Invited commentary: Agent-based models for causal inference—reweighting data and theory in epidemiology.

abstract：:Vital statistics data for the United States for the years 1972-1978 have been analyzed for variation in frequency of suicide by month, day of the week, day of the month, and phase of the lunar cycle. Frequency of suicide showed a peak in the spring months, a lesser peak in the fall and was lowest in December. Suicide ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： MacMahon K

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolving concept of gender-based violence (GBV) is a multifaceted issue of public health significance. Until recently, most studies examining GBV have been conducted in North America. In this issue of the Journal, Palermo et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(5):602-612) report their secondary analyses involving approx...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beydoun HA,Beydoun MA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach is described for predicting the statistical value of extending follow-up in a cohort study. A simple approximation to the expected number of new events of interest is given. The effect of these events on inferences for parameters such as a standardized mortality ratio is approached in two ways. The first c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brookmeyer R,Day N,Pompe-Kirn V

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the resulting loss of information, continuous exposure variables are often categorized in epidemiologic data analysis. It has been shown that nondifferential measurement error of exposure can lead to differential misclassification under these circumstances. This paper extends these findings to the misclassific...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brenner H,Blettner M

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors abstracted a sample of 7,536 hospital medical records to validate the accuracy of the coding of obstetric information on 1) birth certificates, 2) a statewide computerized hospital discharge abstract data system, and 3) a linked file merging birth certificates and the hospital abstract data for Washington ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Parrish KM,Holt VL,Connell FA,Williams B,LoGerfo JP

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy alcohol drinking is associated with cognitive impairment, but little is known concerning the cognitive effect of moderate alcohol consumption. The Epidemiology of Vascular Aging (EVA) Study is a longitudinal study of cognitive and vascular aging. Between June 1991 and June 1993, 1,389 subjects aged 59-71 years (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dufouil C,Ducimetière P,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces the projection methods for describing and testing the differences between pairs of continuous distributions. These methods include the projection plot, the projection spline, and the iter-1 test. The projection plot displays the difference between corresponding quantiles against the average of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jones CP

更新日期：1997-12-15 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：:Although investigators have assessed the relationship between self-reported cigarette smoking and biomarker levels, the validity of self-reported information on smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is uncertain. We used aggregated data from the 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, and 2009-2010 administrations of the National Heal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Agaku IT,King BA

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:The relation between use of conjugated estrogens and the risk of uterine cancer was examined among 188 white women with newly diagnosed endometrial cancer and 428 controls hospitalized for nonmalignant conditions requiring surgery at the Boston Hospital for Women-Parkway Division, Boston, Massachusetts, in January 197...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Buring JE,Bain CJ,Ehrmann RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a computer program for hypothesis testing and calculation of exact binomial confidence intervals for the adjusted relative risk in follow-up studies involving multiple strata with incidence density (person-time) denominators and small or zero person-count numerators. The program is an extension to ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guess HA,Lydick EG,Small RD,Miller LP

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common worldwide perinatal infection. Although usually asymptomatic, it may cause deafness in up to 15% of these infants. A cross-sectional study was performed to determine the age-specific prevalence of CMV seropositivity in Chinese children and to determine if any risk factors for infectio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Wang E,Taylor W,Yu H,Wu T,Wan Z,Huang Y,Ni Z,Sackett D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case-control study, the authors analyzed associations of uterine leiomyoma with atherogenic risk factors and potential sources of uterine irritation. The study included 318 case women with uterine leiomyoma that was first confirmed between 1990 and 1993 in the Baltimore, Maryland, area and 394 controls selecte...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Faerstein E,Szklo M,Rosenshein NB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the prevalence of congenital malformations among births in Benton and Franklin counties, in southeastern Washington State, from 1968 through 1980. The Hanford Site is in this area and serves as a major employer. In addition, various agriculturally and chemically related activities are in the area....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sever LE,Hessol NA,Gilbert ES,McIntyre JM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new viral agent, isolated from the serum of an infectious hepatitis patient and designated as Agent II-B, was extensively studied in in vitro and in vivo systems. Agent II-B multiplied well in primary and serial animal cell cultures and in embryonated hen's eggs. Quantal and quantitative infectivity assays were perf...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Woodford PC,Hansen PA,Roane PR,Ward TG

更新日期：1979-05-01 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：:The authors evaluated the hypothesis that Hodgkin's disease is transmitted among high school students (in a contagious manner) by determining whether members of a population-based series of young adult cases attended school together more frequently than expected. Cases of Hodgkin's disease were diagnosed from July 1, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Scherr PA,Gutensohn N,Cole P

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952-1989 (n = 13,376), third-ge...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahrén-Moonga J,Silverwood R,Klinteberg BA,Koupil I

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:In a population-based case-control study of the association between use of diuretics and renal cell cancer, 120 white men whose cancer was diagnosed during the years 1980-1991 and 86 white women diagnosed in 1960-1991 were identified among members of the Kaiser Permanente Northwest health plan. Controls were plan memb...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weinmann S,Glass AG,Weiss NS,Psaty BM,Siscovick DS,White E

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties inherent in the identification of immune correlates of protection or severe disease have challenged the development and evaluation of dengue vaccines. There persist substantial gaps in knowledge about the complex effects of age and sequential dengue virus (DENV) exposures on these correlations. To address...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Anderson KB,Buddhari D,Srikiatkhachorn A,Gromowski GD,Iamsirithaworn S,Weg AL,Ellison DW,Macareo L,Cummings DAT,Yoon IK,Nisalak A,Ponlawat A,Thomas SJ,Fernandez S,Jarman RG,Rothman AL,Endy TP

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for fibroadenoma were examined in a case-control study involving 117 fibroadenoma cases ascertained by a major private pathology laboratory in Adelaide, Australia, between January 1983 and October 1985. For each case a population control was randomly selected from the electoral roll in Adelaide and matche...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yu H,Rohan TE,Cook MG,Howe GR,Miller AB

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Air Pollution and Health: a European Approach (APHEA) project is a coordinated study of the short-term effects of air pollution on mortality and hospital admissions using data from 15 European cities, with a wide range of geographic, sociodemographic, climatic, and air quality patterns. The objective of this paper...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Touloumi G,Katsouyanni K,Zmirou D,Schwartz J,Spix C,de Leon AP,Tobias A,Quennel P,Rabczenko D,Bacharova L,Bisanti L,Vonk JM,Ponka A

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the authors investigated the role of the intrauterine environment in childhood adiposity by comparing the maternal-offspring body mass index (BMI) association with the paternal-offspring BMI association when the offspring were 3 years of age, using parental prepregnancy BMI (measured as weight in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fleten C,Nystad W,Stigum H,Skjaerven R,Lawlor DA,Davey Smith G,Naess O

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Danish control program for enzootic bovine leukosis, three hematologic screenings of all cattle herds in Denmark were performed in the period 1969-1978. Herds with multiple cases of persistent lymphocytosis and/or leukotic tumors were classified as "leukosis herds." During nationwide blood testing, 369 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gottschau A,Willeberg P,Franti CE,Flensburg JC

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies of overdiagnosis are challenged by unclear definitions and the absence of unified measures. This spurs great controversies. Etymologically, overdiagnosis means too much diagnosis and stems from the inability to distinguish what is important from what is not. Accordingly, in order to grasp, measur...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hofmann B

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) disease from the date of seroconversion to the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and death among 362 well-documented seroconverters. The participants were homosexual men in hepatitis B vaccine trials in Amsterda...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hessol NA,Koblin BA,van Griensven GJ,Bacchetti P,Liu JY,Stevens CE,Coutinho RA,Buchbinder SP,Katz MH

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that subtle changes in the resting electrocardiogram can have predictive value for subsequent cardiovascular disease, the authors evaluated serial electrocardiograms from a cohort of initially healthy men and related these to later development of ischemic heart disease. The cohort of 1056 men or...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harlan WR,Cowie CC,Oberman A,Mitchell RE,MacIntyre NR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many epidemiologists have agreed that a refined estimate of the incubation period of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) would need a sample size of about 200 cases and appropriate statistical methods enabling the inclusion of cases with defined periods of exposure. However, no such studies have been reported so ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cai QC,Xu QF,Xu JM,Guo Q,Cheng X,Zhao GM,Sun QW,Lu J,Jiang QW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00