Coronary artery calcification in Japanese men in Japan and Hawaii.

abstract：:A case-control study of women with cervical abnormalities identified through Pap smears, was conducted in the Bronx, New York, to explore the relationship between nutritional intake and cervical dysplasia. Nutrient intake was estimated from computer analysis of three-day food records and 24-hour recall for 169 study p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wassertheil-Smoller S,Romney SL,Wylie-Rosett J,Slagle S,Miller G,Lucido D,Duttagupta C,Palan PR

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the role of food insecurity in the etiology of children's cognitive and mental health problems. Data from a prospective longitudinal study of 1,116 United Kingdom families with twins (sample constructed in 1999-2000) were used to test associations among household food insecurity; income; maternal ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Belsky DW,Moffitt TE,Arseneault L,Melchior M,Caspi A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa is a critical public health problem. We assessed whether depressive symptoms in AGYW were longitudinally associated with incident HIV, and identified potential social and behavioral mediators. Data came ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Goin DE,Pearson RM,Craske MG,Stein A,Pettifor A,Lippman SA,Kahn K,Neilands TB,Hamilton EL,Selin A,MacPhail C,Wagner RG,Gomez-Olive FX,Twine R,Hughes JP,Agyei Y,Laeyendecker O,Tollman S,Ahern J

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of reproductive factors to risk of myocardial infarction in women aged 45-69 years was examined in a case-control interview study carried out in Massachusetts from 1986 to 1990. Each of 858 cases of first myocardial infarction was age-matched with a control from the same precinct of residence. Conditional...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Palmer JR,Rosenberg L,Shapiro S

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the historical background and the theoretical development of models for the analysis of data from capture-recapture or multiple-record systems for estimating the size of closed populations. The models and methods were originally developed for use in fisheries and wildlife biology and were later adap...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors：

更新日期：1995-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneous exposure associations (HEAs) can be defined as differences in the association of an exposure with an outcome among subgroups that differ by a set of characteristics. In this article, we intend to foster discussion of HEAs in the epidemiologic literature and present a variant of the random forest algorith...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Odden MC,Rawlings AM,Khodadadi A,Fern X,Shlipak MG,Bibbins-Domingo K,Covinsky K,Kanaya AM,Lee A,Haan MN,Newman AB,Psaty BM,Peralta CA

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe an approach to the analysis of case-control studies in which the exposure variables are continuous, i.e., quantitative variables, and one wishes neither to categorize levels of the exposure variable nor to assume a log-linear relation between level of exposure and disease risk. A dose-response ass...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhao LP,Kristal AR,White E

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA oxidative stress has been suggested as an important pathogenic mechanism in cognitive impairment and dementia. With baseline data collected from 2004 to 2008, the authors examined whether urinary 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), a biomarker of global DNA oxidation, was associated with cognitive function in a s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gao X,Lai CQ,Scott T,Shen J,Cai T,Ordovas JM,Tucker KL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of respiratory tract illnesses (RTI) in adult humans during October and November 1975 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, were investigated by viral isolation and serologic procedures. The recovery of viral agents was enhanced by use of cell cultures in the field. Recoveries of parainfluenzaviruses types 1 and 3...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Parkinson AJ,Muchmore HG,Scott LV,Kalmakoff J,Miles JA

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:A propensity score (PS) model's ability to control confounding can be assessed by evaluating covariate balance across exposure groups after PS adjustment. The optimal strategy for evaluating a disease risk score (DRS) model's ability to control confounding is less clear. DRS models cannot be evaluated through balance ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wyss R,Hansen BB,Ellis AR,Gagne JJ,Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Stürmer T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study, a case-control study of congenital heart defects in liveborn infants conducted in 1981--1989, interviewed parents about a wide range of environmental exposures that occurred during and before the pregnancy. In the period 1987--1989, the questionnaire was expanded to include a det...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Loffredo CA,Silbergeld EK,Ferencz C,Zhang J

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibling and twin study designs provide control for confounding factors that are typically unmeasured in traditional cohort studies. Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health collected at 3 visits during 1994-2002, the authors evaluated the longitudinal association b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： The NS,Adair LS,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare estimates from two quasi-induced exposure methods of the effects of driver- and vehicle-related conditions on the risk of causing a road crash for drivers of vehicles with four or more wheels. From the Spanish register of road crashes with victims, the authors selected, for 1993-2002...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lardelli-Claret P,Jiménez-Moleón JJ,Luna-del-Castillo Jde D,García-Martín M,Moreno-Abril O,Bueno-Cavanillas A

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many smokers believe that electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and pharmaceutical cessation aids can help them quit smoking or reduce cigarette consumption, but the evidence for e-cigarettes to aid quitting is limited. Examining 3,093 quit attempters in the nationally representative US Population Assessment of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Benmarhnia T,Pierce JP,Leas E,White MM,Strong DR,Noble ML,Trinidad DR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-estimation is a flexible, semiparametric approach for estimating exposure effects in epidemiologic studies. It has several underappreciated advantages over other propensity score-based methods popular in epidemiology, which we review in this article. However, it is rarely used in practice, due to a lack of off-the-s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dukes O,Vansteelandt S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Sibling aggregation of blood pressure has been shown in children 2 to 14 years of age. To determine the earliest age at which this finding is detectable, blood pressures were evaluated in 98 siblings from 43 black families with newborns. Variances of blood pressure scores were significantly greater among families than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ,Klein BE,Gourley JE,Blumenthal S

更新日期：1976-05-01 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：:Although there is some evidence of an association between loss of a sibling in adulthood and subsequent mortality, there have been no previous studies in which investigators have examined whether the death of a sibling in childhood is associated with adult mortality using total population data. Data on a national coho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rostila M,Berg L,Saarela J,Kawachi I,Hjern A

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This population-based case-referent study investigated the lung cancer risk associated with occupational exposure to asbestos, focusing on dose-response relations and the interaction with tobacco smoking. Incident cases of lung cancer among males aged 40-75 years in Stockholm County, Sweden, were identified from 1985 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gustavsson P,Nyberg F,Pershagen G,Schéele P,Jakobsson R,Plato N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 1973-2000 mesothelioma incidence data released by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program in April 2003, the authors estimated the parameters of a birth-cohort and age model to determine whether previously reported patterns of mesothelioma in the United States have changed. Compared with analyses...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Price B,Ware A

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a detailed review of studies on the association between prostate cancer and total dietary fat along with specific fatty acids. Overall, the 29 studies reporting actual dietary fat levels in grams of fat were heterogeneous, suggesting that pooling of the relative risks may be inappropriate. Hetero...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dennis LK,Snetselaar LG,Smith BJ,Stewart RE,Robbins ME

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feline leukemia virus (FeLV)-associated diseases were observed in a household in eastern Connecticut having 134 cats over a period of five and a half years. FeLV-positive cats had a much higher mortality rate (34.6 deaths per 1000 cat-months of follow-up) than did FeLV-negative cats (8.9 deaths per 1000 cat-months of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Francis DP,Essex M,Jakowski RM,Cotter SM,Lerer TJ,Hardy WD Jr

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few published examples of absolute risk estimated from epidemiologic data subject to censoring and competing risks with adjustment for multiple confounders. We present an example estimating the effect of injection drug use on 6-year risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) after initiation of combin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Lau B,Eron JJ,Brookhart MA,Kitahata MM,Martin JN,Mathews WC,Mugavero MJ,CNICS Research Network.

更新日期：2015-02-15 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：:Three diverse samples of men and women aged 35-64 years living in urban Poland, rural Poland, and the United States, are described and subsequently analyzed by multiple regression methods. Total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and the natural logarith...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sznajd J,Rywik S,Furberg B,Pajak A,Kurjata P,Williams OD,Sznajderman-Ciswicka M,Misiowiec P,Irving SH,Baczynska E

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administrative health databases have been used to monitor trends in infective endocarditis hospitalization related to non-prescription injection drug use (IDU) using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code algorithms. Because no ICD code for IDU exists, drug dependence and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) have been...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McGrew KM,Garwe T,Jafarzadeh SR,Drevets DA,Zhao YD,Williams MB,Carabin H

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have determined risk factors for diarrheal deaths in developing areas. The Ministry of Health of Lesotho, southern Africa, reported that 9.5% of children under five years of age who were hospitalized for diarrhea in 1984 died. Of 104 children under five years of age who died during hospitalization for diar...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Griffin PM,Ryan CA,Nyaphisi M,Hargrett-Bean N,Waldman RJ,Blake PA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00