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Changes over 15 years in the contribution of adiposity and smoking to deaths in England and Scotland

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background For many years smoking has been the major threat to public health in developed countries. However, smoking prevalence has declined over a period when adiposity has increased.
Frederick K. Ho, Carlos Celis-Morales, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Solange Liliana Parra-Soto, James Lewsey, Daniel Mackay, Jill P. Pell   +6 more
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Liver mortality attributable to chronic hepatitis C virus infection in Denmark and Scotland: using spontaneous resolvers as the benchmark comparator [PDF]

, 2016
Liver mortality among individuals with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection is common, but the relative contribution of CHC per se versus adverse health behaviors is uncertain.
Amin, Aspinall, Boniface, Boscarino, Bruggmann, Campbell, Christensen, Davis, Dieperink, Duberg, Duggal, El-Kamary, Engberg, Grebely, Grebley, Grieve, Gyarmathy, Hansen, Hansen, Heeb, Hutchinson, Innes, Innes, Juel, Kenny-Walsh, Lehman, Marchand, Martin, McDonald, McDonald, Micallef, Nelson, Noureddin, Omland, Page, Pawlotsky, Petta, Piasecki, Rein, Rein, Riley, Roerecke, Ryder, Schmidt, Seef, Shah, Stenkvist, Vogt, Wiese, Wright   +49 more
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Modifiable lifestyle factors have a larger contribution to colorectal neoplasms than family history

BMC Cancer, 2022
Background  Screening recommendations for colorectal cancer (CRC) are mainly based on family history rather than lifestyle risk factors. We aimed to assess and compare risk factors for colorectal neoplasm (CRN) and evaluate trends in neoplasm detection ...
Shuyuan Wang, Zhen Yuan, Yuqi Wang, Xuanzhu Zhao, Weifeng Gao, Hongzhou Li, Yuanshun Zhao, Zili Zhang, Shuiqing Liang, Zhaoce Liu, Qinghuai Zhang, Hong Ma, Xipeng Zhang, Wei Cui, Chunze Zhang   +14 more
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Issues with incorrect computing of population attributable fraction (PAF) in a global perspective on coal-fired power plants and burden of lung cancer

Environmental Health, 2019
All observational studies are liable to confounding and Levin’s formula becomes useless in practice for unbiasedly estimating PAF. With respect to causal interpretation of PAF in public health setting, unbiased estimation of PAF requires several ...
Ahmad Khosravi, Mohammad Ali Mansournia
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Deaths attributable to diabetes in the United States: comparison of data sources and estimation approaches [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this research was to identify the fraction of deaths attributable to diabetes in the United States. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We estimated population attributable fractions (PAF) for cohorts aged 30±84 who were surveyed in the ...
Preston, Samuel, Stokes, Andrew
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The population attributable fraction of cases due to gatherings and groups with relevance to COVID-19 mitigation strategies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021
Many countries have banned groups and gatherings as part of their response to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Although there are outbreak reports involving mass gatherings, the contribution to overall transmission is unknown.
E. Brooks-Pollock, J. Read, T. House, G. Medley, M. Keeling, L. Danon   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of Prevalence- and Smoking Impact Ratio-Based Methods of Estimating Smoking-Attributable Fractions of Deaths

Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Background: Smoking is a major modifiable risk factor for premature mortality. Estimating the smoking-attributable burden is important for public health policy.
Kyoung Ae Kong
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Population Attributable Fraction of Anemia Associated with P. falciparum Infection in Children in Southern Malawi.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021
Anemia is a leading cause of morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. The etiologies of anemia are multifactorial, and it is unclear what proportion of anemia is attributable to malaria in children of different ages in Malawi.
Doris P Yimgang, A. Buchwald, J. Coalson, J. Walldorf, A. Bauleni, A. Kapito-Tembo, D. Mathanga, T. Taylor, M. Laufer, L. Cohee   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Population Attributable Fraction of Asthma Among Canadian Children [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2011
We calculated the population attributable fraction (PAF) of Canadian childhood asthma due to modifiable environmental exposures, in order to estimate their relative contributions to asthma development based on the current literature.We conducted a systematic review to determine Canadian childhood asthma incidence, Canadian prevalence of exposure to ...
Elinor, Simons, Teresa, To, Sharon, Dell
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Attributable fraction and related measures: Conceptual relations in the counterfactual framework

Journal of Causal Inference, 2023
The attributable fraction (population) has attracted much attention from a theoretical perspective and has been used extensively to assess the impact of potential health interventions. However, despite its extensive use, there is much confusion about its
Suzuki Etsuji, Yamamoto Eiji
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