Changes in smoking status affect women more than men: results of the Lung Health Study.

abstract：:1,3-Butadiene and styrene are suspected carcinogens and common chemicals used in the synthesis of rubber. To investigate any potential human hazards from exposure to these chemicals, a case-control study of 59 lymphohematopoietic cancers was conducted within a cohort of male workers employed between 1943 and 1982 in e...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Santos-Burgoa C,Matanoski GM,Zeger S,Schwartz L

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:The relation between use of conjugated estrogens and the risk of uterine cancer was examined among 188 white women with newly diagnosed endometrial cancer and 428 controls hospitalized for nonmalignant conditions requiring surgery at the Boston Hospital for Women-Parkway Division, Boston, Massachusetts, in January 197...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Buring JE,Bain CJ,Ehrmann RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of lead exposure to blood pressure has been examined in a longitudinal study of a cohort of 89 Boston, Massachusetts, policemen. At the baseline examination, subjects had a blood lead determination and three consecutive blood pressure measurements. Triplicate blood pressure measurements were also take...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weiss ST,Muñoz A,Stein A,Sparrow D,Speizer FE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between sleep and obesity or weight gain in adults, particularly older populations, remains unclear. In a cohort of 83,377 US men and women aged 51-72 years, we prospectively investigated the association between self-reported sleep duration and weight change over an average of 7.5 years of follow-up (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Xiao Q,Arem H,Moore SC,Hollenbeck AR,Matthews CE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between dietary fat and fertility is not well studied. We evaluated intakes of total fat, saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids (TFA), ω-3 fatty acids, and ω-6 fatty acids in relation to fecundability in Danish and North American preconceptio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wise LA,Wesselink AK,Tucker KL,Saklani S,Mikkelsen EM,Cueto H,Riis AH,Trolle E,McKinnon CJ,Hahn KA,Rothman KJ,Sørensen HT,Hatch EE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined measurement properties of the Sedentary Time and Activity Reporting Questionnaire (STAR-Q), which was designed to estimate past-month activity energy expenditure (AEE). STAR-Q validity and reliability were assessed in 102 adults in Alberta, Canada (2009-2011), who completed 14-day doubly labeled water (D...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Csizmadi I,Neilson HK,Kopciuk KA,Khandwala F,Liu A,Friedenreich CM,Yasui Y,Rabasa-Lhoret R,Bryant HE,Lau DC,Robson PJ

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that maternal stress during pregnancy may influence pregnancy outcomes. In a nationwide Swedish study including almost 3 million births taking place during 1973-2006, we investigated whether maternal bereavement during pregnancy is associated with stillbirth risk. Through individual record...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： László KD,Svensson T,Li J,Obel C,Vestergaard M,Olsen J,Cnattingius S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study prospectively evaluated psychosocial as well as biologic, behavioral, and demographic factors in the development of duodenal ulcer. Baseline data were collected in 1963 on 8,458 Israeli men over age 40 years who had no history of duodenal ulcer. The subjects were followed for 5 years, and 254 reported the d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Medalie JH,Stange KC,Zyzanski SJ,Goldbourt U

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a case-control study conducted in New York State during 1982-1984 were used to evaluate the relation between alcohol consumption and estrogen receptor-positive and estrogen receptor-negative breast cancers and alcohol and various histologic subtypes. The cases were women between 20 and 79 years of age with a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nasca PC,Liu S,Baptiste MS,Kwon CS,Jacobson H,Metzger BB

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the association between age at menarche and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among 101,415 women from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) aged 34-59 years (1980-2006) and 100,547 women from Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II) aged 26-46 years (1991-2005). During 2,430,274 and 1,373,875 person-y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： He C,Zhang C,Hunter DJ,Hankinson SE,Buck Louis GM,Hediger ML,Hu FB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although effective in controlling malaria, indoor residual spraying results in elevated exposure to insecticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and pyrethroids. These chemicals cross the placenta, but no studies have examined their associations with birth outcomes in populations residing in indoor resid...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chevrier J,Rauch S,Crause M,Obida M,Gaspar F,Bornman R,Eskenazi B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a matched case-control study to investigate the effects of caffeine intake during pregnancy on birth weight. From January to November 1992, in the first 24 hours after delivery, 1,205 mothers (401 cases and 804 controls) were interviewed and their newborns were examined to assess birth weight and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Santos IS,Victora CG,Huttly S,Carvalhal JB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the primordial ovarian follicular pool is established in utero, it may be influenced by parental characteristics and the intrauterine environment. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels are increasingly recognized as a biomarker of ovarian reserve in females in adulthood and adolescence. We examined and compar...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser A,McNally W,Sattar N,Anderson EL,Lashen H,Fleming R,Lawlor DA,Nelson SM

更新日期：2013-11-01 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 effect on childhood cancer of prolonged exposure to 60-H magnetic fields from electric appliances was examined using interview data from a recently completed case-control study. Exposures of children aged 0-14 years whose incident cancers were diagnosed between 1976 and 1983 and who resided in the Denver, Colorado...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savitz DA,John EM,Kleckner RC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposures to the stress and stimulation of different work, parenting, and partnership combinations might influence later life cognition. We investigated the relationship between women's work-family life histories and cognitive functioning in later life. Analyses were based on data from women born between 193...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ice E,Ang S,Greenberg K,Burgard S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeownership is consistently associated with better mental health, but whether becoming a homeowner in later in life has positive psychological benefits has not, to our knowledge, been examined. We assessed whether acquiring a home after age 50 years was associated with depression in a representative sample of older ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Courtin E,Dowd JB,Avendano M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) has risen dramatically over the past 50 years. In the search for new risk factors, blood transfusions have been investigated and shown to be associated with subsequent lymphoma in some studies. The authors tested this association in a population-based, case-control study c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chow EJ,Holly EA

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of an investigation of the acute effects of air pollution in 321 nonsmoking adults residing in Southern California. Previous epidemiologic investigations of effects of acute exposure to ozone have focused on groups who may not be representative of the general public, such as asthmatics o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostro BD,Lipsett MJ,Mann JK,Krupnick A,Harrington W

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between birth weight and mortality is among the strongest seen in epidemiology. While preterm delivery causes both small babies and high mortality, it does not explain this association. Fetal growth restriction has also been proposed, although its features are unclear because it lacks a definition inde...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Basso O,Wilcox AJ,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical interactions between genes and environmental exposures with respect to disease outcomes may help to identify biologic mechanisms and pathways and inform behavioral interventions. The number of persons required for a single study to have sufficient statistical power to detect such interactions may be consid...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Palla L,Higgins JP,Wareham NJ,Sharp SJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of nutrition in the association of birth size and childhood growth with development of cardiovascular disease, the authors in 2002-2004 surveyed 665 men and 790 women aged 25-42 years who had been exposed as children to a community-randomized nutrition supplementation intervention in four villages in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stein AD,Wang M,Ramirez-Zea M,Flores R,Grajeda R,Melgar P,Ramakrishnan U,Martorell R

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of the interval of time between death and next-of-kin contact to outcome variables including response rates and data quality was examined in a nationally representative sample of 17,713 deaths of persons 25 years of age or older that occurred in the United States in 1986. For most of the outcome variables...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poe GS,McLaughlin JK,Powell-Griner E,Parsons CR,Robinson K

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four random samples representing populations at low (volunteer blood donors), intermediate, (VD clinic patients), high (family contacts of chronic antigen carriers) and very high (male homosexuals) risk of exposure to HBV were surveyed. Among HBsAg and anti-HBs negative individuals an average of 3.3% were found to be ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Szmuness W,Hoofnagle JH,Stevens CE,Prince AM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron, potassium, zinc, and other minerals might impact the development of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) through multiple mechanisms, but few studies have evaluated these relations. We conducted a case-control study nested within the prospective Nurses' Health Study II (1991-2001). Participants were free from PMS at base...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chocano-Bedoya PO,Manson JE,Hankinson SE,Johnson SR,Chasan-Taber L,Ronnenberg AG,Bigelow C,Bertone-Johnson ER

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of neighborhood exposures likely vary depending on the definition of "neighborhood" selected. This study examined the extent to which neighborhood definition influences findings regarding spatial accessibility to tobacco retailers among youth. We defined spatial accessibility to tobacco retailers (i.e., t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Duncan DT,Kawachi I,Subramanian SV,Aldstadt J,Melly SJ,Williams DR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both early life and adult socioeconomic status (SES) predict late-life level of memory; however, evidence is mixed on the relationship between SES and rate of memory decline. Further, the relative importance of different life-course periods for rate of late-life memory decline has not been evaluated. We examined assoc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marden JR,Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ,Kawachi I,Glymour MM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there has been a rapid rise in the publication of meta-analyses of genetic association studies, little is known about their methodological quality. The authors reviewed the quality of 120 randomly selected genetic meta-analyses published between 2005 and 2007. Data extracted included issues of general relevan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Minelli C,Thompson JR,Abrams KR,Thakkinstian A,Attia J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although past studies have shown that oral contraceptives with 50 microg or more of estrogen reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, it is not clear whether newer, lower-dose formulations do as well. We conducted a population-based, case-control study in the Delaware Valley to assess the impact of dose of oral contraceptio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ness RB,Grisso JA,Klapper J,Schlesselman JJ,Silberzweig S,Vergona R,Morgan M,Wheeler JE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00