Hepatitis A in Peru. The role of children.

abstract：:This study assessed the relationship of per capita coffee imports and consumption, total dietary fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, tobacco, cigarettes, and national income for 1957-1965 to age-adjusted pancreatic cancer death rates of men and women from 22 countries in 1971-1974. With simple correlation analysis, coffe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Binstock M,Krakow D,Stamler J,Reiff J,Persky V,Liu K,Moss D

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized field trial was conducted in Tecumseh, Michigan, to test the efficacy of virucidal nasal tissues in interrupting transmission of respiratory agents in the household. In the double-blinded trial, 296 households were stratified by household size and randomly assigned to the group using treated tissues and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Longini IM Jr,Monto AS

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inverse association between socioeconomic status, as measured by years of education, and blood pressure has been reported in a number of studies. However, two secular trends may have changed the nature of this relation: a higher mean level of education in the population and intervention for high blood pressure in t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sorel JE,Ragland DR,Syme SL,Davis WB

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the Women's Health Initiative (1993-2009; n = 158,833 participants, of whom 84.1% were white, 9.2% were black, 4.1% were Hispanic, and 2.6% were Asian), we compared all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality rates in white, black, Hispanic, and Asian postmenopausal women with and without diabetes....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ma Y,Hébert JR,Balasubramanian R,Wedick NM,Howard BV,Rosal MC,Liu S,Bird CE,Olendzki BC,Ockene JK,Wactawski-Wende J,Phillips LS,Lamonte MJ,Schneider KL,Garcia L,Ockene IS,Merriam PA,Sepavich DM,Mackey RH,Johnson KC

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the impact of cumulative neighborhood risk of psychosocial stress on allostatic load (AL) among adolescents as a mechanism through which life stress, including neighborhood conditions, may affect health and health inequities. They conducted multilevel analyses, weighted for sampling and propensity...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Theall KP,Drury SS,Shirtcliff EA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senile macular degeneration is a leading cause of visual loss in the United States, England, and probably many other industrialized countries. The clinical manifestations of this disease include: drusen, atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, serous detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium, subretinal neovascu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ferris FL 3rd

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies have suggested that diabetes mellitus may decrease the risk of prostate cancer because of lower insulin levels. To further investigate the relation between diabetes and prostate cancer, a nested case-control study was conducted within the US Physicians' Health Study. Cases (n = 1,110) had been diagnosed w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu K,Lee IM,Sesso HD,Buring JE,Levine RS,Gaziano JM

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of nutrition in the association of birth size and childhood growth with development of cardiovascular disease, the authors in 2002-2004 surveyed 665 men and 790 women aged 25-42 years who had been exposed as children to a community-randomized nutrition supplementation intervention in four villages in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stein AD,Wang M,Ramirez-Zea M,Flores R,Grajeda R,Melgar P,Ramakrishnan U,Martorell R

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased risk of death in persons who have suffered spousal bereavement has been described in many populations. The impact of modifying factors, such as chronic disease and material circumstances, is less well understood. The authors followed 171,720 [corrected] couples 60 years of age or older in a United Kingdom...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shah SM,Carey IM,Harris T,DeWilde S,Victor CR,Cook DG

更新日期：2012-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of menopause to associated factors of atherosclerosis was investigated during October 1973 to December 1976. The subjects were 1674 premenopausal and 428 postmenopausal women aged 35 to 54, who were living in Toda city, an urban area of Japan. Serum cholesterol and triglyceride were higher in postmeno...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shibata H,Matsuzaki T,Hatano S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid are perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) widely distributed in the environment. Previous studies of PFCs and birth weight are equivocal. The authors examined this association in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), using data from 901 women enrolled from 2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whitworth KW,Haug LS,Baird DD,Becher G,Hoppin JA,Skjaerven R,Thomsen C,Eggesbo M,Travlos G,Wilson R,Cupul-Uicab LA,Brantsaeter AL,Longnecker MP

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4678 persons participated in an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania glaucoma screening program in 1977. Black participants had higher mean intraocular pressures, more frequent pathologic disc changes and more new cases of glaucoma discovered than a sample of white participants matched for sex and age. The same y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulehan JL,Helzlsouer KJ,Rogers KD,Brown SI

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：:An 18-year interval between a dengue virus type 1 outbreak in 1977-1979 and a dengue virus type 2 outbreak in 1997 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, provided a unique opportunity to evaluate risk factors for dengue disease. All patients with symptomatic dengue, including 205 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever and 12 deaths, w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vaughn DW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to community concerns, we used the Tribal Participatory Research framework in collaboration with 5 American-Indian communities in Washington, Idaho, and Montana to identify the appropriate criteria for aggregating health data on small tribes. Across tribal sites, 10 key informant interviews and 10 focus gr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Van Dyke ER,Blacksher E,Echo-Hawk AL,Bassett D,Harris RM,Buchwald DS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammographic percent density, the proportion of fibroglandular tissue in the breast, is a strong risk factor for breast cancer, but its determinants in young women are unknown. We examined associations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) breast-tissue composition at age 21 years with prospectively collected measuremen...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Denholm R,De Stavola B,Hipwell JH,Doran SJ,Busana MC,Leach MO,Hawkes DJ,Dos-Santos-Silva I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of oral contraceptive (OC) use to the risk of hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) was evaluated among 121,964 US nurses who responded to a mail questionnaire. There were 156 women who reported having been hospitalized for MI before the menopause, and 23 (15%) were OC users at the time of the MI...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Hennekens CH,Rosner B,Belanger C,Rothman KJ,Speizer FE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medication use is often underreported in paper-based questionnaires or interviews. Web-based questionnaires may improve recall of medication use, but data on their validity are currently lacking. Participants in the Pregnancy and Infant Development (PRIDE) Study (2014-2016; n = 557) and the Pregnancy Drug Registry (pR...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Gelder MMHJ,Vorstenbosch S,Te Winkel B,van Puijenbroek EP,Roeleveld N

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal studies aimed at assessing the impact of interventions on disease risk factors often confront several statistical problems. These problems include 1) dependent variables measured by ordered categories, 2) numerous potentially relevant patterns of transition between outcome levels, 3) mixed units of analys...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dwyer JH,MacKinnon DP,Pentz MA,Flay BR,Hansen WB,Wang EY,Johnson CA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and candidate gene analyses have led to the discovery of several dozen genetic polymorphisms associated with breast cancer susceptibility, many of which are considered well-established risk factors for the disease. Despite attempts to replicate these same variant-disease associat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： O'Brien KM,Cole SR,Poole C,Bensen JT,Herring AH,Engel LS,Millikan RC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, investigators append census-based socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas to individual records to address the problem of inadequate socioeconomic information on health data sets. Little empirical attention has been given to the validity of this approach. The authors estimate health outcome eq...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Geronimus AT,Bound J

更新日期：1998-09-01 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 1982-1984 Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey used ultrasonography to investigate risk factors for gallstone disease (gallstones or cholecystectomy). Mexican American, Cuban American, and Puerto Rican men (n = 968) and women (n = 1,325) aged 20-74 years were selected from household samples in nine sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Maurer KR,Everhart JE,Knowler WC,Shawker TH,Roth HP

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and environmental factors are both known to contribute to susceptibility to complex diseases. Therefore, the study of gene-environment interaction (G×E) has been a focus of research for several years. In this article, select examples of G×E from the literature are described to highlight different approaches an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ritz BR,Chatterjee N,Garcia-Closas M,Gauderman WJ,Pierce BL,Kraft P,Tanner CM,Mechanic LE,McAllister K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective epidemiologic data on the association between vitamin D and mortality are limited, particularly in Asian populations. Among subjects in Linxian, China, the authors aimed to test whether baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in a prospective cohort were associated with all-cause mortal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lin SW,Chen W,Fan JH,Dawsey SM,Taylor PR,Qiao YL,Abnet CC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal genetic variation may serve as a biomarker in studies aimed at clarifying fetal determinants of infant or adult disease. The log-linear approach to case-parent triad data (LCPT) can be used to investigate maternal genetic polymorphisms in relation to offspring disease risk, but LCPT operating characteristics ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Starr JR,Hsu L,Schwartz SM

更新日期：2005-01-15 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：:Three measures of spatial clustering (Moran's I, Geary's c, and a rank adjacency statistic, D) were evaluated for their power to detect regional patterns in health data. The patterns represented various environmental effects: a latitude gradient; residence near a contaminated water supply; disease "hot spots"; relatio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Walter SD

更新日期：1992-09-15 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