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OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients

Nature, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly affected mortality worldwide1. There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, and this requires new approaches for the timely analysis of large datasets.
E. Williamson, A. Walker, K. Bhaskaran, S. Bacon, C. Bates, C. Morton, H. Curtis, A. Mehrkar, D. Evans, P. Inglesby, J. Cockburn, H. Mcdonald, B. Mackenna, L. Tomlinson, I. Douglas, C. Rentsch, R. Mathur, A. Wong, R. Grieve, D. Harrison, H. Forbes, A. Schultze, R. Croker, J. Parry, F. Hester, S. Harper, R. Perera, S. Evans, L. Smeeth, B. Goldacre   +29 more
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Risk factors for progression of age‐related macular degeneration

Ophthalmic & physiological optics, 2020
Age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the macula, often leading to progressive vision loss. The rate of disease progression can vary among individuals and has been associated with multiple risk factors.
T. Heesterbeek, L. Lorés-Motta, C. Hoyng, Y. Lechanteur, A. D. den Hollander   +4 more
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A Literature-Based Approach on Age Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Children, Adolescents, and Adults

International Education Studies, 2019
Age is an essential factor in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), impacting the success of students and instructional methods. The purpose of this study is to examine the age factor in SLA by examining three age categories – children, adolescents and ...
Burhan Ozfidan, L. Burlbaw
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Growth factors, aging and age-related diseases [PDF]

Growth Hormone & IGF Research, 2016
Simple organisms including yeast and flies with mutations in the IGF-1 and Tor-S6K pathways are dwarfs, are highly protected from toxins, and survive up to 3 times longer. Similarly, dwarf mice with deficiencies in the growth hormone-IGF-I axis are also long lived and protected from diseases.
Priya, Balasubramanian, Valter D, Longo
openaire   +2 more sources

Age-standardized and age-specific prevalence of ORC by associated factors.

, 2023
Age-standardized and age-specific prevalence of ORC by associated factors.
Maidul Husain (16920616), Harun Mazumder (16920613), Md. Faruk Hossain (16920619), Sultan Mahmud (11414066)   +3 more
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Is older age associated with COVID-19 mortality in the absence of other risk factors? General population cohort study of 470,034 participants

PLoS ONE, 2020
Introduction Older people have been reported to be at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality. This study explored the factors mediating this association and whether older age was associated with increased mortality risk in the absence of other risk factors ...
Frederick K. Ho, F. Petermann-Rocha, Stuart R. Gray, B. Jani, S. Katikireddi, C. Niedzwiedz, Hamish M. E. Foster, Claire E Hastie, D. Mackay, Jason Gill, C. O’Donnell, P. Welsh, F. Mair, N. Sattar, C. Celis-Morales, Jill P. Pell   +15 more
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Changes in ponderal index and body mass index across childhood and their associations with fat mass and cardiovascular risk factors at age 15 [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Little is known about whether associations between childhood adiposity and later adverse cardiovascular health outcomes are driven by tracking of overweight from childhood to adulthood and/or by vascular and metabolic changes from childhood ...
Kate Tilling, Smith George Davey, Benfield, LL, Lawlor Debbie A., Sattar, N, Sattar, N., Smith, GD, Ness, AR, Andy R. Ness, Tilling, K., Sattar Naveed, Laura D Howe, Benfield Li, Davey Smith, G, Debbie A. Lawlor, Tilling Kate, Logue Jennifer, Jennifer Logue, Howe Laura D., Howe, L.D., Andy R Ness, Lawlor, D, Li Benfield, Logue, J., Logue, J, Benfield, L., Ness Andy R., Naveed Sattar, Lawlor, DA, Debbie A Lawlor, Laura D. Howe, Hernandez, A.V., George Davey Smith, Davey Smith, G., Howe, LD, Ness, A.R., Benfield, L, Lawlor, D.A., Tilling, K, Ness, A   +39 more
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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. [PDF]

BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the ...
GBD 2021 Risk Factors Collaborators, GBD 2021 Risk Factors Collaborators,   +1 more
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Success Factors for Teaching Museum Studies in the Digital Age: Insights Into museOn | weiterbildung & netzwerk [PDF]

, 2021
Dorthe Hutz-Nierhoff and Antje-Sophie Menschner present ‘Success Factors for Teaching Museum Studies in the Digital Age: Insights into 'museOn | weiterbildung & netzwerk''.
Menschner, Antje-Sophie, Hutz-Nierhoff, Dorthe   +1 more
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The Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease: Age, Sex, and Genes Modulate the Microglia Response to Aβ Plaques

Cell Reports, 2019
SUMMARY Gene expression profiles of more than 10,000 individual microglial cells isolated from cortex and hippocampus of male and female AppNL-G-F mice over time demonstrate that progressive amyloid-b accumulation accelerates two main activated microglia
C. Sala Frigerio, L. Wolfs, Nicola Fattorelli, N. Thrupp, I. Voytyuk, Inga Schmidt, R. Mancuso, Wei-Ting Chen, Maya E Woodbury, G. Srivastava, T. Möller, E. Hudry, Sudeshna Das, T. Saido, E. Karran, B. Hyman, V. Perry, M. Fiers, B. de Strooper   +18 more
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