Population attributable fraction in textbooks: Time to revise [PDF]
Introduction: The population attributable fraction is an important measure for assessing the impact of intervention on the disease risk in populations, but it is frequently misused in the research literature.
Ahmad Khosravi +3 more
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Risk and Population Attributable Fraction of Stroke Subtypes in Japan [PDF]
Background: Associations of major risk factors for stroke with total and each type of stroke, as well as subtypes of ischemic stroke, and their population attributable fractions had not been examined comprehensively.
Hiroshi Yatsuya +9 more
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Have We Been Underestimating Modifiable Dementia Risk? An Alternative Approach for Calculating the Combined Population Attributable Fraction for Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors. [PDF]
Estimating the fraction of dementia cases in a population attributable to a risk factor or combination of risk factors (the population attributable fraction (PAF)) informs the design and choice of dementia risk-reduction activities.
Welberry HJ +3 more
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Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States. [PDF]
Indoor gas stove use for cooking is associated with an increased risk of current asthma among children and is prevalent in 35% of households in the United States (US). The population-level implications of gas cooking are largely unrecognized.
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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]
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 +6 more
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Race-related population attributable fraction of preventable risk factors of dementia: A Latino population-based study. [PDF]
Risk factors for dementia have distinct frequency and impact in relation to race. Our aim was to identify differences in modifiable risk factors of dementia related to races and estimate their population attributable fraction (PAF).
Borelli WV +7 more
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Impact of mental disorders on clinical outcomes of physical diseases: an umbrella review assessing population attributable fraction and generalized impact fraction. [PDF]
Empirical evidence indicates a significant bidirectional association between mental disorders and physical diseases, but the prospective impact of mental disorders on clinical outcomes of physical diseases has not been comprehensively outlined.
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The Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia From Audiometric Hearing Loss Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Community-Dwelling Older Adults. [PDF]
BACKGROUND The population attributable fraction (PAF) of dementia from hearing loss (HL) in the US is ~2% when incorporating self-reported HL measures. However self-report might underestimate clinically-significant audiometric HL among older adults. Here,
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Global population attributable fraction of potentially modifiable risk factors for mental disorders: a meta-umbrella systematic review. [PDF]
Numerous risk factors for mental disorders have been identified. However, we do not know how many disorders we could prevent and to what extent by modifying these risk factors.
Dragioti E +9 more
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Population attributable fraction of modifiable risk factors for dementia in Chile. [PDF]
Projected dementia incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean for the next decades is overwhelming. Access to local data, stratified by sex, is imperative for planning precise dementia‐prevention strategies.
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