Assessment of response consistency and respective participant profiles in the Internet-based NutriNet-Santé Cohort.

abstract：:Public health recommendations promote physical activity to improve health and longevity. Recent data suggest that the association between physical activity and mortality may be due to genetic selection. Using data on twins, the authors investigated whether genetic selection explains the association between physical ac...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Carlsson S,Andersson T,Lichtenstein P,Michaëlsson K,Ahlbom A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a detailed review of studies on the association between prostate cancer and total dietary fat along with specific fatty acids. Overall, the 29 studies reporting actual dietary fat levels in grams of fat were heterogeneous, suggesting that pooling of the relative risks may be inappropriate. Hetero...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dennis LK,Snetselaar LG,Smith BJ,Stewart RE,Robbins ME

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious transmission of streptococci in families has been demonstrated to follow Greenwood's chain-binomial model in its simplest form which did not need beta transformation to correct for differences in susceptibility between families. Following the application of this model, an estimate of the risk of acquisition...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poku K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the high prevalence of prescription drug use and the incomplete understanding of drug effects at the time of licensing, ongoing epidemiologic monitoring is required to provide information for clinical and regulatory decisions. Data produced through the administration of Medicaid programs have been considere...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ray WA,Griffin MR

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests a role for progesterone in ovarian cancer development. Progesterone exerts its effect on target cells by interacting with its receptor. Thus, genetic variations that may cause alterations in the biologic functions of the progesterone receptor can potentially contribute to individual susceptibility to...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Terry KL,De Vivo I,Titus-Ernstoff L,Sluss PM,Cramer DW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal angiogenic factors (placental growth factor, soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (Flt-1), and soluble endoglin) may be associated with fetal growth restriction, and the associations may differ according to stage of pregnancy. Among children born to pregnant women without preeclampsia in Norway between 1992 and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Åsvold BO,Vatten LJ,Romundstad PR,Jenum PA,Karumanchi SA,Eskild A

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic blood pressure was measured in a random cluster sample of three-month-old black (n = 532), colored (n = 496), and white (n = 637) infants in Johannesburg, South Africa, by means of a Parks Doppler ultrasound device with a random zero sphygmomanometer. The study was conducted during a nine-month period in 1981...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Levin SE,Herman AA,Irwig LM

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 prospective cohort of nondisabled adults aged 65 years or more in the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (1981-1987 and 1985-1992), we used a competing risk approach to predict the 5-year risk of severe, persistent activities-of-daily-living (ADLs) disability, defined as dependence i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kim DH,Newman AB,Lipsitz LA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 3.1 million children die each year because of undernutrition. Although cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have found a protective association between greater parental education and undernutrition in their children, no randomized trial has identified a causal effect, to our knowledge. Using the 1980 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： De Neve JW,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies and randomized controlled trials of menopausal hormone therapy (HT) and chronic disease risk appear to have divergent results for cardiovascular disease. However, differences may be related to a modifying effect of age, time since menopause, and HT formulation. In the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bhupathiraju SN,Grodstein F,Rosner BA,Stampfer MJ,Hu FB,Willett WC,Manson JE

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between birth weight and mortality is among the strongest seen in epidemiology. While preterm delivery causes both small babies and high mortality, it does not explain this association. Fetal growth restriction has also been proposed, although its features are unclear because it lacks a definition inde...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Basso O,Wilcox AJ,Weinberg CR

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality among veterans has been studied in relation to military rank at separation in a series of 85,491 men discharged from the US Army in 1946 and traced through 1969. It was found that although the mortality of privates was very close to expectation based on population rates, non-commissioned officers had a 23% a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seltzer CC,Jablon S

更新日期：1977-06-01 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：:Large health care databases are used extensively for pharmacoepidemiologic studies. Unique methodological issues arise when applying self-controlled designs (i.e., using within-person comparisons) for active surveillance of newly marketed drugs. We use 3 examples to illustrate bias related to population-level exposure...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang SV,Schneeweiss S,Maclure M,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2014-09-15 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：:This study prospectively examined the association between shift work and the risk of ischemic heart disease among Japanese male workers. A baseline survey, which involved 110,792 inhabitants (age range: 40-79 years) from 45 areas throughout Japan, was conducted between 1988 and 1990. The causes of death were identifie...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fujino Y,Iso H,Tamakoshi A,Inaba Y,Koizumi A,Kubo T,Yoshimura T,Japanese Collaborative Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimated the incidence of clinical neonatal seizures among infants born between 1992 and 1994 in Harris County, Texas, a county with a large and ethnically diverse population. Infants with neonatal seizures were ascertained from four sources: hospital discharge diagnoses, birth certificates, death certific...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saliba RM,Annegers JF,Waller DK,Tyson JE,Mizrahi EM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential survival associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) was evaluated in a cross-country study using four population-based IDDM cohorts from Japan (n = 1,374), Israel (n = 610), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (n = 995), and Finland (n = 5,144). For the purpose of this cross-country comparison,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors：

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiologist primarily studies transitions between states of health and disease. The purpose of the present article is to define a foundational parameter for such studies, namely risk. We begin simply and build to the setting in which there is more than 1 event type (i.e., competing risks or competing events), a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Hudgens MG,Brookhart MA,Westreich D

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of confidence intervals has become standard in the presentation of statistical results in medical journals. Calculation of confidence limits can be straightforward using the normal approximation with an estimate of the standard error, and in particular cases exact solutions can be obtained from published table...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Daly LE

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The health status of 1025 urban senior citizens in a Montreal metropolitan area was determined by a questionnaire based on the subjects' view of physical, mental, and general well-being, and of dependence (indicators of Belloc et al., Berkman, Grogono and Woodgate, and Linn). A principal component analysis was made of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jenicek M,Cléroux R,Lamoureux M

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

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：:We used full-system-estimation instrumental-variables simultaneous equations modeling (IV-SEM) to examine physical activity relative to body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) using 25 years of data (1985/1986 to 2010/2011) from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (n = 5,115; a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meyer KA,Guilkey DK,Tien HC,Kiefe CI,Popkin BM,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies involving 14 sources were used to locate 230 parents of sudden infant death syndrome infants who died in Southern California between 1989 and 1992 and 255 parents of healthy, living infants matched by birth hospital, birth date, race and sex. The sample consisted of adults of reproductive age residing in So...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Klonoff-Cohen H

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:Senile macular degeneration is a leading cause of visual loss in the United States, England, and probably many other industrialized countries. The clinical manifestations of this disease include: drusen, atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, serous detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium, subretinal neovascu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ferris FL 3rd

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal mortality has several components which may have distinct epidemiologic features. In an investigation of the total singleton birth population of New York City in 1976-1978 (n = 320,726), the authors divided perinatal mortality into four components: late fetal deaths that occurred before labor (late antepartum...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kiely JL,Paneth N,Susser M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of cancer occurrence among smokers compared to nonsmokers has been generally reported to be greatest for carcinomas arising in the lung and larynx. This report presents the results of an investigation into mechanisms underlying the temporal trends in the incidence of these two forms of cancer in Scotland ove...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boyle P,Robertson C

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to community concerns, we used the Tribal Participatory Research framework in collaboration with 5 American-Indian communities in Washington, Idaho, and Montana to identify the appropriate criteria for aggregating health data on small tribes. Across tribal sites, 10 key informant interviews and 10 focus gr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Van Dyke ER,Blacksher E,Echo-Hawk AL,Bassett D,Harris RM,Buchwald DS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00