Comorbidities only account for a small proportion of excess mortality after fracture: A record linkage study of individual fracture types [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Non-hip non-vertebral fractures (NHNV) constitute the majority of osteoporotic fractures but few studies have examined the association between these fractures, co-morbidity and mortality.
Bliuc, Dana +8 more
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Statin use and survival in resectable pancreatic cancer: confounders and mechanisms. [PDF]
, 2016 A first point regards the possible activity of drugs other than statins, such as aspirin or metformin, against pancreatic cancer. As many patients use a combination of these drugs, one might speculate that the association between simvastatin and overall ...
Archibugi, L +2 more
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Estimation of Cancer Burden Attributable to Infection in Asia
Journal of Epidemiology, 2015 Background: Some infectious agents have been shown to be human carcinogens. The current study focused on estimation of cancer burden attributable to infection in different regions of Asia.
He Huang
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Population attributable fraction of type 2 diabetes due to physical inactivity in adults: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Physical inactivity is a global pandemic. The population attributable fraction (PAF) of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) associated with physical inactivity ranges from 3% to 40%.
Dawn C Mackey +3 more
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The age-specific burden and household and school-based predictors of child and adolescent tuberculosis infection in rural Uganda. [PDF]
, 2020 BackgroundThe age-specific epidemiology of child and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) is poorly understood, especially in rural areas of East Africa. We sought to characterize the age-specific prevalence and predictors of TB infection among children and ...
Atukunda, Mucunguzi +14 more
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Population-attributable fraction of risk factors for severe maternal morbidity. [PDF]
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, 2020 Severe maternal morbidity is an important proxy for maternal mortality. Population attributable fraction is the proportion of a disease that is attributable to a given risk factor and can be used to estimate the reduction in the disease that would be anticipated if a risk factor was reduced or eliminated.We sought to determine the population ...
K. Freese +4 more
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Clinical malaria case definition and malaria attributable fraction in the highlands of western Kenya. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundIn African highland areas where endemicity of malaria varies greatly according to altitude and topography, parasitaemia accompanied by fever may not be sufficient to define an episode of clinical malaria in endemic areas.
Afrane, Yaw A +3 more
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Preventable cancer cases and deaths attributable to tobacco smoking in Korea from 2015 to 2030 [PDF]
Epidemiology and HealthOBJECTIVES Tobacco smoking is a major public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to assess its impact on cancer incidence and mortality by estimating the population attributable fraction (PAF) in the Korean population for 2015 and 2020 and by ...
Soseul Sung +29 more
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Impact of radon on lung cancer incidence in Slovenia
Onkologija, 2022 Backgound: Radon in the living environment is classified by the World Health Organization as one of 19 environmental carcinogens, and is, along with tobacco smoke, one of the most important risk factors for the development of lung cancer, accounting for
Mojca Birk +7 more
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Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004.
Alison Wringe +11 more
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