Invited commentary: two studies of genetic control of birth weight where large data sets were available.

abstract：:The authors examined the association between age at menarche, menstrual cycle characteristics between ages 28 and 32 years, and peri- and postmenopausal fracture risk in a cohort of 874 women who prospectively recorded menstrual cycle data for at least 5 years from their early 20s through their menopause. Fracture his...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cooper GS,Sandler DP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The state of pneumococcal carriage-that is, pneumococcal colonization in the nasopharynx of healthy persons-represents a reservoir for the spread of pneumococci among individuals. In light of the introduction of new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, further knowledge on the dynamics of pneumococcal carriage is importan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Auranen K,Mehtälä J,Tanskanen A,S Kaltoft M

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In prospective studies, disease rates during follow-up are typically analyzed with respect to the values of factors measured during an initial baseline survey. However, because of "regression dilution," this generally tends to underestimate the real associations of disease rates with the "usual" levels of such risk fa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clarke R,Shipley M,Lewington S,Youngman L,Collins R,Marmot M,Peto R

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the familial aggregation of blood pressure (BP) was conducted to provide estimates of the role of genes and household environment in determining the phenotypic resemblance between biologically related family members. The biological model used for this analysis parameterizes the correlations between fami...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Annest JL,Sing CF,Biron P,Mongeau JG

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period from September 8 to October 2, 1970, 44 of the 120 children and 78 of 141 adults questioned at the Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital experienced gastroenteritis characterized by nausea, vomiting, and fever and/or chills. Diarrhea was rare in children (4.5%) and common in adults (74%)....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Judson FN,Molk L

更新日期：1975-09-01 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：:Dietary protein may help prevent age-related declines in strength and functional capacity. This study examines the independent relationship between dietary protein and longitudinal changes in physical functioning among adults participating in the Framingham Offspring Study from examination 5 (1991-1995) to examination...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mustafa J,Ellison RC,Singer MR,Bradlee ML,Kalesan B,Holick MF,Moore LL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1977 and 1981, there were 4.9 episodes of community-acquired bacteremia and 5.1 episodes of hospital-acquired bacteremia per 1,000 patients in the four major hospitals of one metropolitan area. Case fatality rates were 30.1 per cent based on deaths due to all causes and 14.7 per cent based on deaths attributed...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bryan CS,Hornung CA,Reynolds KL,Brenner ER

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare risk factor patterns in association with preeclampsia and gestational hypertension. The data were collected from The Swedish Medical Birth Register and include all nulliparas aged 34 years or less who gave birth at the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, duri...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ros HS,Cnattingius S,Lipworth L

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based case-control study carried out in Adelaide, South Australia, during the years 1984-1987, the diets of 104 cases of cancer of the pancreas 1 year prior to diagnosis were compared with the diets of 253 community controls. A quantitative food-frequency questionnaire was used to assess usual dietary ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Baghurst PA,McMichael AJ,Slavotinek AH,Baghurst KI,Boyle P,Walker AM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new measure of lifetime alcohol consumption, the Cognitive Lifetime Drinking History (CLDH) uses beverage-specific questions on drink sizes and assesses drinking patterns to enhance recall. Two methods of establishing drinking intervals were examined: 1) floating--the respondent's report of when drinking changed, an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Russell M,Marshall JR,Trevisan M,Freudenheim JL,Chan AW,Markovic N,Vána JE,Priore RL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simulation model was used to study the spread of two sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), namely gonorrhea and genital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis. The model is based on a stochastic pair formation and separation process, which describes the underlying structure of the sexual contact pattern. It is impleme...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kretzschmar M,van Duynhoven YT,Severijnen AJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether caffeine consumption during pregnancy represents a fetal hazard remains uncertain. The authors report on a large prospective study designed to examine this question. In 1996-2000, 2,291 mothers with singleton livebirths in Connecticut and Massachusetts were evaluated after their first prenatal visit and were q...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bracken MB,Triche EW,Belanger K,Hellenbrand K,Leaderer BP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated independent effects of maternal and paternal age on risk of autism spectrum disorder. A case-cohort design was implemented using data from 10 US study sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. The 1994 birth co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Durkin MS,Maenner MJ,Newschaffer CJ,Lee LC,Cunniff CM,Daniels JL,Kirby RS,Leavitt L,Miller L,Zahorodny W,Schieve LA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prevalence study was designed to evaluate host and seasonal risk factors associated with three systemic mycoses in dogs: blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis. Histoplasmosis was the most commonly diagnosed of the three diseases. All three of the mycoses occurred more frequently in male than female d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Selby LA,Becker SV,Hayes HW Jr

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that birth weight and weight gain during the first year of life are related to later risk of type 1 diabetes. The authors performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on these associations. Twelve studies involving 2,398,150 persons of whom 7,491 had type 1 diabetes provided odds ratios and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harder T,Roepke K,Diller N,Stechling Y,Dudenhausen JW,Plagemann A

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors reviewed all cases of active tuberculosis newly reported to a population-based registry between 1970 and 1985 to compare a large urban area with the mostly rural remainder of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Although incidence rates have declined steadily in the rural area, they have not done so i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Enarson DA,Wang JS,Dirks JM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Icelandic study of melanoma trends by Héry et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2010;172(7):762-767) is a fascinating analysis of an ecologic association. The authors noted a sharp increase in melanoma incidence that appeared to lag a few years behind the increased prevalence of sunbeds in Iceland....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Berwick M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative weights of empirical facts (data) and assumptions (theory) in causal inference vary across disciplines. Typically, disciplines that ask more complex questions tend to better tolerate a greater role of theory and modeling in causal inference. As epidemiologists move toward increasingly complex questions, M...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hernán MA

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous authors have critiqued the use of race as an etiologic quantity in medical research. Despite this criticism, the use of variables encoding racial/ethnic categorization has increased in epidemiology, and most researchers agree that important variation in disease risk is captured by this classification system. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaufman JS,Cooper RS

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The NHLBI Family Heart Study is a multicenter, population-based study of genetic and nongenetic determinants of coronary heart disease (CHD), atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular risk factors. In phase I, 2,000 randomly selected participants and 2,000 with family histories of CHD were identified among 14,592 middle-age...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Higgins M,Province M,Heiss G,Eckfeldt J,Ellison RC,Folsom AR,Rao DC,Sprafka JM,Williams R

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor analysis has previously identified four independent factors that characterize the insulin resistance syndrome in women, interpreted as 1) weight/waist, 2) lipids, 3) insulin/glucose, and 4) systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Because it is not known whether similar factors emerge for men, or for diabetics, f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Edwards KL,Burchfiel CM,Sharp DS,Curb JD,Rodriguez BL,Fujimoto WY,LaCroix AZ,Vitiello MV,Austin MA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-controlled tree-temporal scan statistic-a new signal-detection method-can evaluate whether any of a wide variety of health outcomes are temporally associated with receipt of a specific vaccine, while adjusting for multiple testing. Neither health outcomes nor postvaccination potential periods of increased ris...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yih WK,Maro JC,Nguyen M,Baker MA,Balsbaugh C,Cole DV,Dashevsky I,Mba-Jonas A,Kulldorff M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties inherent in the identification of immune correlates of protection or severe disease have challenged the development and evaluation of dengue vaccines. There persist substantial gaps in knowledge about the complex effects of age and sequential dengue virus (DENV) exposures on these correlations. To address...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Anderson KB,Buddhari D,Srikiatkhachorn A,Gromowski GD,Iamsirithaworn S,Weg AL,Ellison DW,Macareo L,Cummings DAT,Yoon IK,Nisalak A,Ponlawat A,Thomas SJ,Fernandez S,Jarman RG,Rothman AL,Endy TP

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this cross-sectional analysis of women aged 35-49 years from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted between 1988 and 1994, was to assess associations with menopausal status based either on menstrual cycle patterns or on elevated (>20 IU/liter) follicle-stimulating hormone....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cooper GS,Baird DD,Darden FR

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-year intervention study of the effectiveness of the "Know Your Body" program in reducing coronary heart disease risk factors among black students in the District of Columbia, who were in grades 4-6 at baseline, was begun in 1983. Nine schools were stratified on socioeconomic status and randomly assigned to cont...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bush PJ,Zuckerman AE,Theiss PK,Taggart VS,Horowitz C,Sheridan MJ,Walter HJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Butadiene and styrene are suspected carcinogens and common chemicals used in the synthesis of rubber. To investigate any potential human hazards from exposure to these chemicals, a case-control study of 59 lymphohematopoietic cancers was conducted within a cohort of male workers employed between 1943 and 1982 in e...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Santos-Burgoa C,Matanoski GM,Zeger S,Schwartz L

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing interest and concern about men's mental health during the perinatal period, we still do not know whether men are more vulnerable to mental health problems during this time. The current study is one of the first to use longitudinal, population-based data to investigate whether becoming an expectant and/...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Leach LS,Olesen SC,Butterworth P,Poyser C

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic information systems and exploratory spatial analysis were used to describe the geographic characteristics of pilot fatality rates in 1983-1998 general aviation crashes within the continental United States. The authors plotted crash sites on a digital map; rates were computed at regular grid intersections an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Grabowski JG,Curriero FC,Baker SP,Li G

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exceptionally high incidence rates of thyroid cancer are observed in New Caledonia, particularly in Melanesian women. To investigate further the etiology of thyroid cancer and to clarify the reasons of this elevated incidence, the authors conducted a countrywide population-based case-control study in this multiethnic ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guignard R,Truong T,Rougier Y,Baron-Dubourdieu D,Guénel P

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00