Antibody survey for Inoue-Melnick virus infections in Osaka and Houston.

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：:Mean levels of total cholesterol by sex and age were compared between groups of whites in visit 2 of the Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study and in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). NHANES II estimates were found to be higher than comparable visit 2 estimates by 3-14 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kalsbeek WD,Kral KM,Wallace RB,Rifkind BM

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) but an increased risk of other causes of morbidity and mortality. It remains unclear whether there is an upper limit to a protective effect of alcohol intake on CHD risk. Whether there is a U- or an L-shaped relation between alcohol ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rehm JT,Bondy SJ,Sempos CT,Vuong CV

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiology has a rich tradition in western New York State, beginning with the classic study by Austin Flint of a waterborne typhoid fever outbreak in North Boston in 1843. Other important investigations included the study of the Buffalo poliomyelitis epidemic of 1912, by Wade Hampton Frost, which provided a comprehe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Winkelstein W Jr

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether greater intakes of calcium, vitamin D, or milk products may protect against ischemic heart disease mortality, the authors analyzed data from a prospective cohort study of 34,486 postmenopausal Iowa women 55-69 years old and without a history of ischemic heart disease who completed a dietary ques...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bostick RM,Kushi LH,Wu Y,Meyer KA,Sellers TA,Folsom AR

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three measures of spatial clustering (Moran's I, Geary's c, and a rank adjacency statistic, D) were evaluated for their power to detect regional patterns in health data. The patterns represented various environmental effects: a latitude gradient; residence near a contaminated water supply; disease "hot spots"; relatio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Walter SD

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared US motor vehicle and motorcycle mortality rates during periods when each of several alcohol-related laws were in effect with mortality rates during other periods. During the period 1980-1997, there were 792,184 deaths due to motor vehicle crashes and 63,052 deaths due to motorcycle crashes. An est...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Villaveces A,Cummings P,Koepsell TD,Rivara FP,Lumley T,Moffat J

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of prospective cohort studies have examined the relations of individual dietary variables to risk of colorectal cancer. Few studies have addressed the broader eating patterns that reflect many dietary exposures working together. Using data from a prospective study of 61,463 women, with an average follow-up pe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Terry P,Hu FB,Hansen H,Wolk A

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma risk has consistently been inversely associated with allergy history but not with smoking history despite putative biologic plausibility. Data from 855 high-grade glioma cases and 1,160 controls from 4 geographic regions of the United States during 1997-2008 were analyzed for interactions between allergy and sm...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lachance DH,Yang P,Johnson DR,Decker PA,Kollmeyer TM,McCoy LS,Rice T,Xiao Y,Ali-Osman F,Wang F,Stoddard SM,Sprau DJ,Kosel ML,Wiencke JK,Wiemels JL,Patoka JS,Davis F,McCarthy B,Rynearson AL,Worra JB,Fridley BL,O'

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign breast disease is associated with increased risk of breast cancer. To further clarify whether there is a genetic link between benign and malignant breast lesions, the authors identified 14,648 first-degree female relatives of 8,807 patients in whom breast cancer was diagnosed at <50 years of age by using Danish...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bertelsen L,Mellemkjaer L,Balslev E,Olsen JH

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a steep increase in the number of meta-analyses of genome-wide association (GWA) studies aimed at identifying genetic variants with increasingly smaller effects, but pressure to publish findings of new genetic associations has limited the time available for careful consideration of all of their methodol...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gögele M,Minelli C,Thakkinstian A,Yurkiewich A,Pattaro C,Pramstaller PP,Little J,Attia J,Thompson JR

更新日期：2012-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that subtle changes in the resting electrocardiogram can have predictive value for subsequent cardiovascular disease, the authors evaluated serial electrocardiograms from a cohort of initially healthy men and related these to later development of ischemic heart disease. The cohort of 1056 men or...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harlan WR,Cowie CC,Oberman A,Mitchell RE,MacIntyre NR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect on childhood cancer of prolonged exposure to 60-H magnetic fields from electric appliances was examined using interview data from a recently completed case-control study. Exposures of children aged 0-14 years whose incident cancers were diagnosed between 1976 and 1983 and who resided in the Denver, Colorado...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savitz DA,John EM,Kleckner RC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A higher serum phosphorus level is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) events among community-living populations. Mechanisms are unknown. The ankle-brachial index (ABI) provides information on both atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness. In this cross-sectional study (2000-2002), the authors evaluated the ass...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meng J,Wassel CL,Kestenbaum BR,Collins TC,Criqui MH,Lewis CE,Cummings SR,Ix JH,Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study Group.

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sizes at birth of parents and their children are known to be correlated, reflecting in part the influence of fetal and maternal genes. Sociodemographic factors, regarded as aspects of the shared environment across generations, would also be expected to contribute, but evidence is limited. In the present study, the aut...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： De Stavola BL,Leon DA,Koupil I

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between breast feeding and the risk of severe cholera was examined in a case-control study of rural Bangladeshi children under 36 months of age who were studied in 1985-1986 during a field trial of killed oral cholera vaccines. A total of 116 cases who were treated for severe cholera were compared with...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clemens JD,Sack DA,Harris JR,Khan MR,Chakraborty J,Chowdhury S,Rao MR,van Loon FP,Stanton BF,Yunus M

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:The authors examined the role of food insecurity in the etiology of children's cognitive and mental health problems. Data from a prospective longitudinal study of 1,116 United Kingdom families with twins (sample constructed in 1999-2000) were used to test associations among household food insecurity; income; maternal ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Belsky DW,Moffitt TE,Arseneault L,Melchior M,Caspi A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Australia, as in many industrialized countries, the past 50 years have been marked by increasing female labor-force participation. It is popularly speculated that this might impose a mental-health burden on women and their children. This analysis aimed to examine the associations between household labor-force parti...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： King TL,Shields M,Byars S,Kavanagh AM,Craig L,Milner A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior reports regarding the association between physical activity and subclinical cardiovascular disease have not been consistent. The authors assessed physical activity and walking pace via questionnaire among 6,482 US adults aged 45-84 years without prior clinical cardiovascular disease participating in the Multi-Et...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bertoni AG,Whitt-Glover MC,Chung H,Le KY,Barr RG,Mahesh M,Jenny NS,Burke GL,Jacobs DR

更新日期：2009-02-15 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：:The true number of industrial accidents followed by absence from work in the Netherlands in 1993 has been estimated by using a capture-recapture approach. A government safety register noted 29,685 cases reported by Dutch companies. The statutory organization that insures employees of the same companies against absence...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Charante AW,Mulder PG

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 40,000 blood samples drawn in 1968-1972 by the Social Insurance Institution's mobile clinic in Finland have been stored. Linking cancer incidence data obtained from the Finnish Cancer Registry with this material yielded 32 cases of cervical cancer diagnosed after drawing of the blood sample. These 32 ind...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hakama M,Lehtinen M,Knekt P,Aromaa A,Leinikki P,Miettinen A,Paavonen J,Peto R,Teppo L

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies virus was isolated by cell culture from the brains of 104 confirmed rabies cases diagnosed by the fluorescent-antibody staining technique in the United States during 1974-1984. Eighty-seven isolates were obtained from wild-life species, 10 from humans, and seven from domestic animals. These isolates were tested...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rupprecht CE,Glickman LT,Spencer PA,Wiktor TJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of respiratory tract illnesses (RTI) in adult humans during October and November 1975 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, were investigated by viral isolation and serologic procedures. The recovery of viral agents was enhanced by use of cell cultures in the field. Recoveries of parainfluenzaviruses types 1 and 3...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Parkinson AJ,Muchmore HG,Scott LV,Kalmakoff J,Miles JA

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estrogen replacement therapy on prognosis in women with established coronary disease remain uncertain. The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of 726 women (mean age, 66.2 years) who survived first myocardial infarction to hospital discharge from 1980 through 1991, while enrolled at Group Hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Newton KM,LaCroix AZ,McKnight B,Knopp RH,Siscovick DS,Heckbert SR,Weiss NS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buccal cells provide a convenient source of DNA for epidemiologic studies. Mouthwash rinses yield a higher quality and quantity of DNA than cytobrushes but are not practical for collection from infants. Although cytobrushes yield sufficient DNA for most genotyping analyses, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) analysis can r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saftlas AF,Waldschmidt M,Logsden-Sackett N,Triche E,Field E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallstones and cholecystectomy may be related to digestive system cancer through inflammation, altered bile flux, and changes in metabolic hormone levels. Although gallstones are recognized causes of gallbladder cancer, associations with other cancers of the digestive system are poorly established. We used the Surveil...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nogueira L,Freedman ND,Engels EA,Warren JL,Castro F,Koshiol J

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is accumulating evidence suggesting that children may drive the spread of influenza epidemics. The objective of this study was to quantify the lead time by age using laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A for the 1995/1996-2005/2006 seasons from Canadian communities and laboratory-confirmed hospital admission...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schanzer D,Vachon J,Pelletier L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies suggest a longer duration of breastfeeding to be associated dose dependently with a decrease in risk of overweight in later life. The authors performed a comprehensive meta-analysis of the existing studies on duration of breastfeeding and risk of overweight. Studies were included that reported th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harder T,Bergmann R,Kallischnigg G,Plagemann A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00