abstract：BACKGROUND:Life history theory and resource dilution models of the family suggest that siblings may present a threat to healthy development because they compete for resources that parents have available to invest in individual offspring. Using data from a large cohort study of contemporary British families (ALSPAC), we...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Lawson DW,Mace R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three recent studies have reported a decreased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) for high ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure. METHODS:We conducted a multicentre case-control study during 1998-2004 in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, comprising 1518 cases of NHL, 268 cases of Hodgkin lymphoma, 24...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Boffetta P,van der Hel O,Kricker A,Nieters A,de Sanjosé S,Maynadié M,Cocco PL,Staines A,Becker N,Font R,Mannetje A',Goumas C,Brennan P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiology's role as the 'diagnostic' arm of public health has submitted epidemiological reasoning and practice to the crossfire of oppositional social values and demands. In Latin America, the visible signs of extreme social and political authoritarianism and inequity, as well as the growing unfairness of...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Breilh J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established. METHODS:We investigated the association between education and lifetime smoking patterns in a birth cohort established in 1959 and followed thro...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gilman SE,Martin LT,Abrams DB,Kawachi I,Kubzansky L,Loucks EB,Rende R,Rudd R,Buka SL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking increases the risk of squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix, but it is not clear whether smoking increases the risk of acquisition or persistence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. METHODS:Information on smoking was collected from 10 areas in four continents among population-based, age-stratif...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vaccarella S,Herrero R,Snijders PJ,Dai M,Thomas JO,Hieu NT,Ferreccio C,Matos E,Posso H,de Sanjosé S,Shin HR,Sukvirach S,Lazcano-Ponce E,Muñoz N,Meijer CJ,Franceschi S,IARC HPV Prevalence Surveys (IHPS) Study Group.

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent monograph by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has identified indoor air pollution from coal usage as a known human carcinogen, while that from biomass as a probable human carcinogen. Although as much as 74% of the Indian population relies on solid fuels for cooking, very little...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Sapkota A,Gajalakshmi V,Jetly DH,Roychowdhury S,Dikshit RP,Brennan P,Hashibe M,Boffetta P

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear when in the life course do social inequalities in inflammation emerge. We examined whether the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) is determined at conception, in childhood, adolescence or adulthood in 1484 participants from the population-based Cardiov...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gimeno D,Ferrie JE,Elovainio M,Pulkki-Raback L,Keltikangas-Jarvinen L,Eklund C,Hurme M,Lehtimäki T,Marniemi J,Viikari JS,Raitakari OT,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The stability of mammalian serum and urine in large metabolomic investigations is essential for accurate, valid and reproducible studies. The stability of mammalian serum and urine, either processed immediately by freezing at -80 degrees C or stored at 4 degrees C for 24 h before being frozen, was compared i...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Dunn WB,Broadhurst D,Ellis DI,Brown M,Halsall A,O'Hagan S,Spasic I,Tseng A,Kell DB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complicated HIV transmission dynamics make it unclear how to design and interpret results from community-randomized controlled trials (CRCT) of interventions to prevent infection. METHODS:Mathematical modelling was used to investigate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent HIV transmission aimed at h...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Hallett TB,Garnett GP,Mupamberiyi Z,Gregson S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyse the NHANES III sample to assess the suitability of measured stature and sitting height to estimate leg length (tibia + femur) and predict fatness. High rates of overweight in the United States population may lead to greater gluteo-femoral fat mass which will increase sitting height and artificiall...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Bogin B,Varela-Silva MI

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corporate influences on epidemiology have become stronger and more pervasive in the last few decades, particularly in the contentious fields of pharmacoepidemiology and occupational epidemiology. For every independent epidemiologist studying the side effects of medicines and the hazardous effects of industrial chemica...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Pearce N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the presence of interaction in epidemiologic research, typically a product term is added to the regression model. In linear regression, the regression coefficient of the product term reflects interaction as departure from additivity. However, in logistic regression it refers to interaction as de...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Knol MJ,van der Tweel I,Grobbee DE,Numans ME,Geerlings MI

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well established now that the incidence of schizophrenia is extremely high for several ethnic minority groups in western Europe, but there is considerable variation among groups. We investigated whether the increased risk among these groups depends upon the degree to which they perceive discrimination ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Veling W,Selten JP,Susser E,Laan W,Mackenbach JP,Hoek HW

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perception of control over one's environment, particularly when faced with an ambiguous situation, has been identified as a critical cognitive process involved in worry and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Similarly, it is thought that individuals with lower cognitive skills feel less in control, and do n...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Martin LT,Kubzansky LD,LeWinn KZ,Lipsitt LP,Satz P,Buka SL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002, a poster alerted the French health authorities to the possibility that the risk of childhood leukaemia might be increased by hepatitis B vaccination. Elucidating the role of vaccination in the aetiology of childhood acute leukaemia (AL) was therefore included in the objectives of an ongoing national...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Mallol-Mesnard N,Menegaux F,Auvrignon A,Auclerc MF,Bertrand Y,Nelken B,Robert A,Michel G,Margueritte G,Perel Y,Méchinaud F,Bordigoni P,Leverger G,Baruchel A,Hémon D,Clavel J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spot checks are becoming a popular method to assess hygiene behaviours; however, little is known about their repeatability or predictability. We evaluated the within-household repeatability of hygiene indices created from spot checks and their ability to predict incidence of diarrhoea in young Guatemalan chi...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Webb AL,Stein AD,Ramakrishnan U,Hertzberg VS,Urizar M,Martorell R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tuberculin skin test (TST) is the most commonly used tool to detect infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We sought to determine whether tuberculin skin testing is useful to detect latent infection by M. tuberculosis in a population that was vaccinated with the Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) vaccine....

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： García-Sancho F MC,García-García L,Jiménez-Corona ME,Palacios-Martínez M,Ferreyra-Reyes LD,Canizales-Quintero S,Cano-Arellano B,Ponce-de-León A,Sifuentes-Osornio J,Small P,DeRiemer K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence links chronic infections, especially burden of several infections, with increased risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). We studied joint immune response against two major periodontal pathogens and herpes simplex virus (HSV) in relation to established risk factors of CVD. METHODS:Serum ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vilkuna-Rautiainen T,Pussinen PJ,Roivainen M,Petäys T,Jousilahti P,Hovi T,Vartiainen E,Asikainen S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is widely believed that children of high socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely than those of low SES to develop acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Such observations have led to wide-ranging speculations about the potential aetiological role of factors associated with affluence and modernization. M...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith A,Roman E,Simpson J,Ansell P,Fear NT,Eden T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of obesity has increased rapidly in most developed countries in the last decades, and this rise is now spreading to developing countries. Childhood obesity is also increasing. The UK government has set a target to halt the rise in childhood obesity by 2010. Dietary recommendations are a centra...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Gibson LJ,Peto J,Warren JM,dos Santos Silva I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aboriginal Australians experience a higher risk of diabetes than the general Australian population. In this paper, we conducted a nested case-control study to determine whether the presence of microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria is associated with the development of diabetes among diabetes-free Aboriginal ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Wang Z,Hoy WE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predictions concerning people and their health are influenced by many factors and have many sources of uncertainty. Even so predictions can give useful guidelines for health care planning. We present a Bayesian model based on past observations and prior knowledge to predict coronary heart disease (CHD) morta...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Huovinen E,Härkänen T,Martelin T,Koskinen S,Aromaa A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic and maternal prenatal environmental factors as well as the post-natal rearing environment may contribute to the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and later mortality. In order to disentangle these influences, we studied all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of ado...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Osler M,Petersen L,Prescott E,Teasdale TW,Sørensen TI

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis, at least for some types of cancer, can be interpreted as the consequence of selection of mutated cells similar to what, in the theory of evolution, occurs at the population level. Instead of considering a population of organisms, we can refer to a population of cells belonging to multicellular organism...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Vineis P,Berwick M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The effectiveness of vaccines in populations must consider both direct and indirect protection. This study reanalyses data from a large individually randomized oral cholera vaccine trial that was conducted in rural Bangladesh from 1985 to 1990. A recent analysis of the results of that trial showed that the p...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Emch M,Ali M,Park JK,Yunus M,Sack DA,Clemens JD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health benefits of physical activity are well established, but the overall amount of physical activity associated with cardiovascular and other health outcomes, and whether the relationships are similar in men and women and at different ages is still debated. This may be partly related to different metho...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Khaw KT,Jakes R,Bingham S,Welch A,Luben R,Day N,Wareham N

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality in developing countries has multiple causes. Some of these causes are linked to climatic conditions that differ over the year. Data on season-specific mortality are sparse. METHODS:We analysed longitudinal data from a population of approximately 35,000 individuals in Burkina Faso. During the obser...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kynast-Wolf G,Hammer GP,Müller O,Kouyaté B,Becher H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Syndromes for which no physical or pathological changes can be found tend to be researched and managed in isolation although hypotheses suggest that they may be one entity. The objectives of our study were to investigate the co-occurrence, in the general population, of syndromes that are frequently unexplain...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Aggarwal VR,McBeth J,Zakrzewska JM,Lunt M,Macfarlane GJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data from several studies indicate that children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy may be at a risk of overweight compared with children of non-smoking mothers. The size of this relation, however, is unclear, as is the age at which it becomes detectable. METHODS:Prospective data for 34 866 children enr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chen A,Pennell ML,Klebanoff MA,Rogan WJ,Longnecker MP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under-5 mortality is unacceptably high in many countries, the burden of which is mainly borne by the poor. Whereas country characteristics are known to influence under-5 mortality, it is unknown whether these have a different impact on the poor and the rich. We aimed to describe how the association between u...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Houweling TA,Caspar AE,Looman WN,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine educational gradients in overall and cause-specific mortality among elderly married men and women and their spouses. METHODS:Using the census-based Israel Longitudinal Mortality Study (1983-92), 13 573 married men and 6563 married women were identified who were aged 70-89 years at baseline. Cox p...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Jaffe DH,Eisenbach Z,Neumark YD,Manor O

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Western countries mortality dropped throughout the 20th century, but over and above the long-term falling trend, the death rate has oscillated over time. It has been postulated that these short-term oscillations may be related to changes in the economy. METHODS:To ascertain if these short-term oscillatio...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Tapia Granados JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of Human Herpesvirus-8 (HHV8) DNA is predictive of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) among patients with HIV-associated or iatrogenic immunosuppression. However, correlates of HHV8-DNA detection in the general population remain undefined. METHODS:We assessed correlates of HHV8-DNA detection among Italian adu...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Brown EE,Whitby D,Vitale F,Fei PC,Del Carpio C,Marshall V,Alberg AJ,Serraino D,Messina A,Gafa L,Goedert JJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To examine the association of a mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment and subsequent declines in self-rated health (SRH) in a longitudinal nationally representative Canadian population sample. METHODS:This study used longitudinal data from 4045 healthy, working respondents ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Smith P,Frank J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small body size at birth, as a marker of an adverse intrauterine environment, has recently emerged as an important risk factor for death from cardiovascular disease. Our aim was to study the relationship between small size at birth and all-cause and non-cardiovascular mortality, which has been poorly documen...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Kajantie E,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Forsén T,Phillips DI,Eriksson JG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The wide use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has led to an impressive improvement in AIDS survival after the mid-1990s in cities and countries with a high access to these medications. Notwithstanding its beneficial overall effect, antiretroviral therapy was also reported as a factor for the increase ...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Antunes JL,Waldman EA,Borrell C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown socioeconomic inequalities in the metabolic syndrome and coronary heart disease (CHD), but it is not known whether educational disparities in the metabolic syndrome explain educational inequalities in CHD. We investigated this question in a prospective study of middle-aged men and...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Silventoinen K,Pankow J,Jousilahti P,Hu G,Tuomilehto J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between income and health is usually thought to be curvilinear, but previous studies have yielded inconsistent results. We therefore examined the shape of the relationship between household equivalent income and self-assessed health in seven European countries. METHODS:Data were obtained fr...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Mackenbach JP,Martikainen P,Looman CW,Dalstra JA,Kunst AE,Lahelma E,SEdHA working group.

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:France has the second highest number of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) cases worldwide. Imports of bovine carcasses from the UK probably constituted the main source of exposure of the French population to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent. Meat products consumed whilst visiting the U...

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Chadeau-Hyam M,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have been conducted to estimate the population prevalence of hypertension, or its diagnosis and treatment. There is no multinationally comparable information on the prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia, or its diagnosis and treatment, since individual studies are often not directly comparable....

journal_title：International journal of epidemiology

authors： Tolonen H,Keil U,Ferrario M,Evans A,WHO MONICA Project.

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00