Showing papers in "Annals of Epidemiology in 2004"

TL;DR: People with higher serum iron, TS, or copper concentrations had an increased risk of dying from cancer.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that teachers of specific courses are at greater risk of developing a voice disorder.

TL;DR: There is considerable heterogeneity in CHD mortality among ethnic subgroups, and additional research is needed to guide treatment and prevention efforts.

TL;DR: The rise in narghile smoking as a trendy social habit appears to be occurring despite considerable appreciation of its potential health risks, according to a cross-sectional survey administered to university students in Aleppo.

TL;DR: Household use of high pollution cooking fuels may cause reduced birth weight, and the relationship needs to be further investigated using more direct measures of smoke exposure and birth weight and accounting for environmental tobacco smoke.

TL;DR: All-cause and cardiovascular mortality was directly related to BMI among middle-aged and elderly men and Advancing age did not attenuate the increased risk of death associated with obesity.

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature review found that studies using either administrative data or survey data were both adequately sensitive and highly specific in identifying cases of diagnosed diabetes, while studies based on cause-of-death data from death certificates were not sensitive.

TL;DR: In this South European population, demographic and social characteristics associated with the decision to participate in a community investigation were different from those usually described in Northern European or American populations, however, their characteristics did not influence the direction or the magnitude of myocardial infarction risk estimates.

TL;DR: Most of the clinical variables are significantly associated with self-rated health, even in the presence of control variables, and the clinical measures are less powerful predictors than self-reports about diverse aspects of well-being.

TL;DR: An increased prevalence of non-traditional CVD risk factors was present among persons with diabetes, IGT and IFG compared to IFG alone, and the metabolic syndrome.

TL;DR: Conurrent partnerships may increase rates of heterosexual HIV among blacks in the rural Southeastern United States and future research should examine the context that supports this network pattern.

TL;DR: Socio-economic position, event exposures, social support, and peri-event emotional reactions may help explain differences in PTSD risk after disaster between Hispanic subgroups and non-Hispanics.

TL;DR: The observed differences in biomarkers across varying levels of dietary intake suggest that this FFQ is an appropriate epidemiologic tool for assessing intake of at least several important nutrients during early pregnancy in both African American and Caucasian women.

TL;DR: It is suggested that job insecurity may increase the short-term risk of non-fatal MI in women and the risk of fatal CHD in the short term.

TL;DR: The most important finding in this study is the independent relation between Alzheimer's disease and hip fractures.

TL;DR: These data suggest complex and significant physiologic interactions among circulating levels of adiponectin and measures of insulin action throughout young adulthood, even from several years earlier.

TL;DR: The association between mortality and psychological distress seems to arise largely because of premature deaths from ischaemic heart disease and respiratory diseases, and the existence of a dose-response effect between distress and mortality provides further evidence to support the exist of a casual relationship.

TL;DR: Most black and white colorectal cancer patients received standard treatment and the number of subjects without standard treatment was small, but efforts in educating black patients about the benefits of treatment may help to eliminate the remaining racial disparity.

TL;DR: Evidence that recency influences children's recall accuracy is provided and demonstrates the importance of an awareness of principles of memory when designing what are essentially memory tests for epidemiologic studies.

TL;DR: The educational differences in total and cardiovascular mortality in Russia are of similar direction and magnitude as in western populations.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided of: 1) behavioral and structural co-factors that influence HIV exposure patterns among drug users; and 2) the substantially higher risk of HIV infection among IDUs compared with other drug users.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the prevention of kidney stones may be a means of delaying the onset of chronic kidney disease, however, further studies are needed to make conclusive recommendations.

TL;DR: The current ELISA method is not a valid substitute for the GS/MS assay in measurements of F2-isoPM, an abundant beta-oxidation metabolite of 8-iso-prostaglandin-F2alpha.

TL;DR: Examination of BMI-cardiovascular mortality associations in eight age-gender subcohorts from the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry finds failure to address potential methodologic problems can substantially alter associations in BMI-mortality studies and may contribute to observed differences among studies.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that low birth weight is only associated with increased common CIMT in young adulthood in those who experienced severe IUGR and inThose who showed exaggerated postnatal growth.

TL;DR: One-year post-randomization, significant differences in dietary intake were observed in the Lifestyle compared with the Metformin or Placebo group, and these were consistent with the general intent of the DPP lifestyle modification intervention.

TL;DR: FFQ responses varied with season of FFQ administration, consistent with theory that current diet intake influences reporting of habitual past diet intake, however, season ofFFQ administration did not alter dietary exposure category assignments sufficiently to effect interpretation of most epidemiologic studies.

TL;DR: The duration of overweight has a significant effect on obesity-related comorbidities in men and women and there was a graded increase in the likelihood of numerous metabolic disorders when moving from the normal weight to overweight < 10 year to overweight > or = 10 year categories.

TL;DR: Findings of the comparative assessments most likely reflect differentials in prevalence of risk factors and lifestyle variables and can be partly explained by improvement in cancer detection rate in recent years (for prostate cancer).

TL;DR: The findings suggest that in primary prevention it is important to focus attention on people with low education, since they seem to be rather unprotected against the prevalence of several cardiovascular risk factors.