Epidemiologic Studies

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Acute pulmonary toxicity of particulate matter filter extracts in rats: coherence with epidemiologic studies in Utah Valley residents. 
  • Adverse metabolic response to regular exercise: is it a rare or common occurrence? 
  • Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer--collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58,515 women with breast cancer and 95,067 women without the disease. 
  • An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era veterans. 
  • Assessing the performance of prediction models: a framework for traditional and novel measures. 
  • Association between nutritional status and arsenicosis due to chronic arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. 
  • Can we screen for pelvic organ prolapse without a physical examination in epidemiologic studies? 
  • Comparison of three comorbidity measures for predicting health service use in patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Credibility of neuropsychological performances of Persian Gulf War veterans and military control subjects participating in clinical epidemiological research. 
  • Current Gaps in Ovarian Cancer Epidemiology: The Need for New Population-Based Research. 
  • Current approaches used in epidemiologic studies to examine short-term multipollutant air pollution exposures. 
  • Depression symptom trends and health domains among lung cancer patients in the CanCORS study. 
  • Differential survival with Alzheimer disease. 
  • Direct and Indirect Associations Between Diabetes and Intraocular Pressure: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Disparities in breast carcinoma treatment in Asian/Pacific Islander women. A challenge to the provider. 
  • Effects of Shigella-, Campylobacter- and ETEC-associated diarrhea on childhood growth. 
  • Embedding clinical interventions into observational studies. 
  • Emergency department visits with facial fractures among children and adolescents: an analysis of profile and predictors of causes of injuries. 
  • Epidemiologic research on health disparities: some thoughts on history and current developments. 
  • Epidemiology of concussion in collegiate and high school football players. 
  • Epidemiology of myomas. 
  • Establishing a research agenda in health and productivity. 
  • Estimating the occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Gulf War (1990-1991) veterans using capture-recapture methods. 
  • Evaluation and use of epidemiological evidence for environmental health risk assessment: WHO guideline document. 
  • Exploring patterns of response across the lifespan: the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study. 
  • Female reproductive factors and major eye diseases in Asian women -the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Health, nutrition and prosperity: a microeconomic perspective. 
  • Hospitalizations for unexplained illnesses among U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War. 
  • How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in epidemiologic studies? An example of research in tracking of obesity. 
  • Imprint regulatory elements as epigenetic biosensors of exposure in epidemiological studies. 
  • Insomnia and heart disease: a review of epidemiologic studies. 
  • Is diabetic retinopathy related to subclinical cardiovascular disease? 
  • Long-term ambient air pollution levels in four Chinese cities: inter-city and intra-city concentration gradients for epidemiological studies. 
  • Macular thickness profile and diabetic retinopathy: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Making epidemiologic studies responsive to the needs of participants and communities: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study experience. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Methodologic and statistical approaches to studying human fertility and environmental exposure. 
  • Methodologic issues in the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies of pregnancy outcome. 
  • Modeling association in longitudinal binary outcomes: a brief review. 
  • Multiple imputation for missing data via sequential regression trees. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and clinical outcomes among head and neck cancer patients. 
  • Neuropsychiatric disturbance in Alzheimer's disease clusters into three groups: the Cache County study. 
  • Nitric Oxide-Dependent Endothelial Dysfunction and Reduced Arginine Bioavailability in Plasmodium vivax Malaria but No Greater Increase in Intravascular Hemolysis in Severe Disease. 
  • Nonfatal construction industry-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States, 1998-2005. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • PM2.5 of ambient origin: estimates and exposure errors relevant to PM epidemiology. 
  • Panel discussion review: session four--assessing biological plausibility of epidemiological findings in air pollution research. 
  • Parental recall of birthweight: a good proxy for recorded birthweight? 
  • Patient-reported symptoms and quality of life 
in adults with acute leukemia: a systematic review. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perceptions of participation in an observational epidemiologic study of cancer among African Americans. 
  • Phylodynamic inference for structured epidemiological models. 
  • Prevalence and Associations of Retinal Emboli With Ethnicity, Stroke, and Renal Disease in a Multiethnic Asian Population: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease Study. 
  • Prevalence of sleep apnea in patients with keratoconus. 
  • Primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease among African-Americans: a social epidemiological perspective. 
  • Psychotic experiences and risk of death in the general population: 24-27 year follow-up of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. 
  • Recurrent headaches in children: an epidemiological survey of two middle schools in inner city Chicago. 
  • Results from a prospective, international, epidemiologic study of invasive candidiasis in children and neonates. 
  • Risk of Alzheimer disease with the epsilon4 allele for apolipoprotein E in a population-based study of men aged 62-73 years. 
  • Roger et al. respond to "future of population studies". 
  • Sample size for biomarker studies: more subjects or more measurements per subject? 
  • Semiparametric bayes' proportional odds models for current status data with underreporting. 
  • Sex differences in developmental reading disability: new findings from 4 epidemiological studies. 
  • Sharing confidential data for research purposes: a primer. 
  • Singapore Malay Eye Study: rationale and methodology of 6-year follow-up study (SiMES-2). 
  • Strategic transformation of population studies: recommendations of the working group on epidemiology and population sciences from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council and Board of External Experts. 
  • Strengthening the reporting of genetic risk prediction studies (GRIPS): explanation and elaboration. 
  • Studying human fertility and environmental exposures. 
  • The critical use of population-based medical databases for prostate cancer research. 
  • The epidemiology of health problems in returning Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans. A national and North Carolina-based summary. 
  • The incidence and characteristics of shoulder instability at the United States Military Academy. 
  • The use of the case-crossover design in studying illicit drug use. 
  • Ticlopidine- and clopidogrel-associated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP): review of clinical, laboratory, epidemiological, and pharmacovigilance findings (1989-2008). 
  • Trans-atlantic data harmonization in the classification of medicines and dietary supplements: a challenge for epidemiologic study and clinical research. 
  • Transforming epidemiology for 21st century medicine and public health. 
  • Using air pollution based community clusters to explore air pollution health effects in children. 
  • Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics