Coronary mortality and its prediction in samples of US and Italian railroad employees in 25 years within the Seven Countries Study of cardiovascular diseases.

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：:Many of the known or suspected risk factors of sex hormone-dependent cancers in women (low parity, delay in childbearing, etc) are typical features of modern reproductive behaviour. Within the USSR regional variations in principal reproductive characteristics and the incidence of breast and cervical cancers have been ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Remennick LI

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：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：:Aboriginal communities have a high prevalence of upper and lower respiratory tract disease. One thousand two hundred and eighty seven West Australian Aborigines and 265 non-Aborigines were examined. Twenty nine per cent of Aborigines had lower respiratory tract abnormalities. Amongst 635 Aboriginal children less than ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Torzillo PJ,Waterford JE,Hollows FC,Jones DL

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotine dependence is a significant public health problem. This study attempted to characterize the prevalence and familial aggregation of nicotine dependence in China. METHODS:In 1998, we initiated a community-based cross-sectional study among residents of the Yuexi County in Anqing, China. A total of 991...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Niu T,Chen C,Ni J,Wang B,Fang Z,Shao H,Xu X

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies show that some compounds in tobacco smoke are transplacental carcinogens, but epidemiological data on maternal smoking and childhood cancer are inconclusive. Using the national Swedish Medical Birth and Cancer Registries, the incidence of cancer was followed through 1987 in a cohort of 497,051 chi...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pershagen G,Ericson A,Otterblad-Olausson P

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Geographical variations in the declining rates of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality may provide clues about various environmental risk factors responsible as a mass influence on the population IHD rate. The rate of IHD decline in 18 of 21 NJ counties was 2 to 45% less than the USA national rate of decline. The o...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Najem GR,Hutcheon DE,Feuerman M

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：MOTIVATION:RVPedigree (Rare Variant association tests in Pedigrees) implements a suite of programs facilitating genome-wide analysis of association between a quantitative trait and autosomal region-based genetic variation. The main features here are the ability to appropriately test for association of rare variants wit...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Oualkacha K,Lakhal-Chaieb L,Greenwood CM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Debates exist over whether health inequities are bound to rise as population health improves, due to health improving more quickly among the better off, with most analyses focused on mortality data. METHODS:We analysed 50 years of socioeconomic inequities in measured health status among US-born Black and Wh...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Krieger N,Kosheleva A,Waterman PD,Chen JT,Beckfield J,Kiang MV

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumococcal infections are a common cause of morbidity and mortality among elderly people. Protection against pneumococcal infections is mediated by serotype-specific antibodies to capsular polysaccharides. To obtain an estimate of anti-pneumococcal immunity, prevalence and levels of pneumococcal antibodies...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sankilampi U,Isoaho R,Bloigu A,Kivelä SL,Leinonen M

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Infant mortality rates vary substantially among municipalities in the State of Ceará, from 14 to 193 per 1000 live births. Identification of the determinants of these differences can be of particular importance to infant health policy and programmes in Brazil where local governments play a pivotal role in pr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Terra de Souza AC,Cufino E,Peterson KE,Gardner J,Vasconcelos do Amaral MI,Ascherio A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of three consecutive cold seasons (November-March) in the town of Tiberias, Israel, was dominated by one particular rotavirus serotype causing acute diarrhoea in the community: the 1987/88 season by serotype-2; 1988/89 by serotype-1 and 1989/90 by serotype-4. Each season was also characterized by a particular pat...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Shif I,Silberstein I,Aboudy Y,Mendelson E,Mates A,Gotlieb-Stematsky T

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic and maternal prenatal environmental factors as well as the post-natal rearing environment may contribute to the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and later mortality. In order to disentangle these influences, we studied all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of ado...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Osler M,Petersen L,Prescott E,Teasdale TW,Sørensen TI

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made in five rural districts of Kwara State, Nigeria to assess the possible use of 'leopard skin' (Ls) as a rapid diagnostic technique for estimating the endemicity of African onchocerciasis. The findings revealed that there is a positive association between the percentage of subjects with skin microfilari...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Edungbola LD,Alabi TO,Oni GA,Asaolu SO,Ogunbanjo BO,Parakoyi BD

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A random population sample from Eastern Finland was studied. Altogether approximately 12 000 persons aged 25 to 59 years were examined with participation rate of 92%. Smoking, high saturated fat diet, increased serum cholesterol and elevated blood pressure showed clustering among men but not among women. Smoking tende...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Salonen JT,Puska P,Kottke TE,Heinonen OP

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality and cancer incidence were analysed in follow-up of a cohort of 3327 Vietnamese refugees who came to Britain after the end of the Vietnam war. Overall mortality of the refugees was very low compared to expectations based on England and Wales national rates: the all-cause standardized mortality ratio for males...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Swerdlow Aj

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of a negative control is to reproduce a condition that cannot involve the hypothesized causal mechanism, but does involve the same sources of bias and confounding that may distort the primary association of interest. Observational studies suggest physical inactivity is a major risk factor for car...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hamer M,Bauman A,Bell JA,Stamatakis E

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meningococcal meningitis epidemics are frequent in the Sahel zone of Africa but there is little information on the frequency of long-term sequelae. We analysed excess mortality in the two years following the 1997 epidemic in northern Ghana and carried out a case-control study to assess sequelae in the surviv...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hodgson A,Smith T,Gagneux S,Akumah I,Adjuik M,Pluschke G,Binka F,Genton B

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is usually based on trials where patients are randomized individually into two different, parallel, treatment groups. This paper concentrates on RCTs of a different design-two-period, two-treatment cross-over trials. METHODS:The characteristics of these t...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Elbourne DR,Altman DG,Higgins JP,Curtin F,Worthington HV,Vail A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis has been declining in developed countries for a long time, as a result of the intrinsic epidemiological characteristics of this disease, combined with improvement in the standard of living and more recently the use of antibiotics. In these low prevalence countries, decisions concerning the objec...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Garcia A,Maccario J,Richardson S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Most Chinese people over 55 years old today have experienced the Great Leap Forward Famine of 1959-61. Many reports suggested that the famine could have profound long-term health effects for exposed birth cohorts. A systematic review and meta-analysis was carried out to summarize reported famine effects on l...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Li C,Lumey LH

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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:Mother's ethnicity is associated with her baby's birthweight and risk of perinatal mortality. Given the close relation between birthweight and perinatal mortality, we explored whether ethnic differences in birthweight explain ethnic differences in perinatal mortality. METHODS:Data on all births to mothers b...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vangen S,Stoltenberg C,Skjaerven R,Magnus P,Harris JR,Stray-Pedersen B

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：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