INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

DAG-informed regression modelling, agent-based modelling and microsimulation modelling: a critical comparison of methods for causal inference

Trends and inequalities in maternal and child health in a Brazilian city: methodology and sociodemographic description of four population-based birth cohort studies, 1982–2015

Phenome-wide Mendelian-randomization study of genetically determined vitamin D on multiple health outcomes using the UK Biobank study

Cohort Profile: The Finnish Health in Teens (Fin-HIT) study: a population-based study

Maternal anthropometry: trends and inequalities in four population-based birth cohorts in Pelotas, Brazil, 1982–2015

Proof of concept for quantitative urine NMR metabolomics pipeline for large-scale epidemiology and genetics

Causal models adjusting for time-varying confounding-a systematic review of the literature.

Meat intake and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in two large US prospective cohorts of women and men.

Smoking, drinking, diet and physical activity—modifiable lifestyle risk factors and their associations with age to first chronic disease

Effects of body mass index on relationship status, social contact and socio-economic position: Mendelian randomization and within-sibling study in UK Biobank

The relationship between sleep duration, cognition and dementia: a Mendelian randomization study

Sex hormone binding globulin and risk of breast cancer: a Mendelian randomization study.

A Mendelian randomization analysis of circulating lipid traits and breast cancer risk.

Difference in difference, controlled interrupted time series and synthetic controls.

Evaluating vaccination policies to accelerate measles elimination in China: a meta-population modelling study.

Preconception and prenatal cannabis use and the risk of behavioural and emotional problems in the offspring; a multi-informant prospective longitudinal study.

Are birthweight and postnatal weight gain in childhood associated with blood pressure in early adolescence? Results from a Ugandan birth cohort

Exploring the bidirectional associations between loneliness and cognitive functioning over 10 years: the English longitudinal study of ageing

Maternal reproductive history: trends and inequalities in four population-based birth cohorts in Pelotas, Brazil, 1982–2015

A systematic review of validated suicide outcome classification in observational studies.

The role of cardiovascular disease in the relationship between air pollution and incident dementia: a population-based cohort study.

An integrative approach to detect epigenetic mechanisms that putatively mediate the influence of lifestyle exposures on disease susceptibility

Risk of suicide attempt associated with isotretinoin: a nationwide cohort and nested case-time-control study.

Appraising causal relationships of dietary, nutritional and physical-activity exposures with overall and aggressive prostate cancer: two-sample Mendelian-randomization study based on 79\u2009148 prostate-cancer cases and 61\u2009106 controls.

Race differences in cardiovascular disease and breast cancer mortality among US women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.

Outlier detection for questionnaire data in biobanks.

Association between ambient and household air pollution with carotid intima-media thickness in peri-urban South India: CHAI-Project

Integrated approach for triple elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis is highly effective and cost-effective: an economic evaluation.

Hotspots of childhood obesity in a large metropolitan area: does neighbourhood social and built environment play a part?

Data resource profile: Household Influenza Vaccine Evaluation (HIVE) Study

Relative contributions of prenatal complications, perinatal characteristics, neonatal morbidities and socio-economic conditions of preterm infants on the occurrence of developmental disorders up to 7\u2009years of age.

Privilege and deprivation in Detroit: infant mortality and the Index of Concentration at the Extremes.

Appraising the causal relevance of DNA methylation for risk of lung cancer

Solid fuels for cooking and tobacco use and risk of major chronic liver disease mortality: a prospective cohort study of 0.5 million Chinese adults

Residential distance from high-voltage overhead power lines and risk of Alzheimer’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease: a population-based case-control study in a metropolitan area of Northern Italy

To what extent is the association between disability and mental health in adolescents mediated by bullying? A causal mediation analysis.

Female breast cancer risk in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, following prolonged low dose rate exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl power station accident.

The Wittenoom legacy.

Commentary: A tale of many cities in one: the Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohorts, 1982–2015

Using structural equation modelling to untangle sanitation, water and hygiene pathways for intervention improvements in height-for-age in children <5 years old

Folic acid supplementation and risk for congenital limb reduction defects in China.

Retirement and decline in episodic memory: analysis from a prospective study of adults in England.

Repurposing antihypertensive drugs for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease: a Mendelian randomization study

Cohort Profile: The LoewenKIDS Study – life-course perspective on infections, the microbiome and the development of the immune system in early childhood

Educational note: types of causes

Temporal trends in validated ischaemic stroke hospitalizations in the USA.

Commentary: CRP and schizophrenia: cause, consequence or confounding?