Favorable cardiovascular risk profile (low risk) and 10-year stroke incidence in women and men: findings from 12 Italian population samples.

abstract：:The Baltimore Eye Survey was a population-based survey conducted from January 1985 to November 1988 among residents of east Baltimore, Maryland, who were 40 years of age or older. A total of 5,308 black subjects and white subjects received a comprehensive screening examination for glaucoma including tonometry, visual ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tielsch JM,Katz J,Singh K,Quigley HA,Gottsch JD,Javitt J,Sommer A

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leisure-time physical activity enhances health and functioning in older populations. However, few data are available on the correlation between self-reported leisure-time physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in the elderly. Treadmill exercise testing results were obtained for 1,006 members (median age 67 ye...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tager IB,Hollenberg M,Satariano WA

更新日期：1998-05-15 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：:Physical size at birth (primarily birth weight) is a key predictor of infant mortality and morbidity and may serve as a predictor of risk to chronic disease in adulthood. By use of birth records, it is sometimes possible to accumulate large, even massive, data sets that can permit analyses to separate genetic and envi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beaty TH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because noninstitutionalized senior citizens comprise over 95% of the population 65 years of age and older, their health needs are a major concern. Data regarding infections in this population including the epidemiology, morbidity, and mortality are lacking. The authors recruited a study population of 417 free-living ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ruben FL,Dearwater SR,Norden CW,Kuller LH,Gartner K,Shalley A,Warshafsky G,Kelsey SF,O'Donnell C,Means E

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During an epidemic of cholera in Guinea, West Africa, in 1986, the authors conducted two studies of risk factors for transmission. In the capital city, 35 hospitalized cholera patients were more likely than 70 neighborhood-matched controls to have eaten leftover peanut sauces (odds ration (OR) = 3.1, 95% confidence in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： St Louis ME,Porter JD,Helal A,Drame K,Hargrett-Bean N,Wells JG,Tauxe RV

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiologist primarily studies transitions between states of health and disease. The purpose of the present article is to define a foundational parameter for such studies, namely risk. We begin simply and build to the setting in which there is more than 1 event type (i.e., competing risks or competing events), a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Hudgens MG,Brookhart MA,Westreich D

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A propensity score (PS) model's ability to control confounding can be assessed by evaluating covariate balance across exposure groups after PS adjustment. The optimal strategy for evaluating a disease risk score (DRS) model's ability to control confounding is less clear. DRS models cannot be evaluated through balance ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wyss R,Hansen BB,Ellis AR,Gagne JJ,Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Stürmer T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mendelian randomization approach exploits genetic variants to improve causal inference when using observational data. The authors examined the relation between long-term obesity and common mental disorders (CMD) by utilizing the known relation between fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genotype and body mass in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kivimäki M,Jokela M,Hamer M,Geddes J,Ebmeier K,Kumari M,Singh-Manoux A,Hingorani A,Batty GD

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger body size in childhood is correlated with earlier age at menarche; whether birth and infant body size changes are also associated with age at menarche is less clear. The authors contacted female participants enrolled in the New York site of the US National Collaborative Perinatal Project born between 1959 and 1...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Terry MB,Ferris JS,Tehranifar P,Wei Y,Flom JD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have conducted an analysis to validate a computer model that uses age-specific human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence data to estimate age-specific HIV incidence rates. Data for the analysis are from a cohort study of volunteer male workers in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi. Testing for HIV ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saidel T,Sokal D,Rice J,Buzingo T,Hassig S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the period August 10-29, 1986, 29 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease occurred in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; two cases were fatal. No common source of indoor exposure was identified. Water specimens were obtained from all known cooling tower units in Sheboygan; Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was isolated at 1 x...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Addiss DG,Davis JP,LaVenture M,Wand PJ,Hutchinson MA,McKinney RM

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:Largely on the basis of results from meta-analyses of observational studies, postmenopausal estrogen was widely prescribed to prevent coronary heart disease. However, epidemiologic studies, no matter how consistent and coherent, are not sufficient to recommend mass preventive therapy to healthy women. In fact, all thr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case-control study, matching on a disease risk score (DRS), which includes many confounders, should theoretically result in greater precision than matching on only a few confounders; however, this has not been investigated. We simulated 1,000 hypothetical cohorts with a binary exposure, a time-to-event outcome, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Wang S,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While survey-based data on firearm ownership are essential for epidemiologic studies of the relation between gun ownership and injuries, the validity of respondent answers to questions about gun ownership has not been confirmed. In order to assess the accuracy of interview data about firearms, in June to August 1987, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kellermann AL,Rivara FP,Banton J,Reay D,Fligner CL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1979 and March 1980, distinguishing features between fatal and nonfatal cases of diarrhea caused by the same etiologic agents were sought in a case-control investigation of Cuna Indian children living on the San Blas Islands located off Panama's Caribbean coast. The eight fatal cases of diarrhea (fou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ryder RW,Reeves WC,Sack RB

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952-1989 (n = 13,376), third-ge...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahrén-Moonga J,Silverwood R,Klinteberg BA,Koupil I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study on diet and gastric cancer, carried out in selected areas of four regions of Spain (Aragon, Castile, Catalonia, and Galicia) in 1988 and 1989, included 354 cases of histologically confirmed gastric adenocarcinoma and 354 controls matched by age, sex, and area of residence. Cases and controls were ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： González CA,Riboli E,Badosa J,Batiste E,Cardona T,Pita S,Sanz JM,Torrent M,Agudo A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of adenocarcinoma of the facial sinuses and exposure to wood dust has been recognized for 20 years. As the tracheobronchial mucosa is similar to that lining the sinuses, a link between bronchial adenocarcinoma and wood dust exposure has been postulated. To test this hypothesis, a case-control study was co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schraub S,Belon-Leneutre M,Mercier M,Bourgeois P

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that all pregnant women be questioned concerning risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection and that those giving positive responses be serotested. The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of those recommended questions among 692 parturient women ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McQuillan GM,Townsend TR,Johannes CB,Dillard T,Molteni RA,Ness PM,Niebyl JR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of diet and nutritional supplements, cigarette use, alcohol consumption, and blood lipids to plasma levels of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol was studied among 330 men and women aged 18-79 years. Dietary carotene, preformed vitamin A, and vitamin E intake were estimated by a self-administered semiquant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stryker WS,Kaplan LA,Stein EA,Stampfer MJ,Sober A,Willett WC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few published examples of absolute risk estimated from epidemiologic data subject to censoring and competing risks with adjustment for multiple confounders. We present an example estimating the effect of injection drug use on 6-year risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) after initiation of combin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Lau B,Eron JJ,Brookhart MA,Kitahata MM,Martin JN,Mathews WC,Mugavero MJ,CNICS Research Network.

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the spring of 1986, the authors studied the relation between body mass index and anthropometric indicators of fat distribution to cardiovascular risk factors (serum lipids and blood pressure) in approximately 450 women aged 38 years randomly selected from population registers in five European centers. Waist circumf...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seidell JC,Cigolini M,Charzewska J,Ellsinger BM,Di Biase G,Björntorp P,Hautvast JG,Contaldo F,Szostak V,Scuro LA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied cancer prevalence and exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin) in veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the Air Force unit responsible for the aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. A comparison group of Air Force veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the same period ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ketchum NS,Michalek JE,Burton JE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of residents in communities with high endemic concentrations of arsenic in drinking water suggest a deleterious effect on the circulatory system; however, studies among workers with high occupational exposures generally have shown either no or weak associations. This discrepancy could be a result of the health...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hertz-Picciotto I,Arrighi HM,Hu SW

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies suggest that vitamin D modulates the activity of adipocytes. The authors examined baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) level in relation to prevalent and cumulative incident obesity in Norway. A cohort of 25,616 adults aged 19-55 years participated in both the second and third surveys of t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mai XM,Chen Y,Camargo CA Jr,Langhammer A

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although investigators have assessed the relationship between self-reported cigarette smoking and biomarker levels, the validity of self-reported information on smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is uncertain. We used aggregated data from the 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, and 2009-2010 administrations of the National Heal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Agaku IT,King BA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining an accurate method of obtaining complete morbidity data is a long-standing challenge for epidemiologists. The authors compared the accuracy and completeness of existing California hospital discharge data with self-reports of recent hospitalizations and surgeries from participants in the California Teachers...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marshall SF,Deapen D,Allen M,Anton-Culver H,Bernstein L,Horn-Ross PL,Peel D,Pinder R,Reynolds P,Ross RK,West D,Ziogas A

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since June 1982, the Wisconsin Chronic Renal Disease Program has provided reimbursement for hepatitis B virus vaccine and pre- and postvaccine serologic testing for patients and staff in all Wisconsin renal dialysis centers. Between July 1, 1982 and June 30, 1984, 444 dialysis patients in 22 renal dialysis centers and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Steketee RW,Ziarnik ME,Davis JP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00