Reye's syndrome and spruce budworm insecticide spraying in Maine, 1978-1982.

abstract：:The authors investigated timing and trajectories of fetal growth in relation to childhood development in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-Scandinavian Study of Successive Small-for-Gestational Age Births (1986-1988) (n = 1,059). Fetal size was assessed by ultrasound at 17, 25, and 33 gestat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： von Ehrenstein OS,Mikolajczyk RT,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1968 to 1977, the association between the level of vitamin A in serum and the subsequent incidence of cancer was examined in a longitudinal study of 36,265 persons initially aged 15-99 years in 25 population groups in Finland. During a mean follow-up of 8 years, 766 cancers were diagnosed. Serum retinol, retinol-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knekt P,Aromaa A,Maatela J,Aaran RK,Nikkari T,Hakama M,Hakulinen T,Peto R,Teppo L

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between 50 widely used agricultural pesticides and lung cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective cohort study of 57,284 pesticide applicators and 32,333 spouses of farmer applicators with no prior history of lung cancer. Self-administered questionnaires were co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Alavanja MC,Dosemeci M,Samanic C,Lubin J,Lynch CF,Knott C,Barker J,Hoppin JA,Sandler DP,Coble J,Thomas K,Blair A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simulation model was used to study the spread of two sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), namely gonorrhea and genital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis. The model is based on a stochastic pair formation and separation process, which describes the underlying structure of the sexual contact pattern. It is impleme...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kretzschmar M,van Duynhoven YT,Severijnen AJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in the United States have indicated that maternal first trimester smoking and infant transforming growth factor alpha (TGFA) locus mutations are associated with non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) and that a synergistic effect of these two risk factors occurs. Based on a Danish case-control study of CL...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Christensen K,Olsen J,Nørgaard-Pedersen B,Basso O,Støvring H,Milhollin-Johnson L,Murray JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosemeci et al. (Am J Epidemiol 1990; 132:746-8) gave examples in which nondifferential misclassification of exposure reversed the direction of a trend. Gilbert (Am J Epidemiol 1991; 134:440-1) proposed that these examples occurred because the errors in exposure were systematic, and she pointed out that the relation b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weinberg CR,Umbach DM,Greenland S

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anal cancer has been hypothesized to be associated with a sexually transmitted agent and, more recently, with the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The authors used a descriptive incidence study to evaluate these hypotheses based on US data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) prog...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Melbye M,Rabkin C,Frisch M,Biggar RJ

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations of prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), ubiquitous chemicals used in stain- and water-resistant products, with adverse birth outcomes may be confounded by pregnancy hemodynamics. We measured plasma concentrations of 4 PFAS in early pregnancy (median length of gestation, 9 weeks) among 1,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sagiv SK,Rifas-Shiman SL,Fleisch AF,Webster TF,Calafat AM,Ye X,Gillman MW,Oken E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations between metabolic syndrome components and prevalent ischemic heart disease (IHD) were investigated in a cross-sectional, community-based study of elderly men (n = 1,015) and women (n = 1,259) in Rancho Bernardo, California, in 1984-1987. In both sexes, there were significant positive associations between ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lindblad U,Langer RD,Wingard DL,Thomas RG,Barrett-Connor EL

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of marital status and change in marital status on mortality among middle-aged British men were examined in a prospective cohort study, the British Regional Heart Study. This is a nationally representative cohort of men selected at random from general medical practices in 24 towns in England, Wales, and Sco...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ebrahim S,Wannamethee G,McCallum A,Walker M,Shaper AG

更新日期：1995-10-15 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：:Several investigators have documented the effect of temperature on mortality, although fewer have studied its impact on morbidity. In addition, little is known about the effectiveness of mitigation strategies such as use of air conditioners (ACs). The authors investigated the association between temperature and hospit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostro B,Rauch S,Green R,Malig B,Basu R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft drinks and other sweetened beverages may contribute to risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity. However, research has not addressed higher risk and Asian populations. The authors examined the association between soft drinks and juice and the risk of type 2 diabetes among Chinese Singaporeans enrolled in a prospective...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Odegaard AO,Koh WP,Arakawa K,Yu MC,Pereira MA

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the risk of developing dementia for persons aged 50-75 years who suffered from Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, or severe head trauma. They compared the risk in this patient group with the risk in a reference group in a follow-up study based on the linked databases of three Dutch nationwide morb...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Breteler MM,de Groot RR,van Romunde LK,Hofman A

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether caffeine consumption during pregnancy represents a fetal hazard remains uncertain. The authors report on a large prospective study designed to examine this question. In 1996-2000, 2,291 mothers with singleton livebirths in Connecticut and Massachusetts were evaluated after their first prenatal visit and were q...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bracken MB,Triche EW,Belanger K,Hellenbrand K,Leaderer BP

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How can the "strengths" of risk factors, in the sense of how well they discriminate cases from controls, be compared when they are measured on different scales such as continuous, binary, and integer? Given that risk estimates take into account other fitted and design-related factors-and that is how risk gradients are...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hopper JL

更新日期：2015-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of adult health risks from exposures that occurred in childhood may require case-control studies in which subjects who are now adults are asked to provide information that might be more accurately provided by their parents. The quality of parental smoking and drinking histories provided by adult offspring w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sandler DP,Shore DL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several groups of variola isolates were compared in DNA structure, and by four independent biologic markers. Isolates of variola minor from Europe and South America (alastrim virus) could be distinguished from African isolates of variola minor by DNA structure and by two of the four biologic markers. Taken as a group,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dumbell KR,Huq F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The link between blood pressure measured at juvenile ages (3-18 years) and subsequent adult ages (30 and 50 years) was investigated in a community-based longitudinal study conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1928 to the present. The original sample of 550 persons decreased 61 percent by age 50 years, leaving ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nelson MJ,Ragland DR,Syme SL

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported associations between airborne particles and/or ozone and hospital admissions for respiratory disease. This study examined whether such an association could be seen in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the few cities in the United States with daily monitoring of inhalable particles. Daily counts...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schwartz J

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Flaws in the design of randomized trials may bias intervention effect estimates and increase between-trial heterogeneity. Empirical evidence suggests that these problems are greatest for subjectively assessed outcomes. For the Risk of Bias in Evidence Synthesis (ROBES) Study, we extracted risk-of-bias judgements (for ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savovic J,Turner RM,Mawdsley D,Jones HE,Beynon R,Higgins JPT,Sterne JAC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of diet and nutritional supplements, cigarette use, alcohol consumption, and blood lipids to plasma levels of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol was studied among 330 men and women aged 18-79 years. Dietary carotene, preformed vitamin A, and vitamin E intake were estimated by a self-administered semiquant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stryker WS,Kaplan LA,Stein EA,Stampfer MJ,Sober A,Willett WC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present analyses of data from three independent clinical series and controls indicating an association between working in occupations with probable medium to high exposure to extremely low frequency (< 300 Hz) electromagnetic fields and sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Case-control analyses were carried out u...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sobel E,Davanipour Z,Sulkava R,Erkinjuntti T,Wikstrom J,Henderson VW,Buckwalter G,Bowman JD,Lee PJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses 44 consecutive months of data from the Health Care Financing Administration to assess seasonal trends in hip fracture incidence among the United States white population aged 65 years and older. The authors studied a total of 621,387 cases of hip fracture which occurred from January 1984 to September 19...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jacobsen SJ,Goldberg J,Miles TP,Brody JA,Stiers W,Rimm AA

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces the projection methods for describing and testing the differences between pairs of continuous distributions. These methods include the projection plot, the projection spline, and the iter-1 test. The projection plot displays the difference between corresponding quantiles against the average of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jones CP

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study is a regional epidemiologic study of congenital heart disease. Among Infants born in the study area in 1981 and 1982, 664 had a diagnosis of congenital heart disease confirmed in the first year of life by echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery, or autopsy. The ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ferencz C,Rubin JD,McCarter RJ,Brenner JI,Neill CA,Perry LW,Hepner SI,Downing JW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional conditions in early life may affect adult health, but prior studies of mortality have been limited to small samples. We evaluated the relationship between pre-/perinatal famine exposure during the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945 and mortality through age 63 years among 41,096 men born in 1944-1947 and exa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ekamper P,van Poppel F,Stein AD,Bijwaard GE,Lumey LH

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bangkok (Thailand) Metropolitan Administration cohort of injecting drug users (IDUs) consisted of 1,209 IDUs initially seronegative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who were followed from 1995 to 1998 at 15 Administration drug treatment clinics. At enrollment and approximately every 4 months thereafter, part...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hudgens MG,Longini IM Jr,Vanichseni S,Hu DJ,Kitayaporn D,Mock PA,Halloran ME,Satten GA,Choopanya K,Mastro TD

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulative incidence has been widely used to estimate the cumulative probability of developing an event of interest by a given time, in the presence of competing risks. When it is of interest to measure the total burden of recurrent events in a population, however, the cumulative incidence method is not appropriate be...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dong H,Robison LL,Leisenring WM,Martin LJ,Armstrong GT,Yasui Y

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menstrual cycle characteristics may reflect underlying endocrine patterns that influence the risk of breast cancer. Most previous studies of menstrual function and breast cancer risk have used retrospective reports of menstrual bleeding, which may be unreliable. To examine this association, the authors conducted a mai...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whelan EA,Sandler DP,Root JL,Smith KR,Weinberg CR

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00