Hormonal and reproductive factors and the risk of bladder cancer in women.

abstract：:Measures of socioeconomic status have been shown to be related positively to levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in white men and women and negatively in African American men. However, there is little information regarding the association between educational attainment and HDL fractions or apolipoprot...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Metcalf PA,Sharrett AR,Folsom AR,Duncan BB,Patsch W,Hutchinson RG,Szklo M,Davis CE,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted an investigation to determine the extent and source of an outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium gastroenteritis that occurred following a community picnic in Juneau, Alaska, in 1992, and to evaluate risk factors for illness. A case-control study among 54 picnic attendees and a retrospective cohort s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gessner BD,Beller M

更新日期：1994-05-01 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 Barnes Hospital Employee Health Service (St. Louis, Missouri) rubella screening program was evaluated over the 5-year period between January 1, 1986, and December 31, 1990. A total of 6,969 new employees were hired, and 6,115 (87.7%) were screened for evidence of rubella immunity by the Employee Health Service. Ru...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser V,Spitznagel E,Medoff G,Dunagan WC

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between four and two-thirds years incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and serum cholesterol, blood pressure (BP), height, body weight, cigarette smoking and physical activity at work and at leisure, was studied in 14,816 Oslo men, aged 40-49 years at entry to the study and free of cardiovascular ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Holme I,Helgeland A,Hjermann I,Leren P,Lund-Larsen PG

更新日期：1980-07-01 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：:A recent article by Little et al. (Am J Epidemiol 1994;140:544-54) reported that infants in Seattle, Washington, who were breastfed by mothers who smoked gained more weight than either infants who were breastfed by mothers who did not smoke or infants who were bottle-fed by mothers who smoked. In this study, the autho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boshuizen HC,Verkerk PH,Reerink JD,Herngreen WP,Zaadstra BM,Verloove-Vanhorick SP

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:With the growing number of epidemiologic publications on the relation between dietary factors and cancer risk, pooled analyses that summarize results from multiple studies are becoming more common. Here, the authors describe the methods being used to summarize data on diet-cancer associations within the ongoing Poolin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith-Warner SA,Spiegelman D,Ritz J,Albanes D,Beeson WL,Bernstein L,Berrino F,van den Brandt PA,Buring JE,Cho E,Colditz GA,Folsom AR,Freudenheim JL,Giovannucci E,Goldbohm RA,Graham S,Harnack L,Horn-Ross PL,Krogh V,L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations leads to alterations of mitochondrial biogenesis and function that might produce a decrease in mtDNA content within cells. This implies that mtDNA content might be a potential biomarker associated with oxidative stress and inflammation. However, data on correlates of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knez J,Winckelmans E,Plusquin M,Thijs L,Cauwenberghs N,Gu Y,Staessen JA,Nawrot TS,Kuznetsova T

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A large, population-based case-control study of facial clefts was carried out in Norway between 1996 and 2001. The study included 573 cases -- 377 with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and 196 with cleft palate only -- and 763 randomly selected controls. Maternal consumption of coffee and other caffeine-containi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Johansen AM,Wilcox AJ,Lie RT,Andersen LF,Drevon CA

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive hormonal factors may have a potential role in cutaneous melanoma. This study estimated the risk of melanoma in women related to self-reported changes in nevi during pregnancy, while using oral contraceptives and/or hormone replacement therapy. Trained interviewers administered a questionnaire obtaining in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lea CS,Holly EA,Hartge P,Lee JS,Guerry D 4th,Elder DE,Halpern A,Sagebiel RW,Tucker MA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial and ethnic differences in associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were investigated using data from population-based cancer registries in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program in the United States. The study included 8,383 ALL ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang L,Gomez SL,Yasui Y

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The methods used for selecting subjects yield three types of case-control studies: 1) incident cases are compared to non-cases chosen to be representative of the exposure distribution among the person-years which produced the cases. In this type of study the exposure-odds ratio equals the incidence density ratio; 2) i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Neutra RR,Drolette ME

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between toenail selenium and breast cancer was studied in a prospective study on diet and cancer among 62,573 Dutch women aged 55-69 years that started in September 1986. The analysis was based on 355 breast cancer cases, detected during 3.3 years of follow-up (1986-1989), for whom selenium data were a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van't Veer P,Bode P,Dorant E,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Female breast cancer patients who had participated in a case-control study conducted during 1973-1975 were followed up, using record linkage to the Statistics Canada mortality data base, to the end of 1980. A number of variables recorded for the case-control study, in particular body weight and daily intake of dietary...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Newman SC,Miller AB,Howe GR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family studies of exceptional longevity can potentially identify genetic and other factors contributing to long life and healthy aging. Although such studies seek families that are exceptionally long lived, they also need living members who can provide DNA and phenotype information. On the basis of these consideration...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sebastiani P,Hadley EC,Province M,Christensen K,Rossi W,Perls TT,Ash AS

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity tends to decline from childhood into adulthood. Maintaining high levels of physical activity throughout life is therefore an important public health objective. Relatively little is known about changes in physical activity behavior over the life course, the domains of physical activity in which they o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Corder K,Ogilvie D,van Sluijs EM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that Hispanics have lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates despite increased rates of diabetes and obesity and lower socioeconomic status has been termed the "Hispanic paradox." The authors therefore examined the relation between ethnicity and mortality in 1,438 Mexican-American and 921 non...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hunt KJ,Resendez RG,Williams K,Haffner SM,Stern MP,Hazuda HP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Honolulu Heart Program studies, 4,581 men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii completed a psychosocial questionnaire in 1971. By 1980, 280 new cancer cases had been recorded. Among 12 items related to stressful life situations, there were no consistent associations with total or site-specific cancer i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Joffres M,Reed DM,Nomura AM

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：: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：:It has been suggested that future research into the adverse effects of binge drinking in pregnancy should take into account the time of binge drinking, and a method has been proposed. In a representative sample of 1,311 pregnant Danish women in 2000, the agreement between two different measures of binge drinking durin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kesmodel U,Frydenberg M

更新日期：2004-04-15 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：:In a case-control study of childhood leukemia in relation to exposure to power-frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF), 399 children resident in five Canadian provinces who were diagnosed at ages 0-14 years between 1990 and 1994 (June 1995 in British Columbia and Quebec) were enrolled, along with 399 controls. Ex...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McBride ML,Gallagher RP,Thériault G,Armstrong BG,Tamaro S,Spinelli JJ,Deadman JE,Fincham S,Robson D,Choi W

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent a single measure, self-rated health (SRH), independently predicts long-term hospitalizations due to all causes and to cardiovascular diseases by using both the standard Cox proportional hazards model and a more robust events model. The study cohort consisted of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kennedy BS,Kasl SV,Vaccarino V

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiologic study of prevalence of antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was simultaneously done in four populations: group I, nuns working as nurses or school teachers; group II, women admitted to a upper socioeconomic private hospital; group III, women admitted to a lower socioeconomic county hospital, and group...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davis LE,Stewart JA,Garvin S

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between long working hours and cognitive function in middle age. Data were collected in 1997-1999 (baseline) and 2002-2004 (follow-up) from a prospective study of 2,214 British civil servants who were in full-time employment at baseline and had data on cognitive tests and covariates...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtanen M,Singh-Manoux A,Ferrie JE,Gimeno D,Marmot MG,Elovainio M,Jokela M,Vahtera J,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and mortality may be confounded by preexisting illness. A method commonly used to control for this confounding is the exclusion of participants who have certain diseases at baseline and/or those who die during the early years of follow-up. The authors...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stevens J,Juhaeri,Cai J

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a paucity of data on basal-cell carcinoma (BCC) in the United States, since most national registries do not collect information on BCC. We evaluated BCC incidence trends and associated risk factors for BCC in 140,171 participants from a U.S. female cohort, the Nurses' Health Study (1986-2006), and a U.S. male...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wu S,Han J,Li WQ,Li T,Qureshi AA

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00