Late mortality after partial gastrectomy.

abstract：:Mortality rates from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in Australia for the period 1969-78 have been analysed by place of residence, occupation and country of birth. Large variations were found among subpopulations. Throughout the period IHD mortality was lowest among professional and farming occupations and highest among...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gibberd RW,Dobson AJ,Florey CD,Leeder SR

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 1997, an unexpected 2-5-fold increase in the incidence of pertussis has been reported in Poland in comparison with the previous 10 years, although the introduction of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccination in 1960 reduced the incidence of pertussis approximately 100-fold in the 1980s. The a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gzyl A,Augustynowicz E,Rabczenko D,Gniadek G,Slusarczyk J

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mildmay Uganda (MUg), an HIV treatment centre near Kampala, the capital of Uganda, has entered into a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa to develop their research programme and develop an observational cohort database (the MUg observational cohort). The pri...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Funk A,Kanters S,Nansubuga M,Mwehire D,Featherstone A,Druyts E,Odiit M,Mills EJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the associations of lifestyle factors with waist circumference 'Action Levels', hip circumference and body mass index. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study in a random sample of 5887 men and 7018 women aged 20-59 years, selected from the civil registries of Amsterdam, Maastricht and Doetinchem, The Netherla...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Han TS,Bijnen FC,Lean ME,Seidell JC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid status is known to have an important bearing on the ability of a woman to conceive, and to bring a normal infant to term. Thyroid status has changed in a number of previously iodine deficient countries as a result of recent iodization programmes. In this study, examination has been made of changes in the rates...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Potter JD,McMichael AJ,Hetzel BS

更新日期：1979-06-01 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:Urbanization in developing countries is usually accompanied by migration to cities, making it a challenge to unpack the independent relationships between migration, urbanization and health, particularly in the presence of health-selective migration. Since 1978, unprecedented planned urbanization has taken pl...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hou B,Nazroo J,Banks J,Marshall A

更新日期：2019-08-01 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:Neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) may affect rich and poor residents differentially. Two models are proposed. Model 1: living in a non-deprived neighbourhood is better for health because better collective material and social resources are available. Model 2: being poor (rich) relative to the neighbour...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Stafford M,Marmot M

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：Background:There is limited knowledge about the optimal timing of antiretroviral treatment initiation in older children and adolescents. Methods:A total of 20 576 antiretroviral treatment (ART)-naïve patients, aged 1-16 years at enrolment, from 19 cohorts in Europe, Southern Africa and West Africa, were included. We c...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Schomaker M,Leroy V,Wolfs T,Technau KG,Renner L,Judd A,Sawry S,Amorissani-Folquet M,Noguera-Julian A,Tanser F,Eboua F,Navarro ML,Chimbetete C,Amani-Bosse C,Warszawski J,Phiri S,N'Gbeche S,Cox V,Koueta F,Giddy J,Sy

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trachoma was considered to have been 'eradicated' from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, until 1982 when a number of new cases of trachoma were reported in preschool children in Bebedouro, a small town in northwestern São Paulo. A household survey was undertaken to assess the prevalence and epidemiological characteristi...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Luna EJ,Medina NH,Oliveira MB,de Barros OM,Vranjac A,Melles HH,West S,Taylor HR

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood samples from 382 children between the ages of one and 15 years were tested for anti-chlamydial antibody. A low prevalence of antibody against Chlamydia trachomatis was found among children under the age of seven years. Antibody against the Chlamydial agent C IOL-207 was rare before the age of five years, but was...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Burney P,Forsey T,Darougar S,Sittampalam Y,Booth P,Chamberlain R

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Children with a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD) have lower cognitive ability and are at risk of adverse educational outcomes; ADHD genetic risks have been found to predict childhood cognitive ability and other neurodevelopmental traits in the general population; thus genetic risks...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Stergiakouli E,Martin J,Hamshere ML,Heron J,St Pourcain B,Timpson NJ,Thapar A,Davey Smith G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have found that cotinine is a better predictor of birthweight than the number of cigarettes smoked in pregnancy. In this paper we test this hypothesis and use cotinine to explore the effect of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on birthweight. METHODS:In all, 1254 white women were interviewed ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Peacock JL,Cook DG,Carey IM,Jarvis MJ,Bryant AE,Anderson HR,Bland JM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between breast cancer risk and oral contraceptive use was examined in 401 breast cancer patients and 519 hospital controls interviewed in New York City during 1979-1981. Control subjects were ascertained utilizing variable ratio matching to the cases (2:1 or 1:1) by sex, age, hospital, and time of diag...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Harris RE,Zang EA,Wynder EL

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:The risk of cancer was evaluated among 77,952 asthma patients with bronchial asthma. The series was obtained through linkage of two registers: the Finnish Social Insurance Institution's file of asthma patients and the Finnish Cancer Registry. There was a significant excess risk of lung cancer in both sexes, the standa...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vesterinen E,Pukkala E,Timonen T,Aromaa A

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a means of analysing the effects that the benefit of early treatment, lead time and length-biased sampling (and other forms of prognostic selection bias) have on the mortality rate of cases detected in screening programmes. Both benefit and lead time reduce the mortality rate of screen-detected ca...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Morrison AS

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：: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：:This cohort profile describes the origins, tracing, recruitment, testing and follow-up of the University of Edinburgh-based Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 (LBC1921; N = 550) and 1936 (LBC1936; N = 1091). The participants undertook a general intelligence test at age 11 years and were recruited for these cohorts at mean ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Deary IJ,Gow AJ,Pattie A,Starr JM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic basis of several familial cancers including breast and colon cancers has been identified recently. The occurrence of multiple cancers in one individual is also suggestive of a genetic predisposition. To evaluate inherited predisposition in pancreatic cancer we compared the clinical data of pancre...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gerdes B,Ziegler A,Ramaswamy A,Wild A,Langer P,Bartsch DK

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interrupted time series designs are a valuable quasi-experimental approach for evaluating public health interventions. Interrupted time series extends a single group pre-post comparison by using multiple time points to control for underlying trends. But history bias-confounding by unexpected events occurring at the sa...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Degli Esposti M,Spreckelsen T,Gasparrini A,Wiebe DJ,Bonander C,Yakubovich AR,Humphreys DK

更新日期：2021-01-23 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:Increasing physical activity (PA) and reducing sedentary behaviour (SB) have been associated with healthy ageing, but their effects when adjusted for reverse causation and selection bias remain unclear. METHODS:A deficits accumulation (DA) index based on the number and severity of 51 health deficits (0-100%...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： García-Esquinas E,Ortolá R,Martínez-Gómez D,Damián J,Prina M,Rodríguez-Artalejo F,Pastor-Barriuso R

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) results from a complex interplay between genetics and the environment. Several epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have found DNA methylation loci associated with T2D in European populations. However, data from African populations are lacking. We undertook the first EWAS for T2D a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Meeks KAC,Henneman P,Venema A,Addo J,Bahendeka S,Burr T,Danquah I,Galbete C,Mannens MMAM,Mockenhaupt FP,Owusu-Dabo E,Rotimi CN,Schulze MB,Smeeth L,Spranger J,Zafarmand MH,Adeyemo A,Agyemang C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain age- and gender-specific estimates of the prevalence of dementia in Europe and to study differences in prevalence across countries, we pooled and re-analysed original data of prevalence studies of dementia carried out in some European countries between 1980 and 1990. The study followed these steps: census of...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hofman A,Rocca WA,Brayne C,Breteler MM,Clarke M,Cooper B,Copeland JR,Dartigues JF,da Silva Droux A,Hagnell O

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether the reduction in childhood mortality after immunization can be explained by the prevention of measles and its long-term effects. METHODS:and Data We re-analysed an existing data set from Matlab, Bangladesh. During 1982-1985, measles immunization was used from 9 months of age in half of the...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Aaby P,Bhuiya A,Nahar L,Knudsen K,de Francisco A,Strong M

更新日期：2003-02-01 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