Intake of selected minerals and risk of premenstrual syndrome.

abstract：:Studies of residents in communities with high endemic concentrations of arsenic in drinking water suggest a deleterious effect on the circulatory system; however, studies among workers with high occupational exposures generally have shown either no or weak associations. This discrepancy could be a result of the health...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hertz-Picciotto I,Arrighi HM,Hu SW

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow childhood growth is associated with poorer intellectual ability. The critical periods of growth remain uncertain. Among 2,786 Finnish male military conscripts (1952-1972) born in 1934-1944, the authors tested how specific growth periods from birth to age 20 years predicted verbal, visuospatial, and arithmetic abi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Räikkönen K,Forsén T,Henriksson M,Kajantie E,Heinonen K,Pesonen AK,Leskinen JT,Laaksonen I,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of the numbers and rates of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) hospitalization are central to understanding health-care utilization and efforts to improve patient care. We comprehensively estimated the frequency, rate, and trends of ADHF hospitalization in the United States. Based on Atherosclerosis Ri...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Agarwal SK,Wruck L,Quibrera M,Matsushita K,Loehr LR,Chang PP,Rosamond WD,Wright J,Heiss G,Coresh J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite interest in the built food environment, little is known about the validity of commonly used secondary data. The authors conducted a comprehensive field census identifying the locations of all food outlets using a handheld global positioning system in 8 counties in South Carolina (2008-2009). Secondary data wer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liese AD,Colabianchi N,Lamichhane AP,Barnes TL,Hibbert JD,Porter DE,Nichols MD,Lawson AB

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The random-zero and standard mercury sphygmomanometers are used frequently, and sometimes interchangeably, in epidemiologic studies. To determine whether there is a systematic difference between them, the authors measured systolic, fourth-phase, and fifth-phase diastolic blood pressures using both sphygmomanometers si...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Gaudemaris R,Folsom AR,Prineas RJ,Luepker RV

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of dietary change was assessed in a systematic quota subsample (n = 397) of women recruited into the Women's Healthy Eating and Living Study between 1996 and 1998, a multicenter, randomized dietary intervention trial among breast cancer survivors. Women from the intervention and comparison arms completed t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Thomson CA,Giuliano A,Rock CL,Ritenbaugh CK,Flatt SW,Faerber S,Newman V,Caan B,Graver E,Hartz V,Whitacre R,Parker F,Pierce JP,Marshall JR

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides are ubiquitous neurotoxicants, and several lines of evidence suggest that exposure may be associated with depression. Epidemiologic evidence has focused largely on organophosphate exposures, while research on other pesticides is limited. We collected detailed pesticide use history from farmers recruited in ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weisskopf MG,Moisan F,Tzourio C,Rathouz PJ,Elbaz A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between toenail selenium and breast cancer was studied in a prospective study on diet and cancer among 62,573 Dutch women aged 55-69 years that started in September 1986. The analysis was based on 355 breast cancer cases, detected during 3.3 years of follow-up (1986-1989), for whom selenium data were a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van't Veer P,Bode P,Dorant E,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Customized birth weight charts that incorporate maternal characteristics are now being adopted into clinical practice. However, there is controversy surrounding the value of these charts in the prediction of growth and perinatal outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess the use of customized charts in predic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Carberry AE,Raynes-Greenow CH,Turner RM,Jeffery HE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a community-based prospective study of 380 children conducted between 1987 and 1990, the rate of diarrhea was significantly associated with percentage of CD8 T-lymphocytes and the CD4:CD8 ratio. After adjustment for age and previous diarrhea, the relative incidence of diarrhea with a duration of > or = 7 days was 2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mølbak K,Lisse IM,Aaby P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic and epidemiologic significance of antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) detected by complement fixation was studied in a sample of 412 healthy persons, 0-70 years old of both sexes living in the Athens area. The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections was found to be very high (26.5%)...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Papaevangelou G,Karaboyia-Karafyllidis P,Kyriakidou A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor analysis has previously identified four independent factors that characterize the insulin resistance syndrome in women, interpreted as 1) weight/waist, 2) lipids, 3) insulin/glucose, and 4) systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Because it is not known whether similar factors emerge for men, or for diabetics, f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Edwards KL,Burchfiel CM,Sharp DS,Curb JD,Rodriguez BL,Fujimoto WY,LaCroix AZ,Vitiello MV,Austin MA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the role of self-reported life satisfaction in mortality with a prospective cohort study (1976-1995). A nationwide sample of healthy adults (18-64 years, n = 22,461) from the Finnish Twin Cohort responded to a questionnaire about life satisfaction and known predictors of mortality in 1975. A s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koivumaa-Honkanen H,Honkanen R,Viinamäki H,Heikkilä K,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M

更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors reviewed all cases of active tuberculosis newly reported to a population-based registry between 1970 and 1985 to compare a large urban area with the mostly rural remainder of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Although incidence rates have declined steadily in the rural area, they have not done so i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Enarson DA,Wang JS,Dirks JM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Power considerations for trials evaluating vaccines against infectious diseases are complicated by indirect protective effects of vaccination. While cluster-randomized controlled trials (cRCTs) are less statistically efficient than individually randomized controlled trials (iRCTs), a cRCT's ability to measure direct a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hitchings MDT,Lipsitch M,Wang R,Bellan SE

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiology has a rich tradition in western New York State, beginning with the classic study by Austin Flint of a waterborne typhoid fever outbreak in North Boston in 1843. Other important investigations included the study of the Buffalo poliomyelitis epidemic of 1912, by Wade Hampton Frost, which provided a comprehe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Winkelstein W Jr

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two six-month randomized, controlled double-blind trials of the efficacy of virucidal nasal tissues in the prevention of natural colds were conducted in Charlottesville, Virginia, between 1983 and 1986. Tissues impregnated with malic and citric acids and sodium lauryl sulfate were used in both trials. Placebo tissues ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Farr BM,Hendley JO,Kaiser DL,Gwaltney JM

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of the US population has received the smallpox vaccine, but it is unknown what fraction is still protected against infection and disease. Residual protection and age-dependent case-fatality ratios have therefore been widely neglected in the current bioterrorism debate. The author analyzed 1902-1903 data...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eichner M

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pitt County Study is a longitudinal investigation of anthropometric, psychosocial, and behavioral predictors of hypertension in African Americans who were aged 25-50 years at baseline in 1988. At baseline, a strong dose-response gradient was observed for alcohol consumption and blood pressure for both sexes. The c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Curtis AB,James SA,Strogatz DS,Raghunathan TE,Harlow S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to estimate the association between intrauterine growth and childhood survival, data on birth weight and gestational age from the Norwegian Birth Registry, for all children who survived the first year of life and who were born during the period 1967-1989 were linked to the National Cause of Death Registry for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Samuelsen SO,Magnus P,Bakketeig LS

更新日期：1998-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 21, 1969, and April 14, 1970, 44 symptomatic cases of Salmonella typhimurium gastroenteritis occurred among the approximately 2500 Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. Twenty-five cases were confirmed by positive stool culture. All 19 cases not confirmed by culture had diarr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Loewenstein MS

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and smoking are independently associated with a higher mortality risk, but previous studies have reported conflicting results about the relationship between these 2 time-varying exposures. Using prospective longitudinal data (1987-2007) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, our objective in the p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Banack HR,Kaufman JS

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of the etiologic agent that caused the 1981 epidemic of toxic oil syndrome in Spain has not been established, and toxicologic study of oil specimens from the outbreak has been hampered by uncertainty about which oils were actually capable of causing illness. To identify chemical characteristics associated...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kilbourne EM,Bernert JT Jr,Posada de la Paz M,Hill RH Jr,Abaitua Borda I,Kilbourne BW,Zack MM

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:There is accumulating evidence suggesting that children may drive the spread of influenza epidemics. The objective of this study was to quantify the lead time by age using laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A for the 1995/1996-2005/2006 seasons from Canadian communities and laboratory-confirmed hospital admission...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schanzer D,Vachon J,Pelletier L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from epidemiologic and experimental studies suggests that use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduces risk of colon and breast cancer. The association between use of aspirin and other NSAIDs and risk of adult glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) was evaluated among 236 incident GBM cases and 401 popu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sivak-Sears NR,Schwartzbaum JA,Miike R,Moghadassi M,Wrensch M

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective review of autopsy records was performed to evaluate a clustering of patients shown to have invasive pulmonary aspergillosis during the period July 1, 1978 through October 31, 1980 at Milwaukee County Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During this period, ten patients, all of whom were immunosuppress...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lentino JR,Rosenkranz MA,Michaels JA,Kurup VP,Rose HD,Rytel MW

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have investigated associations between offspring size at birth and parental cardiovascular disease mortality among 12,086 mothers and 6,936 fathers of participants in the British 1958 birth cohort. Birth weight was inversely associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in both mothers a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davey Smith G,Hyppönen E,Power C,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

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：: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