Reliability of ophthalmic diagnoses in an epidemiologic survey.

abstract：:A retrospective review of autopsy records was performed to evaluate a clustering of patients shown to have invasive pulmonary aspergillosis during the period July 1, 1978 through October 31, 1980 at Milwaukee County Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During this period, ten patients, all of whom were immunosuppress...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lentino JR,Rosenkranz MA,Michaels JA,Kurup VP,Rose HD,Rytel MW

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:The relation of the interval of time between death and next-of-kin contact to outcome variables including response rates and data quality was examined in a nationally representative sample of 17,713 deaths of persons 25 years of age or older that occurred in the United States in 1986. For most of the outcome variables...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poe GS,McLaughlin JK,Powell-Griner E,Parsons CR,Robinson K

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and candidate gene analyses have led to the discovery of several dozen genetic polymorphisms associated with breast cancer susceptibility, many of which are considered well-established risk factors for the disease. Despite attempts to replicate these same variant-disease associat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： O'Brien KM,Cole SR,Poole C,Bensen JT,Herring AH,Engel LS,Millikan RC

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work-related aircraft crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatality in Alaska, with civilian pilots having the highest fatality rate (410/100,000/year). To identify factors affecting survivability, the authors examined work-related aircraft crashes that occurred in Alaska in the 1990s (1990-1999), comparing c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bensyl DM,Moran K,Conway GA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exact probability test and its asymptotic version are described for testing the hypothesis that clustering of disease observed among population units is likely to have been due to chance alone. The test is based on a scheme for ranking possible arrangements of ill and well persons by degree of clustering, as measur...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser DW

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of dietary factors and physical activity to hyperinsulinemia was examined in 389 men aged 70-89 years who participated in the Zutphen Elderly Study in 1990. Information about the usual diet was obtained using a cross-check dietary history, and habitual physical activity was assessed using a validated ques...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Feskens EJ,Loeber JG,Kromhout D

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated blood pressure in 1,183 Chinese nuclear families (mother, father, and first two children) via a cross-sectional 1994-1997 survey. The mother's, the father's, and the first sibling's blood pressures were each significantly and independently related to the second sibling's blood pressure after ad...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang X,Wang B,Chen C,Yang J,Fang Z,Zuckerman B,Xu X

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious transmission of streptococci in families has been demonstrated to follow Greenwood's chain-binomial model in its simplest form which did not need beta transformation to correct for differences in susceptibility between families. Following the application of this model, an estimate of the risk of acquisition...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poku K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify individual predisposing risk indicators for falls in a sample of institutionalized frail elderly in southern Germany. The design was a prospective observational study with a 1-year follow-up (October 1998-September 1999). The study population included 472 long-term-care residents ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kron M,Loy S,Sturm E,Nikolaus T,Becker C

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from epidemiologic and experimental studies suggests that use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduces risk of colon and breast cancer. The association between use of aspirin and other NSAIDs and risk of adult glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) was evaluated among 236 incident GBM cases and 401 popu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sivak-Sears NR,Schwartzbaum JA,Miike R,Moghadassi M,Wrensch M

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between a single interpregnancy interval (IPI) and birth outcomes has not yet been explored using matched methods. We modeled the odds of preterm birth, being small for gestational age, and having low birth weight in a second, live-born infant in a cohort of 192,041 sibling pairs born in Western Austra...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Regan AK,Ball SJ,Warren JL,Malacova E,Padula A,Marston C,Nassar N,Stanley F,Leonard H,de Klerk N,Pereira G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender and cigarette smoking are among the most consistent predictors of bladder cancer risk. After adjustment for known risk factors, an excess risk remains for males, suggesting that other factors may be responsible for the gender differences. Given limited data on hormonal or reproductive factors and bladder cancer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McGrath M,Michaud DS,De Vivo I

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have focused on the impact of weight maintenance on cardiovascular disease risk factors or addressed whether changes differ by baseline weight status and medication usage. The authors examined these issues using 9 years of follow-up data on 3,235 men and women from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Truesdale KP,Stevens J,Cai J

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is the leading identifiable predisposing factor for preterm birth. Although maternal exposure to air pollution can potentially have an impact on preterm PROM, there is no available evidence on such an impact. In this study, based on 5,555 singleton births occurring in Barc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dadvand P,Basagaña X,Figueras F,Martinez D,Beelen R,Cirach M,de Nazelle A,Hoek G,Ostro B,Nieuwenhuijsen MJ

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of preschool physical activity on the change in body fatness from preschool to first grade. The Framingham Children's Study, a longitudinal study of childhood cardiovascular risk behaviors, began in 1987 with the enrollment of 106 children aged 3-5 years and their parents. The present an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Moore LL,Nguyen US,Rothman KJ,Cupples LA,Ellison RC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of chlamydial trachomatis in sera of patients with gon ococcal urethritis (GU), non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), post-gonococca l urethritis (PGU) and trachomainclusion conjunctivitis (TRIC) is discussed. Chlamydiae were isolated in 40% of men with NGU, 20-30% with GU and 0-7% of men with symptomatic or...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Richmond SJ,Sparling PF

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of propensity scores to adjust for measured confounding factors has become increasingly popular in cohort studies. However, their use in case-control and case-cohort studies has received little attention. The authors present some theory on the estimation and use of propensity scores in case-control and case-co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Månsson R,Joffe MM,Sun W,Hennessy S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, patients with spinal cord injuries were observed to have a high incidence of colonizaion of the perineum, rectum, and urethra with Pseudomonas. In the current report, 10 men and 10 women with spinal cord injury were studied prospectively during their stay in hospital between June-Dec. 1977 (men) a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Morrow JW

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal emerged on the Indian subcontinent in late 1992 and was first recognized in Thailand in 1993. To characterize the epidemiology of this disease, a hospital-based case-control study was conducted in Samutsakorn, a port city 30 km southwest of Bangkok. Between November 15, 1993, and June 3, 19...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hoge CW,Bodhidatta L,Echeverria P,Deesuwan M,Kitporka P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer simulation was applied to Sartwell's model to examine the impact of competing risks of death on the underlying assumptions and the power to reject both uniform and normal incubation period distributions. Exponential and nonparametric survival functions were imposed onto lognormal, uniform, and normal distribu...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yi Q,Glickman LT

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption habits as recorded on health checkup questionnaires by 91,659 white, black, or Oriental men and women were studied. Substantial age, sex, and race differences in alcohol consumption were reported. Generally, men drank more than women, drinking was most prevalent among whites and least prevalent amo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Klatsky AL,Friedman GD,Siegelaub AB,Gérard MJ

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 1975 an ongoing outbreak of conjunctivitis occurred among Vietnamese refugees temporarily housed at a U.S. mainland camp. Twenty-two per cent of surveyed refugees gave a history of the disease and 10% were documented as having clinical conjunctivitis at the time of the survey. Fifty-six per cent o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zweighaft RM,Hierholzer JC,Bryan JA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven symptomatic and five asymptomatic infections with viral hepatitis, type A (102 cases) were identified in members, guests and employees of a private country club in an outbreak associated with consuming food and ice prepared or handled by an employee of the club's kitchen pantry. Twenty-three symptomatic p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Osterholm MT,Kantor RJ,Bradley DW,Hall WN,Francis DP,Aaron HC,Washburn JW,Velde D

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies investigating antenatal caffeine consumption and reproductive outcomes show conflicting results, and most studies have used maternal self-reported caffeine consumption to estimate fetal exposure. This study (n=1,606) was specifically designed to test the association of caffeine and its primary metabolites in u...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Grosso LM,Triche EW,Belanger K,Benowitz NL,Holford TR,Bracken MB

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used a population-based birth cohort of 3,253 children (52% males) born in Brisbane, Australia, between 1981 and 1984 to prospectively examine whether maternal smoking during pregnancy was associated with offspring overweight and obesity. The authors compared mean body mass indexes (weight (kg)/height (m)2...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Al Mamun A,Lawlor DA,Alati R,O'Callaghan MJ,Williams GM,Najman JM

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A few epidemiologic studies have shown an increased risk of death from external causes among men with hypertension. Previous studies were limited by small numbers of events, however, and none assessed the association of blood pressure with specific types of "accidental" death. The authors examined data obtained from b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Terry PD,Abramson JL,Neaton JD,MRFIT Research Group.

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decline in cognitive function in the elderly is common and represents a major clinical and public health concern. Aspirin may reduce the decline in cognitive function by influencing multi-infarct dementia, but data are sparse. The East Boston Senior Health Project is a population-based cohort study that enrolled 3,809...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stürmer T,Glynn RJ,Field TS,Taylor JO,Hennekens CH

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies suggest positive associations between poor oral health and cardiovascular disease. The authors undertook a prospective study among 15,273 Swedish twins (1963-2000) to examine whether genetic factors underlying the 2 diseases could explain previous associations. They estimated hazard ratios and 95...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mucci LA,Hsieh CC,Williams PL,Arora M,Adami HO,de Faire U,Douglass CW,Pedersen NL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose intolerance and diabetes mellitus are associated with physical inactivity, but it is unclear whether preventive interventions should aim at increasing overall energy expenditure or increasing participation in vigorous, fitness-enhancing activities. Studies aimed at separating and quantifying the effects of the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wareham NJ,Wong MY,Day NE

更新日期：2000-07-15 00:00:00