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| | Epidemiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Epidemiology is considered the cornerstone methodology in all of public health research, and is highly regarded in evidence-based clinical medicine for identifying risk factors for disease and determining optimal treatment approaches to clinical practice. | | | Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations (Rothman and Greenland), and the application of this study to control health problems (Last 2001). | | | Although epidemiology is sometimes viewed as a collection of statistical tools used to elucidate the associations of exposures to health outcomes, a deeper understanding of this science is that of discovering causal relationships. |
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| | Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "How to Understand Scientific Studies and Epidemiology." |
| | Epidemiology is based on observation, and is thus in contrast with laboratory studies, which develop hard cause-and-effect relationships from experimental evidence. | | | While the concepts of epidemiology are basic, the application is fraught with pitfalls. | | | The concept of epidemiology should be clearer to the reader now, and yet it is to be hoped that something else is clear to the reader as well. |
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| | CEH No.24 Epidemiology in Practice: Disease Incidence |
| | There are two measures of incidence the incidence risk and the incidence rate (see box Measures of Incidence) The incidence risk is also known as the cumulative incidence It provides an estimate of the probability that an individual will develop a disease during a specified period of time. | | | The incidence rate is likely to be a more accurate measure of disease incidence than the incidence risk because it takes into account the fact that, in most studies, not everyone is followed-up for all of the time. | | | Measures of incidence are not available for many diseases because the studies required to collect the information (cohort or longitudinal studies) are expensive and difficult to conduct. |
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| | Rednova NEWS Epidemiology of Tuberculosis : Current Status in India |
| | It appears to be due to reduced breakdown, and the consequent incidence, specifically from among the X+ cases, through their treatment (a sort of secondary chemoprophylaxis). | | | An alternative hypothesis of likely socio-economic change in the area reducing breakdown, may not be tenable, as the same was not reflected in ARI and incidence of S+ cases. | | | The incidence cases, on the other hand, occur from the breakdown among those previously infected decades back. |
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| | Brain Cancer Incidence in Children: Time to Look Beyond the Trends Medical and Pediatric Oncology 33:110-112 1999 James ... |
| | Because of the relative rarity of childhood cancers, especially when stratified by site or histology, incidence rates are considerably more sensitive to changes in case identification than are most adult cancers. | | | What is sometimes not appreciated, however, is that increasing incidence rates of brain cancer do not necessarily equate to increasing occurrence of brain cancer. | | | Davis FG, Preston-Martin S. Epidemiology, incidence and survival. |
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http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Brain-Cancer-Incidence-Children.htm
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| | Autism Incidence Statistics & Epidemiology |
| | The cruel reality is that the last published incidence of autism in the UK of 1 in 324 (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, volume 39, p 694), was just amended this week to 1 in 166, according to a Medical Research Council (MRC) report commissioned by the Department of Health. | | | A Finnish study looking at the incidence of autism in the northern provinces, revealed a fourfold increase between 1979 and 1994 with a present incidence rate of 1 in 483 among 5 to 7-year-olds (European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, volume 9, p 162). | | | Also, in this study, a clear increase in the number of children with IQ of 70+ was reported. |
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http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/November2002/AutismIncidence6.htm
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| | Farley R. Cleghorn Research Interests - IHV |
| | The S/LS assay has allowed the estimation of HIV incidence without the time and resources necessary to follow a cohort of at-risk seronegative individuals, and is applicable in most clinical settings. | | | This isolate from Haiti was clearly subtype B. With recent advances in technology allowing more rapid and efficient full genome sequencing, we are attempting to more fully characterize the circulating HIV strains in the Caribbean in collaboration with Dr. Jean Carr from the Henry Jackson Foundation in Rockville, Maryland. | | | Click here to visit the Clinical Trials section of our site. |
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| | The Cancer Epidemiology Homepage - CancerIndex |
| | Epidemiology And Clinical Trials Interest Group This is a Special Interest Group of the National Institutes of Health with membership open to researchers in other DHHS agencies. | | | Cancer Incidence in East Anglia 1999 (UK) The web site includes incidence data for East Anglia prepred by the East Anglian Cancer Intelligence Unit. | | | Duke's Occupational and Environmental Medicine list of New Materials A site containing links to current news relaeses by NIOSH, OSHA, EPA, WHO. |
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| | INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE DATABASE [465] |
| | The Article Review text sections bring you the latest medical research findings to complement the incidence and prevalence data, including morbidity, mortality, natural history, concomitant diseases, cost issues, and other vital clinical and demographic information. | | | Article Review text sections are abstracted from hundreds of scientific, medical, and business journals. | | | Questions concerning the IPD should be directed to: |
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| | Delv.co.uk: incidence websites in the UK |
| | Delv.co.uk: incidence websites in the UK Viewing Results for "incidence" - Showing 1 - 1 | | | Starware search is an excellent resource for quality sites on incidence and much more! | | | At eBay you can find practically anything, even incidence. |
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| | Weiss NS, Assessing the effects of a therapy by comparing the experience of currently treated and formerly treated patients, Epidemiology, 10(2), 196-7, March 1999 | | | Goldoft MJ, Weiss NS, Incidence of male genital skin tumors: lack of increase in the United States, Cancer Causes and Control, 3(1), 91-3, January 1992 | | | Beresford SA, Weiss NS, Voigt LF, McKnight B, Risk of endometrial cancer in relation to use of oestrogen combined with cyclic progestagen therapy in postmenopausal women, Lancet, 349(9050), 458-61, February 1997 |
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| | Epidemiology |
| | Why does individual (or population) A get sick but not individual or population B? Epidimiology also deals with determining factors that contribute to disease cure (i.e., What works and what doesn't?). | | | Epidemiology is a powerful means by which science answers important questions, concerning causes of disease, from population information (such as location and rate of increase in disease incidence). | | | While epidemiology can be very effective in ascertaining large effects, the significance of epidemiological conclusions when effects are very small is debatable. |
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http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/biol2045.htm
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| | Abstract: Annual incidence of PMR among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1970-99, by sex and age group, per ... |
| | (p < 0.001), but not calendar year (p = 0.24) were significant predictors of incidence. | | | A Poisson regression model was used to evaluate predictors of PMR incidence. | | | From the Department of Health Sciences Research and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. |
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| | empyema epidemiology |
| | The reported incidence of empyema following pneumonia varies (0.7% to 9%) in the pediatric literature. | | | A recent review of 50 cases of pediatric empyema reported that the incidence of empyema is increasing and the epidemiology is changing. | | | In the 1940's, before the development of penicillin and sulfa antibiotics, empyema was usually caused by Streptococcus pneumonia. |
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http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/All-Net/english/pulmpage/infect/empyema1.htm
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| | Epidemiology of Kaposis sarcoma in Scotland, 19761996 |
| | These changes are largely consistent with the pattern of HIV infection in Scotland. | | | 96 the standardized incidence ratio for the Health Board which includes Edinburgh had risen to almost four times the national level. | | | In males, the annual age-standardized incidence rate (World standard population) increased from less than 0.09 per 100 000 before 1986 to 0.44 in 1991 and then decreased to around 0.17. |
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http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/bjc/journal/v79/n11/abs/6690309a.html
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| | National epidemiology of endemic fungal inefctions in children |
| | Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to | | | Background: The national incidence and epidemiology of endemic fungal infections in children have not been fully reported and have only been discussed in smaller case studies. | | | Describe the national epidemiology of endemic fungal infections in children, including the burden to the pediatric population and who is affected. |
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| | PHPR 6440: INFECTIOUS DISEASES MODULE |
| | 5-20 million Americans have genital herpes and incidence is increasing | | | incidence increasing (greatest increase in African Americans and Hispanics); incidence decreasing in Whites | | | peak incidence in 16 to 35 year old females |
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| | Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, The: Swine vesicular disease: Incidence, pathogenicity, epidemiology, ... |
| | FindArticles > Reference and Education > Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, The > Jun 2001 > Article | | | Swine vesicular disease is a contagious viral disease sometimes confused with foot and mouth disease. | | | Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, The: Swine vesicular disease: Incidence, pathogenicity, epidemiology, diagnosis, economic impact |
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| | Incidence and time trends for lymphomas, leukemias and myelomas: hypothesis generation. Working Group on the ... |
| | The incidence of NHL is also increased among subjects with HIV infection and subjects undergoing heart or kidney transplantation, all of whom experience immunodeficiency. | | | From a mechanistic point of view, one can hypothesize that NHL is caused by exposures that induce proliferation and immortalization of B-cells, followed by T-cell impairment entailing cell-mediated immune deficiency. | | | A hypothesis that has been put forward recently is that the NHL increase is related to increased exposure to sunlight, which has immunosuppressive effects. |
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| | UpToDate Epidemiology and risk factors for breast cancer |
| | At least some of this increase may be attributable to increased use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) [5], or the use of different ER/PgR assays (ie, ligand-binding versus immunohistochemistry). | | | Other SEER data have identified similar rates of ductal cancer incidence but a two-fold higher proportion of lobular cancers over the period between 1987 and 1999, an interesting finding in view of case control studies that link HRT to lobular cancers [6]. | | | The most recent data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute indicate that the lifetime probability of developing breast cancer is one in six, and for invasive breast cancer, it is one in nine [2]. |
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| | 8.2.0 Epidemiology, Global Incidence |
| | Improving socioeconomic and sanitary conditions (as has occurred in many developing nations) results in decreased HAV transmission among children. | | | The incidence of hepatitis A virus infection and corresponding patterns of transmission vary across the globe. | | | This decreased incidence in childhood eventually leads to an increase in adult susceptibility to HAV and in increased recognition of outbreaks among adults, who are more likely to be symptomatic. |
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http://www.bu.edu/cme/std/sec08/sec08-2.0.0.shtml
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| | EBV-Epidem-NC |
| | Nasopharyngeal cancer incidence rates are less than 1 per 100,000 in most populations. | | | Nasopharyngeal carcinomas are another carcinoma found in association with reactivation of latent Epstein-Barr Virus. | | | Isolated northern populations such as Eskimos and Greenlanders also show higher incidence. |
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http://brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects2000/Herpes/EBV/EBV-Epidem-NC.html
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| | NEWSTEMPLATE |
| | The proposed research is predicted to provide valuable information on the identity, incidence, and epidemiology of the major viruses infecting soybeans in Kentucky. | | | This knowledge is essential for formulating effective control measures against the viruses that threaten soybean production. | | | These studies will also assess the impact of the newly introduced soybean-colonizing aphids (Aphis glycines) on the spread of SMV and other aphid-transmitted viruses. |
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| | The incidence, epidemiology and aetiology of osteoporosis |
| | No increase in fracture incidence in patients treated for thyrotoxicosis in Malmo during 1970-1974. | | | Paul TL, Kerrigan J, Kelly AM, Braverman LE, Baran DT. |
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| | WHO Hepatitis E |
| | Low incidence is reported in Italy and Spain (1995). | | | Hepatitis outbreaks occurring in Europe prior to the 20th century, and believed to be hepatitis A, had the epidemiologic characteristics of hepatitis E. HEV, more labile and shed in lower titres than HAV, may have disappeared from more industrialized countries in the recent past, just as HAV is currently diminishing in importance in these countries. |
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http://www.who.int/csr/disease/hepatitis/whocdscsredc200112/en/index4.html
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| | Worldwide incidence, molecular epidemiology and mutations implicated in fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus ... |
| | Objectives: To analyse the mutations and epidemiology associated | | | Worldwide incidence, molecular epidemiology and mutations implicated in fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: data from the global PROTEKT surveillance programme -- Canton et al. | | | Worldwide incidence, molecular epidemiology and mutations implicated in fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: data from the global PROTEKT surveillance programme |
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http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/6/944
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