Incidence of neonatal seizures in Harris County, Texas, 1992-1994.

abstract：:Lung cancer mortality in England and Wales among males in the age group 25 to 84 over the years 1941 to 1975 was analyzed. Using cigarette consumption information from the Tobacco Research Council and a statistical model, relative and attributable risks were estimated. The lung cancer deaths could be partitioned into ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stevens RG,Moolgavkar SH

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does a rise in crime result in increased sitting time and a reduction in physical activity? We used unobserved ("fixed")-effects models to examine associations between change in objectively measured crime (nondomestic violence, malicious damage, breaking and entering, and stealing, theft, and robbery) in Australia and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Astell-Burt T,Feng X,Kolt GS,Jalaludin B

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The age-specific prevalence of hepatitis A antibodies has been analyzed using a catalytic epidemic model for populations in seven European countries: West Germany, Norway, Greece, Switzerland, Holland, France and Sweden. The results indicate a significant decline in the force of infection in recent decades. However, t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schenzle D,Dietz K,Frösner GG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) for patients with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in the natural course is essential for assessing risks and benefits of treatment. Traditionally, the survival period starts at the time of diagnosis and ends at ICH, but most patients are quickly cens...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kim H,McCulloch CE,Johnston SC,Lawton MT,Sidney S,Young WL

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a computer program for hypothesis testing and calculation of exact binomial confidence intervals for the adjusted relative risk in follow-up studies involving multiple strata with incidence density (person-time) denominators and small or zero person-count numerators. The program is an extension to ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guess HA,Lydick EG,Small RD,Miller LP

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Definitions and descriptions of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) vary between Western and Eastern types, and alcoholism and hepatitis B virus (HBV) are, respectively, the main etiologies. To determine whether there are unified diagnostic criteria and common treatment programs for different etiologies of ACLF, a m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gu WY,Xu BY,Zheng X,Chen J,Wang XB,Huang Y,Gao YH,Meng ZJ,Qian ZP,Liu F,Lu XB,Shang J,Li H,Wang SY,Sun X,Li H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 3,916 Swedish copper smelter workers employed for at least 3 months between 1928 and 1967 was followed up through 1981. Arsenic exposure was estimated for different time periods at each workplace within the smelter. Detailed job records were linked to the exposure matrix, thus forming individual cumulative...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Järup L,Pershagen G

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based cohort of 166 twin pairs (67 monozygotic and 99 dizygotic) born at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Medical Center, from July 1, 1976 to December 31, 1980 was identified. Body weight and length were measured at 14 days and at one, three, six, nine, and 12 months of age. Statisticall...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Levine RS,Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a significant problem within hospitals, leading to extended hospital stays, excess morbidity and mortality, and economic loss. Prevention and control strategies are generally "bundled"; therefore, the individual effects of particular strategies and the value of combined strategies cannot be determined dir...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blanco N,Eisenberg MC,Stillwell T,Foxman B

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the authors use the rubric of "coarsened data," of which missing and censored data are special cases, to motivate the elicitation and use of expert information for performing sensitivity analyses of censored event-time data. Elicited information is important because observed data are insufficient to est...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shardell M,Scharfstein DO,Vlahov D,Galai N

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brucellosis in Florida is documented for the 47-year period 1928-1975. Of the 936 cases reported in 1930-1975, more than half (505) occurred in the decade 1940-1949. The incidence declined rapidly to an average rate of five cases per year, although there was an increase in 1974 and 1975. The analysis is mainly c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bigler WJ,Hoff GL,Hemmert WH,Tomas JA,Janowski HT

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the validity of outdoor particulate matter with a 50% cutoff diameter of 10-microm (PM10) concentrations as a measure of exposure in time series studies, the association between personal and outdoor concentrations, within subjects, over time was investigated. Repeated measurements of personal, indoor, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Janssen NA,Hoek G,Brunekreef B,Harssema H,Mensink I,Zuidhof A

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have investigated associations between offspring size at birth and parental cardiovascular disease mortality among 12,086 mothers and 6,936 fathers of participants in the British 1958 birth cohort. Birth weight was inversely associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in both mothers a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davey Smith G,Hyppönen E,Power C,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily temperatures and snowfall were related to coronary and stroke deaths in selected standard metropolitan statistical areas for the 5-year period 1962-1966. Typically an inverse approximately linear pattern of coronary heart disease (CHD) and of stroke mortality with temperature was seen over the greater part of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rogot E,Padgett SJ

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite interest in the built food environment, little is known about the validity of commonly used secondary data. The authors conducted a comprehensive field census identifying the locations of all food outlets using a handheld global positioning system in 8 counties in South Carolina (2008-2009). Secondary data wer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liese AD,Colabianchi N,Lamichhane AP,Barnes TL,Hibbert JD,Porter DE,Nichols MD,Lawson AB

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiology has a rich tradition in western New York State, beginning with the classic study by Austin Flint of a waterborne typhoid fever outbreak in North Boston in 1843. Other important investigations included the study of the Buffalo poliomyelitis epidemic of 1912, by Wade Hampton Frost, which provided a comprehe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Winkelstein W Jr

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relation of increased mortality and morbidity to personal loss and damage following the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, the authors conducted a prospective study of mortality and a nested case-control analysis of incident morbidity. Employees of the Armenian Ministry of Health and their immediate families (n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Armenian HK,Melkonian AK,Hovanesian AP

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As economic development increases, puberty occurs at younger ages, and this could contribute to an increase in the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and hormone-related cancers. The factors that determine pubertal timing are poorly understood. The growth axis that is active during puberty is active in the first 6 m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kwok MK,Leung GM,Lam TH,Schooling CM

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical condyloma and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are related to human papillomavirus infections, some of which may be involved in the etiology of cancer of the uterine cervix. This case-control study was designed to assess the relation of age at first sexual intercourse, number of sexual partners, and cigaret...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brisson J,Roy M,Fortier M,Bouchard C,Meisels A

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol drinking has been extensively studied in relation to prostate cancer, yet findings on the direction of the association are equivocal. Previous studies have not examined drinking patterns. Thus, the authors prospectively evaluated the associations between these factors and risk of incident prostate cancer (n = ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Platz EA,Leitzmann MF,Rimm EB,Willett WC,Giovannucci E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between allergy and risk of cancer was evaluated in a cohort study of 34,198 Seventh-day Adventists in California. Information on prevalence of asthma, hay fever, and reactions to chemicals, medications, bee stings, and poison oak (or ivy) was obtained by questionnaire in 1976. The reported allergies must...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mills PK,Beeson WL,Fraser GE,Phillips RL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for genital human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6/11 and 16/18 and any HPV type as well as for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections were investigated in a population-based study of 1,600 randomly selected women (20-39 years) from Godthåb (native, Nuuk), Greenland, and Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. A t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kjaer SK,Engholm G,Teisen C,Haugaard BJ,Lynge E,Christensen RB,Møller KA,Jensen H,Poll P,Vestergaard BF

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies suggest that vitamin D modulates the activity of adipocytes. The authors examined baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) level in relation to prevalent and cumulative incident obesity in Norway. A cohort of 25,616 adults aged 19-55 years participated in both the second and third surveys of t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mai XM,Chen Y,Camargo CA Jr,Langhammer A

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents findings on depressive symptomatology among 3,118 Mexican-American adults who participated in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES). In 1982-1984, the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale was administered to Mexican Americans ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mościcki EK,Locke BZ,Rae DS,Boyd JH

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of cancer of the corpus uteri in Denmark is examined by the use of data from the Danish Cancer Registry. The study population consists of 14,149 cases diagnosed with cancer of the corpus uteri between 1943 and 1980. Since 1943, the incidence has been steadily increasing. The trend in the incidence rates...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ewertz M,Jensen OM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated timing and trajectories of fetal growth in relation to childhood development in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-Scandinavian Study of Successive Small-for-Gestational Age Births (1986-1988) (n = 1,059). Fetal size was assessed by ultrasound at 17, 25, and 33 gestat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： von Ehrenstein OS,Mikolajczyk RT,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statewide cross-sectional study of risk factors for seropositivity for antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi in outdoor workers in New Jersey was performed in September and October 1988. The crude odds ratio associated with exposure to ticks on the primary state job was 2.2 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7-9.0). After a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schwartz BS,Goldstein MD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that influence circulating sex hormones, such as physical activity, have been proposed to influence ovarian cancer risk; however, results from previous epidemiologic studies have been inconsistent. The authors examined the association among physical activity, sedentary behavior, and ovarian cancer risk in the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Patel AV,Rodriguez C,Pavluck AL,Thun MJ,Calle EE

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking has been posited as a possible risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but large population-based studies of patients with incident disease are still needed. The authors performed a population-based case-control study in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009, including 494 patients with incident A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Jong SW,Huisman MH,Sutedja NA,van der Kooi AJ,de Visser M,Schelhaas HJ,Fischer K,Veldink JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the Observing Protein and Energy Nutrition (OPEN) Study, conducted from September 1999 to March 2000. The purpose of the study was to assess dietary measurement error using two self-reported dietary instruments-the food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and the 24-hour dietary recall (24HR)-and unbias...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Subar AF,Kipnis V,Troiano RP,Midthune D,Schoeller DA,Bingham S,Sharbaugh CO,Trabulsi J,Runswick S,Ballard-Barbash R,Sunshine J,Schatzkin A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00