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    • Epidemiologic Evidence Concerning the Bereavement Exclusion in Major Depression 

      Gilman, Stephen Edward; Breslau, Joshua; Trinh, Nhi-Ha Thuy; Fava, Maurizio; Murphy, Jane M.; Smoller, Jordan W (American Medical Association (AMA), 2012)

    • Epidemiologic Evidence of Cardiovascular Effects of Particulate Air Pollution 

      Dockery, Douglas W. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2001)
      In the past decade researchers have developed a body of epidemiologic evidence showing increased daily cardiovascular mortality and morbidity associated with acute exposures to particulate air pollution. Associations have ...

    • Epidemiologic Studies Assessing the Role of the Epstein-Barr Virus in Hodgkin's Disease 

      Mueller, Nancy Elsa (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1987)
      The hypothesis that an infection plays a role in the etiology of Hodgkin's disease (HD) is suggested by both its clinical and histologic features. Its bimodal age-incidence pattern also suggests an infectious process among ...

    • Epidemiologic studies of particulate matter and lung cancer 

      Li, Yin-Ge; Gao, Xiang (Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 2014)
      Particulate matter (PM) plays an important role in air pollution, especially in China. European and American researchers conducted several cohort-based studies to examine the potential relationship between PM and lung ...

    • Epidemiologic study design for investigating respiratory health effects of complex air pollution mixtures. 

      Dockery, Douglas W. (1993)
      Epidemiologic studies of the respiratory health effects of air pollution are intrinsically difficult because exposure is common, expected effects at concentrations found in developed countries are weak, random misclassification ...

    • Epidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus colonization in children in the post-PCV7 era 

      Lee, Grace; Huang, Susan Jen; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Hinrichsen, Virginia; Pelton, Stephen I; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Hanage, William P.; Lipsitch, Marc; McAdam, Alexander John; Finkelstein, Jonathan Arie (Springer Science + Business Media, 2009)
      BACKGROUND: The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has risen dramatically in the U.S., particularly among children. Although Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization has been ...

    • Epidemiology of Disappearing Plasmodium vivax Malaria: A Case Study in Rural Amazonia 

      Barbosa, Susana; Gozze, Amanda B.; Lima, Nathália F.; Batista, Camilla L.; Bastos, Melissa da Silva; Nicolete, Vanessa C.; Fontoura, Pablo S.; Gonçalves, Raquel M.; Viana, Susana Ariane S.; Menezes, Maria José; Scopel, Kézia Katiani G.; Cavasini, Carlos E.; Malafronte, Rosely dos Santos; da Silva-Nunes, Mônica; Vinetz, Joseph M.; Castro, Márcia C.; Ferreira, Marcelo U. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Background: New frontier settlements across the Amazon Basin pose a major challenge for malaria elimination in Brazil. Here we describe the epidemiology of malaria during the early phases of occupation of farming settlements ...

    • Epidemiology of musculoskeletal upper extremity ambulatory surgery in the United States 

      Jain, Nitin B; Higgins, Laurence D; Losina, Elena; Collins, Jamie; Blazar, Philip E; Katz, Jeffrey N (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremity are common reasons for patients to seek care and undergo ambulatory surgery. The objective of our study was to assess the overall and age-adjusted utilization ...

    • The Epidemiology of Sleep Quality and Consumption of Stimulant Beverages among Patagonian Chilean College Students 

      Vélez, Juan Carlos; Souza, Aline; Traslaviña, Samantha; Barbosa, Clarita; Wosu, Adaeze; Andrade, Asterio; Frye, Megan; Fitzpatrick, Annette L.; Gelaye, Bizu; Williams, Michelle A. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
      Objectives:. (1) To assess sleep patterns and parameters of sleep quality among Chilean college students and (2) to evaluate the extent to which stimulant beverage use and other lifestyle characteristics are associated ...

    • The Epidemiology of Sleep Quality, Sleep Patterns, Consumption of Caffeinated Beverages, and Khat Use among Ethiopian College Students 

      Lemma, Seblewengel; Patel, Sheila V.; Tarekegn, Yared A.; Tadesse, Mahlet Getachew; Berhane, Yemane; Gelaye, Bizu; Williams, Michelle A (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
      Objective:. To evaluate sleep habits, sleep patterns, and sleep quality among Ethiopian college students; and to examine associations of poor sleep quality with consumption of caffeinated beverages and other stimulants. ...

    • Epidemiology, Public Health, and the Rhetoric of False Positives 

      Blair, Aaron; Saracci, Rodolfo; Vineis, Paolo; Cocco, Pierluigi; Forastiere, Francesco; Kogevinas, Manolis; McMichael, Anthony; Pearce, Neil; Porta, Miquel; Samet, Jonathan; Sandler, Dale P.; Costantini, Adele Seniori; Vainio, Harri; Grandjean, Philippe; Kriebel, David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)
      Background: As an observational science, epidemiology is regarded by some researchers as inherently flawed and open to false results. In a recent paper, Boffetta et al. [Boffetta P, McLaughlin JK, LaVecchia C, Tarone RE, ...

    • An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease 

      Horvath, Steve; Gurven, Michael; Levine, Morgan E.; Trumble, Benjamin C.; Kaplan, Hillard; Allayee, Hooman; Ritz, Beate R.; Chen, Brian; Lu, Ake T.; Rickabaugh, Tammy M.; Jamieson, Beth D.; Sun, Dianjianyi; Li, Shengxu; Chen, Wei; Quintana-Murci, Lluis; Fagny, Maud; Kobor, Michael S.; Tsao, Philip S.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Edlefsen, Kerstin L.; Absher, Devin; Assimes, Themistocles L. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Epigenetic biomarkers of aging (the “epigenetic clock”) have the potential to address puzzling findings surrounding mortality rates and incidence of cardio-metabolic disease such as: (1) women consistently ...

    • Epigenetic Influences on Associations between Air Pollutants and Lung Function in Elderly Men: The Normative Aging Study 

      Lepeule, Johanna; Bind, Marie-Abele Catherine; Baccarelli, Andrea A.; Koutrakis, Petros; Tarantini, Letizia; Litonjua, Augusto; Sparrow, David; Vokonas, Pantel; Schwartz, Joel D. (NLM-Export, 2014)
      Background: Few studies have been performed on pulmonary effects of air pollution in the elderly—a vulnerable population with low reserve capacity—and mechanisms and susceptibility factors for potential effects are unclear. ...

    • Epigenetics—a potential mediator between air pollution and preterm birth 

      Lin, Vania W.; Baccarelli, Andrea A.; Burris, Heather H. (2016)
      Preterm birth is a major cause of infant morbidity and mortality and a potential risk factor for adult chronic disease. With over 15 million infants born preterm worldwide each year, preterm birth poses a global health ...

    • Epigenome-wide and transcriptome-wide analyses reveal gestational diabetes is associated with alterations in the human leukocyte antigen complex 

      Binder, Alexandra M.; LaRocca, Jessica; Lesseur, Corina; Marsit, Carmen J.; Michels, Karin B. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects approximately 10 % of pregnancies in the United States and increases the risk of adverse health outcomes in the offspring. These adult disease propensities may be set ...

    • Epigenome-wide association data implicates DNA methylation-mediated genetic risk in psoriasis 

      Zhou, Fusheng; Shen, Changbing; Xu, Jingkai; Gao, Jing; Zheng, Xiaodong; Ko, Randy; Dou, Jinfa; Cheng, Yuyan; Zhu, Caihong; Xu, Shuangjun; Tang, Xianfa; Zuo, Xianbo; Yin, Xianyong; Cui, Yong; Sun, Liangdan; Tsoi, Lam C.; Hsu, Yi-Hsiang; Yang, Sen; Zhang, Xuejun (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by epidermal hyperproliferation and altered keratinocyte differentiation and inflammation and is caused by the interplay of genetic and environmental ...

    • An Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Total Serum Immunoglobulin E Concentration 

      Liang, Liming; Willis-Owen, Saffron A.G.; Laprise, Catherine; Wong, Kenny C.C.; Davies, Gwyneth A.; Hudson, Thomas J.; Binia, Aristea; Hopkin, Julian M.; Yang, Ivana V.; Grundberg, Elin; Busche, Stephan; Hudson, Marie; Rönnblom, Lars; Pastinen, Tomi M.; Schwartz, David A.; Lathrop, G. Mark; Moffatt, Miriam F.; Cookson, William O.C.M. (2014)
      Immunoglobulin E (IgE) is a central mediator of allergic (atopic) inflammation. Therapies directed against IgE benefit hay fever1 and allergic asthma1,2. Genetic association studies have not yet identified novel therapeutic ...

    • Epigenomic Diversity of Colorectal Cancer Indicated by LINE-1 Methylation in a Database of 869 Tumors 

      Baba, Yoshifumi; Huttenhower, Curtis; Nosho, Katsuhiko; Tanaka, Noriko; Shima, Kaori; Hazra, Aditi; Schernhammer, Eva S; Hunter, David J.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Fuchs, Charles Stewart; Ogino, Shuji (BioMed Central, 2010)
      Background: Genome-wide DNA hypomethylation plays a role in genomic instability and carcinogenesis. LINE-1 (L1 retrotransposon) constitutes a substantial portion of the human genome, and LINE-1 methylation correlates with ...

    • Epithelial Progeny of Estrogen-Exposed Breast Progenitor Cells Display a Cancer-like Methylome 

      Cheng, A. S.L.; Culhane, Aedin; Chan, M. W.Y.; Venkataramu, C. R.; Ehrich, M.; Nasir, A.; Rodriguez, B. A.T.; Liu, J.; Yan, P. S.; Quackenbush, John; Nephew, K. P.; Yeatman, T. J.; Huang, T. H-M. (American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2008)
      Estrogen imprinting is used to describe a phenomenon in which early developmental exposure to endocrine disruptors increases breast cancer risk later in adult life. We propose that long-lived, self-regenerating stem and ...

    • Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Prospective Study 

      Ascherio, A.; Munger, K. L.; Lennette, E. T.; Spiegelman, D.; Hernán, M. A.; Olek, M. J.; Hankinson, S. E.; Hunter, D. J. (American Medical Association, 2001)