Passive smoking and lung cancer in Swedish women.

abstract：:Elevated blood pressure is an important public health problem in midlife women, especially among minority groups. Few studies have examined the impact of perceived unfair treatment due to different factors such as racism, sexism, or ageism on blood pressure. By use of a racially/ethnically diverse community sample of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brown C,Matthews KA,Bromberger JT,Chang Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus is a severe, autoimmune, blistering disorder with a high incidence among young women in rural Tunisia. The authors investigated explanatory environmental factors. A multicenter case-control study was conducted prospectively from 1992 to 1996 in Tunisia. Sixty-eight incident female cases of pemphigus and 166 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bastuji-Garin S,Turki H,Mokhtar I,Nouira R,Fazaa B,Jomaa B,Zahaf A,Osman AB,Souissi R,Hémon D,Roujeau JC,Kamoun MR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe an approach to the analysis of case-control studies in which the exposure variables are continuous, i.e., quantitative variables, and one wishes neither to categorize levels of the exposure variable nor to assume a log-linear relation between level of exposure and disease risk. A dose-response ass...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhao LP,Kristal AR,White E

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reasons for health disparities may include neighborhood-level factors, such as availability of health services, social norms, and environmental determinants, as well as individual-level factors. Investigating health inequalities using nationally or locally representative data often requires an approach that can accomm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brumback BA,Cai Z,Dailey AB

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although poorer self-rated health (SRH) is associated with increased mortality, less is known about its impact on functioning. This study evaluated whether poorer SRH was associated with decline in walking speed and whether caregiving, often considered an indicator of chronic stress, modified this relation. The sample...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ashburner JM,Cauley JA,Cawthon P,Ensrud KE,Hochberg MC,Fredman L

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a significant problem within hospitals, leading to extended hospital stays, excess morbidity and mortality, and economic loss. Prevention and control strategies are generally "bundled"; therefore, the individual effects of particular strategies and the value of combined strategies cannot be determined dir...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blanco N,Eisenberg MC,Stillwell T,Foxman B

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of exposure biomarkers vary among individuals because of differences in both environmental exposure and metabolism. However, the ultimate interest is in providing information about the impact of modifying environmental exposures through regulation or behavior change. Using these levels in studies of pregnancy o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savitz DA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the relation between maternal multivitamin use and risk for cardiac defects in the offspring, using a population-based approach. The Atlanta Birth Defects Case-Control study is a population-based case-control study of infants born between 1968 and 1980 to mothers residing in met...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Botto LD,Mulinare J,Erickson JD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the relations of body mass index at different ages and adult weight change to incident colorectal cancer risk in the prospective National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study (1995-1996), using a subcohort with repeated recall weights (273,679 participants; mean baseline age = 62.8 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Renehan AG,Flood A,Adams KF,Olden M,Hollenbeck AR,Cross AJ,Leitzmann MF

更新日期：2012-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The continued elimination of measles requires accurate assessment of its epidemiology and a critical evaluation of how its incidence is changing with time. National surveillance of measles in the United States between 2001 and 2011 provides data on the number of measles introductions and the size of the resulting tran...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blumberg S,Enanoria WT,Lloyd-Smith JO,Lietman TM,Porco TC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotypes of single nucleotide polymorphisms are subject to misclassification. If ignored, such misclassification can seriously distort the estimated genotype effects on the disease or outcome of interest. Validation data (gold standard or replicated surrogates) are required to assess the degree of misclassification a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hossain S,Le ND,Brooks-Wilson AR,Spinelli JJ

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some researchers have recently questioned the validity of associations between birth weight and health in later life. They argue that these associations might be due in part to inappropriate statistical adjustment for variables on the causal pathway (such as current body size), which creates an artifactual statistical...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tu YK,West R,Ellison GT,Gilthorpe MS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mental Function Index is a weighted combination of scores on three brief tests. The Index was developed to aid in the discrimination of elderly persons with early cases of senile dementia from nondemented elderly individuals. In a previous report (Am J Epidemiol 1981;114:515-27), the authors described preliminary ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pfeffer RI,Kurosaki TT,Chance JM,Filos S,Bates D

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the role of self-reported life satisfaction in mortality with a prospective cohort study (1976-1995). A nationwide sample of healthy adults (18-64 years, n = 22,461) from the Finnish Twin Cohort responded to a questionnaire about life satisfaction and known predictors of mortality in 1975. A s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koivumaa-Honkanen H,Honkanen R,Viinamäki H,Heikkilä K,Kaprio J,Koskenvuo M

更新日期：2000-11-15 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：:Vital statistics data on mortality from malignant melanoma from five countries are simultaneously fit by the method of cohort analysis. After the effects of geographic and temporal trends are removed, the proportion of deaths occurring in the younger age groups is found to be higher in females than in males. Relative ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Venzon DJ,Moolgavkar SH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study of neonatal mortality (N = 106) in white singleton births (N = 14,486) in Utah for January-June 1975 was conducted. Using membership and activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) as a proxy for parental health practices, i.e., tobacco and alcohol abstinence, differentia...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Woolley FR,Schuman KL,Lyon JL

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:Daily temperatures and snowfall were related to coronary and stroke deaths in selected standard metropolitan statistical areas for the 5-year period 1962-1966. Typically an inverse approximately linear pattern of coronary heart disease (CHD) and of stroke mortality with temperature was seen over the greater part of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rogot E,Padgett SJ

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a computer program for hypothesis testing and calculation of exact binomial confidence intervals for the adjusted relative risk in follow-up studies involving multiple strata with incidence density (person-time) denominators and small or zero person-count numerators. The program is an extension to ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guess HA,Lydick EG,Small RD,Miller LP

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent a single measure, self-rated health (SRH), independently predicts long-term hospitalizations due to all causes and to cardiovascular diseases by using both the standard Cox proportional hazards model and a more robust events model. The study cohort consisted of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kennedy BS,Kasl SV,Vaccarino V

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a community-based prospective study of 380 children conducted between 1987 and 1990, the rate of diarrhea was significantly associated with percentage of CD8 T-lymphocytes and the CD4:CD8 ratio. After adjustment for age and previous diarrhea, the relative incidence of diarrhea with a duration of > or = 7 days was 2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mølbak K,Lisse IM,Aaby P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some reports indicate that exposure to specific polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners is related to breast cancer risk. The authors recruited participants in a case-control study from October 1994 to March 1997 to assess the relation between breast cancer risk and concentrations of 14 PCB congeners measured in plas...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Demers A,Ayotte P,Brisson J,Dodin S,Robert J,Dewailly E

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Honolulu Heart Program studies, 4,581 men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii completed a psychosocial questionnaire in 1971. By 1980, 280 new cancer cases had been recorded. Among 12 items related to stressful life situations, there were no consistent associations with total or site-specific cancer i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Joffres M,Reed DM,Nomura AM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Death rarely results from only one cause, and it can be caused by a variety of factors. Multiple cause-of-death data files can list as many as 20 contributing causes of death in addition to the reported underlying cause of death. Analysis of multiple cause-of-death data can provide information on associations between ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Redelings MD,Wise M,Sorvillo F

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:To assess recall of childhood socioeconomic position for public health research, the authors conducted a cross-sectional study of 352 adult women twin pairs enrolled in Examination II of the Kaiser Permanente Women Twins Study carried out in 1989-1990 in Oakland, California. Among twin pairs, 91% (95% confidence inter...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Krieger N,Okamoto A,Selby JV

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiences of discrimination are associated with increased risk of adverse health outcomes; however, it is unknown whether discrimination is related to incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (diabetes). We investigated the associations of major experiences of discrimination (unfair treatment in 6 situations) and everyday ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whitaker KM,Everson-Rose SA,Pankow JS,Rodriguez CJ,Lewis TT,Kershaw KN,Diez Roux AV,Lutsey PL

更新日期：2017-08-15 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

abstract：:The involvement of organophosphate insecticides in cognitive disorders is supported by epidemiologic and biological evidence, but the effects of long-term exposure remain debated. We studied the association between organophosphate exposure and cognitive performance in vine workers from the PHYTONER study cohort in the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blanc-Lapierre A,Bouvier G,Gruber A,Leffondré K,Lebailly P,Fabrigoule C,Baldi I

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00