Relation of cigarette smoking to 25-year mortality in middle-aged men with low baseline serum cholesterol: the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry.

abstract：:Because body fat distribution has been recognized as a disease risk factor, practical methods for the measurement of body girths are needed. In two groups of postmenopausal women aged 55-69 years in the upper midwestern United States, the authors examined the reliability and accuracy of self-measurement by mail questi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kushi LH,Kaye SA,Folsom AR,Soler JT,Prineas RJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac disease (CD) is associated with increased mortality rate and adverse pregnancy outcome, but little is known about offspring mortality rate. In this nationwide retrospective cohort study, we identified persons whose biopsy-verified CD was diagnosed in Sweden in 1969-2008. We compared mortality rates in children ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zugna D,Richiardi L,Stephansson O,Cnattingius S,Ludvigsson JF

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Case-control differences in prediagnostic serum levels of retinol, beta-carotene, vitamin E, and selenium are compared for 10 cancer sites in 10 study populations. For all four nutrients, the majority of results showed lower levels among persons who subsequently became cases than among controls. Low levels of beta-car...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Comstock GW,Bush TL,Helzlsouer K

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952-1989 (n = 13,376), third-ge...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahrén-Moonga J,Silverwood R,Klinteberg BA,Koupil I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between injurious falls requiring hospitalization and selected classes of medications was examined in a case-control study of nursing home residents. Information for this study was obtained exclusively from four computerized administrative databases. Over the period from April 1987 to March 1992, a tot...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mustard CA,Mayer T

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Power considerations for trials evaluating vaccines against infectious diseases are complicated by indirect protective effects of vaccination. While cluster-randomized controlled trials (cRCTs) are less statistically efficient than individually randomized controlled trials (iRCTs), a cRCT's ability to measure direct a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hitchings MDT,Lipsitch M,Wang R,Bellan SE

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast arterial calcification (BAC) has been associated with diabetes and hypertension. This prompted the authors to study the relation between BAC and cardiovascular mortality in a cohort of 12,239 women aged 50-68 years who participated in a population-based breast cancer screening project (DOM Project) in Utrecht, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kemmeren JM,van Noord PA,Beijerinck D,Fracheboud J,Banga JD,van der Graaf Y

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cross-sectional relation between levels of urinary biogenic amines (dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and serotonin) and levels of blood lead was examined in a study of 645 male participants from a longitudinal study of aging. This stable population of men had initially been recruited from communities in and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Payton M,Hu H,Sparrow D,Young JB,Landsberg L,Weiss ST

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although missing outcome data are an important problem in randomized trials and observational studies, methods to address this issue can be difficult to apply. Using simulated data, the authors compared 3 methods to handle missing outcome data: 1) complete case analysis; 2) single imputation; and 3) multiple imputatio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Groenwold RH,Donders AR,Roes KC,Harrell FE Jr,Moons KG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneous exposure associations (HEAs) can be defined as differences in the association of an exposure with an outcome among subgroups that differ by a set of characteristics. In this article, we intend to foster discussion of HEAs in the epidemiologic literature and present a variant of the random forest algorith...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Odden MC,Rawlings AM,Khodadadi A,Fern X,Shlipak MG,Bibbins-Domingo K,Covinsky K,Kanaya AM,Lee A,Haan MN,Newman AB,Psaty BM,Peralta CA

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Empiric data on recruitment of minorities into clinical or population studies are limited. The authors evaluated population- and community-based recruitment methods in a 1998-2001 case-control study of lung cancer among African Americans and Latinos. For lung cancer cases in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cabral DN,Nápoles-Springer AM,Miike R,McMillan A,Sison JD,Wrensch MR,Pérez-Stable EJ,Wiencke JK,San Francisco Bay Area Lung Cancer Study.

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in hygienic habits and base-line secretory immunoglobulin (Ig) A which might have contributed to the prevalence of skin infections and/or absence of increased serum IgA values were sought in patients with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (nephritis) in contrast to patients with acute rheumatic fe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Potter EV,Vincente JB,Mayon-WHite RT,Shaughnessy MA,Poon-King T,Earle DP

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a long-standing debate about whether birth weight directly affects adult blood pressure, or whether the association is entirely mediated through current weight. In this issue of the Journal, Chiolero et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(1):4-11) quantitatively evaluate whether bias from an unmeasured confou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howards PP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective panel cohort design was used to investigate whether mental disorders common in the general population increase the likelihood of increased cigarette smoking at 12 months follow-up. By 1995, the last year for which data were available, a random sample of 12,057 persons aged 16-75 years residing in private...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ismail K,Sloggett A,De Stavola B

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential role of psychological stress in pancreatic cancer has rarely been investigated in epidemiologic studies. During 1991-2009, we conducted a nested case-control study based on Swedish national population and health registers to investigate whether severe psychological stress induced by the death of a child ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huang J,Valdimarsdóttir U,Fall K,Ye W,Fang F

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that hepatitis B is transmitted venereally was examined by determining the prevalence of hepatitis B antibody (anti-HB(S)) in populations with different levels of promiscuity. Of 258 prostitutes, 31% were anti-HB(S) positive, compared to 10% of 258 female age-matched blood donors, 10% of 48 nuns living...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frösner GG,Buchholz HM,Gerth HJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of residents in communities with high endemic concentrations of arsenic in drinking water suggest a deleterious effect on the circulatory system; however, studies among workers with high occupational exposures generally have shown either no or weak associations. This discrepancy could be a result of the health...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hertz-Picciotto I,Arrighi HM,Hu SW

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma risk has consistently been inversely associated with allergy history but not with smoking history despite putative biologic plausibility. Data from 855 high-grade glioma cases and 1,160 controls from 4 geographic regions of the United States during 1997-2008 were analyzed for interactions between allergy and sm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lachance DH,Yang P,Johnson DR,Decker PA,Kollmeyer TM,McCoy LS,Rice T,Xiao Y,Ali-Osman F,Wang F,Stoddard SM,Sprau DJ,Kosel ML,Wiencke JK,Wiemels JL,Patoka JS,Davis F,McCarthy B,Rynearson AL,Worra JB,Fridley BL,O'

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of propensity scores to adjust for measured confounding factors has become increasingly popular in cohort studies. However, their use in case-control and case-cohort studies has received little attention. The authors present some theory on the estimation and use of propensity scores in case-control and case-co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Månsson R,Joffe MM,Sun W,Hennessy S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between cigarette smoking and the risk of breast cancer in women was investigated in a population-based case-control study conducted in Adelaide, Australia during 1982-1984. Cases were identified through the South Australian Central Cancer Registry, and, for each case, one age-matched control was selected...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rohan TE,Baron JA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1979, an outbreak of mixed enterovirus infections occurred in Kansas City and adjacent communities. Sixty-six enteroviruses and 7 adenoviruses were recovered from 73 persons in a survey hospital population. Twenty-eight persons yielded echovirus type 11, 22, echovirus type 6, and 16 either echovirus type 9 or C...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wenner HA,Abel D,Olson LC,Burry VF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a case-control study in Toronto, Canada, demonstrated a two-fold risk of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix among current smokers relative to women who had never smoked. This significant effect of smoking was not diminished by simultaneously adjusting for age, education, and indices of sexua...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clarke EA,Morgan RW,Newman AM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 610 blood samples collected in September 1983 in an intervention trial in Huixian, Henan Province, People's Republic of China, which were individually analyzed for retinol, beta-carotene, and alpha-tocopherol levels, 10 pools were formed from 50 individual samples, and the vitamin levels in the merged pools were ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wahrendorf J,Hanck AB,Muñoz N,Vuilleumier JP,Walker AM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined claims-based approaches for identifying a study population free of coronary heart disease (CHD) using data from 8,937 US blacks and whites enrolled during 2003-2007 in a prospective cohort study linked to Medicare claims. Our goal was to minimize the percentage of persons at study entry with self-reported ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kent ST,Safford MM,Zhao H,Levitan EB,Curtis JR,Kilpatrick RD,Kilgore ML,Muntner P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiences of discrimination are associated with increased risk of adverse health outcomes; however, it is unknown whether discrimination is related to incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (diabetes). We investigated the associations of major experiences of discrimination (unfair treatment in 6 situations) and everyday ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whitaker KM,Everson-Rose SA,Pankow JS,Rodriguez CJ,Lewis TT,Kershaw KN,Diez Roux AV,Lutsey PL

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the association between age at menarche, menstrual cycle characteristics between ages 28 and 32 years, and peri- and postmenopausal fracture risk in a cohort of 874 women who prospectively recorded menstrual cycle data for at least 5 years from their early 20s through their menopause. Fracture his...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cooper GS,Sandler DP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between cervix cancer and cigarette smoking was examined among 332 white cases and 1725 white controls. Cases were of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and smoked more than controls. After adjustment for both age and SES, no significant association was observed between cervix cancer and cigarette smokin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stellman SD,Austin H,Wynder EL

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although advanced parental age at one's birth has been associated with increased risk of breast and prostate cancers, few studies have examined its effect on adult-onset sporadic hematologic malignancies. The authors examined the association of parents' ages at women's births with risk of hematologic malignancies amon...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lu Y,Ma H,Sullivan-Halley J,Henderson KD,Chang ET,Clarke CA,Neuhausen SL,West DW,Bernstein L,Wang SS

更新日期：2010-06-15 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：:The epidemiologic approach to causal inference (i.e., Hill's viewpoints) consists of evaluating potential causes from the following 2, noncumulative angles: 1) established results from comparative, observational, or experimental epidemiologic studies; and 2) reviews of nonepidemiologic evidence. It does not involve st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Morabia A

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00