Self-reported life satisfaction and 20-year mortality in healthy Finnish adults.

abstract：:We investigated the differences in cancer incidence between boys and girls. The incidence data for pediatric cancers were retrieved from the International Incidence of Childhood Cancer project (1990-2015). Poisson regression was applied to detect the sex differences in cancer incidence at global and regional levels. B...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Yang Q,Cai N,Jin L,Zhang T,Chen X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Down syndrome was studied among all live births occurring between 1989 and 1991 in the California counties monitored by the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program. Objectives of this study were: 1) to calculate adjusted prevalence rates and quinquennial maternal age-specific risk rates of Down s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bishop J,Huether CA,Torfs C,Lorey F,Deddens J

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal emerged on the Indian subcontinent in late 1992 and was first recognized in Thailand in 1993. To characterize the epidemiology of this disease, a hospital-based case-control study was conducted in Samutsakorn, a port city 30 km southwest of Bangkok. Between November 15, 1993, and June 3, 19...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hoge CW,Bodhidatta L,Echeverria P,Deesuwan M,Kitporka P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of cigarette-smoking and nonfatal myocardial infarction (AMI) was evaluated using the case-control approach. Overall, the association was present for smokers of one and two packs per day, the standardized rate-ratio estimates being 1.5 and 1.7, respectively. The association was strongest in those who ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Miettinen OS,Neff RK,Jick H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze the factors associated with functional decline and improvement in a community-dwelling population of people aged 75 years and older. A representative sample of elderly people living at home in the city of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) was assessed yearly on three occasions (199...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hébert R,Brayne C,Spiegelhalter D

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of subjects at high risk of developing dementia is essential. By dealing with censoring and competing risk of death, we developed a score for predicting 10-year dementia risk by combining cognitive tests, and we assessed whether inclusion of cognitive change over the previous year increased its discrim...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jacqmin-Gadda H,Blanche P,Chary E,Loubère L,Amieva H,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial differences in the incidence and natural history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were evaluated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The yearly incidence rate for whites was approximately 1.5 times that for blacks. The cumulative risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes prior to age 20 was greater for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： LaPorte RE,Tajima N,Dorman JS,Cruickshanks KJ,Eberhardt MS,Rabin BS,Atchison RW,Wagener DK,Becker DJ,Orchard TJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The true number of industrial accidents followed by absence from work in the Netherlands in 1993 has been estimated by using a capture-recapture approach. A government safety register noted 29,685 cases reported by Dutch companies. The statutory organization that insures employees of the same companies against absence...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Charante AW,Mulder PG

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Male drivers sustained relatively more serious motorcycle collision injuries than did male passengers, female drivers, or female passengers. For male drivers, severity of injury was related to age. The relative frequency of serious head injury was highest for drivers not wearing helmets who were involved in collisions...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kraus JF,Riggins RS,Franti CE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In public health, it has long been observed that "place"-specifically, where one lives-affects individual health, with the main research question distinguishing between the effects of "context" (defined as area characteristics) and "composition" (the characteristics of inhabitants) on health outcomes. There have been ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cozier YC

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a historical prospective study covering 1970-1978, the authors evaluated the outcome of delivery to 429 parous women subsequent to a legally induced first-trimester vacuum-aspiration abortion during 1970-1975 in Uppsala County, Sweden. This outcome was compared with the outcome of delivery to 391 randomly chosen ma...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meirik O,Nygren KG,Bergström R,Gunsjö A

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the risk of another cancer among persons who initially developed Kaposi's sarcoma, the authors used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute for the years 1973-1990. In persons under 70 years of age, 4,946 cases of Kaposi's sarcoma were obser...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Biggar RJ,Curtis RE,Cote TR,Rabkin CS,Melbye M

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Buccal cells provide a convenient source of DNA for epidemiologic studies. Mouthwash rinses yield a higher quality and quantity of DNA than cytobrushes but are not practical for collection from infants. Although cytobrushes yield sufficient DNA for most genotyping analyses, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) analysis can r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saftlas AF,Waldschmidt M,Logsden-Sackett N,Triche E,Field E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients at the same stage of chronic disease may have had different rates of disease progression. The authors developed a mathematical modeling approach that allows reconstructing and comparing populations in terms of the disease progression rates of their participants when the disease onset and progression rates are...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ioannidis JP,Cappelleri JC,Schmid CH,Lau J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of any standard definition of suicide cluster events hinders understanding of the prevalence of the problem, hinders the development of appropriate public health responses to observed clusters, and ultimately hinders investigation of the mechanisms underlying contagious communication of suicidal behavior. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gibbons RD,Clark DC,Fawcett J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of oral contraceptive (OC) use to the risk of hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) was evaluated among 121,964 US nurses who responded to a mail questionnaire. There were 156 women who reported having been hospitalized for MI before the menopause, and 23 (15%) were OC users at the time of the MI...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Hennekens CH,Rosner B,Belanger C,Rothman KJ,Speizer FE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between low-level crystalline silica (silica) exposure and mortality risk is not well understood. We investigated a cohort of 44,807 Chinese workers who had worked in metal mines or pottery factories for at least 1 year from January 1, 1960, to December 31, 1974, and were followed through 2003. Low-lev...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Y,Zhou Y,Hnizdo E,Shi T,Steenland K,He X,Chen W

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement and characterization of the human microbiome in large population-based human studies has recently become a reality secondary to technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing. These advances bring new challenges and knowledge gaps for study planning, data analysis, and interpretation that are nov...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Demmer RT

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define better the epidemiology and clinical impact of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection among hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers in less developed countries, the authors prospectively studied a cohort of 216 Yucpa Indian HBV carriers in Venezuela. HBV carriers were followed regularly between 1983 and 1988 by phys...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hadler SC,Alcala de Monzon M,Rivero D,Perez M,Bracho A,Fields H

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1979 and March 1980, distinguishing features between fatal and nonfatal cases of diarrhea caused by the same etiologic agents were sought in a case-control investigation of Cuna Indian children living on the San Blas Islands located off Panama's Caribbean coast. The eight fatal cases of diarrhea (fou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ryder RW,Reeves WC,Sack RB

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of cancer occurrence among smokers compared to nonsmokers has been generally reported to be greatest for carcinomas arising in the lung and larynx. This report presents the results of an investigation into mechanisms underlying the temporal trends in the incidence of these two forms of cancer in Scotland ove...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boyle P,Robertson C

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational longitudinal research is particularly useful for assessing etiology and prognosis and for providing evidence for clinical decision making. However, there are no structured reporting requirements for studies of this design to assist authors, editors, and readers. The authors developed and tested a checkli...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tooth L,Ware R,Bain C,Purdie DM,Dobson A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cohort study sought to estimate the differences in risk of delivering infants who were small or large for gestational age (SGA or LGA, respectively) according to exercise during the first trimester of pregnancy (vs. no exercise) among 2,286 women receiving care at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2013-201...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ehrlich SF,Neugebauer RS,Feng J,Hedderson MM,Ferrara A

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency medical services with advanced life support systems were implemented in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area in the mid-1970s. To assess the impact of emergency medical services on coronary heart disease mortality, the authors reviewed ambulance records and hospital emergency room logs for possible out-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tillinghast SJ,Doliszny KM,Kottke TE,Gomez-Marin O,Lilja GP,Campion BC

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 80% of sexually active young women in the United States use hormonal contraceptives during their reproductive years. Associations between hormonal contraceptive use and mood disturbances remain understudied, despite the hypothesis that estrogen and progesterone play a role in mood problems. In this study,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Keyes KM,Cheslack-Postava K,Westhoff C,Heim CM,Haloossim M,Walsh K,Koenen K

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:During a three-week period in 1984, 339 tourists and expatriate employees with diarrhea visited the infirmary at a Caribbean resort club. Epidemiologic studies suggested that over 60% of the 1,893 tourists at the resort club during that time may have been ill. Shigella flexneri 4a was isolated from seven of 18 stool s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Spika JS,Dabis F,Hargrett-Bean N,Salcedo J,Veillard S,Blake PA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's population is aging rapidly. This study reports the burden of cancer in the oldest old (≥85 years) in Finland in 1953-2017 and estimates age-specific cancer rates in the old population (65-99 years) in 1988-2017. The Finnish Cancer Registry provided data on all cancer diagnoses, cancer deaths and other dea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tanskanen T,Seppä KJM,Virtanen A,Malila NK,Pitkäniemi JM

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Customized birth weight charts that incorporate maternal characteristics are now being adopted into clinical practice. However, there is controversy surrounding the value of these charts in the prediction of growth and perinatal outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess the use of customized charts in predic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Carberry AE,Raynes-Greenow CH,Turner RM,Jeffery HE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of predictors of adherence to mammography screening guidelines have been identified using traditional statistical methods, many women are not screening according to these guidelines. Recursive partitioning may aid in developing novel intervention strategies to promote this screening behavior by ident...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Calvocoressi L,Stolar M,Kasl SV,Claus EB,Jones BA

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00