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Visualization and Quantification of the Association Between Breast Cancer and Cholesterol in the All of Us Research Program

Cancer Informatics, 2023
Epidemiologic evidence for the association of cholesterol and breast cancer is inconsistent. Several factors may contribute to this inconsistency, including limited sample sizes, confounding effects of antihyperlipidemic treatment, age, and body mass ...
Jianglin Feng, Esteban Astiazaran Symonds, Jason H Karnes   +2 more
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Evaluation of confounding in epidemiologic studies assessing alcohol consumption on the risk of ischemic heart disease

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background Among different investigators studying the same exposures and outcomes, there may be a lack of consensus about potential confounders that should be considered as matching, adjustment, or stratification variables in observational studies ...
J. Wallach, S. Serghiou, Lingzhi Chu, A. Egilman, V. Vasiliou, J. Ross, J. Ioannidis   +6 more
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How authors select covariates in the multivariate analysis of cancer studies in 10 oncology journals in Korea: a descriptive study [PDF]

Science Editing
Purpose Cancer is the leading cause of death in Korea, leading many investigators to focus on cancer research. We present the current practice of variable selection methods for multivariate analyses in cancer studies recently published in major oncology ...
Mi Ah Han, Hae Ran Kim, Sang Eun Yoon, Sun Mi Park, Boyoung Kim, Seo-Hee Kim, So-Yeong Kim   +6 more
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Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma: Systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Numerous epidemiologic studies have examined the relation of physical activity or cardiorespiratory fitness to risk of cutaneous melanoma but the available evidence has not yet been quantified in a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Gundula Behrens, Tobias Niedermaier, Mark Berneburg, Daniela Schmid, Michael F Leitzmann   +4 more
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The Association Between Grip Strength and Depression Among Adults Aged 60 Years and Older: A Large-Scaled Population-Based Study From the Longitudinal Aging Study in India

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022
BackgroundThe association between grip strength and depression in elderly individuals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has rarely been studied.
Jinbao Wang, Jinbao Wang, Xianghong Zhou, Xianghong Zhou, Shi Qiu, Linghui Deng, Jiakun Li, Lu Yang, Qiang Wei, Birong Dong   +9 more
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The role of confounding factors in a radon epidemiological study

Radiatsionnaya Gygiena = Radiation Hygiene, 2017
Objective: A simulation of a large-scale epidemiological case-control study to identify the relationship between exposure to radon and lung cancer in the presence of factors that distort the results of the assessment of exposure to radon in homes.
A. D. Onishchenko, M. V. Zhukovsky
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Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction. [PDF]

, 2015
OBJECTIVES: To examine the prospective associations between consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice with type 2 diabetes before and after adjustment for adiposity, and to estimate the population ...
Bhupathiraju, Shilpa N, Forouhi, Nita G, Hayashino, Yasuaki, Imamura, Fumiaki, Mursu, Jaakko, O’Connor, Laura, Ye, Zheng   +6 more
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Relationship between mental health, sleep status and screen time among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective On 20 July 2021, after the outbreak of COVID-19 at Nanjing Lukou International Airport, several universities started closed management and online teaching.
Wei Wang, Bei Wang, Xiang Hong, Xiaoqi Zhu, Jingfeng Jiang, Lerong Qi, Fanqi Zhao, Jingying Wu   +7 more
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Canonical Causal Diagrams to Guide the Treatment of Missing Data in Epidemiologic Studies

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2018
With incomplete data, the “missing at random” (MAR) assumption is widely understood to enable unbiased estimation with appropriate methods. While the need to assess the plausibility of MAR and to perform sensitivity analyses considering “missing not at ...
M. Moreno-Betancur, Katherine J. Lee, Finbarr P. Leacy, I. White, J. Simpson, J. Carlin   +5 more
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A Community-based study on the prevalence and predisposing factors of Parkinson’s disease in Barangay Mangilag Sur, Quezon Province, Philippines

Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2022
Introduction: Prevalence of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) in the Philippines has been estimated to be 
Raymond L. Rosales, Mary Camille E. Rosales, Danica Jane S.J. Robles, Ron Christian Neil T. Rodriguez, Nadia Beatrice S. Romana, Joseph Mariuz B. Rosales, Gerardo B. Salazar, Richelle Ann S. Santiano   +7 more
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