Air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease in Detroit, Michigan.

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：:In order to estimate the association between intrauterine growth and childhood survival, data on birth weight and gestational age from the Norwegian Birth Registry, for all children who survived the first year of life and who were born during the period 1967-1989 were linked to the National Cause of Death Registry for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Samuelsen SO,Magnus P,Bakketeig LS

更新日期：1998-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This population-based case-referent study investigated the lung cancer risk associated with occupational exposure to asbestos, focusing on dose-response relations and the interaction with tobacco smoking. Incident cases of lung cancer among males aged 40-75 years in Stockholm County, Sweden, were identified from 1985 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gustavsson P,Nyberg F,Pershagen G,Schéele P,Jakobsson R,Plato N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors approximated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroincidence in a population of men who have sex with men and who sought repeated anonymous HIV testing in San Francisco in 1995. The number of seroconversions and person-years of observation were estimated using the date and result of the current test and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McFarland W,Kellogg TA,Dilley J,Katz MH

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a matched case-control study to investigate the effects of caffeine intake during pregnancy on birth weight. From January to November 1992, in the first 24 hours after delivery, 1,205 mothers (401 cases and 804 controls) were interviewed and their newborns were examined to assess birth weight and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Santos IS,Victora CG,Huttly S,Carvalhal JB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposures to cadmium, lead, and mercury are associated with adverse health effects, including cardiovascular disease, which may be promoted by lipid peroxidation. The authors examined cadmium, lead, and mercury in relation to plasma levels of F(2)-8α isoprostanes (isoprostane), 9-hydroperoxy-10,12-octadecadienoic acid...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pollack AZ,Schisterman EF,Goldman LR,Mumford SL,Perkins NJ,Bloom MS,Rudra CB,Browne RW,Wactawski-Wende J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of the Journal, Ghiasvand et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2017;185(3):147-156) present results from a longitudinal study of the association between indoor tanning and melanoma in a large cohort of Norwegian women. These new data further support previous findings on the damaging effects of tanning bed exposure on...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Berwick M,Doré JF

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A propensity score (PS) model's ability to control confounding can be assessed by evaluating covariate balance across exposure groups after PS adjustment. The optimal strategy for evaluating a disease risk score (DRS) model's ability to control confounding is less clear. DRS models cannot be evaluated through balance ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wyss R,Hansen BB,Ellis AR,Gagne JJ,Desai RJ,Glynn RJ,Stürmer T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibling aggregation of blood pressure has been shown in children 2 to 14 years of age. To determine the earliest age at which this finding is detectable, blood pressures were evaluated in 98 siblings from 43 black families with newborns. Variances of blood pressure scores were significantly greater among families than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ,Klein BE,Gourley JE,Blumenthal S

更新日期：1976-05-01 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：:The associations of retinol and beta-carotene plasma concentrations with eight personal variables and the use of seven classes of cardiovascular drugs were studied in over 1,750 patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer enrolled at four American study centers in a cancer prevention clinical trial. Dietary carotene and fem...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nierenberg DW,Stukel TA,Baron JA,Dain BJ,Greenberg ER

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of adult health risks from exposures that occurred in childhood may require case-control studies in which subjects who are now adults are asked to provide information that might be more accurately provided by their parents. The quality of parental smoking and drinking histories provided by adult offspring w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sandler DP,Shore DL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic epidemiology represents a hybrid of epidemiologic designs and statistical models that explicitly consider both genetic and environmental risk factors for disease. It is a relatively new field in public health; the term was first coined only 35 years ago. In this short time, the field has been through a major e...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fallin MD,Duggal P,Beaty TH

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:A new measure of lifetime alcohol consumption, the Cognitive Lifetime Drinking History (CLDH) uses beverage-specific questions on drink sizes and assesses drinking patterns to enhance recall. Two methods of establishing drinking intervals were examined: 1) floating--the respondent's report of when drinking changed, an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Russell M,Marshall JR,Trevisan M,Freudenheim JL,Chan AW,Markovic N,Vána JE,Priore RL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author evaluated the validity of four historically based variables collected on Georgia birth certificates: outcome of preceding pregnancy, history of delivery of a low- (<2,500 g) or high- (>4,000 g) birth-weight infant, and death of the baby resulting from the preceding pregnancy. Data were derived from birth an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Adams M

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence on dietary risk factors for ovarian cancer is inconsistent, but some studies have suggested positive associations with dietary fat, lactose, and cholesterol and negative associations with green and yellow vegetable intake. By using information from the Iowa Women's Health Study, the authors investigated the a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kushi LH,Mink PJ,Folsom AR,Anderson KE,Zheng W,Lazovich D,Sellers TA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the association between longitudinal patterns of illicit drug use and clinical progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Confidential computer-based interviews, which addressed illicit drug use and other factors, were completed by HIV-infected participants in Baltimore, Maryland, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lucas GM,Griswold M,Gebo KA,Keruly J,Chaisson RE,Moore RD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A community sample made in the fall of 1972 in Durham County, North Carolina, and that consisted of 331 persons 65 years of age and older was assessed for adequacy of social support along three parameters: roles and available attachments, perceived social support, and frequency of social interaction. This approach to ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Blazer DG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body size may differentially influence risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) by anatomic location. The Netherlands Cohort Study includes 120,852 men and women aged 55-69 years who self-reported weight, height, and trouser/skirt size at baseline (1986), as well as weight at age 20 years. Derived variables included bo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hughes LA,Simons CC,van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van Engeland M,Weijenberg MP

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two families of gorillas, comprising 13 animals, were studied in 1980-1982 for hepatitis virus infections. It was found that 27% of them had evidence of hepatitis B infection, and 23% evidence of hepatitis A infection. The four parents had been born in the wild and all of them had been infected with hepatitis B. The t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Linnemann CC Jr,Kramer LW,Askey PA

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：:Among men of Japanese ancestry, there is a gradient in the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is lowest in Japan, intermediate in Hawaii, and highest in California. This gradient appears not to be completely explained by differences in dietary intake, serum cholesterol, blood pressure or smoking. To test t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marmot MG,Syme SL

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined individual and household socioeconomic status (SES) in relation to phenotypes of neural tube defects, orafacial clefts, and conotruncal heart defects using data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study with 2,551 nonmalformed liveborn controls and 1,841 cases delivered in 1997-2000. The ind...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yang J,Carmichael SL,Canfield M,Song J,Shaw GM,National Birth Defects Prevention Study.

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To further our understanding of the relation between mood and menopause, the authors examined 1) the association between persistent mood symptoms and menopausal status and 2) factors that increase a woman's vulnerability to an overall dysphoric mood during the early perimenopausal period. The sample consisted of an et...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bromberger JT,Assmann SF,Avis NE,Schocken M,Kravitz HM,Cordal A

更新日期：2003-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A large, population-based case-control study of facial clefts was carried out in Norway between 1996 and 2001. The study included 573 cases -- 377 with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and 196 with cleft palate only -- and 763 randomly selected controls. Maternal consumption of coffee and other caffeine-containi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Johansen AM,Wilcox AJ,Lie RT,Andersen LF,Drevon CA

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of body fat distribution with single and combined site osteoarthritis was investigated using data from the US Health Examination Survey I, 1960-1962 (HES I) and the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I, 1971-1975 (NHANES I). The study included 1,636 adults aged 35-79 years from HES ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davis MA,Neuhaus JM,Ettinger WH,Mueller WH

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare risk factor patterns in association with preeclampsia and gestational hypertension. The data were collected from The Swedish Medical Birth Register and include all nulliparas aged 34 years or less who gave birth at the University Hospital of Uppsala, Sweden, duri...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ros HS,Cnattingius S,Lipworth L

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors aimed to quantify the effects of current systolic blood pressure (SBP) and serum total cholesterol on the risk of mortality in comparison with SBP or serum cholesterol 25 years previously, taking measurement error into account. The authors reanalyzed 35-year follow-up data on mortality due to coronary hear...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boshuizen HC,Lanti M,Menotti A,Moschandreas J,Tolonen H,Nissinen A,Nedeljkovic S,Kafatos A,Kromhout D

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00