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Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2003
BACKGROUND The influence of excess body weight on the risk of death from cancer has not been fully characterized. METHODS In a prospectively studied population of more than 900,000 U.S.
E. Calle, C. Rodríguez, Kimberly A. Walker-Thurmond, M. Thun   +3 more
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Cohort Profile: The Northern Swedish Cohort [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2011
The Northern Swedish Cohort was started by Anne Hammarstrom [principal investigator (PI)] in collaboration with Urban Janlert and other researchers within the field of social medicine (Ragnar Berfenstam, Finn Diderichsen, Tores Theorell, Lars H Gustafsson, Claes Sundelin, Gustav Jonsson).
Anne Hammarström, Urban Janlert
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Maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and preterm delivery: a large prospective cohort study in China

Nutrition Journal, 2018
Background Evidence about the associations between maternal dietary patterns and preterm delivery is scarce in Eastern countries. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and preterm ...
Min-Shan Lu, Jian-Rong He, Qiaozhu Chen, Jinhua Lu, Xueling Wei, Qianling Zhou, Fanfan Chan, Lifang Zhang, Niannian Chen, Lan Qiu, Mingyang Yuan, Kar Keung Cheng, Huimin Xia, Xiu Qiu, on behalf of the Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study Group   +14 more
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The effectiveness of guideline implementation strategies in the dental setting: a systematic review

Implementation Science, 2019
Background Guideline implementation has been an ongoing challenge in the dental practice setting. Despite this, there are no reviews summarising the existing evidence regarding effective guideline implementation strategies in this setting.
Amy R. Villarosa, Della Maneze, Lucie M. Ramjan, Ravi Srinivas, Michelle Camilleri, Ajesh George   +5 more
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Cohort effects in mortality modelling: a Bayesian state-space approach [PDF]

Ann. actuar. sci. 13 (2019) 109-144, 2017
Cohort effects are important factors in determining the evolution of human mortality for certain countries. Extensions of dynamic mortality models with cohort features have been proposed in the literature to account for these factors under the generalised linear modelling framework.
arxiv   +1 more source

Higher serum uric acid level is inversely associated with renal function assessed by cystatin C in a Japanese general population without chronic kidney disease: the KOBE study

BMC Nephrology, 2019
Background Although several epidemiological studies have suggested that high serum uric acid (SUA) levels are related to a decline in kidney function, only a few studies have investigated using cystatin C to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate
Sachimi Kubo, Yoko Nishida, Yoshimi Kubota, Aya Higashiyama, Daisuke Sugiyama, Takumi Hirata, Naomi Miyamatsu, Ayumi Tanabe, Aya Hirata, Yukako Tatsumi, Aya Kadota, Kazuyo Kuwabara, Tomofumi Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Tomonori Okamura   +14 more
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Visuospatial memory impairment as a potential neurocognitive marker to predict tau pathology in Alzheimer’s continuum

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2021
Background Given that tau accumulation, not amyloid-β (Aβ) burden, is more closely connected with cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a detailed understanding of the tau-related characteristics of cognitive function is critical in both ...
Eun Hyun Seo, Ho Jae Lim, Hyung-Jun Yoon, Kyu Yeong Choi, Jang Jae Lee, Jun Young Park, Seong Hye Choi, Hoowon Kim, Byeong C. Kim, Kun Ho Lee   +9 more
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What's the relative risk? A method of correcting the odds ratio in cohort studies of common outcomes.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1998
Logistic regression is used frequently in cohort studies and clinical trials. When the incidence of an outcome of interest is common in the study population (>10%), the adjusted odds ratio derived from the logistic regression can no longer approximate ...
Jun Zhang, K. Yu
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Establishment of an integrated index for family socioeconomic gradients based on the Birth Cohort Study in Guangzhou

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022
ObjectiveTo construct an integrated index of family socioeconomic gradient for providing a valid assessment of socioeconomic status (SES) of the mother and her child/children in a family.MethodsThe participants of the study were 16 175 pregnant women and
Xue-ling WEI, Shan-shan LIN, Si TU
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Living risk prediction algorithm (QCOVID) for risk of hospital admission and mortality from coronavirus 19 in adults: national derivation and validation cohort study

British medical journal, 2020
Objective To derive and validate a risk prediction algorithm to estimate hospital admission and mortality outcomes from coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in adults. Design Population based cohort study.
A. K. Clift, C. Coupland, R. Keogh, K. Diaz-Ordaz, E. Williamson, E. Harrison, A. Hayward, H. Hemingway, P. Horby, N. Mehta, J. Benger, K. Khunti, D. Spiegelhalter, A. Sheikh, J. Valabhji, R. Lyons, J. Robson, M. Semple, F. Kee, Peter Johnson, S. Jebb, T. Williams, J. Hippisley-Cox   +22 more
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