European Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Epidemiology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood244
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review164
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study125
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation103
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects89
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes86
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study79
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality70
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research62
Effect of vitamin D supplementation on cardiovascular outcomes: randomized trials revisited61
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)58
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula56
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention54
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 study51
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence50
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics47
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study46
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?45
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults45
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort44
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register43
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 2015–202242
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs42
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors42
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease41
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?41
Birth weight of term born offspring in relation to long-term maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality40
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention39
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study39
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer39
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study38
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis37
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis37
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort37
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study36
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations34
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 201634
An in-depth study of the correlation between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Sjogren’s syndrome: multiple evidences from large cohorts, Mendelian randomization, and transcriptomic analysis33
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study32
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting31
Low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis29
Trait impulsivity and risk of cardiovascular disease over 8 years: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort28
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study27
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology26
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol25
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study25
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial25
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review24
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada24
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility23
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study23
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research23
Evaluating synergistic effects among multiple factors in disease causation: a new approach using a generalized synergy index23
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–201923
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)23
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods23
Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study22
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts22
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study22
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden22
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study21
Re: Liu et al., “On the reported methodology in published TriNetX-based studies: an analysis of impossible index event designs”21
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures21
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults21
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)20
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)20
Moving beyond risk ratios in sibling analysis: estimating clinically useful measures from family-based analysis19
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability19
Quality of cancer-related data from the Danish National patient registry (1994–2025) and the Danish cancer registry (2004–2025): a systematic review19
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization18
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update17
Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Danish monozygotic twin study on migraine17
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection17
Different risks, same causes: educational attainment influences when, not from what, we die17
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK17
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations17
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls17
Social determinants disadvantage score and liver health in the All of Us Research Program17
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register16
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years15
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France15
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France15
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies15
Re: “Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents - results ofthe EDKAR study”15
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse15
An instrumental variable analysis of body mass index and risk of long-term sick leave: the HUNT Study, Norway15
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?15
Forecast of dementia prevalence in Germany and subnational regions until 2060 using microsimulation14
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden14
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia14
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study14
Cocoa flavanol supplementation and prevention of cardiovascular disease: a novel analysis of the COSMOS randomized trial using “win ratio”14
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 project14
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-1914
Turning a nation into a cohort: combining national registers and a digital mailbox for population-based health research14
Design and characteristics of the national Danish injury cohort (NDIC)14
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA14
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations13
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology13
Slow data public health13
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty13
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk13
Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health13
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy13
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-1913
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study13
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis12
A note of thanks12
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study12
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis12
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults12
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment12
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States12
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study12
Evaluation of clinical utility in emulated clinical trials12
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study12
Genetic risk score to enhance glaucoma case detection: a prospective double-blind screening study (EyeLife) in the population-based Lifelines cohort11
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study11
Survival trends and cure rates of hematological neoplasms in the Spanish pediatric population11
Dynamics of infection, vaccination and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic among older individuals—a nationwide analysis11
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies11
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-202111
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes11
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses11
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank11
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society11
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy11
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study11
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States10
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism10
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial10
The interaction of sleep characteristics and work-related stress in relation to the risk of dementia: findings from a Swedish cohort study10
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses10
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study10
Space–time clustering of childhood high hyperdiploid B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a nationwide Swedish study10
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis10
Intergenerational income mobility and psychotropic drug dispensation in a 1953 Stockholm cohort: a diagonal reference model approach10
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 melanoma10
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial10
The Danish Chronic Disease Cohort: using digital footprints to identify chronic disease patterns10
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer10
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer10
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?9
Sex hormone-binding globulin may explain sex differences for glucose homeostasis and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the KORA study9
Impact of interventions scenarios targeting three main vascular risk factors on the future burden of dementia in France9
Body fatness across the adult life course and ovarian cancer risk9
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment9
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records9
Individualizing social determinants of health: is educational attainment a community resource?9
Re: “Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study”9
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 cases9
Adiposity measures, body composition, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Korean national health screening cohort: beyond body mass index9
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 Study9
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the 2024–2025 measles outbreak in Sarajevo Canton9
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis9
Quantifying the contribution of social disconnection to the mortality gap associated with mental disorders: a decomposition analysis9
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register9
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes9
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid and risk of gout: a cohort study integrating genetic predisposition and metabolomics9
Associations between early-life mental health and abnormal sleep duration in midlife: findings from a prospective cohort study in Great Britain9
Adiposity and the risk of aortic aneurysm: results from the UK Biobank, Japan-Specific Health Check-ups Study and a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies9
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health9
Caveats of assessing incidence trends using publicly available registry data9
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study9
Age-specific contribution of contacts to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany8
The Stockholm early detection of cancer study (STEADY-CAN): rationale, design, data collection, and baseline characteristics for 2.7 million participants8
Integration of latent factor analysis into multivariable Mendelian randomization8
The underestimated preventive effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: re-analysis and meta-analysis of randomized trials8
Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy8
Health as a means to flourishing8
Cohort profile: the Guangzhou older longitudinal dynamic health (GOLD-Health) cohort8
Cohort profile: Guangzhou breast cancer study (GBCS)8
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 Cohort8
Use of systemic hormonal contraception and risk of depression: a registry-based study from Finland8
How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?8
Estimating overall survival by combining administrative and hospital death data: a methodological challenge8
Occupational benzene exposure and risk of lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis8
Familial coaggregation and shared genetic influence between major depressive disorder and gynecological diseases8
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study7
The autism ‘epidemic’: misinterpretation, misinformation and conspiracy7
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Identifying multiple sclerosis in women of childbearing age in six European countries: a contribution from the ConcePTION project7
Estimating and displaying population attributable fractions using the R package: graphPAF7
Similarity in maternal and paternal cannabis associations reflect shared social and environmental influences on offspring outcomes7
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases7
Early-onset colorectal cancer is associated with metabolic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study7
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank7
Risk of postpartum depression among women with endometriosis: the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study (MoBa)7
Life expectancy of people with hemophilia in France in 20227
Long-term negative divergence in mortality at ages 25–49 years between the United Kingdom and 21 peer countries between 1990 and 20197
Risk tools for predicting long-term sequelae based on symptom profiles after known and undetected SARS-CoV-2 infections in the population7
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study7
Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study7
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women7
Statin use and risk of contralateral breast cancer: an updated cohort study with landmark analysis7
Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?7
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition7
Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions7
What can be learned when multiple analysts arrive at different estimates7
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study7
The SINTER study: a recall-by-genotype design with multidimensional musculoskeletal phenotyping across internal-medicine outpatient clinics6
Plasma metabolites, metabolic risk score and colorectal cancer risk: a prospective cohort study6
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects6
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China6
Statistical methods for retrospective harmonization of longitudinal epidemiological data: a scoping review6
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register study6
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination6
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis6
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study6
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study6
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study6
APOE genotype, cardiovascular risk, and incident dementia in the Norwegian HUNT study6
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort6
Possible selection bias in register-based obesity studies6
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: design and cohort update 20256
Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases6
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies6
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and e-cigarette carcinogenicity: time for an evaluation5
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption5
Who got tested and who got sick? Sociodemographic inequalities in COVID-19 testing and hospitalization among 1.48 million individuals in Sweden5
The contribution of education-specific mortality trends to the life expectancy stagnation in England & Wales5
The Dutch cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and metastasis (D-SQUAME) study: a nationwide discovery cohort and nationwide validation cohort with nested case–control designs for risk prediction modelin5
The role of lipids in the effect of APOE2 on cognitive function: a causal mediation analysis5
Gains in life expectancy from decreasing cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality – an analysis of 28 European countries 1995–20195
The Chinese keratoconus (CKC) cohort study5
Overcoming prevalence bias in colorectal cancer screening studies by sensible analyses rather than ignoring it or giving up relevant effect measures5
Profile of the multicenter cohort of the German Cancer Consortium’s Clinical Communication Platform5
Risk of congenital malformations and miscarriages following maternal use of oral fluconazole during the first trimester of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Risk of bias assessment for Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide5
Target parameters and bias in non-causal change-score analyses with measurement errors5
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study5
Indirect standardization: time to eliminate misleading terminology5
Evaluating the physical and psychosocial impact of serious physical combat injuries in UK armed forces personnel-the ADVANCE cohort study5
Re: A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020. Alicandro et al. Eur J Epidemiol 20235
Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care4
A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 20204
Updated findings on temporal variation in radiation-effects on cancer mortality in an international cohort of nuclear workers (INWORKS)4
No “prevalence bias” in randomized controlled trials on colorectal cancer screening: the importance of clarifying the research question4
IRB for systematic reviews?4
Can too much exercise kill you? A systematic review of the risk of a cardiovascular event or death from long term strenuous exercise4
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer4
Demystifying the black box: from ignorance to observation to mechanism in cancer research4
A municipality-specific analysis to investigate persistent increased incidence rates of childhood leukaemia near the nuclear power plant of Krümmel in Germany4
Association between maternal cancer and the incidence of cancer in offspring4
The validity of the information on date of diagnosis of intracranial tumors in the Swedish cancer register4
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