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	225
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	146
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	114
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	85
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	76
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality	74
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	65
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	65
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	63
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	55
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort	55
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	52
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	51
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	49
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	48
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	46
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	44
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	43
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	42
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	41
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 study	41
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	40
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	40
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	40
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	40

TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	40
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	39
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	39
Low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	38
An in-depth study of the correlation between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Sjogren’s syndrome: multiple evidences from large cohorts, Mendelian randomization, and transcriptomic analysis	37
Trait impulsivity and risk of cardiovascular disease over 8 years: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort	36
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	35
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study	35
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	35
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	33
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	32
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	32
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	31
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	30
Birth weight of term born offspring in relation to long-term maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality	29
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	28
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–2019	27
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study	27
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction	26
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	25
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology	25
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	25
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults	25
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	24
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	23
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	23
Re: Liu et al., “On the reported methodology in published TriNetX-based studies: an analysis of impossible index event designs”	23
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol	23
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	22
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study	22
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	22
Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study	22
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden	21
Evaluating synergistic effects among multiple factors in disease causation: a new approach using a generalized synergy index	21
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods	21
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	21
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study	21
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	21
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)	20
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures	20
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls	20
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations	19
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)	19
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update	18
Social determinants disadvantage score and liver health in the All of Us Research Program	18
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization	18
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection	18

Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Danish monozygotic twin study on migraine	18
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability	17
Moving beyond risk ratios in sibling analysis: estimating clinically useful measures from family-based analysis	17
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK	17
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies	17
Quality of cancer-related data from the Danish National patient registry (1994–2025) and the Danish cancer registry (2004–2025): a systematic review	17
An instrumental variable analysis of body mass index and risk of long-term sick leave: the HUNT Study, Norway	16
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register	16
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France	16
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse	16
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France	15
Cocoa flavanol supplementation and prevention of cardiovascular disease: a novel analysis of the COSMOS randomized trial using “win ratio”	15
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study	15
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years	14
Re: “Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents - results ofthe EDKAR study”	14
Forecast of dementia prevalence in Germany and subnational regions until 2060 using microsimulation	14
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden	14
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA	14
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia	14
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?	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 project	14
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-19	14
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	13
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	13
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty	13
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	13
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	13
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	13
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	12
Slow data public health	12
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	12
Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health	12
A note of thanks	12
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	12
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	12
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology	12
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies	12
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults	11
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	11
Evaluation of clinical utility in emulated clinical trials	11
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	11
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	11
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	11
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	11
Survival trends and cure rates of hematological neoplasms in the Spanish pediatric population	10
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	10
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism	10
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	10
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer	10
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer	10
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy	10
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	10
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	10
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	10
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States	10
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial	10
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	10
Space–time clustering of childhood high hyperdiploid B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a nationwide Swedish study	10
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study	10
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	10
Individualizing social determinants of health: is educational attainment a community resource?	9
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes	9
Associations between early-life mental health and abnormal sleep duration in midlife: findings from a prospective cohort study in Great Britain	9
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis	9
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	9
Quantifying the contribution of social disconnection to the mortality gap associated with mental disorders: a decomposition analysis	9
Caveats of assessing incidence trends using publicly available registry data	9
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health	9
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the 2024–2025 measles outbreak in Sarajevo Canton	9
The Danish Chronic Disease Cohort: using digital footprints to identify chronic disease patterns	9
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?	9
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records	9
Impact of interventions scenarios targeting three main vascular risk factors on the future burden of dementia in France	9
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid and risk of gout: a cohort study integrating genetic predisposition and metabolomics	9
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register	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 cases	9

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 studies	8
Familial coaggregation and shared genetic influence between major depressive disorder and gynecological diseases	8
Age-specific contribution of contacts to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany	8
Use of systemic hormonal contraception and risk of depression: a registry-based study from Finland	8
The underestimated preventive effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: re-analysis and meta-analysis of randomized trials	8
How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?	8
Adiposity measures, body composition, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Korean national health screening cohort: beyond body mass index	8
Sex hormone-binding globulin may explain sex differences for glucose homeostasis and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the KORA study	8
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment	8
Estimating overall survival by combining administrative and hospital death data: a methodological challenge	8
Cohort profile: the Guangzhou older longitudinal dynamic health (GOLD-Health) cohort	8
Health as a means to flourishing	8
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 Study	8
Body fatness across the adult life course and ovarian cancer risk	8
Cohort profile: Guangzhou breast cancer study (GBCS)	8
The Stockholm early detection of cancer study (STEADY-CAN): rationale, design, data collection, and baseline characteristics for 2.7 million participants	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 Cohort	8
Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases	7
What can be learned when multiple analysts arrive at different estimates	7
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics	7
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	7
Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study	7
The autism ‘epidemic’: misinterpretation, misinformation and conspiracy	7
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	7
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases	7
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women	7
Risk of postpartum depression among women with endometriosis: the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study (MoBa)	7
Integration of latent factor analysis into multivariable Mendelian randomization	7
Statin use and risk of contralateral breast cancer: an updated cohort study with landmark analysis	7
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study	7
Risk tools for predicting long-term sequelae based on symptom profiles after known and undetected SARS-CoV-2 infections in the population	7
Estimating and displaying population attributable fractions using the R package: graphPAF	7
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition	7
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank	7
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study	7
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research	7
Life expectancy of people with hemophilia in France in 2022	7
Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?	7
Identifying multiple sclerosis in women of childbearing age in six European countries: a contribution from the ConcePTION project	7
Early-onset colorectal cancer is associated with metabolic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination	6
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis	6
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register study	6
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: design and cohort update 2025	6
Long-term negative divergence in mortality at ages 25–49 years between the United Kingdom and 21 peer countries between 1990 and 2019	6
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study	6
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects	6
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	6
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies	6
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study	6
Possible selection bias in register-based obesity studies	6
Similarity in maternal and paternal cannabis associations reflect shared social and environmental influences on offspring outcomes	6
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China	6
Plasma metabolites, metabolic risk score and colorectal cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	6
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort	6
Statistical methods for retrospective harmonization of longitudinal epidemiological data: a scoping review	6
Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions	6
Who got tested and who got sick? Sociodemographic inequalities in COVID-19 testing and hospitalization among 1.48 million individuals in Sweden	5
APOE genotype, cardiovascular risk, and incident dementia in the Norwegian HUNT study	5
Target parameters and bias in non-causal change-score analyses with measurement errors	5
Gains in life expectancy from decreasing cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality – an analysis of 28 European countries 1995–2019	5
Profile of the multicenter cohort of the German Cancer Consortium’s Clinical Communication Platform	5
A study evaluation framework for measuring cognition: lessons learned in cross-national contexts from four English-speaking aging cohorts	5
Re: A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020. Alicandro et al. Eur J Epidemiol 2023	5
Associations of 2923 Olink proteins with demographic, lifestyle, environmental and health characteristics in middle-aged Chinese adults	5
Indirect standardization: time to eliminate misleading terminology	5
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and e-cigarette carcinogenicity: time for an evaluation	5
Evaluating the physical and psychosocial impact of serious physical combat injuries in UK armed forces personnel-the ADVANCE cohort study	5
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study	5
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 modelin	5
Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	5
Cohort profile: Copenhagen Hospital Biobank-chronic inflammatory disease—inflammatory bowel disease (CHB-CID:IBD) genetic cohort	5
The contribution of education-specific mortality trends to the life expectancy stagnation in England & Wales	5
Overcoming prevalence bias in colorectal cancer screening studies by sensible analyses rather than ignoring it or giving up relevant effect measures	5
Risk of congenital malformations and miscarriages following maternal use of oral fluconazole during the first trimester of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption	5
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study	5
The comparative mortality of an elite group in the long run of history: an observational analysis of politicians from 11 countries	5
Does having siblings really protect against childhood atopic diseases? A total population and within-family analysis	5
Circulating vitamin D and breast cancer risk: an international pooling project of 17 cohorts	5
The Chinese keratoconus (CKC) cohort study	5
Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care	4
IRB for systematic reviews?	4
The HOPE cohort: cohort profile and evaluation of selection bias	4
Lipids, apolipoproteins, carbohydrates, and risk of hematological malignancies	4
No “prevalence bias” in randomized controlled trials on colorectal cancer screening: the importance of clarifying the research question	4
Two sample Mendelian Randomisation using an outcome from a multilevel model of disease progression	4
Association between maternal cancer and the incidence of cancer in offspring	4
Chance, ignorance, and the paradoxes of cancer: Richard Peto on developing preventative strategies under uncertainty	4
The validity of the information on date of diagnosis of intracranial tumors in the Swedish cancer register	4
Circulating lipoprotein (a) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis	4
A municipality-specific analysis to investigate persistent increased incidence rates of childhood leukaemia near the nuclear power plant of Krümmel in Germany	4
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer	4
Demystifying the black box: from ignorance to observation to mechanism in cancer research	4