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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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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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What Does the Population Attributable Fraction Mean?

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2007
Recent controversy over the disagreement of population attributable fraction estimates for the obesity–total mortality relation has made the concept of attributable fraction visible in both scientific and popular news.
Beverly Levine, PhD
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Population attributable fraction for dementia in American Indians [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract Background The Lancet Commission estimated 45% of dementia cases are collectively attributable to 14 modifiable risk factors (education, hearing loss, head injury, hypertension, heavy alcohol use, obesity, smoking, depression, social isolation, inactivity, diabetes, and air pollution),
Suchy‐Dicey A, Rhoads K, Grabowski T, Larson E, Manson S, Buchwald D, Longstreth W.   +6 more
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Population attributable fraction of infection-related cancers in Korea

Annals of Oncology, 2011
A number of infectious agents have been classified as human carcinogens. The purpose of the current study was to provide an evidence-based assessment of the burden of infection-related cancers in the Korean population.The population attributable fraction was calculated using infection prevalence data from 1990 or earlier, relative risk estimates from ...
Sue K Park, Paolo Boffetta, Boniol Mathieu   +2 more
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Population fraction of Parkinson’s disease attributable to preventable risk factors

npj Parkinson's Disease, 2023
Parkinson’s disease is the fastest-growing neurologic disease with seemingly no means of prevention. Intrinsic risk factors (age, sex, and genetics) are inescapable, but environmental factors are not.
Haydeh Payami, Gwendolyn Cohen, Charles F. Murchison, Timothy R. Sampson, David G. Standaert, Zachary D. Wallen   +5 more
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Population attributable fraction: planning of diseases prevention actions in Brazil [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2016
Epidemiology is the study of occurrence, distribution and determinants of health-related events, including the application of that knowledge to the prevention and control of health problems.
Leandro Fórnias Machado de Rezende, José Eluf-Neto   +1 more
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Vision Impairment and the Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia in Older Adults.

JAMA Ophthalmol
ImportanceVision impairment is a potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia. Although few prior studies have estimated the contribution of vision impairments to dementia, none have reported on multiple objectively measured vision impairments (eg, distance and near visual acuity and contrast sensitivity) in a nationally representative sample of ...
Smith JR, Huang AR, Zhou Y, Varadaraj V, Swenor BK, Whitson HE, Reed NS, Deal JA, Ehrlich JR.   +8 more
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