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Epidemiology studies on effects of lithium salts in pregnancy are confounded by the inability to control for other potentially teratogenic factors

Human & Experimental Toxicology
Introduction In bipolar women who took lithium during pregnancy, several epidemiology studies have reported small increases in a rare fetal cardiac defect termed Ebstein’s anomaly. Methods Behavioral, environmental, and lifestyle ...
Carr J. Smith, Victoria M. Payne
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Potential misinterpretations caused by collapsing upper categories of comorbidity indices: An illustration from a cohort of older breast cancer survivors

Clinical Epidemiology, 2009
Thomas P Ahern1, Jaclyn LF Bosco2, Rebecca A Silliman2, Marianne Ulcickas Yood3, Terry S Field4, Feifei Wei5, Timothy L Lash1, On behalf of the BOW Investigators1Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA ...
Thomas P Ahern, Jaclyn LF Bosco, Rebecca A Silliman, Marianne Ulcickas Yood, et al.   +4 more
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A Review of Mendelian Randomization: Assumptions, Methods, and Application to Obesity-Related Diseases

Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a statistical method that uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect of exposure on an outcome in the presence of unmeasured confounding.
Seungjae Lee, Woojoo Lee
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Birthweight predicts glomerular filtration rate in adult-life: population based cross sectional study

Renal Failure, 2021
Introduction Worldwide, there is a global progressive rise of chronic kidney disease. In parallel, children born after intra-uterine growth retardation are surviving to adult-life and beyond.
Issa Al Salmi, Suad Hannawi
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Shedding Light on the Controversy Surrounding the Temporal Decline in Human Sperm Counts: A Systematic Review

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
We systematically examined the evidence of declining sperm counts and the hypothesis that an increased exposure to environmental pollutants is responsible for such decline.
Marcello Cocuzza, Sandro C. Esteves
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Association between depressive symptoms and social support in a nationally representative sample of older adults (ELSI-Brasil) [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: To investigate the association between depressive symptoms and social support among a representative sample of the Brazilian population aged 50 years or older.
Beatriz Oliveira Carvalho, Érico Castro-Costa, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Antônio Ignácio de Loyola Filho   +3 more
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Association of reduced retinal arteriolar tortuosity with depression in older participants from the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Introduction The retina shares similar anatomical and physiological features with the brain and subtle variations in retinal microvascular parameters (RMPs) may reflect similar vascular variation in the brain.
R. A. O’Neill, A. P. Maxwell, F. Kee, I. Young, R. E. Hogg, S. Cruise, B. McGuinness, G. J. McKay   +7 more
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A review and meta-analysis of prospective studies of red and processed meat intake and prostate cancer

Nutrition Journal, 2010
Over the past decade, several large epidemiologic investigations of meat intake and prostate cancer have been published. Therefore, a meta-analysis of prospective studies was conducted to estimate potential associations between red or processed meat ...
Cushing Colleen A, Mink Pamela J, Alexander Dominik D, Sceurman Bonnie   +3 more
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Silicosis and lung cancer: current perspectives

Lung Cancer: Targets and Therapy, 2018
Takashi Sato,1 Takeshi Shimosato,2 Dennis M Klinman3 1Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan; 2Department of Interdisciplinary Genome Sciences and Cell Metabolism, Institute for ...
Sato T, Shimosato T, Klinman DM
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Analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug use and risk of bladder cancer: a population based case control study

BMC Urology, 2007
Background Use of phenacetin and other analgesic and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) potentially influences bladder cancer incidence, but epidemiologic evidence is limited.
Heaney John, Andrew Angeline S, Schned Alan, Zens Michael S, Kogevinas Manolis, Fortuny Joan, Kelsey Karl T, Karagas Margaret R   +7 more
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