Plasma fluorescent oxidation products: independent predictors of coronary heart disease in men.

abstract：:To evaluate the impact of body mass index (BMI) (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and change in body silhouette on asthma risk, the authors investigated a cohort of women participating in the E3N Cohort Study in France from 1990 to 1993. The authors identified 372 incident cases of asthma among 67229 women aged 40-65 years ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Romieu I,Avenel V,Leynaert B,Kauffmann F,Clavel-Chapelon F

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium and dairy foods in relation to prostate cancer were examined in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health Study (1995/1996-2001). Diet was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire at baseline. Multivariate relative risks and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Park Y,Mitrou PN,Kipnis V,Hollenbeck A,Schatzkin A,Leitzmann MF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1976-1978, a battery of eight neuropsychologic tests were administered to 2,123 participants in the Framingham Study who were aged 55-89 years. Performance on each test was examined in relation to concurrently measured systolic and diastolic blood pressure while controlling for age, sex, education, antihypertensive...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Farmer ME,White LR,Abbott RD,Kittner SJ,Kaplan E,Wolz MM,Brody JA,Wolf PA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neural tube defects can be prevented if women take folic acid around the time of conception. However, the majority of women do not take folic acid at the critical time, so the US government required that food be fortified with folic acid effective January 1, 1998. Whether the amount being added was sufficient to ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mills JL,Carter TC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cohort of 849 infants with an asthmatic sibling, the authors examined the relations of exposure to allergens (dust mite, cockroach, cat, and dog), nitrogen dioxide, and mold with symptoms of wheeze and persistent cough in the first year of life (1998-2000). Among infants whose mothers had physician-diagnosed asth...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Belanger K,Beckett W,Triche E,Bracken MB,Holford T,Ren P,McSharry JE,Gold DR,Platts-Mills TA,Leaderer BP

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fasting plasma glucose (FPG) was measured in 4170 nondiabetic adult residents of a suburban California community. At all ages the median FPG in men was higher (103-107 mg/dl) than the median FPG in women (96-104 mg/dl). FPG levels correlated weakly with obesity, and male-female differences persisted after adjustme...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that hepatitis B is transmitted venereally was examined by determining the prevalence of hepatitis B antibody (anti-HB(S)) in populations with different levels of promiscuity. Of 258 prostitutes, 31% were anti-HB(S) positive, compared to 10% of 258 female age-matched blood donors, 10% of 48 nuns living...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frösner GG,Buchholz HM,Gerth HJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When researching racial disparities in health, residential segregation cannot be ignored. Because of segregation, contextual differences by race are so pronounced that ignoring them may lead to mis-estimating the effect of individual-level factors. However, given the stark racial separation of social contexts, researc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Acevedo-Garcia D,Osypuk TL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used full-system-estimation instrumental-variables simultaneous equations modeling (IV-SEM) to examine physical activity relative to body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) using 25 years of data (1985/1986 to 2010/2011) from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (n = 5,115; a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meyer KA,Guilkey DK,Tien HC,Kiefe CI,Popkin BM,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethnic differences in survey participation and their effects on self-reported physical and psychiatric health status measures were examined in a longitudinal health study in Alameda County, California, in 1978 following two time intervals. Blacks and Mexican-Americans were more likely than whites to refuse to particip...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vernon SW,Roberts RE,Lee ES

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigated the prevalence of antibodies to five leading agents of childhood respiratory disease in the county of Huixquilucan, Mexico. Tests of sera from a random sample of children between 3 months and 18 years of age confirmed serologically the presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, respiratory syncytial (RS...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Golubjatnikov R,Allen VD,Olmos-Blancarte MP,Inhorn SL

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma risk has consistently been inversely associated with allergy history but not with smoking history despite putative biologic plausibility. Data from 855 high-grade glioma cases and 1,160 controls from 4 geographic regions of the United States during 1997-2008 were analyzed for interactions between allergy and sm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lachance DH,Yang P,Johnson DR,Decker PA,Kollmeyer TM,McCoy LS,Rice T,Xiao Y,Ali-Osman F,Wang F,Stoddard SM,Sprau DJ,Kosel ML,Wiencke JK,Wiemels JL,Patoka JS,Davis F,McCarthy B,Rynearson AL,Worra JB,Fridley BL,O'

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Danish control program for enzootic bovine leukosis, three hematologic screenings of all cattle herds in Denmark were performed in the period 1969-1978. Herds with multiple cases of persistent lymphocytosis and/or leukotic tumors were classified as "leukosis herds." During nationwide blood testing, 369 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gottschau A,Willeberg P,Franti CE,Flensburg JC

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this prospective cohort study were to determine rates of premenopausal and early postmenopausal bone loss, age at onset of bone loss, and whether rates of bone loss depend on baseline bone mineral density (BMD). The cohort of 614 women aged 24-44 years at baseline from the longitudinal Michigan Bone Health...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bainbridge KE,Sowers MF,Crutchfield M,Lin X,Jannausch M,Harlow SD

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations among certain allergic disorders, atopy upon skin-prick testing, and specific cancers were evaluated in a prospective study. Information regarding history of asthma and hay fever was collected by questionnaire from 3,308 cancer-free participants in the 1981 Busselton Health Survey. A subset of 1,005 p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Talbot-Smith A,Fritschi L,Divitini ML,Mallon DF,Knuiman MW

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is accumulating evidence suggesting that children may drive the spread of influenza epidemics. The objective of this study was to quantify the lead time by age using laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A for the 1995/1996-2005/2006 seasons from Canadian communities and laboratory-confirmed hospital admission...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schanzer D,Vachon J,Pelletier L

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Alcohol drinking has been extensively studied in relation to prostate cancer, yet findings on the direction of the association are equivocal. Previous studies have not examined drinking patterns. Thus, the authors prospectively evaluated the associations between these factors and risk of incident prostate cancer (n = ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Platz EA,Leitzmann MF,Rimm EB,Willett WC,Giovannucci E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study of bladder cancer was conducted in a population of California Seventh-day Adventists. Most Seventh-day Adventists use neither tobacco nor alcohol yet experience a large degree of variation in dietary habits. Therefore, diet and other lifestyle habits were evaluated in this unique population. In 1976, 34...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mills PK,Beeson WL,Phillips RL,Fraser GE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized field trial was conducted in Tecumseh, Michigan, to test the efficacy of virucidal nasal tissues in interrupting transmission of respiratory agents in the household. In the double-blinded trial, 296 households were stratified by household size and randomly assigned to the group using treated tissues and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Longini IM Jr,Monto AS

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983/1984, a study of bone mass and fractures was begun in 827 women aged 20-80 years in three rural Iowa communities selected for the fluoride and calcium content of their community water supplies. The control community's water had a calcium content of 67 mg/liter and a fluoride content of 1 mg/liter. The higher-c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sowers MF,Clark MK,Jannausch ML,Wallace RB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors aimed to quantify the effects of current systolic blood pressure (SBP) and serum total cholesterol on the risk of mortality in comparison with SBP or serum cholesterol 25 years previously, taking measurement error into account. The authors reanalyzed 35-year follow-up data on mortality due to coronary hear...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boshuizen HC,Lanti M,Menotti A,Moschandreas J,Tolonen H,Nissinen A,Nedeljkovic S,Kafatos A,Kromhout D

更新日期：2007-02-15 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：:The authors previously reported statistically significant inverse associations between adult onset glioma and histories of chickenpox and shingles among 462 cases and 443 controls in the San Francisco Bay Area Adult Glioma Study (1991--1995) and a suggestive but nonsignificant inverse association with immunoglobulin G...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wrensch M,Weinberg A,Wiencke J,Miike R,Barger G,Kelsey K

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mumps is a potentially severe viral infection. The incidence of mumps has declined dramatically in high-income countries since the introduction of mumps antigen-containing vaccines. However, recent large outbreaks of mumps in highly vaccinated populations suggest waning of vaccine-induced immunity and primary vaccine ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Abrams S,Beutels P,Hens N

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal concentrations of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1 (IGFBP-1) may influence fetal growth. Offspring birth weight related to maternal IGF-I and IGFBP-1 measured in pregnancy was studied in 368 randomly selected women without preeclampsia who delivered a singl...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Åsvold BO,Eskild A,Jenum PA,Vatten LJ

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy alcohol drinking is associated with cognitive impairment, but little is known concerning the cognitive effect of moderate alcohol consumption. The Epidemiology of Vascular Aging (EVA) Study is a longitudinal study of cognitive and vascular aging. Between June 1991 and June 1993, 1,389 subjects aged 59-71 years (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dufouil C,Ducimetière P,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal arteriolar narrowing is a marker of microvascular damage from elevated blood pressure. Between August 2004 and June 2006, the authors examined the association between retinal vascular diameter and chronic kidney disease in a population-based cohort of 3,280 community-dwelling adults of Malay ethnicity aged 40-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sabanayagam C,Shankar A,Koh D,Chia KS,Saw SM,Lim SC,Tai ES,Wong TY

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of the US population has received the smallpox vaccine, but it is unknown what fraction is still protected against infection and disease. Residual protection and age-dependent case-fatality ratios have therefore been widely neglected in the current bioterrorism debate. The author analyzed 1902-1903 data...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eichner M

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in sexual behavior associated with incident infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 are described and a case-control study was conducted to examine risk factors for HIV seroconversion in homosexual men who became infected with HIV between 1982 and 1994 from four geographic sites: Amsterdam, the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Page-Shafer K,Veugelers PJ,Moss AR,Strathdee S,Kaldor JM,van Griensven GJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00