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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to four selected environmental risk factors in South Africa [PDF]

, 2010
The first South African National Burden of Disease study quantified the underlying causes of premature mortality and morbidity experienced in South Africa in the year 2000.
Vos, Theo, Lewin, Simon, Vos, T., D. Bradshaw, S. Lewin, E. Cairncross, Nannan, Nadine, Bradshaw, Debbie, Norman, Rosana, Lewin, S., Nannan, N., Bradshaw, D., R. Norman, Cairncross, Eugene, Norman, R., N. Nannan, T. Vos, Cairncross, E., null South African Comparative Risk Asse, The South African Comparative Risk Assessment Collaborating Group   +19 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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Implications of Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada’s Indigenous Population

Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2015
Background Indigenous peoples in Canada have higher prevalence of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The relative importance of these risk factors on AD risk management is poorly understood.
Julia Petrasek MacDonald, Deborah E. Barnes, Laura E. Middleton   +2 more
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Outcome after stroke attributable to baseline factors-The PROSpective Cohort with Incident Stroke (PROSCIS).

PLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundThe impact of risk factors on poor outcome after ischemic stroke is well known, but estimating the amount of poor outcome attributable to single factors is challenging in presence of multimorbidity.
Carolin Malsch, Thomas Liman, Silke Wiedmann, Bob Siegerink, Marios K Georgakis, Steffen Tiedt, Matthias Endres, Peter U Heuschmann   +7 more
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Population attributable fractions for risk factors.

, 2015
Population attributable fractions for risk factors.
Sandro Galea (155637), Samuel Kipruto (811825), Michael Epprecht (776408), Sven Lautenbach (168534), Oliver Gruebner (651933), M. M. H. Khan (811824)   +5 more
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Population attributable risk for multimorbidity among women aged 15–49 years in India, 2015–16.

, 2021
Population attributable risk for multimorbidity among women aged 15–49 years in India, 2015–16.
Vivek K. Mishra (11642794), P. V. Murthy (11642800), Shobhit Srivastava (9672435), Muhammad T. (11642797)   +3 more
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Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to infectious agents

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objectives: To estimate the proportion and numbers of cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to infectious agents. Methods: The population attributable fraction (PAF) and number of cancers caused by hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV, HCV), Helicobacter ...
Annika Antonsson, Louise F. Wilson, Bradley J. Kendall, Christopher J. Bain, David C. Whiteman, Rachel E. Neale   +5 more
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Important risk factors and attributable risk of vertebral fractures in the population-based Tromsø study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2012
Background Vertebral fractures, the most common type of osteoporotic fractures, are associated with increased risk of subsequent fracture, morbidity, and mortality.
Waterloo Svanhild, Nguyen Tuan, Ahmed Luai A, Center Jacqueline R, Morseth Bente, Nguyen Nguyen D, Eisman John A, Søgaard Anne J, Emaus Nina   +8 more
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Population Attributable Fractions.

, 2019
(OR: Odds Ratio, AR: Attributable Risk, PAF: Population Attributable Fraction).
Lynne Elson (4500619), Ulrike Fillinger (31732), Susanne Wiese (1782373), Hermann Feldmeier (237850)   +3 more
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Inference about population attributable risk from cross-sectional studies [PDF]

, 1979
The population attributable risk (PAR) is defined as the fraction of all cases of a disease in a population due to exposure to a given risk factor. The data collected in cross-sectional surveys are used to test a formula of standard error of PAR from ...
Fleiss, J.L.
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