Physical, psychological, and functional comorbidities of multisymptom illness in Australian male veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.

abstract：:Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is the leading identifiable predisposing factor for preterm birth. Although maternal exposure to air pollution can potentially have an impact on preterm PROM, there is no available evidence on such an impact. In this study, based on 5,555 singleton births occurring in Barc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dadvand P,Basagaña X,Figueras F,Martinez D,Beelen R,Cirach M,de Nazelle A,Hoek G,Ostro B,Nieuwenhuijsen MJ

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases for persons in occupations commonly involving exposure to diesel exhaust (DE). In this study, we investigated the association between occupational exposure to DE and odds of ALS. ALS cases were iden...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dickerson AS,Hansen J,Gredal O,Weisskopf MG

更新日期：2018-08-01 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 world's population is aging rapidly. This study reports the burden of cancer in the oldest old (≥85 years) in Finland in 1953-2017 and estimates age-specific cancer rates in the old population (65-99 years) in 1988-2017. The Finnish Cancer Registry provided data on all cancer diagnoses, cancer deaths and other dea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tanskanen T,Seppä KJM,Virtanen A,Malila NK,Pitkäniemi JM

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based, case-control study of laryngeal cancer was conducted in Shanghai, China, during 1988-1990, in which 201 incident cases (177 males, 24 females) and 414 controls (269 males, 145 females) were interviewed. Cigarette smoking was the major risk factor, accounting for 86% of the male and 54% of the femal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zheng W,Blot WJ,Shu XO,Gao YT,Ji BT,Ziegler RG,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the differences in cancer incidence between boys and girls. The incidence data for pediatric cancers were retrieved from the International Incidence of Childhood Cancer project (1990-2015). Poisson regression was applied to detect the sex differences in cancer incidence at global and regional levels. B...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Yang Q,Cai N,Jin L,Zhang T,Chen X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of various types of social contacts were used as predictors of ischemic heart disease events and total mortality in an age-stratified random sample of 9,573 adults enrolled in the Copenhagen City Heart Study (Copenhagen, Denmark). Baseline examinations were conducted in 1991-1994, and participants were follow...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barefoot JC,Grønbaek M,Jensen G,Schnohr P,Prescott E

更新日期：2005-05-15 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：:Little is known the about the reproductive health of offspring after fertility treatment. In 2001-2005, the authors approached young Danish men attending a compulsory physical examination to determine their fitness for military service. A total of 1,925 men volunteered, delivered a semen sample, had a physical examina...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jensen TK,Jørgensen N,Asklund C,Carlsen E,Holm M,Skakkebaek NE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of summertime haze episodes on daily variations in symptoms and peak expiratory flow rates (PEFRs) was examined in a study of 108 children living in State College, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1991. Twice daily, each child recorded symptoms, PEFRs and hours spent outdoors. Environmental measurements i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Neas LM,Dockery DW,Burge H,Koutrakis P,Speizer FE

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An episode is described in which tissue culture in a laboratory could have become intoxicated due to the recirculation of toxic exhaust fumes extruded from the roof of a research institution. A route of entry was found whereby a portion of fume hood exhaust was reintroduced into the building by means of large intake f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cohen D,Wanner RG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a significant problem within hospitals, leading to extended hospital stays, excess morbidity and mortality, and economic loss. Prevention and control strategies are generally "bundled"; therefore, the individual effects of particular strategies and the value of combined strategies cannot be determined dir...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blanco N,Eisenberg MC,Stillwell T,Foxman B

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there has been a rapid rise in the publication of meta-analyses of genetic association studies, little is known about their methodological quality. The authors reviewed the quality of 120 randomly selected genetic meta-analyses published between 2005 and 2007. Data extracted included issues of general relevan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Minelli C,Thompson JR,Abrams KR,Thakkinstian A,Attia J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery calcification (CAC) and common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) are measures of subclinical vascular disease. This 2000-2006 study aimed to characterize the associations among coronary artery disease risk factors, CAC quantity, and CIMT and to estimate shared genetic and environmental contr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rampersaud E,Bielak LF,Parsa A,Shen H,Post W,Ryan KA,Donnelly P,Rumberger JA,Sheedy PF 2nd,Peyser PA,Shuldiner AR,Mitchell BD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of parenteral and sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, we studied seronegative intravenous drug users recruited from 25 drug dependence treatment centers in northern Italy. All attending intravenous drug users were asked for their consent and screened for antibodies to human immuno...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nicolosi A,Leite ML,Musicco M,Molinari S,Lazzarin A

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:The association between standardized cancer mortality rate ratios from 1969-1978 and dietary practices was examined in an ecologic study of the 24 counties of Sweden by means of several independent data sources. The study supports the hypothesis that a high intake of cereal fiber protects against colorectal cancer (r ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosén M,Nyström L,Wall S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

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：:A case-control study in the Côte d'Or area of France used the multistep concept of colorectal carcinogenesis to compare lifetime tobacco consumption and present alcohol consumption in patients with small adenomas (less than 1 cm, n = 154) or large adenomas (n = 208) and in polyp-free controls (n = 427). Cancer patient...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boutron MC,Faivre J,Dop MC,Quipourt V,Senesse P

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a scientific discipline, epidemiology has helped liberate the practice of public health and medicine from dogmatic thinking over the past century. This commentary highlights some integrating principles to explain why epidemiology is a problem-solving discipline. The first of these is that epidemiology is an informa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Armenian HK

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estrogen replacement therapy on prognosis in women with established coronary disease remain uncertain. The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of 726 women (mean age, 66.2 years) who survived first myocardial infarction to hospital discharge from 1980 through 1991, while enrolled at Group Hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Newton KM,LaCroix AZ,McKnight B,Knopp RH,Siscovick DS,Heckbert SR,Weiss NS

更新日期：1997-02-01 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

abstract：:The relation of the interval of time between death and next-of-kin contact to outcome variables including response rates and data quality was examined in a nationally representative sample of 17,713 deaths of persons 25 years of age or older that occurred in the United States in 1986. For most of the outcome variables...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poe GS,McLaughlin JK,Powell-Griner E,Parsons CR,Robinson K

更新日期：1991-12-15 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：:In a case-control study, matching on a disease risk score (DRS), which includes many confounders, should theoretically result in greater precision than matching on only a few confounders; however, this has not been investigated. We simulated 1,000 hypothetical cohorts with a binary exposure, a time-to-event outcome, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Wang S,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are usually the preferred strategy with which to generate evidence of comparative effectiveness, but conducting an RCT is not always feasible. Though observational studies and RCTs often provide comparable estimates, the questioning of observational analyses has recently intensified b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Danaei G,Tavakkoli M,Hernán MA

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The preterm delivery rate in North Carolina is consistently higher than the national average. However, recent reports suggest that singleton preterm delivery rates for non-Hispanic Whites are increasing while those for non-Hispanic African Americans are decreasing. To study this pattern further, the authors examined d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vahratian A,Buekens P,Bennett TA,Meyer RE,Kogan MD,Yu SM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary evidence suggests that daytime sleepiness may predate clinical diagnosis of Parkinson disease. The authors examined daytime napping and nighttime sleeping durations, reported in 1996-1997 by 220,934 US NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study participants, in relation to Parkinson disease diagnoses at 3 clinical sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gao J,Huang X,Park Y,Hollenbeck A,Blair A,Schatzkin A,Chen H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Religion and spirituality are important social determinants that drive public health practice. The field of epidemiology has played a vital role in answering long-standing questions about whether religion is causally associated with health and mortality. As epidemiologists spark new conversations (e.g., see Kawachi (A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ransome Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based case-control study carried out in Adelaide, South Australia, during the years 1984-1987, the diets of 104 cases of cancer of the pancreas 1 year prior to diagnosis were compared with the diets of 253 community controls. A quantitative food-frequency questionnaire was used to assess usual dietary ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Baghurst PA,McMichael AJ,Slavotinek AH,Baghurst KI,Boyle P,Walker AM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00