Nine-year changes in cardiovascular disease risk factors with weight maintenance in the atherosclerosis risk in communities cohort.

abstract：:We estimated associations between neighborhood supermarket gain or loss and glycemic control (assessed by glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) values) in patients from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Diabetes Registry (n = 434,806 person-years; 2007-2010). Annual clinical measures were linked to metrics from a geogra...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang YT,Mujahid MS,Laraia BA,Warton EM,Blanchard SD,Moffet HH,Downing J,Karter AJ

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The case-only design, which requires only diseased subjects, allows for estimation of multiplicative interactions between factors known to be independent in the study population. The design is being used as an alternative to the case-control design to study gene-environment interactions. Estimates of gene-environment ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Albert PS,Ratnasinghe D,Tangrea J,Wacholder S

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 21, 1969, and April 14, 1970, 44 symptomatic cases of Salmonella typhimurium gastroenteritis occurred among the approximately 2500 Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. Twenty-five cases were confirmed by positive stool culture. All 19 cases not confirmed by culture had diarr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Loewenstein MS

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking is becoming increasingly common in Asia while quitting remains rare, in part because of a lack of knowledge about the risks of smoking. This study compared the risk of death from lung cancer associated with smoking habits in Australia and New Zealand and in Asia by using data from the Asia Pacific Co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huxley R,Jamrozik K,Lam TH,Barzi F,Ansary-Moghaddam A,Jiang CQ,Suh I,Woodward M,Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration.

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Fluorescent oxidation products in plasma are stable with routine blood collection methods and reflect oxidation in food, animals, and in vitro. Whether plasma fluorescent oxidation products predict future coronary heart disease has not been established. Among US men without cardiovascular disease who provided blood sp...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wu T,Rifai N,Willett WC,Rimm EB

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted descriptive and case-control studies to find factors associated with earthquake deaths due to the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake on January 17, 1995, in Nishinomiya, Japan. In the case-control study, cases included all 1,104 deaths. Controls were randomly selected from survivors. Earthquake morta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Osaki Y,Minowa M

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To help public health practitioners promote physical activities with a low risk of injury, this study determined the relation among type and duration of physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and musculoskeletal injury in a sample of adults enrolled in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. Subjects included 4...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hootman JM,Macera CA,Ainsworth BE,Martin M,Addy CL,Blair SN

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to study the association between birth weight and the insulin sensitivity index. Altogether, 331 unrelated Caucasian subjects aged 18-32 years with measures of the insulin sensitivity index and insulin secretion during a combined intravenous glucose and tolbutamide tolerance test were included in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clausen JO,Borch-Johnsen K,Pedersen O

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the 1970s, today's older Americans were exposed to high levels of lead in the environment. The authors previously reported that lifetime cumulative lead dose was associated with lower cognitive test performance in older adults. Experiments suggest that environmental stress may intensify the detrimental influenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Glass TA,Bandeen-Roche K,McAtee M,Bolla K,Todd AC,Schwartz BS

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the US National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network to study the utility of genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates for prevention and control. From 1998 to 2000, four sites performed conventional contact investigations and epidemiologic in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McNabb SJ,Kammerer JS,Hickey AC,Braden CR,Shang N,Rosenblum LS,Navin TR

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper, a strong prooxidant, may play a role in atherogenesis. The author examined the association between serum copper concentration and mortality from coronary heart disease using data from the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1976-1992). Serum copper concentration was determined using atomic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ford ES

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the inverse association between hysterectomy and epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) was considered well established, investigators in recent studies including women diagnosed after 2000 have observed modest increases in risk. Most studies have been conducted in white women with little representation of African-A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Peres LC,Alberg AJ,Bandera EV,Barnholtz-Sloan J,Bondy M,Cote ML,Funkhouser E,Moorman PG,Peters ES,Schwartz AG,Terry PD,Abbott SE,Camacho F,Wang F,Schildkraut JM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk of death during the first year of life due to external causes, such as unintentional injury and homicide, may be higher among twins and higher-order multiples than among singletons in the United States. We used national birth cohort linked birth-infant death data (2000-2010) to evaluate the risk of infant mortali...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahrens KA,Thoma ME,Rossen LM,Warner M,Simon AE

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:The present report evaluates a method for the determination of the maximal velocity of the outward sodium, potassium, chlorine (Na-K-Cl) cotransport in erythrocytes. The loading procedure was carried out using the ionophore nystatin. The technical error for this assay, based on concurrent analysis of randomized blind ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Trevisan M,Canessa M,Laurenzi M,Di Muro MR,De Colle S,Franzese A,Iacone R,De Chiara F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After screening out inappropriate or doubtful covariates on the basis of background knowledge, one may still be left with many potential confounders. It is then tempting to use statistical variable-selection methods to reduce the number used for adjustment. Nonetheless, there is no agreement on how selection should be...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Greenland S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical functioning measures are considered integrated markers of the aging process. This prospective investigation examined relations between dietary intake of women at midlife in 1996-1997 and prevalence of physical functioning limitations 4 years later, defined by the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36. The samp...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tomey KM,Sowers MR,Crandall C,Johnston J,Jannausch M,Yosef M

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relation of increased mortality and morbidity to personal loss and damage following the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, the authors conducted a prospective study of mortality and a nested case-control analysis of incident morbidity. Employees of the Armenian Ministry of Health and their immediate families (n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Armenian HK,Melkonian AK,Hovanesian AP

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease refers to a group of chronic diseases of unknown etiology related to both genetic and environmental factors. In this 1990-1993 study, the authors investigated associations between the content and quality of drinking water and the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease. They used data from a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aamodt G,Bukholm G,Jahnsen J,Moum B,Vatn MH,IBSEN Study Group.

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:There is little current understanding of the risk for occurrence of unintentional injury in the home. The authors estimated the incidence of unintentional home injuries for an entire community, adjusting for actual time spent awake in the home and, in addition, analyzed the costs of these injuries. Cases of unintentio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kopjar B,Wickizer TM

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:A cohort study of neonatal mortality (N = 106) in white singleton births (N = 14,486) in Utah for January-June 1975 was conducted. Using membership and activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) as a proxy for parental health practices, i.e., tobacco and alcohol abstinence, differentia...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Woolley FR,Schuman KL,Lyon JL

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：: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：:Under- and overreporting of energy intake in relation to body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) were examined by using 24-hour urinary sodium and potassium as biomarkers. The data were obtained from 2,124 men and 1,998 women aged 25-74 years who participated in the 1981-1984 Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang J,Temme EH,Sasaki S,Kesteloot H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the Women's Health Initiative (1993-2009; n = 158,833 participants, of whom 84.1% were white, 9.2% were black, 4.1% were Hispanic, and 2.6% were Asian), we compared all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality rates in white, black, Hispanic, and Asian postmenopausal women with and without diabetes....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ma Y,Hébert JR,Balasubramanian R,Wedick NM,Howard BV,Rosal MC,Liu S,Bird CE,Olendzki BC,Ockene JK,Wactawski-Wende J,Phillips LS,Lamonte MJ,Schneider KL,Garcia L,Ockene IS,Merriam PA,Sepavich DM,Mackey RH,Johnson KC

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The link between blood pressure measured at juvenile ages (3-18 years) and subsequent adult ages (30 and 50 years) was investigated in a community-based longitudinal study conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1928 to the present. The original sample of 550 persons decreased 61 percent by age 50 years, leaving ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nelson MJ,Ragland DR,Syme SL

更新日期：1992-09-15 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