Martin Vessey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3926374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Vessey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Vessey |
| SIGNATURE | VESSEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hormone replacement therapy
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of recruiting a cohort of women, including long term users of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), through computerised general practice prescribing records, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of users and non-user controls. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis of questionnaire data. SETTING--Subjects were recruited through 17 general practices in the Oxfordshire, south west…
A time to pregnancy questionnaire designed for long term recall
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To establish the degree of validity of data on time to pregnancy, derived retrospectively using a short questionnaire. DESIGN--Information from the questionnaire was compared with data that had been collected concurrently from the same individuals. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS--Questionnaires were mailed to 1647 women who continue to be followed up by the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study, and a further 424 were …
A long-term study of mortality in men who have undergone vasectomy
Background Vasectomy is a reliable and widely accepted method of contraception, but there is some uncertainty and few data about a possible long-term adverse effect on health. Methods We examined the relation between vasectomy and mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all causes in a retrospective cohort of husbands of members of the Nurses' Health Study. In 1989 we obtained data by questionnaire on 14,607 men who had undergone…
Do British women undergo too many or too few hysterectomies
Myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in young women
The Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study has now followed 17,000 women, predominantly of childbearing age, for a total of more than 200,000 woman-years. The incidence of myocardial infarction and angina in women aged less than 50 years has been low: 0.03/1,000 woman-years at ages 25-34 rising to 0.67/1,000 woman-years at ages 45-49. However, the overall incidence in women who were smokers at entry to the study is more than three…
Early oral contraceptive use and breast cancer
Many cancers and other chronic diseases are associated with a long delay between exposure to a putative risk factor and subsequent diagnosis. This presents well recognised problems in the elucidation of suspected risk factors by epidemiological methods. In this paper we discuss the interpretation in epidemiological studies of the effect of a possible risk factor when population exposure is recent and rapidly changing. An important contemporary ex…
Cigarette smoking and benign breast disease
Neoplasia of the Cervix Uteri and Contraception
Risk factors for gall-bladder disease
During 1968-74, 17 032 women aged 25-39 years were recruited to the Oxford/Family Planning Association Contraceptive Study. By the end of August 1981, 227 of these women had suffered surgically confirmed gall-bladder disease during the follow-up period, an incidence of 1·47 per 1000 woman-years. Obesity was by far the strongest risk factor for gall-bladder disease, but late age at first term birth and cigarette smoking also had statistically sign…
Sexual behaviour and contraceptive practice of undergraduates at Oxford University
At the end of the 4th week of the Hilary Term 1977, 1006 male and 1009 female undergraduates at Oxford University were sent a questionnaire enquiring about their sexual behaviour and contraceptive practice. Of the 862 women and 634 men who replied, 512 women (59%) and 332 men (52%) had experienced sexual intercourse, 396 women and 191 men in the 4-week period preceding receipt of the questionnaire. No contraception had been used by 27% of the wom…
A Long-Term Follow-up Study of Women Using Different Methods of Contraception-an Interim Report
A Long-term follow-up study of women using different methods of contraception— an interim report
In 1968, a prospective study was started in collaboration with the Family Planning Association to try to provide a balanced view of the beneficial and harmful effects of different methods of contraception. This investigation is now in progress at seventeen clinics and over 17,000 women are under observation. At the time of recruitment, all these women were married white British subjects, aged 25–39 years, who voluntarily agreed to participate. Fi…
Risk factors for myocardial infarction in young women
Seventy-seven women discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction and 207 control patients were investigated. All were under 45 years of age at the time of admission. Heavy cigarette smoking, reported treatment for pre-eclamptic toxaemia, and type II hyperlipoproteinaemia were found to be independent risk factors for myocardial infarction. Reported treatment for hypertension and diabetes are probably also independently associ…
Accuracy of recall of histories of oral contraceptive use
Published retrospective studies of the relationship between the use of oral contraceptives and disease have assumed that women are able to recall their oral contraceptive histories with reasonable accuracy. The validity of this assumption has been investigated by comparing oral contraceptive histories obtained from 75 women attending family planning clinics with the information contained in the clinic records. It is concluded that simple measures…
Reliability of reporting by women taking part in a prospective contraceptive study
A prospective study is in progress at 17 family planning clinics to try to provide a balanced view of the beneficial and harmful effects of different methods of contraception. During follow-up, data about pregnancies and their outcome, hospital visits, and changes in contraceptive practices are collected from the participants in the study at routine clinic visits, by postal questionnaire, or by home visiting. Whenever a hospital admission is repo…
Peptic ulceration and the use of oral contraceptives. A negative correlation attributable to the disease
A pilot study to test the hypothesis that oral contraceptives containing estrogen may reduce the risk of peptic ulceration was conducted by interviewing and comparing 46 married women aged 20-44 years suffering from peptic ulceration to 90 matched controls who were discharged from hospitals in the Oxford area during 1965-1969. Data reveal that patients with peptic ulceration were less likely to use oral contraceptives (none as compared to 12 cont…
Do British women undergo too many or too few hysterectomies
Risk factors for gall-bladder disease
During 1968-74, 17 032 women aged 25-39 years were recruited to the Oxford/Family Planning Association Contraceptive Study. By the end of August 1981, 227 of these women had suffered surgically confirmed gall-bladder disease during the follow-up period, an incidence of 1·47 per 1000 woman-years. Obesity was by far the strongest risk factor for gall-bladder disease, but late age at first term birth and cigarette smoking also had statistically sign…
Hormone replacement therapy
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of recruiting a cohort of women, including long term users of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), through computerised general practice prescribing records, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of users and non-user controls. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis of questionnaire data. SETTING--Subjects were recruited through 17 general practices in the Oxfordshire, south west…
A time to pregnancy questionnaire designed for long term recall
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To establish the degree of validity of data on time to pregnancy, derived retrospectively using a short questionnaire. DESIGN--Information from the questionnaire was compared with data that had been collected concurrently from the same individuals. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS--Questionnaires were mailed to 1647 women who continue to be followed up by the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study, and a further 424 were …
Myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in young women
The Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study has now followed 17,000 women, predominantly of childbearing age, for a total of more than 200,000 woman-years. The incidence of myocardial infarction and angina in women aged less than 50 years has been low: 0.03/1,000 woman-years at ages 25-34 rising to 0.67/1,000 woman-years at ages 45-49. However, the overall incidence in women who were smokers at entry to the study is more than three…
Early oral contraceptive use and breast cancer
Many cancers and other chronic diseases are associated with a long delay between exposure to a putative risk factor and subsequent diagnosis. This presents well recognised problems in the elucidation of suspected risk factors by epidemiological methods. In this paper we discuss the interpretation in epidemiological studies of the effect of a possible risk factor when population exposure is recent and rapidly changing. An important contemporary ex…
Cigarette smoking and benign breast disease
Accuracy of recall of histories of oral contraceptive use
Published retrospective studies of the relationship between the use of oral contraceptives and disease have assumed that women are able to recall their oral contraceptive histories with reasonable accuracy. The validity of this assumption has been investigated by comparing oral contraceptive histories obtained from 75 women attending family planning clinics with the information contained in the clinic records. It is concluded that simple measures…
Peptic ulceration and the use of oral contraceptives. A negative correlation attributable to the disease
A pilot study to test the hypothesis that oral contraceptives containing estrogen may reduce the risk of peptic ulceration was conducted by interviewing and comparing 46 married women aged 20-44 years suffering from peptic ulceration to 90 matched controls who were discharged from hospitals in the Oxford area during 1965-1969. Data reveal that patients with peptic ulceration were less likely to use oral contraceptives (none as compared to 12 cont…
Accuracy of recall of histories of oral contraceptive use
Published retrospective studies of the relationship between the use of oral contraceptives and disease have assumed that women are able to recall their oral contraceptive histories with reasonable accuracy. The validity of this assumption has been investigated by comparing oral contraceptive histories obtained from 75 women attending family planning clinics with the information contained in the clinic records. It is concluded that simple measures…
Reliability of reporting by women taking part in a prospective contraceptive study
A prospective study is in progress at 17 family planning clinics to try to provide a balanced view of the beneficial and harmful effects of different methods of contraception. During follow-up, data about pregnancies and their outcome, hospital visits, and changes in contraceptive practices are collected from the participants in the study at routine clinic visits, by postal questionnaire, or by home visiting. Whenever a hospital admission is repo…
A Long-term follow-up study of women using different methods of contraception— an interim report
In 1968, a prospective study was started in collaboration with the Family Planning Association to try to provide a balanced view of the beneficial and harmful effects of different methods of contraception. This investigation is now in progress at seventeen clinics and over 17,000 women are under observation. At the time of recruitment, all these women were married white British subjects, aged 25–39 years, who voluntarily agreed to participate. Fi…
Risk factors for myocardial infarction in young women
Seventy-seven women discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction and 207 control patients were investigated. All were under 45 years of age at the time of admission. Heavy cigarette smoking, reported treatment for pre-eclamptic toxaemia, and type II hyperlipoproteinaemia were found to be independent risk factors for myocardial infarction. Reported treatment for hypertension and diabetes are probably also independently associ…
A Long-Term Follow-up Study of Women Using Different Methods of Contraception-an Interim Report
Sexual behaviour and contraceptive practice of undergraduates at Oxford University
At the end of the 4th week of the Hilary Term 1977, 1006 male and 1009 female undergraduates at Oxford University were sent a questionnaire enquiring about their sexual behaviour and contraceptive practice. Of the 862 women and 634 men who replied, 512 women (59%) and 332 men (52%) had experienced sexual intercourse, 396 women and 191 men in the 4-week period preceding receipt of the questionnaire. No contraception had been used by 27% of the wom…
Risk factors for gall-bladder disease
During 1968-74, 17 032 women aged 25-39 years were recruited to the Oxford/Family Planning Association Contraceptive Study. By the end of August 1981, 227 of these women had suffered surgically confirmed gall-bladder disease during the follow-up period, an incidence of 1·47 per 1000 woman-years. Obesity was by far the strongest risk factor for gall-bladder disease, but late age at first term birth and cigarette smoking also had statistically sign…
Neoplasia of the Cervix Uteri and Contraception
Early oral contraceptive use and breast cancer
Many cancers and other chronic diseases are associated with a long delay between exposure to a putative risk factor and subsequent diagnosis. This presents well recognised problems in the elucidation of suspected risk factors by epidemiological methods. In this paper we discuss the interpretation in epidemiological studies of the effect of a possible risk factor when population exposure is recent and rapidly changing. An important contemporary ex…
Cigarette smoking and benign breast disease
Myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in young women
The Oxford-Family Planning Association contraceptive study has now followed 17,000 women, predominantly of childbearing age, for a total of more than 200,000 woman-years. The incidence of myocardial infarction and angina in women aged less than 50 years has been low: 0.03/1,000 woman-years at ages 25-34 rising to 0.67/1,000 woman-years at ages 45-49. However, the overall incidence in women who were smokers at entry to the study is more than three…
Do British women undergo too many or too few hysterectomies
A long-term study of mortality in men who have undergone vasectomy
Background Vasectomy is a reliable and widely accepted method of contraception, but there is some uncertainty and few data about a possible long-term adverse effect on health. Methods We examined the relation between vasectomy and mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all causes in a retrospective cohort of husbands of members of the Nurses' Health Study. In 1989 we obtained data by questionnaire on 14,607 men who had undergone…
Hormone replacement therapy
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of recruiting a cohort of women, including long term users of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT), through computerised general practice prescribing records, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of users and non-user controls. DESIGN--Cross sectional analysis of questionnaire data. SETTING--Subjects were recruited through 17 general practices in the Oxfordshire, south west…
A time to pregnancy questionnaire designed for long term recall
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To establish the degree of validity of data on time to pregnancy, derived retrospectively using a short questionnaire. DESIGN--Information from the questionnaire was compared with data that had been collected concurrently from the same individuals. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS--Questionnaires were mailed to 1647 women who continue to be followed up by the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study, and a further 424 were …
Medicine (16 works) · Population (12 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Family planning (9 works) · Internal Medicine (9 works) · Internal Medicine (9 works) · Research methodology (9 works) · Gynecology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Obstetrics (7 works)