Assessing the measurement properties of a Frailty Index across the age spectrum in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:A chemical spill from an oil refinery exposed the local community to more than 40,000 lb of highly toxic and corrosive hydrofluoric acid. A community based symptom prevalence study found an association between exposure and physical symptoms: the psychological impact of the disaster and its potential eff...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Dayal HH,Baranowski T,Li YH,Morris R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: "These are the opinions on which I base my facts". Why pretend? To take a topical example, if you are on the nature side of the nature/nurture debates, is it likely t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Marmot M,Friel S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commonly used estimate of a screening test's sensitivity, based on the prevalence at screening and the incidence of interval cancers, is shown to be logically unsound and quantitatively poor. An alternative simple estimate is proposed, based only on incidence rates. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Day NE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To see whether the community mothers' programme, using lay volunteer mothers to deliver a childhood development programme, could be extended successfully to the travelling community in Ireland. DESIGN:This was a prospective study of the travelling community; comparisons were made with results of a prev...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fitzpatrick P,Molloy B,Johnson Z

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to evaluate the hypothesis that sunlight exposure leads to the development of gallstones in people with a sun sensitive skin. DESIGN AND SETTING:This was a case-control study among 206 white patients referred for an ultrasound examination of the gallbladder. Sunlight exposure and skin sensi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Pavel S,Thijs CT,Potocky V,Knipschild PG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social position is known to play a role in the quality of ageing, notably through the stimulation/dysregulation of key physiological systems in response to external stresses. Using data from one wave of Understanding Society including 9088 participants, we defined, as an extension of the allostatic load, a synthetic B...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Karimi M,Castagné R,Delpierre C,Albertus G,Berger E,Vineis P,Kumari M,Kelly-Irving M,Chadeau-Hyam M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neighbourhood social fragmentation and socioeconomic deprivation seem to be associated with suicide mortality. However, results are inconclusive, which might be because dynamics in the social context are not well-represented by administratively bounded neighbourhoods at baseline. We used individualised neigh...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hagedoorn P,Groenewegen PP,Roberts H,Helbich M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social paediatrics is an approach to child health that focuses on the child, in illness and in health, within the context of their society, environment, school, and family. The glossary clarifies the range of terms used to describe aspects of paediatric practice that overlap or are subsumed under social paediatrics an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Spencer N,Colomer C,Alperstein G,Bouvier P,Colomer J,Duperrex O,Gokcay G,Julien G,Kohler L,Lindström B,Macfarlane A,Mercer R,Panagiotopoulos T,Schulpen T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To elucidate whether the risk of macrosomia, large for gestational age (LGA) and small for gestational age (SGA) is influenced by maternal body mass index and glucose tolerance differently in male and female fetuses. METHODS:A population study was conducted in 16 general hospitals from the Spanish National H...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ricart W,López J,Mozas J,Pericot A,Sancho MA,González N,Balsells M,Luna R,Cortázar A,Navarro P,Ramírez O,Flández B,Pallardo LF,Hernández A,Ampudia J,Fernández-Real JM,Hernández-Aguado I,Corcoy R,Spanish Group for the

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolescent drinking in Western countries has been associated with older age and high socioeconomic status, but the association with family structure was inconsistent. METHODS:In a 2012-2013 school-based survey in Hong Kong, 23,096 students (mean age 14.7 years, SD 1.8 years) completed an anonymous questionn...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Huang R,Ho SY,Wang MP,Lo WS,Lam TH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether people with more positive attitudes to ageing are biologically younger as defined by leucocyte telomere length, accelerated DNA methylation GrimAge (AgeAccelGrim) and brain-predicted age difference, and whether these biomarkers explain relationships between attitudes to ageing and morta...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McLachlan KJJ,Cole JH,Harris SE,Marioni RE,Deary IJ,Gale CR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High intelligence early in life has consistently been associated with decreased mortality, but the mechanisms are still not fully understood. In this cohort study, we examined the association between intelligence in early adulthood and later mortality from natural and unnatural causes taking birth weight, pa...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Meincke RH,Mortensen EL,Avlund K,Rosthøj S,Sørensen HJ,Osler M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing research points towards physical and mental health gains from housing improvements, but findings are inconsistent and often not statistically significant. The detailed characteristics and variability of housing improvement works are problematic and studies are often small, not experimental, with sho...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Curl A,Kearns A,Mason P,Egan M,Tannahill C,Ellaway A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study examined the prevalence of body dissatisfaction as a function of individual level and neighbourhood level indicators of affluence. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING:A subset of data from a larger random digit dialling telephone survey was used to obtain individual level data on body dissatisfaction, ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McLaren L,Gauvin L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people's living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for different age and socioeconomic groups. Furthermore, it is analysed separately for urban and more rural areas, because the stren...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Maas J,Verheij RA,Groenewegen PP,de Vries S,Spreeuwenberg P

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through life-course epidemiological studies. AIMS:To investi...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Roustit C,Renahy E,Guernec G,Lesieur S,Parizot I,Chauvin P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health equity is increasingly present as an overarching goal in public health policy frameworks across the globe. Public health actions to support health equity are challenging because solutions to the root causes of health inequities often lie outside of the health sector, and a specific role for environmental public...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rideout K,Oickle D

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:There is little information on the potential benefit of immunising all patients with chronic lung disease in the community against influenza. The clinical effectiveness and economic benefit was established of the influenza vaccination programme in a general practice based cohort of adult patients with c...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hak E,van Essen GA,Buskens E,Stalman W,de Melker RA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although exposure to peer and family violence is a documented risk factor for adolescent dating violence, less is known about the relationship between violent crime exposure and dating violence victimisation. METHODS:Participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 4794) aged 13-17 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Spriggs AL,Halpern CT,Martin SL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although being employed during midlife is positively associated with cognitive function in later life, little is known with respect to cumulative trajectories or durations of time spent in different kinds of work. METHODS:We investigated the relationships between employment trajectory from ages 31 years to ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kobayashi LC,Feldman JM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the relation between socioeconomic status and the age-sex specific prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The hypothesis was that prevalence of type 2 diabetes would be inversely related to socioeconomic status but there would be no association with the prevalence of type 1 diabetes a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Connolly V,Unwin N,Sherriff P,Bilous R,Kelly W

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of cancers of the upper alimentary tract was conducted in a hospital to assess the role of several risk factors, including alcohol consumption, which is reported here. Male patients from one community with cancers of the oral cavity (n = 278), pharynx (n = 225), and oesophagus (n = 236) formed the...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Notani PN

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immigrants are sometimes found to have better health than locally born populations. We examined the mortality experience of South Asian origin and white European origin individuals living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. METHODS:A linked 17-21 year mortality follow-up of a cross-sectional study of European (n=82...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hayes L,White M,McNally RJQ,Unwin N,Tran A,Bhopal R

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The aim was to identify any social class differences in health and care in the year before death emerging from a wider study of life before death. DESIGN AND SETTING:Data were collected at interviews, mainly of close relatives, with those who knew most about the people's lives in the year before they d...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cartwright A

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spain has recently become an inward migration country. Little is known about the occupational health of immigrant workers. This study aimed to explore the perceptions that immigrant workers in Spain had of their working conditions. METHODS:Qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study. Criterion sampling. Dat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Ahonen EQ,Porthé V,Vázquez ML,García AM,López-Jacob MJ,Ruiz-Frutos C,Ronda-Pérez E,Benach J,Benavides FG,ITSAL Project.

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To explore the relationship between self reported environmental tobacco smoke exposure (or passive smoking), the serum cotinine concentration, and evidence of respiratory or coronary disease in men and women who have never smoked. DESIGN:Cross sectional random population survey identifying disease mark...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Tunstall-Pedoe H,Brown CA,Woodward M,Tavendale R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-cohort comparison is an established method for improving causal inference. This study compared 2 cohorts, 1 from a high-income country and another from a middle-income country, to (1) establish whether birth exposures may play a causal role in the development of childhood attention problems; and (2) id...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Murray E,Pearson R,Fernandes M,Santos IS,Barros FC,Victora CG,Stein A,Matijasevich A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether or not, and how, health inequalities change throughout older age is currently under debate. The goal of this study was to assess the net impact of education, occupational class, income and wealth on frailty trajectories among older adults in Continental Europe. METHODS:We modelled frailty index traj...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Stolz E,Mayerl H,Waxenegger A,Rásky É,Freidl W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that racial discrimination impacts health via biological dysregulation due to continual adaptation to chronic psychosocial stress. Therefore, quantifying chronicity is critical for operationalising the relevant aetiological exposure and hence maximising internal validity. Using one of the mos...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Michaels E,Thomas M,Reeves A,Price M,Hasson R,Chae D,Allen A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the worldwide population has aged, the number of surgical procedures performed on older patients has increased. It is not known whether this increase has been proportional to growth in the elderly population. The aim of this study was to assess the population-adjusted incidence of acute and elective gener...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Deng C,Mitchell S,Paine SJ,Kerse N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00