The Public Health Response to COVID-19: Balancing Precaution and Unintended Consequences
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
High-throughput sequencing of pooled samples to determine community-level microbiome diversity
...Published in Annals of Epidemiology
Purpose Community-level interventions in cluster randomized controlled trials may alter the gut microbiome of individuals. The current method of estimating community diversities uses microbiome data obtained from multiple individual's specimens. Here we propose randomly pooling a number of microbiome samples from the same community into one sample ...
Temporal trends in the leading causes of death among a large national cohort of patients with colorectal cancer from 197...
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
PurposeTo assess the distribution of proportion of deaths from causes other than colorectal cancer (CRC) over time and temporal trends of cause-specific cumulative incidence of death due to six leading causes in patients with CRC. MethodsOverall, 375,462 patients with CRC in nine Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registries from 1975 to 2...
Re: Copper deficiency and neuropathology related to the petrous bone
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
Prevalence of Diagnosed Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Among U.S. Medicaid Enrollees, 2000 - 2007
...Published in Annals of Epidemiology
PurposeFew population-based studies have estimated the number of persons diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection in the United States. Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of diagnosed CHB infection among persons enrolled in the U.S. Medicaid programs of California, Florida, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania between 2000 and 2007....
A comparison of methods to assess intimate partner abuse 1 year postpartum
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
Do metropolitan HIV epidemic histories and programs for people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men predict AI...
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
PurposeWe focus on a little-researched issue—how human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics and programs in key populations in metropolitan areas affect epidemics in other key populations. We consider (1) How are earlier epidemics among people who inject drugs (PWID) and men who have sex with men (MSM) related to later AIDS incidence and mortalit...
Dietary indices, cardiovascular risk factors and mortality in middle-aged adults: findings from the Aerobics Center Long...
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
PurposeWe examined the association between three predefined dietary indices and both cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and long-term mortality in adult Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study’s participants. MethodsBetween 1987 and 1999, 12,449 (77% male) participants aged 20–84 years completed a clinical examination, which included dietary asse...
Population attributable fractions for three perinatal risk factors for autism spectrum disorders, 2002 and 2008 autism a...
...Published in Annals of Epidemiology
PurposeNumerous studies establish associations between adverse perinatal outcomes/complications and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There has been little assessment of population attributable fractions (PAFs). MethodsWe estimated average ASD PAFs for preterm birth (PTB), small for gestational age (SGA), and Cesarean delivery (CD) in a U.S. populati...
Evaluating the accuracy of a geographic closed-ended approach to ethnicity measurement, a practical alternative
Published in Annals of Epidemiology
PurposeMeasuring ethnicity accurately is important for identifying ethnicity variations in disease risk. We evaluated the degree of agreement and accuracy of maternal ethnicity measured using the new standardized closed-ended geographically based ethnicity question and geographic reclassification of open-ended ethnicity questions from the Canadian ...
