Alonso, A., Jacobs, D.R., Menotti, A., Nissinen, A., Dontas, A., Kafatos, A., ...
Previous research shows that cardiovascular risk factors in mid-adulthood could increase the risk of dementia later in life, but studies with very long follow-up are still scarce. We assessed whether...
Buijsse, B., Feskens, E.J.M., Moschandreas, J., Jansen, E.H., Jacobs, D.R., Kafatos, A., ...
Background: Oxidative stress may accelerate ageing and increase the risk of chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease (CHD). We assessed differences in oxidative stress, and iron and...
Diez Roux, A. V., Auchincloss, A. H., Astor, B., Barr, R. G., Cushman, M., Dvonch, T., ...
Ambient levels of particulate matter have been linked to cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms mediating these associations are poorly understood. One candidate mechanism is inflammation. Using data...
Within-person variation in serum lipids: implications for clinical trials (2004)
Pereira, M.A., Weggemans, R.M., Jacobs, D.R., Hannan, P.J., Zock, P.L., Ordovas, J.M., ...
Diez Roux, A. V., Merkin, S. Stein, Hannan, P., Jacobs, D. R., Kiefe, C. I.
The 10-year follow-up examination in 1995–1996 to the population-based Coronary Artery Disease Risk Development in Young Adults Study was used to compare the strength with which socioeconomic...
Arts, I.C.W., Jacobs Jr., D.R., Gross, M., Harnack, L.J., Folsom, A.R.
Catechins are bioactive flavonoids present in tea, fruits, and vegetables. Previous epidemiological studies regarding tea and cancer risk were inconclusive, possibly because catechins are also...
Dietary catechins in relation to coronary heart disease death among postmenopausal women (2001)
Arts, I.C.W., Jacobs, D.R., Harnack, L.J., Gross, M., Folsom, A.R.
Catechins, one of the major groups of flavonoids, are bioactive compounds present in a variety of plant foods and beverages. Experimental data suggest that they might prevent chronic diseases in...
Mulder, I., Smit, H.A., Jacobs, D.R., Menotti, A., Nissinen, A., ...
We examined the role of smoking and diet in the cross-cultural variation in lung-cancer mortality, using aggregated data of the Seven Countries Study, a follow-up study comprising 12,763 middle-aged...
Cholesterol screening: observed cholesterol reduction in a prospective study in Norway (1993)
KLEPP, K-I., ULVIK, R.J., MATTHIESEN, S.B., HANNAN, P., JACOBS, D.R., AARØ, L.E.
The general public of the City of Bergen, Norway was Invited to participate in a cholesterol screening programme in October 1988. Participants received the results of the cholesterol screening and...
SALONEN, J T, KOTTKE, T E, JACOBS, D R, HANNAN, P J
Community-based cardiovascular disease control studies represent an effort to change cardiovascular disease rates in entire communities. Communities, rather than individuals, are the primary units of...
Parent involvement with children's health promotion: the Minnesota Home Team.
Perry, C L, Luepker, R V, Murray, D M, Kurth, C, Mullis, R, Crockett, S, ...
This study compares the efficacy of a school-based program to an equivalent home-based program with 2,250 third grade students in 31 urban schools in Minnesota in order to detect changes in dietary...
Is early natural menopause a biologic marker of health and aging?
Snowdon, D A, Kane, R L, Beeson, W L, Burke, G L, Sprafka, J M, Potter, J, ...
The relation between age at natural menopause and all-cause mortality was investigated in a sample of 5,287 White women, ages 55 to 100 years, naturally-postmenopausal, Seventh-day Adventists who had...
Patterns of health-compromising behaviors among Minnesota adolescents: sociodemographic variations.
Neumark-Sztainer, D, Story, M, French, S, Cassuto, N, Jacobs, D R, Resnick, M D
OBJECTIVES: This study compared prevalence rates of health-compromising behaviors among boys and girls from different ethnic backgrounds in early, middle, and late adolescence and compared...
Lewis, C E, Smith, D E, Wallace, D D, Williams, O D, Bild, D E, Jacobs, D R
OBJECTIVES: This study estimated the amount of weight change in a biracial cohort of young adults and the separate components attributable to time-related and aging-related changes, as well as...
Wagenknecht, L E, Cutter, G R, Haley, N J, Sidney, S, Manolio, T A, Hughes, G H, ...
Cotinine was measured in the serum of nearly all 5,115 18-30 year old, Black and White, men and women participating in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in (Young) Adults Study, 30 percent of whom...
A descriptive epidemiology of leisure-time physical activity.
Stephens, T, Jacobs, D R, White, C C
Eight national surveys conducted in the United States and Canada between 1972 and 1983 are reviewed for evidence of leisure-time physical activity patterns in the population. The authors' major...
Relationships between exercise or physical activity and other health behaviors.
Blair, S N, Jacobs, D R, Powell, K E
Physical activity may indirectly influence health behaviors such as overeating, smoking, substance abuse, stress management, risk taking, and others. Substantial evidence indicates that physical...
Trends in cigarette smoking: the Minnesota Heart Survey, 1980 through 1992.
Arnett, D K, Sprafka, J M, McGovern, P G, Jacobs, D R, Shahar, E, McCarty, M, ...
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking between 1980 through 1982 and 1990 through 1992 in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. METHODS: Three...
Jacobs, D R, Meyer, K A, Kushi, L H, Folsom, A R
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether nutrient-rich whole grains reduce mortality risk. METHODS: The study included 38,740 Iowa women, aged 55 to 69 years. A food frequency questionnaire...
Luepker, R V, Murray, D M, Jacobs, D R, Mittelmark, M B, Bracht, N, Carlaw, R, ...
OBJECTIVES. The Minnesota Heart Health Program is a 13-year research and demonstration project to reduce morbidity and mortality from coronary heart disease in whole communities. METHODS. Three pairs...
Smoking and weight: the Minnesota Lipid Research Clinic.
The relationship between smoking and weight was examined in data of Lipid Research Clinic (LRC) Prevalence Study in Richfield, Minnesota. Weight was analyzed according to smoking status, age, and...
Saliva thiocyanate: a chemical indicator of cigarette smoking in adolescents.
Luepker, R V, Pechacek, T F, Murray, D M, Johnson, C A, Hund, F, Jacobs, D R
Denial and minimization in self-reports of cigarette smoking are probable common among youth and other groups where smoking is discouraged. Chemical measures may obtain more accurate measurement of...
Coronary heart disease mortality trends in Minnesota, 1960-80: the Minnesota Heart Survey.
Gillum, R F, Hannan, P J, Prineas, R J, Jacobs, D R, Gomez-Marin, O, Luepker, R V, ...
Age-adjusted mortality rates and trends from coronary heart disease (CHD) in Minnesota for the years 1960 to 1980 differed among eight health service areas. Regression of ten socioeconomic and...
Jeffery, R W, Folsom, A R, Luepker, R V, Jacobs, D R, Gillum, R F, Taylor, H L, ...
Data from two major surveys, conducted in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in 1973-74 and 1980-81, were used to estimate the prevalence of overweight. In 1980-81, weight history and the...
Murphy, R J, Luepker, R V, Jacobs, D R, Gillum, R F, Folsom, A R, Blackburn, H
To assess the prevalence and utility of citizen cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, a systematic population-based sample of Minneapolis-St. Paul area adults, age 25-74 years, was...
Consumption of 'low-yield' cigarettes: its frequency and relationship to serum thiocyanate.
Folsom, A R, Pechacek, T F, De Gaudemaris, R, Luepker, R V, Jacobs, D R, Gillum, R F
To determine the use and possible health risks of low-yield cigarettes, we ascertained the cigarette brands and serum thiocyanate (SCN) levels of 2,561 adult smokers (age 25-74) in population-based...
The US decline in stroke mortality: what does ecological analysis tell us?
Jacobs, D R, McGovern, P G, Blackburn, H
We review a study in this issue that concludes, from analyses of ecological associations, that the use of medication to lower high blood pressure has caused at most a small decline in US stroke...
Correlates of obesity in young black and white women: the CARDIA Study.
Burke, G L, Savage, P J, Manolio, T A, Sprafka, J M, Wagenknecht, L E, Sidney, S, ...
OBJECTIVES. Although differences in obesity between Blacks and Whites are well documented in adult women, less information is available on potential correlates of these differences, especially in...
The Healthy Worker Project: a work-site intervention for weight control and smoking cessation.
Jeffery, R W, Forster, J L, French, S A, Kelder, S H, Lando, H A, McGovern, P G, ...
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two...
Parent involvement with children's health promotion: the Minnesota Home Team.
Perry, C L, Luepker, R V, Murray, D M, Kurth, C, Mullis, R, Crockett, S, ...
This study compares the efficacy of a school-based program to an equivalent home-based program with 2,250 third grade students in 31 urban schools in Minnesota in order to detect changes in dietary...
Is early natural menopause a biologic marker of health and aging?
Snowdon, D A, Kane, R L, Beeson, W L, Burke, G L, Sprafka, J M, Potter, J, ...
The relation between age at natural menopause and all-cause mortality was investigated in a sample of 5,287 White women, ages 55 to 100 years, naturally-postmenopausal, Seventh-day Adventists who had...
Patterns of health-compromising behaviors among Minnesota adolescents: sociodemographic variations.
Neumark-Sztainer, D, Story, M, French, S, Cassuto, N, Jacobs, D R, Resnick, M D
OBJECTIVES: This study compared prevalence rates of health-compromising behaviors among boys and girls from different ethnic backgrounds in early, middle, and late adolescence and compared...
Lewis, C E, Smith, D E, Wallace, D D, Williams, O D, Bild, D E, Jacobs, D R
OBJECTIVES: This study estimated the amount of weight change in a biracial cohort of young adults and the separate components attributable to time-related and aging-related changes, as well as...
Wagenknecht, L E, Cutter, G R, Haley, N J, Sidney, S, Manolio, T A, Hughes, G H, ...
Cotinine was measured in the serum of nearly all 5,115 18-30 year old, Black and White, men and women participating in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in (Young) Adults Study, 30 percent of whom...
A descriptive epidemiology of leisure-time physical activity.
Stephens, T, Jacobs, D R, White, C C
Eight national surveys conducted in the United States and Canada between 1972 and 1983 are reviewed for evidence of leisure-time physical activity patterns in the population. The authors' major...
Relationships between exercise or physical activity and other health behaviors.
Blair, S N, Jacobs, D R, Powell, K E
Physical activity may indirectly influence health behaviors such as overeating, smoking, substance abuse, stress management, risk taking, and others. Substantial evidence indicates that physical...
Trends in cigarette smoking: the Minnesota Heart Survey, 1980 through 1992.
Arnett, D K, Sprafka, J M, McGovern, P G, Jacobs, D R, Shahar, E, McCarty, M, ...
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to describe trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking between 1980 through 1982 and 1990 through 1992 in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. METHODS: Three...
Jacobs, D R, Meyer, K A, Kushi, L H, Folsom, A R
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether nutrient-rich whole grains reduce mortality risk. METHODS: The study included 38,740 Iowa women, aged 55 to 69 years. A food frequency questionnaire...
Luepker, R V, Murray, D M, Jacobs, D R, Mittelmark, M B, Bracht, N, Carlaw, R, ...
OBJECTIVES. The Minnesota Heart Health Program is a 13-year research and demonstration project to reduce morbidity and mortality from coronary heart disease in whole communities. METHODS. Three pairs...
Smoking and weight: the Minnesota Lipid Research Clinic.
The relationship between smoking and weight was examined in data of Lipid Research Clinic (LRC) Prevalence Study in Richfield, Minnesota. Weight was analyzed according to smoking status, age, and...
Saliva thiocyanate: a chemical indicator of cigarette smoking in adolescents.
Luepker, R V, Pechacek, T F, Murray, D M, Johnson, C A, Hund, F, Jacobs, D R
Denial and minimization in self-reports of cigarette smoking are probable common among youth and other groups where smoking is discouraged. Chemical measures may obtain more accurate measurement of...
Coronary heart disease mortality trends in Minnesota, 1960-80: the Minnesota Heart Survey.
Gillum, R F, Hannan, P J, Prineas, R J, Jacobs, D R, Gomez-Marin, O, Luepker, R V, ...
Age-adjusted mortality rates and trends from coronary heart disease (CHD) in Minnesota for the years 1960 to 1980 differed among eight health service areas. Regression of ten socioeconomic and...
Jeffery, R W, Folsom, A R, Luepker, R V, Jacobs, D R, Gillum, R F, Taylor, H L, ...
Data from two major surveys, conducted in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in 1973-74 and 1980-81, were used to estimate the prevalence of overweight. In 1980-81, weight history and the...
Murphy, R J, Luepker, R V, Jacobs, D R, Gillum, R F, Folsom, A R, Blackburn, H
To assess the prevalence and utility of citizen cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, a systematic population-based sample of Minneapolis-St. Paul area adults, age 25-74 years, was...
Consumption of 'low-yield' cigarettes: its frequency and relationship to serum thiocyanate.
Folsom, A R, Pechacek, T F, De Gaudemaris, R, Luepker, R V, Jacobs, D R, Gillum, R F
To determine the use and possible health risks of low-yield cigarettes, we ascertained the cigarette brands and serum thiocyanate (SCN) levels of 2,561 adult smokers (age 25-74) in population-based...
The US decline in stroke mortality: what does ecological analysis tell us?
Jacobs, D R, McGovern, P G, Blackburn, H
We review a study in this issue that concludes, from analyses of ecological associations, that the use of medication to lower high blood pressure has caused at most a small decline in US stroke...
Correlates of obesity in young black and white women: the CARDIA Study.
Burke, G L, Savage, P J, Manolio, T A, Sprafka, J M, Wagenknecht, L E, Sidney, S, ...
OBJECTIVES. Although differences in obesity between Blacks and Whites are well documented in adult women, less information is available on potential correlates of these differences, especially in...
The Healthy Worker Project: a work-site intervention for weight control and smoking cessation.
Jeffery, R W, Forster, J L, French, S A, Kelder, S H, Lando, H A, McGovern, P G, ...
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two...