Multi-level analysis in epidemiologic research on health behaviors and outcomes.

abstract：:The relation between body mass index expressed as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters cubed (weight (kg)/height (m3)) and plasma total cholesterol was assessed in a sample of 11,389 US schoolchildren, aged 5-18 years, between 1984 and 1989. Among whites and Hispanics, a statistically significant nonlinear ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Resnicow K,Morabia A

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and health beyond findings related to cardiovascular disease. Medically certified sickness absence is a health indicator in which coronary heart disease is only a minor factor. To investigate the relation between alcohol intake and sickness absence, re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vahtera J,Poikolainen K,Kivimäki M,Ala-Mursula L,Pentti J

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Feline leukemia virus (FeLV)-associated diseases were observed in a household in eastern Connecticut having 134 cats over a period of five and a half years. FeLV-positive cats had a much higher mortality rate (34.6 deaths per 1000 cat-months of follow-up) than did FeLV-negative cats (8.9 deaths per 1000 cat-months of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Francis DP,Essex M,Jakowski RM,Cotter SM,Lerer TJ,Hardy WD Jr

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the relation between maternal multivitamin use and risk for cardiac defects in the offspring, using a population-based approach. The Atlanta Birth Defects Case-Control study is a population-based case-control study of infants born between 1968 and 1980 to mothers residing in met...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Botto LD,Mulinare J,Erickson JD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and mortality of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remain low in Japan despite major dietary changes and worsening cardiovascular risk factors, a situation that should have resulted in a substantial increase in AMI rates (Japanese paradox). The current trend in the incidence of AMI was examined for the p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rumana N,Kita Y,Turin TC,Murakami Y,Sugihara H,Morita Y,Tomioka N,Okayama A,Nakamura Y,Abbott RD,Ueshima H

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies suggest that toxic chemicals in hair products may be absorbed through the scalp in sufficient amounts to increase the risks of adverse health effects in women or their infants. This case-control study of 525 Black women from three counties in North Carolina who had delivered a singleton, liveborn infan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blackmore-Prince C,Harlow SD,Gargiullo P,Lee MA,Savitz DA

更新日期：1999-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the familial clustering and relative influence of genetic and environmental effects on postterm birth in the Swedish population by considering all full- and half-siblings born in Sweden between 1992 and 2004. Of the eligible 475,429 births, 21% occurred after 41 completed weeks and 5.5% occurred af...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oberg AS,Frisell T,Svensson AC,Iliadou AN

更新日期：2013-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to estimate the association between intrauterine growth and childhood survival, data on birth weight and gestational age from the Norwegian Birth Registry, for all children who survived the first year of life and who were born during the period 1967-1989 were linked to the National Cause of Death Registry for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Samuelsen SO,Magnus P,Bakketeig LS

更新日期：1998-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most striking epidemiologic characteristics of prostatic cancer in the United States is the sizeable excess in rates for the disease among blacks as compared with whites. This study attempted to determine whether the higher black rates might be explained by controlling for social class, using mortality data ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ernster VL,Selvin S,Sacks ST,Austin DF,Brown SM,Winkelstein W Jr

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalent biologic specimens can be used to estimate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence using a two-stage immunologic testing algorithm that hinges on the average time, T, between testing HIV-positive on highly sensitive enzyme immunoassays and testing HIV-positive on less sensitive enzyme immunoassays. Comm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Chu H,Brookmeyer R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the frequency and determinants of rectal bleeding and the association between rectal bleeding and risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among homosexual/ bisexual men in Mexico City. Men who requested anonymous HIV testing at a public clinic in Mexico City a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coplan PM,Gortmaker S,Hernandez-Avila M,Spiegelman D,Uribe-Zuñiga P,Mueller NE

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of epidemiology and clinical medicine is focused on estimating the effects of treatments or interventions administered over time. In such settings of longitudinal treatment, time-dependent confounding is often an important source of bias. Marginal structural models (MSMs) are a powerful tool for estimating the ca...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Petersen ML,Deeks SG,Martin JN,van der Laan MJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic and diastolic blood pressures provide information about cardiovascular disease (CVD) but are only extremes of the pressure waveform during the cardiac cycle. We developed summaries of the pressure decay, called PTC1 and PTC2, that are related to arterial compliance and to an existing proprietary summary that ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brumback LC,Jacobs DR,Duprez DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies have suggested that eating patterns, which describe eating frequency, the temporal distribution of eating events across the day, breakfast skipping, and the frequency of eating meals away from home, may be related to obesity. Data from the Seasonal Variation of Blood Cholesterol Study (1994-1998) were use...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ma Y,Bertone ER,Stanek EJ 3rd,Reed GW,Hebert JR,Cohen NL,Merriam PA,Ockene IS

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the association of blood pressure with cognitive function as assessed by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in a community-based Swedish cohort of 1,736 people aged 75-101 years. Age, sex, education, antihypertensive medication use, heart disease, and stroke were considered as covariates. Mu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guo Z,Fratiglioni L,Winblad B,Viitanen M

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between passive smoking and lung cancer was examined by means of a case-control study in a cohort of 27,409 nonsmoking Swedish women identified from questionnaires mailed in 1961 and 1963. A total of 77 cases of primary carcinoma of the bronchus or lung were found in a follow-up of the cohort through 1980...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pershagen G,Hrubec Z,Svensson C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of maternal risk factors in the development of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy was studied in a historical cohort of 825 women who gave birth at the University of California (Los Angeles) Medical Center during a one-year period (April 1983-March 1984). The roles of demographic factors, reproductive history, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weigel MM,Weigel RM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that both active and passive smokers have an increased risk of breast cancer compared with women who have never been either actively or passively exposed. Data on lifetime active and passive smoking were collected in 1999-2000 from 468 predominantly premenopausal breast cancer patients diagnosed...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kropp S,Chang-Claude J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present analysis was to use longitudinal data collected over 7 years (from 4 surveys) in the Residential Environments (RESIDE) Study (Perth, Australia, 2003-2012) to more carefully examine the relationship of neighborhood walkability and destination accessibility with walking for transportation that...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knuiman MW,Christian HE,Divitini ML,Foster SA,Bull FC,Badland HM,Giles-Corti B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated variations in cognitive ability by gestational age among 13,824 children at age 6.5 years who were born at term with normal weight, using data from a prospective cohort recruited in 1996-1997 in Belarus. The mean differences in the Wechsler Abbreviated Scales of Intelligence were examined by g...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang S,Platt RW,Kramer MS

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal mortality has several components which may have distinct epidemiologic features. In an investigation of the total singleton birth population of New York City in 1976-1978 (n = 320,726), the authors divided perinatal mortality into four components: late fetal deaths that occurred before labor (late antepartum...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kiely JL,Paneth N,Susser M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have investigated associations between offspring size at birth and parental cardiovascular disease mortality among 12,086 mothers and 6,936 fathers of participants in the British 1958 birth cohort. Birth weight was inversely associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in both mothers a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davey Smith G,Hyppönen E,Power C,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the carcinogenic potential and widespread use of conjugated estrogens (CEs), this study evaluated patterns and determinants of oral ambulatory CE use. Among 1273 women 30 to 69 years of age interviewed in Greater-Boston hospitals, there were 161 (13%) ever-users of CEs; 88 (7%) had used the drug within the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Shapiro S,Kaufman DW,Slone D,Miettinen OS,Stolley PD

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For determination of the effects of weight variability on cardiovascular risk factors, a random community sample of 269 men and 361 women aged 25-74 years, drawn from the Stanford Five-City Project, was followed for up to 10 years (1979-1989). Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total and high density lipoprotein c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Taylor CB,Jatulis DE,Fortmann SP,Kraemer HC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case-control study, the authors aimed to examine whether use of an electric bedding device increased breast cancer risk in African-American women. Cases were 304 African-American patients diagnosed with breast cancer during 1995-1998 who were aged 20-64 years and lived in one of three Tennessee counties. Contr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu K,Hunter S,Payne-Wilks K,Roland CL,Forbes DS

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study investigated the relation between cigarette smoking and histologic subtypes of adult leukemia in Missouri in 1984-1990. Among males, elevated risks associated with ever smoking were observed for acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (odds ratio (OR) = 1.5; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1-2.0) and acute m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brownson RC,Chang JC,Davis JR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health tobacco control efforts have increasingly targeted communities in addition to individuals. Before population smoking decreases, effectiveness might be detected from initial outcomes reflecting these efforts, such as higher cigarette prices or more workplace and home smoking restrictions. Presumably, thes...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilpin EA,Stillman FA,Hartman AM,Gibson JT,Pierce JP

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a method for assessing preclinical cardiovascular disease risk, models of resting cardiovascular regulation and of insulin metabolic syndrome were derived from information collected from 1991 to 1996 in a culturally heterogeneous sample of 319 healthy men and women (aged 25-44 years) from Miami-Dade County,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Goldstein RZ,Hurwitz BE,Llabre MM,Schneiderman N,Gutt M,Skyler JS,Prineas RJ,Donahue RP

更新日期：2001-10-15 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 1989, the authors tested the effectiveness of two response-enhancing techniques, a postage stamped or franked return envelope and a prenotification letter, in a survey of pregnancy among 10,047 resident physicians in the United States. The techniques were randomly assigned using a factorial design. No significant i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shiono PH,Klebanoff MA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00