Smoking and human papillomavirus infection: pooled analysis of the International Agency for Research on Cancer HPV Prevalence Surveys.

abstract：:This paper illustrates the basis of, expectations for and evaluation of prevention from an epidemiological perspective. Specifically, the extent to which epidemiologists could and should be involved in designing and evaluating public health interventions is addressed. Changes in the view on disease causation and epide...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Wall S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urbanization in developing countries is usually accompanied by migration to cities, making it a challenge to unpack the independent relationships between migration, urbanization and health, particularly in the presence of health-selective migration. Since 1978, unprecedented planned urbanization has taken pl...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hou B,Nazroo J,Banks J,Marshall A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the predictive value of biological and clinical events for progression to AIDS (1993 European classification) when the CD4+ cell count falls below 200/microL (CD4 threshold) in different exposure groups. To investigate whether such markers remain predictive independently of the serum HIV-1 RNA leve...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Carré N,Boufassa F,Hubert JB,Chavance M,Rouzioux C,Goujard C,Laurian Y,Meyer L

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Hérault region of France, vineyards cover an area of 128,000 hectares (60% of agricultural land) and involve more than 93% of farms. A vine-growing exposure matrix was built for assessing pesticide exposure. It is based on information obtained from a survey among 85 vine-growers who lived in Hérault and who had...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Daures JP,Momas I,Bernon J,Gremy F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Shahroud Eye Cohort Study was set up to determine the prevalence and incidence of visual impairment and major eye conditions in the 40-64-year-old population of Shahroud as a Middle Eastern population. The first phase of the study was conducted in 2009-10. Using random cluster sampling, 6311 Shahroud inhabitants w...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Fotouhi A,Hashemi H,Shariati M,Emamian MH,Yazdani K,Jafarzadehpur E,Koohian H,Khademi MR,Hodjatjalali K,Kheirkhah A,Chaman R,Malihi S,Mirzaii M,Khabazkhoob M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:An increasing number of original studies suggest that exposure to shift work could be associated with the risk of overweight and obesity, but the results remain conflicted and inconclusive. This study aimed to quantitatively synthesize available epidemiological evidence on the association between shift work ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Q,Shi J,Duan P,Liu B,Li T,Wang C,Li H,Yang T,Gan Y,Wang X,Cao S,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluated whether food insecurity and obesity were associated in a population sample in Trinidad. METHODS:A sample was drawn of 15 clusters of households, in north central Trinidad. Resident adults were enumerated. A questionnaire was administered including the short form Household Food Security ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gulliford MC,Mahabir D,Rocke B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the resource implications of two potential health services aimed at preventing congenital toxoplasmosis: a screening service involving serological surveillance for toxoplasma infection in pregnant women and its prophylactic treatment; and a health education campaign to help pregnant women avoid acquiring to...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Henderson JB,Beattie CP,Hale EG,Wright T

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Infectious disease interventions are increasingly tested using cluster-randomized trials (CRTs). These trial settings tend to involve a set of sampling units, such as villages, whose geographic arrangement may present a contamination risk in treatment exposure. The most widely used approach for reducing cont...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： McCann RS,van den Berg H,Takken W,Chetwynd AG,Giorgi E,Terlouw DJ,Diggle PJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a new non-parametric competing-risk model is proposed. This model takes relative susceptibility into account, and is thus free from the usual assumption of independence between competing causes of death. Another feature of the model is the adjustments of survivors and deaths as a results of the eliminat...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Wong O

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographical variations in the declining rates of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality may provide clues about various environmental risk factors responsible as a mass influence on the population IHD rate. The rate of IHD decline in 18 of 21 NJ counties was 2 to 45% less than the USA national rate of decline. The o...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Najem GR,Hutcheon DE,Feuerman M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-national comparisons of injury mortality can suggest possible causal explanations for injuries across different countries and cultures. This study identifies differences in injury mortality between Los Angeles (LA) County, California and Mexico City DF, Mexico. METHODS:Using LA County and Mexico City ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hijar M,Chu LD,Kraus JF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the COVID-19 outbreak in China now appears suppressed, Europe and the USA have become the epicentres, both reporting many more deaths than China. Responding to the pandemic, Sweden has taken a different approach aiming to mitigate, not suppress, community transmission, by using physical distancing with...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sjödin H,Johansson AF,Brännström Å,Farooq Z,Kriit HK,Wilder-Smith A,Åström C,Thunberg J,Söderquist M,Rocklöv J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data from several studies indicate that children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy may be at a risk of overweight compared with children of non-smoking mothers. The size of this relation, however, is unclear, as is the age at which it becomes detectable. METHODS:Prospective data for 34 866 children enr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chen A,Pennell ML,Klebanoff MA,Rogan WJ,Longnecker MP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This population-based study examines whether dietary intake in middle-aged Italian women is influenced by alcohol drinking habits. The 499 participants were interviewed using a dietary history questionnaire designed to investigate alcohol consumption. Mean intake of total and non-alcohol energy increased progressively...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Toniolo P,Riboli E,Cappa AP

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations have established that the Mexican-American community of south Texas has a three- to five-fold elevated risk for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus when compared to the US population as a whole. In addition, evidence points to similarly increased risks of the related disorders, hypertension...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hanis CL,Ferrell RE,Schull WJ

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have been conducted to estimate the population prevalence of hypertension, or its diagnosis and treatment. There is no multinationally comparable information on the prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia, or its diagnosis and treatment, since individual studies are often not directly comparable....

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Tolonen H,Keil U,Ferrario M,Evans A,WHO MONICA Project.

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genital herpes infection is life-long and may result in painful and recurrent genital lesions, systemic complications, serious psychosocial morbidity, and rare but serious outcomes in neonates born to infected women, including permanent neurological handicap and death. Herpes simplex virus (HSV)-2 is the principal cau...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Brugha R,Keersmaekers K,Renton A,Meheus A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women and the incidence has increased over time. Our objectives were to study: (1) the socioeconomic differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality in Denmark, (2) how different socioeconomic groups have contributed to the increasing incidence, (3) whether t...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Danø H,Andersen O,Ewertz M,Petersen JH,Lynge E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine whether educational attainment and intelligence have causal effects on risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), independently of each other. DESIGN:Two-sample univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization (MR) to estimate the causal effects of education on intelligence and vice versa, and the to...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Anderson EL,Howe LD,Wade KH,Ben-Shlomo Y,Hill WD,Deary IJ,Sanderson EC,Zheng J,Korologou-Linden R,Stergiakouli E,Davey Smith G,Davies NM,Hemani G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether the reduction in childhood mortality after immunization can be explained by the prevention of measles and its long-term effects. METHODS:and Data We re-analysed an existing data set from Matlab, Bangladesh. During 1982-1985, measles immunization was used from 9 months of age in half of the...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Aaby P,Bhuiya A,Nahar L,Knudsen K,de Francisco A,Strong M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this research was to determine the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carrier prevalence among cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and the population attributable risk of HBsAg carriage for HCC, by ethnicity in New Zealand. METHODS:The hospital notes of HCC cases registered with the New Zea...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Blakely TA,Bates MN,Baker MG,Tobias M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predisposing and precipitating causes of acute myocardial infarction (MI) are multiple; furthermore, different individuals may have different susceptibility, to a large extent genetically determined, to each of them. In spite of the complex aetiology of MI and of our limited knowledge of the causes responsible for...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Niccoli G,Iacoviello L,Cianflone D,Crea F

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of risk factors for child diarrhoeal disease was undertaken in a rural area of Nicaragua. Some 1229 children under the age of five were matched with an equal number of children of the same age presenting with other illnesses unrelated to water and sanitation. The main types of water supply were sa...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gorter AC,Sandiford P,Smith GD,Pauw JP

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine whether induced abortion increases the risk of low birthweight in subsequent singleton live births. METHODS:Cohort study using the Danish Medical Birth Registry (MBR), the Hospital Discharge Registry (HDR), and the Induced Abortion Registry (IAR). All women who had their first pregnancy during 19...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhou W,Sørensen HT,Olsen J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to analyse both cross-sectional associations and how longitudinal changes in lifestyle factors from one state in 1980-1981 to another in 1988-1989 influence self-reported health status. Another aim was to estimate the hazard ratios for all-cause mortality for the changes in life...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Johansson SE,Sundquist J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social inequities and their relation to health form a topic of growing concern in the Netherlands. The present investigation on educational level and mortality was carried out in a cohort of men born in 1932, examined for military service in 1950/1951 and for whom vital statistics could be obtained. In the group of 78...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Doornbos G,Kromhout D

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) cluster survey methodology has been successfully used for assessing levels of immunization programme coverage in developing country settings, certain features of the methodology, as it is usually carried out, make it less-than-optimal choice for large, na...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Turner AG,Magnani RJ,Shuaib M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year prospective study of Hawaii Japanese males with partial gastrectomy shows that the age-adjusted mortality rates in men with partial gastrectomy were slightly higher than in those with an intact stomach, but the difference failed to achieve statistical significance. This excess of mortality is due, in part, t...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Stemmermann GN,Heilbrun L,Nomura A,Rhoads GG,Glober GA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of an improving trend, childhood mortality in rural sub-Saharan Africa remains high and has recently risen in some countries. The factors associated with the long-term decline in childhood mortality are poorly known, due to a lack of data. METHODS:A Senegalese rural population has been under demogr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Delaunay V,Etard JF,Préziosi MP,Marra A,Simondon F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00