Showing papers in "Annals of Epidemiology in 2007"

TL;DR: The reasons why study participation has been declining are considered, what is known about who does participate in epidemiologic studies is summarized, and methods that may help improve study participation rates are discussed.

TL;DR: In all studies, higher IQ in the first two decades of life was related to lower rates of total mortality in middle to late adulthood, and an inverse IQ-mortality relation was shown.

TL;DR: The results support the need for cancer site-specific comorbidity measures that employ empirically-derived condition weights, and show the NCI and new NCI Combined indices showed the greatest contribution to model fit.

TL;DR: The simulation study indicates that RERI is the best choice of measures of additivity using a proportional hazards model, and the method has broader application for any regression models with a rate as the dependent variable.

TL;DR: The meta-analytic results indicate that the few studies without this error show abstainers and "light" or "moderate" drinkers to be at equal risk for all-cause and CHD mortality.

TL;DR: The hospitalization rate for acute pancreatitis in the United States is rising and is higher in blacks than in whites, and the observation of a racial disparity in hospitalization rates is noted.

TL;DR: Socioeconomic position is a robust determinant of short sleep duration, even after adjusting for health-related characteristics linked to shortSleep duration.

TL;DR: SES of neighborhood of residence is associated with incidence of depression independent of individual SES and other individual covariates, and additional work needs to characterize the pathways that may explain the observed association between living in low-SES neighborhoods and risk for depression.

TL;DR: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common chronic liver condition in the Western world and management is further complicated by the inability to predict which patients will develop liver-related morbidity and thus benefit from treatment.

TL;DR: SEP is associated with metabolic syndrome in white, black, and Mexican-American women and is associated less strongly in men, providing biologic mechanistic evidence of previously documented associations between SEP and such clinical disorders as type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.

TL;DR: Standard analysis ignores model selection uncertainty and is likely to yield overoptimistic inferences, so the traditional BE procedure with p = 5% should be avoided and inferences be based on bootstrap statistics to describe the selection process.

TL;DR: This work represents the first large study of hip fractures with a predominantly male sample and confirms that men have a higher mortality risk than women, as reported by previous researchers who used smaller samples that were mostly female.

TL;DR: The increased risk of being involved in a road accident as driver while receiving prescribed opiates and benzodiazepines supported the results from other studies.

TL;DR: Differences in SROH between Asians and NHW do not appear to be mediated by SES and may be due to different perceptions of health that are rooted in culture and language.

TL;DR: In longitudinal studies of adolescent adiposity, investigators should be encouraged to analyze Delta BMI rather than Delta z because analyses using BMI are more powerful and findings presented in BMI units are more interpretable.

TL;DR: Unaddressed social constructions of black sexuality have implications for epidemiologic research targeting black sexual behavior and the ostensibly new and race-specific phenomenon known as "the Down Low" (the DL).

TL;DR: A somewhat-lower risk of PE is found associated with higher intake of the elongated n-3 fatty acids docosahexaenoic and eicosapentaenoic acids, and the results support a potential benefit for elongation n- 3 fatty acids in preventing preeclampsia.

TL;DR: It is suggested that elevated white blood cell count and reduced kidney function may improve risk stratification for clinically relevant AAA and confirm that major atherosclerotic risk factors, except for diabetes and obesity, are also prospectively related to AAA.

TL;DR: Models for the incorporation of social factors into the study of health are reviewed, the potentialities of systems approaches are discussed, and implications for population health and epidemiology are highlighted.

TL;DR: Continued efforts are needed to lower the burden of high LDL cholesterol and increase LDL cholesterol control, especially among populations with low control rates.

TL;DR: Findings show considerable measurement error in self-reported cycle length, as well as describe population subgroups that report menstrual cycle length with the greatest accuracy.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that SEP is associated with the metabolic syndrome in females aged 25 to 65 years and is less strongly associated in males, adolescents, or older participants, providing physiologic mechanistic evidence linking SEP to risk for coronary heart disease.

TL;DR: New evidence consistent with protective effects of state-level social capital on individual HRQOL is yielded, suggesting that promoting social capital may provide a means of improving the health-related quality of life of Americans.

TL;DR: The results substantiate internal consistency and stability of several standard health instruments applied to this large cohort of US military cohort, vital to the integrity of long-term outcome studies.

TL;DR: Average consumption of one or more but not less than one alcoholic drink per day in early or late pregnancy seems to be associated with adverse birth outcomes in the offspring.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between male and female circumcision (genital cutting) and prevalent HIV infection in Kenyan, Lesothoan, and Tanzanian virgins and adolescents was investigated.

TL;DR: Overall and for each race and ethnic group, the LMP measures resulted in higher proportions of very preterm, pre term, postterm and SGA births, and these findings indicate that substituting or combining these measures may have consequences.

TL;DR: The recruitment goals that investigators set for racial/ethnic minorities and the factors associated with failure to meet those goals were determined and no factors were consistently associated withFailure to meet recruitment goals across different racial/ ethnic groups.

TL;DR: New Cox proportional hazards model analyses of 21,535 deaths through 2002 in the Kaiser Permanente study reconfirms that the relation of alcohol drinking to total mortality is J-shaped, with reduced risk for lighter drinkers and increased risk for persons reporting more than 3 drinks per day.