Risk factors for mortality from all causes and from coronary heart disease among persons with diabetes. Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.

abstract：:Night-shift work involving disruption of circadian rhythms has been associated with breast cancer risk. A role in prostate cancer is also suspected, but evidence is limited. We investigated the association between night-shift work and prostate cancer incidence in the Prostate Cancer and Environment Study (PROtEuS), a ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barul C,Richard H,Parent ME

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body size may differentially influence risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) by anatomic location. The Netherlands Cohort Study includes 120,852 men and women aged 55-69 years who self-reported weight, height, and trouser/skirt size at baseline (1986), as well as weight at age 20 years. Derived variables included bo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hughes LA,Simons CC,van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van Engeland M,Weijenberg MP

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case-control study, the authors aimed to examine whether use of an electric bedding device increased breast cancer risk in African-American women. Cases were 304 African-American patients diagnosed with breast cancer during 1995-1998 who were aged 20-64 years and lived in one of three Tennessee counties. Contr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu K,Hunter S,Payne-Wilks K,Roland CL,Forbes DS

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we assessed the association of chronic medical conditions and multimorbidity with perceived stress among community-dwelling adults in 44 low- and middle-income countries. Data from the World Health Survey (2002-2004), including 229,293 adults, were analyzed. A perceived stress score (range, 0 (lowest st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vancampfort D,Koyanagi A,Ward PB,Veronese N,Carvalho AF,Solmi M,Mugisha J,Rosenbaum S,De Hert M,Stubbs B

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:According to antibody analysis, approximately two of every three intravenous drug users in Iceland have become infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). In this study, serum samples from 55 HCV antibody-positive intravenous drug users (39 males and 16 females) were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction, and the viral str...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Löve A,Sigurdsson JR,Stanzeit B,Briem H,Rikardsdottir H,Widell A

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether intakes of wine, beer, spirits, and total alcohol are associated with the risk of common cold, in 1998-1999 the authors analyzed data from a cohort study carried out in a population of 4,272 faculty and staff of five Spanish universities. Usual alcohol intake was assessed at baseline by means of a s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Takkouche B,Regueira-Méndez C,García-Closas R,Figueiras A,Gestal-Otero JJ,Hernán MA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is much more common in Asian countries than in Western countries. However, since the 1980s, nasopharyngeal carcinoma incidence has fallen among both men and women in Hong Kong, and recently a similar trend has also been noted in Singapore. Using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and En...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sun LM,Epplein M,Li CI,Vaughan TL,Weiss NS

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The extension of case-control methods to the study of common outcomes has led to the development of several design and analysis techniques which do not employ the rare-disease assumption. Unfortunately, the principles underlying valid application of these techniques are more subtle than those first considered by Cornf...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Greenland S,Thomas DC,Morgenstern H

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of subjects at high risk of developing dementia is essential. By dealing with censoring and competing risk of death, we developed a score for predicting 10-year dementia risk by combining cognitive tests, and we assessed whether inclusion of cognitive change over the previous year increased its discrim...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jacqmin-Gadda H,Blanche P,Chary E,Loubère L,Amieva H,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some reports indicate that exposure to specific polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners is related to breast cancer risk. The authors recruited participants in a case-control study from October 1994 to March 1997 to assess the relation between breast cancer risk and concentrations of 14 PCB congeners measured in plas...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Demers A,Ayotte P,Brisson J,Dodin S,Robert J,Dewailly E

更新日期：2002-04-01 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

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：:Recently, the focus of research on cardiovascular risk factors has broadened because of new data demonstrating benefits of low risk (i.e., favorable) levels of all major modifiable risk factors. Most data on low risk relate to coronary heart disease, not stroke. This population-based, 12-sample, Italian study (Progett...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Giampaoli S,Palmieri L,Panico S,Vanuzzo D,Ferrario M,Chiodini P,Pilotto L,Donfrancesco C,Cesana G,Sega R,Stamler J

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Confounding due to population stratification is a potential source of concern in population-based genetic association studies, particularly in recently admixed populations such as African Americans. Several methods have been developed to control for population stratification in the context of genome-wide association s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ruiz-Narváez EA,Rosenberg L,Wise LA,Reich D,Palmer JR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administrative health databases have been used to monitor trends in infective endocarditis hospitalization related to non-prescription injection drug use (IDU) using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code algorithms. Because no ICD code for IDU exists, drug dependence and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) have been...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McGrew KM,Garwe T,Jafarzadeh SR,Drevets DA,Zhao YD,Williams MB,Carabin H

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between anesthetic gas exposure and spontaneous abortion remains unresolved. We examined the effect of nitrous oxide on spontaneous abortion among female dental assistants. Questionnaires were sent to 7,000 dental assistants aged 18-39 years who were registered in California in 1987; 4,856 (69%) responded...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rowland AS,Baird DD,Shore DL,Weinberg CR,Savitz DA,Wilcox AJ

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between use of conjugated estrogens and the risk of uterine cancer was examined among 188 white women with newly diagnosed endometrial cancer and 428 controls hospitalized for nonmalignant conditions requiring surgery at the Boston Hospital for Women-Parkway Division, Boston, Massachusetts, in January 197...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Buring JE,Bain CJ,Ehrmann RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of change in blood lipids, diastolic blood pressure, body mass index, smoking and drinking behaviors, and exercise were examined in an ongoing longitudinal study from 1991 to 1995 of 150 middle-aged Melbourne, Australia, women as they passed through menopause. Changes in risk factors over time were examin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Do KA,Green A,Guthrie JR,Dudley EC,Burger HG,Dennerstein L

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Raised blood pressure is the strongest single risk factor for stroke in the general population. Diabetics are at increased risk of both hypertension and stroke. It is not clear if diabetes mellitus confers an excess risk of stroke that is independent of blood pressure. The authors examined the relation of diabetic sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E,Khaw KT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study on respiratory cancers was conducted in New Caledonia (South Pacific), where a high incidence of malignant pleural mesothelioma had been observed. The disease pattern suggested an environmental exposure to asbestos. The first results showed that, in some areas, tremolite asbestos derived from loca...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Luce D,Bugel I,Goldberg P,Goldberg M,Salomon C,Billon-Galland MA,Nicolau J,Quénel P,Fevotte J,Brochard P

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for genital human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6/11 and 16/18 and any HPV type as well as for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections were investigated in a population-based study of 1,600 randomly selected women (20-39 years) from Godthåb (native, Nuuk), Greenland, and Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. A t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kjaer SK,Engholm G,Teisen C,Haugaard BJ,Lynge E,Christensen RB,Møller KA,Jensen H,Poll P,Vestergaard BF

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

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：:The etiology of acute diarrhea (less than or equal to 3 days duration) and persistent diarrhea (greater than or equal to 14 days duration) was determined in Cambodian children under age 5 years in a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border between May and October 1989; potential risk factors associated with persisten...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Arthur JD,Bodhidatta L,Echeverria P,Phuphaisan S,Paul S

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between serum selenium concentration and five-year risk of cardiovascular disease was studied in 1,110 men aged 55 to 74 years in two rural areas of Finland. In the total cohort, all-cause and cardiovascular deaths were associated significantly with serum selenium of less than 45 micrograms/liter, an a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtamo J,Valkeila E,Alfthan G,Punsar S,Huttunen JK,Karvonen MJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the 1970s, today's older Americans were exposed to high levels of lead in the environment. The authors previously reported that lifetime cumulative lead dose was associated with lower cognitive test performance in older adults. Experiments suggest that environmental stress may intensify the detrimental influenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Glass TA,Bandeen-Roche K,McAtee M,Bolla K,Todd AC,Schwartz BS

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The US Great Recession resulted in an alarming number of home foreclosures that weakened the social and physical environment of thousands of neighborhoods. Few studies have evaluated whether these neighborhood changes were related to changes in individual behaviors. We examined the relationship between changes in neig...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Crawford ND,Moore K,Christine PJ,Barrientos-Gutierrez T,Seeman T,Diez Roux AV

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary data from 11,658 adult respondents in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to provide quantitative information regarding the contribution of specific foods to the total population intake of the following 10 nutrients: vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin C, iron, ph...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Block G,Dresser CM,Hartman AM,Carroll MD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary searches for new risk factors frequently involve genome-wide explorations of very large numbers of candidate risk variants. Given that diseases can often be classified into subtypes that possess evidence of etiologic heterogeneity, the question arises as to whether or not a search for new risk factors wou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Begg CB,Zabor EC

更新日期：2012-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 888 rural, nonaboriginal persons with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus identified in Western Australia through surveys in 1978-1982 were followed for death until the end of 1986. A total of 257 deaths were observed. Excess mortality in this cohort as compared with the general Australian population w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knuiman MW,Welborn TA,Whittall DE

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this cross-sectional analysis of women aged 35-49 years from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted between 1988 and 1994, was to assess associations with menopausal status based either on menstrual cycle patterns or on elevated (>20 IU/liter) follicle-stimulating hormone....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cooper GS,Baird DD,Darden FR

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00