abstract：:In a population-based case-control study carried out in Adelaide, South Australia, during the years 1984-1987, the diets of 104 cases of cancer of the pancreas 1 year prior to diagnosis were compared with the diets of 253 community controls. A quantitative food-frequency questionnaire was used to assess usual dietary ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Baghurst PA,McMichael AJ,Slavotinek AH,Baghurst KI,Boyle P,Walker AM

更新日期：1991-07-15 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：:Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of mortality among persons with diabetes mellitus, but the factors that account for this high coronary heart disease mortality remain unclear. In the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, conducted from 1982 to 1984, 92 deaths from...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ford ES,DeStefano F

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A national serosurvey was conducted in Mexico from March to October 1986 to identify predictors of dengue transmission and target areas at high risk of severe annual epidemics. A total of 3,408 households in 70 localities with populations less than 50,000 were randomly sampled, and serology was obtained from one subje...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koopman JS,Prevots DR,Vaca Marin MA,Gomez Dantes H,Zarate Aquino ML,Longini IM Jr,Sepulveda Amor J

更新日期：1991-06-01 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 total of 1,054 Hong Kong Chinese subjects aged 70 years or over were recruited into a cohort study to investigate the relation between social support and health outcomes. More than 30 social, health, and behavioral characteristics were recorded as baseline information when the study began in 1985. Mortality data wer...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ho SC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality of proxy reporting was assessed among 136 prenatal patients and their spouse/partners recruited from the obstetric services of a New Jersey hospital between 1985 and 1987. The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hatch MC,Misra D,Kabat GC,Kartzmer S

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983/1984, a study of bone mass and fractures was begun in 827 women aged 20-80 years in three rural Iowa communities selected for the fluoride and calcium content of their community water supplies. The control community's water had a calcium content of 67 mg/liter and a fluoride content of 1 mg/liter. The higher-c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sowers MF,Clark MK,Jannausch ML,Wallace RB

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:The association between cervical carcinoma and vaginal douching was examined in a population-based case-control study conducted in the low-risk population of Utah between 1984 and 1987. The authors compared 266 cases of in situ and invasive cervical carcinoma with 408 group-matched controls by vaginal douching behavio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gardner JW,Schuman KL,Slattery ML,Sanborn JS,Abbott TM,Overall JC Jr

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study of bladder cancer was conducted in a population of California Seventh-day Adventists. Most Seventh-day Adventists use neither tobacco nor alcohol yet experience a large degree of variation in dietary habits. Therefore, diet and other lifestyle habits were evaluated in this unique population. In 1976, 34...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

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

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Willingness of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients to volunteer names of friends as potential control subjects was assessed from August through December 1988 in a case-control study at the National Cancer Institute and Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. Friend controls appeared ideal to examine a genetically determi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shaw GL,Tucker MA,Kase RG,Hoover RN

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proportional hazards models measuring the effect of age at onset of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus on mortality risk are presented. The study population consisted of 924 insulin-dependent diabetic patients who were seen within 1 year of diagnosis at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh between 1950 and 1981 and were...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kostraba JN,Dorman JS,LaPorte RE,Kuller LH,Orchard TJ,Becker DJ,Drash AL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between body mass index expressed as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters cubed (weight (kg)/height (m3)) and plasma total cholesterol was assessed in a sample of 11,389 US schoolchildren, aged 5-18 years, between 1984 and 1989. Among whites and Hispanics, a statistically significant nonlinear ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Resnicow K,Morabia A

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper concerns the effects of random error in numerical measurements of risk factors (covariates) in relative risk regressions. When not dependent on outcome (nondifferential), such error usually attenuates relative risk estimates (shifts them toward one) and leads to spuriously narrow confidence intervals. The p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Armstrong BG

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1968 to 1977, the association between the level of vitamin A in serum and the subsequent incidence of cancer was examined in a longitudinal study of 36,265 persons initially aged 15-99 years in 25 population groups in Finland. During a mean follow-up of 8 years, 766 cancers were diagnosed. Serum retinol, retinol-...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Knekt P,Aromaa A,Maatela J,Aaran RK,Nikkari T,Hakama M,Hakulinen T,Peto R,Teppo L

更新日期：1990-11-01 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 association of body fat distribution with single and combined site osteoarthritis was investigated using data from the US Health Examination Survey I, 1960-1962 (HES I) and the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I, 1971-1975 (NHANES I). The study included 1,636 adults aged 35-79 years from HES ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davis MA,Neuhaus JM,Ettinger WH,Mueller WH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between occupation and bladder cancer in women was examined based on data collected during the National Bladder Cancer Study, a population-based, case-control study conducted in 10 areas of the United States. Occupational hazards among women have received little attention in previous bladder cancer studie...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Silverman DT,Levin LI,Hoover RN

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of recall bias when reporting breast feeding duration is investigated. Data are presented from the follow-up of over 1,000 children from a birth cohort (1982) in southern Brazil, when they were on average 11, 23, and 47 months of age. Compared with the response given at 11 months of age, 24% of mothers mis...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Huttly SR,Barros FC,Victora CG,Beria JU,Vaughan JP

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1983 and December 1986, a total of 376 mothers living in Godthaab and Thule, Greenland, were asked about their average weekly intake of marine food. The blood methylmercury concentrations of mothers and offspring were measured. Mean methylmercury concentrations in infants were found to be 40 percent hi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Foldspang A,Hansen JC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 1986, a statewide outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections in Washington State was identified after a physician in an eastern Washington community hospitalized three patients with hemorrhagic colitis which progressed to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Epidemiologic investigation identified 37 c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ostroff SM,Griffin PM,Tauxe RV,Shipman LD,Greene KD,Wells JG,Lewis JH,Blake PA,Kobayashi JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of any standard definition of suicide cluster events hinders understanding of the prevalence of the problem, hinders the development of appropriate public health responses to observed clusters, and ultimately hinders investigation of the mechanisms underlying contagious communication of suicidal behavior. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gibbons RD,Clark DC,Fawcett J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses the use of epidemiologic evidence when a cluster becomes the focus of dispute in court. It is often difficult to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that an exposure for which a defendant is responsible caused the disease or diseases at issue. Thus, in a number of cases plaintiffs have resort...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Black B

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While survey-based data on firearm ownership are essential for epidemiologic studies of the relation between gun ownership and injuries, the validity of respondent answers to questions about gun ownership has not been confirmed. In order to assess the accuracy of interview data about firearms, in June to August 1987, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kellermann AL,Rivara FP,Banton J,Reay D,Fligner CL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between breast cancer and selenium, measured in the diet, plasma, erythrocytes, and toenails, was investigated in a case-control study in the Netherlands during 1985-1987. Dietary selenium intake was assessed by a structured dietary history technique among 133 breast cancer cases and 238 population con...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van 't Veer P,van der Wielen RP,Kok FJ,Hermus RJ,Sturmans F

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect on childhood cancer of prolonged exposure to 60-H magnetic fields from electric appliances was examined using interview data from a recently completed case-control study. Exposures of children aged 0-14 years whose incident cancers were diagnosed between 1976 and 1983 and who resided in the Denver, Colorado...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Savitz DA,John EM,Kleckner RC

更新日期：1990-05-01 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 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：:During an epidemic of cholera in Guinea, West Africa, in 1986, the authors conducted two studies of risk factors for transmission. In the capital city, 35 hospitalized cholera patients were more likely than 70 neighborhood-matched controls to have eaten leftover peanut sauces (odds ration (OR) = 3.1, 95% confidence in...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： St Louis ME,Porter JD,Helal A,Drame K,Hargrett-Bean N,Wells JG,Tauxe RV

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for genital human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6/11 and 16/18 and any HPV type as well as for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections were investigated in a population-based study of 1,600 randomly selected women (20-39 years) from Godthåb (native, Nuuk), Greenland, and Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. A t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kjaer SK,Engholm G,Teisen C,Haugaard BJ,Lynge E,Christensen RB,Møller KA,Jensen H,Poll P,Vestergaard BF

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between breast feeding and the risk of severe cholera was examined in a case-control study of rural Bangladeshi children under 36 months of age who were studied in 1985-1986 during a field trial of killed oral cholera vaccines. A total of 116 cases who were treated for severe cholera were compared with...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Clemens JD,Sack DA,Harris JR,Khan MR,Chakraborty J,Chowdhury S,Rao MR,van Loon FP,Stanton BF,Yunus M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that paternal occupational exposures to pesticides and solvents increase the risk of neural tube defects in offspring. With the use of Texas livebirth, fetal death, and linked livebirth-death records, the authors conducted a population-based case-control study among 1981-1986 Texas births to exam...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brender JD,Suarez L

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimentally, high-carbohydrate diets have been shown to elevate triglycerides, but it has not been established whether this rise is permanent or transient. The authors approached this question by studying 719 boys from worldwide populations with marked differences in long-term carbohydrate intake. Fasting serum tri...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： West CE,Sullivan DR,Katan MB,Halferkamps IL,van der Torre HW

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Danish control program for enzootic bovine leukosis, three hematologic screenings of all cattle herds in Denmark were performed in the period 1969-1978. Herds with multiple cases of persistent lymphocytosis and/or leukotic tumors were classified as "leukosis herds." During nationwide blood testing, 369 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gottschau A,Willeberg P,Franti CE,Flensburg JC

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common worldwide perinatal infection. Although usually asymptomatic, it may cause deafness in up to 15% of these infants. A cross-sectional study was performed to determine the age-specific prevalence of CMV seropositivity in Chinese children and to determine if any risk factors for infectio...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Wang E,Taylor W,Yu H,Wu T,Wan Z,Huang Y,Ni Z,Sackett D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of adenocarcinoma of the facial sinuses and exposure to wood dust has been recognized for 20 years. As the tracheobronchial mucosa is similar to that lining the sinuses, a link between bronchial adenocarcinoma and wood dust exposure has been postulated. To test this hypothesis, a case-control study was co...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schraub S,Belon-Leneutre M,Mercier M,Bourgeois P

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons whose body fat is distributed predominantly in the abdomen compared with the hips are at increased risk of several chronic diseases. This study examined the cross-sectional relation of percent body fat, computed from skinfold thickness, and fat distribution, measured by the waist-to-hip girth ratio, to physiol...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Folsom AR,Burke GL,Ballew C,Jacobs DR Jr,Haskell WL,Donahue RP,Liu KA,Hilner JE

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality rates of coronary heart disease are much lower and hemorrhagic stroke rates are higher in Japanese than in Caucasians. To investigate whether population differences in plasma concentrations of coagulation factors are consistent with these mortality differences, the authors examined, in 1987, a total of 136 m...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Iso H,Folsom AR,Wu KK,Finch A,Munger RG,Sato S,Shimamoto T,Terao A,Komachi Y

更新日期：1989-11-01 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