When will nondifferential misclassification of an exposure preserve the direction of a trend?

abstract：:Although coronary heart disease (CHD) is currently the leading cause of death among American Indians, information on the prevalence of CHD and its association with known cardiovascular risk factors is limited. The Strong Heart Study was initiated in 1988 to quantify cardiovascular disease and its risk factors among th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howard BV,Lee ET,Cowan LD,Fabsitz RR,Howard WJ,Oopik AJ,Robbins DC,Savage PJ,Yeh JL,Welty TK

更新日期：1995-08-01 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

abstract：:In a 1995-1996 cohort study in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, morbidity in 117 hospitalized and 137 acute measles cases compared with age-matched children without measles (unexposed) was determined by weekly interview for 6 months. Compared with unexposed children, there were higher incidences of hospitalization (adju...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Akramuzzaman SM,Cutts FT,Wheeler JG,Hossain MJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have investigated associations between offspring size at birth and parental cardiovascular disease mortality among 12,086 mothers and 6,936 fathers of participants in the British 1958 birth cohort. Birth weight was inversely associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in both mothers a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davey Smith G,Hyppönen E,Power C,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2007-07-15 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：:Although the results of cohort studies on the association between alcohol and breast cancer are rather consistent, the current evidence is based solely on North American cohorts. Therefore, this association was evaluated in the Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer, conducted since 1986 among 62,573 women aged 5...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van den Brandt PA,Goldbohm RA,van 't Veer P

更新日期：1995-05-15 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：:It is well established that women with a family history of breast cancer run a higher risk of breast cancer than do women without a family history. The evidence, however, is less clear regarding a possible association between a family history of breast cancer and risk of second primaries. The purpose of this prospecti...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bernstein JL,Thompson WD,Risch N,Holford TR

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary protein may help prevent age-related declines in strength and functional capacity. This study examines the independent relationship between dietary protein and longitudinal changes in physical functioning among adults participating in the Framingham Offspring Study from examination 5 (1991-1995) to examination...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mustafa J,Ellison RC,Singer MR,Bradlee ML,Kalesan B,Holick MF,Moore LL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the major sources of indoor air pollution are combustion by-products from heating and cooking. Concern is increasing that use of polluting heating and cooking sources can increase cancer risk. In Canada, most cooking and heating currently relies on electricity or natural gas, but, in the past, and still in some ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ramanakumar AV,Parent ME,Siemiatycki J

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium and dairy foods in relation to prostate cancer were examined in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health Study (1995/1996-2001). Diet was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire at baseline. Multivariate relative risks and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Park Y,Mitrou PN,Kipnis V,Hollenbeck A,Schatzkin A,Leitzmann MF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based, case-control study of laryngeal cancer was conducted in Shanghai, China, during 1988-1990, in which 201 incident cases (177 males, 24 females) and 414 controls (269 males, 145 females) were interviewed. Cigarette smoking was the major risk factor, accounting for 86% of the male and 54% of the femal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zheng W,Blot WJ,Shu XO,Gao YT,Ji BT,Ziegler RG,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the association between age at menarche and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among 101,415 women from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) aged 34-59 years (1980-2006) and 100,547 women from Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II) aged 26-46 years (1991-2005). During 2,430,274 and 1,373,875 person-y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： He C,Zhang C,Hunter DJ,Hankinson SE,Buck Louis GM,Hediger ML,Hu FB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statewide cross-sectional study of risk factors for seropositivity for antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi in outdoor workers in New Jersey was performed in September and October 1988. The crude odds ratio associated with exposure to ticks on the primary state job was 2.2 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7-9.0). After a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schwartz BS,Goldstein MD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because measles immunization has been found in all studies to reduce mortality with more than the share of deaths attributed to acute measles, the authors examined mortality after measles infection in a study in a rural area of Senegal that included 6,924 unimmunized children, whom 1,118 developed measles. Age-adjuste...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aaby P,Samb B,Andersen M,Simondon F

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from animal and cell models suggests that pesticides cause a neurodegenerative process leading to Parkinson's disease (PD). Human data are insufficient to support this claim for any specific pesticide, largely because of challenges in exposure assessment. The authors developed and validated an exposure assess...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Costello S,Cockburn M,Bronstein J,Zhang X,Ritz B

更新日期：2009-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic blood pressure was measured in a random cluster sample of three-month-old black (n = 532), colored (n = 496), and white (n = 637) infants in Johannesburg, South Africa, by means of a Parks Doppler ultrasound device with a random zero sphygmomanometer. The study was conducted during a nine-month period in 1981...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Levin SE,Herman AA,Irwig LM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based disease registries for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and cancer were linked for San Francisco residents to study the pattern of AIDS-associated malignancies diagnosed during the time period 1980-1987. A total of 1,756 newly diagnosed malignancies were identified during these years among me...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Reynolds P,Saunders LD,Layefsky ME,Lemp GF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prevalence study was designed to evaluate host and seasonal risk factors associated with three systemic mycoses in dogs: blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis. Histoplasmosis was the most commonly diagnosed of the three diseases. All three of the mycoses occurred more frequently in male than female d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Selby LA,Becker SV,Hayes HW Jr

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies report inconsistent associations between education and cognitive aging. We assessed the association, accounting for selective dropout due to death or dementia, and, in a subsample, accounting for confounding by early-life intelligence. Data from the Danish component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Foverskov E,Glymour MM,Mortensen EL,Holm A,Lange T,Lund R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceived discrimination may contribute to somatic disease. The association between perceived discrimination and breast cancer incidence was assessed in the Black Women's Health Study. In 1997, participants completed questions on perceived discrimination in two domains: "everyday" discrimination (e.g., being treated a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Taylor TR,Williams CD,Makambi KH,Mouton C,Harrell JP,Cozier Y,Palmer JR,Rosenberg L,Adams-Campbell LL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower intake of the essential trace element selenium may be a risk factor for prostate cancer and other cancers. In the United States, many racial disparities in cancer incidence, such as the 61% higher incidence of prostate cancer among Blacks relative to Whites, remain unexplained. Using data from a large, nationall...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vogt TM,Ziegler RG,Patterson BH,Graubard BI

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the resulting loss of information, continuous exposure variables are often categorized in epidemiologic data analysis. It has been shown that nondifferential measurement error of exposure can lead to differential misclassification under these circumstances. This paper extends these findings to the misclassific...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brenner H,Blettner M

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors sought to assess the reliability and validity of two motion activity sensors in the prediction of observed physical activity levels in adults and children by means of two studies at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. In study 1, 50 adults were observed in fall 1984 for one hour of recrea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Klesges RC,Klesges LM,Swenson AM,Pheley AM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that hepatitis B is transmitted venereally was examined by determining the prevalence of hepatitis B antibody (anti-HB(S)) in populations with different levels of promiscuity. Of 258 prostitutes, 31% were anti-HB(S) positive, compared to 10% of 258 female age-matched blood donors, 10% of 48 nuns living...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frösner GG,Buchholz HM,Gerth HJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mediation mechanisms by which an exposure or intervention affects an outcome can provide a look into what has been called a "black box" of many epidemiologic associations, thereby providing further evidence of a relationship and possible points of intervention. Rapid methodologic developments in medi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rudolph KE,Goin DE,Paksarian D,Crowder R,Merikangas KR,Stuart EA

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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：:Vital statistics data on mortality from malignant melanoma from five countries are simultaneously fit by the method of cohort analysis. After the effects of geographic and temporal trends are removed, the proportion of deaths occurring in the younger age groups is found to be higher in females than in males. Relative ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Venzon DJ,Moolgavkar SH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the leading cancer diagnosed among women, and environmental studies have produced few leads on modifiable risk factors for breast cancer. Following an Institute of Medicine recommendation for occupational studies of women highly exposed to potential breast cancer risk factors, we took advantage of an ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Garcia E,Bradshaw PT,Eisen EA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00