Five-Year Secular Trends and Predictors of Nonconsent to Receive Donor Milk in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: To identify independent maternal and infant factors associated with donor milk nonconsent and to examine secular trends in nonconsent rates.

Materials And Methods: Mothers of infants eligible to receive donor milk (≤32 weeks of gestation or ≤1,800 g) born between August 2010 and 2015 were included. Multivariable logistic regression modeled odds of nonconsent.

A tailored multi-media campaign to promote the human papillomavirus cohort study to young women.

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease, is now recognized as the major cause of cervical cancer. The Cancer Research Center of Hawaii developed a low-cost and culturally sensitive multimedia campaign to recruit Oahu women to their HPV cohort study, specifically targeting women 18 to 35 years of age.

Methods: Initial promotions and enrollment revealed the highest prevalence of HPV among women ages 18-35.

Calcitonin gene polymorphism CALCA-624 (T/C) and ovarian cancer.

In a previous analysis, we reported an inverse association of dietary calcium intake with the risk of ovarian cancer (Goodman et al. 2002. Am J Epidemiol 156:148-57).

Polymorphisms of interleukin (IL)-1alpha, IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-18 and the risk of ovarian cancer.

Objective: Recent studies of ovarian cancer have suggested a role for inflammation in carcinogenesis. Data from a population-based case-control study in Hawaii were examined to assess the relation between polymorphisms in cytokines involved with the inflammatory response, specifically members of the interleukin (IL) family and the incidence of ovarian cancer.

Patients And Methods: The analysis of 182 epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 219 controls focused on the polymorphisms in the following genes: IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-18.

Effects of occupational solvent exposure on reproductive hormone concentrations and fecundability in men.

Background: Little is known about the effects of organic solvents on male reproductive health. To assess fertility and reproductive endocrine function in solvent-exposed men, we investigated time-to-pregnancy using a retrospective cohort design and cross-sectionally measured reproductive hormone concentrations in painters and millwrights compared to a reference group of carpenters.

Methods: Detailed occupational, exposure, medical, and time-to-pregnancy histories were obtained by telephone interview.