Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations - Latest articlesThe latest articles from Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations (ISSN 1742-5573) published by BioMed CentralWarning: Anti-tobacco activism may be hazardous to epidemiologic science- October 22, 2007 This commentary accompanies two articles submitted to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations in response to a call for papers about threats to epidemiology or epidemiologists from organized political interests. Contrary to our expectations, we received no submissions that described threats from industry or government; all were about threats from anti-tobacco activists. The two we published, by James E. Enstrom and Michael Siegel, both deal with the issue of environmental tobacco smoke....http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/4/1/13 Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience- October 10, 2007 This analysis presents a detailed defense of my epidemiologic research in the May 17, 2003 British Medical Journal that found no significant relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and tobacco-related mortality. In order to defend the honesty and scientific integrity of my research, I have identified and addressed in a detailed manner several unethical and erroneous attacks on this research. Specifically, I have demonstrated that this research is not "fatally flawed,"...http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/4/1/11 Is the tobacco control movement misrepresenting the acute cardiovascular health effects of secondhand smoke exposure An analysis of the scientific evi- October 10, 2007 While chronic exposure to secondhand smoke has been well recognized as a cause of heart disease in nonsmokers, there has been recent speculation about the potential acute cardiovascular effects of transient exposure to secondhand smoke among nonsmokers; in particular, the possibility that such exposure could increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction even in an otherwise healthy nonsmoker. This paper reviews the claims being made by a number of anti-smoking and public health groups...http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/4/1/12 Changing population characteristics, effect-measure modification, and cancer risk factor identification- October 1, 2007 Epidemiologic studies have identified a number of lifestyle factors, e.g. diet, obesity, and use of certain medications, which affect risk of colon cancer. However, the magnitude and significance of risk factor-disease associations differ among studies. We propose that population trends of changing prevalence of risk factors explains some of the variability between studies when factors that change prevalence also modify the effect of other risk factors. We used data collected from...http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/4/1/10 |