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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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Kritik an Population Attributable Fraction bei genauerem Hinsehen nicht gerechtfertigt [PDF]

Das Gesundheitswesen, 1990
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Plaß, D, Tobollik, M, Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Grill, E, Hoffmann, B, Hurraß, J, Künzli, N, Peters, A, Rothenbacher, D, Schneider, A, Wichmann, HE, Wintermeyer, D, Wolf, J, Zeeb, H, Straff, W   +14 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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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, Gopal Agrawal MSc, MPhil   +1 more
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Pathway-specific population attributable fractions [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
AbstractA population attributable fraction (PAF) represents the relative change in disease prevalence that one might expect if a particular exposure was absent from the population. Often, one might be interested in what percentage of this effect acts through particular pathways. For instance, the effect of excessive alcohol intake on stroke risk may be
O'Connell, Maurice, Ferguson, John P
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Population attributable fractions for continuously distributed exposures [PDF]

Epidemiologic Methods, 2020
Abstract When estimating population attributable fractions (PAF), it is common to partition a naturally continuous exposure into a categorical risk factor. While prior risk factor categorization can help estimation and interpretation, it can result in underestimation of the disease burden attributable to the exposure as well as biased
John Ferguson, Fabrizio Maturo, Salim Yusuf, Martin O’Donnell   +3 more
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Estimating population attributable risk fraction of determinants of pediatric obesity

BMC Public Health
Objectives Childhood obesity imposes a remarkable socio-economic and health-related burden, with an increasing worldwide trend. We aimed to assess the relationship between modifiable factors and obesity in Iranian children and adolescents along with to ...
Maryam Yazdi, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Mostafa Qorbani, Saba Karimi, Mohammad Esmail Motlagh, Majid Khademian, Roya Kelishadi   +6 more
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Population attributable fraction [PDF]

BMJ, 2018
Much statistical analysis seeks to identify associations between exposures and outcomes. The population attributable fraction (PAF) is an epidemiologic measure widely used to assess the public health impact of exposures in populations. PAF is defined as the fraction of all cases of a particular disease or other adverse condition in a population that is
Mansournia, M, Altman, D
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Defining the population attributable fraction for infectious diseases [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
The population attributable fraction (PAF) is used to quantify the contribution of a risk group to disease burden. For infectious diseases, high-risk individuals may increase disease risk for the wider population in addition to themselves; therefore methods are required to estimate the PAF for infectious diseases.A mathematical model of disease ...
Brooks Pollock, Ellen, Danon, Leon
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