizing immunity and evades vaccine-induced immunity: implications for future vaccination strategies	14
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	14
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	14
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	14
The public-health mindset	14
Associations of Global Burden of Diseases study-derived dietary scores with mortality and chronic disease risk: a comprehensive analysis from the prospective NutriNet-Santé study	13
Association between preconception and early pregnancy exposure to fine particulate matter and nervous system anomalies: a nested case-control study	13
Authors’ Reply: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	13
Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths	13
Epidemiology of first-time major lower extremity amputations– A Danish Nationwide cohort study from 2010 to 2021	13
Use of mortality tables by level of deprivation in the study of social inequalities in cancer survival	13
Two-step pragmatic subgroup discovery for heterogeneous treatment effects analyses: perspectives toward enhanced interpretability	13
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	13
Socioeconomic inequalities in dementia risk among a French population-based cohort: quantifying the role of cardiovascular health and vascular events	13
One in five patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy dies from other causes than cardiac or respiratory failure	13
Estimating and displaying population attributable fractions using the R package: graphPAF	13
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	13
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	13
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults	13
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition	13
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases	13
The origin of Modern Epidemiology, the book	12
Association of mental health in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood with cardiovascular risk factors and carotid remodeling below age 30 - results from the KiGGS cohort study	12
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	12
10 K: a large‐scale prospective longitudinal study in Israel	12
Protecting against researcher bias in secondary data analysis: challenges and potential solutions	12
Machine learning in causal inference for epidemiology	12
Alcohol consumption, blood DNA methylation and breast cancer: a Mendelian randomisation study	12
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	12
Familial confounding or measurement error? How to interpret findings from sibling and co-twin control studies	12
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	12
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	11
Case–control matching on confounders revisited	11
A note of thanks	11
Cardiovascular risk factors, living and ageing in Halle: the CARLA study	11
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination	11
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	11
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study	11
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	10
Comparative effectiveness and safety of direct acting oral anticoagulants in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation for stroke prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
The Authors' Reply: Need for a multi-pronged population-level strategy to manage SARS-CoV-2 infection	10
Healthy lifespan inequality: morbidity compression from a global perspective	10
Re: Hofmann et al. Overdiagnosis, one concept, three perspectives, and a model	10
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	10
Inflammation, sauna bathing, and all-cause mortality in middle-aged and older Finnish men: a cohort study	10
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	9
Healthy lifestyle in older adults and life expectancy with and without heart failure	9
Improving the reporting of non-inferiority trials by incorporating non-efficacy benefits: not all non-inferiority trials are created equal	9
Dementia remains the major predictor of death among octogenarians. A study of two population cohorts of 85-year-olds examined 22 years apart	9
1976: the year epidemiology became Miettinenian	9
Reappraising the role of instrumental inequalities for mendelian randomization studies in the mega Biobank era	9
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects	8

Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Risk factors for COVID-19-related death, hospitalization and intensive care: a population-wide study of all inhabitants in Stockholm	8
The pregnancy research on inflammation, nutrition, & city environment: systematic analyses study (PRINCESA) cohort, 2009–2015	8
Strength in causality: discerning causal mechanisms in the sufficient cause model	8
A robust mean and variance test with application to high-dimensional phenotypes	8
The Authors' Reply	8
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	8
Risk prediction of ischemic heart disease using plasma proteomics, conventional risk factors and polygenic scores in Chinese and European adults	8
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies	8
Re: Subramanian and Kumar. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 cases	8
Association between body mass index, its change and cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: a community-based, 9-year prospective cohort study	8
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	8
IDcare – a longitudinal register study of pre-pandemic and pandemic health care utilization and diagnostic profiles among people with intellectual disabilities in southern Sweden	8
Understanding the relationship between type-2 diabetes, MRI markers of neurodegeneration and small vessel disease, and dementia risk: a mediation analysis	8
Multi-biobank Mendelian randomization analyses identify opposing pathways in plasma low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol lowering and gallstone disease	8
Association between preeclampsia in daughters and risk of cardiovascular disease in parents	8
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	8
Association of COVID-19 mortality with COVID-19 vaccination rates in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) from calendar week 1 to 20 in the year 2021: a registry-based analysis	8
The magnitude and direction of the relationship between risk factor and cognition depends on age: a pooled analysis of 5 community-based studies	8
Correction: Trends in incidence and mortality of early-onset cancer in Germany between 1999 and 2019	7
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	7
Differential risk of healthcare workers versus the general population during outbreak, war and pandemic crises	7
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register study	7
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	7
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	7
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 before and after symptom onset: impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions in China	7
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	7
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations	7
Long-term intake of total energy and fat in relation to subjective cognitive decline	7
Publisher Correction: Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident	7
Re: The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category	7
Learning about treatment effects in a new target population under transportability assumptions for relative effect measures	6
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort	6
Family history of dementia and brain health in childhood and middle age: a prospective community-based study	6
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	6
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States	6
War in Europe: health implications of environmental nuclear disaster amidst war	6
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial	6
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China	6
Estimated lifetime risk of venous thromboembolism in men and women in a Danish nationwide cohort: impact of competing risk of death	6
All-cause mortality among Danish nursing home residents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide cohort study	6
When intuition falters: repeated testing accuracy during an epidemic	6
Epigenetic mechanisms of lung carcinogenesis involve differentially methylated CpG sites beyond those associated with smoking	6
The underwhelming German life expectancy	6
Impact of lifestyle factors post-infectious mononucleosis on multiple sclerosis risk	5
Community-level characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in England: A nationwide cross-sectional study	5
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	5
The China birth cohort study (CBCS)	5
When gold standards are not so golden: prevalence bias in randomized trials on endoscopic colorectal cancer screening	5
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	5
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	5
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	5
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis	5
Excess risk and clusters of symptoms after COVID-19 in a large Norwegian cohort	5
Risk of cancer after ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction	5
Evidence triangulation in health research	5
Consumption of red meat and processed meat and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	5
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	5
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	5
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	5
Impact of organised colorectal cancer screening on age-specific population incidences: evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Sweden	5
Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmark	5
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study	5
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	5
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	4
Higher-order evidence	4
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study	4
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction	4
A prospective study of smoking-related white blood cell DNA methylation markers and risk of bladder cancer	4
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis	4
On the evolution of concepts of causal and preventive interdependence in epidemiology in the late 20th century	4
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	4
Dietary fat intake and risk of Parkinson disease: results from the Swedish National March Cohort	4
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	4
Inflammatory potential of the diet and risk of breast cancer in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study	4
The EU Child Cohort Network’s core data: establishing a set of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) variables	4
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	4
APOE ε4 and late-life cognition: mediation by structural brain imaging markers	4
Longitudinal variability in mortality predicts COVID-19 deaths	4
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption	4
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	4
Risks and rates, and the mathematical link between them	4
Influence of analytic methods, data sources, and repeated measurements on the population attributable fraction of lifestyle risk factors	4
Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation	4
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health	4
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study	4
Methodical considerations on adjusting for Charlson Comorbidity Index in epidemiological studies	4
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study	4
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	4
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes	4