abstract：:State Medicaid programs collectively cover more than 70 million people, and are the largest single payer for pregnancy and delivery in the United States. In this issue, Margerison et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XXXX-XXXX) investigate the extent to which Medicaid expansions to non-pregnant low-income adults under...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jarlenski M

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the first-line treatment for patients with unipolar depression, yet there is little guidance on which SSRI provides the most benefit to a patient, based on her/his personal characteristics. In this work, we explore whether an individualized treatment strategy can be ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Coulombe J,Moodie EEM,Shortreed SM,Renoux C

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In Australia, as in many industrialized countries, the past 50 years have been marked by increasing female labor-force participation. It is popularly speculated that this might impose a mental-health burden on women and their children. This analysis aimed to examine the associations between household labor-force parti...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： King TL,Shields M,Byars S,Kavanagh AM,Craig L,Milner A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is broad agreement that religion is a social determinant of health. In the article by Chen and VanderWeele (Am J Epidemiol. 2018;187(11):2355-2364), the authors took an outcome-wide approach to demonstrate associations between religious practices early in the life course (regular service attendance and prayer/me...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kawachi I

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of pain relievers has been associated with both lower and higher risks of adverse reproductive outcomes in animals. In the sole investigation of male pain-reliever use and human fertility carried out to date, Smarr et al. (Hum Reprod. 2016;31(9):2119-2127) found a 35% reduction in fecundability among ma...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Wesselink AK,Bresnick KA,Hatch EE,Rothman KJ,Mikkelsen EM,Wang TR,Huybrechts KF,Wise LA

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from the United States have shown increasing incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with increasing socioeconomic status (SES), whereas in Scandinavian countries, no such relation was identified. We investigated how ASD risk in offspring varied according to parental SES in Taiwan, where we have universal ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yu T,Lien YJ,Liang FW,Kuo PL

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The structured life course modeling approach (SLCMA) is a theory-driven analytic method that empirically compares multiple prespecified life course hypotheses characterizing time-dependent exposure-outcome relationships to determine which theory best fits the observed data. In this study, we performed simulations and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhu Y,Simpkin AJ,Suderman MJ,Lussier AA,Walton E,Dunn EC,Smith ADAC

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic infections and the subsequent immune response have recently been shown to be risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders (ADRD). While some studies have shown an association between cytomegalovirus (CMV), a chronic and highly prevalent infection, and cognition and/or ADRD, ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Stebbins RC,Noppert GA,Yang YC,Dowd JB,Simanek A,Aiello AE

更新日期：2020-10-23 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：:Incidence trends in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) demonstrate disparities by race and ethnicity. We used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry to evaluate patterns in ALL incidence from 2000-2016, including the association between the percent of people born in a foreign country at the ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Feng Q,de Smith AJ,Vergara-Lluri M,Muskens IS,McKean-Cowdin R,Kogan S,Brynes R,Wiemels JL

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether genetic and familial factors influence the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is unknown. Two cohorts were formed based on data from 1,212,295 men aged 18 years who were conscripted for military service in Sweden during 1972-1996. The first comprised 4,260 twin...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ballin M,Nordström A,Nordström P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administrative health databases have been used to monitor trends in infective endocarditis hospitalization related to non-prescription injection drug use (IDU) using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code algorithms. Because no ICD code for IDU exists, drug dependence and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) have been...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： McGrew KM,Garwe T,Jafarzadeh SR,Drevets DA,Zhao YD,Williams MB,Carabin H

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality assessment in cohorts with high lost to follow-up (LTFU) is challenging in settings with limited civil registration systems. We aimed to assess mortality in a clinical cohort (KIULARCO) of HIV-infected persons in rural Tanzania, accounting for unseen deaths among participants LTFU. We included adults enrolle...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Vanobberghen F,Weisser M,Kasuga B,Katende A,Battegay M,Tanner M,Glass TR,Kiularco Study Group OBOT

更新日期：2020-09-05 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：:Few studies have comprehensively investigated the association of 2 key kidney disease measures, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR), with cancer incidence. In 8,935 participants at the baseline (1996-1998) from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, we quan...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mok Y,Ballew SH,Sang Y,Coresh J,Joshu CE,Platz EA,Matsushita K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Religion and spirituality are important social determinants that drive public health practice. The field of epidemiology has played a vital role in answering long-standing questions about whether religion is causally associated with health and mortality. As epidemiologists spark new conversations (e.g., see Kawachi (A...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ransome Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vänskä et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XXXX-XXXX)) provide us with cohort lifetime risks of cervical cancer attributable to different human papillomavirus (HPV) types in Sweden. We argue that a standardized lifetime risk such as those calculated by Vänskä et al. might be a more appropriate public health target fo...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Malagón T,Franco EL

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory processes are known to drive the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer disease, as well as all-cause mortality. Emerging research indicates that women who have a longer reproductive life span-roughly determined as the period from menarche to menopause or ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Schliep KC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties inherent in the identification of immune correlates of protection or severe disease have challenged the development and evaluation of dengue vaccines. There persist substantial gaps in knowledge about the complex effects of age and sequential dengue virus (DENV) exposures on these correlations. To address...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Anderson KB,Buddhari D,Srikiatkhachorn A,Gromowski GD,Iamsirithaworn S,Weg AL,Ellison DW,Macareo L,Cummings DAT,Yoon IK,Nisalak A,Ponlawat A,Thomas SJ,Fernandez S,Jarman RG,Rothman AL,Endy TP

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable efforts have been made to identify the genetic basis of human longevity, with only limited progress. One important drawback of current genetic studies is the limited knowledge of gene-environment interaction. Using 2 cohorts of long-lived individuals born in 1905 and 1915 in Denmark, we performed survival...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Tan Q,Jacobsen R,Nygaard M,Soerensen M,Mengel-From J,Christiansen L,Christensen K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systolic and diastolic blood pressures provide information about cardiovascular disease (CVD) but are only extremes of the pressure waveform during the cardiac cycle. We developed summaries of the pressure decay, called PTC1 and PTC2, that are related to arterial compliance and to an existing proprietary summary that ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Brumback LC,Jacobs DR,Duprez DA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of treatments that adapt to a patient's changing condition over time are often needed for the management of chronic diseases. An adaptive treatment strategy (ATS) consists of personalized treatment rules to be applied through the course of a disease that input the patient's characteristics at the time of dec...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Simoneau G,Moodie EEM,Azoulay L,Platt RW

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Algorithms are regularly used to identify persons living with diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWDH) in Medicaid data. To our knowledge, there are no published reports of an HIV algorithm from Medicaid claims codes that have been compared with an HIV surveillance system to assess its sensitivity, specifi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Macinski SE,Gunn JKL,Goyal M,Neighbors C,Yerneni R,Anderson BJ

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa is a critical public health problem. We assessed whether depressive symptoms in AGYW were longitudinally associated with incident HIV, and identified potential social and behavioral mediators. Data came ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Goin DE,Pearson RM,Craske MG,Stein A,Pettifor A,Lippman SA,Kahn K,Neilands TB,Hamilton EL,Selin A,MacPhail C,Wagner RG,Gomez-Olive FX,Twine R,Hughes JP,Agyei Y,Laeyendecker O,Tollman S,Ahern J

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined interactions between lifestyle factors and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D-GR), captured by genetic risk score (GRS) and family history (FH). Our initial study cohort included 20,524 European-ancestry participants, of whom 1,897 developed incident T2D, in the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2016), Nurses' ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ding M,Ahmad S,Qi L,Hu Y,Bhupathiraju SN,Guasch-Ferré M,Jensen MK,Chavarro JE,Ridker PM,Willett WC,Chasman DI,Hu FB,Kraft P

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A society's social structure and the interactions of its members determine when key drivers of health occur, for how long they last, and how they operate. Yet, it has been unclear whether causal inference methods can help us find meaningful interventions on these fundamental social drivers of health. Galea and Hernán ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Jackson JW,Arah OA

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This cohort study sought to estimate the differences in risk of delivering infants who were small or large for gestational age (SGA or LGA, respectively) according to exercise during the first trimester of pregnancy (vs. no exercise) among 2,286 women receiving care at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2013-201...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Ehrlich SF,Neugebauer RS,Feng J,Hedderson MM,Ferrara A

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneous exposure associations (HEAs) can be defined as differences in the association of an exposure with an outcome among subgroups that differ by a set of characteristics. In this article, we intend to foster discussion of HEAs in the epidemiologic literature and present a variant of the random forest algorith...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Odden MC,Rawlings AM,Khodadadi A,Fern X,Shlipak MG,Bibbins-Domingo K,Covinsky K,Kanaya AM,Lee A,Haan MN,Newman AB,Psaty BM,Peralta CA

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood blood pressure (BP) is a strong predictor of later risk of cardiovascular disease. However, few studies have assessed dynamic BP trajectories throughout the early-life period. We investigated the relationship between early-life factors and systolic BP (SBP) from infancy to adolescence using linear spline mix...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Aris IM,Rifas-Shiman SL,Li LJ,Belfort MB,Hivert MF,Oken E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of gene (G)-environment (E) interactions have led to limited findings to date, possibly due to weak effects of individual genetic variants. Polygenic risk scores (PRS), which capture the genetic susceptibility associated with a set of variants, can be a powerful tool for detecting global patterns of int...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Meisner A,Kundu P,Chatterjee N

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies of overdiagnosis are challenged by unclear definitions and the absence of unified measures. This spurs great controversies. Etymologically, overdiagnosis means too much diagnosis and stems from the inability to distinguish what is important from what is not. Accordingly, in order to grasp, measur...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Hofmann B

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Night-shift work involving disruption of circadian rhythms has been associated with breast cancer risk. A role in prostate cancer is also suspected, but evidence is limited. We investigated the association between night-shift work and prostate cancer incidence in the Prostate Cancer and Environment Study (PROtEuS), a ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Barul C,Richard H,Parent ME

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-controlled tree-temporal scan statistic allows detection of potential vaccine- or drug-associated adverse events without prespecifying the specific events or postexposure risk intervals of concern. It thus opens a promising new avenue for safety studies. The method has been successfully used to evaluate the s...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Yih WK,Kulldorff M,Dashevsky I,Maro JC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection plays a major role in the development of autoimmune diseases. In this study, we investigated the relationship between scrub typhus and systemic autoimmune diseases. We enrolled 6,928 hospitalized patients with scrub typhus between 2000 and 2012 from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, and...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Chu KA,Chen W,Hsu CY,Hung YM,Wei JC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of strong assumptions (e.g., exchangeability), only bounds for causal effects can be identified. Here we describe bounds for the risk difference for an effect of a binary exposure on a binary outcome in 4 common study settings: observational studies and randomized studies, each with and without simple r...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Breskin A,Westreich D,Cole SR,Edwards JK

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have documented that age at immigration and generational status are important predictors of socioeconomic outcomes among children of immigrants. Whether these characteristics are related to long-term risk of death is unknown. Leveraging variation within sibships, we evaluated the association of age at immigrat...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Mehta NK,Martikainen P,Cederström A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the differences in cancer incidence between boys and girls. The incidence data for pediatric cancers were retrieved from the International Incidence of Childhood Cancer project (1990-2015). Poisson regression was applied to detect the sex differences in cancer incidence at global and regional levels. B...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Liu Z,Yang Q,Cai N,Jin L,Zhang T,Chen X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2018, the Society for Epidemiologic Research and its partner journal, the American Journal of Epidemiology, assembled a working group to develop a set of papers devoted to the "future of epidemiology." These 14 papers covered a wide range of topic areas and perspectives, from thoughts on our profession, teaching, a...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Olshan AF,Diez Roux AV,Hatch M,Klebanoff MA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies indicate an inverse association between moderate alcohol consumption and chronic inflammatory diseases; however, the association between alcohol consumption and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) incidence has not been widely studied. We investigated the associations of total alcohol consumption and ...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaluza J,Harris HR,Linden A,Wolk A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mediation mechanisms by which an exposure or intervention affects an outcome can provide a look into what has been called a "black box" of many epidemiologic associations, thereby providing further evidence of a relationship and possible points of intervention. Rapid methodologic developments in medi...

journal_title：American journal of epidemiology

authors： Rudolph KE,Goin DE,Paksarian D,Crowder R,Merikangas KR,Stuart EA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00