Invited commentary: variable selection versus shrinkage in the control of multiple confounders.

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：:Recently it has been suggested that the use of alcohol-containing mouthwashes may increase the risk of oropharyngeal cancer. Heavy alcohol intake and tobacco use are established causes of oropharyngeal cancer. Their use is associated with mouthwash use. In addition, alcohol and tobacco use both tend to be underreporte...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shapiro S,Castellana JV,Sprafka JM

更新日期：1996-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of the combined effects of nutritional factors with other putative disease determinants in log-linear or logistic models is methodologically complicated by the strong multicollinearity between nutritional factors, resulting in poor precision in estimating the parameters. Furthermore, the generally used mu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Corrao G,Ferrari PA,Galatola G

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood blood pressure (BP) is a strong predictor of later risk of cardiovascular disease. However, few studies have assessed dynamic BP trajectories throughout the early-life period. We investigated the relationship between early-life factors and systolic BP (SBP) from infancy to adolescence using linear spline mix...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aris IM,Rifas-Shiman SL,Li LJ,Belfort MB,Hivert MF,Oken E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beginning in 2002, New York City (NYC) implemented numerous policies and programs targeting cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Using death certificates, we analyzed trends in NYC-specific and US mortality rates from 1990 to 2011 for all causes, any CVD, atherosclerotic CVD (ACVD), coronary artery disease (CAD)...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ong P,Lovasi GS,Madsen A,Van Wye G,Demmer RT

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiologic study of prevalence of antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was simultaneously done in four populations: group I, nuns working as nurses or school teachers; group II, women admitted to a upper socioeconomic private hospital; group III, women admitted to a lower socioeconomic county hospital, and group...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davis LE,Stewart JA,Garvin S

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between age at first vaginal intercourse and a positive nucleic acid amplification test for sexually transmitted infection (STI). A nationally representative sample of 9,844 respondents aged 18-26 years was tested for chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in wave 3 (2001...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaestle CE,Halpern CT,Miller WC,Ford CA

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of melanoma in populations of African-European descent has rarely been reported. The authors studied melanoma in the French West Indies (Martinique), where black Caribbeans and whites represented 96% and 4% of the population, respectively. Among the 85 cases of melanoma collected from 1976 to 1995, bl...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Garsaud P,Boisseau-Garsaud AM,Ossondo M,Azaloux H,Escarmant P,Mab GL,Zimmermann S,Saint-Cyr A,Quist D,Hélénon R,Jouannelle A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A battalion of United States Marines traveling to South Korea in the spring of 1976 was studied to determine the incidence and etiology of gastroenteritis. During the three weeks they visited South Korea, 21% of 694 marines developed diarrhea. Stool and serum specimens collected before, during, and after their stay we...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Echeverria P,Hodge FA,Blacklow NR,Vollet JL,Cukor G,DuPont HL,Cross JH

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual-level health behaviors and outcomes have multi-level determinants (individual and environmental). Multi-level analysis seeks to explain individual outcomes in terms of both individual and environmental or aggregate variables. Ecologic fallacy (improper inference about individual-level associations based on ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Von Korff M,Koepsell T,Curry S,Diehr P

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In systematic studies of the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis, DNA fingerprinting is used to estimate the fraction of incident cases attributable to recent transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis rather than reactivation disease and to identify risk factors for recent transmission. This approach is based on t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Murray M,Alland D

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking has been posited as a possible risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but large population-based studies of patients with incident disease are still needed. The authors performed a population-based case-control study in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009, including 494 patients with incident A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Jong SW,Huisman MH,Sutedja NA,van der Kooi AJ,de Visser M,Schelhaas HJ,Fischer K,Veldink JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past studies of the relation between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and type 2 diabetes conflict. The authors aimed to elucidate the relation by using a large community-based sample with a wide range of liver conditions. Between October 1997 and February 1998, 2,327 consecutive subjects (aged > or =35 years) were e...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang CS,Wang ST,Yao WJ,Chang TT,Chou P

更新日期：2003-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the association between asthma prevalence and socioeconomic status at both the individual and center levels simultaneously.by using data from 32 centers in 15 countries. Included were 10,971 subjects aged 20-44 years selected from the general population and interviewed in 1991-1992. Socioeconomic ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Basagaña X,Sunyer J,Kogevinas M,Zock JP,Duran-Tauleria E,Jarvis D,Burney P,Anto JM,European Community Respiratory Health Survey.

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of most case-control studies have suggested a positive association between eating frequency and colorectal cancer risk. Because no prospective cohort studies have done so to date, the authors prospectively examined this association. In 1992, eating frequency was assessed in a cohort of 34,968 US men in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mekary RA,Hu FB,Willett WC,Chiuve S,Wu K,Fuchs C,Fung TT,Giovannucci E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infections occurring in the first 2 years of life and development of eczema was investigated in 1,782 control children from a national population-based case-control study in the United Kingdom conducted over the period 1991-1996. Dates of eczema and infectious diagnoses were ascertained from co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hughes AM,Crouch S,Lightfoot T,Ansell P,Simpson J,Roman E

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three measures of spatial clustering (Moran's I, Geary's c, and a rank adjacency statistic, D) were evaluated for their power to detect regional patterns in health data. The patterns represented various environmental effects: a latitude gradient; residence near a contaminated water supply; disease "hot spots"; relatio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Walter SD

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have provided evidence of an inverse association between atopic allergic conditions (AACs) and invasive colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in predominantly white populations. We examined the association between AACs (asthma, hay fever, or allergy) and CRC among white, African-American, Native Hawa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tambe NA,Wilkens LR,Wan P,Stram DO,Gilliland F,Park SL,Cozen W,Martínez-Maza O,Le Marchand L,Henderson BE,Haiman CA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence of esophageal cancer have not been thoroughly characterized with quantitative health-disparity measures. Using data from 1992-2013 from 13 US cancer registries in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database, we assessed such disparities according to histologi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Xie SH,Rabbani S,Petrick JL,Cook MB,Lagergren J

更新日期：2017-12-15 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 association between cervical carcinoma and vaginal douching was examined in a population-based case-control study conducted in the low-risk population of Utah between 1984 and 1987. The authors compared 266 cases of in situ and invasive cervical carcinoma with 408 group-matched controls by vaginal douching behavio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gardner JW,Schuman KL,Slattery ML,Sanborn JS,Abbott TM,Overall JC Jr

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied temporal change in the reproducibility of a self-administered food frequency questionnaire. During 1988-1994, 492 residents of a rural Japanese town completed five questionnaires including 27 food items, with intervals ranging from 2 weeks through 5.5 years. The reproducibility decreased steadily o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tsubono Y,Nishino Y,Fukao A,Hisamichi S,Tsugane S

更新日期：1995-12-01 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

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 purpose of this analysis was to characterize the natural history of weight change in the years prior to death among older persons and to examine how this pattern varies according to longevity and cause of death. Weight trajectories were analyzed by using data from 800 male decedents from the Baltimore Longitudinal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Alley DE,Metter EJ,Griswold ME,Harris TB,Simonsick EM,Longo DL,Ferrucci L

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a prospective study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in middle-aged Chinese men in Taiwan, 1820 Chinese males, aged 40--59 years, from the middle and upper socioeconomic classes, were characterized at study entry by a history and physical examination with particular reference to cardiovascular status and by ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weaver CA,Ko YH,Alexander ER,Pao YL,Ting N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high prevalence of diabetes mellitus, little is known about mortality associated with diabetes in Asia. Therefore, the authors followed 3,492 Chinese, Malay, and Asian Indian adults randomly selected from the general population in Singapore. Data on glucose tolerance, demographic characteristics, and other...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ma S,Cutter J,Tan CE,Chew SK,Tai ES

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal studies aimed at assessing the impact of interventions on disease risk factors often confront several statistical problems. These problems include 1) dependent variables measured by ordered categories, 2) numerous potentially relevant patterns of transition between outcome levels, 3) mixed units of analys...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dwyer JH,MacKinnon DP,Pentz MA,Flay BR,Hansen WB,Wang EY,Johnson CA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follicular lymphoma (FL) risk is strongly associated with germline genetic variation in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II. Cigarette smoking has been suggested to increase FL risk, primarily among women. We hypothesized that amino acids in HLA-antigen D-related β1 subunit (DRB1) interact with smoking in FL risk, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Baecklund F,Foo JN,Askling J,Eloranta S,Glimelius I,Liu J,Hjalgrim H,Rosenquist R,Padyukov L,Smedby KE

更新日期：2017-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Work-related aircraft crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatality in Alaska, with civilian pilots having the highest fatality rate (410/100,000/year). To identify factors affecting survivability, the authors examined work-related aircraft crashes that occurred in Alaska in the 1990s (1990-1999), comparing c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bensyl DM,Moran K,Conway GA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00