Strengthening the practice of epidemiology in the European Community.

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

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更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During pregnancy, woman and fetus exchange small quantities of cells, and their persistence at later times is termed microchimerism. Microchimerism is known to substantially impact on women's later health. This study examined the survival of women according to male microchimerism status. METHODS:Male microc...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kamper-Jørgensen M,Hjalgrim H,Andersen AM,Gadi VK,Tjønneland A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:During the past decades a widening of the relative gap in death rates between upper and lower socioeconomic groups has been reported for several European countries. Although differential mortality decline for cardiovascular diseases has been suggested as an important contributory factor, it is not known what...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Mackenbach JP,Bos V,Andersen O,Cardano M,Costa G,Harding S,Reid A,Hemström O,Valkonen T,Kunst AE

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many western countries an increase in incidence of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and/or gastric cardia have been reported. The aim of this study was to describe and compare trends in incidence of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and gastric cardia in several areas of Europe, 1968-1995, using Eurocim (a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Botterweck AA,Schouten LJ,Volovics A,Dorant E,van Den Brandt PA

更新日期：2000-08-01 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:To describe the seroepidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection in a population of Egyptian children under 3 years. METHODS:A cohort of children under 36 months, residing in Abu Homos, Egypt, were visited at home twice weekly. Information regarding the child's breastfeeding status was obtained, and period...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Naficy AB,Frenck RW,Abu-Elyazeed R,Kim Y,Rao MR,Savarino SJ,Wierzba TF,Hall E,Clemens JD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We assessed the differential and sequential effects of a Government of India conditional cash transfer scheme for the socio-economically disadvantaged (Janani Suraksha Yojana; JSY) and the strengthening of the primary health centre (PHC) network to provide 24/7 obstetric care in promoting institutional deliv...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Amudhan S,Mani K,Rai SK,Pandav CS,Krishnan A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between poverty, birthweight, and infant weight gain in Hertfordshire, 1923-1939. DESIGN:Cohort study based on the Hertfordshire Health Visitors' Register (HHVR). SETTING:The population of Hertfordshire, and a sub-sample of five Hertfordshire towns-Hoddesdon, Berkhampstead, He...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Razzell P,Spence C,Vines K

更新日期：2004-12-01 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: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：: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：: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:Hospital admissions in infancy are declining in several countries. We describe admissions to neonatal intensive care units (NICU) and other hospitalizations over a 33-year period in the Brazilian city of Pelotas. METHODS:We analysed data from four population-based birth cohorts launched in 1982, 1993, 2004 ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Wehrmeister FC,Victora CG,Horta BL,Menezes AMB,Santos IS,Bertoldi AD,da Silva BGC,Barros FC,Pelotas Cohorts Study Group.

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence suggests that aspirin use may improve survival in cancer patients, however, for endometrial cancer, epidemiological evidence is limited and results are equivocal. In a nationwide cohort study, we examined the association between post-diagnostic low-dose aspirin use and endometrial cance...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sperling CD,Verdoodt F,Aalborg GL,Dehlendorff C,Friis S,Kjaer SK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infant mortality rate is not a good indicator of overall mortality or health status. Based on new empirical life tables from the UN Population Division, it can only predict life expectancy with 95% confidence to within a 14-year range. Two infant mortality rates must be nearly 80 units apart to be 95% confident th...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Murray CJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptic ulcer (PU) disease is the cause of substantial morbidity and mortality in a number of countries including Australia. Despite diagnostic and treatment advances, sustained mortality from PU disease has been reported. To understand this problem a birth cohort analysis using the Median Polish Technique (MPT) was pe...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Westbrook JI,Rushworth RL

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：: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

abstract：:Associations between drug consumption during pregnancy and the birth of children with oral clefts were studied in material from the Finnish Register of Congenital Malformations, consisting of 599 children with clefts and their matched controls. Information concerning maternal drug consumption was partly prospective. D...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Saxén I

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluated whether food insecurity and obesity were associated in a population sample in Trinidad. METHODS:A sample was drawn of 15 clusters of households, in north central Trinidad. Resident adults were enumerated. A questionnaire was administered including the short form Household Food Security ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gulliford MC,Mahabir D,Rocke B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore whether causes of maternal death can be investigated using the sisterhood method, an indirect method for providing a community-based estimate of the level of maternal mortality, this study compares the sisterhood causes of maternal death with the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System's (DSS) caus...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Shahidullah M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tuberculin skin test (TST) is the most commonly used tool to detect infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We sought to determine whether tuberculin skin testing is useful to detect latent infection by M. tuberculosis in a population that was vaccinated with the Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) vaccine....

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： García-Sancho F MC,García-García L,Jiménez-Corona ME,Palacios-Martínez M,Ferreyra-Reyes LD,Canizales-Quintero S,Cano-Arellano B,Ponce-de-León A,Sifuentes-Osornio J,Small P,DeRiemer K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually necessary to estimate repeatability of a self-administered questionnaire from responses by subjects on just two occasions. It is shown that it is not possible to estimate false positive and false negative classification rates separately, but that an average correct classification can be calculated. This ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chinn S,Burney PG

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While prior studies of thyroid cancer incidence within Belarus have increased since the 1986 Chernobyl reactor accident, the magnitude of increase is not well quantified. METHODS:Using Belarussian national cancer registry data, trends in average annual age-adjusted thyroid cancer incidence rates were examin...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Mahoney MC,Lawvere S,Falkner KL,Averkin YI,Ostapenko VA,Michalek AM,Moysich KB,McCarthy PL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe secular trends in pneumonia hospitalizations in the Bronx, New York City from 1982-1986, we analysed all cases with a discharge diagnosis of pneumonia, excluding Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), for Bronx residents by age, sex, neighbourhood, and length of stay (N = 21,822). Hospital deaths from PCP a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Drucker E,Webber MP,McMaster P,Vermund SH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of offspring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the role of unmeasured familial confounding for this association remains unclear. METHODS:We conducted a population-based cohort study via linkage of Swe...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chen Q,Sjölander A,Långström N,Rodriguez A,Serlachius E,D'Onofrio BM,Lichtenstein P,Larsson H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupation and industry classifications are used in epidemiological studies to classify study subjects according to their job and subsequently to study risk by job, to infer social class indicators, or to infer exposure to specific agents through job-exposure matrices. However, documentation on methodological aspects ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Mannetje A',Kromhout H

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:METHODS. Mortality rates for four types of cancer (stomach, colorectal, lung, and breast cancer) in migrant populations were compared to those of individuals who still resided in the political region in which they were born. The effects on mortality rates of place of birth and of place of residence were studied, compa...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Fascioli S,Capocaccia R,Mariotti S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long average incubation time from HIV infection to AIDS makes it difficult to estimate recent HIV transmission from AIDS incidence data. Age-period-cohort (APC) analysis can separate out the effects of age, calendar time and birth cohort to provide a clearer picture of transmission trends. METHODS:AIDS ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Houweling H,Wiessing LG,Hamers FF,Termorshuizen F,Gill ON,Sprenger MJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corporate influences on epidemiology have become stronger and more pervasive in the last few decades, particularly in the contentious fields of pharmacoepidemiology and occupational epidemiology. For every independent epidemiologist studying the side effects of medicines and the hazardous effects of industrial chemica...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pearce N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00