abstract：:Familial resemblance in the blood pressure response to sodium restriction in normotensive persons was investigated. Forty-four families of identical twin children participated in a sodium restriction (less than or equal to 75 meq/day) protocol for a period of 12 weeks. Subjects were residents of central Indiana, and t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Miller JZ,Weinberger MH,Christian JC,Daugherty SA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based cohort of 166 twin pairs (67 monozygotic and 99 dizygotic) born at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Medical Center, from July 1, 1976 to December 31, 1980 was identified. Body weight and length were measured at 14 days and at one, three, six, nine, and 12 months of age. Statisticall...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Levine RS,Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors tested, by molecular hybridization, for hepatitis B virus DNA in serum specimens of 182 asymptomatic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) Greek carriers who were heterosexual partners of patients with acute hepatitis B (group A: 96 cases) or healthy subjects who were susceptible to hepatitis B (group B: 86 ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tassopoulos NC,Papaevangelou GJ,Roumeliotou-Karayannis A,Ticehurst JR,Feinstone SM,Purcell RH

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen-year mortality data from the Alameda County Study are used to examine the relative importance of social ties as predictors of survival at different ages, ranging from 38-94 years at baseline. Previous analyses of Alameda County data by Berkman and Syme (Am J Epidemiol 1979;109:186-204) have shown that such t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seeman TE,Kaplan GA,Knudsen L,Cohen R,Guralnik J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that all pregnant women be questioned concerning risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection and that those giving positive responses be serotested. The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of those recommended questions among 692 parturient women ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McQuillan GM,Townsend TR,Johannes CB,Dillard T,Molteni RA,Ness PM,Niebyl JR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 8,006 men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii who were followed from 1966 to 1983 for incident cardiovascular disease, 1,381 died and 290 had a protocol autopsy which included determination of the extent of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries and aorta. More than 50 biologic, lifestyle, and dietary character...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Reed DM,MacLean CJ,Hayashi T

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in population mathematics apply to measurement issues in epidemiology. In particular, they demonstrate explicitly the relations that prevail among incidence, prevalence, case-fatality, mortality, and duration of illness in a population at a moment in time, rather than in a cohort of persons followe...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Preston SH

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies virus was isolated by cell culture from the brains of 104 confirmed rabies cases diagnosed by the fluorescent-antibody staining technique in the United States during 1974-1984. Eighty-seven isolates were obtained from wild-life species, 10 from humans, and seven from domestic animals. These isolates were tested...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rupprecht CE,Glickman LT,Spencer PA,Wiktor TJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of blood pressure, serum cholesterol, plasma fibrinogen, and coagulation factor VIIc with skinfold thickness at four sites (forearm, triceps, suprailiac, and subscapular) was examined in 2,948 white participants in the Northwick Park Heart Study. When considered separately, all four skinfolds were signifi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Haines AP,Imeson JD,Meade TW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report evaluates a method for the determination of the maximal velocity of the outward sodium, potassium, chlorine (Na-K-Cl) cotransport in erythrocytes. The loading procedure was carried out using the ionophore nystatin. The technical error for this assay, based on concurrent analysis of randomized blind ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Trevisan M,Canessa M,Laurenzi M,Di Muro MR,De Colle S,Franzese A,Iacone R,De Chiara F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational and leisure time physical activity and conventional risk factors were determined in the Belgian Physical Fitness Study, a prospective study of 2,363 healthy male factory workers who were aged 40-55 years at entry in 1976-1978 and who were followed for five years. Physical fitness, defined as the interpola...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sobolski J,Kornitzer M,De Backer G,Dramaix M,Abramowicz M,Degre S,Denolin H

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of cancer occurrence among smokers compared to nonsmokers has been generally reported to be greatest for carcinomas arising in the lung and larynx. This report presents the results of an investigation into mechanisms underlying the temporal trends in the incidence of these two forms of cancer in Scotland ove...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boyle P,Robertson C

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:Neutralizing antibodies to the Inoue-Melnick virus were detected in healthy adults in Osaka and in Houston. For adults, the prevalence rate for the cross-reacting type 3 virus was 13.8 per cent in Osaka and 29.1 per cent in Houston. Antibodies were also found in immune serum globulin prepared from American adults, but...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Inoue YK,Nishibe Y,Kimura T,Melnick JL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic blood pressure was measured in a random cluster sample of three-month-old black (n = 532), colored (n = 496), and white (n = 637) infants in Johannesburg, South Africa, by means of a Parks Doppler ultrasound device with a random zero sphygmomanometer. The study was conducted during a nine-month period in 1981...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Levin SE,Herman AA,Irwig LM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a computer program for hypothesis testing and calculation of exact binomial confidence intervals for the adjusted relative risk in follow-up studies involving multiple strata with incidence density (person-time) denominators and small or zero person-count numerators. The program is an extension to ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Guess HA,Lydick EG,Small RD,Miller LP

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common-source epidemic of hepatitis A occurred in an Athenian institution boarding 38 children (mean age 4.8 years). All children were examined, and blood was drawn from each at the onset of the study and repeatedly during the next three months. Only one child (2.6%) was initially immune to hepatitis A virus as a re...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tassopoulos NC,Roumeliotou-Karayannis A,Sakka M,Ticehurst J,Mihalik K,Stephanou T,Purcell RH,Papaevangelou G

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of serum selenium with the subsequent risk of death from cancer was investigated in a case-control study that was nested in a prospective nine-year follow-up study in the Netherlands. In 1975-1978, 10,532 persons in the Dutch town of Zoetermeer who were aged five years or more participated in a medical...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kok FJ,de Bruijn AM,Hofman A,Vermeeren R,Valkenburg HA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between passive smoking and lung cancer was examined by means of a case-control study in a cohort of 27,409 nonsmoking Swedish women identified from questionnaires mailed in 1961 and 1963. A total of 77 cases of primary carcinoma of the bronchus or lung were found in a follow-up of the cohort through 1980...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pershagen G,Hrubec Z,Svensson C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extension of case-control methods to the study of common outcomes has led to the development of several design and analysis techniques which do not employ the rare-disease assumption. Unfortunately, the principles underlying valid application of these techniques are more subtle than those first considered by Cornf...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Greenland S,Thomas DC,Morgenstern H

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study carried out in June 1979-April 1981, 134 of 1,458 adult inpatients at New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired 136 urinary tract infections during 1,474 indwelling bladder catheterizations. Multiple logistic regression analysis identified nine factors that were significant...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Platt R,Polk BF,Murdock B,Rosner B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of adult health risks from exposures that occurred in childhood may require case-control studies in which subjects who are now adults are asked to provide information that might be more accurately provided by their parents. The quality of parental smoking and drinking histories provided by adult offspring w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Sandler DP,Shore DL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have associated insecticides used for spruce budworm control with Reye's syndrome. In Maine, spruce budworm insecticide spraying began in 1954, and an annual spray program was started in 1972. Reye's syndrome incidence information (1978-1982), obtained from hospital discharge data, death certificates, and repo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wood RB Jr,Bogdan GF

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used cross-sectional data for 19,704 white men and 13,895 white women from the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry (November 1967 to January 1973) to investigate whether weight explains the association between age and blood pressure, and in particular, whether age is associated with bloo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pan WH,Nanas S,Dyer A,Liu K,McDonald A,Schoenberger JA,Shekelle RB,Stamler R,Stamler J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus remains obscure. In an attempt to clarify some aspects of the epidemiology, including its compatibility with an acute infectious process, the authors undertook in-depth analyses of childhood cases accumulated in a population-based register in Montreal during the peri...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Siemiatycki J,Colle E,Aubert D,Campbell S,Belmonte MM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between use of conjugated estrogens and the risk of uterine cancer was examined among 188 white women with newly diagnosed endometrial cancer and 428 controls hospitalized for nonmalignant conditions requiring surgery at the Boston Hospital for Women-Parkway Division, Boston, Massachusetts, in January 197...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Buring JE,Bain CJ,Ehrmann RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality studies have indicated that workers in agriculture and forestry may be at increased risk of leukemia. Findings are reported from a New Zealand Cancer Registry-based case-control study involving 546 male leukemia patients registered during 1979-1983 and aged 20 years or more at time of registration. Controls ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Pearce NE,Sheppard RA,Howard JK,Fraser J,Lilley BM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of 968 pregnant Navajo women was followed in a prospective study conducted from 1980 to 1983 at the Indian Health Service Hospitals in Gallup and Crownpoint, New Mexico. The purpose of the study was to examine social and cultural influences on obstetric and neonatal complications. The extent of traditiona...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boyce WT,Schaefer C,Harrison HR,Haffner WH,Lewis M,Wright AL

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent cohort mortality study of 19,608 male employees of a major Texas chemical production facility had suggested that they might be at higher risk of lung cancer compared with the male population of the United States or Texas but not with the male population of the five-county area in which they reside. An occupat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bond GG,Flores GH,Shellenberger RJ,Cartmill JB,Fishbeck WA,Cook RR

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serologic survey in 1983-1984 evaluated the presence of hepatitis A antibody (anti-HAV) and hepatitis A immunoglobulin M antibody (anti-HAV IgM) in 3,251 adults and 811 children in the jungle and coastal areas of Peru. All subjects were asymptomatic. Adults had a 98% positive anti-HAV rate except for naval cadets, w...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kilpatrick ME,Escamilla J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A matched case-control study was conducted of 53 leukemia deaths and of 212 controls within a previously studied cohort of 24,545 on-shore workers employed between January 1, 1952 and August 15, 1977 at the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Naval Shipyard. The study sought to ascertain a priori whether there was an associati...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stern FB,Waxweiler RA,Beaumont JJ,Lee ST,Rinsky RA,Zumwalde RD,Halperin WE,Bierbaum PJ,Landrigan PJ,Murray WE Jr

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case-control studies involving more than two disease and referent categories may be analyzed by means of polychotomous logistic regression, an extension of the usual dichotomous logistic regression model. Although the standard method still may be used to compare the several disease subgroups in pairs, the polychotomou...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dubin N,Pasternack BS

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of lead exposure to blood pressure has been examined in a longitudinal study of a cohort of 89 Boston, Massachusetts, policemen. At the baseline examination, subjects had a blood lead determination and three consecutive blood pressure measurements. Triplicate blood pressure measurements were also take...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weiss ST,Muñoz A,Stein A,Sparrow D,Speizer FE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female breast cancer patients who had participated in a case-control study conducted during 1973-1975 were followed up, using record linkage to the Statistics Canada mortality data base, to the end of 1980. A number of variables recorded for the case-control study, in particular body weight and daily intake of dietary...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Newman SC,Miller AB,Howe GR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983 the relative validity of a retrospective dietary history method was assessed against a current dietary history taken seven years previously in 1976 and a second current dietary history taken in 1983. In total, 44 men and 58 women, aged 38 to 62 years, participated in the study. For energy intake and for most n...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： van Staveren WA,West CE,Hoffmans MD,Bos P,Kardinaal AF,van Poppel GA,Schipper HJ,Hautvast JG,Hayes RB

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationship of smoking to breast cancer risk, the authors conducted a case-control study involving 1,547 patients and 1,930 controls identified between 1973 and 1980 through a nationwide screening program. There was no evidence that smoking affected risk (relative risk (RR) = 1.2), nor were there a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brinton LA,Schairer C,Stanford JL,Hoover RN

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival models are important tools for the analysis of data when a disease event occurs in time and subjects are lost to follow-up. Many models, however, can also be adapted for use when an event is characterized by transitions through intermediate states of disease with increasing severity. In this presentation, suc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Abbott RD,Carroll RJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsial infection in the ixodid dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus were found to occur at a rate of 19.7% with variation related to geographic and sociooccupational factors. A higher rate of infection was demonstrated in ticks removed from dogs associated with ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tringali G,Intonazzo V,Perna AM,Mansueto S,Vitale G,Walker DH

更新日期：1986-04-01 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 groups of variola isolates were compared in DNA structure, and by four independent biologic markers. Isolates of variola minor from Europe and South America (alastrim virus) could be distinguished from African isolates of variola minor by DNA structure and by two of the four biologic markers. Taken as a group,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Dumbell KR,Huq F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00