Transmission of hepatitis B virus among siblings.

abstract：:Customized birth weight charts that incorporate maternal characteristics are now being adopted into clinical practice. However, there is controversy surrounding the value of these charts in the prediction of growth and perinatal outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess the use of customized charts in predic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Carberry AE,Raynes-Greenow CH,Turner RM,Jeffery HE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:State Medicaid programs collectively cover more than 70 million people, and are the largest single payer for pregnancy and delivery in the United States. In this issue, Margerison et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XXXX-XXXX) investigate the extent to which Medicaid expansions to non-pregnant low-income adults under...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jarlenski M

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of indirect standardization in the assessment of the fertility of occupationally exposed workers is briefly reviewed and critiqued. The calculation of expected births in the method of Levine et al. (J Occup Med 1980;22:781-91) is modified to eliminate negative bias. An example is given using data from a 1977 s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Starr TB,Levine RJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,054 Hong Kong Chinese subjects aged 70 years or over were recruited into a cohort study to investigate the relation between social support and health outcomes. More than 30 social, health, and behavioral characteristics were recorded as baseline information when the study began in 1985. Mortality data wer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ho SC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolving concept of gender-based violence (GBV) is a multifaceted issue of public health significance. Until recently, most studies examining GBV have been conducted in North America. In this issue of the Journal, Palermo et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(5):602-612) report their secondary analyses involving approx...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beydoun HA,Beydoun MA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) was associated with the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and mortality in a community cohort in Taiwan. The influence of anemia on the association was also assessed. RDW levels were measured in 3,226 participants aged 35 years o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chen PC,Sung FC,Chien KL,Hsu HC,Su TC,Lee YT

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Finland since the 1980s, coronary heart disease mortality has declined more than might be predicted by risk factor reductions alone. The aim of this study was to assess how much of the decline could be attributed to improved treatments and risk factor reductions. The authors used the cell-based IMPACT mortality mod...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Laatikainen T,Critchley J,Vartiainen E,Salomaa V,Ketonen M,Capewell S

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary protein may help prevent age-related declines in strength and functional capacity. This study examines the independent relationship between dietary protein and longitudinal changes in physical functioning among adults participating in the Framingham Offspring Study from examination 5 (1991-1995) to examination...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mustafa J,Ellison RC,Singer MR,Bradlee ML,Kalesan B,Holick MF,Moore LL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because noninstitutionalized senior citizens comprise over 95% of the population 65 years of age and older, their health needs are a major concern. Data regarding infections in this population including the epidemiology, morbidity, and mortality are lacking. The authors recruited a study population of 417 free-living ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ruben FL,Dearwater SR,Norden CW,Kuller LH,Gartner K,Shalley A,Warshafsky G,Kelsey SF,O'Donnell C,Means E

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have conducted an analysis to validate a computer model that uses age-specific human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence data to estimate age-specific HIV incidence rates. Data for the analysis are from a cohort study of volunteer male workers in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi. Testing for HIV ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saidel T,Sokal D,Rice J,Buzingo T,Hassig S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electric power transmission lines have become objects of public controversy. Hypotheses have linked neurobehavioral effects to the electric and magnetic fields that these lines produce. The authors conducted a telephone interview survey in November 1987 to assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms and headache in r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poole C,Kavet R,Funch DP,Donelan K,Charry JM,Dreyer NA

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-four strains of Venezuelan encephalitis (VE) virus isolated from sentinel hamsters exposed in the Middle American countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras were examined for the presence of virions with marker characteristics of strains that cause large epidemics and equine epizootics. Thirty-four st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wiebe ME,Scherer WF,Peick WJ

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality among veterans has been studied in relation to military rank at separation in a series of 85,491 men discharged from the US Army in 1946 and traced through 1969. It was found that although the mortality of privates was very close to expectation based on population rates, non-commissioned officers had a 23% a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seltzer CC,Jablon S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preterm delivery rate in North Carolina is consistently higher than the national average. However, recent reports suggest that singleton preterm delivery rates for non-Hispanic Whites are increasing while those for non-Hispanic African Americans are decreasing. To study this pattern further, the authors examined d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vahratian A,Buekens P,Bennett TA,Meyer RE,Kogan MD,Yu SM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health tobacco control efforts have increasingly targeted communities in addition to individuals. Before population smoking decreases, effectiveness might be detected from initial outcomes reflecting these efforts, such as higher cigarette prices or more workplace and home smoking restrictions. Presumably, thes...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilpin EA,Stillman FA,Hartman AM,Gibson JT,Pierce JP

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a case-control study to determine whether risk factors for reading disability (RD) differentially affect boys and girls. The study population included all children born between 1976 and 1982 in Olmsted County, Minnesota (n = 5,701). A total of 303 RD cases were identified by using intelligence qu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： St Sauver JL,Katusic SK,Barbaresi WJ,Colligan RC,Jacobsen SJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality studies have indicated that workers in agriculture and forestry may be at increased risk of leukemia. Findings are reported from a New Zealand Cancer Registry-based case-control study involving 546 male leukemia patients registered during 1979-1983 and aged 20 years or more at time of registration. Controls ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pearce NE,Sheppard RA,Howard JK,Fraser J,Lilley BM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of aluminum and silica in drinking water on the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, the authors analyzed data from a large prospective cohort (Paquid), including 3,777 subjects aged 65 years and over living at home in 75 civil parishes in Gironde and Dordogne in southwestern France in 1...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rondeau V,Commenges D,Jacqmin-Gadda H,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the relation between cigarette smoking and nonspecific inflammatory bowel disease in a case-control study of 124 cases of ulcerative colitis, 109 cases of Crohn's disease, and 250 age- and sex-matched control subjects in hospital for acute nongastric or intestinal conditions unrelated to smoking. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Franceschi S,Panza E,La Vecchia C,Parazzini F,Decarli A,Bianchi Porro G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study was conducted from 1985 to 1989 in western Washington State to assess the relation between nutrients and the incidence of colon cancer in men and women aged 30-62. A food frequency questionnaire was used to document the usual diet 7 years before diagnosis for 424 cases and at a si...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meyer F,White E

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiologist primarily studies transitions between states of health and disease. The purpose of the present article is to define a foundational parameter for such studies, namely risk. We begin simply and build to the setting in which there is more than 1 event type (i.e., competing risks or competing events), a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Hudgens MG,Brookhart MA,Westreich D

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between sleep and obesity or weight gain in adults, particularly older populations, remains unclear. In a cohort of 83,377 US men and women aged 51-72 years, we prospectively investigated the association between self-reported sleep duration and weight change over an average of 7.5 years of follow-up (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Xiao Q,Arem H,Moore SC,Hollenbeck AR,Matthews CE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case-control study, matching on a disease risk score (DRS), which includes many confounders, should theoretically result in greater precision than matching on only a few confounders; however, this has not been investigated. We simulated 1,000 hypothetical cohorts with a binary exposure, a time-to-event outcome, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Wang S,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2016-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the association between asthma prevalence and socioeconomic status at both the individual and center levels simultaneously.by using data from 32 centers in 15 countries. Included were 10,971 subjects aged 20-44 years selected from the general population and interviewed in 1991-1992. Socioeconomic ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Basagaña X,Sunyer J,Kogevinas M,Zock JP,Duran-Tauleria E,Jarvis D,Burney P,Anto JM,European Community Respiratory Health Survey.

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibling and twin study designs provide control for confounding factors that are typically unmeasured in traditional cohort studies. Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health collected at 3 visits during 1994-2002, the authors evaluated the longitudinal association b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： The NS,Adair LS,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the frequency and determinants of rectal bleeding and the association between rectal bleeding and risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among homosexual/ bisexual men in Mexico City. Men who requested anonymous HIV testing at a public clinic in Mexico City a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coplan PM,Gortmaker S,Hernandez-Avila M,Spiegelman D,Uribe-Zuñiga P,Mueller NE

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immigration from high prevalence areas may contribute to an increased risk of tuberculosis in Europe. This study aimed at quantifying transmission of tuberculosis between and within nationalities among residents of the Netherlands. DNA "fingerprints," on the basis of restriction fragment length polymorphism using mark...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Borgdorff MW,Nagelkerke N,van Soolingen D,de Haas PE,Veen J,van Embden JD

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between serum selenium concentration and five-year risk of cardiovascular disease was studied in 1,110 men aged 55 to 74 years in two rural areas of Finland. In the total cohort, all-cause and cardiovascular deaths were associated significantly with serum selenium of less than 45 micrograms/liter, an a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtamo J,Valkeila E,Alfthan G,Punsar S,Huttunen JK,Karvonen MJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the association between age at menarche, menstrual cycle characteristics between ages 28 and 32 years, and peri- and postmenopausal fracture risk in a cohort of 874 women who prospectively recorded menstrual cycle data for at least 5 years from their early 20s through their menopause. Fracture his...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cooper GS,Sandler DP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female breast cancer patients who had participated in a case-control study conducted during 1973-1975 were followed up, using record linkage to the Statistics Canada mortality data base, to the end of 1980. A number of variables recorded for the case-control study, in particular body weight and daily intake of dietary...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Newman SC,Miller AB,Howe GR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00