International analysis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus mortality: a preventable mortality perspective. The Diabetes Epidemiology Research International (DERI) Study.

abstract：:A total of 4678 persons participated in an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania glaucoma screening program in 1977. Black participants had higher mean intraocular pressures, more frequent pathologic disc changes and more new cases of glaucoma discovered than a sample of white participants matched for sex and age. The same y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulehan JL,Helzlsouer KJ,Rogers KD,Brown SI

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent cohort mortality study of 19,608 male employees of a major Texas chemical production facility had suggested that they might be at higher risk of lung cancer compared with the male population of the United States or Texas but not with the male population of the five-county area in which they reside. An occupat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bond GG,Flores GH,Shellenberger RJ,Cartmill JB,Fishbeck WA,Cook RR

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraordinarily high rate of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and parkinsonism-dementia (PD) in the Chamorro linguistic group on Guam suggested a genetic etiology for these diseases. Results of three studies are described. Two involved comparisons of the rates of disease in relatives and spouses of index patien...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Reed DM,Torres JM,Brody JA

更新日期：1975-04-01 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：:In this case-control study, the authors aimed to examine whether use of an electric bedding device increased breast cancer risk in African-American women. Cases were 304 African-American patients diagnosed with breast cancer during 1995-1998 who were aged 20-64 years and lived in one of three Tennessee counties. Contr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu K,Hunter S,Payne-Wilks K,Roland CL,Forbes DS

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined whether a serum pepsinogen test (SPT) based on the combination of the serum pepsinogen I level and pepsinogen I/II ratio is a good predictor of gastric cancer occurrence in a general Japanese population. A total of 2,446 subjects aged > or =40 years were classified into negative, positive, and str...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oishi Y,Kiyohara Y,Kubo M,Tanaka K,Tanizaki Y,Ninomiya T,Doi Y,Shikata K,Yonemoto K,Shirota T,Matsumoto T,Iida M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that bone mineral density (BMD) is related to risk of breast cancer in elderly women. This study investigated whether the level of breast cancer risk associated with BMD in women with a positive family history of breast cancer is different from that in women without a family history of br...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lucas FL,Cauley JA,Stone RA,Cummings SR,Vogt MT,Weissfeld JL,Kuller LH

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raised blood pressure is the strongest single risk factor for stroke in the general population. Diabetics are at increased risk of both hypertension and stroke. It is not clear if diabetes mellitus confers an excess risk of stroke that is independent of blood pressure. The authors examined the relation of diabetic sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E,Khaw KT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study on diet and gastric cancer, carried out in selected areas of four regions of Spain (Aragon, Castile, Catalonia, and Galicia) in 1988 and 1989, included 354 cases of histologically confirmed gastric adenocarcinoma and 354 controls matched by age, sex, and area of residence. Cases and controls were ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： González CA,Riboli E,Badosa J,Batiste E,Cardona T,Pita S,Sanz JM,Torrent M,Agudo A

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Past studies of the relation between hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and type 2 diabetes conflict. The authors aimed to elucidate the relation by using a large community-based sample with a wide range of liver conditions. Between October 1997 and February 1998, 2,327 consecutive subjects (aged > or =35 years) were e...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang CS,Wang ST,Yao WJ,Chang TT,Chou P

更新日期：2003-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The prenatal course, labor and delivery of 90 mothers of infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in Connecticut from 1974 through 1976 were studied by hospital chart reviews. Charts of 90 pair-matched controls whose infants survived the first year of life were also examined. Significant associations we...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Arsenault PS

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary reviews the recent history of explanations to crossover paradoxes such as the birth weight and gestational age paradoxes, with a special emphasis on the current proposal by Kramer et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(3):361-367). We contend that the causal structure of these pa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hernán MA,Schisterman EF,Hernández-Díaz S

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:This study evaluated independent effects of maternal and paternal age on risk of autism spectrum disorder. A case-cohort design was implemented using data from 10 US study sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. The 1994 birth co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Durkin MS,Maenner MJ,Newschaffer CJ,Lee LC,Cunniff CM,Daniels JL,Kirby RS,Leavitt L,Miller L,Zahorodny W,Schieve LA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that no distinct glycemic threshold consistently differentiates individuals with or without retinopathy. The authors sought to determine whether the same was true for other microvascular complications. They studied 5,094 participants with fasting plasma glucose values and concurrent microvascula...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nang EE,Khoo CM,Tai ES,Lim SC,Tavintharan S,Wong TY,Heng D,Lee J

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Beginning in 2002, New York City (NYC) implemented numerous policies and programs targeting cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Using death certificates, we analyzed trends in NYC-specific and US mortality rates from 1990 to 2011 for all causes, any CVD, atherosclerotic CVD (ACVD), coronary artery disease (CAD)...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ong P,Lovasi GS,Madsen A,Van Wye G,Demmer RT

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study of bladder cancer was conducted in a population of California Seventh-day Adventists. Most Seventh-day Adventists use neither tobacco nor alcohol yet experience a large degree of variation in dietary habits. Therefore, diet and other lifestyle habits were evaluated in this unique population. In 1976, 34...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mills PK,Beeson WL,Phillips RL,Fraser GE

更新日期：1991-02-01 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 systematic studies of the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis, DNA fingerprinting is used to estimate the fraction of incident cases attributable to recent transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis rather than reactivation disease and to identify risk factors for recent transmission. This approach is based on t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Murray M,Alland D

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental abruption is an uncommon obstetric complication associated with high perinatal mortality rates. The authors explored the associations of abruption with fetal growth restriction, preterm delivery, and perinatal survival. The study was based on 7,508,655 singleton births delivered in 1995 and 1996 in the Unite...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ananth CV,Wilcox AJ

更新日期：2001-02-15 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 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：:Little is known about the U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and health beyond findings related to cardiovascular disease. Medically certified sickness absence is a health indicator in which coronary heart disease is only a minor factor. To investigate the relation between alcohol intake and sickness absence, re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vahtera J,Poikolainen K,Kivimäki M,Ala-Mursula L,Pentti J

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of women less than 40 years of age in England and Wales was performed to evaluate the risk of fatal stroke associated with the use of the newer, low-dose oral contraceptives. Included were 296 cases with subarachnoid hemorrhage, 105 cases with other hemorrhagic stroke, and 21 cases with occlusive ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Thorogood M,Mann J,Murphy M,Vessey M

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between fetal growth restriction and increased rates of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood has been reported. This study evaluated familial aggregation of fetal growth restriction in term births. The population consisted of 3,505 sibships comprised of 7,822 full-term singleton infants bo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： La Batide-Alanore A,Trégouët DA,Jaquet D,Bouyer J,Tiret L

更新日期：2002-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rates in India were estimated using a new method that accounts for follow-up bias. Follow-up bias arises in epidemiologic cohort studies when the incidence rate among individuals who do and do not return for follow-up are different. The new method combines data on the preva...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brookmeyer R,Quinn T,Shepherd M,Mehendale S,Rodrigues J,Bollinger R

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a simulation study to examine whether the race of a patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) influences the diagnosis of underlying kidney disease made by the nephrologist. The hypothesis was that ESRD may be more readily ascribed to hypertension in blacks than in whites. Nephrologists practic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Perneger TV,Whelton PK,Klag MJ,Rossiter KA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of the Journal, Van Ewijk et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2013;177(8):729-736) report intriguing associations between prenatal exposure to the religious month of Ramadan and body anthropometry among adult Muslims in Indonesia. They categorized prenatal exposure according to the relative timing of Ramadan and the...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Susser E,Ananth CV

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the independent and combined associations of physical activity and obesity with incident type 2 diabetes among 675,496 Korean men from the database of the National Health Insurance Corporation. During an average follow-up of 7.5 years (1996-2005), 52,995 men developed type 2 diabetes. Men with ove...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lee DC,Park I,Jun TW,Nam BH,Cho SI,Blair SN,Kim YS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00