Parental Age at Birth and Risk of Hematological Malignancies in Older Adults.

abstract：:In the absence of prior knowledge about population relations, investigators frequently employ a strategy that uses the data to help them decide whether to adjust for a variable. The authors compared the performance of several such strategies for fitting multiplicative Poisson regression models to cohort data: 1) the "...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Maldonado G,Greenland S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age at menarche, an early determinant of breast cancer risk, shows both a downward secular trend and marked differences by socioeconomic status, both presumably the reflection of dietary variations. A cohort study is being conducted in the Quebec City, Canada, area to assess the relation between diet, physical activit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Moisan J,Meyer F,Gingras S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean levels of total cholesterol by sex and age were compared between groups of whites in visit 2 of the Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study and in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). NHANES II estimates were found to be higher than comparable visit 2 estimates by 3-14 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kalsbeek WD,Kral KM,Wallace RB,Rifkind BM

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prospective studies, disease rates during follow-up are typically analyzed with respect to the values of factors measured during an initial baseline survey. However, because of "regression dilution," this generally tends to underestimate the real associations of disease rates with the "usual" levels of such risk fa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clarke R,Shipley M,Lewington S,Youngman L,Collins R,Marmot M,Peto R

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relative importance of dietary sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium intakes as correlates of blood pressure in a cross-sectional analysis of 987 black and 1,043 white 9- and 10-year-old girls from Richmond, California, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, DC, who were enrolled in the Nationa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Simon JA,Obarzanek E,Daniels SR,Frederick MM

更新日期：1994-01-15 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：:The relation between self-reported physical activity and depressive symptoms was analyzed for 1,900 healthy subjects aged 25-77 years in the Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (1982-1984) to the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I). Depressive symptomatology as measured by the Center for Epidem...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Farmer ME,Locke BZ,Mościcki EK,Dannenberg AL,Larson DB,Radloff LS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cluster randomized controlled trials (CRCTs) are attractive in settings in which individual randomization is difficult or impossible. This issue is common when studying several health problems in developing countries. The authors aimed to assess empirically the extent to which the prerequisite design and analysis aspe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Isaakidis P,Ioannidis JP

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:A randomized field trial was conducted in Tecumseh, Michigan, to test the efficacy of virucidal nasal tissues in interrupting transmission of respiratory agents in the household. In the double-blinded trial, 296 households were stratified by household size and randomly assigned to the group using treated tissues and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Longini IM Jr,Monto AS

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cross-sectional relation between levels of urinary biogenic amines (dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and serotonin) and levels of blood lead was examined in a study of 645 male participants from a longitudinal study of aging. This stable population of men had initially been recruited from communities in and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Payton M,Hu H,Sparrow D,Young JB,Landsberg L,Weiss ST

更新日期：1993-11-15 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：:The receiver operating characteristic curve is a commonly used tool for evaluating biomarker usefulness in clinical diagnosis of disease. Frequently, biomarkers being assessed have immeasurable or unreportable samples below some limit of detection. Ignoring observations below the limit of detection leads to negatively...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Perkins NJ,Schisterman EF,Vexler A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 40 genomic regions significantly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, GWAS results are not always straightforward to interpret, and linking these loci to meaningful disease etiology is often difficult without extensive follow-up stud...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Greenawalt DM,Sieberts SK,Cornelis MC,Girman CJ,Zhong H,Yang X,Guinney J,Qi L,Hu FB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large, population-based case-control study of facial clefts was carried out in Norway between 1996 and 2001. The study included 573 cases -- 377 with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and 196 with cleft palate only -- and 763 randomly selected controls. Maternal consumption of coffee and other caffeine-containi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Johansen AM,Wilcox AJ,Lie RT,Andersen LF,Drevon CA

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reasons for health disparities may include neighborhood-level factors, such as availability of health services, social norms, and environmental determinants, as well as individual-level factors. Investigating health inequalities using nationally or locally representative data often requires an approach that can accomm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brumback BA,Cai Z,Dailey AB

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the results of cohort studies on the association between alcohol and breast cancer are rather consistent, the current evidence is based solely on North American cohorts. Therefore, this association was evaluated in the Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer, conducted since 1986 among 62,573 women aged 5...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van 't Veer P

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger body size in childhood is correlated with earlier age at menarche; whether birth and infant body size changes are also associated with age at menarche is less clear. The authors contacted female participants enrolled in the New York site of the US National Collaborative Perinatal Project born between 1959 and 1...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Terry MB,Ferris JS,Tehranifar P,Wei Y,Flom JD

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:In 1976-1978, a battery of eight neuropsychologic tests were administered to 2,123 participants in the Framingham Study who were aged 55-89 years. Performance on each test was examined in relation to concurrently measured systolic and diastolic blood pressure while controlling for age, sex, education, antihypertensive...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Farmer ME,White LR,Abbott RD,Kittner SJ,Kaplan E,Wolz MM,Brody JA,Wolf PA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between fetal growth restriction and increased rates of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood has been reported. This study evaluated familial aggregation of fetal growth restriction in term births. The population consisted of 3,505 sibships comprised of 7,822 full-term singleton infants bo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： La Batide-Alanore A,Trégouët DA,Jaquet D,Bouyer J,Tiret L

更新日期：2002-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy estrogens are substantially elevated in twin pregnancies and are likely to be more so in the case of dizygotic twins. If levels of pregnancy estrogens were positively related to breast cancer risk in the offspring, female twin members would be expected to be at slightly higher risk. Data from an internationa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hsieh CC,Lan SJ,Ekbom A,Petridou E,Adami HO,Trichopoulos D

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989, the authors tested the effectiveness of two response-enhancing techniques, a postage stamped or franked return envelope and a prenotification letter, in a survey of pregnancy among 10,047 resident physicians in the United States. The techniques were randomly assigned using a factorial design. No significant i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shiono PH,Klebanoff MA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1996 to 2001, the authors undertook a case-control study of 192 pelvis fracture cases (men and women) and 2,402 controls aged > or = 45 years at five Kaiser Permanente medical centers in Northern California. Most information on potential risk factors was obtained by means of an interviewer-administered questionna...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kelsey JL,Prill MM,Keegan TH,Quesenberry CP Jr,Sidney S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective cohort study evaluated adverse birth outcomes in infants whose birth records indicated maternal residence in villages containing dumpsites potentially hazardous to health and environment. Birth records from 1997 to 2001 identified 10,073 eligible infants born to mothers in 197 Alaska Native villages...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilbreath S,Kass PH

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although data on the prevalence of injection drug use are an essential prerequisite for estimating the number of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there have been few attempts to utilize statistical methods of population estimation based on multiple data sources. Data on 3,670 cases (2,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frischer M,Leyland A,Cormack R,Goldberg DJ,Bloor M,Green ST,Taylor A,Covell R,McKeganey N,Platt S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family studies of exceptional longevity can potentially identify genetic and other factors contributing to long life and healthy aging. Although such studies seek families that are exceptionally long lived, they also need living members who can provide DNA and phenotype information. On the basis of these consideration...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sebastiani P,Hadley EC,Province M,Christensen K,Rossi W,Perls TT,Ash AS

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 1973-2000 mesothelioma incidence data released by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program in April 2003, the authors estimated the parameters of a birth-cohort and age model to determine whether previously reported patterns of mesothelioma in the United States have changed. Compared with analyses...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Price B,Ware A

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents findings on depressive symptomatology among 3,118 Mexican-American adults who participated in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES). In 1982-1984, the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale was administered to Mexican Americans ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mościcki EK,Locke BZ,Rae DS,Boyd JH

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we assessed the association of chronic medical conditions and multimorbidity with perceived stress among community-dwelling adults in 44 low- and middle-income countries. Data from the World Health Survey (2002-2004), including 229,293 adults, were analyzed. A perceived stress score (range, 0 (lowest st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vancampfort D,Koyanagi A,Ward PB,Veronese N,Carvalho AF,Solmi M,Mugisha J,Rosenbaum S,De Hert M,Stubbs B

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00