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Population attributable fraction in textbooks: Time to revise [PDF]

Global Epidemiology, 2021
Introduction: The population attributable fraction is an important measure for assessing the impact of intervention on the disease risk in populations, but it is frequently misused in the research literature.
Ahmad Khosravi, Maryam Nazemipour, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Mohammad Ali Mansournia   +3 more
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Risk, Attributable Fraction and Attributable Number of Cause-Specific Heat-Related Emergency Hospital Admissions in Switzerland [PDF]

International Journal of Public Health
ObjectivesWe assessed the relationship between heat and emergency hospital admissions (EHAs) in Switzerland using clinically relevant metrics.MethodsApplying distributed lag non-linear models, we investigated temperature-admission associations between ...
Florian Schulte, Florian Schulte, Martin Röösli, Martin Röösli, Martina S. Ragettli, Martina S. Ragettli   +5 more
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What Does the Population Attributable Fraction Mean?

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2007
Recent controversy over the disagreement of population attributable fraction estimates for the obesity–total mortality relation has made the concept of attributable fraction visible in both scientific and popular news.
Beverly Levine, PhD
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Estimating Attributable Mortality of Modifying Selected Risk Factors of Myocardial Infarction [PDF]

Novelty in Clinical Medicine, 2022
Background: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death due to non-communicable diseases and myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most common causes of death due to cardiovascular diseases worldwide.Objectives: The aim of this study was to
Taher Ahangari, Kamran Ebrahimi, Shaker Salari Lak   +2 more
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Revisiting Sequential Attributable fractions [PDF]

Archives of Public Health, 2020
Abstract Background Eide and Gefeller introduced the concepts of sequential and average attributable fractions as methods to partition the risk of disease to differing exposures. In particular, sequential attributable fractions are interpreted in terms of an incremental reduction in disease prevalence associated with removing a particular risk ...
John Ferguson, Maurice O'Connell, Martin O'Donnell   +2 more
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Population attributable fraction [PDF]

BMJ, 2018
Much statistical analysis seeks to identify associations between exposures and outcomes. The population attributable fraction (PAF) is an epidemiologic measure widely used to assess the public health impact of exposures in populations. PAF is defined as the fraction of all cases of a particular disease or other adverse condition in a population that is
Mansournia, M, Altman, D
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Pathway-specific population attributable fractions [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
AbstractA population attributable fraction (PAF) represents the relative change in disease prevalence that one might expect if a particular exposure was absent from the population. Often, one might be interested in what percentage of this effect acts through particular pathways. For instance, the effect of excessive alcohol intake on stroke risk may be
O'Connell, Maurice, Ferguson, John P
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Quantifying the Sex‐Race/Ethnicity‐Specific Burden of Obesity on Incident Diabetes Mellitus in the United States, 2001 to 2016: MESA and NHANES

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Given the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the United States, estimating the effects of population‐level increases in obesity on incident DM has substantial implications for public health policy.
Natalie A. Cameron, Lucia C. Petito, Megan McCabe, Norrina B. Allen, Matthew J. O’Brien, Mercedes R. Carnethon, Sadiya S. Khan   +6 more
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Cancer incidence attributable to tuberculosis in 2015: global, regional, and national estimates

BMC Cancer, 2020
Background Tuberculosis is associated with increased risk of cancer. However, the impact of tuberculosis on global cancer burden is unknown. Methods We performed random-effects meta-analyses and meta-regressions of studies reporting the association ...
Chi Yan Leung, Hsi-Lan Huang, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Shuhei Nomura, Sarah Krull Abe, Eiko Saito, Kenji Shibuya   +6 more
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Attributable Fraction for Cardiac Malformations [PDF]

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1998
To the authors' knowledge, attributable fractions for cardiac malformations have not been reported before. The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study published factors associated with several major cardiac malformations in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and adjacent counties of northern Virginia in 1981-1989.
P D, Wilson, C A, Loffredo, A, Correa-Villaseñor, C, Ferencz   +3 more
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