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Contents Contents of Volume 10 Number 1 Editorial 1 Historical profile McKeown, Record, and the epidemiology of malformations 2 Ian Leck From our own correspondents Fumes from the spleen 17 Malcontent So what? Through other people’s eyes 20 Jean Gaffin Original articles Congenital malformations in the vicinity of a smelter in Northern Sweden, 1973-1990 22 M. Wulff, U. Hégberg and A. Sandstrém-Holmgren Case-control study on maternal residential proximity to high voltage power lines and congenital anomalies in France 32 Elisabeth Robert, John A. Harris, Olivier Robert and Steve Selvin Risk factors for cryptorchidism: a nested case-control study 39 Gertrud S. Berkowitz and Robert H. Lapinski Congenital malformations in newborns of women with established and gestational diabetes in Washington State, 1984-91 52 Patricia A. Janssen, Ivan Rothman and Stephen M. Schwartz The risk of diabetes in a subsequent pregnancy associated with prior history of gestational diabetes or macrosomic infant 64 Valerie McGuire, Mitchell J. Rauh, Beth A. Mueller and Durlin Hickock Incidence of childhood cancer in Thailand 1988-1991 73 S. Sriamporn, V. Vatanasapt, N. Martin, H. Sriplung, K. Chindavijak, S. Sontipong, D. M. Parkin and J. Ferlay Demographic survey of the level and determinants of perinatal mortality in Karachi, Pakistan 86 Fariyal F. Fikree and Ronald H. Gray A review of perinatal autopsy rates worldwide, 1960s to 1990s 97 T. Y. Khong Discussion points Do we need post-mortem examinations of perinatal deaths? Richard Naeye 106 Ian Rushton 107 Book reviews 51, 110 Correspondence 122 Contents Contents of Volume 10 Number 1 Editorial 1 Historical profile McKeown, Record, and the epidemiology of malformations 2 Ian Leck From our own correspondents Fumes from the spleen 17 Malcontent So what? Through other people’s eyes 20 Jean Gaffin Original articles Congenital malformations in the vicinity of a smelter in Northern Sweden, 1973-1990 22 M. Wulff, U. Hégberg and A. Sandstrém-Holmgren Case-control study on maternal residential proximity to high voltage power lines and congenital anomalies in France 32 Elisabeth Robert, John A. Harris, Olivier Robert and Steve Selvin Risk factors for cryptorchidism: a nested case-control study 39 Gertrud S. Berkowitz and Robert H. Lapinski Congenital malformations in newborns of women with established and gestational diabetes in Washington State, 1984-91 52 Patricia A. Janssen, Ivan Rothman and Stephen M. Schwartz The risk of diabetes in a subsequent pregnancy associated with prior history of gestational diabetes or macrosomic infant 64 Valerie McGuire, Mitchell J. Rauh, Beth A. Mueller and Durlin Hickock Incidence of childhood cancer in Thailand 1988-1991 73 S. Sriamporn, V. Vatanasapt, N. Martin, H. Sriplung, K. Chindavijak, S. Sontipong, D. M. Parkin and J. Ferlay Demographic survey of the level and determinants of perinatal mortality in Karachi, Pakistan 86 Fariyal F. Fikree and Ronald H. Gray A review of perinatal autopsy rates worldwide, 1960s to 1990s 97 T. Y. Khong Discussion points Do we need post-mortem examinations of perinatal deaths? Richard Naeye 106 Ian Rushton 107 Book reviews 51, 110 Correspondence 122 Contents Number 2 In this issue 123 From our own correspondents Fumes from the spleen 124 Malcontent So what? Midsummer musings 127 Jean Gaffin An Antipodean Quest 128 Judith M. Yates Original articles Low birthweight in Germany 1990-92 130 O. Dammann, H. H. Hellwege and B. Sommer Temperature and the sudden infant death syndrome 136 S. M. Williams, E. A. Mitchell, A. W. Stewart, B. J. Taylor and the National Cot Death Study Group ‘Energy and macronutrient intake of one-year-old South African urban children: The Birth to Ten (BTT) Study 150 J. M. MacKeown, P. E. Cleaton-Jones and G. G. Perdrau Case ascertainment for state-based birth defects registries: characteristics of unreported infants ascertained through birth certificates and their impact on registry statistics in New York State 161 Carolyn L. Olsen, Adele K. Polan and Philip K. Cross Hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract illness before the age of two years in Western Australia 175 Anne W. Read, John Gibbins and Fiona J. Stanley Reproductive risk factors for epilepsy among ten-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta 186 Christina A. Kuenneth, Coleen Boyle, Catherine C. Murphy and Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp Time trends of child development in a Jerusalem community 197 Rosa Gofin, Bella Alder and Hava Palti Maternal body mass, proportional weight gain, and fetal growth in parous women 207 Mary Jo Shepard, Leiv S. Bakketeig, Geir Jacobsen, Theresa O’Connor and Michael B. Bracken Methodology Analysing the relationship between maternal weight gain and birthweight: exploration of four statistical issues 220 Steve Selvin and Barbara Abrams Book reviews 235 Correction Preterm birth and low birthweight among children of Swedish and immigrant women between 1978 and 1997—-AMENDMENTS 240 Finn Rasmussen, Claes Erik Michael Oldenburg, Anders Ericson and Jan Gunnarskog Contents Number 3 In this issue 243 Review article The effect of the pregnancy-induced hypertension on fetal growth: a review of the literature 244 Dawn P. Misra From our own correspondents Fumes from the spleen 264 Malcontent So what? Midsummer musings 267 Jean Gaffin Original articles Cocaine and cigarettes: a comparison of risks 269 Naomi Kistin, Arden Handler, Faith Davis and Cynthia Ferre Changes in depression during and following pregnancy 279 David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood, Karen Thorpe and the ALSPAC Study Team Comparison of demographic and defect characteristics among different developmental stages of congenital limb reduction defects 294 Shao Lin and Elizabeth G. Marshall Sudden infant death syndrome in Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal infants: an analytical comparison 309 Louisa M. Alessandri, Anne W. Read, Paul R. Burton and Fiona J. Stanley Increasing incidence of childhood cancer: report of 20 years experience from the Great Delaware Valley Pediatric Tumor Registry 319 Greta R. Bunin, Eric J. Feuer, Philip A. Witman and Anna T. Meadows Study design Promotion of children’s early psychosocial development through primary health care services 339 ]. Tsiantis, Th. Dragonas, A. Cox, M. Smith, V. Ispanovic and J. Sampaio-Faria Perinatal Epidemiology Meeting on Cerebral Palsy 355 Book reviews 358 Correspondence 363 Announcements 318 Erratum 362 Abstracts from Epidemiology & Cerebral Palsy meeting A1 Contents Number 4 In this issue 365 Review articles Impact of Caesarean section on future pregnancy — a review of cohort studies 366 Elina Hemminki Stress, social support and pregnancy outcome: a reassessment based on recent research 380 Susie Hoffman and Maureen C. Hatch From our own correspondents Fumes from the spleen 406 Malcontent So what? 409 Jean Gaffin Original articles Isolation, car ownership, and small area variation in incidence of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children 411 Freda E. Alexander, David A. Leon and Raymond A. Cartwright The likely increase in maternal mortality rates in the United Kingdom and in France until 2005 418 Benoit Salanave and Marie Héléne Bouvier-Colle Impact of increased neonatal survival on postneonatal mortality in the United States 423 Beyong Il Kim, Kwang-sun Lee, Babak Khoshnood, Hui-lung Hsieh, Te-Jen Chen and Robert Mittendorf Neonatal herpes simplex virus infection in the British Isles 432 Pat Tookey and Catherine S. Peckham Study design An Ethiopian birth cohort study 443 Makonnen Asefa, Robert Drewett and Jenny Hewison Book reviews 463 Correspondence 469 Diabetes and congenital malformations Russel S. Kirby Authors’ reply Patricia A. Janssen and Stephen M. Schwartz Announcements 405, 431 Author Index 477 Subject Index 478 Abstracts of papers given at the Society for Pediatric Epidemiology Research, June 1996 A21