Can E-Cigarettes and Pharmaceutical Aids Increase Smoking Cessation and Reduce Cigarette Consumption? Findings From a Nationally Representative Cohort of American Smokers.

abstract：:The association between a single interpregnancy interval (IPI) and birth outcomes has not yet been explored using matched methods. We modeled the odds of preterm birth, being small for gestational age, and having low birth weight in a second, live-born infant in a cohort of 192,041 sibling pairs born in Western Austra...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Regan AK,Ball SJ,Warren JL,Malacova E,Padula A,Marston C,Nassar N,Stanley F,Leonard H,de Klerk N,Pereira G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the intake of vegetables, fruits, beta-carotene, and vitamins C and E in relation to the incidence of lung cancer. For 561 men from the town of Zutphen, the Netherlands, dietary history information was obtained in 1960, 1965, and 1970. During 1971-1990, 54 new cases of lung cancer were identified. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ocké MC,Bueno-de-Mesquita HB,Feskens EJ,van Staveren WA,Kromhout D

更新日期：1997-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraabdominal fat (IAF) area is often measured indirectly in epidemiologic studies. The authors recruited 147 participants from the second examination (1990-1992) of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study to examine IAF area and determine whether there were differences in IAF area and distribution by location....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Warren M,Schreiner PJ,Terry JG

更新日期：2006-02-15 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 authors tested, by molecular hybridization, for hepatitis B virus DNA in serum specimens of 182 asymptomatic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) Greek carriers who were heterosexual partners of patients with acute hepatitis B (group A: 96 cases) or healthy subjects who were susceptible to hepatitis B (group B: 86 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tassopoulos NC,Papaevangelou GJ,Roumeliotou-Karayannis A,Ticehurst JR,Feinstone SM,Purcell RH

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1979 and March 1980, distinguishing features between fatal and nonfatal cases of diarrhea caused by the same etiologic agents were sought in a case-control investigation of Cuna Indian children living on the San Blas Islands located off Panama's Caribbean coast. The eight fatal cases of diarrhea (fou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ryder RW,Reeves WC,Sack RB

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although data on the prevalence of injection drug use are an essential prerequisite for estimating the number of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there have been few attempts to utilize statistical methods of population estimation based on multiple data sources. Data on 3,670 cases (2,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frischer M,Leyland A,Cormack R,Goldberg DJ,Bloor M,Green ST,Taylor A,Covell R,McKeganey N,Platt S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulvar vestibulitis is characterized by superficial pain during intercourse. Exploratory studies have suggested that oral contraceptives (OCs) could be associated with occurrence of vulvar vestibulitis. This 1995-1998 case-control study in Québec, Canada, sought to reassess this association. Included were 138 women wi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bouchard C,Brisson J,Fortier M,Morin C,Blanchette C

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular morbidity has been associated with particulate matter (PM) air pollution, although the relation between pollutants and sudden death from cardiac arrest has not been established. This study examined associations between out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and fine PM (of aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm, or PM(2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Silverman RA,Ito K,Freese J,Kaufman BJ,De Claro D,Braun J,Prezant DJ

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied immune response and exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin) among veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the US Air Force unit responsible for the aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. A comparison group of Air Force veterans who served in Southeast Asia but were n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Michalek JE,Ketchum NS,Check IJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of weight in middle-aged men and subsequent weight change on the risk of osteoporosis three decades later. The authors utilized data from 1,476 Norwegian men participating in two health screenings in Oslo (1972-1973 and 2000-2001) and Tromsø (1974-1975 and 2001). Heig...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meyer HE,Søgaard AJ,Falch JA,Jørgensen L,Emaus N

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether recent coffee consumption is related to the incidence of large bowel cancer, the authors analyzed data from a multipurpose hospital-based case-control study of several cancers, conducted from 1978 to 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Marylan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Werler MM,Palmer JR,Kaufman DW,Warshauer ME,Stolley PD,Shapiro S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult height is determined by genetics and childhood nutrition, but childhood infections may also play a role. Monozygotic twins are genetically matched and offer an advantage when identifying environmental determinants. In 2005-2007, we examined the association of childhood infections with adult height in 140 height-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hwang AE,Mack TM,Hamilton AS,Gauderman WJ,Bernstein L,Cockburn MG,Zadnick J,Rand KA,Hopper JL,Cozen W

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between age at first vaginal intercourse and a positive nucleic acid amplification test for sexually transmitted infection (STI). A nationally representative sample of 9,844 respondents aged 18-26 years was tested for chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in wave 3 (2001...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaestle CE,Halpern CT,Miller WC,Ford CA

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for an association between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and obesity is inconsistent. The authors examined associations between adiposity and AMD prevalence using 21,287 participants from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study aged 40-69 years at baseline (1990-1994). For men, each increase of 0.1 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Adams MK,Simpson JA,Aung KZ,Makeyeva GA,Giles GG,English DR,Hopper J,Guymer RH,Baird PN,Robman LD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prospective studies, disease rates during follow-up are typically analyzed with respect to the values of factors measured during an initial baseline survey. However, because of "regression dilution," this generally tends to underestimate the real associations of disease rates with the "usual" levels of such risk fa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clarke R,Shipley M,Lewington S,Youngman L,Collins R,Marmot M,Peto R

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cross-sectional relation between levels of urinary biogenic amines (dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and serotonin) and levels of blood lead was examined in a study of 645 male participants from a longitudinal study of aging. This stable population of men had initially been recruited from communities in and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Payton M,Hu H,Sparrow D,Young JB,Landsberg L,Weiss ST

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity tends to decline from childhood into adulthood. Maintaining high levels of physical activity throughout life is therefore an important public health objective. Relatively little is known about changes in physical activity behavior over the life course, the domains of physical activity in which they o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Corder K,Ogilvie D,van Sluijs EM

更新日期：2009-11-01 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 authors conducted a population-based case-control study to investigate whether clinically observed chickenpox, linked with a level of intensity for clinical expression, increases the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in childhood. The cases were MS patients whose disease onset occurred between 1994 and 2003, before ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mikaeloff Y,Caridade G,Suissa S,Tardieu M,KIDSEP Study Group.

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eating disorders are a leading cause of disease burden among young women. This study investigated associations of social characteristics of parents and grandparents, sibling position, and school performance with incidence of eating disorders. The authors studied Swedish females born in 1952-1989 (n = 13,376), third-ge...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ahrén-Moonga J,Silverwood R,Klinteberg BA,Koupil I

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:There is accumulating evidence suggesting that children may drive the spread of influenza epidemics. The objective of this study was to quantify the lead time by age using laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A for the 1995/1996-2005/2006 seasons from Canadian communities and laboratory-confirmed hospital admission...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schanzer D,Vachon J,Pelletier L

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Anthropometric characteristics, physical activity, and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, its subtypes, and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) were evaluated in a prospective cohort study of 37,931 Iowa women who were aged 55-69 years at baseline in 1986. Through 1998, 261 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (137 di...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cerhan JR,Janney CA,Vachon CM,Habermann TM,Kay NE,Potter JD,Sellers TA,Folsom AR

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between cigarette smoking history and later cognitive performance were examined among 3,429 Japanese-American participants of the Honolulu Heart Program (HHP) and its extension, the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study (HAAS). Cognitive performance was measured by the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CA...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Galanis DJ,Petrovitch H,Launer LJ,Harris TB,Foley DJ,White LR

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven symptomatic and five asymptomatic infections with viral hepatitis, type A (102 cases) were identified in members, guests and employees of a private country club in an outbreak associated with consuming food and ice prepared or handled by an employee of the club's kitchen pantry. Twenty-three symptomatic p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Osterholm MT,Kantor RJ,Bradley DW,Hall WN,Francis DP,Aaron HC,Washburn JW,Velde D

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large health care databases are used extensively for pharmacoepidemiologic studies. Unique methodological issues arise when applying self-controlled designs (i.e., using within-person comparisons) for active surveillance of newly marketed drugs. We use 3 examples to illustrate bias related to population-level exposure...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang SV,Schneeweiss S,Maclure M,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiences of discrimination are associated with increased risk of adverse health outcomes; however, it is unknown whether discrimination is related to incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (diabetes). We investigated the associations of major experiences of discrimination (unfair treatment in 6 situations) and everyday ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whitaker KM,Everson-Rose SA,Pankow JS,Rodriguez CJ,Lewis TT,Kershaw KN,Diez Roux AV,Lutsey PL

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00