Showing papers in "Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1982"

TL;DR: Results indicate that these measures are remarkably accurate indicators of actual weight and height, even in groups of people for whom one might expect the data to be of a poorer quality, such as those who are severely overweight.

TL;DR: Behaviorally-oriented program, often with special attention to changing the environment in which patients care for themselves, were consistently more successful at improving the clinical course of chronic disease.

TL;DR: Subsequent cancer incidence was determined in the population-based incidence cohort of Rochester, Minnesota, residents diagnosed with diabetes mellitus between 1945 and 1969 and the potential biases of increased medical surveillance among diabetics and exacerbation of subclinical diabetes by occult malignancy did not appear to be important.

TL;DR: The observed difference in breast cancer survival between blacks and whites is, to a large extent, due to the difference between the two races with respect to the distribution of socio-economic status.

TL;DR: Manual ability may be the best marker of dependency in elderly women and should be measured in studies concerned with geriatric health status.

TL;DR: Significantly more multiple sclerosis patients than controls reported that they were under unusual stress in the 2 yr period prior to onset age; and the MS patients described a greater number of stressful life situations, or single events, than the controls.

TL;DR: For the first time a model for age-related bone loss has been developed from prospective data utilizing a new weighted least squares method, and new statistical methods allow the development of models utilizing data collected at irregular intervals.

TL;DR: A method for estimating survival curves with covariates is described for use with Cox's model and an example is provided to illustrate its usefulness in providing to the medical audience a graphical display which is consistent with the achieved level of statistical significance.

TL;DR: There is a suggestion that cerebral hemorrhage risk may be lower following an elevated leukocyte count, and a negative association between lymphocyte count and CH incidence in the subsequent biennial examination cycle, is nearly significant, in spite of a rather small number of CH cases in the sample.

TL;DR: The leading causes of death were related to the cardiovascular system, respiratory system, suicide and the urinary tract and mean longevity was 126 months (10 yr, 6 months).

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that functional gains experienced by stroke patients are primarily attributable to spontaneous recovery, and rehabilitation may result in increased independence in the performance of activities of daily living for patients who have intermediate levels of functional ability.

TL;DR: Both hypotheses were supported for males, and neither for females: suicide rates will be higher in ca patients than the population, and be higher soon after dx than in later y-s-dx.

TL;DR: A method is presented for correcting distribution function estimators for distortions in the joint distribution of covariates in the subsamples receiving different treatments, which is useful for depicting multivariate analyses and predicting population behavior.

TL;DR: Values for normal body composition, in subjects healthy by all available criteria are in some instances age and sex dependent, but in all parameters except fat show wide normal range, and use of body water rather than weight succeeds in narrowing this wide range.

TL;DR: Limitations to the inferences which can be derived from casual family history data include (i) poor statistical properties of standard relative risk measures, (ii) interpretational problems of observed relative risks when affected cases arise from genetic as well as nongenetic causes and when genes may not always be expressed in individuals in whom they are present.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the instrument can accurately index individual physical activity levels, as well as to provide important information concerning the epidemiology of physical activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared three different sets of patients and compared their NYHA classes to their functional classes as determined by a new Specific Activity Scale (SAS) that is based on the metabolic equivalents of oxygen consumption required for activities the patient actually performs.

TL;DR: This study presents the longitudinal changes in serum cholesterol from 1 July 1963 to 30 June 1977 and concludes that neither weight nor physical activity could account for the observed changes in Serum cholesterol.

TL;DR: The interpretation of secular trends in terms of period, age and cohorts is illustrated by data on peptic ulcer mortality for England and Wales from 1900 to 1977, which conform with predictions from a cohort analysis of some 20 years ago that peptic Ulcer mortality and morbidity would decline.

TL;DR: The association of obesity and hypertension may reflect chronic overfeeding, although diet-induced changes in sympathetic nervous system activity may affect blood pressure in non-obese individuals as well.

TL;DR: This review recognizes the population based data on high and low risk groups and summarizes the findings from numerous case-control studies which have explored the marital, sexual and reproductive factors associated with cervical cancer.

TL;DR: In this article, sample size requirements are provided for the k group comparative clinical trial in which time-to-failure is the measure of treatment efficacy, and it is shown that heuristic use of sample size formulae or tables for comparing two treatment groups is not adequate for obtaining sufficient power and properly accounting for the multiple comparisons possible with k ⩾ 3 treatment groups.

TL;DR: Although the relationships between A-B coronary behavior pattern and risk factor variables in children are of low magnitude, the relationships are being observed in the direction that might be predicted.

TL;DR: Although the cross-sectional analyses generally support the hypothesis that a widened pulse pressure, or pure systolic hypertension, is an independent risk factor for the cardiovascular diseases and coronary heart disease, the prospective analyses do not.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the absence of a marked sex differential in heart disease mortality amongst diabetics may partly result from the loss by diabetic women of their greater insulin production relative to men in young adult life.

TL;DR: Weight loss obtained with hypocaloric diet and without reduced sodium intake affected a considerable fall in systolic and diastolic pressures in overweight hypertensive patients, and this pressure-weight reduction was maintained for at least 12-18 months.

TL;DR: Some extensions to simple international correlation analyses are examined with reference to beer consumption and bowel and lung cancers in 29 countries, showing a similar pattern to that for rectal cancer and beer and markedly different from that for lung cancer and cigarettes.

TL;DR: Several studies point to significant improvement in short-term memory both after onset of maintenance dialysis and from one day before to one day after an individual dialysis treatment session.

TL;DR: Prevalence of anencephaly, myelomeningocele and occipital encephalocele combined was significantly higher in infants delivered to mothers born in Puerto Rico than in offspring of non-Puerto Rican whites or blacks.