Epidemiology of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae among Navajo children in the era before use of conjugate pneumococcal vaccines, 1989-1996.

abstract：:Whether genetic and familial factors influence the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is unknown. Two cohorts were formed based on data from 1,212,295 men aged 18 years who were conscripted for military service in Sweden during 1972-1996. The first comprised 4,260 twin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ballin M,Nordström A,Nordström P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of parenteral and sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, we studied seronegative intravenous drug users recruited from 25 drug dependence treatment centers in northern Italy. All attending intravenous drug users were asked for their consent and screened for antibodies to human immuno...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nicolosi A,Leite ML,Musicco M,Molinari S,Lazzarin A

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen-year mortality data from the Alameda County Study are used to examine the relative importance of social ties as predictors of survival at different ages, ranging from 38-94 years at baseline. Previous analyses of Alameda County data by Berkman and Syme (Am J Epidemiol 1979;109:186-204) have shown that such t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seeman TE,Kaplan GA,Knudsen L,Cohen R,Guralnik J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous cross-sectional and longitudinal studies assessing the association between age and drinking are inconsistent. Evaluating 15,425 Black and White men and women from four communities, this study sought to determine whether there was a consistent relation between age and drinking in cross-sectional and longitudin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eigenbrodt ML,Mosley TH Jr,Hutchinson RG,Watson RL,Chambless LE,Szklo M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and smoking are independently associated with a higher mortality risk, but previous studies have reported conflicting results about the relationship between these 2 time-varying exposures. Using prospective longitudinal data (1987-2007) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, our objective in the p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Banack HR,Kaufman JS

更新日期：2016-01-15 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：:The association between breast cancer and selenium, measured in the diet, plasma, erythrocytes, and toenails, was investigated in a case-control study in the Netherlands during 1985-1987. Dietary selenium intake was assessed by a structured dietary history technique among 133 breast cancer cases and 238 population con...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van 't Veer P,van der Wielen RP,Kok FJ,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single nucleotide polymorphism, - 160C-->A, has been identified in the promoter region of the E-cadherin gene and has been shown to alter its transcriptional activity. To assess susceptibility of -160A allele carriers to seven types of cancers, the authors conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis, up to November 2006...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang GY,Lu CQ,Zhang RM,Hu XH,Luo ZW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case-control study, the authors analyzed associations of uterine leiomyoma with atherogenic risk factors and potential sources of uterine irritation. The study included 318 case women with uterine leiomyoma that was first confirmed between 1990 and 1993 in the Baltimore, Maryland, area and 394 controls selecte...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Faerstein E,Szklo M,Rosenshein NB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective evidence of the associations of smoking cessation with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other causes of death in Asia is scarce. Previous studies, which were mostly based on baseline smoking behavior only, were subject to sick-quitter bias and misclassification resulting from changes in smo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： He Y,Jiang B,Li LS,Li LS,Sun DL,Wu L,Liu M,He SF,Liang BQ,Hu FB,Lam TH

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Although the results of cohort studies on the association between alcohol and breast cancer are rather consistent, the current evidence is based solely on North American cohorts. Therefore, this association was evaluated in the Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer, conducted since 1986 among 62,573 women aged 5...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van 't Veer P

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several design options available in the planning stage of case-control studies are examined. Topics covered include matching, control/case ratio, choice of nested case-control or case-cohort design, two-stage sampling, and other methods that can be used for control selection. The effect of potential problems in obtain...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wacholder S,Silverman DT,McLaughlin JK,Mandel JS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4678 persons participated in an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania glaucoma screening program in 1977. Black participants had higher mean intraocular pressures, more frequent pathologic disc changes and more new cases of glaucoma discovered than a sample of white participants matched for sex and age. The same y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulehan JL,Helzlsouer KJ,Rogers KD,Brown SI

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibling aggregation of blood pressure has been shown in children 2 to 14 years of age. To determine the earliest age at which this finding is detectable, blood pressures were evaluated in 98 siblings from 43 black families with newborns. Variances of blood pressure scores were significantly greater among families than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ,Klein BE,Gourley JE,Blumenthal S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1997 redesign of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) affected US childhood asthma prevalence estimates. The 1997 asthma attack prevalence estimate for children 0-17 years was 5.4%. Pre-redesign NHIS childhood asthma period prevalence estimates peaked in 1995 at 7.5%. It is unclear whether the difference re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Akinbami LJ,Schoendorf KC,Parker J

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight children with Reye's syndrome (RS) confirmed by liver biopsy were treated at the University of Cincinnati between 1963 and 1974. Cases were clustered in the winter and spring with the peak in February and March. These coincided with the occurrence of influenza and, numerically, were associated more closely...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Linnemann CC Jr,Shea L,Partin JC,Schubert WK,Schiff GM

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large health care databases are used extensively for pharmacoepidemiologic studies. Unique methodological issues arise when applying self-controlled designs (i.e., using within-person comparisons) for active surveillance of newly marketed drugs. We use 3 examples to illustrate bias related to population-level exposure...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang SV,Schneeweiss S,Maclure M,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that bone mineral density (BMD) is related to risk of breast cancer in elderly women. This study investigated whether the level of breast cancer risk associated with BMD in women with a positive family history of breast cancer is different from that in women without a family history of br...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lucas FL,Cauley JA,Stone RA,Cummings SR,Vogt MT,Weissfeld JL,Kuller LH

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined individual and household socioeconomic status (SES) in relation to phenotypes of neural tube defects, orafacial clefts, and conotruncal heart defects using data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study with 2,551 nonmalformed liveborn controls and 1,841 cases delivered in 1997-2000. The ind...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang J,Carmichael SL,Canfield M,Song J,Shaw GM,National Birth Defects Prevention Study.

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between death from acute myocardial infarction and the level of magnesium in drinking water was examined using mortality registers and a case-control design. The study area comprised 17 municipalities in the southern part of Sweden that have different magnesium levels in the drinking water. Cases were men...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rubenowitz E,Axelsson G,Rylander R

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Gulf War Era Cohort and Biorepository (GWECB) is a nationally representative longitudinal cohort of US veterans who served during the 1990-1991 Gulf War era. The GWECB combines survey data, such as demographic, health behavior, and environmental exposure data; medical records...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Khalil L,McNeil RB,Sims KJ,Felder KA,Hauser ER,Goldstein KM,Voils CI,Klimas NG,Brophy MT,Thomas CM,Whitley RL,Dursa EK,Helmer DA,Provenzale DT

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower intake of the essential trace element selenium may be a risk factor for prostate cancer and other cancers. In the United States, many racial disparities in cancer incidence, such as the 61% higher incidence of prostate cancer among Blacks relative to Whites, remain unexplained. Using data from a large, nationall...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vogt TM,Ziegler RG,Patterson BH,Graubard BI

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the environmental factors causing insulin-dependent diabetes in children has remained elusive. However, evidence is rapidly accumulating that childhood diabetes exhibits epidemic patterns, much like that seen with an infectious disease. It is likely that within these epidemics the environmental d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors：

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If interviewers' personal habits or attitudes influence respondents' answers to given questions, this may lead to bias, which should be taken into consideration when analyzing data. The authors examined a potential interviewer effect in a study of pregnant women in which exposure data were obtained through computer-as...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nybo Andersen AM,Olsen J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small number of prior epidemiologic studies of occupational noise exposure based on self-report have suggested an association with acoustic neuroma. The goal of the present study was to further examine the association between noise exposure and acoustic neuroma by using an objective measure of exposure in the form o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Edwards CG,Schwartzbaum JA,Nise G,Forssén UM,Ahlbom A,Lönn S,Feychting M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment (HI) is prevalent, is modifiable, and has been associated with cognitive decline. We tested the hypothesis that audiometric HI measured in 2013 is associated with poorer cognitive function in 253 men and women from Washington County, Maryland (mean age = 76.9 years) in a pilot study carried out with...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Deal JA,Sharrett AR,Albert MS,Coresh J,Mosley TH,Knopman D,Wruck LM,Lin FR

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperinsulinemia is associated with multiple metabolic disorders including high triglyceride level, low high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol level, hypertension, and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). This metabolic constellation is also called the insulin resistance syndrome. All previous data on clustering of t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mykkänen L,Haffner SM,Rönnemaa T,Bergman RN,Laakso M

更新日期：1997-08-15 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：:Perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid are perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) widely distributed in the environment. Previous studies of PFCs and birth weight are equivocal. The authors examined this association in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), using data from 901 women enrolled from 2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whitworth KW,Haug LS,Baird DD,Becher G,Hoppin JA,Skjaerven R,Thomsen C,Eggesbo M,Travlos G,Wilson R,Cupul-Uicab LA,Brantsaeter AL,Longnecker MP

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00