Serum selenium and peripheral arterial disease: results from the national health and nutrition examination survey, 2003-2004.

abstract：:Although the results of cohort studies on the association between alcohol and breast cancer are rather consistent, the current evidence is based solely on North American cohorts. Therefore, this association was evaluated in the Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer, conducted since 1986 among 62,573 women aged 5...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van 't Veer P

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A repeatability study of dietary intake has been carried out using 94 control subjects from a previously reported case-control study of diet and colorectal cancer. Dietary histories readministered on average seven years after an initial interview were used to estimate intake of various macro- and microdietary componen...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jain M,Howe GR,Harrison L,Miller AB

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：: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：:Many nonrandomized interventions rely upon a pre-post design to evaluate effectiveness. Such designs cannot account for events external to the intervention that may produce the outcome. We describe a method to construct a surveillance registry-based comparison group, which allows for estimating the effectiveness of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Robertson MM,Waldron L,Robbins RS,Chamberlin S,Penrose K,Levin B,Kulkarni S,Braunstein SL,Irvine MK,Nash D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations between metabolic syndrome components and prevalent ischemic heart disease (IHD) were investigated in a cross-sectional, community-based study of elderly men (n = 1,015) and women (n = 1,259) in Rancho Bernardo, California, in 1984-1987. In both sexes, there were significant positive associations between ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lindblad U,Langer RD,Wingard DL,Thomas RG,Barrett-Connor EL

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether greater intakes of calcium, vitamin D, or milk products may protect against ischemic heart disease mortality, the authors analyzed data from a prospective cohort study of 34,486 postmenopausal Iowa women 55-69 years old and without a history of ischemic heart disease who completed a dietary ques...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bostick RM,Kushi LH,Wu Y,Meyer KA,Sellers TA,Folsom AR

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Women with higher parity have a lower risk of ovarian cancer possibly because of pregnancy hormones, but the specific effect of different pregnancy hormones on ovarian cancer risk is not clear. Some clarification might be gained by considering situations where hormone levels vary between pregnancies. Study participant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jordan SJ,Green AC,Nagle CM,Olsen CM,Whiteman DC,Webb PM,Australian Cancer Study (Ovarian Cancer) Group.,Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group.

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 3,916 Swedish copper smelter workers employed for at least 3 months between 1928 and 1967 was followed up through 1981. Arsenic exposure was estimated for different time periods at each workplace within the smelter. Detailed job records were linked to the exposure matrix, thus forming individual cumulative...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Järup L,Pershagen G

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that physical inactivity is an important determinant of numerous chronic diseases. However, self-reported estimates of physical activity contain measurement errors responsible for attenuating relative risk estimates. A validation study conducted in 2002-2003 at the Alberta Cance...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ferrari P,Friedenreich C,Matthews CE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A national serosurvey was conducted in Mexico from March to October 1986 to identify predictors of dengue transmission and target areas at high risk of severe annual epidemics. A total of 3,408 households in 70 localities with populations less than 50,000 were randomly sampled, and serology was obtained from one subje...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koopman JS,Prevots DR,Vaca Marin MA,Gomez Dantes H,Zarate Aquino ML,Longini IM Jr,Sepulveda Amor J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study of cancer and occupation was carried out in Montréal, Canada. Between 1979 and 1986, 449 pathologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer were interviewed, as well as 1,550 cancer controls and 533 population controls. Job histories were evaluated by a team of chemist/hygienists u...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aronson KJ,Siemiatycki J,Dewar R,Gérin M

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality among veterans has been studied in relation to military rank at separation in a series of 85,491 men discharged from the US Army in 1946 and traced through 1969. It was found that although the mortality of privates was very close to expectation based on population rates, non-commissioned officers had a 23% a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seltzer CC,Jablon S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether genetic and familial factors influence the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is unknown. Two cohorts were formed based on data from 1,212,295 men aged 18 years who were conscripted for military service in Sweden during 1972-1996. The first comprised 4,260 twin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ballin M,Nordström A,Nordström P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second malignancies in women diagnosed with thyroid cancer are of concern given the young average age at diagnosis and excellent survival. Data from the California Cancer Registry were used to evaluate the risk of second primary cancers among a retrospective population-based cohort of 10,932 women diagnosed with papil...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Canchola AJ,Horn-Ross PL,Purdie DM

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent a single measure, self-rated health (SRH), independently predicts long-term hospitalizations due to all causes and to cardiovascular diseases by using both the standard Cox proportional hazards model and a more robust events model. The study cohort consisted of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kennedy BS,Kasl SV,Vaccarino V

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations of retinol and beta-carotene plasma concentrations with eight personal variables and the use of seven classes of cardiovascular drugs were studied in over 1,750 patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer enrolled at four American study centers in a cancer prevention clinical trial. Dietary carotene and fem...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nierenberg DW,Stukel TA,Baron JA,Dain BJ,Greenberg ER

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B12 (hereafter referred to as B12) deficiency in pregnancy is prevalent and has been associated with both lower birth weight (birth weight <2,500 g) and preterm birth (length of gestation <37 weeks). Nevertheless, current evidence is contradictory. We performed a systematic review and a meta-analysis of indivi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rogne T,Tielemans MJ,Chong MF,Yajnik CS,Krishnaveni GV,Poston L,Jaddoe VW,Steegers EA,Joshi S,Chong YS,Godfrey KM,Yap F,Yahyaoui R,Thomas T,Hay G,Hogeveen M,Demir A,Saravanan P,Skovlund E,Martinussen MP,Jacobsen G

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated timing and trajectories of fetal growth in relation to childhood development in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-Scandinavian Study of Successive Small-for-Gestational Age Births (1986-1988) (n = 1,059). Fetal size was assessed by ultrasound at 17, 25, and 33 gestat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： von Ehrenstein OS,Mikolajczyk RT,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:The authors conducted blood pressure screening on the Navajo Indian reservation in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. Six hundred forty Navajos over 19 years of age were surveyed at various sites. The mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures in Navajo men and women did not show as great increases wit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： DeStefano F,Coulehan JL,Wiant MK

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the authors use the rubric of "coarsened data," of which missing and censored data are special cases, to motivate the elicitation and use of expert information for performing sensitivity analyses of censored event-time data. Elicited information is important because observed data are insufficient to est...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shardell M,Scharfstein DO,Vlahov D,Galai N

更新日期：2008-12-15 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：:Vitamin C has been the focus of epidemiologic investigation in preterm delivery (<37 weeks' gestation), which is a leading cause of neonatal mortality and birth-related morbidity. There are two sodium-dependent membrane transporters encoded by SLC23A1 and SLC23A2, which have key roles in human vitamin C metabolism and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Erichsen HC,Engel SA,Eck PK,Welch R,Yeager M,Levine M,Siega-Riz AM,Olshan AF,Chanock SJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between cigarette smoking history and later cognitive performance were examined among 3,429 Japanese-American participants of the Honolulu Heart Program (HHP) and its extension, the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study (HAAS). Cognitive performance was measured by the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CA...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Galanis DJ,Petrovitch H,Launer LJ,Harris TB,Foley DJ,White LR

更新日期：1997-03-15 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：:What is the influence of various methods of handling missing data (complete case analyses, single imputation within and over trials, and multiple imputations within and over trials) on the subgroup effects of individual patient data meta-analyses? An empirical data set was used to compare these five methods regarding ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koopman L,van der Heijden GJ,Grobbee DE,Rovers MM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among men of Japanese ancestry, there is a gradient in the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is lowest in Japan, intermediate in Hawaii, and highest in California. This gradient appears not to be completely explained by differences in dietary intake, serum cholesterol, blood pressure or smoking. To test t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marmot MG,Syme SL

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of maternal risk factors in the development of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy was studied in a historical cohort of 825 women who gave birth at the University of California (Los Angeles) Medical Center during a one-year period (April 1983-March 1984). The roles of demographic factors, reproductive history, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weigel MM,Weigel RM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an epidemiologic study of 2982 bladder carcinoma patients and 5782 population controls from 10 geographic areas of the United States, the role of urinary tract infection and inflammation in the etiology of this neoplasm was evaluated. A history of urinary tract infection significantly elevated the risk of bladder c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kantor AF,Hartge P,Hoover RN,Narayana AS,Sullivan JW,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00