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Population attributable fraction in textbooks: Time to revise [PDF]

Global Epidemiology, 2021
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, Maryam Nazemipour, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Mohammad Ali Mansournia   +3 more
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Risk and Population Attributable Fraction of Stroke Subtypes in Japan [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology
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, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Yuanying Li, Isao Saito, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Isao Muraki, Manami Inoue, Shoichiro Tsugane, Hiroyasu Iso, Norie Sawada   +9 more
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Estimation and application of population attributable fraction in ecological studies [PDF]

Environmental Health, 2019
Estimation of population attributable fraction (PAF) requires unbiased relative risk (RR) by using either Levin’s or Miettinen’s formula, on which decision depends on the available exposure information in reference group, not the types of studies.
Cheng-Kuan Lin, Szu-Ta Chen
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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, Kamran Ebrahimi, Shaker Salari Lak   +2 more
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Population attributable fraction of gas cooking and childhood asthma: What was missed? [PDF]

Global Epidemiology
Wenchao Li, Julie E. Goodman, Christopher Long   +2 more
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Quantifying the Sex‐Race/Ethnicity‐Specific Burden of Obesity on Incident Diabetes Mellitus in the United States, 2001 to 2016: MESA and NHANES

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, Lucia C. Petito, Megan McCabe, Norrina B. Allen, Matthew J. O’Brien, Mercedes R. Carnethon, Sadiya S. Khan   +6 more
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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, Junxia Cheng, Xiaoli Cui, Jianbing Wang   +3 more
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Contribution of socioeconomic, lifestyle, and medical risk factors to disparities in dementia and mortality

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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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]

, 2015
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, Forouhi, Nita G, Hayashino, Yasuaki, Imamura, Fumiaki, Mursu, Jaakko, O’Connor, Laura, Ye, Zheng   +6 more
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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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