Hepatitis Ain Greenland: importance of specific antibody testing in epidemiologic surveillance.

abstract：:The Baltimore Eye Survey was a population-based survey conducted from January 1985 to November 1988 among residents of east Baltimore, Maryland, who were 40 years of age or older. A total of 5,308 black subjects and white subjects received a comprehensive screening examination for glaucoma including tonometry, visual ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tielsch JM,Katz J,Singh K,Quigley HA,Gottsch JD,Javitt J,Sommer A

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As economic development increases, puberty occurs at younger ages, and this could contribute to an increase in the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and hormone-related cancers. The factors that determine pubertal timing are poorly understood. The growth axis that is active during puberty is active in the first 6 m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kwok MK,Leung GM,Lam TH,Schooling CM

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the interrelationships of cigarette smoking, relative weight, and the occurrence of natural menopause, the authors prospectively evaluated the experience of 66,663 female US registered nurses who were premenopausal in 1976. Over a two-year period, 5004 women became post-menopausal. Current smokers were more...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Willett W,Stampfer MJ,Bain C,Lipnick R,Speizer FE,Rosner B,Cramer D,Hennekens CH

更新日期：1983-06-01 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 numbers of international collaborations among birth cohort studies designed to better understand asthma and allergies have increased in the last several years. However, differences in definitions and methods preclude direct pooling of original data on individual participants. As part of the Mechanisms of the Devel...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Benet M,Albang R,Pinart M,Hohmann C,Tischer CG,Annesi-Maesano I,Baïz N,Bindslev-Jensen C,Lødrup Carlsen KC,Carlsen KH,Cirugeda L,Eller E,Fantini MP,Gehring U,Gerhard B,Gori D,Hallner E,Kull I,Lenzi J,McEachan R,Mi

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serologic survey in 1983-1984 evaluated the presence of hepatitis A antibody (anti-HAV) and hepatitis A immunoglobulin M antibody (anti-HAV IgM) in 3,251 adults and 811 children in the jungle and coastal areas of Peru. All subjects were asymptomatic. Adults had a 98% positive anti-HAV rate except for naval cadets, w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kilpatrick ME,Escamilla J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to characterize the relationship between smoking and miscarriage. We searched the PubMed database (1956-August 31, 2011) using keywords and conducted manual reference searches of included articles and reports of the US Surgeon General. The full text of 1,706 articles ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pineles BL,Park E,Samet JM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic information encoded in covalent modifications of DNA and histone proteins regulates fundamental biological processes through the action of chromatin regulators, transcription factors, and noncoding RNA species. Epigenetic plasticity enables an organism to respond to developmental and environmental signals w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yan H,Tian S,Slager SL,Sun Z,Ordog T

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the period August 10-29, 1986, 29 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease occurred in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; two cases were fatal. No common source of indoor exposure was identified. Water specimens were obtained from all known cooling tower units in Sheboygan; Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was isolated at 1 x...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Addiss DG,Davis JP,LaVenture M,Wand PJ,Hutchinson MA,McKinney RM

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:The authors examined the relation between recreational physical activity and plasma lipid concentrations in early pregnancy. Between 1996 and 2000, 925 normotensive, nondiabetic pregnant women in Washington State were interviewed at approximately 13 weeks' gestation regarding type, frequency, and duration of physical ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Butler CL,Williams MA,Sorensen TK,Frederick IO,Leisenring WM

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the validity of self-reported delivery weight among 3,518 respondents to the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Self-reported delivery weight was ascertained from a mail survey administered during the postpartum period. Measured delivery weight was obtained by abstraction of medical r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schieve LA,Perry GS,Cogswell ME,Scanion KS,Rosenberg D,Carmichael S,Ferre C

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cigarette smoking and risk of cervical neoplasia was evaluated in a case-control study of 183 women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia compared with 183 age-matched outpatient controls, and of 230 cases of invasive cervical cancer compared with 230 controls in hospital for acute condition...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： La Vecchia C,Franceschi S,Decarli A,Fasoli M,Gentile A,Tognoni G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between toenail selenium and breast cancer was studied in a prospective study on diet and cancer among 62,573 Dutch women aged 55-69 years that started in September 1986. The analysis was based on 355 breast cancer cases, detected during 3.3 years of follow-up (1986-1989), for whom selenium data were a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van't Veer P,Bode P,Dorant E,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When waist circumference is taken into account, larger hip circumference is associated with reduced risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The authors investigated the prospective association of hip circumference with type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence in a biracial cohort of men...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Parker ED,Pereira MA,Stevens J,Folsom AR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambient air pollution and temperature have been linked with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Metabolic syndrome and its components-abdominal obesity, elevated fasting blood glucose concentration, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia-predict cardiovascula...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wallwork RS,Colicino E,Zhong J,Kloog I,Coull BA,Vokonas P,Schwartz JD,Baccarelli AA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand whether neighborhood contexts contribute to the onset or maintenance of mental health problems independently of individual characteristics requires the use of multilevel study designs and analytical strategies. This study used a multilevel analytical framework to examine the relation between neighborhood...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kubzansky LD,Subramanian SV,Kawachi I,Fay ME,Soobader MJ,Berkman LF

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of socioeconomic status have been shown to be related positively to levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in white men and women and negatively in African American men. However, there is little information regarding the association between educational attainment and HDL fractions or apolipoprot...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Metcalf PA,Sharrett AR,Folsom AR,Duncan BB,Patsch W,Hutchinson RG,Szklo M,Davis CE,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal genetic variation may serve as a biomarker in studies aimed at clarifying fetal determinants of infant or adult disease. The log-linear approach to case-parent triad data (LCPT) can be used to investigate maternal genetic polymorphisms in relation to offspring disease risk, but LCPT operating characteristics ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Starr JR,Hsu L,Schwartz SM

更新日期：2005-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that a low educational level increases the risk for Alzheimer's disease remains controversial. The authors studied the association of years of schooling with the risk for incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease by using pooled data from four European population-based follow-up studies. Dementia cases ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Letenneur L,Launer LJ,Andersen K,Dewey ME,Ott A,Copeland JR,Dartigues JF,Kragh-Sorensen P,Baldereschi M,Brayne C,Lobo A,Martinez-Lage JM,Stijnen T,Hofman A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Largely on the basis of results from meta-analyses of observational studies, postmenopausal estrogen was widely prescribed to prevent coronary heart disease. However, epidemiologic studies, no matter how consistent and coherent, are not sufficient to recommend mass preventive therapy to healthy women. In fact, all thr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1979, an outbreak of mixed enterovirus infections occurred in Kansas City and adjacent communities. Sixty-six enteroviruses and 7 adenoviruses were recovered from 73 persons in a survey hospital population. Twenty-eight persons yielded echovirus type 11, 22, echovirus type 6, and 16 either echovirus type 9 or C...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wenner HA,Abel D,Olson LC,Burry VF

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the distributions of uncorrected visual acuity and of refractive error in representative groups of Australian Aborigines and Australians of European origin aged 20-30 years. The methodology used in this study and its verification are described in detail. As a group, the Aborigines have significan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Taylor HR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and mortality may be confounded by preexisting illness. A method commonly used to control for this confounding is the exclusion of participants who have certain diseases at baseline and/or those who die during the early years of follow-up. The authors...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stevens J,Juhaeri,Cai J

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the association between cognitive function and incidence and maintenance of overweight in preschool children. A population-based birth cohort was established in Menorca, Spain, between 1997 and 1999 (n = 482). Body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) was measured at ages 4 years and 6 years (n ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guxens M,Mendez MA,Julvez J,Plana E,Forns J,Basagaña X,Torrent M,Sunyer J

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although past studies have shown that oral contraceptives with 50 microg or more of estrogen reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, it is not clear whether newer, lower-dose formulations do as well. We conducted a population-based, case-control study in the Delaware Valley to assess the impact of dose of oral contraceptio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ness RB,Grisso JA,Klapper J,Schlesselman JJ,Silberzweig S,Vergona R,Morgan M,Wheeler JE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational longitudinal research is particularly useful for assessing etiology and prognosis and for providing evidence for clinical decision making. However, there are no structured reporting requirements for studies of this design to assist authors, editors, and readers. The authors developed and tested a checkli...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tooth L,Ware R,Bain C,Purdie DM,Dobson A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between cervix cancer and cigarette smoking was examined among 332 white cases and 1725 white controls. Cases were of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and smoked more than controls. After adjustment for both age and SES, no significant association was observed between cervix cancer and cigarette smokin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stellman SD,Austin H,Wynder EL

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 610 blood samples collected in September 1983 in an intervention trial in Huixian, Henan Province, People's Republic of China, which were individually analyzed for retinol, beta-carotene, and alpha-tocopherol levels, 10 pools were formed from 50 individual samples, and the vitamin levels in the merged pools were ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wahrendorf J,Hanck AB,Muñoz N,Vuilleumier JP,Walker AM

更新日期：1986-03-01 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