Trends in the incidence of cancer of the corpus uteri in Denmark, 1943-1980.

abstract：:In a prospective study carried out in June 1979-April 1981, 134 of 1,458 adult inpatients at New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired 136 urinary tract infections during 1,474 indwelling bladder catheterizations. Multiple logistic regression analysis identified nine factors that were significant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Platt R,Polk BF,Murdock B,Rosner B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although investigators have assessed the relationship between self-reported cigarette smoking and biomarker levels, the validity of self-reported information on smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is uncertain. We used aggregated data from the 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, and 2009-2010 administrations of the National Heal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Agaku IT,King BA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the authors' objective was to determine whether serum concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), hexachlorobenzene, p,p'-dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), o,p'-DDT, and p,p'-dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene (DDE) are associated with thyroid function during pregnancy. These compounds, as ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chevrier J,Eskenazi B,Holland N,Bradman A,Barr DB

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 21-month period (July 1986-April 1988), six patients who underwent open heart surgery at Holston Valley Hospital and Medical Center in Kingsport, Tennessee, developed sternal would infections caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. All patients required sternectomy, reconstructive surgery, and long term amphotericin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Richet HM,McNeil MM,Davis BJ,Duncan E,Strickler J,Nunley D,Jarvis WR,Tablan OC

更新日期：1992-01-01 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 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：:After diagnosis with prostate cancer, Black men in the United States have poorer survival than White men, even after controlling for differences in cancer stage. The extent to which these racial survival differences are due to biologic versus non-biologic factors is unclear, and it has been hypothesized that differenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Robbins AS,Whittemore AS,Thom DH

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential role of psychological stress in pancreatic cancer has rarely been investigated in epidemiologic studies. During 1991-2009, we conducted a nested case-control study based on Swedish national population and health registers to investigate whether severe psychological stress induced by the death of a child ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huang J,Valdimarsdóttir U,Fall K,Ye W,Fang F

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular morbidity has been associated with particulate matter (PM) air pollution, although the relation between pollutants and sudden death from cardiac arrest has not been established. This study examined associations between out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and fine PM (of aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm, or PM(2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Silverman RA,Ito K,Freese J,Kaufman BJ,De Claro D,Braun J,Prezant DJ

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases for persons in occupations commonly involving exposure to diesel exhaust (DE). In this study, we investigated the association between occupational exposure to DE and odds of ALS. ALS cases were iden...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dickerson AS,Hansen J,Gredal O,Weisskopf MG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a population-based case-control study of connective tissue disease in a four-county area in southeastern Georgia. Interviews with 44 cases and 88 controls were conducted in September and October of 1986. The association with a family history of these disorders was reconfirmed, and a positive asso...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Freni-Titulaer LW,Kelley DB,Grow AG,McKinley TW,Arnett FC,Hochberg MC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mid-19th century, the German hygienist Max von Pettenkofer viewed cholera as resulting from the interaction between a postulated cholera germ and the characteristics of soils. In order to cause cholera, the cholera germ had to become a cholera miasma, but this transformation required prolonged contact of the ge...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Morabia A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of an investigation of the acute effects of air pollution in 321 nonsmoking adults residing in Southern California. Previous epidemiologic investigations of effects of acute exposure to ozone have focused on groups who may not be representative of the general public, such as asthmatics o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostro BD,Lipsett MJ,Mann JK,Krupnick A,Harrington W

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of oral contraceptive (OC) use to the risk of hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) was evaluated among 121,964 US nurses who responded to a mail questionnaire. There were 156 women who reported having been hospitalized for MI before the menopause, and 23 (15%) were OC users at the time of the MI...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Hennekens CH,Rosner B,Belanger C,Rothman KJ,Speizer FE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) at baseline have shown that their cholesterol levels are much less predictive of subsequent mortality than in populations free of CHD (FCHD). One previously suggested explanation of this attenuation is that the impact of hyperlipidemia on atherosclerosis or ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cornfield J,Detre K

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether there was a relation between male exposure to pesticides and the amount of time needed to conceive (time to pregnancy) for farmers and agricultural workers in France and Denmark. The authors used retrospective studies to compare the time to pregnancy of couples in which t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Thonneau P,Abell A,Larsen SB,Bonde JP,Joffe M,Clavert A,Ducot B,Multigner L,Danscher G

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that Hispanics have lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates despite increased rates of diabetes and obesity and lower socioeconomic status has been termed the "Hispanic paradox." The authors therefore examined the relation between ethnicity and mortality in 1,438 Mexican-American and 921 non...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hunt KJ,Resendez RG,Williams K,Haffner SM,Stern MP,Hazuda HP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining an accurate method of obtaining complete morbidity data is a long-standing challenge for epidemiologists. The authors compared the accuracy and completeness of existing California hospital discharge data with self-reports of recent hospitalizations and surgeries from participants in the California Teachers...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marshall SF,Deapen D,Allen M,Anton-Culver H,Bernstein L,Horn-Ross PL,Peel D,Pinder R,Reynolds P,Ross RK,West D,Ziogas A

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When researching racial disparities in health, residential segregation cannot be ignored. Because of segregation, contextual differences by race are so pronounced that ignoring them may lead to mis-estimating the effect of individual-level factors. However, given the stark racial separation of social contexts, researc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Acevedo-Garcia D,Osypuk TL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated 3 index-based dietary patterns-Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2005, HEI-2010, and Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)-2010-in relation to ovarian cancer risk in African-American women. The study was conducted among 415 ovarian cancer cases and 629 age- and site-matched controls of African-American d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Qin B,Moorman PG,Kelemen LE,Alberg AJ,Barnholtz-Sloan JS,Bondy M,Cote ML,Funkhouser E,Peters ES,Schwartz AG,Terry P,Schildkraut JM,Bandera EV

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between the risk of breast cancer before 45 years of age and oral contraceptive use was examined in a case-control study conducted in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston from 1983 to 1986 of 407 patients with breast cancer and 424 controls. With allowance for confounding, for ever use, the multi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Miller DR,Rosenberg L,Kaufman DW,Stolley P,Warshauer ME,Shapiro S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistic, Q, based on the ranks of the estimated probabilities of disease is proposed for assessing the effectiveness of regression models used with dichotomous dependent variables in epidemiologic studies of risk factors for chronic diseases. The pitfalls of R2 are discussed, and the proposed statistic is compared...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu K,Dyer AR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic and diastolic blood pressures provide information about cardiovascular disease (CVD) but are only extremes of the pressure waveform during the cardiac cycle. We developed summaries of the pressure decay, called PTC1 and PTC2, that are related to arterial compliance and to an existing proprietary summary that ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brumback LC,Jacobs DR,Duprez DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Despite growing interest and concern about men's mental health during the perinatal period, we still do not know whether men are more vulnerable to mental health problems during this time. The current study is one of the first to use longitudinal, population-based data to investigate whether becoming an expectant and/...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Leach LS,Olesen SC,Butterworth P,Poyser C

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1979, an outbreak of mixed enterovirus infections occurred in Kansas City and adjacent communities. Sixty-six enteroviruses and 7 adenoviruses were recovered from 73 persons in a survey hospital population. Twenty-eight persons yielded echovirus type 11, 22, echovirus type 6, and 16 either echovirus type 9 or C...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wenner HA,Abel D,Olson LC,Burry VF

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:In this study, the authors evaluated whether the association between low educational level and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia may be explained by occupation-based socioeconomic status (SES). A cohort of 931 nondemented subjects aged > or = 75 years from the Kungsholmen Project, Stockholm, Swed...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Karp A,Kåreholt I,Qiu C,Bellander T,Winblad B,Fratiglioni L

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking is irrefutably the strongest risk factor for lung cancer; however, approximately 25% of cases worldwide occur among nonsmokers. The age-adjusted annual incidence rate of lung cancer in Shanghai, a region where relatively few women smoke cigarettes, is one of the highest in the world. To help further ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weiss JM,Lacey JV Jr,Shu XO,Ji BT,Hou L,Yang G,Li H,Rothman N,Blair A,Gao YT,Chow WH,Zheng W

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this case-control study was to evaluate whether occupational conditions during pregnancy are associated with preterm delivery (PTD). Women whose work conditions changed following the use of a legally justified preventive measure (withdrawal from work or job reassignment) were also compared with those ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Croteau A,Marcoux S,Brisson C

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00