Connective tissue disease in southeastern Georgia: a case-control study of etiologic factors.

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

abstract：:Raised blood pressure is the strongest single risk factor for stroke in the general population. Diabetics are at increased risk of both hypertension and stroke. It is not clear if diabetes mellitus confers an excess risk of stroke that is independent of blood pressure. The authors examined the relation of diabetic sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E,Khaw KT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical devices play a vital role in diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases and are an integral part of the health-care system. Many devices, including implantable medical devices, enter the market through a regulatory pathway that was not designed to assure safety and effectiveness. Several recent studies and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jalbert JJ,Ritchey ME,Mi X,Chen CY,Hammill BG,Curtis LH,Setoguchi S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periconceptional intake of folic acid prevents some neural tube defects (NTDs). Other nutrients may also contribute to NTD etiologies; a likely candidate is choline. Similar to folic acid, choline is involved in one-carbon metabolism for methylation of homocysteine to methionine. The authors investigated whether mater...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shaw GM,Carmichael SL,Yang W,Selvin S,Schaffer DM

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is an important cause of morbidity in the elderly, and many medical conditions and treatments influence cancer risk. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database can be used to conduct population-based case-control studies that elucidate the etiology of cancer among the US elderly. S...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Engels EA,Pfeiffer RM,Ricker W,Wheeler W,Parsons R,Warren JL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative weights of empirical facts (data) and assumptions (theory) in causal inference vary across disciplines. Typically, disciplines that ask more complex questions tend to better tolerate a greater role of theory and modeling in causal inference. As epidemiologists move toward increasingly complex questions, M...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hernán MA

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much concern among the public and veterans that specific environmental exposures incurred during the Gulf War were the cause of subsequent illness among Gulf War veterans. In this historical cohort study, the authors compared the postwar morbidity of US military personnel exposed to smoke from the 1991 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith TC,Heller JM,Hooper TI,Gackstetter GD,Gray GC

更新日期：2002-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:After screening out inappropriate or doubtful covariates on the basis of background knowledge, one may still be left with many potential confounders. It is then tempting to use statistical variable-selection methods to reduce the number used for adjustment. Nonetheless, there is no agreement on how selection should be...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Greenland S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased heart rate variability has been associated with an adverse prognosis in patients after myocardial infarction. Studies carried out in the population at large show contradictory results. The authors examined the association between heart rate variability on a standard 10-second electrocardiogram and cardiac an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Bruyne MC,Kors JA,Hoes AW,Klootwijk P,Dekker JM,Hofman A,van Bemmel JH,Grobbee DE

更新日期：1999-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of international collaborations among birth cohort studies designed to better understand asthma and allergies have increased in the last several years. However, differences in definitions and methods preclude direct pooling of original data on individual participants. As part of the Mechanisms of the Devel...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Benet M,Albang R,Pinart M,Hohmann C,Tischer CG,Annesi-Maesano I,Baïz N,Bindslev-Jensen C,Lødrup Carlsen KC,Carlsen KH,Cirugeda L,Eller E,Fantini MP,Gehring U,Gerhard B,Gori D,Hallner E,Kull I,Lenzi J,McEachan R,Mi

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based case-control study carried out in Adelaide, South Australia, during the years 1984-1987, the diets of 104 cases of cancer of the pancreas 1 year prior to diagnosis were compared with the diets of 253 community controls. A quantitative food-frequency questionnaire was used to assess usual dietary ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Baghurst PA,McMichael AJ,Slavotinek AH,Baghurst KI,Boyle P,Walker AM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 3.1 million children die each year because of undernutrition. Although cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have found a protective association between greater parental education and undernutrition in their children, no randomized trial has identified a causal effect, to our knowledge. Using the 1980 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： De Neve JW,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared US motor vehicle and motorcycle mortality rates during periods when each of several alcohol-related laws were in effect with mortality rates during other periods. During the period 1980-1997, there were 792,184 deaths due to motor vehicle crashes and 63,052 deaths due to motorcycle crashes. An est...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Villaveces A,Cummings P,Koepsell TD,Rivara FP,Lumley T,Moffat J

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer simulation was applied to Sartwell's model to examine the impact of competing risks of death on the underlying assumptions and the power to reject both uniform and normal incubation period distributions. Exponential and nonparametric survival functions were imposed onto lognormal, uniform, and normal distribu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yi Q,Glickman LT

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa is a critical public health problem. We assessed whether depressive symptoms in AGYW were longitudinally associated with incident HIV, and identified potential social and behavioral mediators. Data came ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Goin DE,Pearson RM,Craske MG,Stein A,Pettifor A,Lippman SA,Kahn K,Neilands TB,Hamilton EL,Selin A,MacPhail C,Wagner RG,Gomez-Olive FX,Twine R,Hughes JP,Agyei Y,Laeyendecker O,Tollman S,Ahern J

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983 the relative validity of a retrospective dietary history method was assessed against a current dietary history taken seven years previously in 1976 and a second current dietary history taken in 1983. In total, 44 men and 58 women, aged 38 to 62 years, participated in the study. For energy intake and for most n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Staveren WA,West CE,Hoffmans MD,Bos P,Kardinaal AF,van Poppel GA,Schipper HJ,Hautvast JG,Hayes RB

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While studies show that ultrafine and fine particles can be translocated from the lungs to the central nervous system, the possible neurodegenerative effect of air pollution remains largely unexplored. The authors examined the relation between black carbon, a marker for traffic particles, and cognition among 202 Bosto...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Suglia SF,Gryparis A,Wright RO,Schwartz J,Wright RJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderate-intensity exercise has attracted considerable attention because of its safety and many health benefits. Tai Chi, a form of mind-body exercise that originated in ancient China, has been gaining popularity. Practicing Tai Chi may improve overall health and well-being; however, to our knowledge, no study has eva...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang N,Zhang X,Xiang YB,Li H,Yang G,Gao J,Zheng W,Shu XO

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Glioma risk has consistently been inversely associated with allergy history but not with smoking history despite putative biologic plausibility. Data from 855 high-grade glioma cases and 1,160 controls from 4 geographic regions of the United States during 1997-2008 were analyzed for interactions between allergy and sm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lachance DH,Yang P,Johnson DR,Decker PA,Kollmeyer TM,McCoy LS,Rice T,Xiao Y,Ali-Osman F,Wang F,Stoddard SM,Sprau DJ,Kosel ML,Wiencke JK,Wiemels JL,Patoka JS,Davis F,McCarthy B,Rynearson AL,Worra JB,Fridley BL,O'

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:The authors examined the associations of hostility measured in adulthood with subsequent body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) assessed at 4 time points over a 19-year period (1985-2004) in a United Kingdom cohort study. A total of 6,484 participants (4,494 men and 1,990 women) aged 35-55 years at baseline ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nabi H,Kivimaki M,Sabia S,Dugravot A,Lajnef M,Marmot MG,Singh-Manoux A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This population-based case-referent study investigated the lung cancer risk associated with occupational exposure to asbestos, focusing on dose-response relations and the interaction with tobacco smoking. Incident cases of lung cancer among males aged 40-75 years in Stockholm County, Sweden, were identified from 1985 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gustavsson P,Nyberg F,Pershagen G,Schéele P,Jakobsson R,Plato N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1950 and 1960 about 20,000 israeli children were treated for tinea capitis by x-ray therapy as part of a large public health campaign to eradicate the disease. Dosimetric studies determined that these children were subjected to a mean brain dose of 130 rads. Almost 20 years later, possible radiation effects on...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ron E,Modan B,Floro S,Harkedar I,Gurewitz R

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care for type 1 diabetes mellitus should both alleviate the physical complications of the disease and improve overall quality of life. The Wisconsin Diabetes Registry, comprising a population-based cohort that is followed longitudinally from diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, provided the authors with a unique opportunity ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huang GH,Palta M,Allen C,LeCaire T,D'Alessio D,Wisconsin Diabetes Registry.

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A consistent framework has been developed for measuring health disparities and making comparisons across indicators with regard to the public health goals of Healthy People 2010. Disparities are measured as the percent difference from the best group rate, with all indicators being expressed in terms of adverse events....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Keppel KG

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of social status and behavior type to the incidence of coronary heart disease was examined among husbands and wives in the Framingham Heart Study. Between 1965 and 1967, 269 spouse pairs, in which the husbands were 45-64 years of age, were administered an extensive psychosocial questionnaire. These pa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Haynes SG,Eaker ED,Feinleib M

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:George W. Comstock (1915-2007), MD, MPH, DrPH, was lecturer and then professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health from 1956 to 2007 and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology from 1979 to 1988. This interview of George W. Comstock took place i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Morabia A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an epidemic of cholera in Guinea, West Africa, in 1986, the authors conducted two studies of risk factors for transmission. In the capital city, 35 hospitalized cholera patients were more likely than 70 neighborhood-matched controls to have eaten leftover peanut sauces (odds ration (OR) = 3.1, 95% confidence in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： St Louis ME,Porter JD,Helal A,Drame K,Hargrett-Bean N,Wells JG,Tauxe RV

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Logistic regression was used to estimate the "relative" risk of basal and squamous skin cancer for such factors as cumulative lifetime solar exposure, age, complexion, and tannability. In previous reports, a subject's exposure was estimated indirectly, by latitude, or by the number of sun days in a subject's habitat. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vitaliano PP

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00