Excess relative risk as an effect measure in case-control studies of rare diseases. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Epidemiologists often use ratio-type indices (rate ratio, risk ratio and odds ratio) to quantify the association between exposure and disease. By comparison, less attention has been paid to effect measures on a difference scale (excess rate or excess ...
Wen-Chung Lee
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Machine Learning Prediction of Excess Relative Risk for Radiation-Induced Solid Thyroid Cancer Among Nuclear Medicine Healthcare Professionals: A Computational Modeling Study [PDF]
BioengineeringBackground: Nuclear medicine healthcare professionals (NMHP) sustain chronic occupational exposure to iodine-131 (I-131), conferring an elevated risk of radiation-induced solid thyroid cancer.
Mariem Chouchen +6 more
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Mathematics, 2021 Medical studies often involve a comparison between two outcomes, each collected from a sample. The probability associated with, and confidence in the result of the study is of most importance, since one may argue that having been wrong with a percent ...
Lorentz Jäntschi
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Correction of confidence intervals in excess relative risk models using Monte Carlo dosimetry systems with shared errors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In epidemiological studies, exposures of interest are often measured with uncertainties, which may be independent or correlated. Independent errors can often be characterized relatively easily while correlated measurement errors have shared and ...
Zhuo Zhang +9 more
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Pre-pregnancy obesity, not gestational weight gain, is a high-risk factor for pre-eclampsia: a retrospective study in Bengbu, China [PDF]
PeerJObjective To examine the prevalence of obesity among full-term pregnant women and investigate its etiological association with pre-eclampsia through a retrospective study.
Jie Gao, Yu Wang
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Predicted Excess Cardiovascular Age and a Reverse Socioeconomic Gradient in a Middle-Income Latin American Country: A Population-Based Analysis of 163,889 Peruvians [PDF]
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and DiseasePredicted cardiovascular age (heart age) translates the risk-factor profile into an equivalent age, which may facilitate interpretation of estimated cardiovascular risk.
Víctor Juan Vera-Ponce +6 more
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The Linear-No-Threshold Line for Cancer Excess Relative Risk Based on Lagging Low Radiation Doses is Misleading [PDF]
Dose-Response, 2021 Bobby R. Scott
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Journal of the National Cancer Center, 2022 Background: It has been well-established that acute radiation exposures increase the risk of leukemia. However, it is still unknown whether these leukemia risk estimates could be extrapolated to occupational populations who receive repeated low-dose ...
Yeqing Gu +16 more
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Lifetime Risk Assessment of Lung Cancer Incidence for Nonsmokers in Japan Considering the Joint Effect of Radiation and Smoking Based on the Life Span Study of Atomic Bomb Survivors [PDF]
Journal of Radiation Protection and Research, 2021 Background The lifetime risk of lung cancer incidence due to radiation for nonsmokers is overestimated because of the use of the average cancer baseline risk among a mixed population, including smokers. In recent years, the generalized multiplicative (GM)
Kazumasa Shimada, Michiaki Kai
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Solid cancer mortality risk in the Southern Urals populations exposed to radiation cohort: 1950-2019
Радиационная гигиена, 2023 The objective of the study is to obtain direct risk estimates of solid cancer mortality for members of the Southern Urals Populations Exposed to Radiation Cohort.
L. Yu. Krestinina, S. S. Silkin
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