Hearing impairment and cognitive decline: a pilot study conducted within the atherosclerosis risk in communities neurocognitive study.

abstract：:In an effort to determine the immune status of individuals in a natural community, neutralizing antibody titers for the three types of poliovirus were examined in 301 randomly sampled sera collected in 1966 and 308 specimens from 1971. The specimens were part of a larger collection obtained from residents of Tecumseh,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oberhofer TR,Brown GC,Monto AS

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

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：:To determine risk factors for Ewing's bone sarcoma, the authors interviewed mothers of 43 patients diagnosed between January 1978 and August 1986 and 193 controls in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, regarding medical and occupational history of parents and other factors related to the subjects and their immedia...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Holly EA,Aston DA,Ahn DK,Kristiansen JJ

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Narrowing and other changes in retinal arterioles may reflect damage due to hypertension, which may predict stroke and other cardiovascular diseases independently of blood pressure level. Newly developed quantitative methods of assessing retinal narrowing are used to determine whether this sign is related only to curr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sharrett AR,Hubbard LD,Cooper LS,Sorlie PD,Brothers RJ,Nieto FJ,Pinsky JL,Klein R

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small number of prior epidemiologic studies of occupational noise exposure based on self-report have suggested an association with acoustic neuroma. The goal of the present study was to further examine the association between noise exposure and acoustic neuroma by using an objective measure of exposure in the form o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Edwards CG,Schwartzbaum JA,Nise G,Forssén UM,Ahlbom A,Lönn S,Feychting M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male drivers sustained relatively more serious motorcycle collision injuries than did male passengers, female drivers, or female passengers. For male drivers, severity of injury was related to age. The relative frequency of serious head injury was highest for drivers not wearing helmets who were involved in collisions...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kraus JF,Riggins RS,Franti CE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two families of gorillas, comprising 13 animals, were studied in 1980-1982 for hepatitis virus infections. It was found that 27% of them had evidence of hepatitis B infection, and 23% evidence of hepatitis A infection. The four parents had been born in the wild and all of them had been infected with hepatitis B. The t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Linnemann CC Jr,Kramer LW,Askey PA

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the authors report on the design of a population-based case-control study of family history as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). They studied the characteristics of subjects who completed a detailed family history questionnaire in 1992-1994 as well as the accuracy of recall of family histo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Silberberg JS,Wlodarczyk J,Fryer J,Ray CD,Hensley MJ

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1997 redesign of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) affected US childhood asthma prevalence estimates. The 1997 asthma attack prevalence estimate for children 0-17 years was 5.4%. Pre-redesign NHIS childhood asthma period prevalence estimates peaked in 1995 at 7.5%. It is unclear whether the difference re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Akinbami LJ,Schoendorf KC,Parker J

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the feasibility and effectiveness of Internet-based epidemiologic research have been established, methodological support for the quality of such data is still accumulating. We aimed to identify sociodemographic differences among members of a French cohort according to willingness to provide part of one's 15-di...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Andreeva VA,Galan P,Julia C,Castetbon K,Kesse-Guyot E,Hercberg S

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Nitrate and nitrite are precursors of N-nitroso compounds, which induce tumors of the pancreas in animals. The authors evaluated the relation of dietary nitrate and nitrite to pancreatic cancer risk in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Nitrate and nitrite intakes were assessed at baseline using a 124-item food frequ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aschebrook-Kilfoy B,Cross AJ,Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ,Schatzkin A,Hollenbeck AR,Sinha R,Ward MH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is an important, avoidable factor associated with low birth weight. Maternal age is also associated with variations in birth weight. Using birth certificate data from all 347,650 singleton births for which maternal age and birth weight were recorded during 1984-1988 in Washington Sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fox SH,Koepsell TD,Daling JR

更新日期：1994-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The unexpected nature of disasters leaves little time or resources for organized health surveillance of the affected population, and even less for those who are unaffected. An ideal epidemiologic study would monitor both groups equally well, but would typically be decided against as infeasible or costly. Exposure and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mongin SJ,Baron SL,Schwartz RM,Liu B,Taioli E,Kim H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated variations in cognitive ability by gestational age among 13,824 children at age 6.5 years who were born at term with normal weight, using data from a prospective cohort recruited in 1996-1997 in Belarus. The mean differences in the Wechsler Abbreviated Scales of Intelligence were examined by g...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang S,Platt RW,Kramer MS

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiologic study of prevalence of antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was simultaneously done in four populations: group I, nuns working as nurses or school teachers; group II, women admitted to a upper socioeconomic private hospital; group III, women admitted to a lower socioeconomic county hospital, and group...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davis LE,Stewart JA,Garvin S

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of exposure misclassification has received considerable attention in the epidemiologic literature, with the result that methods for correcting many summary risk estimates for such misclassification are well known. However, the application of such methods typically requires more data than are usually publi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenbaum WL,Sterling TD,Weinkam JJ

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammographic percent density, the proportion of fibroglandular tissue in the breast, is a strong risk factor for breast cancer, but its determinants in young women are unknown. We examined associations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) breast-tissue composition at age 21 years with prospectively collected measuremen...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Denholm R,De Stavola B,Hipwell JH,Doran SJ,Busana MC,Leach MO,Hawkes DJ,Dos-Santos-Silva I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little current understanding of the risk for occurrence of unintentional injury in the home. The authors estimated the incidence of unintentional home injuries for an entire community, adjusting for actual time spent awake in the home and, in addition, analyzed the costs of these injuries. Cases of unintentio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kopjar B,Wickizer TM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the association between the use of diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy and the risk of subsequent fatal breast cancer in a large prospective study of US adults. After 9 years of follow-up, 1,574 cases of fatal breast cancer were observed among 501,536 gravid women who reported no prior history of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Calle EE,Mervis CA,Thun MJ,Rodriguez C,Wingo PA,Heath CW Jr

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buccal cells provide a convenient source of DNA for epidemiologic studies. Mouthwash rinses yield a higher quality and quantity of DNA than cytobrushes but are not practical for collection from infants. Although cytobrushes yield sufficient DNA for most genotyping analyses, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) analysis can r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saftlas AF,Waldschmidt M,Logsden-Sackett N,Triche E,Field E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planners of several large prevention trials have overestimated the expected incidence of events in the control group, largely because they failed either to recognize or to adequately correct for various effects of population selection. Consequently, the studies have been too small in size or too short in duration to a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ederer F,Church TR,Mandel JS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential association between sickle cell trait (SCT) and increased arterial stiffness/blood pressure (BP) has not been evaluated in detail despite its association with stroke, sudden death, and renal disease. We performed 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring and arterial stiffness measurements in adolescents raised i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Etyang AO,Wandabwa CK,Kapesa S,Muthumbi E,Odipo E,Wamukoya M,Ngomi N,Haregu T,Kyobutungi C,Williams TN,Makale J,Macharia A,Cruickshank JK,Smeeth L,Scott JAG

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke mortality is reported to be greater in blacks than in whites, but stroke incidence data for blacks and Hispanics are sparse. The aim of this study was to determine and compare stroke incidence rates among whites, blacks, and Hispanics living in the same urban community. A population-based incidence study was co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sacco RL,Boden-Albala B,Gan R,Chen X,Kargman DE,Shea S,Paik MC,Hauser WA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter prospective study has been designed to determine whether participation in an exercise program which produces a significant training effect will affect the recurrence rate in men who have survived an initial myocardial infarction. The control group consists of subjects who participate in a program involvi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rechnitzer PA,Sangal S,Cunningham DA,Andrew G,Buck C,Jones NL,Kavanagh T,Parker JO,Shephard RJ,Yuhasz MS

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether early gestational exposures to pesticides were associated with an increased risk of anencephaly, spina bifida, cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CLP), or cleft palate only. We used population-based data along with detailed information from maternal interviews. Exposure estimates were based on...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang W,Carmichael SL,Roberts EM,Kegley SE,Padula AM,English PB,Shaw GM

更新日期：2014-03-15 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：:Racial differences in the incidence and natural history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were evaluated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The yearly incidence rate for whites was approximately 1.5 times that for blacks. The cumulative risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes prior to age 20 was greater for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： LaPorte RE,Tajima N,Dorman JS,Cruickshanks KJ,Eberhardt MS,Rabin BS,Atchison RW,Wagener DK,Becker DJ,Orchard TJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to study the association between birth weight and the insulin sensitivity index. Altogether, 331 unrelated Caucasian subjects aged 18-32 years with measures of the insulin sensitivity index and insulin secretion during a combined intravenous glucose and tolbutamide tolerance test were included in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clausen JO,Borch-Johnsen K,Pedersen O

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is diagnosed at a younger age and a more advanced stage in African-American women than in White women. The authors investigated the effects of several factors, including race, on stage of breast cancer in women aged 20-54 years living in Atlanta, Georgia, and diagnosed between 1990 and 1992. A total of 2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hahn KM,Bondy ML,Selvan M,Lund MJ,Liff JM,Flagg EW,Brinton LA,Porter P,Eley JW,Coates RJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00