Population Attributable Risk Fraction for Selected Chronic Diseases in India
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2010 Background: India’s current health transition stage poses a critical challenge of dealing with the unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and the steadily rising burden of noncommunicable diseases. A significant burden of chronic diseases in India is
Periyanayangam Arokiasamy MA, PhD +1 more
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Risk and Population Attributable Fraction of Stroke Subtypes in Japan
Journal of EpidemiologyBackground: 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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Smoking-attributable mortality among Korean adults in 2019 [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES Tobacco use ranks among the leading preventable causes of death worldwide. This study was conducted to calculate the mortality rate attributable to smoking in Korea for 2019 and to highlight the importance of tracking and monitoring smoking ...
Yeun Soo Yang +4 more
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Estimating Attributable Mortality of Modifying Selected Risk Factors of Myocardial Infarction [PDF]
Novelty in Clinical Medicine, 2022 Background: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death due to non-communicable diseases and myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most common causes of death due to cardiovascular diseases worldwide.Objectives: The aim of this study was to
Taher Ahangari +2 more
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Lipid profile, cardiovascular disease and mortality in a Mediterranean high-risk population: The ESCARVAL-RISK study [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction The potential impact of targeting different components of an adverse lipid profile in populations with multiple cardiovascular risk factors is not completely clear.
Ascaso, Juan F +25 more
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Identifying Target Risk Factors Using Population Attributable Risks of Ischemic Stroke by Age and Sex [PDF]
Journal of Stroke, 2015 Background and Purpose Estimating age- and sex-specific population attributable risks (PARs) of major risk factors for stroke may be a useful strategy to identify risk factors for targeting preventive strategies.
Tai Hwan Park +17 more
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Cancer types with high numbers of driver events are largely preventable [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 There is a long-standing debate on whether cancer is predominantly driven by extrinsic risk factors such as smoking, or by intrinsic processes such as errors in DNA replication.
Aleksey V. Belikov, Sergey V. Leonov
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Outcome after stroke attributable to baseline factors-The PROSpective Cohort with Incident Stroke (PROSCIS). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:The impact of risk factors on poor outcome after ischemic stroke is well known, but estimating the amount of poor outcome attributable to single factors is challenging in presence of multimorbidity.
Carolin Malsch +7 more
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Population Attributable Risks of Esophageal and Gastric Cancers [PDF]
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2003 Several risk factors have been identified for esophageal adenocarcinoma, gastric cardia adenocarcinoma, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, and noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma, but no study has comprehensively examined their contributions to the cancer burden in the general population.
Lawrence S, Engel +14 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 +14 more
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