Davies, Megan Horsdal, Henriette Thisted Antonsen, Sussie Sigsgaard, Torben Fan, Chun Chieh Thompson, Wesley K Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker Sabel, Clive E
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Psychological medicine
Suicide risk is complex and nuanced, and how place impacts suicide risk when considered alongside detailed individual risk factors remains uncertain. We aimed to examine suicide risk in Denmark with both individual and neighbourhood level risk factors. We used Danish register-based data to identify individuals born in Denmark from 1972, with full p...
Hübner, Wiebke Phillimore, Jenny Bradby, Hannah Brand, Tilman
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Social science & medicine (1982)
Access to good healthcare and the conditions for good health is one of the central dimensions of immigrant integration. National health policies play a major role in equipping residents with the necessary entitlements to accessible and acceptable healthcare services. Rarely analysed so far is the contribution of migration-related health policies to...
Yu, Yifan Lv, Junqi Liu, Jing Chen, Yueqiao Chen, Kejin Yang, Yanfang
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BMC geriatrics
Living arrangements are critical to the survival and well-being of older people, especially in China where the filial piety culture demands adult children care for and serve their parents. The study aimed to explore the association between living arrangements and cognitive decline among older people in China. Participants included 6,074 older adult...
Blumenstock, Shari M Barber, Jennifer S
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The journal of sexual medicine
Significant differences in sexual frequency during pregnancy have been documented in cross-sectional and once-per-trimester longitudinal studies, with the highest sexual frequency in the first trimester and the lowest in the third trimester. However, changes in sexual frequency may be more complex than these comparisons suggest; patterns of sexual ...
Yadav, Suryakant Bhandari, Pravat
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BMC pediatrics
The impacts of socio-demographic and environmental risk factors on child growth have been widely documented. However, it remains unclear whether the impacts of such risk factors on child growth have remained static or changed with child's age. The present study aims to assess the underlying age heterogeneities in child growth and its potential dete...
Kerioui, Marion Desmée, Solène Bertrand, Julie Mercier, François Bruno, René Guedj, Jérémie
In advanced cancer patients, tumor burden assessment relies on the Sum of the Longest Diameters (SLD) of the target lesions, a marker that lumps all lesions together and ignores intra-patient heterogeneity. Here, we relied on a rich dataset of 342 metastatic bladder cancer patients treated with a novel immunotherapy agent to develop a Bayesian mult...
Santos, Carla Bustamante, Alcibíades Vasconcelos, Olga Pereira, Sara Garganta, Rui Lightfoot, J Timothy Tani, Go Hedeker, Donald Katzmarzyk, Peter T Maia, José
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Behavior genetics
We estimated sibling resemblance in health-related physical fitness (PF) and examined how individual characteristics and shared natural environment accounted for sibling similarities. The sample comprised 656 sibling pairs and 102 triplets (6-15 years of age), from three geographical areas of Peru. PF components included morphological (waist circum...
Doedens, Paul Ter Riet, Gerben Boyette, Lindy-Lou Latour, Corine de Haan, Lieuwe Twisk, Jos
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Journal of clinical epidemiology
To compare estimates of effect and variability resulting from standard linear regression analysis and hierarchical multilevel analysis with cross-classified multilevel analysis under various scenarios. We performed a simulation study based on a data structure from an observational study in clinical mental health care. We used a Markov chain Monte C...
Oberndorfer, Moritz Dorner, Thomas E. Leyland, Alastair H. Grabovac, Igor Schober, Thomas Šramek, Lukas Bilger, Marcel
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SSM - Population Health
• Social cohesion aims to describe aspects of the social environment we live in but its measurement remains challenging. • We meta-analysed the ecometric properties of 78 social cohesion measurements. • There is modest but consistent evidence for the contextual nature of social cohesion. • Contextual dependence in individual response behaviour is s...
Yimer, Belay B. Schultz, David M. Beukenhorst, Anna L. Lunt, Mark Pisaniello, Huai L. House, Thomas Sergeant, Jamie C. McBeth, John Dixon, William G.
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Pain Reports
Introduction: Previous studies on the association between weather and pain severity among patients with chronic pain have produced mixed results. In part, this inconsistency may be due to differences in individual pain responses to the weather. Methods: To test the hypothesis that there might be subgroups of participants with different pain respons...
