abstract：:Previous studies have suggested a relationship between reproductive history, pregnancy and birth factors, and the risk of neuroblastoma. We conducted a case-control telephone interview study that included a total of 504 children under the age of 19 years with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma identified by two national co...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Hamrick SE,Olshan AF,Neglia JP,Pollock BH

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm delivery (PTD) complicates as many as 10% of pregnancies in the United States. Moreover, prematurity accounts for more than 70% of the consequent neonatal and infantile morbidity and mortality. Serious long-term complications include cerebral palsy, respiratory disease, blindness and deafness. Despite substant...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Dizon-Townson DS

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite nearly four million deliveries in the United States each year, minimal information exists on unintended health consequences following childbirth, particularly in relation to delivery method. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between method of delivery and the general health status, sexual...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Lydon-Rochelle MT,Holt VL,Martin DP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinatal mortality rate (PMR) in twins was analysed using Japanese vital statistics during the period 1980-98. There was a total of 1992 twin perinatal deaths. The PMR in twins significantly decreased from 91 per 1000 births in 1980 to 31 per 1000 in 1998. The PMR was higher in males than females, but the differe...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Imaizumi Y

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) accounts for the largest number of deaths during the first year of life in developed countries. The possible causes of SIDS are numerous and, to date, there is no adequate unifying pathological explanation for SIDS. Epidemiological studies have played a key role in identifying risk ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Sullivan FM,Barlow SM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the performance of a new, self-assessment questionnaire that aims to measure pubertal status by using gender-specific line drawings of the Tanner puberty stages. The study was carried out on 103 children aged 12-16 years attending a paediatric endocrinology outpatient clinic and used physical examination b...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Taylor SJ,Whincup PH,Hindmarsh PC,Lampe F,Odoki K,Cook DG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied infant mortality rates in Canada within specific gestational age and birthweight categories after using probabilistic techniques to link information in Statistics Canada's live births data base (1985-94) with that in the death data base (1985-95). Gestational age- and birthweight-specific mortality rates in...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Joseph KS,Kramer MS,Allen AC,Cyr M,Fair M,Ohlsson A,Wen SW

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this population-based cohort study was to evaluate the prevalence of persistent otitis media with effusion (OME) and its seasonal variation in 12-month-old infants. All 30099 infants born in the eastern part of The Netherlands between 1 January 1996 and 1 April 1997 were invited for hearing screening,...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Rovers MM,Straatman H,Zielhuis GA,Ingels K,van der Wilt GJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1988 and 1991, years of political and economic crisis, Bulgaria reported a 25% increase in infant mortality. From 1991 to 1995, the rate then dropped slightly. Analysis of detailed unpublished vital statistics shows that the reported increase could not have been a result of more complete reporting of early neo...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Carlson E,Tsvetarsky S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low birthweight is uncommon among Mexican-American infants, despite the substantial proportion of mothers who live in poverty. This apparent paradox has generated studies of factors protecting fetal growth, but may have masked other important health problems in the Mexican-American community. Obesity, impaired glucose...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Kieffer EC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a historical follow-up study, we evaluated the association of the fertility of daughters with five perinatal factors: short (< 15 months) or long (> or = 45 months) preceding birth interval, low (< or = 20 years) or advanced (> or = 40 years) maternal age and season of birth. We used data concerning 2062 women marr...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Smits L,Zielhuis G,Jongbloet P,Bouchard G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following evidence that prone sleeping is causally related to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), intervention campaigns to avoid prone sleeping in many countries have led to a large reduction in SIDS and total infant mortality. The supine position has been recommended for healthy infants in several countries. The ob...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Dwyer T,Ponsonby AL,Couper D,Cochrane J

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using national data, we develop and contrast the birth-weight percentiles for gestational age by infants of extremely-low-risk (ELR) White and African-American women and examine racial differences in the proportion of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) births. We then scrutinise racial variations in infant mortality rate...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Alexander GR,Kogan MD,Himes JH,Mor JM,Goldenberg R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the study design and patterns of participation for a cohort study of preterm delivery, focused on genital tract infections, nutrition, tobacco use, illicit drugs and psychosocial stress. Women are recruited at 24-29 weeks' gestation from prenatal clinics at a teaching hospital and a county health departmen...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Savitz DA,Dole N,Williams J,Thorp JM,McDonald T,Carter AC,Eucker B

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined hospital and domestic infant care practices in Oxfordshire and Northampton Health Districts to measure changes in prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk factors, and to evaluate a specific educational intervention restricted to Oxfordshire. We sent a postal questionnaire to 2781 parents of ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Rose M,Murphy M,Macfarlane JA,Sefi S,Shribman S,Hales V

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This project was undertaken to examine the associations of a number of risk factors with impaired fetal growth, exemplified by delivery of a low-birthweight infant at term (TLBW). Utilising a large database of largely homogeneous (white) births in Wales, the Cardiff Births Survey, multivariable analysis by logistic re...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Meis PJ,Michielutte R,Peters TJ,Wells HB,Sands RE,Coles EC,Johns KA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the improved survival of very low birthweight (VLBW) infants (< 1500 g) born in Australia can be attributed to currently high rates of Caesarean section, we examined the associations between neonatal mortality and Caesarean section in singleton liveborn VLBW infants (500-1499 g) born during 1986-9...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Jonas HA,Lumley JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based study was conducted using maternally-linked birth certificate records from Washington State for 1980-93 to evaluate the risk of birth defect occurrence among infants with previously affected siblings, relative to infants whose siblings did not have birth defects. The risks of recurrence of similar a...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Mueller BA,Schwartz SM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used 1.4 million fetal death and birth certificates filed in Georgia between 1980 and 1992 to construct 369,686 chains of two or more reproductive events occurring to the same woman. We evaluated these chains using both information on the certificates and information independently collected in interviews with 1311 ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Adams MM,Berg CJ,McDermott JM,Gaudino JA,Casto DL,Wilson HG,McCarthy BJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to provide additional data and perspective to current clinical, policy, and legal debates surrounding the prenatal use of cocaine in the USA, a retrospective cohort study was conducted to examine effects of cocaine on selected perinatal outcomes, and to compare the relative risks of adverse perinatal outcomes...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Kistin N,Handler A,Davis F,Ferre C

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract illness before two years of age have been documented for all children born in Western Australia in 1986. Admissions data were linked to birth and death records for individual children. Of the total cohort, 5% of non-Aboriginal and 17% of Aboriginal childre...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Read AW,Gibbins J,Stanley FJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nested case-control study of cryptorchidism (i.e. undescended testicles) was undertaken as part of a hospital-based cohort study of 6699 singleton male neonates in New York City. Since some of the cryptorchid infants experienced spontaneous descent of their testes, separate analysis was performed for this third grou...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Berkowitz GS,Lapinski RH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the population-based Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Study were used in a case-control study to assess the association between low birthweight and mental retardation (intelligence quotient < or = 70) among 10-year-old children who were born in 1975 or 1976. Children with mental retardation we...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Mervis CA,Decouflé P,Murphy CC,Yeargin-Allsopp M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a cohort study of over 5000 infants and their mothers who participated in a cord blood serosurvey designed to examine the relationship between maternal exposure to Lyme disease and adverse pregnancy outcome. Based on serology and reported clinical history, mothers of infants in an endemic hospita...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Williams CL,Strobino B,Weinstein A,Spierling P,Medici F

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population under study in the South African longitudinal study of urban children and their families, 'Birth to Ten' (BTT), comprised all births during a 7-week period from April to June 1990 in Soweto-Johannesburg. Specification of the population base for the cohort was hampered by a number of flaws in the notific...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Richter LM,Yach D,Cameron N,Griesel RD,de Wet T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are relatively few studies on the association between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) during pregnancy and childhood, and cancer in childhood, adolescence or adulthood. The associations between maternal smoking during pregnancy and childhood cancer have been studied intensively, but there is no clear associati...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Trédaniel J,Boffetta P,Little J,Saracci R,Hirsch A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Singleton survivors born to multigravidae in the whole island of Jamaica in 2 months (September-October 1986) were compared with singleton perinatal deaths occurring to multigravidae throughout the island in the 12-month period September 1986 to August 1987. Past obstetric history was obtained from the mothers using a...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Greenwood R,Samms-Vaughan M,Golding J,Ashley D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this cross disciplinary study was to identify the most significant variables related to childhood accidental poisoning. The study was carried out on a representative sample of families living in the Greater Athens Area comprising 1245 children aged up to 5 years. Data were collected by a team of researchers...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Paritsis N,Pallis D,Deligeorgis D,Doxiadis S,Phylactou C,Vlachonicolis I

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stillbirths and spontaneous abortuses have higher rates of birth defects than liveborn infants. The relationship between a woman's previous pregnancy loss and the risk of birth defects in the offspring has not been adequately examined, however. Using data from a population-based case-control study, we assessed whether...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Khoury MJ,Erickson JD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Causal hypotheses for spastic cerebral palsy were sought by comparing a population based sample of 183 cases with 549 matched controls. A time-ordered multivariate analysis was used to distinguish confounders and consequences of disease from possible causes, which could be single factors or sequences of factors. Eight...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Blair E,Stanley F

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clarke et al. suggested that women who have had a spontaneous abortion are at an increased risk in their next pregnancy of producing an offspring with a neural tube defect (NTD). A matched case-control study was carried out to test the related hypothesis that a spontaneous abortion occurring in the 6-month period prio...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Kurinczuk JJ,Clarke M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case-control studies of clinic samples constitute the usual research method for the investigation of the causes and course of psychiatric disorder. However, they carry substantial disadvantages and if causal hypotheses are to be tested in rigorous fashion, it is necessary to use longitudinal research strategies applie...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Rutter M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social differences in late fetal death and infant mortality were examined in a population-based prospective study. All singletons born to Nordic citizens in Sweden 1985-86 were included, 185,156 births in all. The overall rates of late fetal death and infant mortality were 3.5 and 5.3 per 1000 respectively. Socio-econ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Haglund B,Cnattingius S,Nordström ML

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present state of epidemiological research in relation to mental retardation is described, with particular respect to taxonomic issues. A comprehensive taxonomy is proposed, and the problems of establishing it discussed. ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Fryers T

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst only about a third of all cerebral palsy occurs in children who had been of low birthweight, recent increases in the survival of low and very low birthweight infants have coincided with significant increases in the numbers of cerebral palsy children amongst them. This paper analyses data from the Western Austra...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Stanley FJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longer-term follow-up of infants with specific health concerns, such as low birthweight, is critical to assessing the effect of medical interventions. This report examines the approach of reconstructing previously studied cohorts in terms of the factors discriminating between respondents and non-respondents. Follow-up...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： McCormick MC,Baker J,Brooks-Gunn J,Turner J,Workman-Daniels K,Peckham GJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study, aiming to document the effect of continued support for mothers on frequency of exclusive breast feeding, was carried out by inclusion of breast feeding counselling in the context of well-baby care. One hundred and forty-six mothers who had been exposed to two educational sessions on breast feeding after del...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Neyzi O,Güleçyüz M,Dinçer Z,Olgun P,Kutluay T,Uzel N,Saner G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a scheduled visit to the school physician, the number of children with a history of febrile seizures was determined in 3570 children attending primary schools in the suburban area of the city of Rotterdam. At the age of 6 years, 140 had experienced at least one febrile seizure (3.9%, 95% confidence interval 3.3...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Offringa M,Hazebroek-Kampschreur AA,Derksen-Lubsen G

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of 4934 babies of different ethnic groups has confirmed the high perinatal mortality rate for Pakistanis and has shown that this was not due to a reluctance to terminate a fetus who is known to be seriously malformed. The major cause of early mortality was a high rate of lethal malformations, which...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Bundey S,Alam H,Kaur A,Mir S,Lancashire R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of smoking and alcohol consumption in pregnancy on length, head circumference, upper arm circumference and ponderal index, of neonates born to 1513 Caucasian women who delivered at St George's Hospital, south London. All measurements were adjusted for gestational age, maternal heigh...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Haste FM,Anderson HR,Brooke OG,Bland JM,Peacock JL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00