Alcohol consumption and changes in blood pressure among African Americans. The Pitt County Study.

abstract：:Whereas the feasibility and effectiveness of Internet-based epidemiologic research have been established, methodological support for the quality of such data is still accumulating. We aimed to identify sociodemographic differences among members of a French cohort according to willingness to provide part of one's 15-di...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Andreeva VA,Galan P,Julia C,Castetbon K,Kesse-Guyot E,Hercberg S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and mortality of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remain low in Japan despite major dietary changes and worsening cardiovascular risk factors, a situation that should have resulted in a substantial increase in AMI rates (Japanese paradox). The current trend in the incidence of AMI was examined for the p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rumana N,Kita Y,Turin TC,Murakami Y,Sugihara H,Morita Y,Tomioka N,Okayama A,Nakamura Y,Abbott RD,Ueshima H

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of diet and nutritional supplements, cigarette use, alcohol consumption, and blood lipids to plasma levels of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol was studied among 330 men and women aged 18-79 years. Dietary carotene, preformed vitamin A, and vitamin E intake were estimated by a self-administered semiquant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stryker WS,Kaplan LA,Stein EA,Stampfer MJ,Sober A,Willett WC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult height is determined by genetics and childhood nutrition, but childhood infections may also play a role. Monozygotic twins are genetically matched and offer an advantage when identifying environmental determinants. In 2005-2007, we examined the association of childhood infections with adult height in 140 height-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hwang AE,Mack TM,Hamilton AS,Gauderman WJ,Bernstein L,Cockburn MG,Zadnick J,Rand KA,Hopper JL,Cozen W

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between body size and breast cancer remains uncertain, particularly with regard to differences between pre- and postmenopausal women. The authors examined whether height, weight, body mass index, and weight change were associated with breast cancer risk among pre- and postmenopausal women. This population...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Trentham-Dietz A,Newcomb PA,Storer BE,Longnecker MP,Baron J,Greenberg ER,Willett WC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgens have an extensive influence on brain development in regions of the brain that are relevant for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet their etiological involvement remains unclear. Hypospadias (abnormal positioning of the urethral opening) and cryptorchidism (undescended testes) are 2 relatively common male bir...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rotem RS,Chodick G,Davidovitch M,Hauser R,Coull BA,Weisskopf MG

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Cervical condyloma and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia are related to human papillomavirus infections, some of which may be involved in the etiology of cancer of the uterine cervix. This case-control study was designed to assess the relation of age at first sexual intercourse, number of sexual partners, and cigaret...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brisson J,Roy M,Fortier M,Bouchard C,Meisels A

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between infections occurring in the first 2 years of life and development of eczema was investigated in 1,782 control children from a national population-based case-control study in the United Kingdom conducted over the period 1991-1996. Dates of eczema and infectious diagnoses were ascertained from co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hughes AM,Crouch S,Lightfoot T,Ansell P,Simpson J,Roman E

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal cohort studies normally identify and adjudicate incident events detected during follow-up by retrieving medical records. There are several reasons why the adjudication process may not be successfully completed for a suspected event including the inability to retrieve medical records from hospitals and an ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howard G,McClure LA,Moy CS,Safford MM,Cushman M,Judd SE,Kissela BM,Kleindorfer DO,Howard VJ,Rhodes DJ,Muntner P,Tiwari HK

更新日期：2011-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors' purpose was to expand sexually transmitted disease core theory by examining the roles of person, place, and time in differentiating geographic core areas from outbreak areas. The authors mapped yearly census-tract-level syphilis rates for San Francisco, California, based on new primary and secondary syphi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gesink DC,Sullivan AB,Miller WC,Bernstein KT

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personnel assigned to infantry units of the army of the Republic of China (Taiwan) stationed in the Pescadores Islands experienced the highest incidence rate of scrub typhus (4%) and the highest rate of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi infection (12%) of the units studied during 1976. The ratio of scrub typhus to infection wi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Olson JG,Bourgeois AL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that maternal stress during pregnancy may influence pregnancy outcomes. In a nationwide Swedish study including almost 3 million births taking place during 1973-2006, we investigated whether maternal bereavement during pregnancy is associated with stillbirth risk. Through individual record...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： László KD,Svensson T,Li J,Obel C,Vestergaard M,Olsen J,Cnattingius S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined claims-based approaches for identifying a study population free of coronary heart disease (CHD) using data from 8,937 US blacks and whites enrolled during 2003-2007 in a prospective cohort study linked to Medicare claims. Our goal was to minimize the percentage of persons at study entry with self-reported ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kent ST,Safford MM,Zhao H,Levitan EB,Curtis JR,Kilpatrick RD,Kilgore ML,Muntner P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case-control study conducted in 1978 in Detroit, Michigan, as part of the National Bladder Cancer Study, the proportions of artificial sweetener users in a hospital and a population control series were compared. The study was based on interviews with 305 hospital controls and 440 population controls, as well as 3...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Silverman DT,Hoover RN,Swanson GM

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：:A recent nested case-control study found that increasing use of antibiotics was associated with a significantly elevated risk of breast cancer. The authors attempted to replicate this finding with a similar study design using the General Practice Research Database in the United Kingdom. Women aged 30-79 years who were...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： García Rodríguez LA,González-Pérez A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of religious groups that impose prudent lifestyles on their members show low mortality rates in these groups, but it is unclear whether their morbidity rates are also low. The authors studied the prevalence of self-reported morbidity and disability among Trappist and Benedictine monks in the Netherlands. A hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mackenbach JP,Kunst AE,de Vrij JH,van Meel D

更新日期：1993-10-15 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：:Standardization procedures are commonly used to combine phenotype data that were measured using different instruments, but there is little information on how the choice of standardization method influences pooled estimates and heterogeneity. Heterogeneity is of key importance in meta-analyses of observational studies ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Griffith LE,van den Heuvel E,Raina P,Fortier I,Sohel N,Hofer SM,Payette H,Wolfson C,Belleville S,Kenny M,Doiron D

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In randomized controlled trials, the intention-to-treat estimator provides an unbiased estimate of the causal effect of treatment assignment on the outcome. However, patients often want to know what the effect would be if they were to take the treatment as prescribed (the patient-oriented effect), and several research...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Steele RJ,Shrier I,Kaufman JS,Platt RW

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined interactions between lifestyle factors and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D-GR), captured by genetic risk score (GRS) and family history (FH). Our initial study cohort included 20,524 European-ancestry participants, of whom 1,897 developed incident T2D, in the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2016), Nurses' ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ding M,Ahmad S,Qi L,Hu Y,Bhupathiraju SN,Guasch-Ferré M,Jensen MK,Chavarro JE,Ridker PM,Willett WC,Chasman DI,Hu FB,Kraft P

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between long working hours and cognitive function in middle age. Data were collected in 1997-1999 (baseline) and 2002-2004 (follow-up) from a prospective study of 2,214 British civil servants who were in full-time employment at baseline and had data on cognitive tests and covariates...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Virtanen M,Singh-Manoux A,Ferrie JE,Gimeno D,Marmot MG,Elovainio M,Jokela M,Vahtera J,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the association between maternal preconceptional supplemental and dietary zinc intake and risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) in a population-based case-control study conducted between 1989 and 1991 in California. Cases were 430 NTD-affected fetuses/infants, and controls were 429 randomly selec...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Velie EM,Block G,Shaw GM,Samuels SJ,Schaffer DM,Kulldorff M

更新日期：1999-09-15 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：:Long term recalls of dietary intake are frequently used in case-control studies, but their validity and reliability have not been established. In this study, 91 middle-aged adults (median age, 50 years) who were participants in the Longitudinal Study of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Heal...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dwyer JT,Gardner J,Halvorsen K,Krall EA,Cohen A,Valadian I

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exceptionally high incidence rates of thyroid cancer are observed in New Caledonia, particularly in Melanesian women. To investigate further the etiology of thyroid cancer and to clarify the reasons of this elevated incidence, the authors conducted a countrywide population-based case-control study in this multiethnic ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guignard R,Truong T,Rougier Y,Baron-Dubourdieu D,Guénel P

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative contribution of menopause to the age-related increase in serum total cholesterol concentration in women is not exactly known. Cross-sectional studies suggest a considerable contribution of menopause, whereas in short-term longitudinal studies, only a small increase was observed around menopause. In a 10-y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Beresteijn EC,Korevaar JC,Huijbregts PC,Schouten EG,Burema J,Kok FJ

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine how the consistency of self-reported exposure to dust or gas, asbestos, and quartz varied between subjects with and those without respiratory symptoms and asthma in a Norwegian community sample () in 1987-1988. Exposure characterization obtained in a structured work history i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bakke PS,Hanoa R,Gulsvik A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have comprehensively investigated the association of 2 key kidney disease measures, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR), with cancer incidence. In 8,935 participants at the baseline (1996-1998) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, we quan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mok Y,Ballew SH,Sang Y,Coresh J,Joshu CE,Platz EA,Matsushita K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00