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Charles Brown

University of Michigan
Verified email at umich.edu
Cited by 13689

Estimates of human fertility and pregnancy loss

MJ Zinaman, ED Clegg, CC Brown, J O'Connor… - Fertility and sterility, 1996 - Elsevier
Objective To examine the fertility and pregnancy wastage rates in a group of presumably
fertile couples. Design Prospective observational study of 200 couples desiring to achieve …

Design and serendipity in establishing a large cohort with wide dietary intake distributions: the National Institutes of Health–American Association of Retired Persons …

…, DS Michaud, LS Freedman, CC Brown… - American journal of …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
In 1995–1996, the authors mailed a food frequency questionnaire to 3.5 million American
Association of Retired Persons members who were aged 50–69 years and who resided in one …

Cancer incidence and mortality trends among whites in the United States, 1947–84

…, JL Young Jr, ES Pollack, CC Brown… - Journal of the …, 1987 - academic.oup.com
Cancer incidence trends from the late 1940s to 1983–84 were assessed among white residents
of five geographic areas (Atlanta, Connecticut, Detroit, Iowa, San Francisco-Oakland) by …

Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System

CC Brown, WE Oates - Journal of Public Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a
model incorporating utility interdependence, the paper first presents some theoretical results …

N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)retinamide, A New Retinoid for Prevention of Breast Cancer in the Rat

…, SL Phillips, WR Henderson, LT Mullen, CC Brown… - Cancer research, 1979 - AACR
The synthesis of a new retinoid, N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-all-trans-retinamide, which has useful
biological properties, is described. This retinoid was more potent than retinyl acetate in …

Semen quality and human fertility: a prospective study with healthy couples

MJ Zinaman, CC Brown, SG SELEVAN… - Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Measures of semen quality are used as surrogate measures of male fertility in clinical andrology,
reproductive toxicology, epidemiology, and risk assessment. However, only limited data …

Cognitive research enhances accuracy of food frequency questionnaire reports: results of an experimental validation study

FE Thompson, AF Subar, CC Brown, AF Smith… - Journal of the American …, 2002 - Elsevier
Objective To test whether changing a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) on the basis of
cognitive theory and testing results in greater accuracy. Accuracy was examined for 4 design …

Evaluation of alternative approaches to assign nutrient values to food groups in food frequency questionnaires

…, D Midthune, M Kulldorff, CC Brown… - American journal of …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Although every food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) requires a nutrient database to produce
nutrient intake estimates, it is often unclear how a particular database has been generated. …

Performance of a food-frequency questionnaire in the us NIH–AARP (National Institutes of Health–American Association of Retired Persons) Diet and Health Study

…, RJ Carroll, AF Subar, CC Brown… - Public health …, 2008 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveWe evaluated the performance of the food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ)
administered to participants in the US NIH–AARP (National Institutes of Health–American …

Intake of vitamins E, C, and A and risk of lung cancer the NHANES I epidemiologic followup study

LC Yong, CC Brown, A Schatzkin… - American journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
The relation between the dietary intake of vitamins E, C, and A (estimated by a 24-hour
recall) and lung cancer incidence was examined in the First National Health and Nutrition …