Correcting for Measurement Error in Time-Varying Covariates in Marginal Structural Models.

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：:The distribution and prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsial infection in the ixodid dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus were found to occur at a rate of 19.7% with variation related to geographic and sociooccupational factors. A higher rate of infection was demonstrated in ticks removed from dogs associated with ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tringali G,Intonazzo V,Perna AM,Mansueto S,Vitale G,Walker DH

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between 50 widely used agricultural pesticides and lung cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective cohort study of 57,284 pesticide applicators and 32,333 spouses of farmer applicators with no prior history of lung cancer. Self-administered questionnaires were co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Alavanja MC,Dosemeci M,Samanic C,Lubin J,Lynch CF,Knott C,Barker J,Hoppin JA,Sandler DP,Coble J,Thomas K,Blair A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a century of empirical evidence links marital status to mortality. However, the hazards of dying associated with long-term marital trajectories and contributing risk factors are largely unknown. The authors used 1992-2006 prospective data from a cohort of US adults to investigate the impact of current marita...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dupre ME,Beck AN,Meadows SO

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prevalence survey of respiratory diseases was conducted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the objective of explaining differing patterns of respiratory disease epidemiology in Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites (Anglos). The study population was selected at random from the 1978 R.L. Polk & Co. Directory. This paper foc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howard CA,Samet JM,Buechley RW,Schrag SD,Key CR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based cohort of 166 twin pairs (67 monozygotic and 99 dizygotic) born at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Medical Center, from July 1, 1976 to December 31, 1980 was identified. Body weight and length were measured at 14 days and at one, three, six, nine, and 12 months of age. Statisticall...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Levine RS,Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the predictive performance of genetic risk models based on risk loci identified and/or confirmed in genome-wide association studies for type 2 diabetes mellitus. A systematic literature search was conducted in the PubMed/MEDLINE and EMBASE databases through April 13, 2012, and published da...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bao W,Hu FB,Rong S,Rong Y,Bowers K,Schisterman EF,Liu L,Zhang C

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cataract prevalence, altitude, and sunlight hours was investigated in a large national probability sample survey of 105 sites in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, December 1980 through April 1981. Cataract of senile or unknown etiology was diagnosed by ophthalmologists in 873 of 30,565 full-time...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brilliant LB,Grasset NC,Pokhrel RP,Kolstad A,Lepkowski JM,Brilliant GE,Hawks WN,Pararajasegaram R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal mortality has several components which may have distinct epidemiologic features. In an investigation of the total singleton birth population of New York City in 1976-1978 (n = 320,726), the authors divided perinatal mortality into four components: late fetal deaths that occurred before labor (late antepartum...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kiely JL,Paneth N,Susser M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologic (aggregate) data are widely available and widely utilized in epidemiologic studies. However, ecologic bias, which arises because aggregate data cannot characterize within-group variability in exposure and confounder variables, can only be removed by supplementing ecologic data with individual-level data. Here...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wakefield J,Haneuse SJ

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Night-shift work involving disruption of circadian rhythms has been associated with breast cancer risk. A role in prostate cancer is also suspected, but evidence is limited. We investigated the association between night-shift work and prostate cancer incidence in the Prostate Cancer and Environment Study (PROtEuS), a ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barul C,Richard H,Parent ME

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of the etiologic agent that caused the 1981 epidemic of toxic oil syndrome in Spain has not been established, and toxicologic study of oil specimens from the outbreak has been hampered by uncertainty about which oils were actually capable of causing illness. To identify chemical characteristics associated...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kilbourne EM,Bernert JT Jr,Posada de la Paz M,Hill RH Jr,Abaitua Borda I,Kilbourne BW,Zack MM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between passive smoking and lung cancer was examined by means of a case-control study in a cohort of 27,409 nonsmoking Swedish women identified from questionnaires mailed in 1961 and 1963. A total of 77 cases of primary carcinoma of the bronchus or lung were found in a follow-up of the cohort through 1980...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pershagen G,Hrubec Z,Svensson C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies have suggested that eating patterns, which describe eating frequency, the temporal distribution of eating events across the day, breakfast skipping, and the frequency of eating meals away from home, may be related to obesity. Data from the Seasonal Variation of Blood Cholesterol Study (1994-1998) were use...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ma Y,Bertone ER,Stanek EJ 3rd,Reed GW,Hebert JR,Cohen NL,Merriam PA,Ockene IS

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:Limited data are available on cognitive performance in populations of intravenous drug users during the early, asymptomatic stages of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Between 1988 and 1990, 151 participants from the AIDS Link to Intravenous Experience (ALIVE) Study in Baltimore, Maryland, were ev...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Concha M,Graham NM,Muñoz A,Vlahov D,Royal W 3rd,Updike M,Nance-Sproson T,Selnes OA,McArthur JC

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

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：:The Barnes Hospital Employee Health Service (St. Louis, Missouri) rubella screening program was evaluated over the 5-year period between January 1, 1986, and December 31, 1990. A total of 6,969 new employees were hired, and 6,115 (87.7%) were screened for evidence of rubella immunity by the Employee Health Service. Ru...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser V,Spitznagel E,Medoff G,Dunagan WC

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibling and twin study designs provide control for confounding factors that are typically unmeasured in traditional cohort studies. Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health collected at 3 visits during 1994-2002, the authors evaluated the longitudinal association b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： The NS,Adair LS,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To quantify nonresponse bias and estimate its potential impact, the authors compared census-based socioeconomic and demographic factors and geographic locations among respondents and nonrespondents in a multicenter case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (1998-2000). Using a geographic information system, the autho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shen M,Cozen W,Huang L,Colt J,De Roos AJ,Severson RK,Cerhan JR,Bernstein L,Morton LM,Pickle L,Ward MH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To help public health practitioners promote physical activities with a low risk of injury, this study determined the relation among type and duration of physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and musculoskeletal injury in a sample of adults enrolled in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. Subjects included 4...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hootman JM,Macera CA,Ainsworth BE,Martin M,Addy CL,Blair SN

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationship of smoking to breast cancer risk, the authors conducted a case-control study involving 1,547 patients and 1,930 controls identified between 1973 and 1980 through a nationwide screening program. There was no evidence that smoking affected risk (relative risk (RR) = 1.2), nor were there a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brinton LA,Schairer C,Stanford JL,Hoover RN

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA oxidative stress has been suggested as an important pathogenic mechanism in cognitive impairment and dementia. With baseline data collected from 2004 to 2008, the authors examined whether urinary 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), a biomarker of global DNA oxidation, was associated with cognitive function in a s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gao X,Lai CQ,Scott T,Shen J,Cai T,Ordovas JM,Tucker KL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-eight cases with newly diagnosed carcinoma of the endometrium and 177 age-matched neighborhood controls were interviewed to test the hypothesis that exogenous estrogens lead to an increased risk of endometrial cancer. Forth-five per cent of the cases and 22% of the controls reported a history of estrogen use wh...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Spengler RF,Clarke EA,Woolever CA,Newman AM,Osborn RW

更新日期：1981-10-01 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：:A cross-sectional study of the 979 nonsmoking women and men aged 20-29 years who participated in the Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health Study from 2004 to 2008 was conducted to determine the prevalence of serum ascorbic acid (vitamin C) deficiency and its association with markers of chronic disease in a population of yo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cahill L,Corey PN,El-Sohemy A

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 1986, a statewide outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections in Washington State was identified after a physician in an eastern Washington community hospitalized three patients with hemorrhagic colitis which progressed to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Epidemiologic investigation identified 37 c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostroff SM,Griffin PM,Tauxe RV,Shipman LD,Greene KD,Wells JG,Lewis JH,Blake PA,Kobayashi JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：:Definitions and descriptions of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) vary between Western and Eastern types, and alcoholism and hepatitis B virus (HBV) are, respectively, the main etiologies. To determine whether there are unified diagnostic criteria and common treatment programs for different etiologies of ACLF, a m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gu WY,Xu BY,Zheng X,Chen J,Wang XB,Huang Y,Gao YH,Meng ZJ,Qian ZP,Liu F,Lu XB,Shang J,Li H,Wang SY,Sun X,Li H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and health beyond findings related to cardiovascular disease. Medically certified sickness absence is a health indicator in which coronary heart disease is only a minor factor. To investigate the relation between alcohol intake and sickness absence, re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vahtera J,Poikolainen K,Kivimäki M,Ala-Mursula L,Pentti J

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00