abstract：:The diagnostic and epidemiologic significance of antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) detected by complement fixation was studied in a sample of 412 healthy persons, 0-70 years old of both sexes living in the Athens area. The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections was found to be very high (26.5%)...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Papaevangelou G,Karaboyia-Karafyllidis P,Kyriakidou A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of viral hepatitis beginning in late 1975 in a residence for multiply handicapped children, recognized very early in its course, was investigated prospectively to permit comparison of enzymatic and serologic tests. Thirty-three residents of the institution and 46 full- and part-time employees were studied ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rakela J,Nugent E,Mosley JW

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 1975 an ongoing outbreak of conjunctivitis occurred among Vietnamese refugees temporarily housed at a U.S. mainland camp. Twenty-two per cent of surveyed refugees gave a history of the disease and 10% were documented as having clinical conjunctivitis at the time of the survey. Fifty-six per cent o...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zweighaft RM,Hierholzer JC,Bryan JA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single patient isolation of adults to prevent spread of infection was studied in five high occupancy community hospitals. The acceptable standard was a guideline for isolation in hospitals, published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Overusage of single patient isolation was found to vary between 4% and 96% of ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hyams PJ,Ehrenkranz NJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of Mycobacterium avium infected swine in an Idaho herd was made to obtain information on morbidity and to evaluate some control measures. Of 867 pigs slaughtered during a 30-day period in May and June, 1974, 100 carcasses were condemned or passed for cooking and 406 carcasses had lesions in one lymph node and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Prichard WD,Thoen CO,Himes EM,Muscoplat CC,Johnson DW

更新日期：1977-09-01 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：:Mortality among veterans has been studied in relation to military rank at separation in a series of 85,491 men discharged from the US Army in 1946 and traced through 1969. It was found that although the mortality of privates was very close to expectation based on population rates, non-commissioned officers had a 23% a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Seltzer CC,Jablon S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1973 summer season, 27 employees and 35 overnight guests at the North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, acquired febrile illnesses compatibel with relapsing fever. Sixteen cases were confirmed by finding Borrelia spirochetes in peripheral blood smears or inoculated Swiss mice. Retrospective surveys ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Boyer KM,Munford RS,Maupin GO,Pattison CP,Fox MD,Barnes AM,Jones WL,Maynard JE

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption habits as recorded on health checkup questionnaires by 91,659 white, black, or Oriental men and women were studied. Substantial age, sex, and race differences in alcohol consumption were reported. Generally, men drank more than women, drinking was most prevalent among whites and least prevalent amo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Klatsky AL,Friedman GD,Siegelaub AB,Gérard MJ

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brucellosis in Florida is documented for the 47-year period 1928-1975. Of the 936 cases reported in 1930-1975, more than half (505) occurred in the decade 1940-1949. The incidence declined rapidly to an average rate of five cases per year, although there was an increase in 1974 and 1975. The analysis is mainly c...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Bigler WJ,Hoff GL,Hemmert WH,Tomas JA,Janowski HT

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of viral hepatitis type A in an arctic area is described. From 1970-1974, 4961 clinical cases of hepatitis were reported in Greenland, corresponding to 11 per cent of the total population. Epidemiologic surveillance indicated person-to-person transmission of the disease, apparently by the oralfecal route. ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Skinhoj P,Mikkelsen F,Hollinger FB

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a three-year period, 3432 nosocomial infections occurred in a university hospital admitting 55,476 patients over a three-year period (6/100 admissions). A single system of surveillance was used, and overall monthly rates varied from 4-9/100 admissions with particularly high rates in the Newborn Intensive Care Uni...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wenzel RP,Osterman CA,Hunting KJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control epidemiologic study of childhood polymyositis is presented. Parents of 42 cases of childhood polymyositis were interviewed along with parents of controls matched for sex and age. Extensive review of past medical history, animal exposure history, residential and family history, and immunization history f...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Koch MJ,Brody JA,Gillespie MM

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal serologic study of M. pneumoniae infections in two recruit training centers with grossly different climates showed that the frequency of this infection peaks in the late summer-early fall and to a lesser degree in the spring at both training centers. Seroconversions (four-fold or greater increase in tit...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Edwards EA,Crawford YE,Pierce WE,Peckinpaugh RO

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among men of Japanese ancestry, there is a gradient in the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is lowest in Japan, intermediate in Hawaii, and highest in California. This gradient appears not to be completely explained by differences in dietary intake, serum cholesterol, blood pressure or smoking. To test t...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Marmot MG,Syme SL

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four random samples representing populations at low (volunteer blood donors), intermediate, (VD clinic patients), high (family contacts of chronic antigen carriers) and very high (male homosexuals) risk of exposure to HBV were surveyed. Among HBsAg and anti-HBs negative individuals an average of 3.3% were found to be ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Szmuness W,Hoofnagle JH,Stevens CE,Prince AM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitologic, serologic, and epidemiologic studies were done during 1967 in Calion, Arkansas (population 544). Infection with Entamoeba histolytica was found to be endemic but was segregated along racial lines. Twenty-two (9.9%) black compared with only one (0.6%) white had E. histolytica demonstrated in one stool ex...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Spencer HC Jr,Hermos JA,Healy GR,Melvin DM,Shmunes E

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily temperatures and snowfall were related to coronary and stroke deaths in selected standard metropolitan statistical areas for the 5-year period 1962-1966. Typically an inverse approximately linear pattern of coronary heart disease (CHD) and of stroke mortality with temperature was seen over the greater part of th...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rogot E,Padgett SJ

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibling aggregation of blood pressure has been shown in children 2 to 14 years of age. To determine the earliest age at which this finding is detectable, blood pressures were evaluated in 98 siblings from 43 black families with newborns. Variances of blood pressure scores were significantly greater among families than...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hennekens CH,Jesse MJ,Klein BE,Gourley JE,Blumenthal S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of chlamydial trachomatis in sera of patients with gon ococcal urethritis (GU), non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), post-gonococca l urethritis (PGU) and trachomainclusion conjunctivitis (TRIC) is discussed. Chlamydiae were isolated in 40% of men with NGU, 20-30% with GU and 0-7% of men with symptomatic or...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Richmond SJ,Sparling PF

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1 and March 15, 1974, approximately 1200 cases of acute gastrointestinal illness occurred in Richmond Heights, Florida, a residential community of 6500 in south Dade County. Over one-third of all families in the area had at least one member affected. The findings of 10 culture-proven cases of shigellos...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weissman JB,Craun GF,Lawrence DN,Pollard RA,Saslaw MS,Gangarosa EJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the degree to which job and marital satisfaction and participation in leisure activities could predict concurrent and future health status relative to ethnicity, class and occupational factors, and mental health. Data were obtained from a longitudinal study of a random sample of 1034 Manhattan fami...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Gersten JC,Friis R,Langner TS

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of cigarette-smoking and nonfatal myocardial infarction (AMI) was evaluated using the case-control approach. Overall, the association was present for smokers of one and two packs per day, the standardized rate-ratio estimates being 1.5 and 1.7, respectively. The association was strongest in those who ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Miettinen OS,Neff RK,Jick H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke, coronary heart disease (CHD) and total mortality are evaluated from death certificates in enumerated cohorts of 45-64-year old Japanese men in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1965-1970), in Homolulu (1966-1970), and in the San Francisco area (1968-1972). Total mortality is highest in Japan with no consistent differenc...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Worth RM,Kato H,Rhoads GG,Kagan K,Syme SL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter prospective study has been designed to determine whether participation in an exercise program which produces a significant training effect will affect the recurrence rate in men who have survived an initial myocardial infarction. The control group consists of subjects who participate in a program involvi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rechnitzer PA,Sangal S,Cunningham DA,Andrew G,Buck C,Jones NL,Kavanagh T,Parker JO,Shephard RJ,Yuhasz MS

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seroepidemiologic study of prevalence of antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was simultaneously done in four populations: group I, nuns working as nurses or school teachers; group II, women admitted to a upper socioeconomic private hospital; group III, women admitted to a lower socioeconomic county hospital, and group...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Davis LE,Stewart JA,Garvin S

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that hepatitis B is transmitted venereally was examined by determining the prevalence of hepatitis B antibody (anti-HB(S)) in populations with different levels of promiscuity. Of 258 prostitutes, 31% were anti-HB(S) positive, compared to 10% of 258 female age-matched blood donors, 10% of 48 nuns living...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Frösner GG,Buchholz HM,Gerth HJ

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period from September 8 to October 2, 1970, 44 of the 120 children and 78 of 141 adults questioned at the Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital experienced gastroenteritis characterized by nausea, vomiting, and fever and/or chills. Diarrhea was rare in children (4.5%) and common in adults (74%)....

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Judson FN,Molk L

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 21, 1969, and April 14, 1970, 44 symptomatic cases of Salmonella typhimurium gastroenteritis occurred among the approximately 2500 Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. Twenty-five cases were confirmed by positive stool culture. All 19 cases not confirmed by culture had diarr...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Loewenstein MS

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male drivers sustained relatively more serious motorcycle collision injuries than did male passengers, female drivers, or female passengers. For male drivers, severity of injury was related to age. The relative frequency of serious head injury was highest for drivers not wearing helmets who were involved in collisions...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kraus JF,Riggins RS,Franti CE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight children with Reye's syndrome (RS) confirmed by liver biopsy were treated at the University of Cincinnati between 1963 and 1974. Cases were clustered in the winter and spring with the peak in February and March. These coincided with the occurrence of influenza and, numerically, were associated more closely...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Linnemann CC Jr,Shea L,Partin JC,Schubert WK,Schiff GM

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigated the prevalence of antibodies to five leading agents of childhood respiratory disease in the county of Huixquilucan, Mexico. Tests of sera from a random sample of children between 3 months and 18 years of age confirmed serologically the presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, respiratory syncytial (RS...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Golubjatnikov R,Allen VD,Olmos-Blancarte MP,Inhorn SL

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraordinarily high rate of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and parkinsonism-dementia (PD) in the Chamorro linguistic group on Guam suggested a genetic etiology for these diseases. Results of three studies are described. Two involved comparisons of the rates of disease in relatives and spouses of index patien...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Reed DM,Torres JM,Brody JA

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to determine the immune status of individuals in a natural community, neutralizing antibody titers for the three types of poliovirus were examined in 301 randomly sampled sera collected in 1966 and 308 specimens from 1971. The specimens were part of a larger collection obtained from residents of Tecumseh,...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Oberhofer TR,Brown GC,Monto AS

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a two-year period an attempt was made to identify instances of transmission of rubella vaccine virus from rubella vaccinees to pregnant women in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee. Approximately 24,000 children were immunized in a mass campaign at the outset of the study. Several prospective surveillance method...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Fleet WF,Vaughn W,Lefkowitz LB Jr,Schaffner W,Federspiel CF

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first naturally acquired case of cholera reported in the United States since 1911 occurred in a 51-year-old resident of Port Lavaca, Texas. Extensive epidemiologic investigation of the patient's contacts and environment did not identify a cholera carrier of elucidate a pathway of transmission, but several avenues ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Weissman JB,DeWitt WE,Thompson J,Muchnick CN,Portnoy BL,Feeley JC,Gangarosa EJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00