This is a selection of articles from the March 2008 archive. Click here for this month's Epidemiology headlines.
Tracheostomy decannulation: marathons and finish lines
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: John E Heffner Source Type: news
Circulating pro-apoptotic mediators in burn septic acute renal failure
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten Source Type: news
Recently published papers: Sepsis – guidelines, treatment and novel approaches
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Navneet Kalsi and Lui G Forni Source Type: news
Lost in translation? The pursuit of lung-protective ventilation
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Andrew T Jones Source Type: news
Knowing who would respond to a recruitment maneuver before actually doing it – this might be a way to go
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Ralf Kuhlen Source Type: news
Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure estimation by transesophageal echocardiography: is simpler better?
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Gorazd Voga Source Type: news
Clinical review: Airway hygiene in the intensive care unit
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Sanja Jelic, Jennifer A Cunningham and Phillip Factor Source Type: news
Optimal vasopressor drug therapy during resuscitation
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Source: Critical Care - March 31, 2008 Authors: Joseph P Ornato Source Type: news
Diet, Urate, and Parkinson's Disease Risk in Men
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Gao, X., Chen, H., Choi, H. K., Curhan, G., Schwarzschild, M. A., Ascherio, A. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Strategies to improve external cause-of-injury coding in state-based hospital discharge and emergency department data systems: recommendations of the CDC Workgroup for Improvement of External Cause-of-Injury Coding.
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Source: MMWR Recomm Rep - March 28, 2008 Authors: Annest JL, Fingerhut LA, Gallagher SS, Grossman DC, Hedegaard H, Johnson RL, Kohn M, Pickett D, Thomas KE, Trent RB, Tags: MMWR Recomm Rep Source Type: news
RE: "USING HEAD-ON COLLISIONS TO COMPARE RISK OF DRIVER DEATH BY FRONTAL AIR BAG GENERATION: A MATCHED-PAIR COHORT STUDY"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Olson, C. M., Cummings, P., Rivara, F. P. Tags: LETTER Source Type: news
Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan, January-December 2007.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - March 28, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: news
Invited Commentary: The Hidden Population in Perinatal Epidemiology
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Paneth, N. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
All-terrain vehicle fatalities--West Virginia, 1999-2006.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 28, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
RE: "CIGARETTE SMOKING AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AMONG CHINESE MEN WITHOUT CLINICAL VASCULAR DISEASE"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Gades, N. M., Nehra, A., Jacobson, D. J., McGree, M. E., Sauver, J. L. St., Jacobsen, S. J. Tags: LETTER Source Type: news
Risk of Oral Clefts in Relation to Prepregnancy Weight Change and Interpregnancy Interval.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 28, 2008 Authors: Villamor E, Sparén P, Cnattingius S Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
FIVE AUTHORS REPLY
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Ha, M., Im, H., Kim, B.-C., Gimm, Y.-M., Pack, J.-K. Tags: LETTER Source Type: news
Telomere Length and Mortality: A Study of Leukocytes in Elderly Danish Twins
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Kimura, M., Hjelmborg, J. v. B., Gardner, J. P., Bathum, L., Brimacombe, M., Lu, X., Christiansen, L., Vaupel, J. W., Aviv, A., Christensen, K. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Barrett's Esophagus
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Kubo, A., Levin, T. R., Block, G., Rumore, G. J., Quesenberry, C. P., Buffler, P., Corley, D. A. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
RE: "RADIO-FREQUENCY RADIATION EXPOSURE FROM AM RADIO TRANSMITTERS AND CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA AND BRAIN CANCER"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Schuz, J., Philipp, J., Merzenich, H., Schmiedel, S., Bruggemeyer, H. Tags: LETTER Source Type: news
The Missing Data Problem in Birth Weight Percentiles and Thresholds for "Small-for-Gestational-Age"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Hutcheon, J. A., Platt, R. W. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Amount of Time Spent in Sedentary Behaviors in the United States, 2003-2004
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Matthews, C. E., Chen, K. Y., Freedson, P. S., Buchowski, M. S., Beech, B. M., Pate, R. R., Troiano, R. P. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
THE AUTHORS REPLY
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Braver, E. R., Kufera, J. A., Alexander, M. T., Scerbo, M., Volpini, K., Lloyd, J. P. Tags: LETTER Source Type: news
RE: "PHARMACOGENETIC MODULATION OF COMBINED HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY BY PROGESTERONE-METABOLISM GENOTYPES IN POSTMENOPAUSAL BREAST CANCER RISK"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Tags: CORRECTION Source Type: news
Hutcheon and Platt Respond to "The Hidden Population in Perinatal Epidemiology"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Hutcheon, J. A., Platt, R. W. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Is Complexity of Work Associated with Risk of Dementia?: The Canadian Study of Health and Aging
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Kroger, E., Andel, R., Lindsay, J., Benounissa, Z., Verreault, R., Laurin, D. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Influenza.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - March 28, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: news
Time Lines of Infection and Disease in Human Influenza: A Review of Volunteer Challenge Studies
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Carrat, F., Vergu, E., Ferguson, N. M., Lemaitre, M., Cauchemez, S., Leach, S., Valleron, A.-J. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Impact of Body Mass Index on Incident Hypertension and Diabetes in Chinese Asians, American Whites, and American Blacks: The People's Republic of China Study and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 28, 2008 Authors: Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Katz EG, Cai J Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Hospitalization discharge diagnoses for kidney disease--United States, 1980-2005.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 28, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Inflammation-related Genes and Mortality in a Community-based Cohort in Washington County, Maryland
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Gallicchio, L., Chang, H., Christo, D. K., Thuita, L., Huang, H.-Y., Strickland, P., Ruczinski, I., Hoffman, S. C., Helzlsouer, K. J. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication--Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2007.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 28, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
Folic Acid and Multivitamin Supplement Use and Risk of Placental Abruption: A Population-based Registry Study
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Nilsen, R. M., Vollset, S. E., Rasmussen, S. A., Ueland, P. M., Daltveit, A. K. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Mortality in a Population Exposed to Dioxin after the Seveso, Italy, Accident in 1976: 25 Years of Follow-Up
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Consonni, D., Pesatori, A. C., Zocchetti, C., Sindaco, R., D'Oro, L. C., Rubagotti, M., Bertazzi, P. A. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
Physical Exercise during Pregnancy and the Risk of Preterm Birth: A Study within the Danish National Birth Cohort
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: Juhl, M., Andersen, P. K., Olsen, J., Madsen, M., Jorgensen, T., Nohr, E. A., Andersen, A.-M. N. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: news
THREE OF THE AUTHORS REPLY
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - March 28, 2008 Authors: He, J., Reynolds, K., Gu, D. Tags: LETTER Source Type: news
Estrogen Plus Progestin Therapy and Breast Cancer in Recently Postmenopausal Women.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 27, 2008 Authors: Prentice RL, Chlebowski RT, Stefanick ML, Manson JE, Pettinger M, Hendrix SL, Hubbell FA, Kooperberg C, Kuller LH, Lane DS, McTiernan A, Jo O'Sullivan M, Rossouw JE, Anderson GL Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Domestic Violence and Chronic Malnutrition among Women and Children in India.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 26, 2008 Authors: Ackerson LK, Subramanian SV Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Community-based intervention to reduce pesticide exposure to farmworkers and potential take-home exposure to their families
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - March 26, 2008 Authors: Asa BradmanAlicia L SalvatoreMark BoenigerRosemary CastorinaJohn SnyderDana B BarrNicholas P JewellGeri Kavanagh-BairdCynthia StrileyBrenda Eskenazi Source Type: news
Addendum to: Evaluation of PCDD/F and dioxin-like PCB serum concentration data from the 2001–2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of the United States population
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - March 26, 2008 Authors: Laura L F ScottKenneth M UniceP A U L ScottLy M NguyenLaurie C HawsM A R K HarrisD E N N I S Paustenbach Source Type: news
Reconstructing population exposures to environmental chemicals from biomarkers: Challenges and opportunities
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - March 26, 2008 Authors: Panos G GeorgopoulosAlan F SassoSastry S IsukapalliPaul J LioyDaniel A ValleroMiles OkinoLarry Reiter Source Type: news
Circulating plasma factors induce tubular and glomerular alterations in burn septic patients
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Source: Critical Care - March 25, 2008 Authors: Filippo Mariano, Vincenzo Cantaluppi, Maurizio Stella, Giuseppe Mauriello Romanazzi, Barbara Assenzio, Monica Cairo, Luigi Biancone, Giorgio Triolo, Marco Ranieri and Giovanni Camussi Source Type: news
Relation between Neighborhood Environments and Obesity in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 25, 2008 Authors: Mujahid MS, Roux AV, Shen M, Gowda D, Sánchez B, Shea S, Jacobs DR, Jackson SA Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Effects of Socioeconomic Position on Inflammatory and Hemostatic Markers: A Life-Course Analysis in the 1958 British Birth Cohort.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 25, 2008 Authors: Tabassum F, Kumari M, Rumley A, Lowe G, Power C, Strachan DP Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Model-based linkage analysis with imprinting for quantitative traits: ignoring imprinting effects can severely jeopardize detection of linkage
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - March 25, 2008 Authors: Yun Ju Sung, D.C. Rao Source Type: news
Are Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth Larger in Hypersegregated Areas?
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 25, 2008 Authors: Osypuk TL, Acevedo-Garcia D Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2008 (data received in WHO headquarters as of 4 March 2008).
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - March 21, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: news
Surveillance for acute viral hepatitis--United States, 2006.
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Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - March 21, 2008 Authors: Wasley A, Grytdal S, Gallagher K, Tags: MMWR Surveill Summ Source Type: news
Summary of notifiable diseases--United States, 2006.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 21, 2008 Authors: McNabb SJ, Jajosky RA, Hall-Baker PA, Adams DA, Sharp P, Worshams C, Anderson WJ, Javier AJ, Jones GJ, Nitschke DA, Rey A, Wodajo MS, Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
Trends in tuberculosis--United States, 2007.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 21, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
Predictors of the Timing of Natural Menopause in the Multiethnic Cohort Study.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 21, 2008 Authors: Henderson KD, Bernstein L, Henderson B, Kolonel L, Pike MC Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Outbreak news. Yellow fever, Paraguay.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - March 21, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: news
Immunization information systems progress--United States, 2006.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 21, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
Biomarkers of inflammation, coagulation and fibrinolysis predict mortality in acute lung injury
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Source: Critical Care - March 21, 2008 Authors: Dana McClintock, Hanjing Zhuo, Nancy Wickersham, Michael A Matthay and Lorraine B Ware Source Type: news
RE: "A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MENINGOCOCCAL B VACCINE"
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 21, 2008 Authors: Lennon D, Stewart J, Crengle S Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling of TB patients--Livingstone District, Zambia, September 2004-December 2006.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - March 21, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: news
Calculation of IBD probabilities with dense SNP or sequence data
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - March 20, 2008 Authors: Jonathan M. Keith, Allan McRae, David Duffy, Kerrie Mengersen, Peter M. Visscher Source Type: news
Differential parental transmission of markers in RUNX2 among cleft case-parent trios from four populations
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - March 20, 2008 Authors: Jae Woong Sull, Kung-Yee Liang, Jacqueline B. Hetmanski, Margaret Daniele Fallin, Roxann G. Ingersoll, Jiwan Park, Yah-Huei Wu-Chou, Philip K. Chen, Samuel S. Chong, Felicia Cheah, Vincent Yeow, Beyoung Yun Park, Sun Ha Jee, Ethylin Wang Jabs, Richard Red Source Type: news
Estrogen Receptor Alpha and Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 Polymorphisms and Age-related Maculopathy in Older Women.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 20, 2008 Authors: Seitzman RL, Mahajan VB, Mangione C, Cauley JA, Ensrud KE, Stone KL, Cummings SR, Hochberg MC, Hillier TA, Sinsheimer JS, Yu F, Coleman AL, Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Regional North American Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Neurology -- Research Group on Neuroepidemiology
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - March 19, 2008 Source Type: news
Towards goal-directed therapy of hepatorenal syndrome: we have the tools but we need the trials
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Source: Critical Care - March 19, 2008 Authors: Rajeshwar P Mookerjee and Rajiv Jalan Source Type: news
Simple association analysis combining data from trios/sibships and unrelated controls
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - March 18, 2008 Authors: Yi-Hau Chen, Hui-Wen Lin Source Type: news
Maternal Fish Intake during Pregnancy, Blood Mercury Levels, and Child Cognition at Age 3 Years in a US Cohort.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 18, 2008 Authors: Oken E, Radesky JS, Wright RO, Bellinger DC, Amarasiriwardena CJ, Kleinman KP, Hu H, Gillman MW Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Cardiovascular and metabolic responses to catecholamine and sepsis prognosis: a ubiquitous phenomenon?
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Source: Critical Care - March 17, 2008 Authors: Solène Collin, Nacira Sennoun and Bruno Levy Source Type: news
Estimation of the multiple testing burden for genomewide association studies of nearly all common variants
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - March 17, 2008 Authors: Itsik Pe'er, Roman Yelensky, David Altshuler, Mark J. Daly Source Type: news
A Prospective Study of Multivitamin Supplement Use and Risk of Breast Cancer.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 15, 2008 Authors: Ishitani K, Lin J, Manson JE, Buring JE, Zhang SM Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
RE: "USING HEAD-ON COLLISIONS TO COMPARE RISK OF DRIVER DEATH BY FRONTAL AIR BAG GENERATION: A MATCHED-PAIR COHORT STUDY"
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 15, 2008 Authors: Olson CM, Cummings P, Rivara FP Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Invited Commentary: Measuring Social Disparities in Health--What Was the Question Again?
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 15, 2008 Authors: Messer LC Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
Does Cigarette Use Influence Adiposity or Height in Adolescence?
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Source: Annals of Epidemiology - March 15, 2008 Authors: O'Loughlin J, Karp I, Henderson M, Gray-Donald K Tags: Ann Epidemiol Source Type: news
RE: "BODY SIZE, WEIGHT CYCLING, AND RISK OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA AMONG POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: THE WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE (UNITED STATES)"
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - March 15, 2008 Authors: Sharifi N, Farrar WL Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: news
An Overview of Methods for Monitoring Social Disparities in Cancer with an Example Using Trends in Lung Cancer Incidence by Area-Socioeconomic Position and Race-Ethnicity, 1992-2004.
