Exposure to a nutrition supplementation intervention in early childhood and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood: evidence from Guatemala.

abstract：:This paper presents findings on depressive symptomatology among 3,118 Mexican-American adults who participated in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES). In 1982-1984, the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale was administered to Mexican Americans ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mościcki EK,Locke BZ,Rae DS,Boyd JH

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Ninety-four strains of Venezuelan encephalitis (VE) virus isolated from sentinel hamsters exposed in the Middle American countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras were examined for the presence of virions with marker characteristics of strains that cause large epidemics and equine epizootics. Thirty-four st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wiebe ME,Scherer WF,Peick WJ

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke, coronary heart disease (CHD) and total mortality are evaluated from death certificates in enumerated cohorts of 45-64-year old Japanese men in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1965-1970), in Homolulu (1966-1970), and in the San Francisco area (1968-1972). Total mortality is highest in Japan with no consistent differenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Worth RM,Kato H,Rhoads GG,Kagan K,Syme SL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the validity of outdoor particulate matter with a 50% cutoff diameter of 10-microm (PM10) concentrations as a measure of exposure in time series studies, the association between personal and outdoor concentrations, within subjects, over time was investigated. Repeated measurements of personal, indoor, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Janssen NA,Hoek G,Brunekreef B,Harssema H,Mensink I,Zuidhof A

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of recent or ongoing Campylobacter jejuni infection has been found in approximately one out of every four cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). It is increasingly accepted that C. jejuni infection is an important causal factor for GBS. However, the likelihood of GBS' occurring following an episode of C. jej...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McCarthy N,Giesecke J

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient control of confounding is well recognized as a legitimate motive for restriction, matching, and conditional analysis in case-control studies. Some investigators, however, have advocated use of the same techniques for another purpose: to achieve a balance of "opportunity" or "potential" for past exposure betw...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poole C

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preterm delivery rate in North Carolina is consistently higher than the national average. However, recent reports suggest that singleton preterm delivery rates for non-Hispanic Whites are increasing while those for non-Hispanic African Americans are decreasing. To study this pattern further, the authors examined d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vahratian A,Buekens P,Bennett TA,Meyer RE,Kogan MD,Yu SM

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:How can the "strengths" of risk factors, in the sense of how well they discriminate cases from controls, be compared when they are measured on different scales such as continuous, binary, and integer? Given that risk estimates take into account other fitted and design-related factors-and that is how risk gradients are...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hopper JL

更新日期：2015-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that paternal occupational exposures to pesticides and solvents increase the risk of neural tube defects in offspring. With the use of Texas livebirth, fetal death, and linked livebirth-death records, the authors conducted a population-based case-control study among 1981-1986 Texas births to exam...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brender JD,Suarez L

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Pooled analyses may provide etiologic insight about associations between exposure and disease. In contrast to childhood leukemia, no pooled analyses of childhood brain tumors and exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs) have been conducted. The authors carried out a pooled analysis based on primar...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kheifets L,Ahlbom A,Crespi CM,Feychting M,Johansen C,Monroe J,Murphy MF,Oksuzyan S,Preston-Martin S,Roman E,Saito T,Savitz D,Schüz J,Simpson J,Swanson J,Tynes T,Verkasalo P,Mezei G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impact of military service on 13 categories of self-reported physical health problems by using a sample of 2,260 American male-male monozygotic twin pairs who served on active duty during the Vietnam War. Data were collected in 1987 by using mail and/or telephone interviews. Twins who served in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eisen SA,Goldberg J,True WR,Henderson WG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reasons for health disparities may include neighborhood-level factors, such as availability of health services, social norms, and environmental determinants, as well as individual-level factors. Investigating health inequalities using nationally or locally representative data often requires an approach that can accomm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brumback BA,Cai Z,Dailey AB

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relation of noncontraceptive estrogen use to the risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women, the authors conducted a case-control study: 1,686 cases were compared with 2,077 hospital control subjects, of whom 1,120 had non-gynecologic cancers and 957 had nonmalignant (also non-gynecologic) conditi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaufman DW,Palmer JR,de Mouzon J,Rosenberg L,Stolley PD,Warshauer ME,Zauber AG,Shapiro S

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have associated insecticides used for spruce budworm control with Reye's syndrome. In Maine, spruce budworm insecticide spraying began in 1954, and an annual spray program was started in 1972. Reye's syndrome incidence information (1978-1982), obtained from hospital discharge data, death certificates, and repo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wood RB Jr,Bogdan GF

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Power considerations for trials evaluating vaccines against infectious diseases are complicated by indirect protective effects of vaccination. While cluster-randomized controlled trials (cRCTs) are less statistically efficient than individually randomized controlled trials (iRCTs), a cRCT's ability to measure direct a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hitchings MDT,Lipsitch M,Wang R,Bellan SE

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is much more common in Asian countries than in Western countries. However, since the 1980s, nasopharyngeal carcinoma incidence has fallen among both men and women in Hong Kong, and recently a similar trend has also been noted in Singapore. Using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and En...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sun LM,Epplein M,Li CI,Vaughan TL,Weiss NS

更新日期：2005-12-15 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：:Although type 2 diabetes (T2D) predicts glaucoma, the potential for unmeasured confounding has hampered causal conclusions. We performed separate sample genetic instrumental variable analyses using the Genetic Epidemiology Research Study on Adult Health and Aging cohort (n = 69,685; 1995-2013) to estimate effects of T...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shen L,Walter S,Melles RB,Glymour MM,Jorgenson E

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many epidemiologists have agreed that a refined estimate of the incubation period of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) would need a sample size of about 200 cases and appropriate statistical methods enabling the inclusion of cases with defined periods of exposure. However, no such studies have been reported so ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cai QC,Xu QF,Xu JM,Guo Q,Cheng X,Zhao GM,Sun QW,Lu J,Jiang QW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although coronary heart disease (CHD) is currently the leading cause of death among American Indians, information on the prevalence of CHD and its association with known cardiovascular risk factors is limited. The Strong Heart Study was initiated in 1988 to quantify cardiovascular disease and its risk factors among th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howard BV,Lee ET,Cowan LD,Fabsitz RR,Howard WJ,Oopik AJ,Robbins DC,Savage PJ,Yeh JL,Welty TK

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study of cancer and occupation was carried out in Montréal, Canada. Between 1979 and 1986, 449 pathologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer were interviewed, as well as 1,550 cancer controls and 533 population controls. Job histories were evaluated by a team of chemist/hygienists u...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aronson KJ,Siemiatycki J,Dewar R,Gérin M

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether intakes of wine, beer, spirits, and total alcohol are associated with the risk of common cold, in 1998-1999 the authors analyzed data from a cohort study carried out in a population of 4,272 faculty and staff of five Spanish universities. Usual alcohol intake was assessed at baseline by means of a s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Takkouche B,Regueira-Méndez C,García-Closas R,Figueiras A,Gestal-Otero JJ,Hernán MA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies report inconsistent associations between education and cognitive aging. We assessed the association, accounting for selective dropout due to death or dementia, and, in a subsample, accounting for confounding by early-life intelligence. Data from the Danish component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Foverskov E,Glymour MM,Mortensen EL,Holm A,Lange T,Lund R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00