Smoking history in middle age and subsequent cognitive performance in elderly Japanese-American men. The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study.

abstract：:Vital statistics data for the United States for the years 1972-1978 have been analyzed for variation in frequency of suicide by month, day of the week, day of the month, and phase of the lunar cycle. Frequency of suicide showed a peak in the spring months, a lesser peak in the fall and was lowest in December. Suicide ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： MacMahon K

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of nutrition in the association of birth size and childhood growth with development of cardiovascular disease, the authors in 2002-2004 surveyed 665 men and 790 women aged 25-42 years who had been exposed as children to a community-randomized nutrition supplementation intervention in four villages in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stein AD,Wang M,Ramirez-Zea M,Flores R,Grajeda R,Melgar P,Ramakrishnan U,Martorell R

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study, a case-control study of congenital heart defects in liveborn infants conducted in 1981--1989, interviewed parents about a wide range of environmental exposures that occurred during and before the pregnancy. In the period 1987--1989, the questionnaire was expanded to include a det...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Loffredo CA,Silbergeld EK,Ferencz C,Zhang J

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) at baseline have shown that their cholesterol levels are much less predictive of subsequent mortality than in populations free of CHD (FCHD). One previously suggested explanation of this attenuation is that the impact of hyperlipidemia on atherosclerosis or ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cornfield J,Detre K

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of various types of social contacts were used as predictors of ischemic heart disease events and total mortality in an age-stratified random sample of 9,573 adults enrolled in the Copenhagen City Heart Study (Copenhagen, Denmark). Baseline examinations were conducted in 1991-1994, and participants were follow...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barefoot JC,Grønbaek M,Jensen G,Schnohr P,Prescott E

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impact of military service on 13 categories of self-reported physical health problems by using a sample of 2,260 American male-male monozygotic twin pairs who served on active duty during the Vietnam War. Data were collected in 1987 by using mail and/or telephone interviews. Twins who served in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eisen SA,Goldberg J,True WR,Henderson WG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a detailed review of studies on the association between prostate cancer and total dietary fat along with specific fatty acids. Overall, the 29 studies reporting actual dietary fat levels in grams of fat were heterogeneous, suggesting that pooling of the relative risks may be inappropriate. Hetero...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dennis LK,Snetselaar LG,Smith BJ,Stewart RE,Robbins ME

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small number of prior epidemiologic studies of occupational noise exposure based on self-report have suggested an association with acoustic neuroma. The goal of the present study was to further examine the association between noise exposure and acoustic neuroma by using an objective measure of exposure in the form o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Edwards CG,Schwartzbaum JA,Nise G,Forssén UM,Ahlbom A,Lönn S,Feychting M

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Retinal arteriolar narrowing is a marker of microvascular damage from elevated blood pressure. Between August 2004 and June 2006, the authors examined the association between retinal vascular diameter and chronic kidney disease in a population-based cohort of 3,280 community-dwelling adults of Malay ethnicity aged 40-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sabanayagam C,Shankar A,Koh D,Chia KS,Saw SM,Lim SC,Tai ES,Wong TY

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the December 1952 smog disaster in London, a substantial increase in mortality was closely associated with the increase in air pollution. Deaths from cardiovascular causes were elevated as well as respiratory deaths. The increase was greatest in the elderly. Hospital admissions were increased for both respiratory a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schwartz J,Morris R

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known the about the reproductive health of offspring after fertility treatment. In 2001-2005, the authors approached young Danish men attending a compulsory physical examination to determine their fitness for military service. A total of 1,925 men volunteered, delivered a semen sample, had a physical examina...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jensen TK,Jørgensen N,Asklund C,Carlsen E,Holm M,Skakkebaek NE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a method for assessing preclinical cardiovascular disease risk, models of resting cardiovascular regulation and of insulin metabolic syndrome were derived from information collected from 1991 to 1996 in a culturally heterogeneous sample of 319 healthy men and women (aged 25-44 years) from Miami-Dade County,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Goldstein RZ,Hurwitz BE,Llabre MM,Schneiderman N,Gutt M,Skyler JS,Prineas RJ,Donahue RP

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Buccal cells provide a convenient source of DNA for epidemiologic studies. Mouthwash rinses yield a higher quality and quantity of DNA than cytobrushes but are not practical for collection from infants. Although cytobrushes yield sufficient DNA for most genotyping analyses, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) analysis can r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Saftlas AF,Waldschmidt M,Logsden-Sackett N,Triche E,Field E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking has been posited as a possible risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but large population-based studies of patients with incident disease are still needed. The authors performed a population-based case-control study in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009, including 494 patients with incident A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： de Jong SW,Huisman MH,Sutedja NA,van der Kooi AJ,de Visser M,Schelhaas HJ,Fischer K,Veldink JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many epidemiologists have agreed that a refined estimate of the incubation period of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) would need a sample size of about 200 cases and appropriate statistical methods enabling the inclusion of cases with defined periods of exposure. However, no such studies have been reported so ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cai QC,Xu QF,Xu JM,Guo Q,Cheng X,Zhao GM,Sun QW,Lu J,Jiang QW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption habits as recorded on health checkup questionnaires by 91,659 white, black, or Oriental men and women were studied. Substantial age, sex, and race differences in alcohol consumption were reported. Generally, men drank more than women, drinking was most prevalent among whites and least prevalent amo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Klatsky AL,Friedman GD,Siegelaub AB,Gérard MJ

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many nonrandomized interventions rely upon a pre-post design to evaluate effectiveness. Such designs cannot account for events external to the intervention that may produce the outcome. We describe a method to construct a surveillance registry-based comparison group, which allows for estimating the effectiveness of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Robertson MM,Waldron L,Robbins RS,Chamberlin S,Penrose K,Levin B,Kulkarni S,Braunstein SL,Irvine MK,Nash D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the environmental factors causing insulin-dependent diabetes in children has remained elusive. However, evidence is rapidly accumulating that childhood diabetes exhibits epidemic patterns, much like that seen with an infectious disease. It is likely that within these epidemics the environmental d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors：

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of tuberculosis (TB) in patients with silicosis increases mortality risk. To characterize silicosis-respiratory TB comortality in the United States, the authors used 1968-2006 National Center for Health Statistics multiple cause-of-death data for decedents aged ≥25 years. The authors calculated proportion...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Nasrullah M,Mazurek JM,Wood JM,Bang KM,Kreiss K

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe an approach to the analysis of case-control studies in which the exposure variables are continuous, i.e., quantitative variables, and one wishes neither to categorize levels of the exposure variable nor to assume a log-linear relation between level of exposure and disease risk. A dose-response ass...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhao LP,Kristal AR,White E

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible association between body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and hospitalization or treatment for acute infection in a prospective cohort study. We linked 75,001 women enrolled in the Danish National Birth Cohort from 1996 to 2002, who had information on BMI and a broad range of co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Harpsøe MC,Nielsen NM,Friis-Møller N,Andersson M,Wohlfahrt J,Linneberg A,Nohr EA,Jess T

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the current state of hospitals' infection surveillance and control programs (ISCPs) nationwide and to provide a sampling frame for selecting hospitals for later phases of the SENIC Project, the authors mailed a screening questionnaire in March, 1976, to virtually all US hospitals; 86% of those in the SENIC t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Haley RW,Shachtman RH

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in understanding how food environments affect diet, but characterizing the food environment is challenging. The authors investigated the relation between global diet measures (an empirically derived "fats and processed meats" (FPM) dietary pattern and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Moore LV,Diez Roux AV,Nettleton JA,Jacobs DR Jr

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective epidemiologic data on the association between vitamin D and mortality are limited, particularly in Asian populations. Among subjects in Linxian, China, the authors aimed to test whether baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in a prospective cohort were associated with all-cause mortal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Lin SW,Chen W,Fan JH,Dawsey SM,Taylor PR,Qiao YL,Abnet CC

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Efficient control of confounding is well recognized as a legitimate motive for restriction, matching, and conditional analysis in case-control studies. Some investigators, however, have advocated use of the same techniques for another purpose: to achieve a balance of "opportunity" or "potential" for past exposure betw...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poole C

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:The personality domains of extraversion and neuroticism are regarded as being stable individual psychological characteristics, yet it remains unclear whether they are associated with chronic disease over an extended period of time. In a randomized controlled trial of smoking cessation nested within the original prospe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Batty GD,Jokela M,Kivimaki M,Shipley M

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of the US population has received the smallpox vaccine, but it is unknown what fraction is still protected against infection and disease. Residual protection and age-dependent case-fatality ratios have therefore been widely neglected in the current bioterrorism debate. The author analyzed 1902-1903 data...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Eichner M

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00