Relationship between pregnancy experience and the development of certain neuropsychiatric disorders in childhood.

abstract：BACKGROUND:End-stage renal disease (ESRD) incidence and prevalence are increasing in many countries worldwide. Due to the high cost of therapy, predicting future numbers of patients requiring dialysis and transplantation is necessary for health care planners. Projecting therapy-specific chronic disease prevalence is in...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Schaubel DE,Morrison HI,Desmeules M,Parsons D,Fenton SS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether mortality from asthma in Japan has increased, and to examine the age-, sex-, and race-specific mortality rates from this disease and their secular trends in both Japan and the US, vital statistics from 1979 through 1988 were studied. Overall, rates were highest among Japanese and decreased from 19...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Nakamura Y,Labarthe DR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis is made of the association between density factors and the profile of cause specific death rates in small areas (Bezirke) of Hannover, Germany, in 1968-69. Evaluation of urban ecological methods and logic is done to determine the plausibility of making meaningful statements about cause specific death risks...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Myers GC,Manton KG

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality among male employees was studied in a chromium chemical production plant, part of which was rebuilt in 1950-51 and the remainder in 1960, to reduce exposure to chromium bearing dusts. Of 2 101 employees initially employed between 1945 and 1974 and having worked at least 90 days, the vital status of 88% was a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hayes RB,Lilienfeld AM,Snell LM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the health effects of a daily physical activity programme have been carried out in 10-year-old school children in Adelaide, South Australia. In the first phase (1978) observations on endurance fitness, four skin folds, blood pressure and blood lipids were made before and after a randomized trial over a peri...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Dwyer T,Coonan WE,Leitch DR,Hetzel BS,Baghurst RA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two enhancements to existing methods for visualizing vital statistics data. Data from the Human Mortality Database were used and vital statistics from England and Wales are used for illustration. The simpler of these methods involves coplotting mean age of death with its variance, and the more complex of th...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Minton J,Vanderbloemen L,Dorling D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased mortality is associated with both very low and very high ambient temperatures. This study assesses the relationship between daily numbers of deaths and variations in ambient temperature within the city of Valencia. METHODS:The daily number of deaths from all causes (total deaths and only those occ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ballester F,Corella D,Pérez-Hoyos S,Sáez M,Hervás A

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:This paper argues that the perspective of economics is valuable in assessing the desirability, purpose and effectiveness of public intervention to reduce occupational accidents and diseases and suggests that the concept of efficiency provides one (although not the only) important criterion by which to judge policy in ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Henderson J

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality rates for cancers of 13 sites in 34 countries were analysed using two data reduction techniques, factor and cluster analysis. Factor analysis identified two independent underlying factors which appear to influence cancer mortality patterns. The first factor, which appears to be related to affluence, may repr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Groves FD,Zavala DE,Correa P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking increases the risk of squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix, but it is not clear whether smoking increases the risk of acquisition or persistence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. METHODS:Information on smoking was collected from 10 areas in four continents among population-based, age-stratif...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vaccarella S,Herrero R,Snijders PJ,Dai M,Thomas JO,Hieu NT,Ferreccio C,Matos E,Posso H,de Sanjosé S,Shin HR,Sukvirach S,Lazcano-Ponce E,Muñoz N,Meijer CJ,Franceschi S,IARC HPV Prevalence Surveys (IHPS) Study Group.

更新日期：2008-06-01 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:It is widely believed that children of high socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely than those of low SES to develop acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Such observations have led to wide-ranging speculations about the potential aetiological role of factors associated with affluence and modernization. M...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith A,Roman E,Simpson J,Ansell P,Fear NT,Eden T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible association between Alzheimer's disease and late maternal age at index birth, we conducted a collaborative re-analysis of existing case-control data sets. Of the 11 studies participating in the EURODEM project, four were included in the analyses regarding maternal age. In all four studies, ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Rocca WA,van Duijn CM,Clayton D,Chandra V,Fratiglioni L,Graves AB,Heyman A,Jorm AF,Kokmen E,Kondo K

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:An elderly Belgian population group anno 1986 consisting of 53 men and 110 women above the age of 75 years with a mean age of 80 and 81 years, respectively, is characterized by relative obesity and low diastolic blood pressure, both in men and women. The SBP/DBP ratio is 1.91 in men and 1.88 in women. HDL-cholesterol ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kesteloot H,Heyrman J,Geboers J,De Lepeleire J,Lissens W

更新日期：1988-09-01 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:Exercise can suppress androgen production and may thus decrease the risk of prostate cancer. However, findings from epidemiological studies assessing physical activity and risk of prostate cancer are inconsistent. METHODS:We prospectively examined the association between physical activity and prostate cance...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu S,Lee IM,Linson P,Ajani U,Buring JE,Hennekens CH

更新日期：2000-02-01 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:France has the second highest number of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) cases worldwide. Imports of bovine carcasses from the UK probably constituted the main source of exposure of the French population to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent. Meat products consumed whilst visiting the U...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chadeau-Hyam M,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of rotavirus diarrhoea in Apache children up to two years old was conducted at the White Mountain Apache reservation from 1 May through 15 December 1985 to identify risk factors for rotavirus diarrhoea. The mothers of fifty cases, forty-five hospital controls and twenty-five neighbourhood controls...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Menon S,Santosham M,Reid R,Almeido-Hill J,Sack RB,Comstock GW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In July 2004 a strain-specific vaccine was introduced to combat an epidemic of group B meningococcal disease in New Zealand. We estimated the effectiveness of this vaccine in pre-school-aged children. METHODS:We conducted a cohort analysis of all children in New Zealand who were aged 6 months to <5 years at...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Galloway Y,Stehr-Green P,McNicholas A,O'Hallahan J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis is a valuable study design for evaluating the effectiveness of population-level health interventions that have been implemented at a clearly defined point in time. It is increasingly being used to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions ranging from clinical therapy to nation...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bernal JL,Cummins S,Gasparrini A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) medical records-linkage system was established in 1966 to capture health care information for the entire population of Olmsted County, MN, USA. The REP includes a dynamic cohort of 502 820 unique individuals who resided in Olmsted County at some point between 1966 and 2010, and...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： St Sauver JL,Grossardt BR,Yawn BP,Melton LJ 3rd,Pankratz JJ,Brue SM,Rocca WA

更新日期：2012-12-01 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:Occupational hygiene panels are increasingly being used to rate retrospective occupational exposures to chemicals in community-based studies. This study aimed to assess the validity, reliability and feasibility of using such an expert panel in a brain tumour case-control study. METHODS:A panel of five exper...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Benke G,Sim M,Forbes A,Salzberg M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prediction of the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) population in Japan from 1980 to 2000 was made using a system dynamics model based on previously published estimates. It is estimated that the ESRD population will be 145,750 (1111 per million population (pmp)) by the year 2000, if renal transplantation gradually incr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Motohashi Y,Nishi S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Medication adherence is frequently suboptimal in adults with chronic diseases, resulting in negative consequences. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversational style for strengthening a person's motivation and commitment to change. We aimed to assess whether MI interventions are effective...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Zomahoun HTV,Guénette L,Grégoire JP,Lauzier S,Lawani AM,Ferdynus C,Huiart L,Moisan J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cigarette smoking is considered to be the most important cause of lung cancer, smoking behaviour cannot fully explain the epidemiological characteristics of lung cancer in Taiwanese women, who rarely smoke but contract lung cancer relatively often. There are other causes of lung cancer that have pro...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ko YC,Lee CH,Chen MJ,Huang CC,Chang WY,Lin HJ,Wang HZ,Chang PY

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical conditions related to hormonal abnormalities were investigated in a case-control study of breast cancer among women who attended a screening centre. Information was obtained by telephone interview regarding physician-diagnosed medical conditions such as thyroid or liver diseases, diabetes, and hypertension, as...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Moseson M,Koenig KL,Shore RE,Pasternack BS

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00