abstract：:An episode is described in which tissue culture in a laboratory could have become intoxicated due to the recirculation of toxic exhaust fumes extruded from the roof of a research institution. A route of entry was found whereby a portion of fume hood exhaust was reintroduced into the building by means of large intake f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Cohen D,Wanner RG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prevalence study was designed to evaluate host and seasonal risk factors associated with three systemic mycoses in dogs: blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis. Histoplasmosis was the most commonly diagnosed of the three diseases. All three of the mycoses occurred more frequently in male than female d...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Selby LA,Becker SV,Hayes HW Jr

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During late 1977 and early 1978, 192 cases of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis occurred in a community in central Georgia. In 86 of these cases, the patient had been exposed to a single ophthalmologist's office (physician A) 3-22 days before onset of illness. Patients considered as cases were more likely to have had inva...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： D'Angelo LJ,Hierholzer JC,Holman RC,Smith JD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the distributions of uncorrected visual acuity and of refractive error in representative groups of Australian Aborigines and Australians of European origin aged 20-30 years. The methodology used in this study and its verification are described in detail. As a group, the Aborigines have significan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Taylor HR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality experience of 8679 members of a metal trades union--men employed in shipyards, metal fabrication shops, small boat yards, and field construction--was studied from 1950 to 1976 by the historical prospective method. Relative to rates for US men of comparable age and race, the risk of death from all causes ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Beaumont JJ,Weiss NS

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standardized method for examining hearts and coronary arteries was applied in a study of sudden deaths in 227 autopsies of New Orleans men aged 25-49 years. Of these autopsies, 102 deaths were due to external violence, 125 were from natural causes and 45 occurred suddenly. Of the sudden natural deaths, 14 (31%) were...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oalmann MC,Palmer RW,Guzmán MA,Strong JP

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, patients with spinal cord injuries were observed to have a high incidence of colonizaion of the perineum, rectum, and urethra with Pseudomonas. In the current report, 10 men and 10 women with spinal cord injury were studied prospectively during their stay in hospital between June-Dec. 1977 (men) a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Morrow JW

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fasting plasma glucose (FPG) was measured in 4170 nondiabetic adult residents of a suburban California community. At all ages the median FPG in men was higher (103-107 mg/dl) than the median FPG in women (96-104 mg/dl). FPG levels correlated weakly with obesity, and male-female differences persisted after adjustme...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between four and two-thirds years incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and serum cholesterol, blood pressure (BP), height, body weight, cigarette smoking and physical activity at work and at leisure, was studied in 14,816 Oslo men, aged 40-49 years at entry to the study and free of cardiovascular ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Holme I,Helgeland A,Hjermann I,Leren P,Lund-Larsen PG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven symptomatic and five asymptomatic infections with viral hepatitis, type A (102 cases) were identified in members, guests and employees of a private country club in an outbreak associated with consuming food and ice prepared or handled by an employee of the club's kitchen pantry. Twenty-three symptomatic p...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Osterholm MT,Kantor RJ,Bradley DW,Hall WN,Francis DP,Aaron HC,Washburn JW,Velde D

更新日期：1980-07-01 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 total of 4678 persons participated in an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania glaucoma screening program in 1977. Black participants had higher mean intraocular pressures, more frequent pathologic disc changes and more new cases of glaucoma discovered than a sample of white participants matched for sex and age. The same y...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulehan JL,Helzlsouer KJ,Rogers KD,Brown SI

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：:Within the past decade, the infection control nurse (ICN) has become an important element in organized infection surveillance and control programs. Before 1970, only a few hospitals (6%) had an ICN, but, by 1977, over 80% had hired at least one ICN, the majority of those hospitals having done so since 1973. To determi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Emori TG,Haley RW,Stanley RC

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between cervix cancer and cigarette smoking was examined among 332 white cases and 1725 white controls. Cases were of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and smoked more than controls. After adjustment for both age and SES, no significant association was observed between cervix cancer and cigarette smokin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stellman SD,Austin H,Wynder EL

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prenatal course, labor and delivery of 90 mothers of infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in Connecticut from 1974 through 1976 were studied by hospital chart reviews. Charts of 90 pair-matched controls whose infants survived the first year of life were also examined. Significant associations we...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Arsenault PS

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feline leukemia virus (FeLV)-associated diseases were observed in a household in eastern Connecticut having 134 cats over a period of five and a half years. FeLV-positive cats had a much higher mortality rate (34.6 deaths per 1000 cat-months of follow-up) than did FeLV-negative cats (8.9 deaths per 1000 cat-months of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Francis DP,Essex M,Jakowski RM,Cotter SM,Lerer TJ,Hardy WD Jr

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer rates are often compared between counties or other geographic units as a method of testing for risk from environmental exposures. Migration between geographic areas greatly reduces the sensitivity of this method. Under simplifying assumptions the quantitative effect of migration on risk estimates is shown using...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Polissar L

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a prospective study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in middle-aged Chinese men in Taiwan, 1820 Chinese males, aged 40--59 years, from the middle and upper socioeconomic classes, were characterized at study entry by a history and physical examination with particular reference to cardiovascular status and by ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weaver CA,Ko YH,Alexander ER,Pao YL,Ting N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of oral contraceptive (OC) use to the risk of hospitalization for myocardial infarction (MI) was evaluated among 121,964 US nurses who responded to a mail questionnaire. There were 156 women who reported having been hospitalized for MI before the menopause, and 23 (15%) were OC users at the time of the MI...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Hennekens CH,Rosner B,Belanger C,Rothman KJ,Speizer FE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of respiratory tract illnesses (RTI) in adult humans during October and November 1975 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, were investigated by viral isolation and serologic procedures. The recovery of viral agents was enhanced by use of cell cultures in the field. Recoveries of parainfluenzaviruses types 1 and 3...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Parkinson AJ,Muchmore HG,Scott LV,Kalmakoff J,Miles JA

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：: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：:The health status of 1025 urban senior citizens in a Montreal metropolitan area was determined by a questionnaire based on the subjects' view of physical, mental, and general well-being, and of dependence (indicators of Belloc et al., Berkman, Grogono and Woodgate, and Linn). A principal component analysis was made of...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jenicek M,Cléroux R,Lamoureux M

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) antibody titers were monitored for five years with samples from 79 keratoconjunctivitis patients with type 8 adenovirus (AV-8) infection. Geometric mean antibody titers declined from 1:161 at the peak of the epidemic to 1:56 after five years. Computerized analysis of the decline ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hierholzer JC,Sprague JB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age-specific prevalence of hepatitis A antibodies has been analyzed using a catalytic epidemic model for populations in seven European countries: West Germany, Norway, Greece, Switzerland, Holland, France and Sweden. The results indicate a significant decline in the force of infection in recent decades. However, t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schenzle D,Dietz K,Frösner GG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have investigated the effects of parental smoking patterns on the pulmonary function of children in East Boston, Massachusetts. A crude inverse dose-response relationship was observed between the level of FEF25--75% predicted of children who never smoked and the number of smoking parents in the household. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tager IB,Weiss ST,Rosner B,Speizer FE

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the carcinogenic potential and widespread use of conjugated estrogens (CEs), this study evaluated patterns and determinants of oral ambulatory CE use. Among 1273 women 30 to 69 years of age interviewed in Greater-Boston hospitals, there were 161 (13%) ever-users of CEs; 88 (7%) had used the drug within the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rosenberg L,Shapiro S,Kaufman DW,Slone D,Miettinen OS,Stolley PD

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistic, Q, based on the ranks of the estimated probabilities of disease is proposed for assessing the effectiveness of regression models used with dichotomous dependent variables in epidemiologic studies of risk factors for chronic diseases. The pitfalls of R2 are discussed, and the proposed statistic is compared...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu K,Dyer AR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new viral agent, isolated from the serum of an infectious hepatitis patient and designated as Agent II-B, was extensively studied in in vitro and in vivo systems. Agent II-B multiplied well in primary and serial animal cell cultures and in embryonated hen's eggs. Quantal and quantitative infectivity assays were perf...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Woodford PC,Hansen PA,Roane PR,Ward TG

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of menopause to associated factors of atherosclerosis was investigated during October 1973 to December 1976. The subjects were 1674 premenopausal and 428 postmenopausal women aged 35 to 54, who were living in Toda city, an urban area of Japan. Serum cholesterol and triglyceride were higher in postmeno...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Shibata H,Matsuzaki T,Hatano S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted blood pressure screening on the Navajo Indian reservation in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. Six hundred forty Navajos over 19 years of age were surveyed at various sites. The mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures in Navajo men and women did not show as great increases wit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： DeStefano F,Coulehan JL,Wiant MK

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious transmission of streptococci in families has been demonstrated to follow Greenwood's chain-binomial model in its simplest form which did not need beta transformation to correct for differences in susceptibility between families. Following the application of this model, an estimate of the risk of acquisition...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Poku K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Logistic regression was used to estimate the "relative" risk of basal and squamous skin cancer for such factors as cumulative lifetime solar exposure, age, complexion, and tannability. In previous reports, a subject's exposure was estimated indirectly, by latitude, or by the number of sun days in a subject's habitat. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vitaliano PP

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three residents of 12 contiguous Connecticut communities were identified who had the onset of erythema chronicum migrans, Lyme arthritis, or both during the summer and fall of 1977. Nine of them (21%) remembered having been bitten by a tick at the site of the initial skin lesion a median of 12 days (range 3-20) ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Steere AC,Broderick TF,Malawista SE

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methods used for selecting subjects yield three types of case-control studies: 1) incident cases are compared to non-cases chosen to be representative of the exposure distribution among the person-years which produced the cases. In this type of study the exposure-odds ratio equals the incidence density ratio; 2) i...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Neutra RR,Drolette ME

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A battalion of United States Marines traveling to South Korea in the spring of 1976 was studied to determine the incidence and etiology of gastroenteritis. During the three weeks they visited South Korea, 21% of 694 marines developed diarrhea. Stool and serum specimens collected before, during, and after their stay we...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Echeverria P,Hodge FA,Blacklow NR,Vollet JL,Cukor G,DuPont HL,Cross JH

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most striking epidemiologic characteristics of prostatic cancer in the United States is the sizeable excess in rates for the disease among blacks as compared with whites. This study attempted to determine whether the higher black rates might be explained by controlling for social class, using mortality data ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ernster VL,Selvin S,Sacks ST,Austin DF,Brown SM,Winkelstein W Jr

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison between prescriber records and patient-reported oral contraceptive histories obtained during a case-control study of thromboembolism and oral contraceptive use served as the basis for evaluating the extent of agreement between these two sources of information. Agreement between oral contraceptive user and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stolley PD,Tonascia JA,Sartwell PE,Tockman MS,Tonascia S,Rutledge A,Schinnar R

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of acute respiratory illness and infection to chronic bronchitis was investigated in the community of Tecumseh, Michigan. Families were randomly selected for study from among all those in the community and they were followed for periods of one year. Occurrence of acute respiratory illnesses was identi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Monto AS,Ross HW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00