Epidemiology: A Problem-solving Journey (2009)
As a scientific discipline, epidemiology has helped liberate the practice of public health and medicine from dogmatic thinking over the past century. This commentary highlights some integrating...
Lucas, Katherine E., Armenian, Haroutune K., Petersen, Gloria M., Rowe, Peter C.
Aims We hypothesized that family history of fainting is a risk factor for adult-onset neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) in patients who present with chronic fatigue rather than fainting. Methods...
Lucas, Katherine E., Armenian, Haroutune K., Petersen, Gloria M., Rowe, Peter C.
Aims We hypothesized that family history of fainting is a risk factor for adult-onset neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) in patients who present with chronic fatigue rather than fainting. Methods...
A Glimpse into the Future (2001)
Hsing, Ann W., Chang, Luke, Nomura, Abraham M., Isaacs, William B., Armenian, Haroutune K.
Sibai, Abla M., Fletcher, Astrid, Armenian, Haroutune K.
The authors investigated the relation between exposure to wartime events and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in Lebanon, which recently underwent a 16-year civil war. The study...
Long-term psychological stress and heart disease (2000)
Sibai, Abla M, Armenian, Haroutune K, Moore, L, Meyer, F, Bairati, I
Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Results of a Case-Control Study (2000)
Blanchard, James F., Armenian, Haroutune K., Friesen, Pamela Poulter
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) have historically been considered to be a manifestation of atherosclerosis. However, there are epidemiologic and biochemical differences between occlusive...
Armenian, Haroutune K., Melkonian, Arthur K., Hovanesian, Ashot P.
To assess the relation of increased mortality and morbidity to personal loss and damage following the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, the authors conducted a prospective study of mortality and a nested...
Armenian, Haroutune K., Pratt, Laura A., Gallo, Joseph, Eaton, William W.
To determine whether psychopathology is associated with disability as a result of underlying physical illness or whether such psychopathology antedates disability and is an independent determinant of...
Risk Factors for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (1996)
Armenian, Haroutune K., Hoover, Donald R., Rubb, Susan, Metz, Sharon, Martinez-Maza, Otoniel, Chmiel, Joan, ...
The possibility that an agent in addition to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may contribute to the etiology of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)...
Use of Case-Control Studies in Outbreak Investigations (1994)
Dwyer, Diane M., Strickler, Howard, Goodman, Richard A., Armenian, Haroutune K.
Armenian, Haroutune K., Hoover, Donald R., Rubb, Susan, Metz, Sharon, Kaslow, Richard, Visscher, Barbara, ...
The possibility that an agent in addition to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 may be involved in the etiology of Kaposi's sarcoma in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients was...
Hoover, Donald R., Black, Cynthia, Jacobson, Lisa P., Martinez-Maza, Otoniel, Seminara, Daniela, Saah, Alfred, ...
The authors separately studied the epidemiology (risk and risk factors) of Kaposi's sarcoma occurring as an initial acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) outcome (earty Kaposi's sarcoma) and...
ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K, MCCARTHY, JAMES F, BALBANIAN, SEVAN G O
Using parish records from 10 different countries with small Armenian communities, this study compared patterns of in fant mortality in these countnes over a period of 245 years. Deaths registered as...
Issues of Rescue and Medical Care Following the 1988 Armenian Earthquake (1993)
NOJI, ERIC K, ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K, OGANESSIAN, ASHOT
On-site emergency care and rescue efforts may be critical in preventing disability and other serious consequences of disasters. In this report we compare efforts used in the rescue and emergency...
Use of the Case-Control Method in Outbreak Investigations (1991)
Fonseca, Maria Goretti Pereira, Armenian, Haroutune K.
The authors carried out a critical assessment of the literature to learn about the extent of use of the case-control method in outbreak investigations, and to identify problems observed in the use of...
WARTIME DETERMINANTS OF ARTERIOGRAPHICALLY CONFIRMED CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN BEIRUT (1989)
SIBAI, ABLA M., ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., ALAM, SAMER
This study investigates the association of wartime stress variables and coronary artery disease as determined by coronary angiography in Lebanon in 1986, a country with an ongoing civil war for over...
PATTERNS OF MORTALITY IN ARMENIAN PARISH RECORDS FROM ELEVEN COUNTRIES (1989)
ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., MCCARTHY, JAMES F., BALABANIAN, SEVAN G. O.
A study of the trends and distributions of mortality in parish records of Armenian churches from 11 countries spanning over 242 years is the basis of this report In all parishes, the relative...
HOSPITAL VISITORS AS CONTROLS (1988)
ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., LAKKIS, NAILA G., SIBAI, ABLA M., HALABI, SUSAN S.
WIDOWHOOD AND MORTALITY IN AN ARMENIAN CHURCH PARISH IN LEBANON (1987)
ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., SAADEH, FADIA M., ARMENIAN, SONA L.
A nonconcurrent cohort study was conducted in Lebanon by using the parish records of an Armenian Apostolic Orthodox church. Included in the study were 1,529 married couples. The observation period...
A Case-Control Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Lebanon (1987)
DARWISH, MAY J., ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K.
A case-control study was conducted to investigate the riak factors contributing to the development of rheumatold arthritis (RA) in Lebanon. One hundred cases of classical and definite RA were...
ENDOMETRIOSIS IN LEBANON: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY (1986)
OBERMEYER, CARLA MAKHLOUF, ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., AZOURY, RAMEZ
Makhlouf Obermeyer, C., H. K. Armenian (Dept. of Epidemiology and Blostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, American U. of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon), and R. Azoury. Endometriosis in Lebanon: a...
EPIDEMIOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS (1975)
ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., LILIENFELD, ABRAHAM M., DIAMOND, EARL L., BROSS, IRWIN D. J.
Armenian. H. K., A. M. Lilienfeld (Johns Hopkins U. School of Hygiene and Public Health. 615 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21205), E. L. Diamond and I. D. J. Bross. Epidemiologic characteristics of...
THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCUBATION PERIODS OF NEOPLASTIC DISEASES (1974)
ARMENIAN, HAROUTUNE K., LILIENFELD, ABRAHAM M.
This study attempts to apply Sartwell's model of the distribution of incubation periods in infectious diseases to the distribution of incubation periods in neoplasms. In order to estimate this...