This is a selection of articles from the April 2008 archive. Click here for this month's Epidemiology headlines.
Biological monitoring of smoke exposure among wildland firefighters: A pilot study comparing urinary methoxyphenols with personal exposures to carbon monoxide, particular matter, and levoglucosan
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - April 30, 2008 Authors: R NeitzelL P NaeherM PaulsenK DunnA StockC D Simpson Source Type: info
Assessing departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the presence of disease association
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - April 30, 2008 Authors: Mingyao Li, Chun Li Source Type: info
Biomarkers of selenium status in the amazonian context: Blood, urine and sequential hair segments
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - April 30, 2008 Authors: Melanie LemireDonna MerglerGuy HuelCarlos J S PassosMyriam FillionAline PhilibertJean R D GuimarãesIsabelle RheaultJulie BorduasGabrielle Normand Source Type: info
Passive dosimeters for nitrogen dioxide in personal/indoor air sampling: A review
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - April 30, 2008 Authors: Chang Ho YuMaria T MorandiClifford P Weisel Source Type: info
Invited Commentary: Postmenopausal Unopposed Estrogen and Breast Cancer Risk in the Women's Health Initiative--Before and Beyond.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 29, 2008 Authors: Linet MS Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
Risk of Breast Cancer and Gynecologic Cancers in a Large Population of Nearly 50,000 Infertile Danish Women.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 29, 2008 Authors: Jensen A, Sharif H, Olsen JH, Kjær SK Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
Conjugated Equine Estrogens and Breast Cancer Risk in the Women's Health Initiative Clinical Trial and Observational Study.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 29, 2008 Authors: Prentice RL, Chlebowski RT, Stefanick ML, Manson JE, Langer RD, Pettinger M, Hendrix SL, Hubbell FA, Kooperberg C, Kuller LH, Lane DS, McTiernan A, O'Sullivan MJ, Rossouw JE, Anderson GL Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
Ischemic Stroke and Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The Latest Evidence on Mortality, Readmissions and Hospital Costs from Scotland
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 28, 2008 Source Type: info
A comparison of subjective and objective measures of physical activity and fitness in identifying associations with cardiometabolic risk factors.
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Source: Annals of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Schmidt MD, Cleland VJ, Thomson RJ, Dwyer T, Venn AJ Tags: Ann Epidemiol Source Type: info
Risk of Leukemia Among Survivors of Testicular Cancer: A Population-based Study of 42,722 Patients.
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Source: Annals of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Howard R, Gilbert E, Lynch CF, Hall P, Storm H, Holowaty E, Pukkala E, Langmark F, Kaijser M, Andersson M, Joensuu H, Fossa SD, Allan JM, Travis LB Tags: Ann Epidemiol Source Type: info
Malaria, Bahamas.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - April 25, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: info
Detecting Trends in Noisy Data Series: Application to Biomarker Series
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Bellera, C. A., Hanley, J. A., Joseph, L., Albertsen, P. C. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
The Association between Obesity and the Prevalence of Low Back Pain in Young Adults: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Shiri, R., Solovieva, S., Husgafvel-Pursiainen, K., Taimela, S., Saarikoski, L. A., Huupponen, R., Viikari, J., Raitakari, O. T., Viikari-Juntura, E. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Age-specific Trends in Mammographic Density: The Minnesota Breast Cancer Family Study
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Kelemen, L. E., Pankratz, V. S., Sellers, T. A., Brandt, K. R., Wang, A., Janney, C., Fredericksen, Z. S., Cerhan, J. R., Vachon, C. M. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Commercial fishing fatalities--California, Oregon, and Washington, 2000-2006.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 25, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
Availability of cefixime 400 mg tablets--United States, April 2008.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 25, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
Patterns of Alcohol (Especially Wine) Consumption and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study among a Population in Southern France.
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Source: Annals of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Bessaoud F, Daurès JP Tags: Ann Epidemiol Source Type: info
Dietary Boron and Hormone Replacement Therapy as Risk Factors for Lung Cancer in Women
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Mahabir, S., Spitz, M. R., Barrera, S. L., Dong, Y. Q., Eastham, C., Forman, M. R. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Genetic association tests in the presence of epistasis or gene-environment interaction
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Kai Wang Source Type: info
RE: "INVITED COMMENTARY: VARIABLE SELECTION VERSUS SHRINKAGE IN THE CONTROL OF MULTIPLE CONFOUNDERS"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Tags: CORRECTION Source Type: info
"Culture of Drinking" and Individual Problems with Alcohol Use
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Ahern, J., Galea, S., Hubbard, A., Midanik, L., Syme, S. L. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Pulmonary Function and the Risk of Functional Limitation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Eisner, M. D., Iribarren, C., Yelin, E. H., Sidney, S., Katz, P. P., Ackerson, L., Lathon, P., Tolstykh, I., Omachi, T., Byl, N., Blanc, P. D. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Fatalities among oil and gas extraction workers--United States, 2003-2006.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 25, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
THE AUTHORS REPLY
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Kelly, C., Arnold, R., Galloway, Y., O'Hallahan, J. Tags: LETTER Source Type: info
Hormonal Risk Factors for Ovarian Cancer in Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Moorman, P. G., Calingaert, B., Palmieri, R. T., Iversen, E. S., Bentley, R. C., Halabi, S., Berchuck, A., Schildkraut, J. M. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Buruli ulcer: progress report, 2004-2008.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - April 25, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: info
Alcohol Drinking, Cigarette Smoking, and Risk of Colorectal Adenomatous and Hyperplastic Polyps
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Shrubsole, M. J., Wu, H., Ness, R. M., Shyr, Y., Smalley, W. E., Zheng, W. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
RE: "A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MENINGOCOCCAL B VACCINE"
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Lennon, D., Stewart, J., Crengle, S. Tags: LETTER Source Type: info
Influenza.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - April 25, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: info
Gang Exposure and Pregnancy Incidence among Female Adolescents in San Francisco: Evidence for the Need to Integrate Reproductive Health with Violence Prevention Efforts
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Minnis, A. M., Moore, J. G., Doherty, I. A., Rodas, C., Auerswald, C., Shiboski, S., Padian, N. S. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Evidence from Nonrandomized Studies: A Case Study on the Estimation of Causal Effects
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Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Schmoor, C., Caputo, A., Schumacher, M. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: info
Age-related Effects of Smoking on Lung Cancer Mortality: A Nationwide Case-Control Comparison in 103 Population Centers in China.
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Source: Annals of Epidemiology - April 25, 2008 Authors: Jiang J, Liu B, Nasca PC, Chen J, Zeng X, Wu Y, Zou X, Zhao P, Li J Tags: Ann Epidemiol Source Type: info
Enhanced detection of genetic association of hypertensive heart disease by analysis of latent phenotypes
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - April 24, 2008 Authors: C. Charles Gu, Hubert R. Flores, Lisa de las Fuentes, Victor G. Dávila-Román Source Type: info
Maternal Asthma Medication Use and the Risk of Gastroschisis.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 23, 2008 Authors: Lin S, Munsie JP, Herdt-Losavio ML, Bell E, Druschel C, Romitti PA, Olney R, Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
Psychiatric Diagnoses in Historic and Contemporary Military Cohorts: Combat Deployment and the Healthy Warrior Effect.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 23, 2008 Authors: Larson GE, Highfill-McRoy RM, Booth-Kewley S Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
Familial Aggregation of Cryptorchidism--A Nationwide Cohort Study.
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 23, 2008 Authors: Schnack TH, Zdravkovic S, Myrup C, Westergaard T, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
Invited Commentary: How Healthy is the "Healthy Warrior"?
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Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 22, 2008 Authors: Toomey R Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: info
On multiple-testing correction in genome-wide association studies
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Source: Genetic Epidemiology - April 19, 2008 Authors: Valentina Moskvina, Karl Michael Schmidt Source Type: info
Spatial Clusters of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Mortality in Japan between 1995 and 2004
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 18, 2008 Source Type: info
Homocysteine, Folate and Cognition in a Large Community-Based Sample of Elderly People -- The 3C Dijon Study
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 18, 2008 Source Type: info
Measuring the Prevalence of Stroke
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 18, 2008 Source Type: info
Interim within-season estimate of the effectiveness of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine--Marshfield, Wisconsin, 2007-08 influenza season.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 18, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
Brief summary of analyses of the 2007 survey on the capacity of National Influenza Centres.
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Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - April 18, 2008 Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: info
Rotavirus vaccination coverage and adherence to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)-recommended vaccination schedule--United States, February 2006-May 2007.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 18, 2008 Authors: , Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
Update: influenza activity--United States, September 30, 2007-April 5, 2008, and composition of the 2008-09 influenza vaccine.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 18, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
Laboratory-acquired vaccinia exposures and infections--United States, 2005-2007.
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Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - April 18, 2008 Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: info
Compendium of animal rabies prevention and control, 2008: National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc. (NASPHV).
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Source: MMWR Recomm Rep - April 18, 2008 Tags: MMWR Recomm Rep Source Type: info
Genes and Environmental Exposures in Veterans with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: The GENEVA Study
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 17, 2008 Source Type: info
The National Registry of Veterans with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 17, 2008 Source Type: info
Leave 'em Alone -- Why Continuous Variables Should Be Analyzed as Such
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Source: Neuroepidemiology - April 17, 2008 Source Type: info
Bisphenol A (BPA) daily intakes in the United States: Estimates from the 2003–2004 NHANES urinary BPA data
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - April 16, 2008 Authors: Judy S LakindDaniel Q Naiman Source Type: info
Use of a simple pharmacokinetic model to characterize exposure to perchlorate
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - April 16, 2008 Authors: Matthew Lorber Source Type: info
Surface-to-food pesticide transfer as a function of moisture and fat content
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Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology - April 16, 2008 Authors: Anne P VonderheideCraig E BernardThomas E HieberPeter E KauffmanJeffrey N MorganLisa Jo Melnyk Source Type: info
Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Childhood Respiratory Symptoms, Function and Allergies.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (388 K) Source Type: info
Cigarette Smoking and Dementia: Potential Selection Bias in the Elderly.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (219 K) Source Type: info
Air Temperature and Inflammatory Responses in Myocardial Infarction Survivors.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (379 K) Source Type: info
Raising the Level of Analysis of Food-Borne Outbreaks: Food-Sharing Networks in Rural Coastal Ecuador.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (478 K) Source Type: info
Measures of Biological Interaction and the STROBE Statement.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (127 K) Source Type: info
Prior Assault and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Combat Deployment.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (289 K) Source Type: info
Bone Lead Levels and Blood Pressure Endpoints: A Meta-Analysis.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (558 K) Source Type: info
Chocolate Consumption in Pregnancy and Reduced Likelihood of Preeclampsia.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (230 K) Source Type: info
Epidemiologists (of All People) Should Question Journal Impact Factors.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (143 K) Source Type: info
How Come Scientists Uncritically Adopt and Embody Thomson's Bibliographic Impact Factor?
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (94 K) Source Type: info
The Impact Factor Follies.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (58 K) Source Type: info
Trends in Autism Spectrum Disorder Referrals.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (127 K) Source Type: info
Residential Magnetic Field Exposure and Childhood Brain Cancer: A Meta-Analysis.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (391 K) Source Type: info
Shift Work, hCLOCK T3111C Polymorphism, and Endometriosis Risk.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (314 K) Source Type: info
State of the Journal-2008.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (47 K) Source Type: info
Impact Factor: Good Reasons for Concern.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (59 K) Source Type: info
Measures of Biological Interaction and the STROBE Statement.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (127 K) Source Type: info
A Conversation With Henry Blackburn.
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Source: Epidemiology - April 15, 2008 Tags: HTML PDF (535 K) Source Type: info
Suicide After Breast Augmentation.
