Ethnic status and participation in longitudinal health surveys.

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：:A survey was carried out on a random sample of 1,288 Mexican Americans and 929 Anglos living in three socially distinct neighborhoods in San Antonio, Texas. Hypertension was defined as diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 95 mmHg or currently taking antihypertensive medication. Overall age-adjusted preval...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Franco LJ,Stern MP,Rosenthal M,Haffner SM,Hazuda HP,Comeaux PJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties inherent in the identification of immune correlates of protection or severe disease have challenged the development and evaluation of dengue vaccines. There persist substantial gaps in knowledge about the complex effects of age and sequential dengue virus (DENV) exposures on these correlations. To address...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Anderson KB,Buddhari D,Srikiatkhachorn A,Gromowski GD,Iamsirithaworn S,Weg AL,Ellison DW,Macareo L,Cummings DAT,Yoon IK,Nisalak A,Ponlawat A,Thomas SJ,Fernandez S,Jarman RG,Rothman AL,Endy TP

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Previous studies have provided conflicting evidence on whether being a family caregiver is associated with increased or decreased risk for all-cause mortality. This study examined whether 3,503 family caregivers enrolled in the national Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study showed dif...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Roth DL,Haley WE,Hovater M,Perkins M,Wadley VG,Judd S

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological distress has been indicated to affect the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and external causes. Mortality from these major causes of death is also known to be elevated after widowhood when distress is at a heightened level. Surprisingly little is known about changes in health other than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Einiö E,Martikainen P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent article by Little et al. (Am J Epidemiol 1994;140:544-54) reported that infants in Seattle, Washington, who were breastfed by mothers who smoked gained more weight than either infants who were breastfed by mothers who did not smoke or infants who were bottle-fed by mothers who smoked. In this study, the autho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boshuizen HC,Verkerk PH,Reerink JD,Herngreen WP,Zaadstra BM,Verloove-Vanhorick SP

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between passive smoking and lung cancer was examined by means of a case-control study in a cohort of 27,409 nonsmoking Swedish women identified from questionnaires mailed in 1961 and 1963. A total of 77 cases of primary carcinoma of the bronchus or lung were found in a follow-up of the cohort through 1980...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pershagen G,Hrubec Z,Svensson C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation of negative affect to mortality in the Religious Orders Study, a longitudinal cohort study of older persons, between 1994 and 2002. Participants were 851 Catholic clergy members without dementia at baseline (mean age, 75.4 (standard deviation, 6.9) years; 68% women). They completed st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wilson RS,Bienias JL,Mendes de Leon CF,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single patient isolation of adults to prevent spread of infection was studied in five high occupancy community hospitals. The acceptable standard was a guideline for isolation in hospitals, published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Overusage of single patient isolation was found to vary between 4% and 96% of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hyams PJ,Ehrenkranz NJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study involved direct observation of the differences in utilization of medical care by smokers, nonsmokers, and former smokers. A household interview survey conducted in 1970-1971 obtained detailed information about the smoking patterns of 2,582 adult members of the Northwest Kaiser Permanente health maintenance ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vogt TM,Schweitzer SO

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Within the past decade, the infection control nurse (ICN) has become an important element in organized infection surveillance and control programs. Before 1970, only a few hospitals (6%) had an ICN, but, by 1977, over 80% had hired at least one ICN, the majority of those hospitals having done so since 1973. To determi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Emori TG,Haley RW,Stanley RC

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statewide cross-sectional study of risk factors for seropositivity for antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi in outdoor workers in New Jersey was performed in September and October 1988. The crude odds ratio associated with exposure to ticks on the primary state job was 2.2 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7-9.0). After a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schwartz BS,Goldstein MD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Air Pollution and Health: a European Approach (APHEA) project is a coordinated study of the short-term effects of air pollution on mortality and hospital admissions using data from 15 European cities, with a wide range of geographic, sociodemographic, climatic, and air quality patterns. The objective of this paper...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Touloumi G,Katsouyanni K,Zmirou D,Schwartz J,Spix C,de Leon AP,Tobias A,Quennel P,Rabczenko D,Bacharova L,Bisanti L,Vonk JM,Ponka A

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the validity of outdoor particulate matter with a 50% cutoff diameter of 10-microm (PM10) concentrations as a measure of exposure in time series studies, the association between personal and outdoor concentrations, within subjects, over time was investigated. Repeated measurements of personal, indoor, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Janssen NA,Hoek G,Brunekreef B,Harssema H,Mensink I,Zuidhof A

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although psychotropic drug use has been associated with increased risk of falls in long-term care settings; this association may be confounded by the high prevalence of dementia and depression and other fall risk factors. This question was addressed in a prospective cohort study of recurrent falls among 282 ambulatory...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Thapa PB,Gideon P,Fought RL,Ray WA

更新日期：1995-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the summer of 1991, four inmates from prison A in Upstate New York died of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. To determine the extent of resistant tuberculosis at prison A and transmission patterns, the authors interviewed staff and reviewed medical records and inmate movement histories. Contact investigation resul...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Valway SE,Richards SB,Kovacovich J,Greifinger RB,Crawford JT,Dooley SW

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of the risk of cancer and death to total serum cholesterol was studied in a random population sample from two counties of Eastern Finland. Data on total serum cholesterol were recorded between February and April 1972 for 3745 men and 4221 women aged 30 to 59 years who had no history of cancer, diabete...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Salonen JT

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between body size and breast cancer remains uncertain, particularly with regard to differences between pre- and postmenopausal women. The authors examined whether height, weight, body mass index, and weight change were associated with breast cancer risk among pre- and postmenopausal women. This population...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Trentham-Dietz A,Newcomb PA,Storer BE,Longnecker MP,Baron J,Greenberg ER,Willett WC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the associations between placental vascular findings and preterm delivery in 1,053 subcohort women (239 preterm, 814 term) from a Michigan pregnancy cohort study (1998-2004). Twenty-nine placental vascular variables from microscopic examinations were grouped into 5 constructs: 3 maternal construct...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kelly R,Holzman C,Senagore P,Wang J,Tian Y,Rahbar MH,Chung H

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study of cancer and occupation was carried out in Montréal, Canada. Between 1979 and 1986, 449 pathologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer were interviewed, as well as 1,550 cancer controls and 533 population controls. Job histories were evaluated by a team of chemist/hygienists u...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aronson KJ,Siemiatycki J,Dewar R,Gérin M

更新日期：1996-02-15 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 relation between body mass index expressed as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters cubed (weight (kg)/height (m3)) and plasma total cholesterol was assessed in a sample of 11,389 US schoolchildren, aged 5-18 years, between 1984 and 1989. Among whites and Hispanics, a statistically significant nonlinear ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Resnicow K,Morabia A

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single nucleotide polymorphism, - 160C-->A, has been identified in the promoter region of the E-cadherin gene and has been shown to alter its transcriptional activity. To assess susceptibility of -160A allele carriers to seven types of cancers, the authors conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis, up to November 2006...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang GY,Lu CQ,Zhang RM,Hu XH,Luo ZW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cluster randomized controlled trials (CRCTs) are attractive in settings in which individual randomization is difficult or impossible. This issue is common when studying several health problems in developing countries. The authors aimed to assess empirically the extent to which the prerequisite design and analysis aspe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Isaakidis P,Ioannidis JP

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study among 4,734 women who served in the US military in Vietnam (Vietnam cohort), 2,062 women who served in countries near Vietnam (near-Vietnam cohort), and 5,313 nondeployed US military women (US cohort) to evaluate the associations of mortality outcomes with Vietnam War service. Vetera...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kang HK,Cypel Y,Kilbourne AM,Magruder KM,Serpi T,Collins JF,Frayne SM,Furey J,Huang GD,Kimerling R,Reinhard MJ,Schumacher K,Spiro A 3rd

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fasting plasma glucose (FPG) was measured in 4170 nondiabetic adult residents of a suburban California community. At all ages the median FPG in men was higher (103-107 mg/dl) than the median FPG in women (96-104 mg/dl). FPG levels correlated weakly with obesity, and male-female differences persisted after adjustme...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the authors investigated the role of the intrauterine environment in childhood adiposity by comparing the maternal-offspring body mass index (BMI) association with the paternal-offspring BMI association when the offspring were 3 years of age, using parental prepregnancy BMI (measured as weight in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fleten C,Nystad W,Stigum H,Skjaerven R,Lawlor DA,Davey Smith G,Naess O

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast arterial calcification (BAC) has been associated with diabetes and hypertension. This prompted the authors to study the relation between BAC and cardiovascular mortality in a cohort of 12,239 women aged 50-68 years who participated in a population-based breast cancer screening project (DOM Project) in Utrecht, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kemmeren JM,van Noord PA,Beijerinck D,Fracheboud J,Banga JD,van der Graaf Y

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00