Air Pollution Exposure Assessment for Epidemiologic Studies of Pregnant Women and Children: Lessons Learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research [PDF]
, 2005 The National Children’s Study is considering a wide spectrum of airborne pollutants that are hypothesized to potentially influence pregnancy outcomes, neurodevelopment, asthma, atopy, immune development, obesity, and pubertal development. In this article
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Animal Viruses, Bacteria, and Cancer: A Brief Commentary
Frontiers in Public Health, 2014 Animal viruses and bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment. However, little is known about their mode of transmission and etiologic role in human cancers, especially among high-risk groups (e.g., farmers, veterinarians, poultry plant workers, pet ...
Jimmy Thomas Efird +3 more
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Anthropometric indices of Gambian children after one or three annual rounds of mass drug administration with azithromycin for trachoma control. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Mass drug administration (MDA) with azithromycin, carried out for the control of blinding trachoma, has been linked to reduced mortality in children.
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The effects of socioeconomic status and indices of physical environment on reduced birth weight and preterm births in Eastern Massachusetts [PDF]
, 2008 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work
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Exploration of Potential Roles of m6A Regulators in Colorectal Cancer Prognosis
Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents one of the most common malignancies with high morbidity worldwide. RNA methylation (m6A) has been considered to tremendously contribute to cancer initiation and progression since its first discovery.
Liechen Ji +3 more
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The Evidence for an Obesity Paradox in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2018 Although overweight/obesity is a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, there is increasing evidence that overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus experience lower mortality compared with patients of normal ...
Seung Jin Han, Edward J. Boyko
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Identification of confounder in epidemiologic data contaminated by measurement error in covariates
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016 BackgroundCommon methods for confounder identification such as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), hypothesis testing, or a 10 % change-in-estimate (CIE) criterion for estimated associations may not be applicable due to (a) insufficient knowledge to draw a ...
P. Lee, I. Burstyn
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Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 2020 Back pain and poor sleep quality are public health issues. Relating to adolescents particularly, the way in which this relationship can occur is still unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate whether low back and neck pain are associated with sleep quality among adolescents.In total, 1011 randomly selected adolescents participated in this ...
Scarabottolo, Catarina Covolo +8 more
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Risk factors and demographics for microtia in South America: a case-control analysis [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: The etiopathogenesis of microtia is still unknown in the majority of the cases, particularly for individuals presenting with isolated microtia.
Castilla, Eduardo Enrique +4 more
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Statistical Workflow for Feature Selection in Human Metabolomics Data. [PDF]
, 2019 High-throughput metabolomics investigations, when conducted in large human cohorts, represent a potentially powerful tool for elucidating the biochemical diversity underlying human health and disease.
Antonelli, Joseph +17 more
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