Using Bounds to Compare the Strength of Exchangeability Assumptions for Internal and External Validity.

abstract：:To examine the reasons for the recent decline in coronary heart disease death rates in New Zealand, a register of definite myocardial infarction and sudden death was established in the Auckland region (1981 population 829,464). Both routine and nonroutine case finding sources were used and event rates for the 12 month...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beaglehole R,Bonita R,Jackson R,Stewart A,Sharpe N,Fraser GE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinating children with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) disrupts transmission, reducing disease rates in unvaccinated adults. When considering changes in vaccine dosing strategies (e.g., removing doses), it is critical to understand which groups of children contribute most to transmission to adults. We used dat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weinberger DM,Pitzer VE,Regev-Yochay G,Givon-Lavi N,Dagan R

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Case-control differences in prediagnostic serum levels of retinol, beta-carotene, vitamin E, and selenium are compared for 10 cancer sites in 10 study populations. For all four nutrients, the majority of results showed lower levels among persons who subsequently became cases than among controls. Low levels of beta-car...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Comstock GW,Bush TL,Helzlsouer K

更新日期：1992-01-15 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：: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：:The receiver operating characteristic curve is a commonly used tool for evaluating biomarker usefulness in clinical diagnosis of disease. Frequently, biomarkers being assessed have immeasurable or unreportable samples below some limit of detection. Ignoring observations below the limit of detection leads to negatively...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Perkins NJ,Schisterman EF,Vexler A

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Explanations for the low prevalence of atherosclerosis in Japan versus the United States are often confounded with genetic variation. To help remove such confounding, the authors compared coronary artery calcification (CAC), a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, between Japanese men in Japan and Japanese men in Haw...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Abbott RD,Ueshima H,Rodriguez BL,Kadowaki T,Masaki KH,Willcox BJ,Sekikawa A,Kuller LH,Edmundowicz D,Shin C,Kashiwagi A,Nakamura Y,El-Saed A,Okamura T,White R,Curb JD

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents findings on depressive symptomatology among 3,118 Mexican-American adults who participated in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES). In 1982-1984, the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale was administered to Mexican Americans ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mościcki EK,Locke BZ,Rae DS,Boyd JH

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for genital human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6/11 and 16/18 and any HPV type as well as for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections were investigated in a population-based study of 1,600 randomly selected women (20-39 years) from Godthåb (native, Nuuk), Greenland, and Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. A t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kjaer SK,Engholm G,Teisen C,Haugaard BJ,Lynge E,Christensen RB,Møller KA,Jensen H,Poll P,Vestergaard BF

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron and lipids combine to create oxidative stress, and oxidative stress has a role in the development of cancer. The objective was to determine the risk of cancer among persons who had both elevated iron and lipids. The authors conducted an analysis of the cohort available in the Framingham Offspring Study. Adults ag...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mainous AG 3rd,Wells BJ,Koopman RJ,Everett CJ,Gill JM

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is the leading identifiable predisposing factor for preterm birth. Although maternal exposure to air pollution can potentially have an impact on preterm PROM, there is no available evidence on such an impact. In this study, based on 5,555 singleton births occurring in Barc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dadvand P,Basagaña X,Figueras F,Martinez D,Beelen R,Cirach M,de Nazelle A,Hoek G,Ostro B,Nieuwenhuijsen MJ

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) disease from the date of seroconversion to the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and death among 362 well-documented seroconverters. The participants were homosexual men in hepatitis B vaccine trials in Amsterda...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hessol NA,Koblin BA,van Griensven GJ,Bacchetti P,Liu JY,Stevens CE,Coutinho RA,Buchbinder SP,Katz MH

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many epidemiologists have agreed that a refined estimate of the incubation period of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) would need a sample size of about 200 cases and appropriate statistical methods enabling the inclusion of cases with defined periods of exposure. However, no such studies have been reported so ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cai QC,Xu QF,Xu JM,Guo Q,Cheng X,Zhao GM,Sun QW,Lu J,Jiang QW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2005, California law allowed over-the-counter (OTC) syringe sales pending local authorization. Although pharmacy sales of OTC syringes are associated with reduced injection-mediated risks and decreases in human immunodeficiency virus infection rates, little is known about the factors associated with syringe purc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stopka TJ,Lutnick A,Wenger LD,Deriemer K,Geraghty EM,Kral AH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been few prospective studies relating diet to pancreatic cancer, with most having fewer than 100 cases and only one examining dietary nutrients. The authors prospectively examined dietary factors hypothesized to be associated with exocrine pancreatic cancer in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prev...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ,Pietinen P,Taylor PR,Virtamo J,Albanes D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of epidemiology and clinical medicine is focused on estimating the effects of treatments or interventions administered over time. In such settings of longitudinal treatment, time-dependent confounding is often an important source of bias. Marginal structural models (MSMs) are a powerful tool for estimating the ca...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Petersen ML,Deeks SG,Martin JN,van der Laan MJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pitt County Study is a longitudinal investigation of anthropometric, psychosocial, and behavioral predictors of hypertension in African Americans who were aged 25-50 years at baseline in 1988. At baseline, a strong dose-response gradient was observed for alcohol consumption and blood pressure for both sexes. The c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Curtis AB,James SA,Strogatz DS,Raghunathan TE,Harlow S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although investigators have assessed the relationship between self-reported cigarette smoking and biomarker levels, the validity of self-reported information on smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is uncertain. We used aggregated data from the 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, and 2009-2010 administrations of the National Heal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Agaku IT,King BA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many nonrandomized interventions rely upon a pre-post design to evaluate effectiveness. Such designs cannot account for events external to the intervention that may produce the outcome. We describe a method to construct a surveillance registry-based comparison group, which allows for estimating the effectiveness of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Robertson MM,Waldron L,Robbins RS,Chamberlin S,Penrose K,Levin B,Kulkarni S,Braunstein SL,Irvine MK,Nash D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast arterial calcification (BAC) has been associated with diabetes and hypertension. This prompted the authors to study the relation between BAC and cardiovascular mortality in a cohort of 12,239 women aged 50-68 years who participated in a population-based breast cancer screening project (DOM Project) in Utrecht, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kemmeren JM,van Noord PA,Beijerinck D,Fracheboud J,Banga JD,van der Graaf Y

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A large, population-based case-control study of facial clefts was carried out in Norway between 1996 and 2001. The study included 573 cases -- 377 with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and 196 with cleft palate only -- and 763 randomly selected controls. Maternal consumption of coffee and other caffeine-containi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Johansen AM,Wilcox AJ,Lie RT,Andersen LF,Drevon CA

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking has been posited as a possible risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but large population-based studies of patients with incident disease are still needed. The authors performed a population-based case-control study in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009, including 494 patients with incident A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Jong SW,Huisman MH,Sutedja NA,van der Kooi AJ,de Visser M,Schelhaas HJ,Fischer K,Veldink JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeownership is consistently associated with better mental health, but whether becoming a homeowner in later in life has positive psychological benefits has not, to our knowledge, been examined. We assessed whether acquiring a home after age 50 years was associated with depression in a representative sample of older ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Courtin E,Dowd JB,Avendano M

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Under- and overreporting of energy intake in relation to body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) were examined by using 24-hour urinary sodium and potassium as biomarkers. The data were obtained from 2,124 men and 1,998 women aged 25-74 years who participated in the 1981-1984 Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang J,Temme EH,Sasaki S,Kesteloot H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A propensity score (PS) model's ability to control confounding can be assessed by evaluating covariate balance across exposure groups after PS adjustment. The optimal strategy for evaluating a disease risk score (DRS) model's ability to control confounding is less clear. DRS models cannot be evaluated through balance ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wyss R,Hansen BB,Ellis AR,Gagne JJ,Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Stürmer T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to study the association between birth weight and the insulin sensitivity index. Altogether, 331 unrelated Caucasian subjects aged 18-32 years with measures of the insulin sensitivity index and insulin secretion during a combined intravenous glucose and tolbutamide tolerance test were included in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clausen JO,Borch-Johnsen K,Pedersen O

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health tobacco control efforts have increasingly targeted communities in addition to individuals. Before population smoking decreases, effectiveness might be detected from initial outcomes reflecting these efforts, such as higher cigarette prices or more workplace and home smoking restrictions. Presumably, thes...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilpin EA,Stillman FA,Hartman AM,Gibson JT,Pierce JP

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00