Birth weight and mortality in childhood in Norway.

abstract：:Under- and overreporting of energy intake in relation to body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) were examined by using 24-hour urinary sodium and potassium as biomarkers. The data were obtained from 2,124 men and 1,998 women aged 25-74 years who participated in the 1981-1984 Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Hea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang J,Temme EH,Sasaki S,Kesteloot H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989, the authors tested the effectiveness of two response-enhancing techniques, a postage stamped or franked return envelope and a prenotification letter, in a survey of pregnancy among 10,047 resident physicians in the United States. The techniques were randomly assigned using a factorial design. No significant i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shiono PH,Klebanoff MA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies and randomized controlled trials of menopausal hormone therapy (HT) and chronic disease risk appear to have divergent results for cardiovascular disease. However, differences may be related to a modifying effect of age, time since menopause, and HT formulation. In the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) (...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bhupathiraju SN,Grodstein F,Rosner BA,Stampfer MJ,Hu FB,Willett WC,Manson JE

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the familial aggregation of blood pressure (BP) was conducted to provide estimates of the role of genes and household environment in determining the phenotypic resemblance between biologically related family members. The biological model used for this analysis parameterizes the correlations between fami...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Annest JL,Sing CF,Biron P,Mongeau JG

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of predictors of adherence to mammography screening guidelines have been identified using traditional statistical methods, many women are not screening according to these guidelines. Recursive partitioning may aid in developing novel intervention strategies to promote this screening behavior by ident...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Calvocoressi L,Stolar M,Kasl SV,Claus EB,Jones BA

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease refers to a group of chronic diseases of unknown etiology related to both genetic and environmental factors. In this 1990-1993 study, the authors investigated associations between the content and quality of drinking water and the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease. They used data from a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aamodt G,Bukholm G,Jahnsen J,Moum B,Vatn MH,IBSEN Study Group.

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prevalence survey of respiratory diseases was conducted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the objective of explaining differing patterns of respiratory disease epidemiology in Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites (Anglos). The study population was selected at random from the 1978 R.L. Polk & Co. Directory. This paper foc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Howard CA,Samet JM,Buechley RW,Schrag SD,Key CR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the relation between age at first vaginal intercourse and a positive nucleic acid amplification test for sexually transmitted infection (STI). A nationally representative sample of 9,844 respondents aged 18-26 years was tested for chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in wave 3 (2001...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaestle CE,Halpern CT,Miller WC,Ford CA

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the authors evaluated whether the association between low educational level and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia may be explained by occupation-based socioeconomic status (SES). A cohort of 931 nondemented subjects aged > or = 75 years from the Kungsholmen Project, Stockholm, Swed...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Karp A,Kåreholt I,Qiu C,Bellander T,Winblad B,Fratiglioni L

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze the factors associated with functional decline and improvement in a community-dwelling population of people aged 75 years and older. A representative sample of elderly people living at home in the city of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) was assessed yearly on three occasions (199...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hébert R,Brayne C,Spiegelhalter D

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the growing number of epidemiologic publications on the relation between dietary factors and cancer risk, pooled analyses that summarize results from multiple studies are becoming more common. Here, the authors describe the methods being used to summarize data on diet-cancer associations within the ongoing Poolin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith-Warner SA,Spiegelman D,Ritz J,Albanes D,Beeson WL,Bernstein L,Berrino F,van den Brandt PA,Buring JE,Cho E,Colditz GA,Folsom AR,Freudenheim JL,Giovannucci E,Goldbohm RA,Graham S,Harnack L,Horn-Ross PL,Krogh V,L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow childhood growth is associated with poorer intellectual ability. The critical periods of growth remain uncertain. Among 2,786 Finnish male military conscripts (1952-1972) born in 1934-1944, the authors tested how specific growth periods from birth to age 20 years predicted verbal, visuospatial, and arithmetic abi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Räikkönen K,Forsén T,Henriksson M,Kajantie E,Heinonen K,Pesonen AK,Leskinen JT,Laaksonen I,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2009-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A statewide cross-sectional study of risk factors for seropositivity for antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi in outdoor workers in New Jersey was performed in September and October 1988. The crude odds ratio associated with exposure to ticks on the primary state job was 2.2 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7-9.0). After a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schwartz BS,Goldstein MD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations between cigarette smoking history and later cognitive performance were examined among 3,429 Japanese-American participants of the Honolulu Heart Program (HHP) and its extension, the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study (HAAS). Cognitive performance was measured by the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CA...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Galanis DJ,Petrovitch H,Launer LJ,Harris TB,Foley DJ,White LR

更新日期：1997-03-15 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：:Data from a Norwegian investigation on family planning were used to study the relation between menarcheal age and spontaneous abortion rate. Abortion rates were found to be 1.5-2 times higher among women with a menarcheal age of 12 years or less than among those with a menarcheal age of 14 years or more. The possibili...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liestøl K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A higher serum phosphorus level is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) events among community-living populations. Mechanisms are unknown. The ankle-brachial index (ABI) provides information on both atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness. In this cross-sectional study (2000-2002), the authors evaluated the ass...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meng J,Wassel CL,Kestenbaum BR,Collins TC,Criqui MH,Lewis CE,Cummings SR,Ix JH,Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study Group.

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate and nitrite are precursors of N-nitroso compounds, which induce tumors of the pancreas in animals. The authors evaluated the relation of dietary nitrate and nitrite to pancreatic cancer risk in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Nitrate and nitrite intakes were assessed at baseline using a 124-item food frequ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aschebrook-Kilfoy B,Cross AJ,Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ,Schatzkin A,Hollenbeck AR,Sinha R,Ward MH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors utilize an analytic strategy that combines tree-based analyses with the method of Mantel-Haenszel to evaluate the association of 11 putative risk factors to spontaneous abortion by controlling for 19 potential confounders. Logistic regression is also used for comparison. The data for this study were collec...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhang H,Bracken MB

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in Alaskan Eskimos is characterized by greatly increased disease incidence at younger ages. This suggests that Eskimo infants have increased exposure to the disease. Exposure was studied in 1982-1983 in children less than age three years who lived in four Eskimo villages, as well ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hall DB,Lum MK,Knutson LR,Heyward WL,Ward JI

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used full-system-estimation instrumental-variables simultaneous equations modeling (IV-SEM) to examine physical activity relative to body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) using 25 years of data (1985/1986 to 2010/2011) from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (n = 5,115; a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meyer KA,Guilkey DK,Tien HC,Kiefe CI,Popkin BM,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the relation between cigarette smoking and nonspecific inflammatory bowel disease in a case-control study of 124 cases of ulcerative colitis, 109 cases of Crohn's disease, and 250 age- and sex-matched control subjects in hospital for acute nongastric or intestinal conditions unrelated to smoking. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Franceschi S,Panza E,La Vecchia C,Parazzini F,Decarli A,Bianchi Porro G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposures to the stress and stimulation of different work, parenting, and partnership combinations might influence later life cognition. We investigated the relationship between women's work-family life histories and cognitive functioning in later life. Analyses were based on data from women born between 193...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ice E,Ang S,Greenberg K,Burgard S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case-control study, the authors aimed to examine whether use of an electric bedding device increased breast cancer risk in African-American women. Cases were 304 African-American patients diagnosed with breast cancer during 1995-1998 who were aged 20-64 years and lived in one of three Tennessee counties. Contr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu K,Hunter S,Payne-Wilks K,Roland CL,Forbes DS

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's population is aging rapidly. This study reports the burden of cancer in the oldest old (≥85 years) in Finland in 1953-2017 and estimates age-specific cancer rates in the old population (65-99 years) in 1988-2017. The Finnish Cancer Registry provided data on all cancer diagnoses, cancer deaths and other dea...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tanskanen T,Seppä KJM,Virtanen A,Malila NK,Pitkäniemi JM

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have shown that peptic ulcer mortality follows birth cohorts. To the authors' knowledge, temporal variation in ulcer incidence has not been studied. Therefore, they present incidence data for a defined area of western Norway where 1,312 patients born between 1845 and 1975 were treated for ulcer perfor...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Svanes C,Lie RT,Kvåle G,Svanes K,Søreide O

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between allergy and risk of cancer was evaluated in a cohort study of 34,198 Seventh-day Adventists in California. Information on prevalence of asthma, hay fever, and reactions to chemicals, medications, bee stings, and poison oak (or ivy) was obtained by questionnaire in 1976. The reported allergies must...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mills PK,Beeson WL,Fraser GE,Phillips RL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial differences in the incidence and natural history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were evaluated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The yearly incidence rate for whites was approximately 1.5 times that for blacks. The cumulative risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes prior to age 20 was greater for...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： LaPorte RE,Tajima N,Dorman JS,Cruickshanks KJ,Eberhardt MS,Rabin BS,Atchison RW,Wagener DK,Becker DJ,Orchard TJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported an increased risk of multiple myeloma associated with excess body weight. We investigated the risk of multiple myeloma in relation to separate measures of adiposity and energy balance at different ages in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, a large prospective co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hofmann JN,Moore SC,Lim U,Park Y,Baris D,Hollenbeck AR,Matthews CE,Gibson TM,Hartge P,Purdue MP

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that Hispanics have lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates despite increased rates of diabetes and obesity and lower socioeconomic status has been termed the "Hispanic paradox." The authors therefore examined the relation between ethnicity and mortality in 1,438 Mexican-American and 921 non...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hunt KJ,Resendez RG,Williams K,Haffner SM,Stern MP,Hazuda HP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00