Alcohol-containing mouthwashes and oropharyngeal cancer: a spurious association due to underascertainment of confounders?

abstract：:The presence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in young children indicates recent tuberculosis (TB) transmission. We reviewed surveillance reports of children with LTBI to assess whether more follow-up is needed to prevent TB in this high-risk population. Data on all children under 5 years of age who were report...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Slutsker JS,Trieu L,Crossa A,Ahuja SD

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between recreational physical activity and plasma lipid concentrations in early pregnancy. Between 1996 and 2000, 925 normotensive, nondiabetic pregnant women in Washington State were interviewed at approximately 13 weeks' gestation regarding type, frequency, and duration of physical ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Butler CL,Williams MA,Sorensen TK,Frederick IO,Leisenring WM

更新日期：2004-08-15 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：:Although it is generally believed that a simple lifestyle may promote health, a recent study among Trappist and Benedictine monks in the Netherlands reported an increase in general morbidity (Am J Epidemiol 1993;138:569-73). As this increased morbidity might be the consequence of an increased life expectancy, we studi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Gouw HW,Westendorp RG,Kunst AE,Mackenbach JP,Vandenbroucke JP

更新日期：1995-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:How can the "strengths" of risk factors, in the sense of how well they discriminate cases from controls, be compared when they are measured on different scales such as continuous, binary, and integer? Given that risk estimates take into account other fitted and design-related factors-and that is how risk gradients are...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hopper JL

更新日期：2015-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosemeci et al. (Am J Epidemiol 1990; 132:746-8) gave examples in which nondifferential misclassification of exposure reversed the direction of a trend. Gilbert (Am J Epidemiol 1991; 134:440-1) proposed that these examples occurred because the errors in exposure were systematic, and she pointed out that the relation b...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weinberg CR,Umbach DM,Greenland S

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive hormonal factors may have a potential role in cutaneous melanoma. This study estimated the risk of melanoma in women related to self-reported changes in nevi during pregnancy, while using oral contraceptives and/or hormone replacement therapy. Trained interviewers administered a questionnaire obtaining in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lea CS,Holly EA,Hartge P,Lee JS,Guerry D 4th,Elder DE,Halpern A,Sagebiel RW,Tucker MA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we assessed the association of chronic medical conditions and multimorbidity with perceived stress among community-dwelling adults in 44 low- and middle-income countries. Data from the World Health Survey (2002-2004), including 229,293 adults, were analyzed. A perceived stress score (range, 0 (lowest st...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vancampfort D,Koyanagi A,Ward PB,Veronese N,Carvalho AF,Solmi M,Mugisha J,Rosenbaum S,De Hert M,Stubbs B

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) concentration, within its normal range, has recently been proposed as a reliable marker of oxidative stress. Oxidative stress plays a central pathogenic role in many metabolic and/or cardiovascular diseases, incidences of which have recently increased in South Korea. Since serum G...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lee DH,Ha MH,Kam S,Chun B,Lee J,Song K,Boo Y,Steffen L,Jacobs DR Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of dietary change was assessed in a systematic quota subsample (n = 397) of women recruited into the Women's Healthy Eating and Living Study between 1996 and 1998, a multicenter, randomized dietary intervention trial among breast cancer survivors. Women from the intervention and comparison arms completed t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Thomson CA,Giuliano A,Rock CL,Ritenbaugh CK,Flatt SW,Faerber S,Newman V,Caan B,Graver E,Hartz V,Whitacre R,Parker F,Pierce JP,Marshall JR

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and prevalent case-control studies suggest an association between biomarkers of inflammation, endothelial function, and adiposity and cancer risk, but results from prospective studies have been limited. The authors' objective was to prospectively examine the relations between these biomarkers and cancer r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Touvier M,Fezeu L,Ahluwalia N,Julia C,Charnaux N,Sutton A,Méjean C,Latino-Martel P,Hercberg S,Galan P,Czernichow S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from the United States have shown increasing incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with increasing socioeconomic status (SES), whereas in Scandinavian countries, no such relation was identified. We investigated how ASD risk in offspring varied according to parental SES in Taiwan, where we have universal ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yu T,Lien YJ,Liang FW,Kuo PL

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the associations between placental vascular findings and preterm delivery in 1,053 subcohort women (239 preterm, 814 term) from a Michigan pregnancy cohort study (1998-2004). Twenty-nine placental vascular variables from microscopic examinations were grouped into 5 constructs: 3 maternal construct...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kelly R,Holzman C,Senagore P,Wang J,Tian Y,Rahbar MH,Chung H

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Erectile dysfunction is a common problem, affecting more than half of all men between the ages of 40 and 70 years. The authors' goal was to quantify the prevalence of concomitant erectile dysfunction and active depression among patients seen in a general medical setting between September 1998 and September 1999. Simpl...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kantor J,Bilker WB,Glasser DB,Margolis DJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 1994-1998 cross-sectional study of a multiethnic sample of 2,211 men and women in San Diego, California, the authors estimated prevalence of the major manifestations of chronic venous disease: spider veins, varicose veins, trophic changes, and edema by visual inspection; superficial and deep functional disease (r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Criqui MH,Jamosmos M,Fronek A,Denenberg JO,Langer RD,Bergan J,Golomb BA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the authors report on the design of a population-based case-control study of family history as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). They studied the characteristics of subjects who completed a detailed family history questionnaire in 1992-1994 as well as the accuracy of recall of family histo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Silberberg JS,Wlodarczyk J,Fryer J,Ray CD,Hensley MJ

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective cohort study evaluated adverse birth outcomes in infants whose birth records indicated maternal residence in villages containing dumpsites potentially hazardous to health and environment. Birth records from 1997 to 2001 identified 10,073 eligible infants born to mothers in 197 Alaska Native villages...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilbreath S,Kass PH

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mumps is a potentially severe viral infection. The incidence of mumps has declined dramatically in high-income countries since the introduction of mumps antigen-containing vaccines. However, recent large outbreaks of mumps in highly vaccinated populations suggest waning of vaccine-induced immunity and primary vaccine ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Abrams S,Beutels P,Hens N

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:After diagnosis with prostate cancer, Black men in the United States have poorer survival than White men, even after controlling for differences in cancer stage. The extent to which these racial survival differences are due to biologic versus non-biologic factors is unclear, and it has been hypothesized that differenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Robbins AS,Whittemore AS,Thom DH

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the relationship of per capita coffee imports and consumption, total dietary fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, tobacco, cigarettes, and national income for 1957-1965 to age-adjusted pancreatic cancer death rates of men and women from 22 countries in 1971-1974. With simple correlation analysis, coffe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Binstock M,Krakow D,Stamler J,Reiff J,Persky V,Liu K,Moss D

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between a single interpregnancy interval (IPI) and birth outcomes has not yet been explored using matched methods. We modeled the odds of preterm birth, being small for gestational age, and having low birth weight in a second, live-born infant in a cohort of 192,041 sibling pairs born in Western Austra...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Regan AK,Ball SJ,Warren JL,Malacova E,Padula A,Marston C,Nassar N,Stanley F,Leonard H,de Klerk N,Pereira G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Barnes Hospital Employee Health Service (St. Louis, Missouri) rubella screening program was evaluated over the 5-year period between January 1, 1986, and December 31, 1990. A total of 6,969 new employees were hired, and 6,115 (87.7%) were screened for evidence of rubella immunity by the Employee Health Service. Ru...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraser V,Spitznagel E,Medoff G,Dunagan WC

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined the role of endogenous sex hormones in breast cancer, and to the authors' knowledge, only two have done so prospectively. The authors report here the results of a prospective study based on an available bank of previously analyzed plasma collected in 1972-1974 from 442 women aged 50-79 years ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Garland CF,Friedlander NJ,Barrett-Connor E,Khaw KT

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:Cardiovascular malformations were examined for white/black variation in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study. In this population-based case-control study, cases (n = 2,087) were live births with cardiovascular malformations ascertained through pediatric cardiology centers and 53 hospitals in Maryland, the District of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Correa-Villaseñor A,McCarter R,Downing J,Ferencz C

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this analysis was to identify risk factors for recent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among homosexual and bisexual men in Ontario, Canada, during 1998-2001. Participants were recruited through the provincial HIV diagnostic laboratory and through physicians and community organizations. HI...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Calzavara L,Burchell AN,Remis RS,Major C,Corey P,Myers T,Millson M,Wallace E

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 919 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive serum samples from Kyushu and Okinawa, Japan, were subtyped for the d, y, w, and r specificities. There was a great difference in distribution of subtypes between Kyushu, where over 70% of the samples were adr, and Okinawa, where over 70% were adw. Among 306 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kashiwagi S,Hayashi J,Nomura H,Ikematsu H,Shingu T,Hayashida K,Yamashita Y,Kaji M

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study of neonatal mortality (N = 106) in white singleton births (N = 14,486) in Utah for January-June 1975 was conducted. Using membership and activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) as a proxy for parental health practices, i.e., tobacco and alcohol abstinence, differentia...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Woolley FR,Schuman KL,Lyon JL

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:An 18-year interval between a dengue virus type 1 outbreak in 1977-1979 and a dengue virus type 2 outbreak in 1997 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, provided a unique opportunity to evaluate risk factors for dengue disease. All patients with symptomatic dengue, including 205 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever and 12 deaths, w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vaughn DW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00