Epidemiology

Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is Director of its Chronic Disease Epidemiology Program. His current research focuses on risk factors for subclinical and clinical atherosclerosis. He is also Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD, is Helfaer Professor of Public Health, and Professor and Chair at the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. His current research focuses on emerging risk factors for ischemic heart disease, particularly chronic infections and sleep disorders.

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Basic Study Designs in Analytical Epidemiology
Part 2 Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association
Chapter 2 Measuring Disease Occurrence
Chapter 3 Measuring Associations Between Exposures and Outcomes
Part 3 Threats to Validity and Issues of Interpretation
Chapter 4 Understanding Lack of Validity: Bias
Chapter 5 Identifying Noncausal Associations: Confounding
Chapter 6 Defining and Assessing Heterogeneity of Effects: Interaction
Part 4 Dealing with Threats to Validity
Chapter 7 Stratification and Adjustment: Multivariate Analysis in Epidemiology
Chapter 8 Quality Assurance and Control
Part 5 Issues of Reporting and Application of Epidemiologic Results
Chapter 9 Communicating Results of Epidemiologic Studies
Chapter 10 Epidemiologic Issues in the Interface with Public Health Policy
Appendix A Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing For Selected Measures of Risk and Measures of Association
Appendix B Test for Trend (Dose Responses)
Appendix C Test of Homogeneity of Stratified Estimates (Test for Interaction)
Appendix D Quality Assurance and Quality Control Procedures Manual for Blood Pressure Measurement and Blood/Urine Collection in the ARIC Study
Appendix E Calculation of the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient
Appendix F Exercises-Answers