A statistical method for evaluating suicide clusters and implementing cluster surveillance.

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：:A case-control epidemiologic study of childhood polymyositis is presented. Parents of 42 cases of childhood polymyositis were interviewed along with parents of controls matched for sex and age. Extensive review of past medical history, animal exposure history, residential and family history, and immunization history f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koch MJ,Brody JA,Gillespie MM

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated the association of complexity of work with data, people, and things with the incidence of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, while adjusting for work-related physical activity. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging is a 10-year populat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kröger E,Andel R,Lindsay J,Benounissa Z,Verreault R,Laurin D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D may reduce telomere shortening through anti-inflammatory and anti-cell proliferation mechanisms. In the present study, we examined the association between vitamin D and relative leukocyte telomere length by using both plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D) biomarkers. V...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu JJ,Prescott J,Giovannucci E,Hankinson SE,Rosner B,Han J,De Vivo I

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike past breast cancer survival comparisons between Japan and the United States, a recent study in Hawaii showed that Japanese women did not retain their survival advantage over Caucasian women after adjustment was made for stage at diagnosis. To test whether this finding in Hawaii was due to the limited duration o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： LeMarchand L,Kolonel LN,Nomura AM

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-level arsenic exposure is consistently associated with QT prolongation, a risk factor for arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. Arsenic may act on QT by increasing cardiac calcium currents. The authors hypothesized that low-level arsenic exposure would be associated with QT duration and that this effect would be s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mordukhovich I,Wright RO,Amarasiriwardena C,Baja E,Baccarelli A,Suh H,Sparrow D,Vokonas P,Schwartz J

更新日期：2009-09-15 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：:During a 21-month period (July 1986-April 1988), six patients who underwent open heart surgery at Holston Valley Hospital and Medical Center in Kingsport, Tennessee, developed sternal would infections caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. All patients required sternectomy, reconstructive surgery, and long term amphotericin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Richet HM,McNeil MM,Davis BJ,Duncan E,Strickler J,Nunley D,Jarvis WR,Tablan OC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged sitting time is associated with several health outcomes; limited evidence indicates associations with frailty. Our aims in this study were to identify patterns of sitting time over 12 years in middle-aged (ages 50-55 years) women and examine associations of these patterns with frailty in older age. We examin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Susanto M,Hubbard RE,Gardiner PA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a 2-year follow-up of 40 cardiovascular disease patients (mean age = 65.6 years (standard deviation, 5.8)) who underwent repeated measurements of cardiovascular response before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Beijing, China), when air pollution was strictly controlled. Ambient levels of par...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huang W,Zhu T,Pan X,Hu M,Lu SE,Lin Y,Wang T,Zhang Y,Tang X

更新日期：2012-07-15 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：:The natural history of infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is characterized by a relentless decline in CD4-positive lymphocytes and the ultimate development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, variables other than the CD4-positive lymphocyte level contribute to the measurement...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saah AJ,Muñoz A,Kuo V,Fox R,Kaslow RA,Phair JP,Rinaldo CR Jr,Detels R,Polk BF

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine neonatal outcomes among women who had depressive and anxiety disorders during the second trimester of pregnancy in a population-based sample. Participants were 1,465 women and their neonates born at two obstetric clinics in Sweden. The inclusion period for the women was October 2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Andersson L,Sundström-Poromaa I,Wulff M,Aström M,Bixo M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is some evidence of an association between loss of a sibling in adulthood and subsequent mortality, there have been no previous studies in which investigators have examined whether the death of a sibling in childhood is associated with adult mortality using total population data. Data on a national coho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rostila M,Berg L,Saarela J,Kawachi I,Hjern A

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Butadiene and styrene are suspected carcinogens and common chemicals used in the synthesis of rubber. To investigate any potential human hazards from exposure to these chemicals, a case-control study of 59 lymphohematopoietic cancers was conducted within a cohort of male workers employed between 1943 and 1982 in e...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Santos-Burgoa C,Matanoski GM,Zeger S,Schwartz L

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leisure-time physical activity enhances health and functioning in older populations. However, few data are available on the correlation between self-reported leisure-time physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in the elderly. Treadmill exercise testing results were obtained for 1,006 members (median age 67 ye...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tager IB,Hollenberg M,Satariano WA

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Willingness of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients to volunteer names of friends as potential control subjects was assessed from August through December 1988 in a case-control study at the National Cancer Institute and Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. Friend controls appeared ideal to examine a genetically determi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shaw GL,Tucker MA,Kase RG,Hoover RN

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine whether a less favorable risk factor pattern for cardiovascular disease among persons with impaired glucose tolerance could be explained by fasting insulin, obesity, and/or a central distribution of body fat. Between 1984 and 1988, cardiovascular risk factors were examined ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Burchfiel CM,Shetterly SM,Baxter J,Hamman RF

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infections occurring in the first 2 years of life and development of eczema was investigated in 1,782 control children from a national population-based case-control study in the United Kingdom conducted over the period 1991-1996. Dates of eczema and infectious diagnoses were ascertained from co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hughes AM,Crouch S,Lightfoot T,Ansell P,Simpson J,Roman E

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1968 to 1977, the association between the level of vitamin A in serum and the subsequent incidence of cancer was examined in a longitudinal study of 36,265 persons initially aged 15-99 years in 25 population groups in Finland. During a mean follow-up of 8 years, 766 cancers were diagnosed. Serum retinol, retinol-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knekt P,Aromaa A,Maatela J,Aaran RK,Nikkari T,Hakama M,Hakulinen T,Peto R,Teppo L

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-generation assays for anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP), a highly sensitive and specific marker for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), have redefined the epidemiology of RA. In the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) RA study (2009-2011), we evaluated the prevalence of anti-CCP positivity among 15,691 (10.2% of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kuller LH,Mackey RH,Walitt BT,Deane KD,Holers VM,Robinson WH,Sokolove J,Chang Y,Moreland LW

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mediation mechanisms by which an exposure or intervention affects an outcome can provide a look into what has been called a "black box" of many epidemiologic associations, thereby providing further evidence of a relationship and possible points of intervention. Rapid methodologic developments in medi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rudolph KE,Goin DE,Paksarian D,Crowder R,Merikangas KR,Stuart EA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical devices play a vital role in diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases and are an integral part of the health-care system. Many devices, including implantable medical devices, enter the market through a regulatory pathway that was not designed to assure safety and effectiveness. Several recent studies and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jalbert JJ,Ritchey ME,Mi X,Chen CY,Hammill BG,Curtis LH,Setoguchi S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:George W. Comstock (1915-2007), MD, MPH, DrPH, was lecturer and then professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health from 1956 to 2007 and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology from 1979 to 1988. This interview of George W. Comstock took place i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Morabia A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial resemblance in the blood pressure response to sodium restriction in normotensive persons was investigated. Forty-four families of identical twin children participated in a sodium restriction (less than or equal to 75 meq/day) protocol for a period of 12 weeks. Subjects were residents of central Indiana, and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Miller JZ,Weinberger MH,Christian JC,Daugherty SA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in hygienic habits and base-line secretory immunoglobulin (Ig) A which might have contributed to the prevalence of skin infections and/or absence of increased serum IgA values were sought in patients with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (nephritis) in contrast to patients with acute rheumatic fe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Potter EV,Vincente JB,Mayon-WHite RT,Shaughnessy MA,Poon-King T,Earle DP

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk of death during the first year of life due to external causes, such as unintentional injury and homicide, may be higher among twins and higher-order multiples than among singletons in the United States. We used national birth cohort linked birth-infant death data (2000-2010) to evaluate the risk of infant mortali...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahrens KA,Thoma ME,Rossen LM,Warner M,Simon AE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stress producing head injury is associated with Parkinson's disease, suggesting that relations with other physical hazards such as whole-body vibration (WBV) should be tested. In this study, the authors evaluated the relation between occupational exposure to WBV and Parkinson's disease. A population-based c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harris MA,Marion SA,Spinelli JJ,Tsui JK,Teschke K

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To help public health practitioners promote physical activities with a low risk of injury, this study determined the relation among type and duration of physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and musculoskeletal injury in a sample of adults enrolled in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. Subjects included 4...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hootman JM,Macera CA,Ainsworth BE,Martin M,Addy CL,Blair SN

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated associations between neighborhood supermarket gain or loss and glycemic control (assessed by glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) values) in patients from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Diabetes Registry (n = 434,806 person-years; 2007-2010). Annual clinical measures were linked to metrics from a geogra...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang YT,Mujahid MS,Laraia BA,Warton EM,Blanchard SD,Moffet HH,Downing J,Karter AJ

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00