Steve Selvin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Selvin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Selvin |
| SIGNATURE | SELVIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Socioeconomic Status and Lung Cancer
Objectives. We examined the relationship between genetic ancestry, socioeconomic status (SES), and lung cancer among African Americans and Latinos. Methods. We evaluated SES and genetic ancestry in a Northern California lung cancer case–control study (1998–2003) of African Americans and Latinos. Lung cancer case and control participants were frequency matched on age, gender, and race/ethnicity. We assessed case–control differences in individual a…
Physical Activity and Risk of Neural Tube Defects
Maternal height, pregnancy weight gain, and birthweight
The Institute of Medicine recommends that short women gain less weight during pregnancy than taller women in order to reduce the risk of high birthweight, which can lead to feto-pelvic disproportion. This recommendation, however, is based on clinical judgment rather than on epidemiologic evidence, as few studies have examined the relationships between maternal height, pregnancy weight gain, and infant birthweight. Our objective was to determine w…
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood social conditions, and neural tube defects
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the contributions of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics to neural tube defect etiology. The influence of additional factors, including periconceptional multivitamin use and race/ethnicity, was also explored. METHODS: Data derived from a case-control study of California pregnancies from 1989 to 1991. Mothers of 538 (87.8% of eligible) case infants/fetuses with neural tub…
The pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes
OBJECTIVES: This study describes the pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes and provides data to fill in the provisional weight-gain charts published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990. METHODS: We selected 7002 women with good outcomes (defined by factors related to maternal and infant health) from the University of California, San Francisco, Perinatal Database. For each body mass index category, we compare…
Interpoint squared distance as a measure of spatial clustering
Distance and risk measures for the analysis of spatial data
Transformations of maps to investigate clusters of disease
Smoking cessation program
One hundred and sixty-two smokers who participated in an aggressive smoking cessation program underwent analysis of expired air carbon monoxide (CO) and serum thiocyanate (SCN) at entry and one year later. Persons who failed to quit smoking had higher baseline CO and SCN and smoked more cigarettes per day than did those who succeeded in quitting. The use of CO, SCN, number of cigarettes smoked, age, and blood pressure at baseline permitted accura…
Expired air carbon monoxide and serum thiocyanate as objective measures of cigarette exposure
Expired air carbon monoxide (CO) and serum thiocyanate (SCN) were used to asses exposure to cigarettes in 139 middle-aged men. Subjects who reported smoking cigarettes generally had CO levels exceeding 8ppm and SCN levels exceeding 100umol/L; non-smokers had lower levels. For both tests the mean concentration among men smoking more than one pack daily was three times that of non-smokers. The is a high correlation between the two tests (r=.571 for…
A multivariate analysis of the relationship between parental age and birth order and the human secondary sex ratio
The variables maternal age, paternal age, and birth order are studied for possible effects on the human secondary sex ratio. Several multivariate models are applied to a set of over 1·4 million births to assess the effects of these three highly correlated variables. Also investigated is the polynomial regression model used by Novitski & Kimball (1958) in their approach to the same problem. Analysis of the present data shows a weak and negative as…
Four factors influencing birth weight
The birth weight of newborn infants is usually studied as a concomitant variable to prematurity or infant mortality and less frequently as the variable of primary interest. This investigation concentrates on the relationship of infant birth weight to four other variables. The combined effect of birth order and mother's age on birth weight is analysed in a large sample of births. The influence of maternal age on the birth weight is investigated fo…
Expired air carbon monoxide and serum thiocyanate as objective measures of cigarette exposure
Expired air carbon monoxide (CO) and serum thiocyanate (SCN) were used to asses exposure to cigarettes in 139 middle-aged men. Subjects who reported smoking cigarettes generally had CO levels exceeding 8ppm and SCN levels exceeding 100umol/L; non-smokers had lower levels. For both tests the mean concentration among men smoking more than one pack daily was three times that of non-smokers. The is a high correlation between the two tests (r=.571 for…
The pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes
OBJECTIVES: This study describes the pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes and provides data to fill in the provisional weight-gain charts published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990. METHODS: We selected 7002 women with good outcomes (defined by factors related to maternal and infant health) from the University of California, San Francisco, Perinatal Database. For each body mass index category, we compare…
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood social conditions, and neural tube defects
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the contributions of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics to neural tube defect etiology. The influence of additional factors, including periconceptional multivitamin use and race/ethnicity, was also explored. METHODS: Data derived from a case-control study of California pregnancies from 1989 to 1991. Mothers of 538 (87.8% of eligible) case infants/fetuses with neural tub…
Transformations of maps to investigate clusters of disease
Smoking cessation program
One hundred and sixty-two smokers who participated in an aggressive smoking cessation program underwent analysis of expired air carbon monoxide (CO) and serum thiocyanate (SCN) at entry and one year later. Persons who failed to quit smoking had higher baseline CO and SCN and smoked more cigarettes per day than did those who succeeded in quitting. The use of CO, SCN, number of cigarettes smoked, age, and blood pressure at baseline permitted accura…
Socioeconomic Status and Lung Cancer
Objectives. We examined the relationship between genetic ancestry, socioeconomic status (SES), and lung cancer among African Americans and Latinos. Methods. We evaluated SES and genetic ancestry in a Northern California lung cancer case–control study (1998–2003) of African Americans and Latinos. Lung cancer case and control participants were frequency matched on age, gender, and race/ethnicity. We assessed case–control differences in individual a…
Interpoint squared distance as a measure of spatial clustering
Distance and risk measures for the analysis of spatial data
Four factors influencing birth weight
The birth weight of newborn infants is usually studied as a concomitant variable to prematurity or infant mortality and less frequently as the variable of primary interest. This investigation concentrates on the relationship of infant birth weight to four other variables. The combined effect of birth order and mother's age on birth weight is analysed in a large sample of births. The influence of maternal age on the birth weight is investigated fo…
Four factors influencing birth weight
The birth weight of newborn infants is usually studied as a concomitant variable to prematurity or infant mortality and less frequently as the variable of primary interest. This investigation concentrates on the relationship of infant birth weight to four other variables. The combined effect of birth order and mother's age on birth weight is analysed in a large sample of births. The influence of maternal age on the birth weight is investigated fo…
A multivariate analysis of the relationship between parental age and birth order and the human secondary sex ratio
The variables maternal age, paternal age, and birth order are studied for possible effects on the human secondary sex ratio. Several multivariate models are applied to a set of over 1·4 million births to assess the effects of these three highly correlated variables. Also investigated is the polynomial regression model used by Novitski & Kimball (1958) in their approach to the same problem. Analysis of the present data shows a weak and negative as…
Expired air carbon monoxide and serum thiocyanate as objective measures of cigarette exposure
Expired air carbon monoxide (CO) and serum thiocyanate (SCN) were used to asses exposure to cigarettes in 139 middle-aged men. Subjects who reported smoking cigarettes generally had CO levels exceeding 8ppm and SCN levels exceeding 100umol/L; non-smokers had lower levels. For both tests the mean concentration among men smoking more than one pack daily was three times that of non-smokers. The is a high correlation between the two tests (r=.571 for…
Smoking cessation program
One hundred and sixty-two smokers who participated in an aggressive smoking cessation program underwent analysis of expired air carbon monoxide (CO) and serum thiocyanate (SCN) at entry and one year later. Persons who failed to quit smoking had higher baseline CO and SCN and smoked more cigarettes per day than did those who succeeded in quitting. The use of CO, SCN, number of cigarettes smoked, age, and blood pressure at baseline permitted accura…
Transformations of maps to investigate clusters of disease
Distance and risk measures for the analysis of spatial data
Interpoint squared distance as a measure of spatial clustering
The pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes
OBJECTIVES: This study describes the pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes and provides data to fill in the provisional weight-gain charts published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990. METHODS: We selected 7002 women with good outcomes (defined by factors related to maternal and infant health) from the University of California, San Francisco, Perinatal Database. For each body mass index category, we compare…
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood social conditions, and neural tube defects
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the contributions of lower socioeconomic status (SES) and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics to neural tube defect etiology. The influence of additional factors, including periconceptional multivitamin use and race/ethnicity, was also explored. METHODS: Data derived from a case-control study of California pregnancies from 1989 to 1991. Mothers of 538 (87.8% of eligible) case infants/fetuses with neural tub…
Maternal height, pregnancy weight gain, and birthweight
The Institute of Medicine recommends that short women gain less weight during pregnancy than taller women in order to reduce the risk of high birthweight, which can lead to feto-pelvic disproportion. This recommendation, however, is based on clinical judgment rather than on epidemiologic evidence, as few studies have examined the relationships between maternal height, pregnancy weight gain, and infant birthweight. Our objective was to determine w…
Physical Activity and Risk of Neural Tube Defects
Socioeconomic Status and Lung Cancer
Objectives. We examined the relationship between genetic ancestry, socioeconomic status (SES), and lung cancer among African Americans and Latinos. Methods. We evaluated SES and genetic ancestry in a Northern California lung cancer case–control study (1998–2003) of African Americans and Latinos. Lung cancer case and control participants were frequency matched on age, gender, and race/ethnicity. We assessed case–control differences in individual a…
Medicine (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Obstetrics (4 works)