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Population prevalence, attributable risk, and attributable risk percentage for high methylmalonic acid concentrations in the post-folic acid fortification period in the US

Nutrition & Metabolism, 2012
Background Serum methylmalonic acid (MMA) is regarded as a sensitive marker of vitamin B-12 status. Elevated circulating MMA is linked to neurological abnormalities.
Ganji Vijay, Kafai Mohammad R
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Impact of radon on lung cancer incidence in Slovenia

Onkologija, 2022
Backgound: Radon in the living environment is classified by the World Health Organization as one of 19 environmental carcinogens, and is, along with tobacco smoke, one of the most important risk factors for the development of lung cancer, accounting for
Mojca Birk , Tina Žagar, Sonja Tomšič, Katarina Lokar, Ana Mihor, Nika Bric, Miran Mlakar, Vesna Zadnik   +7 more
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Comorbidities only account for a small proportion of excess mortality after fracture: A record linkage study of individual fracture types [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Non-hip non-vertebral fractures (NHNV) constitute the majority of osteoporotic fractures but few studies have examined the association between these fractures, co-morbidity and mortality.
Bliuc, Dana, Blyth, Fiona, Center, Jacqueline, Eisman, John A, March, Lynette, Nguyen, Tuan, Simpson, Judy, Tran, Thach, Weiwen, Chen   +8 more
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Global, regional and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 195 countries, 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [PDF]

, 2016
Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease.
HASH(0x55f50ee914b0), Uthman, Olalekan A.   +1 more
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Population-Attributable Risk Proportion of Clinical Risk Factors for Breast Cancer. [PDF]

JAMA Oncol, 2017
Many established breast cancer risk factors are used in clinical risk prediction models, although the proportion of breast cancers explained by these factors is unknown.To determine the population-attributable risk proportion (PARP) for breast cancer associated with clinical breast cancer risk factors among premenopausal and postmenopausal women.Case ...
Engmann NJ, Golmakani MK, Miglioretti DL, Sprague BL, Kerlikowske K, Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.   +5 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

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, Wong-Ho, Chow, Thomas L, Vaughan, Marilie D, Gammon, Harvey A, Risch, Janet L, Stanford, Janet B, Schoenberg, Susan T, Mayne, Robert, Dubrow, Heidrun, Rotterdam, A Brian, West, Martin, Blaser, William J, Blot, Mitchell H, Gail, Joseph F, Fraumeni   +14 more
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Development of risk scoring scale tool for prediction of preterm birth

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019
Background: Prediction of preterm births in the early stage during pregnancy may reduce prevalence of preterm births by appropriate interventions. Aims/Objective: The aim of the study is to develop an antenatal risk scoring system/scale for prediction of
Avinash Hindurao Salunkhe, Jyoti A Salunkhe, Vaishali R Mohite, Ujawala More, Asha K Pratinidhi, Satish V Kakade   +5 more
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Antenatal risk scoring scale for predication of low birth weight and its validity

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019
Background: Prediction of low birth weight (LBW) early during pregnancy may prevent LBW by appropriate interventions. Aims/Objective: The aim of the study is to develop an antenatal risk scoring scale for prediction of LBW.
Avinash Hindurao Salunkhe, Asha K Pratinidhi, Jyoti A Salunkhe, Satish V Kakade, Vaishali R Mohite, R P Patange   +5 more
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The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Attributable to Major Modifiable Risk Factors in Indonesia

Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Background: In Indonesia, coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are estimated to cause more than 470 000 deaths annually. In order to inform primary prevention policies, we estimated the sex- and age-specific burden of CHD and stroke attributable to ...
Mohammad Akhtar Hussain
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 [PDF]

, 2018
Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk ...
Abate, Degu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foah, Afshin, Ashkan, Deribe, Kebede, Gakidou, Emmanuela, GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators,, Lim, Stephen S, others,, Stanaway, Jeffrey D   +12 more
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