Depressive symptoms and headaches in relation to proximity of residence to an alternating-current transmission line right-of-way.

abstract：:Occupational and leisure time physical activity and conventional risk factors were determined in the Belgian Physical Fitness Study, a prospective study of 2,363 healthy male factory workers who were aged 40-55 years at entry in 1976-1978 and who were followed for five years. Physical fitness, defined as the interpola...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sobolski J,Kornitzer M,De Backer G,Dramaix M,Abramowicz M,Degre S,Denolin H

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer rates are often compared between counties or other geographic units as a method of testing for risk from environmental exposures. Migration between geographic areas greatly reduces the sensitivity of this method. Under simplifying assumptions the quantitative effect of migration on risk estimates is shown using...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Polissar L

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2005, California law allowed over-the-counter (OTC) syringe sales pending local authorization. Although pharmacy sales of OTC syringes are associated with reduced injection-mediated risks and decreases in human immunodeficiency virus infection rates, little is known about the factors associated with syringe purc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stopka TJ,Lutnick A,Wenger LD,Deriemer K,Geraghty EM,Kral AH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first naturally acquired case of cholera reported in the United States since 1911 occurred in a 51-year-old resident of Port Lavaca, Texas. Extensive epidemiologic investigation of the patient's contacts and environment did not identify a cholera carrier of elucidate a pathway of transmission, but several avenues ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weissman JB,DeWitt WE,Thompson J,Muchnick CN,Portnoy BL,Feeley JC,Gangarosa EJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing interest and concern about men's mental health during the perinatal period, we still do not know whether men are more vulnerable to mental health problems during this time. The current study is one of the first to use longitudinal, population-based data to investigate whether becoming an expectant and/...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Leach LS,Olesen SC,Butterworth P,Poyser C

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of exposure misclassification has received considerable attention in the epidemiologic literature, with the result that methods for correcting many summary risk estimates for such misclassification are well known. However, the application of such methods typically requires more data than are usually publi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenbaum WL,Sterling TD,Weinkam JJ

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, we evaluated the influence of adulthood weight history on mortality risk. The National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study is an observational cohort study of US men and women who were aged 50-71 years at entry in 1995-1996. This...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Adams KF,Leitzmann MF,Ballard-Barbash R,Albanes D,Harris TB,Hollenbeck A,Kipnis V

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three diverse samples of men and women aged 35-64 years living in urban Poland, rural Poland, and the United States, are described and subsequently analyzed by multiple regression methods. Total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and the natural logarith...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sznajd J,Rywik S,Furberg B,Pajak A,Kurjata P,Williams OD,Sznajderman-Ciswicka M,Misiowiec P,Irving SH,Baczynska E

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied immune response and exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin) among veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the US Air Force unit responsible for the aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. A comparison group of Air Force veterans who served in Southeast Asia but were n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Michalek JE,Ketchum NS,Check IJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nested case-control hospital study and a midwife-based community cohort study were conducted in Central Sudan during 1989 and 1990 to assess the contribution of mesoendemic malaria to low birth weight. Malarial infection was determined by maternal history, parasitology, and histopathology. There were significant ass...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Taha Tel T,Gray RH,Mohamedani AA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors characterized human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence and prospective changes in self-reported risk behavior over 2 years among 1,158 injection drug users (IDUs) recruited in Chennai, India, in 2005-2006. At baseline, HIV prevalence was 25.3%, and HCV prevalence was 54.5%. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Solomon SS,Celentano DD,Srikrishnan AK,Vasudevan CK,Murugavel KG,Iqbal SH,Anand S,Kumar MS,Latkin C,Solomon S,Mehta SH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used a transgenerational data set of Illinois vital records to ascertain the relation between parental birth weights and infant birth weight. The infant generation consisted of all African Americans and whites born in Illinois during 1989-1991. The parent generation included the mothers and fathers who wer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coutinho R,David RJ,Collins JW Jr

更新日期：1997-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have associated insecticides used for spruce budworm control with Reye's syndrome. In Maine, spruce budworm insecticide spraying began in 1954, and an annual spray program was started in 1972. Reye's syndrome incidence information (1978-1982), obtained from hospital discharge data, death certificates, and repo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wood RB Jr,Bogdan GF

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:Hearing impairment (HI) is prevalent, is modifiable, and has been associated with cognitive decline. We tested the hypothesis that audiometric HI measured in 2013 is associated with poorer cognitive function in 253 men and women from Washington County, Maryland (mean age = 76.9 years) in a pilot study carried out with...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Deal JA,Sharrett AR,Albert MS,Coresh J,Mosley TH,Knopman D,Wruck LM,Lin FR

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature concerning social capital and health has grown exponentially during the past somewhat more than 10 years. The study by Kouvonen et al. (Am J Epidemiol 2008;167:1143-1151) is a longitudinal multilevel analysis of 33,577 public sector employees in Finland. The study shows a significant association between...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lindström M

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between cervical carcinoma and vaginal douching was examined in a population-based case-control study conducted in the low-risk population of Utah between 1984 and 1987. The authors compared 266 cases of in situ and invasive cervical carcinoma with 408 group-matched controls by vaginal douching behavio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gardner JW,Schuman KL,Slattery ML,Sanborn JS,Abbott TM,Overall JC Jr

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An inverse association between socioeconomic status, as measured by years of education, and blood pressure has been reported in a number of studies. However, two secular trends may have changed the nature of this relation: a higher mean level of education in the population and intervention for high blood pressure in t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sorel JE,Ragland DR,Syme SL,Davis WB

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prevalence of cysticercosis in a rural area where the disease is endemic, the authors studied the seroepidemiology of human and porcine cysticercosis in a Peruvian jungle community (Maceda, Peru) in 1988 using an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay. Of the 371 sampled inhabitants, 30...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Diaz F,Garcia HH,Gilman RH,Gonzales AE,Castro M,Tsang VC,Pilcher JB,Vasquez LE,Lescano M,Carcamo C

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties inherent in the identification of immune correlates of protection or severe disease have challenged the development and evaluation of dengue vaccines. There persist substantial gaps in knowledge about the complex effects of age and sequential dengue virus (DENV) exposures on these correlations. To address...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Anderson KB,Buddhari D,Srikiatkhachorn A,Gromowski GD,Iamsirithaworn S,Weg AL,Ellison DW,Macareo L,Cummings DAT,Yoon IK,Nisalak A,Ponlawat A,Thomas SJ,Fernandez S,Jarman RG,Rothman AL,Endy TP

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cataract prevalence, altitude, and sunlight hours was investigated in a large national probability sample survey of 105 sites in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, December 1980 through April 1981. Cataract of senile or unknown etiology was diagnosed by ophthalmologists in 873 of 30,565 full-time...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brilliant LB,Grasset NC,Pokhrel RP,Kolstad A,Lepkowski JM,Brilliant GE,Hawks WN,Pararajasegaram R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menstrual bleeding patterns are considered relevant indicators of reproductive health, though few studies have evaluated patterns among regularly menstruating premenopausal women. The authors evaluated self-reported bleeding patterns, incidence of spotting, and associations with reproductive hormones among 201 women i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dasharathy SS,Mumford SL,Pollack AZ,Perkins NJ,Mattison DR,Wactawski-Wende J,Schisterman EF

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The return of fertility for women who discontinue oral contraceptives takes longer as compared with women who discontinue other methods of contraception. It remains unclear, however, whether subsequent fertility differs according to duration or age at first use. The authors performed a nested case-control study within...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chasan-Taber L,Willett WC,Stampfer MJ,Spiegelman D,Rosner BA,Hunter DJ,Colditz GA,Manson JE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective cohort of nondisabled adults aged 65 years or more in the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (1981-1987 and 1985-1992), we used a competing risk approach to predict the 5-year risk of severe, persistent activities-of-daily-living (ADLs) disability, defined as dependence i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kim DH,Newman AB,Lipsitz LA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this case-control study was to evaluate whether occupational conditions during pregnancy are associated with preterm delivery (PTD). Women whose work conditions changed following the use of a legally justified preventive measure (withdrawal from work or job reassignment) were also compared with those ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Croteau A,Marcoux S,Brisson C

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus is a severe, autoimmune, blistering disorder with a high incidence among young women in rural Tunisia. The authors investigated explanatory environmental factors. A multicenter case-control study was conducted prospectively from 1992 to 1996 in Tunisia. Sixty-eight incident female cases of pemphigus and 166 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bastuji-Garin S,Turki H,Mokhtar I,Nouira R,Fazaa B,Jomaa B,Zahaf A,Osman AB,Souissi R,Hémon D,Roujeau JC,Kamoun MR

更新日期：2002-02-01 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 fasting plasma glucose (FPG) was measured in 4170 nondiabetic adult residents of a suburban California community. At all ages the median FPG in men was higher (103-107 mg/dl) than the median FPG in women (96-104 mg/dl). FPG levels correlated weakly with obesity, and male-female differences persisted after adjustme...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene variant that increases disease risk will be overrepresented among diseased persons, even compared with their own biologic parents. This insight has led to tests based solely on the asymmetric distribution of a variant allele among cases and their parents (e.g., the transmission/disequilibrium test). Existing me...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wilcox AJ,Weinberg CR,Lie RT

更新日期：1998-11-01 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