Optimal use of available claims to identify a Medicare population free of coronary heart disease.

abstract：:The association between toenail selenium and breast cancer was studied in a prospective study on diet and cancer among 62,573 Dutch women aged 55-69 years that started in September 1986. The analysis was based on 355 breast cancer cases, detected during 3.3 years of follow-up (1986-1989), for whom selenium data were a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van't Veer P,Bode P,Dorant E,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a Norwegian investigation on family planning were used to study the relation between menarcheal age and spontaneous abortion rate. Abortion rates were found to be 1.5-2 times higher among women with a menarcheal age of 12 years or less than among those with a menarcheal age of 14 years or more. The possibili...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liestøl K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although poorer self-rated health (SRH) is associated with increased mortality, less is known about its impact on functioning. This study evaluated whether poorer SRH was associated with decline in walking speed and whether caregiving, often considered an indicator of chronic stress, modified this relation. The sample...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ashburner JM,Cauley JA,Cawthon P,Ensrud KE,Hochberg MC,Fredman L

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In an epidemiologic study of 2982 bladder carcinoma patients and 5782 population controls from 10 geographic areas of the United States, the role of urinary tract infection and inflammation in the etiology of this neoplasm was evaluated. A history of urinary tract infection significantly elevated the risk of bladder c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kantor AF,Hartge P,Hoover RN,Narayana AS,Sullivan JW,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical functioning measures are considered integrated markers of the aging process. This prospective investigation examined relations between dietary intake of women at midlife in 1996-1997 and prevalence of physical functioning limitations 4 years later, defined by the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36. The samp...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tomey KM,Sowers MR,Crandall C,Johnston J,Jannausch M,Yosef M

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of a person's social network is linked to health and longevity, but it is unclear whether the number of strong social ties or the number of weak social ties is most influential for health. We examined social network characteristics as predictors of mortality in the Finnish Public Sector Study (n = 7,617) and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kauppi M,Kawachi I,Batty GD,Oksanen T,Elovainio M,Pentti J,Aalto V,Virtanen M,Koskenvuo M,Vahtera J,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of organophosphate insecticides in cognitive disorders is supported by epidemiologic and biological evidence, but the effects of long-term exposure remain debated. We studied the association between organophosphate exposure and cognitive performance in vine workers from the PHYTONER study cohort in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blanc-Lapierre A,Bouvier G,Gruber A,Leffondré K,Lebailly P,Fabrigoule C,Baldi I

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Analgesic use may reduce ovarian cancer risk, possibly through antiinflammatory or antigonadotropic effects. The authors conducted a population-based, case-control study in Washington State that included 812 women aged 35-74 years who were diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer between 2002 and 2005 and 1,313 contro...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hannibal CG,Rossing MA,Wicklund KG,Cushing-Haugen KL

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because noninstitutionalized senior citizens comprise over 95% of the population 65 years of age and older, their health needs are a major concern. Data regarding infections in this population including the epidemiology, morbidity, and mortality are lacking. The authors recruited a study population of 417 free-living ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ruben FL,Dearwater SR,Norden CW,Kuller LH,Gartner K,Shalley A,Warshafsky G,Kelsey SF,O'Donnell C,Means E

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigated the prevalence of antibodies to five leading agents of childhood respiratory disease in the county of Huixquilucan, Mexico. Tests of sera from a random sample of children between 3 months and 18 years of age confirmed serologically the presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, respiratory syncytial (RS...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Golubjatnikov R,Allen VD,Olmos-Blancarte MP,Inhorn SL

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of preschool physical activity on the change in body fatness from preschool to first grade. The Framingham Children's Study, a longitudinal study of childhood cardiovascular risk behaviors, began in 1987 with the enrollment of 106 children aged 3-5 years and their parents. The present an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Moore LL,Nguyen US,Rothman KJ,Cupples LA,Ellison RC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both early life and adult socioeconomic status (SES) predict late-life level of memory; however, evidence is mixed on the relationship between SES and rate of memory decline. Further, the relative importance of different life-course periods for rate of late-life memory decline has not been evaluated. We examined assoc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marden JR,Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ,Kawachi I,Glymour MM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic information encoded in covalent modifications of DNA and histone proteins regulates fundamental biological processes through the action of chromatin regulators, transcription factors, and noncoding RNA species. Epigenetic plasticity enables an organism to respond to developmental and environmental signals w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yan H,Tian S,Slager SL,Sun Z,Ordog T

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between breast cancer and selenium, measured in the diet, plasma, erythrocytes, and toenails, was investigated in a case-control study in the Netherlands during 1985-1987. Dietary selenium intake was assessed by a structured dietary history technique among 133 breast cancer cases and 238 population con...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van 't Veer P,van der Wielen RP,Kok FJ,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A matched case-control study was conducted of 53 leukemia deaths and of 212 controls within a previously studied cohort of 24,545 on-shore workers employed between January 1, 1952 and August 15, 1977 at the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Naval Shipyard. The study sought to ascertain a priori whether there was an associati...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stern FB,Waxweiler RA,Beaumont JJ,Lee ST,Rinsky RA,Zumwalde RD,Halperin WE,Bierbaum PJ,Landrigan PJ,Murray WE Jr

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

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：:There is increased recognition that determinants of health should be investigated in a life-course perspective. Retirement is a major transition in the life course and offers opportunities for changes in physical activity that may improve health in the aging population. The authors examined the effect of retirement on...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Slingerland AS,van Lenthe FJ,Jukema JW,Kamphuis CB,Looman C,Giskes K,Huisman M,Narayan KM,Mackenbach JP,Brug J

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:On November 7, 1985, a Clostridium perfringens gastroenteritis outbreak occurred in approximately 44% of the 1,362 employees at a Connecticut factory. Although the same foods were served to all three shifts at an employee banquet on November 6, the attack rate was almost twice as high for those who ate on the day shif...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Petersen LR,Mshar R,Cooper GH Jr,Bruce AR,Hadler JL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality of proxy reporting was assessed among 136 prenatal patients and their spouse/partners recruited from the obstetric services of a New Jersey hospital between 1985 and 1987. The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hatch MC,Misra D,Kabat GC,Kartzmer S

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking has been posited as a possible risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but large population-based studies of patients with incident disease are still needed. The authors performed a population-based case-control study in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009, including 494 patients with incident A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Jong SW,Huisman MH,Sutedja NA,van der Kooi AJ,de Visser M,Schelhaas HJ,Fischer K,Veldink JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of three approximate confidence limit methods for the odds ratio, R, is studied at the 95% level in the unconditional sample space. There are: the method proposed by Cornfield (Proceedings of the 3rd Berkeley Symposium 1956;4:135-48), the logit method with 1/2 corrections first considered by Woolf (Ann...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gart JJ,Thomas DG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three residents of 12 contiguous Connecticut communities were identified who had the onset of erythema chronicum migrans, Lyme arthritis, or both during the summer and fall of 1977. Nine of them (21%) remembered having been bitten by a tick at the site of the initial skin lesion a median of 12 days (range 3-20) ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Steere AC,Broderick TF,Malawista SE

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated blood pressure in 1,183 Chinese nuclear families (mother, father, and first two children) via a cross-sectional 1994-1997 survey. The mother's, the father's, and the first sibling's blood pressures were each significantly and independently related to the second sibling's blood pressure after ad...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang X,Wang B,Chen C,Yang J,Fang Z,Zuckerman B,Xu X

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this analysis was to identify risk factors for recent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among homosexual and bisexual men in Ontario, Canada, during 1998-2001. Participants were recruited through the provincial HIV diagnostic laboratory and through physicians and community organizations. HI...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Calzavara L,Burchell AN,Remis RS,Major C,Corey P,Myers T,Millson M,Wallace E

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current abstainers from alcohol have been identified as an inadequate reference group in epidemiologic studies of the effects of alcohol, because inclusion of former drinkers might lead to overestimation of the protective effects and underestimation of the detrimental effects of drinking alcohol. The authors' objectiv...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Roerecke M,Rehm J

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:Contemporary searches for new risk factors frequently involve genome-wide explorations of very large numbers of candidate risk variants. Given that diseases can often be classified into subtypes that possess evidence of etiologic heterogeneity, the question arises as to whether or not a search for new risk factors wou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Begg CB,Zabor EC

更新日期：2012-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a simulation study to examine whether the race of a patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) influences the diagnosis of underlying kidney disease made by the nephrologist. The hypothesis was that ESRD may be more readily ascribed to hypertension in blacks than in whites. Nephrologists practic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Perneger TV,Whelton PK,Klag MJ,Rossiter KA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exact probability test and its asymptotic version are described for testing the hypothesis that clustering of disease observed among population units is likely to have been due to chance alone. The test is based on a scheme for ranking possible arrangements of ill and well persons by degree of clustering, as measur...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser DW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00