Epidemiology of rabies virus variants. Differentiation using monoclonal antibodies and discriminant analysis.

abstract：:A large body size may differentially influence risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) by anatomic location. The Netherlands Cohort Study includes 120,852 men and women aged 55-69 years who self-reported weight, height, and trouser/skirt size at baseline (1986), as well as weight at age 20 years. Derived variables included bo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hughes LA,Simons CC,van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van Engeland M,Weijenberg MP

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that no distinct glycemic threshold consistently differentiates individuals with or without retinopathy. The authors sought to determine whether the same was true for other microvascular complications. They studied 5,094 participants with fasting plasma glucose values and concurrent microvascula...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nang EE,Khoo CM,Tai ES,Lim SC,Tavintharan S,Wong TY,Heng D,Lee J

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of safe and effective measles vaccines since 1963, measles still accounts for approximately 10% of global mortality from all causes among children aged less than 5 years, an estimated 36.5 million cases and 1 million deaths in 1996. Worldwide in 1996, routine coverage with 1 dose of measles v...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Strebel P,Guris D,Papania M,Cochi S

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of gene (G)-environment (E) interactions have led to limited findings to date, possibly due to weak effects of individual genetic variants. Polygenic risk scores (PRS), which capture the genetic susceptibility associated with a set of variants, can be a powerful tool for detecting global patterns of int...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meisner A,Kundu P,Chatterjee N

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational longitudinal research is particularly useful for assessing etiology and prognosis and for providing evidence for clinical decision making. However, there are no structured reporting requirements for studies of this design to assist authors, editors, and readers. The authors developed and tested a checkli...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tooth L,Ware R,Bain C,Purdie DM,Dobson A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial differences in the incidence and natural history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were evaluated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The yearly incidence rate for whites was approximately 1.5 times that for blacks. The cumulative risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes prior to age 20 was greater for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： LaPorte RE,Tajima N,Dorman JS,Cruickshanks KJ,Eberhardt MS,Rabin BS,Atchison RW,Wagener DK,Becker DJ,Orchard TJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The point prevalence of antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) in a sample of 1,113 healthy Greek children and adolescents 0-19 years old was estimated by radioimmunoassay. The overall anti-HAV prevalence was 8.7%; it increased from almost zero among children less than four years of age to 16.3% in adolescents 15-19...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kremastinou J,Kalapothaki V,Trichopoulos D

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study of bladder cancer was conducted in a population of California Seventh-day Adventists. Most Seventh-day Adventists use neither tobacco nor alcohol yet experience a large degree of variation in dietary habits. Therefore, diet and other lifestyle habits were evaluated in this unique population. In 1976, 34...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mills PK,Beeson WL,Phillips RL,Fraser GE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have shown that peptic ulcer mortality follows birth cohorts. To the authors' knowledge, temporal variation in ulcer incidence has not been studied. Therefore, they present incidence data for a defined area of western Norway where 1,312 patients born between 1845 and 1975 were treated for ulcer perfor...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Svanes C,Lie RT,Kvåle G,Svanes K,Søreide O

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined individual and household socioeconomic status (SES) in relation to phenotypes of neural tube defects, orafacial clefts, and conotruncal heart defects using data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study with 2,551 nonmalformed liveborn controls and 1,841 cases delivered in 1997-2000. The ind...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang J,Carmichael SL,Canfield M,Song J,Shaw GM,National Birth Defects Prevention Study.

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin lesions are classic clinical signs of toxicity due to long-term exposure to arsenic, and they are considered precursors to arsenic-related skin cancer. The authors prospectively evaluated synergisms between effects of arsenic exposure and those of tobacco use, sun exposure, and pesticide and fertilizer use on inc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Melkonian S,Argos M,Pierce BL,Chen Y,Islam T,Ahmed A,Syed EH,Parvez F,Graziano J,Rathouz PJ,Ahsan H

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of melanoma in populations of African-European descent has rarely been reported. The authors studied melanoma in the French West Indies (Martinique), where black Caribbeans and whites represented 96% and 4% of the population, respectively. Among the 85 cases of melanoma collected from 1976 to 1995, bl...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Garsaud P,Boisseau-Garsaud AM,Ossondo M,Azaloux H,Escarmant P,Mab GL,Zimmermann S,Saint-Cyr A,Quist D,Hélénon R,Jouannelle A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking habits and the risk for colorectal adenomatous polyps according to the detailed clinical information about polyps were assessed in a large colonoscopy-based study. The study enrolled participants who visited the National Cancer Center of the Republic o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shin A,Hong CW,Sohn DK,Chang Kim B,Han KS,Chang HJ,Kim J,Oh JH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of invasive bacterial disease among children worldwide. The authors aimed to determine the incidence, clinical characteristics, and serotype distribution of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among Navajo children in the southwestern United States. Active population-b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： O'Brien KL,Shaw J,Weatherholtz R,Reid R,Watt J,Croll J,Dagan R,Parkinson AJ,Santosham M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors' purpose was to expand sexually transmitted disease core theory by examining the roles of person, place, and time in differentiating geographic core areas from outbreak areas. The authors mapped yearly census-tract-level syphilis rates for San Francisco, California, based on new primary and secondary syphi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gesink DC,Sullivan AB,Miller WC,Bernstein KT

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population-based case-control study of the association between use of diuretics and renal cell cancer, 120 white men whose cancer was diagnosed during the years 1980-1991 and 86 white women diagnosed in 1960-1991 were identified among members of the Kaiser Permanente Northwest health plan. Controls were plan memb...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weinmann S,Glass AG,Weiss NS,Psaty BM,Siscovick DS,White E

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:The presence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in young children indicates recent tuberculosis (TB) transmission. We reviewed surveillance reports of children with LTBI to assess whether more follow-up is needed to prevent TB in this high-risk population. Data on all children under 5 years of age who were report...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Slutsker JS,Trieu L,Crossa A,Ahuja SD

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow childhood growth is associated with poorer intellectual ability. The critical periods of growth remain uncertain. Among 2,786 Finnish male military conscripts (1952-1972) born in 1934-1944, the authors tested how specific growth periods from birth to age 20 years predicted verbal, visuospatial, and arithmetic abi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Räikkönen K,Forsén T,Henriksson M,Kajantie E,Heinonen K,Pesonen AK,Leskinen JT,Laaksonen I,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of change in blood lipids, diastolic blood pressure, body mass index, smoking and drinking behaviors, and exercise were examined in an ongoing longitudinal study from 1991 to 1995 of 150 middle-aged Melbourne, Australia, women as they passed through menopause. Changes in risk factors over time were examin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Do KA,Green A,Guthrie JR,Dudley EC,Burger HG,Dennerstein L

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated variations in cognitive ability by gestational age among 13,824 children at age 6.5 years who were born at term with normal weight, using data from a prospective cohort recruited in 1996-1997 in Belarus. The mean differences in the Wechsler Abbreviated Scales of Intelligence were examined by g...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang S,Platt RW,Kramer MS

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations among certain allergic disorders, atopy upon skin-prick testing, and specific cancers were evaluated in a prospective study. Information regarding history of asthma and hay fever was collected by questionnaire from 3,308 cancer-free participants in the 1981 Busselton Health Survey. A subset of 1,005 p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Talbot-Smith A,Fritschi L,Divitini ML,Mallon DF,Knuiman MW

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial resemblance in the blood pressure response to sodium restriction in normotensive persons was investigated. Forty-four families of identical twin children participated in a sodium restriction (less than or equal to 75 meq/day) protocol for a period of 12 weeks. Subjects were residents of central Indiana, and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Miller JZ,Weinberger MH,Christian JC,Daugherty SA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In randomized controlled trials, the intention-to-treat estimator provides an unbiased estimate of the causal effect of treatment assignment on the outcome. However, patients often want to know what the effect would be if they were to take the treatment as prescribed (the patient-oriented effect), and several research...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Steele RJ,Shrier I,Kaufman JS,Platt RW

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a case-control study in Toronto, Canada, demonstrated a two-fold risk of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix among current smokers relative to women who had never smoked. This significant effect of smoking was not diminished by simultaneously adjusting for age, education, and indices of sexua...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clarke EA,Morgan RW,Newman AM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between long working hours and cognitive function in middle age. Data were collected in 1997-1999 (baseline) and 2002-2004 (follow-up) from a prospective study of 2,214 British civil servants who were in full-time employment at baseline and had data on cognitive tests and covariates...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtanen M,Singh-Manoux A,Ferrie JE,Gimeno D,Marmot MG,Elovainio M,Jokela M,Vahtera J,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:In a prospective study carried out in June 1979-April 1981, 134 of 1,458 adult inpatients at New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired 136 urinary tract infections during 1,474 indwelling bladder catheterizations. Multiple logistic regression analysis identified nine factors that were significant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Platt R,Polk BF,Murdock B,Rosner B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of subjects at high risk of developing dementia is essential. By dealing with censoring and competing risk of death, we developed a score for predicting 10-year dementia risk by combining cognitive tests, and we assessed whether inclusion of cognitive change over the previous year increased its discrim...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jacqmin-Gadda H,Blanche P,Chary E,Loubère L,Amieva H,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baltimore Eye Survey was a population-based survey conducted from January 1985 to November 1988 among residents of east Baltimore, Maryland, who were 40 years of age or older. A total of 5,308 black subjects and white subjects received a comprehensive screening examination for glaucoma including tonometry, visual ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tielsch JM,Katz J,Singh K,Quigley HA,Gottsch JD,Javitt J,Sommer A

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00