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Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to modifiable factors: introduction and overview

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To describe the approach underpinning a national project to estimate the numbers and proportions of cancers occurring in Australia in 2010 that are attributable to modifiable causal factors.
David C. Whiteman, Penelope M. Webb, Adele C. Green, Rachel E. Neale, Lin Fritschi, Christopher J. Bain, D. Max Parkin, Louise F. Wilson, Catherine M. Olsen, Christina M. Nagle, Nirmala Pandeya, Susan J. Jordan, Annika Antonsson, Bradley J. Kendall, Maria Celia B. Hughes, Torukiri I. Ibiebele, Kyoko Miura, Susan Peters, Renee N. Carey   +18 more
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Cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality associated with individual and combined cardiometabolic risk factors

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Previous studies have investigated the association between cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but evidence of the attributable burden of individual and combined cardiometabolic risk factors for CVD and mortality is ...
Xue Cao, Linfeng Zhang, Xin Wang, Zuo Chen, Congyi Zheng, Lu Chen, Haoqi Zhou, Jiayin Cai, Zhen Hu, Yixin Tian, Runqing Gu, Yilin Huang, Zengwu Wang   +12 more
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Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to and prevented by the use of combined oral contraceptives

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objectives: To estimate the proportion and number of cancers occurring in Australia in 2010 attributable to combined oral contraceptive pill (OCP) use. Methods: We estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) for cancers causally associated with ...
Susan J. Jordan, Louise F. Wilson, Christina M. Nagle, Adele C. Green, Catherine M. Olsen, Christopher J. Bain, Nirmala Pandeya, David C. Whiteman, Penelope M. Webb   +8 more
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Disease burden due to biomass cooking-fuel-related household air pollution among women in India [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Household air pollution (HAP) due to biomass cooking fuel use is an important risk factor for a range of diseases, especially among adult women who are primary cooks, in India.
Meena Sehgal, Suliankatchi Abdulkader Rizwan, Anand Krishnan   +2 more
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The population impact of common mental disorders and long-term physical conditions on disability and hospital admission [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Long-term physical conditions (LTCs) consume the largest share of healthcare budgets. Although common mental disorders (CMDs) and LTCs often co-occur, the potential impact of improved mental health treatment on severe disability and hospital ...
Bebbington, Paul, Brugha, T. S. (Traolach S.), McBride, Orla, Meltzer, Howard, Rai, Dheeraj, Spiers, Nicola, Stranges, Saverio, Weich, Scott   +7 more
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Alcohol as a Risk Factor for Cancer: Existing Evidence in a Global Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2015
The purpose of the present review is to give an overview of the association between alcohol intake and the risk of developing cancer. Two large-scale expert reports; the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)/American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR ...
Nina Roswall, Elisabete Weiderpass
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Causal inference with multi-state models - estimands and estimators of the population-attributable fraction

, 2019
The population-attributable fraction (PAF) is a popular epidemiological measure for the burden of a harmful exposure within a population. It is often interpreted causally as proportion of preventable cases after an elimination of exposure.
Schumacher, Martin, von Cube, Maja, Wolkewitz, Martin   +2 more
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Attributable risk of suicide for populations in Australia

Frontiers in Psychiatry
ObjectiveEach year approximately 3,000 Australians die by suicide. We estimated the population attributable risk for identified target populations to provide evidence on how much of the overall burden of suicide in the Australian population is ...
Piumee Bandara, Andrew Page, Lennart Reifels, Karolina Krysinska, Karl Andriessen, Marisa Schlichthorst, Anna Flego, Long Khanh-Dao Le, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Jane Pirkis   +10 more
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Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to modifiable factors: summary and conclusions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To estimate the numbers and proportions of cancers occurring in Australia in 2010 attributable to modifiable causal factors. Methods: We estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) of cancers associated with exposure to 13 causal ...
David C. Whiteman, Penelope M. Webb, Adele C. Green, Rachel E. Neale, Lin Fritschi, Christopher J. Bain, D. Max Parkin, Louise F. Wilson, Catherine M. Olsen, Christina M. Nagle, Nirmala Pandeya, Susan J. Jordan, Annika Antonsson, Bradley J. Kendall, Maria Celia B. Hughes, Torukiri I. Ibiebele, Kyoko Miura, Susan Peters, Renee N. Carey   +18 more
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The population attributable fraction of occupational COPD among Danish women [PDF]

ERJ Open Research, 2017
The PAF of occupational COPD among Danish women http://ow.ly/CEmy308XEgl.
Else Würtz, Vivi Schlünssen, Tine Malling, Jens Georg Hansen, Øyvind Omland   +4 more
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