Early life infections and onset of puberty: evidence from Hong Kong's children of 1997 birth cohort.

abstract：:Agreement between frequency and quantitative dietary methods was assessed for the ability of frequency intake data to substitute for quantitative intake data in diet-disease investigations. Frequency and quantitative intakes of 342 male subjects participating in an ongoing case-control study in Hawaii during 1981-1982...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chu SY,Kolonel LN,Hankin JH,Lee J

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does a rise in crime result in increased sitting time and a reduction in physical activity? We used unobserved ("fixed")-effects models to examine associations between change in objectively measured crime (nondomestic violence, malicious damage, breaking and entering, and stealing, theft, and robbery) in Australia and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Astell-Burt T,Feng X,Kolt GS,Jalaludin B

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether caffeine consumption during pregnancy represents a fetal hazard remains uncertain. The authors report on a large prospective study designed to examine this question. In 1996-2000, 2,291 mothers with singleton livebirths in Connecticut and Massachusetts were evaluated after their first prenatal visit and were q...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bracken MB,Triche EW,Belanger K,Hellenbrand K,Leaderer BP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that influence circulating sex hormones, such as physical activity, have been proposed to influence ovarian cancer risk; however, results from previous epidemiologic studies have been inconsistent. The authors examined the association among physical activity, sedentary behavior, and ovarian cancer risk in the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Patel AV,Rodriguez C,Pavluck AL,Thun MJ,Calle EE

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen-year mortality data from the Alameda County Study are used to examine the relative importance of social ties as predictors of survival at different ages, ranging from 38-94 years at baseline. Previous analyses of Alameda County data by Berkman and Syme (Am J Epidemiol 1979;109:186-204) have shown that such t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seeman TE,Kaplan GA,Knudsen L,Cohen R,Guralnik J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between breast feeding and the risk of severe cholera was examined in a case-control study of rural Bangladeshi children under 36 months of age who were studied in 1985-1986 during a field trial of killed oral cholera vaccines. A total of 116 cases who were treated for severe cholera were compared with...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clemens JD,Sack DA,Harris JR,Khan MR,Chakraborty J,Chowdhury S,Rao MR,van Loon FP,Stanton BF,Yunus M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have documented that age at immigration and generational status are important predictors of socioeconomic outcomes among children of immigrants. Whether these characteristics are related to long-term risk of death is unknown. Leveraging variation within sibships, we evaluated the association of age at immigrat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mehta NK,Martikainen P,Cederström A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined relative hazards for mortality and functional limitations according to poor self-ratings of health using prospective data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, a representative sample of US adults aged 25-74 years that has been followed since the First National Health and Nutrition Exami...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Idler EL,Russell LB,Davis D

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between fetal growth restriction and increased rates of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood has been reported. This study evaluated familial aggregation of fetal growth restriction in term births. The population consisted of 3,505 sibships comprised of 7,822 full-term singleton infants bo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： La Batide-Alanore A,Trégouët DA,Jaquet D,Bouyer J,Tiret L

更新日期：2002-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of indirect standardization in the assessment of the fertility of occupationally exposed workers is briefly reviewed and critiqued. The calculation of expected births in the method of Levine et al. (J Occup Med 1980;22:781-91) is modified to eliminate negative bias. An example is given using data from a 1977 s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Starr TB,Levine RJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient control of confounding is well recognized as a legitimate motive for restriction, matching, and conditional analysis in case-control studies. Some investigators, however, have advocated use of the same techniques for another purpose: to achieve a balance of "opportunity" or "potential" for past exposure betw...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poole C

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined interactions between lifestyle factors and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D-GR), captured by genetic risk score (GRS) and family history (FH). Our initial study cohort included 20,524 European-ancestry participants, of whom 1,897 developed incident T2D, in the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2016), Nurses' ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ding M,Ahmad S,Qi L,Hu Y,Bhupathiraju SN,Guasch-Ferré M,Jensen MK,Chavarro JE,Ridker PM,Willett WC,Chasman DI,Hu FB,Kraft P

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper, a strong prooxidant, may play a role in atherogenesis. The author examined the association between serum copper concentration and mortality from coronary heart disease using data from the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1976-1992). Serum copper concentration was determined using atomic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ford ES

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic testing is recommended in women with "ovarian cancer symptoms." However, these symptoms are nonspecific. The ongoing Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer Early (DOVE) Study in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, provides diagnostic testing to women aged 50 years or older with symptoms lasting for more than 2 weeks and less than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sun Z,Gilbert L,Ciampi A,Kaufman JS,Basso O

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied cancer prevalence and exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin) in veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the Air Force unit responsible for the aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. A comparison group of Air Force veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the same period ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ketchum NS,Michalek JE,Burton JE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect on childhood cancer of prolonged exposure to 60-H magnetic fields from electric appliances was examined using interview data from a recently completed case-control study. Exposures of children aged 0-14 years whose incident cancers were diagnosed between 1976 and 1983 and who resided in the Denver, Colorado...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savitz DA,John EM,Kleckner RC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following administration of the 1976 swine influenza vaccine led to a heightened focus on GBS when monovalent vaccines against a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus of swine origin were introduced in 2009. GBS cases following receipt of monovalent inactivated (MIV) and sea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Greene SK,Rett M,Weintraub ES,Li L,Yin R,Amato AA,Ho DT,Sheikh SI,Fireman BH,Daley MF,Belongia EA,Jacobsen SJ,Baxter R,Lieu TA,Kulldorff M,Vellozzi C,Lee GM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the primordial ovarian follicular pool is established in utero, it may be influenced by parental characteristics and the intrauterine environment. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels are increasingly recognized as a biomarker of ovarian reserve in females in adulthood and adolescence. We examined and compar...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser A,McNally W,Sattar N,Anderson EL,Lashen H,Fleming R,Lawlor DA,Nelson SM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) but an increased risk of other causes of morbidity and mortality. It remains unclear whether there is an upper limit to a protective effect of alcohol intake on CHD risk. Whether there is a U- or an L-shaped relation between alcohol ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rehm JT,Bondy SJ,Sempos CT,Vuong CV

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung Health Study participants were smokers aged 35-60 years with mild lung function impairment who participated in a 5-year, 10-center (nine in the United States, one in Canada) clinical trial in 1986-1994. The authors compared the relation of randomized treatment assignments and of smoking history during the study w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Connett JE,Murray RP,Buist AS,Wise RA,Bailey WC,Lindgren PG,Owens GR,Lung Health Study Research Group.

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ozone is associated with adverse health; however, less is known about vulnerable/sensitive populations, which we refer to as sensitive populations. We systematically reviewed epidemiologic evidence (1988-2013) regarding sensitivity to mortality or hospital admission from short-term ozone exposure. We performed meta-an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bell ML,Zanobetti A,Dominici F

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1970-1979, the incidence of human leptospirosis in Israel was 0.7 per 100,000 population. The majority of the cases (62%) occurred in northeastern Israel (Upper Galilee). Prior to 1973 the main infecting serotypes were grippotyphosa (41%) and Hebdomadis szwajizak (31%). Following the first outbreak of Hebdomadis ha...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shenberg E,Gerichter CB,Lindenbaum I

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used cross-sectional data for 19,704 white men and 13,895 white women from the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry (November 1967 to January 1973) to investigate whether weight explains the association between age and blood pressure, and in particular, whether age is associated with bloo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pan WH,Nanas S,Dyer A,Liu K,McDonald A,Schoenberger JA,Shekelle RB,Stamler R,Stamler J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of weight in middle-aged men and subsequent weight change on the risk of osteoporosis three decades later. The authors utilized data from 1,476 Norwegian men participating in two health screenings in Oslo (1972-1973 and 2000-2001) and Tromsø (1974-1975 and 2001). Heig...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meyer HE,Søgaard AJ,Falch JA,Jørgensen L,Emaus N

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender and cigarette smoking are among the most consistent predictors of bladder cancer risk. After adjustment for known risk factors, an excess risk remains for males, suggesting that other factors may be responsible for the gender differences. Given limited data on hormonal or reproductive factors and bladder cancer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McGrath M,Michaud DS,De Vivo I

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1997 redesign of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) affected US childhood asthma prevalence estimates. The 1997 asthma attack prevalence estimate for children 0-17 years was 5.4%. Pre-redesign NHIS childhood asthma period prevalence estimates peaked in 1995 at 7.5%. It is unclear whether the difference re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Akinbami LJ,Schoendorf KC,Parker J

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Above-average exposure to electromagnetic fields has been associated with certain nonmalignant medical conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, other neurologic diseases, depressive symptoms, and suicide. The authors conducted a nationwide mortality study in Denmark of 21,236 men employed in utility companies...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Johansen C,Olsen JH

更新日期：1998-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the long-term health consequences of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the authors compared cause-specific mortality rates of 621,902 Gulf War veterans with those of 746,248 non-Gulf veterans, by gender, with adjustment for age, race, marital status, branch of service, and type of unit. Vital status follow-up began...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kang HK,Bullman TA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinating children with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) disrupts transmission, reducing disease rates in unvaccinated adults. When considering changes in vaccine dosing strategies (e.g., removing doses), it is critical to understand which groups of children contribute most to transmission to adults. We used dat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weinberger DM,Pitzer VE,Regev-Yochay G,Givon-Lavi N,Dagan R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the first-line treatment for patients with unipolar depression, yet there is little guidance on which SSRI provides the most benefit to a patient, based on her/his personal characteristics. In this work, we explore whether an individualized treatment strategy can be ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulombe J,Moodie EEM,Shortreed SM,Renoux C

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00