(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(3) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(4) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(5) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(6) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(7) The clinical and epidemiological aspects of these 35 cases are discussed.
(8) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(9) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(10) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(11) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(12) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(13) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(14) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(15) This may help explain the poor correlation of low-back pain with radiographic degenerative changes reported in previous epidemiologic studies.
(16) Nevertheless, they are still being widely used, since in most cases only the epidemiology of the disease points to the etiologic role of A. cantonensis.
(17) However, the epidemiology and clinical course of AIDS are different in Africa and in the West.
(18) The author formulates possible approaches to the solution of the information problem in epidemiology.
(19) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(20) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.
Epidemiology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(3) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(4) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(5) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(6) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(7) The clinical and epidemiological aspects of these 35 cases are discussed.
(8) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(9) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(10) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(11) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(12) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(13) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(14) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(15) This may help explain the poor correlation of low-back pain with radiographic degenerative changes reported in previous epidemiologic studies.
(16) Nevertheless, they are still being widely used, since in most cases only the epidemiology of the disease points to the etiologic role of A. cantonensis.
(17) However, the epidemiology and clinical course of AIDS are different in Africa and in the West.
(18) The author formulates possible approaches to the solution of the information problem in epidemiology.
(19) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(20) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.