Occupational risk factors for prostate cancer: results from a case-control study in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

abstract：:In this case-control study, the authors analyzed associations of uterine leiomyoma with atherogenic risk factors and potential sources of uterine irritation. The study included 318 case women with uterine leiomyoma that was first confirmed between 1990 and 1993 in the Baltimore, Maryland, area and 394 controls selecte...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Faerstein E,Szklo M,Rosenshein NB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is some evidence of an association between loss of a sibling in adulthood and subsequent mortality, there have been no previous studies in which investigators have examined whether the death of a sibling in childhood is associated with adult mortality using total population data. Data on a national coho...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rostila M,Berg L,Saarela J,Kawachi I,Hjern A

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present results from a novel approach to understanding recent secular trends in overweight in terms of changes in underlying component distributions. On the basis of an examination of two large overlapping samples of Danish young men (ns = 16,557 and 21,747) spanning birth cohorts 1939-1958, the authors fo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Price RA,Ness R,Sørensen TI

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As economic development increases, puberty occurs at younger ages, and this could contribute to an increase in the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and hormone-related cancers. The factors that determine pubertal timing are poorly understood. The growth axis that is active during puberty is active in the first 6 m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kwok MK,Leung GM,Lam TH,Schooling CM

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the association between male occupational exposures and infertility. A retrospective case-control study was performed using data collected between 1991 and 1997 at nine US clinical sites as part of a previously conducted large multicenter trial. Cases were defined as infertil...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gracia CR,Sammel MD,Coutifaris C,Guzick DS,Barnhart KT

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the association between age at menarche, menstrual cycle characteristics between ages 28 and 32 years, and peri- and postmenopausal fracture risk in a cohort of 874 women who prospectively recorded menstrual cycle data for at least 5 years from their early 20s through their menopause. Fracture his...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cooper GS,Sandler DP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigators have documented the effect of temperature on mortality, although fewer have studied its impact on morbidity. In addition, little is known about the effectiveness of mitigation strategies such as use of air conditioners (ACs). The authors investigated the association between temperature and hospit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostro B,Rauch S,Green R,Malig B,Basu R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between serum selenium concentration and five-year risk of cardiovascular disease was studied in 1,110 men aged 55 to 74 years in two rural areas of Finland. In the total cohort, all-cause and cardiovascular deaths were associated significantly with serum selenium of less than 45 micrograms/liter, an a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtamo J,Valkeila E,Alfthan G,Punsar S,Huttunen JK,Karvonen MJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiologic studies have suggested that genetic polymorphisms in the cytochrome P-450 1A1 gene (CYP1A1) may affect the relation between environmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and breast cancer risk. The authors report results from a case-control study evaluating the potential effect of gen...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang Y,Wise JP,Holford TR,Xie H,Boyle P,Zahm SH,Rusiecki J,Zou K,Zhang B,Zhu Y,Owens PH,Zheng T

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although missing outcome data are an important problem in randomized trials and observational studies, methods to address this issue can be difficult to apply. Using simulated data, the authors compared 3 methods to handle missing outcome data: 1) complete case analysis; 2) single imputation; and 3) multiple imputatio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Groenwold RH,Donders AR,Roes KC,Harrell FE Jr,Moons KG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of socioeconomic status have been shown to be related positively to levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in white men and women and negatively in African American men. However, there is little information regarding the association between educational attainment and HDL fractions or apolipoprot...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Metcalf PA,Sharrett AR,Folsom AR,Duncan BB,Patsch W,Hutchinson RG,Szklo M,Davis CE,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, investigators append census-based socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas to individual records to address the problem of inadequate socioeconomic information on health data sets. Little empirical attention has been given to the validity of this approach. The authors estimate health outcome eq...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Geronimus AT,Bound J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal renal function is essential for vitamin D metabolism, but it is unclear whether circulating vitamin D is associated with risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We assessed whether 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) was associated with risk of RCC and death after RCC diagnosis in the European Prospective Investigation...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Muller DC,Fanidi A,Midttun Ø,Steffen A,Dossus L,Boutron-Ruault MC,Severi G,Kühn T,Katzke V,de la Torre RA,González CA,Sánchez MJ,Dorronsoro M,Santiuste C,Barricarte A,Khaw KT,Wareham N,Travis RC,Trichopoulou A,Giota

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) varies considerably and may be influenced by factors such as age, smoking, number of male partners per year, and CD4 T-lymphocyte count. The loss of CD4 lymphocytes is known to be the dominant factor...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Begtrup K,Melbye M,Biggar RJ,Goedert JJ,Knudsen K,Andersen PK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1982-1984 Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey used ultrasonography to investigate risk factors for gallstone disease (gallstones or cholecystectomy). Mexican American, Cuban American, and Puerto Rican men (n = 968) and women (n = 1,325) aged 20-74 years were selected from household samples in nine sta...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Maurer KR,Everhart JE,Knowler WC,Shawker TH,Roth HP

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cigarette smoking and risk of cervical neoplasia was evaluated in a case-control study of 183 women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia compared with 183 age-matched outpatient controls, and of 230 cases of invasive cervical cancer compared with 230 controls in hospital for acute condition...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： La Vecchia C,Franceschi S,Decarli A,Fasoli M,Gentile A,Tognoni G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses 44 consecutive months of data from the Health Care Financing Administration to assess seasonal trends in hip fracture incidence among the United States white population aged 65 years and older. The authors studied a total of 621,387 cases of hip fracture which occurred from January 1984 to September 19...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jacobsen SJ,Goldberg J,Miles TP,Brody JA,Stiers W,Rimm AA

更新日期：1991-05-15 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：:Age at menarche, an early determinant of breast cancer risk, shows both a downward secular trend and marked differences by socioeconomic status, both presumably the reflection of dietary variations. A cohort study is being conducted in the Quebec City, Canada, area to assess the relation between diet, physical activit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Moisan J,Meyer F,Gingras S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a population-based case-control study of connective tissue disease in a four-county area in southeastern Georgia. Interviews with 44 cases and 88 controls were conducted in September and October of 1986. The association with a family history of these disorders was reconfirmed, and a positive asso...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Freni-Titulaer LW,Kelley DB,Grow AG,McKinley TW,Arnett FC,Hochberg MC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estrogen replacement therapy on prognosis in women with established coronary disease remain uncertain. The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of 726 women (mean age, 66.2 years) who survived first myocardial infarction to hospital discharge from 1980 through 1991, while enrolled at Group Hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Newton KM,LaCroix AZ,McKnight B,Knopp RH,Siscovick DS,Heckbert SR,Weiss NS

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:This report of the worldwide distribution of two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans was drawn from data on 628 clinical isolates and from data on 97 additional isolates from other laboratories. Tests showed that 100% of the cultures from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, and Ja...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kwon-Chung KJ,Bennett JE

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated 3 index-based dietary patterns-Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2005, HEI-2010, and Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)-2010-in relation to ovarian cancer risk in African-American women. The study was conducted among 415 ovarian cancer cases and 629 age- and site-matched controls of African-American d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Qin B,Moorman PG,Kelemen LE,Alberg AJ,Barnholtz-Sloan JS,Bondy M,Cote ML,Funkhouser E,Peters ES,Schwartz AG,Terry P,Schildkraut JM,Bandera EV

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of change in blood lipids, diastolic blood pressure, body mass index, smoking and drinking behaviors, and exercise were examined in an ongoing longitudinal study from 1991 to 1995 of 150 middle-aged Melbourne, Australia, women as they passed through menopause. Changes in risk factors over time were examin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Do KA,Green A,Guthrie JR,Dudley EC,Burger HG,Dennerstein L

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors modeled the possible consequences for US cataract incidence of increases in ultraviolet B radiation due to ozone depletion. Data on the dose-response relation between ocular exposure to ultraviolet B radiation and cortical cataract were derived from a population-based study (the Salisbury Eye Evaluation Pr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： West SK,Longstreth JD,Munoz BE,Pitcher HM,Duncan DD

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for an association between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and obesity is inconsistent. The authors examined associations between adiposity and AMD prevalence using 21,287 participants from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study aged 40-69 years at baseline (1990-1994). For men, each increase of 0.1 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Adams MK,Simpson JA,Aung KZ,Makeyeva GA,Giles GG,English DR,Hopper J,Guymer RH,Baird PN,Robman LD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency medical services with advanced life support systems were implemented in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area in the mid-1970s. To assess the impact of emergency medical services on coronary heart disease mortality, the authors reviewed ambulance records and hospital emergency room logs for possible out-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tillinghast SJ,Doliszny KM,Kottke TE,Gomez-Marin O,Lilja GP,Campion BC

更新日期：1991-10-15 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：:Explanations for the low prevalence of atherosclerosis in Japan versus the United States are often confounded with genetic variation. To help remove such confounding, the authors compared coronary artery calcification (CAC), a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, between Japanese men in Japan and Japanese men in Haw...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Abbott RD,Ueshima H,Rodriguez BL,Kadowaki T,Masaki KH,Willcox BJ,Sekikawa A,Kuller LH,Edmundowicz D,Shin C,Kashiwagi A,Nakamura Y,El-Saed A,Okamura T,White R,Curb JD

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00