abstract：:The effect of moderate to heavy exposure to alcohol and tobacco on the risk of cancer of the hypopharynx is estimated in a case-control study. All incident hypopharyngeal cancer patients in Denmark who were under 75 years of age were compared with incident cases of laryngeal cancer and population sampled controls. The...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Olsen J,Sabroe S,Ipsen J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commonly used estimate of a screening test's sensitivity, based on the prevalence at screening and the incidence of interval cancers, is shown to be logically unsound and quantitatively poor. An alternative simple estimate is proposed, based only on incidence rates. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Day NE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relation between questionnaire answers concerning living conditions during childhood and coronary risk factors in 7405 men and 7247 women. Poverty during childhood was positively associated with age-adjusted levels (p less than 0.05) of total cholesterol and percentage of current smokers (men only) and...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Arnesen E,Forsdahl A

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 300 female farmers from 18 regions in various parts of Japan were examined for high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) in the serum. Based on the HDL levels, three examinees with the highest HDL and another three with the lowest HDL were selected from each region to form the high HDL group (high group, 54 subj...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Chiba K,Miyasaka M,Koizumi A,Kumai M,Watanabe T,Ikeda M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to present risk assessments for the combined effect of alcohol and tobacco in cancer of the larynx. The case control study included all newly diagnosed laryngeal cancer patients under the age of 75 in Denmark during the years 1980-2. Four age and sex matched controls were selected using the mu...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Olsen J,Sabreo S,Fasting U

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality from congenital malformations by mother's country of birth was examined in England and Wales between the years 1976 and 1980, based on stillbirths and infant deaths. There were 18 870 stillbirths and infant deaths attributed to congenital malformations in this period, of which 2 375 (13%) were to mothers bor...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Balarajan R,McDowall M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroconversion to hepatitis A virus was studied in a sub sample of 802 Israeli military recruits (611 men and 191 women) who were taking part in a randomised controlled trial of pre-exposure immune serum globulin (ISG) for the prevention of viral hepatitis. On intake into the service 35% of the men and 47% of the wome...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kark JD,Bar-Shany S,Shor S,Merlinski L,Nili E

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses working in selected departments of general hospitals in Finland were collected from a central register on health personnel in Finland. Using the Hospital Discharge Register and the Register of Congenital Malformations, case nurses were selected who had had a spontaneous abortion (N = 217) or a malformed child (...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hemminki K,Kyyrönen P,Lindbohm ML

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health movement has been concerned with the relation between housing and health for well over a century. Nevertheless the Black Report still identified housing as one of the major causes of ill-health and suggested, on one indicator at least, that council housing is the least healthy form of tenure. An expl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McCarthy P,Byrne D,Harrisson S,Keithley J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal variation in carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning during 1969-78 was examined using the monthly hospital admissions and environmental weather data from Seoul, Korea. The results showed that there were nine times as many cases of CO poisoning in December as in August. CO poisoning cases were significantly correlated...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Kim YS

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A self-rating measure of stigma and several supplementary questions were devised in order to assess perceived stigma in a community survey of the quality of life in 420 rectal cancer patients, of whom 265 had a permanent colostomy. Half the patients felt stigmatised, higher proportions being observed among younger pat...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： MacDonald LD,Anderson HR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of conducting postmarketing drug surveillance by record linkage in Tayside was assessed. The key feature of the method is that all hospital discharge data are already computerised by the area health board and may be accessed through the unique community health number (CHNo) which has been allocated to ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Crombie IK,Brown SV,Hamley JG

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delay in the presentation of symptoms and in referral of patients for surgical opinion remains an important problem in colorectal cancer. Factors influencing patients to consult early include advice from close family or other associates and abdominal pain or vomiting, or both, as one of the early symptoms. More locali...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： MacArthur C,Smith A

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the United Kingdom on childhood leukaemia and childhood cancer in twins and from the United States on leukaemia in twins are analysed by a new method. The method distinguishes determinants occurring before the stage of pregnancy corresponding with the cleavage of MZ pairs, from determinants occurring after t...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Knox EG,Marshall T,Barling R

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the recent controversy surrounding the relation between fetal death and pregnancy order has centred around the appropriateness of different types of analyses. In the present paper the interpretation of various methods are discussed with reference to "real" and "hypothetical" data. The pattern of results obtain...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Roman E

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been claimed that the aggregation of information from several areas of life into a small set of global measures has certain advantages for describing disability. Global measures of disability were constructed from a modified version of an existing health survey instrument and the sickness impact profile (SIP) a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Charlton JR,Patrick DL,Peach H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of selenium status in 391 apparently healthy subjects resident in the south of England statistical examination of the data showed a significant effect with regard to age, smoking, alcohol, and oral contraceptives. The most important of these factors seems to be a combination of alcohol and smoking habits in...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lloyd B,Lloyd RS,Clayton BE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of human reproduction was conducted in Tamilnadu State, South India, from 1969 to 1975. This paper reports twinning rates and relates these to maternal age, parity, and consanguinity. Birth weights and other dimensions at birth and infant mortality are also studied. The overall twinning rate was 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rao PS,Inbaraj SG,Muthurathnam S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A random sample of 617 primiparas was identified from birth notifications over a 12 month period and 534 of these were interviewed four weeks after confinement. Those breast feeding at the time of interview were contacted again at four months and those still breast feeding then were contacted at six and a half months....

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wright HJ,Walker PC

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis attempts to fill the gap in the epidemiological evidence about the relation between dietary salt and hypertension. Changes in the purchase of salt in England and Wales are compared with changes in mortality from cerebrovascular disease (1958-78). Stroke mortality, a major sequel of hypertension, has decl...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cummins RO

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent authors have suggested that cross-sectional studies of adverse outcome of pregnancy are misleading, and that the only valid method of analysis controls for eventual number of pregnancies. The present study shows, by simple examples, that such a method produces results that cannot be interpreted in the way claim...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Golding J,Butler NR,Newcombe RG

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a house-to-house study of 994 urban Zulus the prevalence of hypertension according to WHO criteria was 25% (23% men, 27% women). In a rural Zulu study of 987 the prevalence age corrected to the urban distribution was 9.4% (8.7% men, 10% women). Thus there was a pronounced difference between the prevalence of hypert...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Seedat YK,Seedat MA,Hackland DB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting the attendance at primary health care clinics in Lagos were studied at Oguntolu Clinic and Randle Road Health Centre among 120 Nigerian children. The level of immunisation was a measure of the frequency (regularity) of attendance at the clinics. Certain socioeconomic, psychological, and demographic f...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Akesode FA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study provides reliable mortality data by a much wider range of characteristics than are available for other national sources. Although it is based on only a 1% sample of the population, it broadens the scope of mortality analysis and permits study of changes ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Fox AJ,Goldblatt PO,Adelstein AM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant mortality rates vary from area to area. Part of this variation is due to the socioeconomic characteristics of the area and part to other factors including the obstetric, paediatric, and community health services. Four social indicators associated with infant deaths are used to control for some of the variations...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Bradshaw J,Edwards H,Lawton D,Staden F,Weale J,Weekes A

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinatal mortality rates of mothers who delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital from 1969 to 1976 have been examined. The rate in the West Indian population was significant higher than in the United Kingdom white population. The increased West Indian mortality was confined to infants with a birth weight of more than 2...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Robinson MJ,Palmer SR,Avery A,James CE,Beynon JL,Taylor RW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure, pulse rate, body weight, and height were measured on two occasions in the inhabitants of a random 10% sample of households in a Belgian village. Twenty-four-hour urinary excretion of creatinine, sodium, and potassium was also determined. In subjects over the age of 19 there was a significant correlatio...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Staessen J,Fagard R,Lijnen P,Amery A,Bulpitt C,Joossens JV

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-five people aged 65 and over in the Birmingham area who fell at home were followed up for one year after the fall had been reported by the general practitioner. They were compared with 125 control subjects matched for age and sex and drawn from the same doctors' lists. Two months after the fall,...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Wild D,Nayak US,Isaacs B

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-year age-specific incidence rates were shown to produce small but systematic errors in the calculation of the expected number of tumours in a hypothetical but realistic study population. Underestimates occurred at younger ages (under 55) and overestimates at older ages, with a small overestimate (0.22%) overall. ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Cramer N,Crombie IK

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was carried out to assess the feasibility of using record linkage for drug monitoring. For two years, three types of records were collected for a total of 43 117 people: (1) details of basic attributes, such as sex and age; (2) details of prescriptions dispensed; and (3) records of hospital admissions, obstetr...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Skegg DC,Doll R

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand school boys aged 8 to 16 were examined for their somatotype, physical growth, sexual maturation, and smoking habits. Fifty-two boys were found to be smokers, of whom 30 were regularly smoking between two and 20 bidis or cigarettes a day for a mean duration of 2.5 years. The mean height and weight of the s...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Lall KB,Singhi S,Gurnani M,Singhi P,Garg OP

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of 150 hotel prostitutes in Lagos was undertaken to determine their socioeconomic identity and, through an assessment of their health knowledge, attitude, and practice, their probable impact on public health. The subjects were selected from 15 hotels, representing 20% of the estimated hotel universe in Lagos a...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Oleru UG

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of migraine and non-migrainous headaches (NMH) was investigated in a community survey in a neighbourhood of western Jerusalem in 1969-71. Diagnoses were based on histories taken by physicians. Prevalence rates among persons aged 15 and over were 10.1% for migraine (including classical migraine, 2.1%) ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Abramson JH,Hopp C,Epstein LM

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the findings of this study is that regional variations in the infant mortality rates of Sri Lanka are large, ranging from 26 per 1000 live births in Jaffna to 91 per 1000 in Nuwara Eliya, a tea estate district. These differences are more strongly associated with regional variations in environmental determinants...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Patel M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population-based cancer registry data on patients with cervical cancer in Finland and South Wales in 1960--69 were analysed for survival. Patients with carcinoma-in-situ experienced essentially the normal life expectancy. Those with invasive carcinoma experienced 75% of normal post-registration life expectancy in ...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Hakama M,West R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exponential model based on the infectious disease model of Kermack and McKendrick has been simplified to illustrate how the use of heroin spreads in epidemic fashion. A numerical simulation is arranged to show how the dynamics of spread are influenced by the original number of users, rates of conversion, and time o...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Mackintosh DR,Stewart GT

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the elderly living in the community and in institutional care in the Leeds Metropolitan District is outlined. Four populations of persons aged 65 and over were examined: those living in their own homes; in sheltered housing; in social services aged persons' hostels (Part III accommodation); and in hospitals...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： McDonnell H,Long AF,Harrison BJ,Oldman C

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight hundred and ninety-nine men were studied, aged 16-65 inclusive, who underwent an elective inguinal herniorrhaphy during 1970 and 1971 in eight hospitals in Wessex, and under nine consultant surgeons. There was a significant variation in postoperative inpatient stay and total sickness absence between hospitals an...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Griffiths M,Oblin ME,Acheson ED

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparison of trends in ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in different social classes is confounded by historical changes in diagnostic techniques and statistical classification, and possibly by different standards of diagnostic accuracy in the different social classes. The problems can be circumvented by ta...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Halliday ML,Anderson TW

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respirator symptoms, and health attitudes was administered to 10 498 secondary schoolchildren in 1975. The results reported in this paper indicate that children who smoke regularly have a higher prevalence of upper respiratory tract infections and a higher incidence of the r...

journal_title：Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors： Rawbone RG,Keeling CA,Jenkins A,Guz A

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00