Interactions between birth cohort and urbanization on gastric cancer mortality in Taiwan.

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of studies have reported that increased consumption of natural products reduced the risk of cancer. Our previous case-control studies have shown a significant reduction in the risk of cancer development among those who regularly consumed ginseng. We conducted a prospective cohort study to evaluate t...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Yun TK,Choi SY

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease risk factor and mortality data collected since the 1978 Conference on the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality were reviewed. Risk factor and disease trends were generally parallel and compatible with current hypotheses of cause and prevention. A few discrepancies between risk factors and...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Blackburn H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate the relative contributions of prenatal complications, perinatal characteristics, neonatal morbidities and socio-economic conditions on the occurrence of motor, sensory, cognitive, language and psychological disorders in a large longitudinal preterm infant population during the first 7 years af...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Müller JB,Hanf M,Flamant C,Olivier M,Rouger V,Gascoin G,Basset H,Rozé JC,Nusinovici S

更新日期：2019-02-01 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:Predictions of primary liver cancer (PLC) incidence rates and case numbers are critical to understand and plan for PLC disease burden. METHODS:Data on PLC incidence rates and case numbers from 1990 to 2017 were retrieved from the Global Burden of Disease database. The estimated average percentage change (EA...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Xu K,Jiang Y,Cai N,Fan J,Mao X,Suo C,Jin L,Zhang T,Chen X

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGOUND:The term 'joint modelling' is used in the statistical literature to refer to methods for simultaneously analysing longitudinal measurement outcomes, also called repeated measurement data, and time-to-event outcomes, also called survival data. A typical example from nephrology is a study in which the data from...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Asar Ö,Ritchie J,Kalra PA,Diggle PJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the mid 1980s European governments committed themselves to the WHO goal 'reduced inequality in health by year 2000' according to which inequality in health should be reduced by 25% by the year 2000. The study aim is to estimate the time trend in relative risk due to ischaemic heart disease (IHD) morbidity...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Tüchsen F,Endahl LA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the request of the COMAC EPID committee of the Commission of the European Communities the author visited all the countries of the EEC except Luxembourg in 1983-84 in order to prepare a report on 'Upgrading in epidemiology'. The report was presented at a meeting organized by COMAC EPID in April 1984 and subsequently...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pemberton J

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroid autoantibodies (TAA) to either microsome or thyroglobulin were measured in 1251 samples from the general population, 546 males and 705 females, aged 40 or over in Hisayama, a Japanese rural town. TAA was positive in 7.7% of men ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Okamura K,Nakashima T,Ueda K,Inoue K,Omae T,Fujishima M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyse the NHANES III sample to assess the suitability of measured stature and sitting height to estimate leg length (tibia + femur) and predict fatness. High rates of overweight in the United States population may lead to greater gluteo-femoral fat mass which will increase sitting height and artificiall...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bogin B,Varela-Silva MI

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983 and 1984, surveys were conducted in four Chinese population samples, urban and rural for both Beijing and Guangzhou, as part of PRC-USA collaborative research in cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary epidemiology. Serum total cholesterol (TC), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides (TG) were measured in 4280 ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Tao S,Li Y,Xiao Z,Cen R,Zhang H,Zhuo Y,Zhou B,Chen P,Li Y,Liao Y

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preliminary research suggests an association between depression and subsequent increased risk of infections, yet little is known on this topic. This study investigated the association between depression and risk of various types of infections, including temporal and dose-response relationships. METHODS:A pr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Andersson NW,Goodwin RD,Okkels N,Gustafsson LN,Taha F,Cole SW,Munk-Jørgensen P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secular trends in cardiovascular risk factors have been described, but few studies have examined simultaneously the effects of both ageing and secular trends within the same cohort. METHODS:Development of cardiovascular risk factors over the past three decades was analysed using serial measurements from 10 ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hulmán A,Tabák AG,Nyári TA,Vistisen D,Kivimäki M,Brunner EJ,Witte DR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the impact of water sanitation and sewage disposal, part of a major environmental control programme in Rio de Janeiro, we carried out sero-prevalence studies for Hepatitis A virus (HAV) in three micro-regions in Rio de Janeiro. Each region varied with regard to level of sanitation. We are intereste...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Struchiner CJ,de Almeida LM,de Azevedo RS,Massad E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis, at least for some types of cancer, can be interpreted as the consequence of selection of mutated cells similar to what, in the theory of evolution, occurs at the population level. Instead of considering a population of organisms, we can refer to a population of cells belonging to multicellular organism...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vineis P,Berwick M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence rates of childhood onset type 1 diabetes are almost universally increasing across the globe but the aetiology of the disease remains largely unknown. We investigated whether birth order is associated with the risk of childhood diabetes by performing a pooled analysis of previous studies. METHO...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Cardwell CR,Stene LC,Joner G,Bulsara MK,Cinek O,Rosenbauer J,Ludvigsson J,Svensson J,Goldacre MJ,Waldhoer T,Jarosz-Chobot P,Gimeno SG,Chuang LM,Roberts CL,Parslow RC,Wadsworth EJ,Chetwynd A,Brigis G,Urbonaite B,Sipe

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic examination of multiple faeces samples of 2 825 persons was carried out in the Metropolitan Lagos. Overall prevalence of Entamoeba histolytica was 11.2%. Prevalence increased rapidly in younger age groups and there were no real differences between males and females. Prevalence was high among families who a...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Oyerinde JP,Alonge AA,Adegbite-Hollist AF,Ogunbi O

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on T4 and TSH values derived from a voluntary screening programme of thyroid function in Belgium are presented. Significant differences in T4 values according to sex, maturity and birthplace are shown. ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bouckaert A,Beckers C,Francois B

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to assess the effect of hysterectomy on subsequent risk of cancer among 25,382 hysterectomized and a similar number of non-hysterectomized control women, registered in 1963-1976 in the Mass Screening Registry (MSR). METHODS:Cancer cases were obtained from...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Luoto R,Auvinen A,Pukkala E,Hakama M

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence links chronic infections, especially burden of several infections, with increased risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). We studied joint immune response against two major periodontal pathogens and herpes simplex virus (HSV) in relation to established risk factors of CVD. METHODS:Serum ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vilkuna-Rautiainen T,Pussinen PJ,Roivainen M,Petäys T,Jousilahti P,Hovi T,Vartiainen E,Asikainen S

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Mortalities from selected causes from 1973 to 1982 among Koreans, Chinese, and Americans residing in Japan were compared with those of Japanese. In the Korean population, besides the well-documented excess in mortalities from liver cancer, lung cancer, liver cirrhosis and male tuberculosis, a rather prominent elevatio...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kono S,Isa AR,Ogimoto I,Yoshimura T

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and ninety-nine of 428 patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Kuwait during 1978 were matched with hospitalized controls by sex, nationality, and same year of age. Patients were almost six times as likely as controls to be smokers (odds ratio [OR] = 5.6; 95% confidence limits [CL] = 2...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Al-Owaish RA,Zack M

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:So far, no randomized controlled trials with a mean mammographic screening interval of > or = 2 years has demonstrated statistically significant mortality reduction for women younger than age 50. The issue of screening frequency is vital in detection of primary breast cancer. METHODS:The study group consist...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Ren JJ,Peer PG

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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：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：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：BACKGROUND:We reported in a recent study that parity was inversely related to the incidence of Hodgkin's disease (HD) in Norwegian women younger than 56. In this study, another data set was used to estimate the parity effects on incidence at higher ages, and two different data sets were used to assess how parity influe...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kravdal O,Hansen S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00