Body mass index, change in body silhouette, and risk of asthma in the E3N cohort study.

abstract：:The relation between measures of general and central adiposity and individual cardiovascular endpoints remains understudied in older adults. This study investigated the association of measures of body size and composition with incident ischemic stroke or coronary heart disease (1989-2007) in 3,754 community-dwelling U...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kizer JR,Biggs ML,Ix JH,Mukamal KJ,Zieman SJ,de Boer IH,Mozaffarian D,Barzilay JI,Strotmeyer ES,Luchsinger JA,Elkind MS,Longstreth WT Jr,Kuller LH,Siscovick DS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983 the relative validity of a retrospective dietary history method was assessed against a current dietary history taken seven years previously in 1976 and a second current dietary history taken in 1983. In total, 44 men and 58 women, aged 38 to 62 years, participated in the study. For energy intake and for most n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Staveren WA,West CE,Hoffmans MD,Bos P,Kardinaal AF,van Poppel GA,Schipper HJ,Hautvast JG,Hayes RB

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing vitamin and mineral supplement use is important because supplement use per se is an exposure of interest for the risk of several chronic diseases and because supplements contribute a large proportion of total (diet plus supplement) micronutrient intake, another important exposure in epidemiologic research. U...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Patterson RE,Kristal AR,Levy L,McLerran D,White E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is known to be associated with systemic inflammation. We examined the longitudinal association of C-reactive protein (CRP) and lung function in a cohort of 18,110 men and women from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer in Norfolk who were 40-79 years of age at baseli...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahmadi-Abhari S,Kaptoge S,Luben RN,Wareham NJ,Khaw KT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between psychosocial risk factors and retinal microvascular signs was examined in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Subjects were recruited from Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Forsyth County, North Carolina; Los Angeles County, California; New York, New York; and St. Paul, Minnesota. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jensen RA,Shea S,Ranjit N,Diez-Roux A,Wong TY,Klein R,Klein BE,Cotch MF,Siscovick DS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective cohort of nondisabled adults aged 65 years or more in the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (1981-1987 and 1985-1992), we used a competing risk approach to predict the 5-year risk of severe, persistent activities-of-daily-living (ADLs) disability, defined as dependence i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kim DH,Newman AB,Lipsitz LA

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:In anticipation of the sequencing of the human genome and description of the human proteome, the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study (AGES-Reykjavik) was initiated in 2002. AGES-Reykjavik was designed to examine risk factors, including genetic susceptibility and gene/environment interaction, in relati...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harris TB,Launer LJ,Eiriksdottir G,Kjartansson O,Jonsson PV,Sigurdsson G,Thorgeirsson G,Aspelund T,Garcia ME,Cotch MF,Hoffman HJ,Gudnason V

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of antibiotic-associated colitis that occurred on a ward of a Michigan hospital during February-April, 1984, was studied by bacteriophage-bacteriocin typing. Stools from the seven involved patients yielded Clostridium difficile isolates of types B1537 or Cld7;B1537. C. difficile was recovered from 31.4% of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaatz GW,Gitlin SD,Schaberg DR,Wilson KH,Kauffman CA,Seo SM,Fekety R

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have provided evidence of an inverse association between atopic allergic conditions (AACs) and invasive colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in predominantly white populations. We examined the association between AACs (asthma, hay fever, or allergy) and CRC among white, African-American, Native Hawa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tambe NA,Wilkens LR,Wan P,Stram DO,Gilliland F,Park SL,Cozen W,Martínez-Maza O,Le Marchand L,Henderson BE,Haiman CA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated independent effects of maternal and paternal age on risk of autism spectrum disorder. A case-cohort design was implemented using data from 10 US study sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. The 1994 birth co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Durkin MS,Maenner MJ,Newschaffer CJ,Lee LC,Cunniff CM,Daniels JL,Kirby RS,Leavitt L,Miller L,Zahorodny W,Schieve LA

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:The results of most case-control studies have suggested a positive association between eating frequency and colorectal cancer risk. Because no prospective cohort studies have done so to date, the authors prospectively examined this association. In 1992, eating frequency was assessed in a cohort of 34,968 US men in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mekary RA,Hu FB,Willett WC,Chiuve S,Wu K,Fuchs C,Fung TT,Giovannucci E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between recreational physical activity and plasma lipid concentrations in early pregnancy. Between 1996 and 2000, 925 normotensive, nondiabetic pregnant women in Washington State were interviewed at approximately 13 weeks' gestation regarding type, frequency, and duration of physical ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Butler CL,Williams MA,Sorensen TK,Frederick IO,Leisenring WM

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based and proportional odds ratios for various cancers, based on incidence data from 1974-1977 and mortality data from 1965-1975 for western Washington State, were calculated in relation to three measures of exposure to asbestos in community water supplies. Six odds ratios were calculated for each neoplasm ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Polissar L,Severson RK,Boatman ES,Thomas DB

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regression equations, based on scutal index (body length/scutal width), were developed to determine the duration of attachment for nymphal and adult female lxodes scapularis ticks. Feeding times were calculated for 444 nymphal and 300 female ticks submitted by bite victims between 1985 and 1989 in Westchester County, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Falco RC,Fish D,Piesman J

更新日期：1996-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between body size and breast cancer remains uncertain, particularly with regard to differences between pre- and postmenopausal women. The authors examined whether height, weight, body mass index, and weight change were associated with breast cancer risk among pre- and postmenopausal women. This population...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Trentham-Dietz A,Newcomb PA,Storer BE,Longnecker MP,Baron J,Greenberg ER,Willett WC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have failed to find a consistent association between childhood victimization and vulvodynia, a debilitating, unexplained vulvar pain condition. However, selection bias associated with case ascertainment, and differential reporting bias between clinic-based cases and controls, may explain in part the incons...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harlow BL,Stewart EG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Warthin's tumor, a benign parotid gland tumor, is unknown. Recent evidence suggests a possible relation with cigarette smoking as well as increasing incidence. We reviewed the medical record of subjects with a major salivary gland tumor newly diagnosed in Jefferson County, Alabama, from 1968 to 1989, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pinkston JA,Cole P

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have focused on the impact of weight maintenance on cardiovascular disease risk factors or addressed whether changes differ by baseline weight status and medication usage. The authors examined these issues using 9 years of follow-up data on 3,235 men and women from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Truesdale KP,Stevens J,Cai J

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated blood pressure in 1,183 Chinese nuclear families (mother, father, and first two children) via a cross-sectional 1994-1997 survey. The mother's, the father's, and the first sibling's blood pressures were each significantly and independently related to the second sibling's blood pressure after ad...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang X,Wang B,Chen C,Yang J,Fang Z,Zuckerman B,Xu X

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1 and March 15, 1974, approximately 1200 cases of acute gastrointestinal illness occurred in Richmond Heights, Florida, a residential community of 6500 in south Dade County. Over one-third of all families in the area had at least one member affected. The findings of 10 culture-proven cases of shigellos...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weissman JB,Craun GF,Lawrence DN,Pollard RA,Saslaw MS,Gangarosa EJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsial infection in the ixodid dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus were found to occur at a rate of 19.7% with variation related to geographic and sociooccupational factors. A higher rate of infection was demonstrated in ticks removed from dogs associated with ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tringali G,Intonazzo V,Perna AM,Mansueto S,Vitale G,Walker DH

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For diseases of well-defined genetic etiology and with onset after birth, the age at onset corresponds to the incubation period of the disease. The lognormal model, as used by Sartwell to study the distribution of incubation periods in infectious diseases (Am J Hyg 1950;51:310-8), was applied in this study to the dist...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Armenian HK,Khoury MJ

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common-source epidemic of hepatitis A occurred in an Athenian institution boarding 38 children (mean age 4.8 years). All children were examined, and blood was drawn from each at the onset of the study and repeatedly during the next three months. Only one child (2.6%) was initially immune to hepatitis A virus as a re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tassopoulos NC,Roumeliotou-Karayannis A,Sakka M,Ticehurst J,Mihalik K,Stephanou T,Purcell RH,Papaevangelou G

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality experience of 8679 members of a metal trades union--men employed in shipyards, metal fabrication shops, small boat yards, and field construction--was studied from 1950 to 1976 by the historical prospective method. Relative to rates for US men of comparable age and race, the risk of death from all causes ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beaumont JJ,Weiss NS

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-controlled tree-temporal scan statistic-a new signal-detection method-can evaluate whether any of a wide variety of health outcomes are temporally associated with receipt of a specific vaccine, while adjusting for multiple testing. Neither health outcomes nor postvaccination potential periods of increased ris...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yih WK,Maro JC,Nguyen M,Baker MA,Balsbaugh C,Cole DV,Dashevsky I,Mba-Jonas A,Kulldorff M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand whether neighborhood contexts contribute to the onset or maintenance of mental health problems independently of individual characteristics requires the use of multilevel study designs and analytical strategies. This study used a multilevel analytical framework to examine the relation between neighborhood...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kubzansky LD,Subramanian SV,Kawachi I,Fay ME,Soobader MJ,Berkman LF

更新日期：2005-08-01 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