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Pathway-specific population attributable fractions [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020 AbstractA population attributable fraction (PAF) represents the relative change in disease prevalence that one might expect if a particular exposure was absent from the population. Often, one might be interested in what percentage of this effect acts through particular pathways. For instance, the effect of excessive alcohol intake on stroke risk may be
O'Connell, Maurice, Ferguson, John P
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Estimating population attributable risk fraction of determinants of pediatric obesity
BMC Public HealthObjectives Childhood obesity imposes a remarkable socio-economic and health-related burden, with an increasing worldwide trend. We aimed to assess the relationship between modifiable factors and obesity in Iranian children and adolescents along with to ...
Maryam Yazdi +6 more
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Population attributable fractions for continuously distributed exposures [PDF]
Epidemiologic Methods, 2020 Abstract When estimating population attributable fractions (PAF), it is common to partition a naturally continuous exposure into a categorical risk factor. While prior risk factor categorization can help estimation and interpretation, it can result in underestimation of the disease burden attributable to the exposure as well as biased
John Ferguson +3 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background Given the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the United States, estimating the effects of population‐level increases in obesity on incident DM has substantial implications for public health policy.
Natalie A. Cameron +6 more
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Rethinking the population attributable fraction for infectious diseases. [PDF]
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2019 Sharmistha Mishra, S. Baral
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Defining the population attributable fraction for infectious diseases. [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2017 The population attributable fraction (PAF) is used to quantify the contribution of a risk group to disease burden. For infectious diseases, high-risk individuals may increase disease risk for the wider population in addition to themselves; therefore methods are required to estimate the PAF for infectious diseases.A mathematical model of disease ...
E. Brooks-Pollock, L. Danon
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Province-specific smoking-attributable cancer mortality in China 2013
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2020 Introduction Province-specific initiatives are at the forefront of tobacco control but limited studies have provided province-specific assessment of smoking-attributable cancer burden in China.
Linjie Yu +3 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2021 Extensive literature in the United States documents racial/ethnic and gender disparities in the incidence and prevalence of dementia yet few studies have examined how race/ethnicity and gender intersect to shape inequalities in the risk of dementia ...
Jordan Weiss
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Journal of Global Health, 2022 Background Small for gestational age (SGA) is a public health concern since it is associated with mortality in neonatal and post-neonatal period. Despite the large magnitude of the problem, little is known about the population-attributable risk (PAR) of ...
Sabi Gurung +6 more
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Use and misuse of population attributable fractions. [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1998 How much of the disease burden in a population could be eliminated if the effects of certain causal factors were eliminated from the population? To address this question, epidemiologists calculate the population attributable fraction. As noted in a recent editorial in the Journal, population attributable fraction estimates can help guide policymakers ...
B, Rockhill, B, Newman, C, Weinberg
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