Fetal Growth and the Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Birth in a Prospective Cohort Study of Nulliparous Women.

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous disease. The better classification of types of diabetes mellitus among adults will improve epidemiologic studies of determinants of risk factors and genetic host susceptibility. Recently, an antibody to a specific enzyme, glutamic acid decarboxylase, has been closely linked to insu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zimmet PZ,Shaten BJ,Kuller LH,Rowley MJ,Knowles WJ,Mackay IR

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the magnitude of tracking coefficients (i.e., stability coefficients and tracking for subjects at risk) greatly depends on the initial age of subjects, the number and spacing of longitudinal measurements, and the length of the total time period, it is difficult to compare tracking coefficients from different s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Twisk JW,Kemper HC,van Mechelen W,Post GB

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The term shoe-leather epidemiology is often synonymous with field epidemiology or intervention epidemiology. All 3 terms imply investigations initiated in response to urgent public health problems and for which the investigative team does much of its work in the field (i.e., outside the office or laboratory). Alexande...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koo D,Thacker SB

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary reviews the recent history of explanations to crossover paradoxes such as the birth weight and gestational age paradoxes, with a special emphasis on the current proposal by Kramer et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(3):361-367). We contend that the causal structure of these pa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hernán MA,Schisterman EF,Hernández-Díaz S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital statistics data on mortality from malignant melanoma from five countries are simultaneously fit by the method of cohort analysis. After the effects of geographic and temporal trends are removed, the proportion of deaths occurring in the younger age groups is found to be higher in females than in males. Relative ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Venzon DJ,Moolgavkar SH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated the association of complexity of work with data, people, and things with the incidence of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, while adjusting for work-related physical activity. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging is a 10-year populat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kröger E,Andel R,Lindsay J,Benounissa Z,Verreault R,Laurin D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) antibody titers were monitored for five years with samples from 79 keratoconjunctivitis patients with type 8 adenovirus (AV-8) infection. Geometric mean antibody titers declined from 1:161 at the peak of the epidemic to 1:56 after five years. Computerized analysis of the decline ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hierholzer JC,Sprague JB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies suggest positive associations between poor oral health and cardiovascular disease. The authors undertook a prospective study among 15,273 Swedish twins (1963-2000) to examine whether genetic factors underlying the 2 diseases could explain previous associations. They estimated hazard ratios and 95...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mucci LA,Hsieh CC,Williams PL,Arora M,Adami HO,de Faire U,Douglass CW,Pedersen NL

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：:Previous reports have shown that peptic ulcer mortality follows birth cohorts. To the authors' knowledge, temporal variation in ulcer incidence has not been studied. Therefore, they present incidence data for a defined area of western Norway where 1,312 patients born between 1845 and 1975 were treated for ulcer perfor...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Svanes C,Lie RT,Kvåle G,Svanes K,Søreide O

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted descriptive and case-control studies to find factors associated with earthquake deaths due to the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake on January 17, 1995, in Nishinomiya, Japan. In the case-control study, cases included all 1,104 deaths. Controls were randomly selected from survivors. Earthquake morta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Osaki Y,Minowa M

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of CD4 lymphocytes is known to be an important component of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pathogenesis. It remains unclear, however, whether the importance of the CD4 lymphocyte count is such that individuals who have been infected for widely different lengths of time, but for whom the CD4 lymph...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Phillips AN,Sabin CA,Elford J,Bofill M,Janossy G,Lee CA

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is a persistent environmental contaminant. Although experimental evidence suggests that TCDD alters thyroid hormone levels in rodents, human data are inconsistent. In 1976, a trichlorophenol plant exploded in Seveso, Italy. Women living in highly exposed areas were followed t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chevrier J,Warner M,Gunier RB,Brambilla P,Eskenazi B,Mocarelli P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between recreational physical activity and plasma lipid concentrations in early pregnancy. Between 1996 and 2000, 925 normotensive, nondiabetic pregnant women in Washington State were interviewed at approximately 13 weeks' gestation regarding type, frequency, and duration of physical ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Butler CL,Williams MA,Sorensen TK,Frederick IO,Leisenring WM

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have provided evidence of an inverse association between atopic allergic conditions (AACs) and invasive colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in predominantly white populations. We examined the association between AACs (asthma, hay fever, or allergy) and CRC among white, African-American, Native Hawa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tambe NA,Wilkens LR,Wan P,Stram DO,Gilliland F,Park SL,Cozen W,Martínez-Maza O,Le Marchand L,Henderson BE,Haiman CA

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Several studies have reported an increased risk of multiple myeloma associated with excess body weight. We investigated the risk of multiple myeloma in relation to separate measures of adiposity and energy balance at different ages in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, a large prospective co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hofmann JN,Moore SC,Lim U,Park Y,Baris D,Hollenbeck AR,Matthews CE,Gibson TM,Hartge P,Purdue MP

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While time-series studies have consistently provided evidence for an effect of particulate air pollution on mortality, uncertainty remains as to the extent of the life-shortening implied by those associations. In this paper, the authors estimate the association between air pollution and mortality using different times...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dominici F,McDermott A,Zeger SL,Samet JM

更新日期：2003-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four random samples representing populations at low (volunteer blood donors), intermediate, (VD clinic patients), high (family contacts of chronic antigen carriers) and very high (male homosexuals) risk of exposure to HBV were surveyed. Among HBsAg and anti-HBs negative individuals an average of 3.3% were found to be ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Szmuness W,Hoofnagle JH,Stevens CE,Prince AM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the carcinogenic potential and widespread use of conjugated estrogens (CEs), this study evaluated patterns and determinants of oral ambulatory CE use. Among 1273 women 30 to 69 years of age interviewed in Greater-Boston hospitals, there were 161 (13%) ever-users of CEs; 88 (7%) had used the drug within the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Shapiro S,Kaufman DW,Slone D,Miettinen OS,Stolley PD

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relation of noncontraceptive estrogen use to the risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women, the authors conducted a case-control study: 1,686 cases were compared with 2,077 hospital control subjects, of whom 1,120 had non-gynecologic cancers and 957 had nonmalignant (also non-gynecologic) conditi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaufman DW,Palmer JR,de Mouzon J,Rosenberg L,Stolley PD,Warshauer ME,Zauber AG,Shapiro S

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposures to the stress and stimulation of different work, parenting, and partnership combinations might influence later life cognition. We investigated the relationship between women's work-family life histories and cognitive functioning in later life. Analyses were based on data from women born between 193...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ice E,Ang S,Greenberg K,Burgard S

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：: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 association between psychosocial risk factors and retinal microvascular signs was examined in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Subjects were recruited from Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Forsyth County, North Carolina; Los Angeles County, California; New York, New York; and St. Paul, Minnesota. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jensen RA,Shea S,Ranjit N,Diez-Roux A,Wong TY,Klein R,Klein BE,Cotch MF,Siscovick DS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature concerning social capital and health has grown exponentially during the past somewhat more than 10 years. The study by Kouvonen et al. (Am J Epidemiol 2008;167:1143-1151) is a longitudinal multilevel analysis of 33,577 public sector employees in Finland. The study shows a significant association between...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lindström M

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Personnel assigned to infantry units of the army of the Republic of China (Taiwan) stationed in the Pescadores Islands experienced the highest incidence rate of scrub typhus (4%) and the highest rate of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi infection (12%) of the units studied during 1976. The ratio of scrub typhus to infection wi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Olson JG,Bourgeois AL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have investigated the effects of parental smoking patterns on the pulmonary function of children in East Boston, Massachusetts. A crude inverse dose-response relationship was observed between the level of FEF25--75% predicted of children who never smoked and the number of smoking parents in the household. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tager IB,Weiss ST,Rosner B,Speizer FE

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Australia, as in many industrialized countries, the past 50 years have been marked by increasing female labor-force participation. It is popularly speculated that this might impose a mental-health burden on women and their children. This analysis aimed to examine the associations between household labor-force parti...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： King TL,Shields M,Byars S,Kavanagh AM,Craig L,Milner A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few reports on population-based studies of birth rate among epilepsy patients have been published. In most previous studies, fertility has been lower among epilepsy patients than in the rest of the population. However, conflicting results have also been reported. Because of small samples and selective material, the ge...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Artama M,Isojärvi JI,Raitanen J,Auvinen A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00