Epidemiology: a problem-solving journey.

abstract：:To assess the current state of hospitals' infection surveillance and control programs (ISCPs) nationwide and to provide a sampling frame for selecting hospitals for later phases of the SENIC Project, the authors mailed a screening questionnaire in March, 1976, to virtually all US hospitals; 86% of those in the SENIC t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Haley RW,Shachtman RH

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of predictors of adherence to mammography screening guidelines have been identified using traditional statistical methods, many women are not screening according to these guidelines. Recursive partitioning may aid in developing novel intervention strategies to promote this screening behavior by ident...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Calvocoressi L,Stolar M,Kasl SV,Claus EB,Jones BA

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite interest in the built food environment, little is known about the validity of commonly used secondary data. The authors conducted a comprehensive field census identifying the locations of all food outlets using a handheld global positioning system in 8 counties in South Carolina (2008-2009). Secondary data wer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liese AD,Colabianchi N,Lamichhane AP,Barnes TL,Hibbert JD,Porter DE,Nichols MD,Lawson AB

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated blood pressure in 1,183 Chinese nuclear families (mother, father, and first two children) via a cross-sectional 1994-1997 survey. The mother's, the father's, and the first sibling's blood pressures were each significantly and independently related to the second sibling's blood pressure after ad...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang X,Wang B,Chen C,Yang J,Fang Z,Zuckerman B,Xu X

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health status of 1025 urban senior citizens in a Montreal metropolitan area was determined by a questionnaire based on the subjects' view of physical, mental, and general well-being, and of dependence (indicators of Belloc et al., Berkman, Grogono and Woodgate, and Linn). A principal component analysis was made of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jenicek M,Cléroux R,Lamoureux M

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medication use is often underreported in paper-based questionnaires or interviews. Web-based questionnaires may improve recall of medication use, but data on their validity are currently lacking. Participants in the Pregnancy and Infant Development (PRIDE) Study (2014-2016; n = 557) and the Pregnancy Drug Registry (pR...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Gelder MMHJ,Vorstenbosch S,Te Winkel B,van Puijenbroek EP,Roeleveld N

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1950 and 1960 about 20,000 israeli children were treated for tinea capitis by x-ray therapy as part of a large public health campaign to eradicate the disease. Dosimetric studies determined that these children were subjected to a mean brain dose of 130 rads. Almost 20 years later, possible radiation effects on...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ron E,Modan B,Floro S,Harkedar I,Gurewitz R

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-series studies have linked daily variations in nonaccidental deaths with daily variations in ambient particulate matter air pollution, while controlling for qualitatively larger influences of weather and season. Although time-series analyses typically include nonlinear terms for weather and season, questions rema...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Welty LJ,Zeger SL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although data on the prevalence of injection drug use are an essential prerequisite for estimating the number of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there have been few attempts to utilize statistical methods of population estimation based on multiple data sources. Data on 3,670 cases (2,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frischer M,Leyland A,Cormack R,Goldberg DJ,Bloor M,Green ST,Taylor A,Covell R,McKeganey N,Platt S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the association between male occupational exposures and infertility. A retrospective case-control study was performed using data collected between 1991 and 1997 at nine US clinical sites as part of a previously conducted large multicenter trial. Cases were defined as infertil...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gracia CR,Sammel MD,Coutifaris C,Guzick DS,Barnhart KT

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium is a trace element associated with antioxidant activity and is considered to be a protective agent against free radicals through enhanced enzyme activity. Studies on selenium and cognitive function or Alzheimer's disease have yielded inconsistent results. A cross-sectional survey of 2,000 rural Chinese aged 6...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gao S,Jin Y,Hall KS,Liang C,Unverzagt FW,Ji R,Murrell JR,Cao J,Shen J,Ma F,Matesan J,Ying B,Cheng Y,Bian J,Li P,Hendrie HC

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between allergy and risk of cancer was evaluated in a cohort study of 34,198 Seventh-day Adventists in California. Information on prevalence of asthma, hay fever, and reactions to chemicals, medications, bee stings, and poison oak (or ivy) was obtained by questionnaire in 1976. The reported allergies must...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

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

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-eight cases with newly diagnosed carcinoma of the endometrium and 177 age-matched neighborhood controls were interviewed to test the hypothesis that exogenous estrogens lead to an increased risk of endometrial cancer. Forth-five per cent of the cases and 22% of the controls reported a history of estrogen use wh...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Spengler RF,Clarke EA,Woolever CA,Newman AM,Osborn RW

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) varies considerably and may be influenced by factors such as age, smoking, number of male partners per year, and CD4 T-lymphocyte count. The loss of CD4 lymphocytes is known to be the dominant factor...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Begtrup K,Melbye M,Biggar RJ,Goedert JJ,Knudsen K,Andersen PK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study involved direct observation of the differences in utilization of medical care by smokers, nonsmokers, and former smokers. A household interview survey conducted in 1970-1971 obtained detailed information about the smoking patterns of 2,582 adult members of the Northwest Kaiser Permanente health maintenance ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vogt TM,Schweitzer SO

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality studies have indicated that workers in agriculture and forestry may be at increased risk of leukemia. Findings are reported from a New Zealand Cancer Registry-based case-control study involving 546 male leukemia patients registered during 1979-1983 and aged 20 years or more at time of registration. Controls ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pearce NE,Sheppard RA,Howard JK,Fraser J,Lilley BM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although coronary heart disease (CHD) is currently the leading cause of death among American Indians, information on the prevalence of CHD and its association with known cardiovascular risk factors is limited. The Strong Heart Study was initiated in 1988 to quantify cardiovascular disease and its risk factors among th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howard BV,Lee ET,Cowan LD,Fabsitz RR,Howard WJ,Oopik AJ,Robbins DC,Savage PJ,Yeh JL,Welty TK

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in Alaskan Eskimos is characterized by greatly increased disease incidence at younger ages. This suggests that Eskimo infants have increased exposure to the disease. Exposure was studied in 1982-1983 in children less than age three years who lived in four Eskimo villages, as well ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hall DB,Lum MK,Knutson LR,Heyward WL,Ward JI

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is an important, avoidable factor associated with low birth weight. Maternal age is also associated with variations in birth weight. Using birth certificate data from all 347,650 singleton births for which maternal age and birth weight were recorded during 1984-1988 in Washington Sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fox SH,Koepsell TD,Daling JR

更新日期：1994-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The true number of industrial accidents followed by absence from work in the Netherlands in 1993 has been estimated by using a capture-recapture approach. A government safety register noted 29,685 cases reported by Dutch companies. The statutory organization that insures employees of the same companies against absence...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Charante AW,Mulder PG

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This report of the worldwide distribution of two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans was drawn from data on 628 clinical isolates and from data on 97 additional isolates from other laboratories. Tests showed that 100% of the cultures from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, and Ja...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kwon-Chung KJ,Bennett JE

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital statistics data on mortality from malignant melanoma from five countries are simultaneously fit by the method of cohort analysis. After the effects of geographic and temporal trends are removed, the proportion of deaths occurring in the younger age groups is found to be higher in females than in males. Relative ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Venzon DJ,Moolgavkar SH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a population-based case-control study to investigate whether clinically observed chickenpox, linked with a level of intensity for clinical expression, increases the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in childhood. The cases were MS patients whose disease onset occurred between 1994 and 2003, before ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mikaeloff Y,Caridade G,Suissa S,Tardieu M,KIDSEP Study Group.

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 1975 an ongoing outbreak of conjunctivitis occurred among Vietnamese refugees temporarily housed at a U.S. mainland camp. Twenty-two per cent of surveyed refugees gave a history of the disease and 10% were documented as having clinical conjunctivitis at the time of the survey. Fifty-six per cent o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zweighaft RM,Hierholzer JC,Bryan JA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prevalence of cysticercosis in a rural area where the disease is endemic, the authors studied the seroepidemiology of human and porcine cysticercosis in a Peruvian jungle community (Maceda, Peru) in 1988 using an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay. Of the 371 sampled inhabitants, 30...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Diaz F,Garcia HH,Gilman RH,Gonzales AE,Castro M,Tsang VC,Pilcher JB,Vasquez LE,Lescano M,Carcamo C

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecologic study design is routinely used by epidemiologists in spite of its limitations. It is presently unknown how well the challenges of the design are dealt with in epidemiologic research. The purpose of this bibliometric review was to critically evaluate the characteristics, statistical methods, and reporting ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dufault B,Klar N

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an association between stress and dementia. However, less is known about dementia among persons with varied stress responses and sex differences in these associations. We used this population-based cohort study to examine dementia among persons with a range of clinician-diagnosed stress disorders, as well as ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gradus JL,Horváth-Puhó E,Lash TL,Ehrenstein V,Tamang S,Adler NE,Milstein A,Glymour MM,Henderson VW,Sørensen HT

更新日期：2019-03-01 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