Mobile phone use and risk of brain neoplasms and other cancers: prospective study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the effect of a large reduction in the price of alcohol that occurred in Finland in 2004 on alcohol-related and all-cause mortality, and mortality due to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) from which alcohol-attributable cases were excluded. METHODS:Time series intervention analysis modelling was ap...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Herttua K,Mäkelä P,Martikainen P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive area of rural Ireland was monitored in detail for natural background radiation (NBR); average background radiation values were derived for all District Electoral Divisions (DEDs) in this area. Cancer mortality rates were calculated for the DEDs aggregated according to average NBR. No association was appar...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Allwright SP,Colgan PA,McAulay IR,Mullins E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of hepatitis C (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Dublin is particularly high by international standards. The most robust predictor of an IDU's HCV status is his or her total number of lifetime injecting episodes. It has been proposed that participation in specific unsafe inje...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Smyth BP,Barry J,Keenan E

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:A population-based case-control study was carried out in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, to determine the relative and population attributable risk of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection for developing active tuberculosis. Cases were 441 consecutively diagnosed patients with tuberculosis (all types), aged 1...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Van den Broek J,Borgdorff MW,Pakker NG,Chum HJ,Klokke AH,Senkoro KP,Newell JN

更新日期：1993-12-01 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:Telomere length and DNA methylation have been proposed as biological clock measures that track chronological age. Whether they change in tandem, or contribute independently to the prediction of chronological age, is not known. METHODS:We address these points using data from two Scottish cohorts: the Lothian...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Marioni RE,Harris SE,Shah S,McRae AF,von Zglinicki T,Martin-Ruiz C,Wray NR,Visscher PM,Deary IJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Up to 10% of women are exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy. Information on their effect on birthweight and gestational age remains conflicting. The aim of this sibling-controlled prospective cohort study is to address shared geneticand family-level confounding to inves...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Nezvalová-Henriksen K,Spigset O,Brandlistuen RE,Ystrom E,Koren G,Nordeng H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small body size at birth, as a marker of an adverse intrauterine environment, has recently emerged as an important risk factor for death from cardiovascular disease. Our aim was to study the relationship between small size at birth and all-cause and non-cardiovascular mortality, which has been poorly documen...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kajantie E,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Forsén T,Phillips DI,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Associations between soy, dairy intakes and breast cancer risk are inconsistent. No studies exist with large numbers of dairy consumers and soy consumers to assess mutual confounding. METHODS:The study cohort contains 52 795 North American women, initially free of cancer, followed for 7.9 years (29.7% were ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser GE,Jaceldo-Siegl K,Orlich M,Mashchak A,Sirirat R,Knutsen S

更新日期：2020-10-01 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:Predictions of primary liver cancer (PLC) incidence rates and case numbers are critical to understand and plan for PLC disease burden. METHODS:Data on PLC incidence rates and case numbers from 1990 to 2017 were retrieved from the Global Burden of Disease database. The estimated average percentage change (EA...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Xu K,Jiang Y,Cai N,Fan J,Mao X,Suo C,Jin L,Zhang T,Chen X

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing life expectancy has brought public health concern about the increase in prevalence of disability in old age. Reducing the prevalence of disability in older age requires the identification of preventable or modifiable risk factors earlier in life. We have examined the relationship between lifestyle...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ebrahim S,Wannamethee SG,Whincup P,Walker M,Shaper AG

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective and prospective demographic and health data collected on the population of Mlomp (6352 people in 1985), a rural area of Senegal, show that the probability of dying before the age of 5 years declined from 350 to 81 deaths per hundred livebirths in the last 25 years. This decline is greater and faster than...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pison G,Trape JF,Lefebvre M,Enel C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Maternal short stature has been observed to increase the risk of preterm birth; however, the aetiology behind this phenomenon is unknown. We investigated whether preeclampsia, an obstetric complication that often leads to preterm delivery and is reported to have an inverse association with women's height, me...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Morisaki N,Ogawa K,Urayama KY,Sago H,Sato S,Saito S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While a large body of literature has demonstrated an association between physical health problems and psychiatric ones, the extent to which one is causally linked to the other remains difficult to estimate. This quasi-experimental study seeks to (i) estimate causal effects of an acute negative health event (...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Mohanan M,Maselko J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:RVPedigree (Rare Variant association tests in Pedigrees) implements a suite of programs facilitating genome-wide analysis of association between a quantitative trait and autosomal region-based genetic variation. The main features here are the ability to appropriately test for association of rare variants wit...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Oualkacha K,Lakhal-Chaieb L,Greenwood CM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine the association of a mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment and subsequent declines in self-rated health (SRH) in a longitudinal nationally representative Canadian population sample. METHODS:This study used longitudinal data from 4045 healthy, working respondents ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith P,Frank J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we examine the effects on life expectancy of elimination of 4 major causes of death. Methodologically, we compare the results of cause elimination under assumptions of pattern of failure elimination and assumptions of underlying cause elimination in a modified multiple-decrement life table framework for ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Manton KG,Patrick CH,Stallard E

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vital statistics underestimate the prevalence of perinatal and infant deaths. This is particularly significant when these parameters affect eligibility for international assistance for newly emerging nations. OBJECTIVE:To determine the level of registration of livebirths, stillbirths and infant deaths in Ja...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： McCaw-Binns AM,Fox K,Foster-Williams KE,Ashley DE,Irons B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A genetic component of early-onset lung cancer has been suggested. The role of metabolic gene polymorphisms has never been studied in young lung cancer cases. Phase 1 and Phase 2 gene polymorphisms are involved in tobacco carcinogens' metabolism and therefore in lung cancer risk. METHODS:The effect of metab...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Taioli E,Gaspari L,Benhamou S,Boffetta P,Brockmoller J,Butkiewicz D,Cascorbi I,Clapper ML,Dolzan V,Haugen A,Hirvonen A,Husgafvel-Pursiainen K,Kalina I,Kremers P,Le Marchand L,London S,Rannug A,Romkes M,Schoket B,Sei

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the international epidemiological literature is undertaken with the view of identifying the main demographic and sociocultural features of MS as they apply to ethnic groups. Ethnic groups are differentiated principally in terms of three variables: race, religion, and nationality. Although MS is present in ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Lowis GW

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study is to measure the association between protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) in children and their mothers' mental health, in a low income area in the city of Embú, São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS:A case-control study was performed. Cases were 60 moderately and severely malnourished childr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： de Miranda CT,Turecki G,Mari Jde J,Andreoli SB,Marcolim MA,Goihman S,Puccini R,Strom BL,Berlin JA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective data from the Matlab surveillance area in rural Bangladesh, 1974-1982, were used in this study to show that divorced and never-married adults (aged 15-44 years) had significantly higher mortality than their currently married peers with differences in disability status accounting for some of this excess ris...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Rahman O

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established. METHODS:We investigated the association between education and lifetime smoking patterns in a birth cohort established in 1959 and followed thro...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilman SE,Martin LT,Abrams DB,Kawachi I,Kubzansky L,Loucks EB,Rende R,Rudd R,Buka SL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birth-cohort analysis is of particular importance for gastric cancer since migrant studies have indicated that early life experiences play a dominant role in the occurrence of the disease. However, none of the birth-cohort analyses conducted in various countries have provided information on variation in the birth-coho...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Lee WC,Lin RS

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lower maternal serum vitamin B12 (B12) and folate levels have been associated with lower offspring birthweight, in observational studies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether this relationship is causal. METHODS:We performed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) using summary data on associati...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Moen GH,Beaumont RN,Grarup N,Sommer C,Shields BM,Lawlor DA,Freathy RM,Evans DM,Warrington NM

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Birbhum HDSS was established in 2008 and covers 351 villages in four administrative blocks in rural areas of Birbhum district of West Bengal, India. The project currently follows 54 585 individuals living in 12557 households. The population being followed up is economically underprivileged and socially marginalize...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ghosh S,Barik A,Majumder S,Gorain A,Mukherjee S,Mazumdar S,Chatterjee K,Bhaumik SK,Bandyopadhyay SK,Satpathi B,Majumder PP,Chowdhury A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seemingly contradictory data support controversies concerning the relationships between food intake and illnesses. The present study of 1035 adults, aged 30-39 years, shows that (1) daily energy intake is not higher in obese than in non-obese people, (2) obesity is more prevalent in social groups where energy intake i...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Rolland-Cachera MF,Bellisle F,Tichet J,Chantrel AM,Guilloud-Bataille M,Vol S,Pequignot G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00