Alcohol consumption and breast cancer: estrogen receptor status and histology.

abstract：:Assessing vitamin and mineral supplement use is important because supplement use per se is an exposure of interest for the risk of several chronic diseases and because supplements contribute a large proportion of total (diet plus supplement) micronutrient intake, another important exposure in epidemiologic research. U...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Patterson RE,Kristal AR,Levy L,McLerran D,White E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between injurious falls requiring hospitalization and selected classes of medications was examined in a case-control study of nursing home residents. Information for this study was obtained exclusively from four computerized administrative databases. Over the period from April 1987 to March 1992, a tot...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mustard CA,Mayer T

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Low birth weight of offspring has been associated with increased risk of maternal cardiovascular mortality, and cardiovascular risk factors measured within pregnancy have been related to offspring birth weight. It is not clear whether cardiovascular risk factors assessed prior to pregnancy are associated with the offs...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Romundstad PR,Davey Smith G,Nilsen TI,Vatten LJ

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Flaws in the design of randomized trials may bias intervention effect estimates and increase between-trial heterogeneity. Empirical evidence suggests that these problems are greatest for subjectively assessed outcomes. For the Risk of Bias in Evidence Synthesis (ROBES) Study, we extracted risk-of-bias judgements (for ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savovic J,Turner RM,Mawdsley D,Jones HE,Beynon R,Higgins JPT,Sterne JAC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both early life and adult socioeconomic status (SES) predict late-life level of memory; however, evidence is mixed on the relationship between SES and rate of memory decline. Further, the relative importance of different life-course periods for rate of late-life memory decline has not been evaluated. We examined assoc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marden JR,Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ,Kawachi I,Glymour MM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, android fat distribution, and other anthropometric measures have been associated with coronary heart disease in long-term prospective studies. However, fluctuations in weight due to age-related hormonal changes and changes in lifestyle practices may bias relative risk estimates over a long follow-up period. T...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rimm EB,Stampfer MJ,Giovannucci E,Ascherio A,Spiegelman D,Colditz GA,Willett WC

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammographic percent density, the proportion of fibroglandular tissue in the breast, is a strong risk factor for breast cancer, but its determinants in young women are unknown. We examined associations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) breast-tissue composition at age 21 years with prospectively collected measuremen...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Denholm R,De Stavola B,Hipwell JH,Doran SJ,Busana MC,Leach MO,Hawkes DJ,Dos-Santos-Silva I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal study examined the mortality and cancer experience of workers at the Gulf Oil refinery located in Port Arthur, Texas. The cohort was studied over a period of 41 years, from 1937 to 1978, and consisted of 16,880 employees, with an accumulation of 406,198 person-years; 4361 deaths were observed. Emphas...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wen CP,Tsai SP,McClellan WA,Gibson RL

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2018, the Society for Epidemiologic Research and its partner journal, the American Journal of Epidemiology, assembled a working group to develop a set of papers devoted to the "future of epidemiology." These 14 papers covered a wide range of topic areas and perspectives, from thoughts on our profession, teaching, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Olshan AF,Diez Roux AV,Hatch M,Klebanoff MA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an association between stress and dementia. However, less is known about dementia among persons with varied stress responses and sex differences in these associations. We used this population-based cohort study to examine dementia among persons with a range of clinician-diagnosed stress disorders, as well as ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gradus JL,Horváth-Puhó E,Lash TL,Ehrenstein V,Tamang S,Adler NE,Milstein A,Glymour MM,Henderson VW,Sørensen HT

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 40,000 blood samples drawn in 1968-1972 by the Social Insurance Institution's mobile clinic in Finland have been stored. Linking cancer incidence data obtained from the Finnish Cancer Registry with this material yielded 32 cases of cervical cancer diagnosed after drawing of the blood sample. These 32 ind...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hakama M,Lehtinen M,Knekt P,Aromaa A,Leinikki P,Miettinen A,Paavonen J,Peto R,Teppo L

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been few prospective studies relating diet to pancreatic cancer, with most having fewer than 100 cases and only one examining dietary nutrients. The authors prospectively examined dietary factors hypothesized to be associated with exocrine pancreatic cancer in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prev...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ,Pietinen P,Taylor PR,Virtamo J,Albanes D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical functioning measures are considered integrated markers of the aging process. This prospective investigation examined relations between dietary intake of women at midlife in 1996-1997 and prevalence of physical functioning limitations 4 years later, defined by the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36. The samp...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tomey KM,Sowers MR,Crandall C,Johnston J,Jannausch M,Yosef M

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the 1970s, today's older Americans were exposed to high levels of lead in the environment. The authors previously reported that lifetime cumulative lead dose was associated with lower cognitive test performance in older adults. Experiments suggest that environmental stress may intensify the detrimental influenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Glass TA,Bandeen-Roche K,McAtee M,Bolla K,Todd AC,Schwartz BS

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival duration for pancreatic cancer is short. Given its low lifetime risk (1.5%), established factors for the disease have insufficient specificity to identify individuals at high risk of nonfamilial cancer, and prediagnostic signs and symptoms are vague and not limited to pancreatic causes. We considered whet...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Risch HA,Yu H,Lu L,Kidd MS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of the racial/ethnic disparity in preterm birth (PTB) remain largely unknown; traditional risk factors such as smoking and prenatal care fail to account for it. The authors examined whether living in metropolitan areas (MAs) with high levels of residential racial segregation along multiple dimensions (hyper...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Osypuk TL,Acevedo-Garcia D

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and environmental factors are both known to contribute to susceptibility to complex diseases. Therefore, the study of gene-environment interaction (G×E) has been a focus of research for several years. In this article, select examples of G×E from the literature are described to highlight different approaches an...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ritz BR,Chatterjee N,Garcia-Closas M,Gauderman WJ,Pierce BL,Kraft P,Tanner CM,Mechanic LE,McAllister K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease occurs with unusually high incidence in Alaskan Eskimos. In 1983, the authors evaluated the unique susceptibility of the Yupik-speaking Eskimo population in southwest Alaska. A matched case-control design was used to assess the influence of age, breast feeding, and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Petersen GM,Silimperi DR,Chiu CY,Ward JI

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Customized birth weight charts that incorporate maternal characteristics are now being adopted into clinical practice. However, there is controversy surrounding the value of these charts in the prediction of growth and perinatal outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess the use of customized charts in predic...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Carberry AE,Raynes-Greenow CH,Turner RM,Jeffery HE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of influenzalike illnesses and influenza vaccination in the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), particularly the role of A/H1N1 epidemics and A/H1N1 vaccination, is debated. Data on all incident GBS cases meeting the Brighton Collaboration criteria that were diagnosed at 25 neurology centers in Fran...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Grimaldi-Bensouda L,Alpérovitch A,Besson G,Vial C,Cuisset JM,Papeix C,Lyon-Caen O,Benichou J,Rossignol M,Lucien Abenhaim for the GBS-PGRx Study Group.

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of social status and behavior type to the incidence of coronary heart disease was examined among husbands and wives in the Framingham Heart Study. Between 1965 and 1967, 269 spouse pairs, in which the husbands were 45-64 years of age, were administered an extensive psychosocial questionnaire. These pa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Haynes SG,Eaker ED,Feinleib M

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a prospective study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in middle-aged Chinese men in Taiwan, 1820 Chinese males, aged 40--59 years, from the middle and upper socioeconomic classes, were characterized at study entry by a history and physical examination with particular reference to cardiovascular status and by ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weaver CA,Ko YH,Alexander ER,Pao YL,Ting N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the association between cognitive function and incidence and maintenance of overweight in preschool children. A population-based birth cohort was established in Menorca, Spain, between 1997 and 1999 (n = 482). Body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) was measured at ages 4 years and 6 years (n ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guxens M,Mendez MA,Julvez J,Plana E,Forns J,Basagaña X,Torrent M,Sunyer J

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In prospective studies, disease rates during follow-up are typically analyzed with respect to the values of factors measured during an initial baseline survey. However, because of "regression dilution," this generally tends to underestimate the real associations of disease rates with the "usual" levels of such risk fa...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clarke R,Shipley M,Lewington S,Youngman L,Collins R,Marmot M,Peto R

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between cigarette smoking and inflammation is well known. However, the biological mechanisms behind the association are not fully understood, particularly the role of DNA methylation, which is known to be affected by smoking. Using 2-step epigenetic Mendelian randomization, we investigated the role of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jhun MA,Smith JA,Ware EB,Kardia SLR,Mosley TH Jr,Turner ST,Peyser PA,Park SK

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate strategies used to select cases and controls and how reported odds ratios are interpreted, the authors examined 150 case-control studies published in leading general medicine, epidemiology, and clinical specialist journals from 2001 to 2007. Most of the studies (125/150; 83%) were based on incident cases; ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knol MJ,Vandenbroucke JP,Scott P,Egger M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 12 US case-control studies of ovarian cancer, conducted during the period 1956-1986 and representing some 3,000 cases and 10,000 controls, were pooled and reanalyzed. Separate analyses were conducted for four subgroups of the pooled data: invasive epithelial ovarian cancers in white women; epithelial ovarian...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Whittemore AS,Harris R,Itnyre J,Halpern J

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiologist primarily studies transitions between states of health and disease. The purpose of the present article is to define a foundational parameter for such studies, namely risk. We begin simply and build to the setting in which there is more than 1 event type (i.e., competing risks or competing events), a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cole SR,Hudgens MG,Brookhart MA,Westreich D

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to community concerns, we used the Tribal Participatory Research framework in collaboration with 5 American-Indian communities in Washington, Idaho, and Montana to identify the appropriate criteria for aggregating health data on small tribes. Across tribal sites, 10 key informant interviews and 10 focus gr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Van Dyke ER,Blacksher E,Echo-Hawk AL,Bassett D,Harris RM,Buchwald DS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors' purpose was to expand sexually transmitted disease core theory by examining the roles of person, place, and time in differentiating geographic core areas from outbreak areas. The authors mapped yearly census-tract-level syphilis rates for San Francisco, California, based on new primary and secondary syphi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gesink DC,Sullivan AB,Miller WC,Bernstein KT

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00