Systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between complement component 3 and age-related macular degeneration: a HuGE review and meta-analysis.

abstract：:A recent cohort mortality study of 19,608 male employees of a major Texas chemical production facility had suggested that they might be at higher risk of lung cancer compared with the male population of the United States or Texas but not with the male population of the five-county area in which they reside. An occupat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bond GG,Flores GH,Shellenberger RJ,Cartmill JB,Fishbeck WA,Cook RR

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the past decade, the infection control nurse (ICN) has become an important element in organized infection surveillance and control programs. Before 1970, only a few hospitals (6%) had an ICN, but, by 1977, over 80% had hired at least one ICN, the majority of those hospitals having done so since 1973. To determi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Emori TG,Haley RW,Stanley RC

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate measurement of central fat patterning is difficult to obtain by conventional anthropometry. Direct measurement of intra-abdominal fat area by magnetic resonance imaging, while accurate, is impractical for large-scale observational studies. This report examines the sex-specific associations of conventional ant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schreiner PJ,Terry JG,Evans GW,Hinson WH,Crouse JR 3rd,Heiss G

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the major sources of indoor air pollution are combustion by-products from heating and cooking. Concern is increasing that use of polluting heating and cooking sources can increase cancer risk. In Canada, most cooking and heating currently relies on electricity or natural gas, but, in the past, and still in some ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ramanakumar AV,Parent ME,Siemiatycki J

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of clinically recognized coronary heart disease and its relation to risk factors have been studied for 596 sibships in the Framingham Heart Study cohort. Only the 186 pairs of brothers were considered in the multivariate analysis, since the rate of coronary heart disease in women is low. Multiple logisti...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Snowden CB,McNamara PM,Garrison RJ,Feinleib M,Kannel WB,Epstein FH

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric characteristics, physical activity, and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, its subtypes, and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) were evaluated in a prospective cohort study of 37,931 Iowa women who were aged 55-69 years at baseline in 1986. Through 1998, 261 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (137 di...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cerhan JR,Janney CA,Vachon CM,Habermann TM,Kay NE,Potter JD,Sellers TA,Folsom AR

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relation of noncontraceptive estrogen use to the risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women, the authors conducted a case-control study: 1,686 cases were compared with 2,077 hospital control subjects, of whom 1,120 had non-gynecologic cancers and 957 had nonmalignant (also non-gynecologic) conditi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaufman DW,Palmer JR,de Mouzon J,Rosenberg L,Stolley PD,Warshauer ME,Zauber AG,Shapiro S

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because measles immunization has been found in all studies to reduce mortality with more than the share of deaths attributed to acute measles, the authors examined mortality after measles infection in a study in a rural area of Senegal that included 6,924 unimmunized children, whom 1,118 developed measles. Age-adjuste...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aaby P,Samb B,Andersen M,Simondon F

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the validity of outdoor particulate matter with a 50% cutoff diameter of 10-microm (PM10) concentrations as a measure of exposure in time series studies, the association between personal and outdoor concentrations, within subjects, over time was investigated. Repeated measurements of personal, indoor, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Janssen NA,Hoek G,Brunekreef B,Harssema H,Mensink I,Zuidhof A

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors sought to assess the reliability and validity of two motion activity sensors in the prediction of observed physical activity levels in adults and children by means of two studies at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. In study 1, 50 adults were observed in fall 1984 for one hour of recrea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Klesges RC,Klesges LM,Swenson AM,Pheley AM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common-source epidemic of hepatitis A occurred in an Athenian institution boarding 38 children (mean age 4.8 years). All children were examined, and blood was drawn from each at the onset of the study and repeatedly during the next three months. Only one child (2.6%) was initially immune to hepatitis A virus as a re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tassopoulos NC,Roumeliotou-Karayannis A,Sakka M,Ticehurst J,Mihalik K,Stephanou T,Purcell RH,Papaevangelou G

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1977 and 1981, there were 4.9 episodes of community-acquired bacteremia and 5.1 episodes of hospital-acquired bacteremia per 1,000 patients in the four major hospitals of one metropolitan area. Case fatality rates were 30.1 per cent based on deaths due to all causes and 14.7 per cent based on deaths attributed...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bryan CS,Hornung CA,Reynolds KL,Brenner ER

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 1995-1996 cohort study in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, morbidity in 117 hospitalized and 137 acute measles cases compared with age-matched children without measles (unexposed) was determined by weekly interview for 6 months. Compared with unexposed children, there were higher incidences of hospitalization (adju...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Akramuzzaman SM,Cutts FT,Wheeler JG,Hossain MJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of menopause to associated factors of atherosclerosis was investigated during October 1973 to December 1976. The subjects were 1674 premenopausal and 428 postmenopausal women aged 35 to 54, who were living in Toda city, an urban area of Japan. Serum cholesterol and triglyceride were higher in postmeno...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shibata H,Matsuzaki T,Hatano S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In systematic studies of the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis, DNA fingerprinting is used to estimate the fraction of incident cases attributable to recent transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis rather than reactivation disease and to identify risk factors for recent transmission. This approach is based on t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Murray M,Alland D

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When waist circumference is taken into account, larger hip circumference is associated with reduced risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The authors investigated the prospective association of hip circumference with type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence in a biracial cohort of men...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Parker ED,Pereira MA,Stevens J,Folsom AR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the impact of body mass index (BMI) (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and change in body silhouette on asthma risk, the authors investigated a cohort of women participating in the E3N Cohort Study in France from 1990 to 1993. The authors identified 372 incident cases of asthma among 67229 women aged 40-65 years ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Romieu I,Avenel V,Leynaert B,Kauffmann F,Clavel-Chapelon F

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium and dairy foods in relation to prostate cancer were examined in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health Study (1995/1996-2001). Diet was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire at baseline. Multivariate relative risks and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Park Y,Mitrou PN,Kipnis V,Hollenbeck A,Schatzkin A,Leitzmann MF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the National Cancer Institute/Children's Cancer Group case-control study of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (1989-1993), living in a home with a high-voltage wire code was not associated with disease risk. To further investigate risk near power lines, the authors analyzed distance to transmission and three-p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kleinerman RA,Kaune WT,Hatch EE,Wacholder S,Linet MS,Robison LL,Niwa S,Tarone RE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence trends in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) demonstrate disparities by race and ethnicity. We used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry to evaluate patterns in ALL incidence from 2000-2016, including the association between the percent of people born in a foreign country at the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Feng Q,de Smith AJ,Vergara-Lluri M,Muskens IS,McKean-Cowdin R,Kogan S,Brynes R,Wiemels JL

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pooled analyses may provide etiologic insight about associations between exposure and disease. In contrast to childhood leukemia, no pooled analyses of childhood brain tumors and exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs) have been conducted. The authors carried out a pooled analysis based on primar...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kheifets L,Ahlbom A,Crespi CM,Feychting M,Johansen C,Monroe J,Murphy MF,Oksuzyan S,Preston-Martin S,Roman E,Saito T,Savitz D,Schüz J,Simpson J,Swanson J,Tynes T,Verkasalo P,Mezei G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotypes of single nucleotide polymorphisms are subject to misclassification. If ignored, such misclassification can seriously distort the estimated genotype effects on the disease or outcome of interest. Validation data (gold standard or replicated surrogates) are required to assess the degree of misclassification a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hossain S,Le ND,Brooks-Wilson AR,Spinelli JJ

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the results of the first 2 years of follow-up of a prospective cohort study on the mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and its determinants which started in November 1988 in Kigali, Rwanda. The study sample consists of 218 newborns of 215 HIV-1 seropositive wo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lepage P,Van de Perre P,Msellati P,Hitimana DG,Simonon A,Van Goethem C,Mukamabano B,Karita E,Stevens AM,Mathieu G

更新日期：1993-03-15 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

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：:Circumstances in which both randomized controlled trial and observational study data are available provide an important opportunity to identify biases and improve study design and analysis procedures. In addition, joint analyses of data from the two sources can extend clinical trial findings. The US Women's Health Ini...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Prentice RL,Langer RD,Stefanick ML,Howard BV,Pettinger M,Anderson GL,Barad D,Curb JD,Kotchen J,Kuller L,Limacher M,Wactawski-Wende J,Women's Health Initiative Investigators.

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection plays a major role in the development of autoimmune diseases. In this study, we investigated the relationship between scrub typhus and systemic autoimmune diseases. We enrolled 6,928 hospitalized patients with scrub typhus between 2000 and 2012 from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chu KA,Chen W,Hsu CY,Hung YM,Wei JC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impact of military service on 13 categories of self-reported physical health problems by using a sample of 2,260 American male-male monozygotic twin pairs who served on active duty during the Vietnam War. Data were collected in 1987 by using mail and/or telephone interviews. Twins who served in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eisen SA,Goldberg J,True WR,Henderson WG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the interrelationships of cigarette smoking, relative weight, and the occurrence of natural menopause, the authors prospectively evaluated the experience of 66,663 female US registered nurses who were premenopausal in 1976. Over a two-year period, 5004 women became post-menopausal. Current smokers were more...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Willett W,Stampfer MJ,Bain C,Lipnick R,Speizer FE,Rosner B,Cramer D,Hennekens CH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the associations of hostility measured in adulthood with subsequent body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) assessed at 4 time points over a 19-year period (1985-2004) in a United Kingdom cohort study. A total of 6,484 participants (4,494 men and 1,990 women) aged 35-55 years at baseline ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nabi H,Kivimaki M,Sabia S,Dugravot A,Lajnef M,Marmot MG,Singh-Manoux A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00