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abstract：:To investigate the validity of outdoor particulate matter with a 50% cutoff diameter of 10-microm (PM10) concentrations as a measure of exposure in time series studies, the association between personal and outdoor concentrations, within subjects, over time was investigated. Repeated measurements of personal, indoor, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Janssen NA,Hoek G,Brunekreef B,Harssema H,Mensink I,Zuidhof A

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to determine the immune status of individuals in a natural community, neutralizing antibody titers for the three types of poliovirus were examined in 301 randomly sampled sera collected in 1966 and 308 specimens from 1971. The specimens were part of a larger collection obtained from residents of Tecumseh,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oberhofer TR,Brown GC,Monto AS

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have comprehensively investigated the association of 2 key kidney disease measures, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR), with cancer incidence. In 8,935 participants at the baseline (1996-1998) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, we quan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mok Y,Ballew SH,Sang Y,Coresh J,Joshu CE,Platz EA,Matsushita K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbiased estimation of causal parameters from marginal structural models (MSMs) requires a fundamental assumption of no unmeasured confounding. Unfortunately, the time-varying covariates used to obtain inverse probability weights are often error-prone. Although substantial measurement error in important confounders is...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kyle RP,Moodie EE,Klein MB,Abrahamowicz M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and smoking are independently associated with a higher mortality risk, but previous studies have reported conflicting results about the relationship between these 2 time-varying exposures. Using prospective longitudinal data (1987-2007) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, our objective in the p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Banack HR,Kaufman JS

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between self-reported physical activity and depressive symptoms was analyzed for 1,900 healthy subjects aged 25-77 years in the Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (1982-1984) to the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I). Depressive symptomatology as measured by the Center for Epidem...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Farmer ME,Locke BZ,Mościcki EK,Dannenberg AL,Larson DB,Radloff LS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenal steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate (DHEAS) have been characterized as "protective" against ischemic heart disease (IHD), especially in men, on the basis of sparse epidemiologic evidence. The authors used data from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, a random sample prospective study of 1...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Feldman HA,Johannes CB,Araujo AB,Mohr BA,Longcope C,McKinlay JB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to a higher incidence of dementia. Less is known about the association between SES and mortality in persons with dementia. We studied this association in a prospective cohort of 15,558 patients in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2010. SES was measured using disposable ho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van de Vorst IE,Koek HL,Stein CE,Bots ML,Vaartjes I

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in understanding how food environments affect diet, but characterizing the food environment is challenging. The authors investigated the relation between global diet measures (an empirically derived "fats and processed meats" (FPM) dietary pattern and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Moore LV,Diez Roux AV,Nettleton JA,Jacobs DR Jr

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for cancers of the mouth and pharynx (oral cancer), but the differential risks by beverage type are unclear. In this 1992-1995 study, the authors examined oral cancer risk in Puerto Rico, comparing alcohol intake among 286 male cases aged 21-79 years and 417 population-based ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huang WY,Winn DM,Brown LM,Gridley G,Bravo-Otero E,Diehl SR,Fraumeni JF Jr,Hayes RB

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Religion and spirituality are important social determinants that drive public health practice. The field of epidemiology has played a vital role in answering long-standing questions about whether religion is causally associated with health and mortality. As epidemiologists spark new conversations (e.g., see Kawachi (A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ransome Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to cadmium confers increased cardiovascular risk. Tobacco smoke contains cadmium, which, hypothetically, may mediate parts of the tobacco-associated risk of developing atherosclerotic plaques. Baseline data from the Swedish Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort (1991-1996) were used to test this hypothesis. Mediation ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Andersson EM,Fagerberg B,Sallsten G,Borné Y,Hedblad B,Engström G,Barregard L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible relation between the occurrence of brain tumors in children and exposure to electric blankets or electrically heated water beds was investigated in a multicenter, population-based case-control study conducted on the West Coast of the United States. Information on maternal exposure during pregnancy or dire...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Preston-Martin S,Gurney JG,Pogoda JM,Holly EA,Mueller BA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because measles immunization has been found in all studies to reduce mortality with more than the share of deaths attributed to acute measles, the authors examined mortality after measles infection in a study in a rural area of Senegal that included 6,924 unimmunized children, whom 1,118 developed measles. Age-adjuste...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aaby P,Samb B,Andersen M,Simondon F

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Early-onset cannabis use is widespread in many countries and might cause later onset of depression. Sound epidemiologic data across countries are missing. The authors estimated the suspected causal association that links early-onset (age <17 years) cannabis use with later-onset (age > or =17 years) risk of a depressio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Graaf R,Radovanovic M,van Laar M,Fairman B,Degenhardt L,Aguilar-Gaxiola S,Bruffaerts R,de Girolamo G,Fayyad J,Gureje O,Haro JM,Huang Y,Kostychenko S,Lépine JP,Matschinger H,Mora ME,Neumark Y,Ormel J,Posada-Villa J

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the association between mood disorders and risk of herpes zoster in two case-control studies using data from nationwide Danish registries and practices in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. We included incident zoster cases diagnosed in general practice (using systemic antivirals as a proxy in Den...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schmidt SAJ,Langan SM,Pedersen HS,Schønheyder HC,Thomas SL,Smeeth L,Mansfield KE,Sørensen HT,Forbes HJ,Vestergaard M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing vitamin and mineral supplement use is important because supplement use per se is an exposure of interest for the risk of several chronic diseases and because supplements contribute a large proportion of total (diet plus supplement) micronutrient intake, another important exposure in epidemiologic research. U...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Patterson RE,Kristal AR,Levy L,McLerran D,White E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between leisure time physical activity and the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality was analyzed in a Finnish cohort of 1,072 men age 35-63 years who were followed up for 10 years and 10 months. During the period, 168 deaths were recorded, 93 of which were the result of cardiovascular...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Haapanen N,Miilunpalo S,Vuori I,Oja P,Pasanen M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cohort of 849 infants with an asthmatic sibling, the authors examined the relations of exposure to allergens (dust mite, cockroach, cat, and dog), nitrogen dioxide, and mold with symptoms of wheeze and persistent cough in the first year of life (1998-2000). Among infants whose mothers had physician-diagnosed asth...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Belanger K,Beckett W,Triche E,Bracken MB,Holford T,Ren P,McSharry JE,Gold DR,Platts-Mills TA,Leaderer BP

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 1973-2000 mesothelioma incidence data released by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program in April 2003, the authors estimated the parameters of a birth-cohort and age model to determine whether previously reported patterns of mesothelioma in the United States have changed. Compared with analyses...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Price B,Ware A

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Male drivers sustained relatively more serious motorcycle collision injuries than did male passengers, female drivers, or female passengers. For male drivers, severity of injury was related to age. The relative frequency of serious head injury was highest for drivers not wearing helmets who were involved in collisions...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kraus JF,Riggins RS,Franti CE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study of cancer and occupation was carried out in Montréal, Canada. Between 1979 and 1986, 449 pathologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer were interviewed, as well as 1,550 cancer controls and 533 population controls. Job histories were evaluated by a team of chemist/hygienists u...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aronson KJ,Siemiatycki J,Dewar R,Gérin M

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons whose body fat is distributed predominantly in the abdomen compared with the hips are at increased risk of several chronic diseases. This study examined the cross-sectional relation of percent body fat, computed from skinfold thickness, and fat distribution, measured by the waist-to-hip girth ratio, to physiol...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Folsom AR,Burke GL,Ballew C,Jacobs DR Jr,Haskell WL,Donahue RP,Liu KA,Hilner JE

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective cohort study of workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides, chlorophenols, and contaminants (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and other polychlorinated dioxins and furans) has been conducted in a chemical factory in the Netherlands. Male workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides or chlorophenols showe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hooiveld M,Heederik DJ,Kogevinas M,Boffetta P,Needham LL,Patterson DG Jr,Bueno-de-Mesquita HB

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prevalence of cysticercosis in a rural area where the disease is endemic, the authors studied the seroepidemiology of human and porcine cysticercosis in a Peruvian jungle community (Maceda, Peru) in 1988 using an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay. Of the 371 sampled inhabitants, 30...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Diaz F,Garcia HH,Gilman RH,Gonzales AE,Castro M,Tsang VC,Pilcher JB,Vasquez LE,Lescano M,Carcamo C

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structured life course modeling approach (SLCMA) is a theory-driven analytic method that empirically compares multiple prespecified life course hypotheses characterizing time-dependent exposure-outcome relationships to determine which theory best fits the observed data. In this study, we performed simulations and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu Y,Simpkin AJ,Suderman MJ,Lussier AA,Walton E,Dunn EC,Smith ADAC

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that women with a family history of breast cancer run a higher risk of breast cancer than do women without a family history. The evidence, however, is less clear regarding a possible association between a family history of breast cancer and risk of second primaries. The purpose of this prospecti...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bernstein JL,Thompson WD,Risch N,Holford TR

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac disease (CD) is associated with increased mortality rate and adverse pregnancy outcome, but little is known about offspring mortality rate. In this nationwide retrospective cohort study, we identified persons whose biopsy-verified CD was diagnosed in Sweden in 1969-2008. We compared mortality rates in children ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zugna D,Richiardi L,Stephansson O,Cnattingius S,Ludvigsson JF

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer mortality in England and Wales among males in the age group 25 to 84 over the years 1941 to 1975 was analyzed. Using cigarette consumption information from the Tobacco Research Council and a statistical model, relative and attributable risks were estimated. The lung cancer deaths could be partitioned into ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stevens RG,Moolgavkar SH

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological distress has been indicated to affect the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and external causes. Mortality from these major causes of death is also known to be elevated after widowhood when distress is at a heightened level. Surprisingly little is known about changes in health other than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Einiö E,Martikainen P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00