Body Mass Index and Risk of Infections Among Women in the Danish National Birth Cohort.

abstract：:Earlier epidemiologic studies have suggested an inverse association between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and exposure to histamine(2) (H(2)) blockers, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and antibiotics. Data from the PHARMO database were used to conduct a nested, population-based case-control ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beiderbeck AB,Holly EA,Sturkenboom MC,Coebergh JW,Stricker BH,Leufkens HG

更新日期：2003-03-15 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：:A recent study of two communities in Massachusetts showed that a group of high school sophomores exposed to 107 mg/liter sodium in their municipal drinking water had significantly higher systolic and diastolic blood pressures than a control group exposed to 8 mg/liter. The present study was undertaken to determine if ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hallenbeck WH,Brenniman GR,Anderson RJ

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between anesthetic gas exposure and spontaneous abortion remains unresolved. We examined the effect of nitrous oxide on spontaneous abortion among female dental assistants. Questionnaires were sent to 7,000 dental assistants aged 18-39 years who were registered in California in 1987; 4,856 (69%) responded...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rowland AS,Baird DD,Shore DL,Weinberg CR,Savitz DA,Wilcox AJ

更新日期：1995-03-15 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：:The epidemiologic approach to causal inference (i.e., Hill's viewpoints) consists of evaluating potential causes from the following 2, noncumulative angles: 1) established results from comparative, observational, or experimental epidemiologic studies; and 2) reviews of nonepidemiologic evidence. It does not involve st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Morabia A

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of diet and nutritional supplements, cigarette use, alcohol consumption, and blood lipids to plasma levels of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol was studied among 330 men and women aged 18-79 years. Dietary carotene, preformed vitamin A, and vitamin E intake were estimated by a self-administered semiquant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stryker WS,Kaplan LA,Stein EA,Stampfer MJ,Sober A,Willett WC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of acute respiratory illness and infection to chronic bronchitis was investigated in the community of Tecumseh, Michigan. Families were randomly selected for study from among all those in the community and they were followed for periods of one year. Occurrence of acute respiratory illnesses was identi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Monto AS,Ross HW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) concentration, within its normal range, has recently been proposed as a reliable marker of oxidative stress. Oxidative stress plays a central pathogenic role in many metabolic and/or cardiovascular diseases, incidences of which have recently increased in South Korea. Since serum G...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lee DH,Ha MH,Kam S,Chun B,Lee J,Song K,Boo Y,Steffen L,Jacobs DR Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for a two-stage selection program based upon normally distributed variables is examined. Subjects in the upper part of the distribution of first-stage observations are retained and subsequently observed an additional number of times in a second stage. Subjects in the upper part of the distribution of second-st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McMahan CA

更新日期：1982-08-01 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

abstract：:Recently, the focus of research on cardiovascular risk factors has broadened because of new data demonstrating benefits of low risk (i.e., favorable) levels of all major modifiable risk factors. Most data on low risk relate to coronary heart disease, not stroke. This population-based, 12-sample, Italian study (Progett...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Giampaoli S,Palmieri L,Panico S,Vanuzzo D,Ferrario M,Chiodini P,Pilotto L,Donfrancesco C,Cesana G,Sega R,Stamler J

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence trends in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) demonstrate disparities by race and ethnicity. We used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry to evaluate patterns in ALL incidence from 2000-2016, including the association between the percent of people born in a foreign country at the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Feng Q,de Smith AJ,Vergara-Lluri M,Muskens IS,McKean-Cowdin R,Kogan S,Brynes R,Wiemels JL

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethnic differences in survey participation and their effects on self-reported physical and psychiatric health status measures were examined in a longitudinal health study in Alameda County, California, in 1978 following two time intervals. Blacks and Mexican-Americans were more likely than whites to refuse to particip...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vernon SW,Roberts RE,Lee ES

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 21, 1969, and April 14, 1970, 44 symptomatic cases of Salmonella typhimurium gastroenteritis occurred among the approximately 2500 Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. Twenty-five cases were confirmed by positive stool culture. All 19 cases not confirmed by culture had diarr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Loewenstein MS

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigators have observed an association between alcohol consumption and elevated glucose levels, raising the possibility that alcohol may increase the risk of diabetes. This hypothesis was evaluated prospectively among 85,051 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study who were 34 to 59 years of age in ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stampfer MJ,Colditz GA,Willett WC,Manson JE,Arky RA,Hennekens CH,Speizer FE

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：: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 approximated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroincidence in a population of men who have sex with men and who sought repeated anonymous HIV testing in San Francisco in 1995. The number of seroconversions and person-years of observation were estimated using the date and result of the current test and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McFarland W,Kellogg TA,Dilley J,Katz MH

更新日期：1997-10-15 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：:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the first-line treatment for patients with unipolar depression, yet there is little guidance on which SSRI provides the most benefit to a patient, based on her/his personal characteristics. In this work, we explore whether an individualized treatment strategy can be ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulombe J,Moodie EEM,Shortreed SM,Renoux C

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 1994-1998 cross-sectional study of a multiethnic sample of 2,211 men and women in San Diego, California, the authors estimated prevalence of the major manifestations of chronic venous disease: spider veins, varicose veins, trophic changes, and edema by visual inspection; superficial and deep functional disease (r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Criqui MH,Jamosmos M,Fronek A,Denenberg JO,Langer RD,Bergan J,Golomb BA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relationship between antioxidant vitamin intake and all-cause mortality in older adults, we examined these associations using data from the Leisure World Cohort Study, a prospective study of residents of the Leisure World retirement community in Laguna Hills, California. In the early 1980s, participants ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Paganini-Hill A,Kawas CH,Corrada MM

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective cohort study was used to quantify risk factors for sports concussions. Analysis was based on a stratified cluster sample of North Carolina high school athletes followed during 1996-1999. Clustering was by school and sport, and the sample included 15,802 athletes with 1-8 seasons of follow-up per athlete....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schulz MR,Marshall SW,Mueller FO,Yang J,Weaver NL,Kalsbeek WD,Bowling JM

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for neonatal seizures were evaluated in 116,048 infants born between 1992 and 1994 to residents of Harris County, Texas; 207 of these infants were diagnosed with clinical neonatal seizures. Information was obtained from the infant's birth certificate to assess the relation between seizures and birth weigh...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

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

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between serum selenium concentration and five-year risk of cardiovascular disease was studied in 1,110 men aged 55 to 74 years in two rural areas of Finland. In the total cohort, all-cause and cardiovascular deaths were associated significantly with serum selenium of less than 45 micrograms/liter, an a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtamo J,Valkeila E,Alfthan G,Punsar S,Huttunen JK,Karvonen MJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of aluminum and silica in drinking water on the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, the authors analyzed data from a large prospective cohort (Paquid), including 3,777 subjects aged 65 years and over living at home in 75 civil parishes in Gironde and Dordogne in southwestern France in 1...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rondeau V,Commenges D,Jacqmin-Gadda H,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that micronutrients, especially folate, calcium, iron, and antioxidant vitamins, affect the risk of colorectal neoplasia. The objective of this case-control study was to examine the association between these micronutrients and the risk of colorectal adenomas. The study was based on 236 cases wit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tseng M,Murray SC,Kupper LL,Sandler RS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have determined risk factors for diarrheal deaths in developing areas. The Ministry of Health of Lesotho, southern Africa, reported that 9.5% of children under five years of age who were hospitalized for diarrhea in 1984 died. Of 104 children under five years of age who died during hospitalization for diar...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Griffin PM,Ryan CA,Nyaphisi M,Hargrett-Bean N,Waldman RJ,Blake PA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proto-oncogenes are genes coding for factors involved in cellular growth, reproduction, and differentiation. Cancer results through mutations of proto-oncogenes or through other mechanisms involving the products of proto-oncogenes. This study asks whether serum proteins immunologically related to the products of proto...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weissfeld JL,Larsen RD,Niman HL,Kuller LH

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00