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Increasing trends in incidence of preterm birth among 2.5 million newborns in Guangzhou, China, 2001 to 2016: an age-period-cohort analysis

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background The incidence of preterm birth (PTB,
Jinhua Lu, Dongmei Wei, Songying Shen, Xiaoyan Xia, Jianrong He, Yan Sun, Kin Bong Hubert Lam, Wei Bao, Huimin Xia, Xiu Qiu   +9 more
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Japanese Legacy Cohorts: Six-Prefecture Cohort Study (Hirayama Cohort Study)

Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
Late Dr Takeshi Hirayama and his colleagues conducted a mortality follow-up of a large-scale cohort in six prefectures in Japan. This study is called the six-prefecture cohort study or Hirayama Cohort Study. The study subjects were residents aged 40 years or older at the baseline survey in 1965, which covered 94.8% of residents identified in the study ...
Akiba, Suminori, Kinjo, Yoshihide
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Correction to: The association of maternal-fetal attachment with smoking and smoking cessation during pregnancy in The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Heidi Jussila, Juho Pelto, Riikka Korja, Eeva Ekholm, Marjukka Pajulo, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson   +6 more
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Interactions of genetic variants and prenatal stress in relation to the risk for recurrent respiratory infections in children

Scientific Reports, 2021
Genetic variants may predispose children to recurrent respiratory infections (RRIs) but studies on genotype-environment interaction are rare. We hypothesized that the risk for RRIs is elevated in children with innate immune gene variants, and that ...
Laura S. Korhonen, Minna Lukkarinen, Katri Kantojärvi, Panu Räty, Hasse Karlsson, Tiina Paunio, Ville Peltola, Linnea Karlsson   +7 more
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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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Perspective: Cohort Studies [PDF]

Epidemiologic Reviews, 1998
This issue of Epidemiologic Reviews on cohort studies is published five decades after the initiation of the Framingham study, one of the landmark investigations of epidemiologic research and, more generally, contemporary biomedical research. Within a few years other cohort studies—for example, of British physicians and of the atomic bomb survivors—were
J M, Samet, A, Muñoz
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Blood pressure trajectories during pregnancy and preterm delivery: A prospective cohort study in China

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2022
Women's blood pressure (BP) changes throughout pregnancy. The effect of BP trajectories on preterm delivery is not clear. The authors aim to evaluate the association between maternal BP trajectories during pregnancy and preterm delivery.
Fanfan Chan, Songying Shen, Peiyuan Huang, Jianrong He, Xueling Wei, Jinhua Lu, Lifang Zhang, Xiaoyan Xia, Huimin Xia, Kar Keung Cheng, Shakila Thangaratinam, Ben Willem Mol, Xiu Qiu   +12 more
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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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Cohort profile: the Singapore diabetic cohort study [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2020
PurposeThe diabetic cohort (DC) was set up to study the determinants of complications in individuals with type 2 diabetes and examine the role of genetic, physiological and lifestyle factors in the development of complications in these individuals.ParticipantsA total of 14 033 adult participants with type 2 diabetes were recruited from multiple public ...
Miyang Luo, Linda Wei Lin Tan, Xueling Sim, Milly Khiam Hoon Ng, Rob Van Dam, E Shyong Tai, Kee Seng Chia, Wern Ee Tang, Darren EJ Seah, Kavita Venkataraman   +9 more
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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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