Recent exposure to particulate matter and C-reactive protein concentration in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.

abstract：:The occurrence of cancer of the corpus uteri in Denmark is examined by the use of data from the Danish Cancer Registry. The study population consists of 14,149 cases diagnosed with cancer of the corpus uteri between 1943 and 1980. Since 1943, the incidence has been steadily increasing. The trend in the incidence rates...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ewertz M,Jensen OM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exact probability test and its asymptotic version are described for testing the hypothesis that clustering of disease observed among population units is likely to have been due to chance alone. The test is based on a scheme for ranking possible arrangements of ill and well persons by degree of clustering, as measur...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser DW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a significant problem within hospitals, leading to extended hospital stays, excess morbidity and mortality, and economic loss. Prevention and control strategies are generally "bundled"; therefore, the individual effects of particular strategies and the value of combined strategies cannot be determined dir...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blanco N,Eisenberg MC,Stillwell T,Foxman B

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:In an epidemiologic study of 2982 bladder carcinoma patients and 5782 population controls from 10 geographic areas of the United States, the role of urinary tract infection and inflammation in the etiology of this neoplasm was evaluated. A history of urinary tract infection significantly elevated the risk of bladder c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kantor AF,Hartge P,Hoover RN,Narayana AS,Sullivan JW,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：:The age-specific prevalence of hepatitis A antibodies has been analyzed using a catalytic epidemic model for populations in seven European countries: West Germany, Norway, Greece, Switzerland, Holland, France and Sweden. The results indicate a significant decline in the force of infection in recent decades. However, t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schenzle D,Dietz K,Frösner GG

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Slow childhood growth is associated with poorer intellectual ability. The critical periods of growth remain uncertain. Among 2,786 Finnish male military conscripts (1952-1972) born in 1934-1944, the authors tested how specific growth periods from birth to age 20 years predicted verbal, visuospatial, and arithmetic abi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Räikkönen K,Forsén T,Henriksson M,Kajantie E,Heinonen K,Pesonen AK,Leskinen JT,Laaksonen I,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides are ubiquitous neurotoxicants, and several lines of evidence suggest that exposure may be associated with depression. Epidemiologic evidence has focused largely on organophosphate exposures, while research on other pesticides is limited. We collected detailed pesticide use history from farmers recruited in ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weisskopf MG,Moisan F,Tzourio C,Rathouz PJ,Elbaz A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control epidemiologic study of childhood polymyositis is presented. Parents of 42 cases of childhood polymyositis were interviewed along with parents of controls matched for sex and age. Extensive review of past medical history, animal exposure history, residential and family history, and immunization history f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koch MJ,Brody JA,Gillespie MM

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) antibody titers were monitored for five years with samples from 79 keratoconjunctivitis patients with type 8 adenovirus (AV-8) infection. Geometric mean antibody titers declined from 1:161 at the peak of the epidemic to 1:56 after five years. Computerized analysis of the decline ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hierholzer JC,Sprague JB

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：: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：:Diagnostic testing is recommended in women with "ovarian cancer symptoms." However, these symptoms are nonspecific. The ongoing Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer Early (DOVE) Study in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, provides diagnostic testing to women aged 50 years or older with symptoms lasting for more than 2 weeks and less than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sun Z,Gilbert L,Ciampi A,Kaufman JS,Basso O

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:A standard approach to analysis of case-cohort data involves fitting log-linear models. In this paper, we describe how standard statistical software can be used to fit a broad class of general relative rate models to case-cohort data and derive confidence intervals. We focus on a case-cohort design in which a roster h...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Richardson DB,Langholz B,Kelly-Reif K

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 1986, a statewide outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections in Washington State was identified after a physician in an eastern Washington community hospitalized three patients with hemorrhagic colitis which progressed to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Epidemiologic investigation identified 37 c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostroff SM,Griffin PM,Tauxe RV,Shipman LD,Greene KD,Wells JG,Lewis JH,Blake PA,Kobayashi JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary reviews the recent history of explanations to crossover paradoxes such as the birth weight and gestational age paradoxes, with a special emphasis on the current proposal by Kramer et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(3):361-367). We contend that the causal structure of these pa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hernán MA,Schisterman EF,Hernández-Díaz S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge of leprosy epidemiology is still extremely limited as to basic epidemiologic characteristics. Only the infectious agent and the reservoir of infection have been firmly established. It is all the more surprising that very few studies of analytical leprosy epidemiology are reported in the literature. In or...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Vries JL,Perry BH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anal cancer has been hypothesized to be associated with a sexually transmitted agent and, more recently, with the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The authors used a descriptive incidence study to evaluate these hypotheses based on US data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) prog...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Melbye M,Rabkin C,Frisch M,Biggar RJ

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious transmission of streptococci in families has been demonstrated to follow Greenwood's chain-binomial model in its simplest form which did not need beta transformation to correct for differences in susceptibility between families. Following the application of this model, an estimate of the risk of acquisition...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poku K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the role of self-reported life satisfaction in mortality with a prospective cohort study (1976-1995). A nationwide sample of healthy adults (18-64 years, n = 22,461) from the Finnish Twin Cohort responded to a questionnaire about life satisfaction and known predictors of mortality in 1975. A s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koivumaa-Honkanen H,Honkanen R,Viinamäki H,Heikkilä K,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M

更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although poorer self-rated health (SRH) is associated with increased mortality, less is known about its impact on functioning. This study evaluated whether poorer SRH was associated with decline in walking speed and whether caregiving, often considered an indicator of chronic stress, modified this relation. The sample...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ashburner JM,Cauley JA,Cawthon P,Ensrud KE,Hochberg MC,Fredman L

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the association between cognitive function and incidence and maintenance of overweight in preschool children. A population-based birth cohort was established in Menorca, Spain, between 1997 and 1999 (n = 482). Body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) was measured at ages 4 years and 6 years (n ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guxens M,Mendez MA,Julvez J,Plana E,Forns J,Basagaña X,Torrent M,Sunyer J

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies, mainly among populations with high consumption of seafood, have suggested that increased marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) intake during pregnancy promotes longer gestation and higher birth weight. Few studies have isolated the contribution of fetal growth to birth weight. Using data from ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oken E,Kleinman KP,Olsen SF,Rich-Edwards JW,Gillman MW

更新日期：2004-10-15 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：:A prospective panel cohort design was used to investigate whether mental disorders common in the general population increase the likelihood of increased cigarette smoking at 12 months follow-up. By 1995, the last year for which data were available, a random sample of 12,057 persons aged 16-75 years residing in private...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ismail K,Sloggett A,De Stavola B

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, android fat distribution, and other anthropometric measures have been associated with coronary heart disease in long-term prospective studies. However, fluctuations in weight due to age-related hormonal changes and changes in lifestyle practices may bias relative risk estimates over a long follow-up period. T...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rimm EB,Stampfer MJ,Giovannucci E,Ascherio A,Spiegelman D,Colditz GA,Willett WC

更新日期：1995-06-15 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