It is just a game: lack of association between watching football matches and the risk of acute cardiovascular events.

abstract：BACKGROUND:During pregnancy, woman and fetus exchange small quantities of cells, and their persistence at later times is termed microchimerism. Microchimerism is known to substantially impact on women's later health. This study examined the survival of women according to male microchimerism status. METHODS:Male microc...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kamper-Jørgensen M,Hjalgrim H,Andersen AM,Gadi VK,Tjønneland A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to respirable crystalline silica is suggested to increase the risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We examined the association between respirable crystalline silica exposure and systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and small vessel vasculitis. METHODS:In a cohort...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Boudigaard SH,Schlünssen V,Vestergaard JM,Søndergaard K,Torén K,Peters S,Kromhout H,Kolstad HA

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent communications have argued that often it may not be appropriate to analyse cross-sectional studies of prevalent outcomes with logistic regression models. The purpose of this communication is to compare three methods that have been proposed for application to cross sectional studies: (1) a multiplicati...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Skov T,Deddens J,Petersen MR,Endahl L

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reproducibility and validity of self-administered questionnaires on physical activity and inactivity were examined in a random (representative) sample of the Nurses' Health Study II cohort and a random sample of African-American women in that cohort. METHODS:Repeat questionnaires were administered 2 yea...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Wolf AM,Hunter DJ,Colditz GA,Manson JE,Stampfer MJ,Corsano KA,Rosner B,Kriska A,Willett WC

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Existing studies of the 1944-45 Dutch famine found little evidence of the association between early life malnutrition and midlife cognition. Methods:Among 2446 rural participants born between 1958 and 1963 in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we examined effects of exposure to China's 1959...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Xu H,Zhang Z,Li L,Liu J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perinatal characteristics are associated with subsequent risk of several chronic diseases. Previous studies regarding endometriosis were based on small samples and retrospective data and were limited by unmeasured confounding bias, leading to conflicting and inconclusive findings. We investigated the associa...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gao M,Scott K,Koupil I

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary heart disease (CHD) is regarded as a disease of developed 'western' societies. Within developed societies, however, CHD is typically a disease of the less affluent socioeconomic classes. This has not always been the case. Forty years ago. CHD was reported to be more common among the upper social classes. In N...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kawachi I,Marshall S,Pearce N

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:International rankings of infant mortality rates have been consistently lower for the US than other industrialized countries, and this ranking has been falling. This study examines the influence of birth registrations among very low birthweight infants on these international rankings. METHODS:Birth rates of...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sepkowitz S

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous evidence from the Alameda County Study indicated that residential area has an independent effect on risk for mortality, adjusting for a variety of important individual characteristics. The current research examined the effect of poverty area residence on risk for developing depressive symptoms and d...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Yen IH,Kaplan GA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term effects of infant vitamin D supplementation and status are unclear since there have been few controlled intervention trials and these have been small and contradictory. The Delhi Infant Vitamin D Supplementation (DIVIDS) trial found that supplementation of low-birthweight term infants with one ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Trilok-Kumar G,Kaur M,Rehman AM,Arora H,Rajput MM,Chugh R,Kurpad A,Sachdev HS,Filteau S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial blood specimens from Rh-negative pregnant women sent to laboratory for Rh antibody testing were stored and used for influenza investigations. The study period covered three epidemics, each caused by a different variant of influenza A (H3N2) virus. The relationship between pre-epidemic haemagglutination inhibiti...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pyhälä R,Aho K

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence rates of childhood onset type 1 diabetes are almost universally increasing across the globe but the aetiology of the disease remains largely unknown. We investigated whether birth order is associated with the risk of childhood diabetes by performing a pooled analysis of previous studies. METHO...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Cardwell CR,Stene LC,Joner G,Bulsara MK,Cinek O,Rosenbauer J,Ludvigsson J,Svensson J,Goldacre MJ,Waldhoer T,Jarosz-Chobot P,Gimeno SG,Chuang LM,Roberts CL,Parslow RC,Wadsworth EJ,Chetwynd A,Brigis G,Urbonaite B,Sipe

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholesterol levels in many Asian countries are rising. Predictions of the likely effects of this on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases have mostly relied on data from Western populations. Whether the associations between total cholesterol and cardiovascular diseases are similar in Asia is not establish...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang X,Patel A,Horibe H,Wu Z,Barzi F,Rodgers A,MacMahon S,Woodward M,Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration.

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study differences in mortality and causes of death between HIV positive and HIV negative intravenous drug users (IVDU), 1009 (180 HIV positive and 829 HIV negative) IVDU in Oslo, Norway, were followed from their first HIV test for a mean period of 36 months (range 1-67 months). Eighty-seven (55 HIV negativ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Eskild A,Magnus P,Samuelsen SO,Sohlberg C,Kittelsen P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B and C, viral infections with shared percutaneous, mucosal and perinatal routes of transmission, are responsible for serious morbidity and mortality globally. In Bangladesh there is a dearth of research on prevalence and risk factors for these diseases. This ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gibney L,Saquib N,Metzger J,Choudhury P,Siddiqui M,Hassan M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Child feeding recommendations include breastfeeding beyond 12 months, however, some researchers have reported increased rates of malnutrition in breastfed toddlers. A negative association between growth and breast-feeding may reflect reverse causality; that is, the outcome (growth) is a determinant of the pr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Marquis GS,Habicht JP,Lanata CF,Black RE,Rasmussen KM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in midlife could improve early identification of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Also, AD is highly heritable, but the heritability of MCI has not been established. We estimated prevalence rates, association with premorbid general cognitive ability (GCA) and heritability...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kremen WS,Jak AJ,Panizzon MS,Spoon KM,Franz CE,Thompson WK,Jacobson KC,Vasilopoulos T,Vuoksimaa E,Xian H,Toomey R,Lyons MJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence increasingly suggests that ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk are partly mediated by adipose tissue biology, which refers to the regional distribution of adipose tissue and its differential metabolic activity. This paper proposes a novel evolutionary hypothesis for ethnic genetic variability in adipose...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Wells JC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) is a 10-country collaborative study in which EPIC-Norfolk is one of the UK centres. EPIC-Norfolk examined 25 639 men and women resident in East Anglia (aged 40-79 years), between 1993 and 1997. The EPIC collaboration was set up to examine the dietary determinants...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hayat SA,Luben R,Keevil VL,Moore S,Dalzell N,Bhaniani A,Khawaja AP,Foster P,Brayne C,Wareham NJ,Khaw KT

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the widespread use of household surveys to assess the epidemiology of illicit drug use and abuse, there is very little information about the willingness of respondents to disclose their use of drugs in household studies outside the US. METHODS:As part of a household study of substance use disorders ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Colón HM,Robles RR,Sahai H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal mortality from complications of unsafe abortion constitutes a serious problem in several developing countries. There is, however, a paucity of well-designed and implemented studies in this area, especially in Latin America. The aim of this paper is to present the findings on the determinants and med...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Misago C,Fonseca W,Correia L,Fernandes LM,Campbell O

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection bias remains a more difficult bias to understand than confounding or measurement error. Past definitions have not always been illuminating and a simple method (such as the change-in-estimate method for confounding) has not been available to determine its presence and magnitude in the study sample. A better u...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Infante-Rivard C,Cusson A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFbeta1) is a multifunctional signalling molecule with a wide array of roles. Animal experiments suggest that TGFbeta1 plays a biphasic role in carcinogenesis by protecting against the early formation of benign epithelial growths, but promoting malignant transformation of t...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sparks R,Bigler J,Sibert JG,Potter JD,Yasui Y,Ulrich CM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually necessary to estimate repeatability of a self-administered questionnaire from responses by subjects on just two occasions. It is shown that it is not possible to estimate false positive and false negative classification rates separately, but that an average correct classification can be calculated. This ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chinn S,Burney PG

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several conditions, whose timely and appropriate therapy should decrease case fatality, have been proposed as indicators of medical care quality for the National Health Service. Mortality rates for these diseases vary widely within the UK. To evaluate the contribution of varying incidence rates to these mortality diff...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bauer RL,Charlton JR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mobile phone use and exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) from it have been associated with symptoms in some studies, but the studies have shortcomings and their findings are inconsistent. We conducted a prospective cohort study to assess the association between amount of mobile phone u...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Auvinen A,Feychting M,Ahlbom A,Hillert L,Elliott P,Schüz J,Kromhout H,Toledano MB,Johansen C,Poulsen AH,Vermeulen R,Heinävaara S,Kojo K,Tettamanti G,COSMOS Study Group.

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：Background:Children with a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD) have lower cognitive ability and are at risk of adverse educational outcomes; ADHD genetic risks have been found to predict childhood cognitive ability and other neurodevelopmental traits in the general population; thus genetic risks...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Stergiakouli E,Martin J,Hamshere ML,Heron J,St Pourcain B,Timpson NJ,Thapar A,Davey Smith G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to evaluate the contribution of the reduction in major cardiovascular diseases (CVD), malignant neoplasms (MN), accidents and AIDS mortality to the gains in life expectancy observed during the decade 1985-1994, as well as to calculate and compare the potential gains due to the partial or tota...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Conti S,Farchi G,Masocco M,Toccaceli V,Vichi M

更新日期：1999-10-01 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