People are not passive acceptors of threats to health: endogeneity and its consequences.

abstract：:Data on T4 and TSH values derived from a voluntary screening programme of thyroid function in Belgium are presented. Significant differences in T4 values according to sex, maturity and birthplace are shown. ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bouckaert A,Beckers C,Francois B

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumococcal infections are a common cause of morbidity and mortality among elderly people. Protection against pneumococcal infections is mediated by serotype-specific antibodies to capsular polysaccharides. To obtain an estimate of anti-pneumococcal immunity, prevalence and levels of pneumococcal antibodies...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sankilampi U,Isoaho R,Bloigu A,Kivelä SL,Leinonen M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging (ILSA) evaluates the rates of diabetes, cardiovascular and neurological disorders in a random sample of 5632 Italians aged 65-84 years. METHODS:The ILSA has two components: a first screening phase administered to all participants, that includes a personal interview, p...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors：

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have found that cotinine is a better predictor of birthweight than the number of cigarettes smoked in pregnancy. In this paper we test this hypothesis and use cotinine to explore the effect of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on birthweight. METHODS:In all, 1254 white women were interviewed ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Peacock JL,Cook DG,Carey IM,Jarvis MJ,Bryant AE,Anderson HR,Bland JM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have shown that inactivated, whole-cell oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) confer both direct protection on vaccinees and herd protection on populations. Because our earlier cluster-randomized effectiveness trial (CRT) in urban Bangladesh failed to detect OCV herd protection, we reanalysed the tria...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ali M,Qadri F,Kim DR,Islam T,Im J,Ahmmed F,Chon Y,Islam Khan A,Zaman K,Marks F,Clemens JD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of medical services necessitates decisions regarding the possibly ineffective treatment programmes, hospitals and (even) individual practitioners. Although rigorous evaluations of effectiveness can only be achieved by randomized trials there has been, in recent years, much increase in audit (or peer review)...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： West RR,Willis JD

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between risk of cervical neoplasia and various sociodemographic, reproductive and sexual characteristics was studied in 126 women (cases) with an abnormal Papanicolaou test finding and 1914 controls seen at the same clinic in which cases were detected but showing no evidence of cervical neoplasia. All...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Zaninetti P,Franceschi S,Baccolo M,Bonazzi B,Gottardi G,Serraino D

更新日期：1986-12-01 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:American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is endemic in many rural areas of Brazil where different transmission patterns of the disease have been described. This ecological study was carried out in a municipality located in Southeast Brazil and aimed to investigate the space-temporal patterns of the disease and...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Machado-Coelho GL,Assunção R,Mayrink W,Caiaffa WT

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of a negative control is to reproduce a condition that cannot involve the hypothesized causal mechanism, but does involve the same sources of bias and confounding that may distort the primary association of interest. Observational studies suggest physical inactivity is a major risk factor for car...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hamer M,Bauman A,Bell JA,Stamatakis E

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:There are few epidemiological data in the scientific literature about the carpal tunnel syndrome. This paper describes the characteristics of the 154 women referred to hospital for management of this condition among the 17,032 taking part in the Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study. Standardized firs...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vessey MP,Villard-Mackintosh L,Yeates D

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:This discussion of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in less developed countries covers incidence/prevalence, antimicrobial resistance, sequelae, future trends, and new opportunities for STD control -- technological changes, health service changes, and social and political changes. For most countries, current, pop...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Brown ST,Zacarias FR,Aral SO

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:We undertook a case-control study to investigate the association between chemicals in maternal drinking water consumed during pregnancy and congenital heart disease in the offspring. Two hundred and seventy affected children and 665 healthy children were enrolled in the study. Information on contaminant levels in mate...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Zierler S,Theodore M,Cohen A,Rothman KJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with morbidity and mortality. Metabolites are intermediaries in biochemical processes, and associations between air pollution and metabolites can yield unique mechanistic insights. METHODS:We used independent cross-sectional samples with targeted metabolomi...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ward-Caviness CK,Breitner S,Wolf K,Cyrys J,Kastenmüller G,Wang-Sattler R,Schneider A,Peters A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Most existing research on the association of parental education with childhood undernutrition focuses on maternal education and often ignores paternal education. We systematically investigate differences in maternal and paternal education and their association with childhood undernutrition. Methods:One hund...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vollmer S,Bommer C,Krishna A,Harttgen K,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maps of 14 cancer types in China appear to show distinctive geographical distributions, but principal components analysis reveals that they share an underlying pattern which reflects variations in urbanization. Differences in risk factors between rural and urban areas, the process of disease transition and geographica...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Haynes R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meningococcal meningitis epidemics are frequent in the Sahel zone of Africa but there is little information on the frequency of long-term sequelae. We analysed excess mortality in the two years following the 1997 epidemic in northern Ghana and carried out a case-control study to assess sequelae in the surviv...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hodgson A,Smith T,Gagneux S,Akumah I,Adjuik M,Pluschke G,Binka F,Genton B

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An ideological climate has persisted in Korea that has discouraged public discussion of social inequalities. Thus studies on inequalities in mortality remain undeveloped. This study is to examine age- and cause-specific socioeconomic mortality differentials for both men and women representative of the Korean...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Khang YH,Lynch JW,Kaplan GA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monks in a rural community in northern Thailand were observed to conduct anti-smoking activities. To evaluate the effects of the monks' efforts on change of people's smoking behaviour and attitudes, we conducted a survey of adults > or = 15 years of age in this village (intervention village sample) and a randomly sele...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Swaddiwudhipong W,Chaovakiratipong C,Nguntra P,Khumklam P,Silarug N

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of typhoid fever occurred in Chu-Tung township, Taiwan, with dates of onset from 6 July to 8 August, 1983. Fifty-four cases were hospitalized, of which 52 were laboratory confirmed. A chloramphenicol-resistant strain of Salmonella typhi was isolated from patients' blood samples. A community survey of 2772 ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： King CC,Chen CJ,You SL,Chuang YC,Huang HH,Tsai WC

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer stimulations have been used to estimate the efficiency, as measured by the statistical power, of various combinations of design and analysis strategies for case-control studies. Conditions under which the various forms of analysis yield consistent relative risk estimators are derived for the general model. Th...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Howe GR,Choi BC

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the known or suspected risk factors of sex hormone-dependent cancers in women (low parity, delay in childbearing, etc) are typical features of modern reproductive behaviour. Within the USSR regional variations in principal reproductive characteristics and the incidence of breast and cervical cancers have been ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Remennick LI

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown socioeconomic inequalities in the metabolic syndrome and coronary heart disease (CHD), but it is not known whether educational disparities in the metabolic syndrome explain educational inequalities in CHD. We investigated this question in a prospective study of middle-aged men and...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Silventoinen K,Pankow J,Jousilahti P,Hu G,Tuomilehto J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In studies of health behaviour exploring factors associated with differences and changes in eating patterns of populations, diet is often measured with short food frequency questionnaires (FFQ). This study examines the validity of a short FFQ by comparing frequencies of food intake from the FFQ to informatio...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Osler M,Heitmann BL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal but there is concern that vulnerable or disadvantaged groups are more likely to die in this way than other people. We examined socio-economic factors associated with assisted suicide. METHODS:We linked the suicides assisted by right-to-die associations during 2003-0...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Steck N,Junker C,Maessen M,Reisch T,Zwahlen M,Egger M,Swiss National Cohort.

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under-5 mortality is unacceptably high in many countries, the burden of which is mainly borne by the poor. Whereas country characteristics are known to influence under-5 mortality, it is unknown whether these have a different impact on the poor and the rich. We aimed to describe how the association between u...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Houweling TA,Caspar AE,Looman WN,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Live vaccines may have beneficial non-specific effects. We tested whether the live measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine compared with the non-live diphtheria-tetanus-acellular-pertussis-inactivated-polio-Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine as the most recent vaccine was ass...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Rieckmann A,Hærskjold A,Benn CS,Aaby P,Lange T,Sørup S

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00