Reproductive patterns and cancer incidence in women: a population-based correlation study in the USSR.

abstract：:The ratio of test statistics has been used to compare the efficiency of matched and unmatched designs, and stratified and pooled analyses for case-control studies. The index has been computed for a wide range of population conditions and it is concluded that (a) pooled analysis is always more efficient than stratified...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Choi BC,Howe GR

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Sri Lanka, the major malaria vector Anopheles culicifacies breeds in pools formed in streams and river beds and it is likely that people living close to such breeding sites are at higher risk of malaria than people living further away. This study was done to quantify the importance of house location relat...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Van Der Hoek W,Konradsen F,Amerasinghe PH,Perera D,Piyaratne MK,Amerasinghe FP

更新日期：2003-04-01 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:Being a zoonosis, the transmission of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is influenced by climatic, reservoir and occupational factors. This paper has quantified the incidence and potential risk factors of HFRS in Yingshang County, a low-lying epidemic focus of the disease in China. METHODS:Corre...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bi P,Tong S,Donald K,Parton K,Ni J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of obesity has increased rapidly in most developed countries in the last decades, and this rise is now spreading to developing countries. Childhood obesity is also increasing. The UK government has set a target to halt the rise in childhood obesity by 2010. Dietary recommendations are a centra...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gibson LJ,Peto J,Warren JM,dos Santos Silva I

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：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:Computerized record linkage is commonly used in cohort studies to ascertain the study outcome, and as such its accuracy classifying the outcome can be described using the standard epidemiological terms of sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV). METHOD:We describe a 'duplicate method' to calculate t...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Blakely T,Salmond C

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:It is well established now that the incidence of schizophrenia is extremely high for several ethnic minority groups in western Europe, but there is considerable variation among groups. We investigated whether the increased risk among these groups depends upon the degree to which they perceive discrimination ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Veling W,Selten JP,Susser E,Laan W,Mackenbach JP,Hoek HW

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the present historical cohort study was to enhance the understanding of the unusual mortality pattern seen among seafarers. The main object was to describe the mortality pattern of Danish seafarers in recent years with special reference to the influence of accidents in the maritime workplace and a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hansen HL,Pedersen G

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:Data from the Stockholm Health of the Population Study in 1984 (n = 6217) show small differences in mean alcohol consumption and in the prevalence of high consumers in various socioeconomic and educational categories of both sexes. Among young people mean consumption was higher in those who had low formal education, e...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Romelsjö A

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplementation on health is one of the most controversial issues in human nutrition. Our objective was to investigate the effect of nutritional doses of a combination of antioxidant vitamins and minerals on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a sample of h...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Briançon S,Boini S,Bertrais S,Guillemin F,Galan P,Hercberg S

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:The prevalence of human T-lymphotropic retrovirus (HTLV) was examined in Taiwan's indigenous populations. In all, 797 healthy subjects in Taiwan including Han Chinese and nine indigenous populations (Ami, Atayal, Bunun, Saisiat, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Tsuo, and Yami) were examined for the presence of antibodies to HTL...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ishida T,Pan IH,Horai S,Saitou N,Sun CS

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Region of Rijeka, Croatia, a combined vaccination programme against rubella has been carried out since 1976, so that children of both sexes are vaccinated at age 15 months and all girls at the age of 14 (8th grade of primary school). This vaccination programme has been carried out unchanged up till now. In 1989...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bakasun V,Suzanić-Karnincić J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologists frequently encounter studies with ordered responses. Standard ordered response logit models, such as the continuation ratio model, constrain exposure to have a homogeneous effect across thresholds of the ordered response. We demonstrate a method for fitting regression models for unconstrained, partiall...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Ananth CV

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred consecutive patients with histologically confirmed colorectal cancer and an equal number of age- and sex-matched orthopaedic patients as hospital controls were interviewed about demographic, socioeconomic, biometric and medical variables. Cholecystectomy was significantly more frequent among cases than con...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Papadimitriou C,Day N,Tzonou A,Gerovassilis F,Manousos O,Trichopoulos D

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the reproducibility and relative validity of a 190-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to be used in a large prospective study in the Athens area of Greece. METHODS:In all, 42 men and 38 women, aged 25-67 years, completed two self-administered semi-quantitative FFQ spaced ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Katsouyanni K,Rimm EB,Gnardellis C,Trichopoulos D,Polychronopoulos E,Trichopoulou A

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:It has been postulated that experiences early in life influence cardiovascular risk in later adult life. This article considers 15 longitudinal and four case-control studies which, directly or indirectly, have examined the hypothesis concerning the prenatal and childhood origins of adult cardiovascular disease. Criter...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Elford J,Whincup P,Shaper AG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Students in their second year of medical studies perceived nutritional deficiency as a possible health problem in rural Nigeria and conducted a survey to investigate and compare the nutritional and health status of three distinct groups of children (Bokos in Babana, Bokos in Marami, Fulani). The nutritional status of ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bollag U,Bennike T,Adigun CA,Agwu NI,Awobusuyi JO,Awolola KA,Chukwumweike MO,Nwosu IA,Ukpeh HA

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:The familial aggregation of chronic bronchitis and obstructive airways disease was investigated in a propositus population of 430 persons aged 45-54 years and 1340 of their first (1 degree), second (2degrees) and third (3 degrees ) order relatives. All subjects were screened in their homes using a modified British MRC...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Tager I,Tishler PV,Rosner B,Speizer FE,Litt M

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether alternative clinical and microbiological criteria for outcome events affected estimates of vaccine efficacy in a randomized, double-blind field trial of B subunit-killed whole cell (BS-WC) and killed whole cell-only (WC) oral cholera vaccines among 62,285 rural Bangladeshi participants. At one ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Clemens JD,Stanton BF,Harris JR,Chakraborty J,Sack DA,Rao MR,Ahmed F,Ansaruzzaman M,Yunus MD,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although disorders of the prostate are among the most prevalent problems in elderly males, little is known about their epidemiological characteristics. The 1986 Barcelona Health Interview Survey (BHIS), a cross-sectional study of a random sample of the noninstitutionalized population of the city, was used to estimate ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Fernandez E,Porta M,Alonso J,Antó JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been implicated as a potentially important co-factor for enhanced vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV). In previous reports, however, methodological issues (notably small sample sizes) have limited accurate evaluation of the contri...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pappalardo BL

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The effectiveness of vaccines in populations must consider both direct and indirect protection. This study reanalyses data from a large individually randomized oral cholera vaccine trial that was conducted in rural Bangladesh from 1985 to 1990. A recent analysis of the results of that trial showed that the p...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Emch M,Ali M,Park JK,Yunus M,Sack DA,Clemens JD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00