European Journal of Epidemiology

Article	Citations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	157
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	146
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	95
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	94
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	88
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	77
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	73
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	66
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	63
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	63
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	60
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	55
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	48
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	48
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	47
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	46
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	45
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	45
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	39
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	39
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	39
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	38
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	37
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	37
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	36

Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	36
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	35
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	35
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	35
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	34
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	34
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	33
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	32
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	32
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	32
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	31
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	31
The Authors Reply	30
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	30
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	28
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study	28
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	28
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden	26
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction	25
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	25
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol	25
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods	25
Development in life expectancy with good and poor cognitive function in the elderly European Population from 2004-05 to 2015	25
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	25
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	23
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults	23
Handling unobserved confounding in the relation between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes: a latent variable strategy	23
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study	23
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization	22
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology	22
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study	22
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study	22
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	22
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures	21
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability	21
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)	21
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection	21
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization	20
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update	20
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls	20
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
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
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK	19
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register	18
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France	18
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France	18
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study	18
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse	18

A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-19	17
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia	17
Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank study	17
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?	17
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA	17
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	17
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	16
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident	16
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden	16
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States	16
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	16
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years	16
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty	16
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	16
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	15
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden	15
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study	15
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	15
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	15
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	14
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	14
Slow data public health	14
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology	14
A note of thanks	14
Strength in causality: discerning causal mechanisms in the sufficient cause model	13
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies	13
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	13
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	13
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	13
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	13
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	13
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	13
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	13
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	13
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults	13
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	13
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	12
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer	12
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism	12
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	12
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy	12
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	11
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register	11
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	11
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	11
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States	10
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records	10
Turtles all the way down: do biological mechanisms for epidemiological observations always matter?	10
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis	10
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial	10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	10
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes	10
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer	10
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study	10
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health	10
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	10
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?	9
Age-specific contribution of contacts to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany	9
Impact of interventions scenarios targeting three main vascular risk factors on the future burden of dementia in France	9
Health as a means to flourishing	9
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the 2024–2025 measles outbreak in Sarajevo Canton	9
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid and risk of gout: a cohort study integrating genetic predisposition and metabolomics	9
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	9
Body fatness across the adult life course and ovarian cancer risk	9
Sex hormone-binding globulin may explain sex differences for glucose homeostasis and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the KORA study	9
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment	9
Cohort profile: Guangzhou breast cancer study (GBCS)	9
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women	8
A twenty-first century perspective on concepts of modern epidemiology in Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis’ work on puerperal sepsis	8
Cohort profile: the Guangzhou older longitudinal dynamic health (GOLD-Health) cohort	8
Familial coaggregation and shared genetic influence between major depressive disorder and gynecological diseases	8
The underestimated preventive effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: re-analysis and meta-analysis of randomized trials	8
Dispositional optimism and depression risk in older women in the Nurses´ Health Study: a prospective cohort study	8
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study	8
Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?	8
What can be learned when multiple analysts arrive at different estimates	8
A note of thanks	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
How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?	8
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research	8
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank	8
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study	8
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	8
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics	8
The Stockholm early detection of cancer study (STEADY-CAN): rationale, design, data collection, and baseline characteristics for 2.7 million participants	8
Use of systemic hormonal contraception and risk of depression: a registry-based study from Finland	8
Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	8
Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study	8
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases	7
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study	7
Re: Subramanian and Kumar. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 cases	7
Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions	7
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis	7
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register 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
Identifying multiple sclerosis in women of childbearing age in six European countries: a contribution from the ConcePTION project	7
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China	7
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	7
Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases	7
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition	7
One in five patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy dies from other causes than cardiac or respiratory failure	7
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination	7
Estimated lifetime risk of venous thromboembolism in men and women in a Danish nationwide cohort: impact of competing risk of death	7
Target parameters and bias in non-causal change-score analyses with measurement errors	6
The Chinese keratoconus (CKC) cohort study	6
Risk factors for COVID-19-related death, hospitalization and intensive care: a population-wide study of all inhabitants in Stockholm	6
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study	6
Possible selection bias in register-based obesity studies	6
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study	6
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: design and cohort update 2025	6
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and e-cigarette carcinogenicity: time for an evaluation	6
The contribution of education-specific mortality trends to the life expectancy stagnation in England & Wales	6
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies	6
A robust mean and variance test with application to high-dimensional phenotypes	6
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations	6
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects	6
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption	6
The comparative mortality of an elite group in the long run of history: an observational analysis of politicians from 11 countries	6
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study	6
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	6
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort	6
Re: The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category	6
Profile of the multicenter cohort of the German Cancer Consortium’s Clinical Communication Platform	6
Longitudinal trajectories of lifetime body shape and prostate cancer angiogenesis	5
Fetal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking and male reproductive function in young adulthood	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
Sedentary behavior and cancer–an umbrella review and meta-analysis	5
Maternal antibiotic use and infections during pregnancy and offspring asthma: the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study and a nationwide register cohort	5
Gains in life expectancy from decreasing cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality – an analysis of 28 European countries 1995–2019	5
Association of milk intake with hay fever, asthma, and lung function: a Mendelian randomization analysis	5
The HOPE cohort: cohort profile and evaluation of selection bias	5
Cohort profile update: the Johns Hopkins HIV clinical cohort, 1989–2023	5
Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study	5
How to mitigate selection bias in COVID-19 surveys: evidence from five national 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
Cohort profile: Copenhagen Hospital Biobank-chronic inflammatory disease—inflammatory bowel disease (CHB-CID:IBD) genetic cohort	5
Women in Healthy Transition (KISO) Survey: a cohort of 153,800 women aged 45–59 years living in Denmark	5
Does having siblings really protect against childhood atopic diseases? A total population and within-family analysis	5
Habitual coffee consumption and risk of dementia in older persons: modulation by CYP1A2 polymorphism	5
The influence of growth and sex hormones on risk of alzheimer’s disease: a mendelian randomization study	5
Looking at randomized trials with the critical eyes of epidemiologists: the case of screening colonoscopy	4
A municipality-specific analysis to investigate persistent increased incidence rates of childhood leukaemia near the nuclear power plant of Krümmel in Germany	4
Chance, ignorance, and the paradoxes of cancer: Richard Peto on developing preventative strategies under uncertainty	4
Demystifying the black box: from ignorance to observation to mechanism in cancer research	4
Cardiorespiratory fitness does not offset the increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributed to smoking: a cohort study	4
Circulating vitamin D and breast cancer risk: an international pooling project of 17 cohorts	4
Hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism risk in women of menopausal age: a target trial emulation	4
Regression-based estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects when extending inferences from a randomized trial to a target population	4
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	4
On my critical understandings about ‘modern epidemiology’	4
The nationwide Finnish anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (FinACAF): study rationale, design, and patient characteristics	4
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer	4
Association between maternal cancer and the incidence of cancer in offspring	4
Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care	4
Cohort profile: Beijing Healthy Aging Cohort Study (BHACS)	4
A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020	4
Vitamin D food fortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths	4
Plasma metabolomic profiles for colorectal cancer precursors in women	4
The Danish Nationwide Electrocardiogram (ECG) Cohort	4
Blood pressure, hypertension and the risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies	4
Predicting counterfactual risks under hypothetical treatment strategies: an application to HIV	4
IRB for systematic reviews?	4
Lipids, apolipoproteins, carbohydrates, and risk of hematological malignancies	4
Alcohol intake and risk of glioma: results from three prospective cohort studies	4
Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis	4
Updated findings on temporal variation in radiation-effects on cancer mortality in an international cohort of nuclear workers (INWORKS)	4
Marital status and risk of cardiovascular disease – a multi-analyst study in epidemiology	4
A phenome-wide association study of genetically determined nicotine metabolism reveals novel links with health-related outcomes	4
Two sample Mendelian Randomisation using an outcome from a multilevel model of disease progression	4
Circulating lipoprotein (a) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis	4