Among prevalent cases, 56% were male, 93% were black and 159 (57%) were 40-59 years of age. The most commonly reported transmission risk factor was heterosexual (48%) followed by no-identified risk (NIR) (29%) and MSM (20%). Of the 29% NIR cases, 67% were male. Although the ...
We propose and study a fully efficient method to estimate associations of an exposure with disease incidence when both, incident cases and prevalent cases, i.e., individuals who were diagnosed with the disease at some prior time point and are alive at the time of sampling, are included in a...
First, due to the limited number of incident CHD cases, our analyses may not be sufficiently powered to detect a difference in CHD vs. no CHD groups, particularly in the group with T2D at baseline. Along these lines, due to the limited number of validated proteins in those with T2D, ...
Results Among 4 441 084 participants without diabetes (mean age, 54 years, 38% women), 660 856 incident cases (14.9%) of reduced eGFR occurred during a mean follow-up of 4.2 years. Of 781 627 participants with diabetes (mean age, 62 years, 13% women), 313 646 incident cas...
Although polypharmacy is recognized as a risk factor for adverse events, it is very prevalent in older adults [50]. Another aspect that should be considered in older adults are the trade-offs between future risk reductions and the potential current risks for adverse events due to polypharmacy [...
Cases were assigned to 2 physician adjudicators and disagreements were resolved by full committee review. To maintain high interrater reliability, an adjudicator underwent retraining if disagreement with other adjudicators was greater than 20% in ongoing review.27 Covariates Covariates were factors that ...
However, by doing so, we might have underestimated the number of dementia cases, especially the mild cases and early stages, as well as the very fast progressing cases who died within the first year after the initial diagnosis. Conclusion Dementia is a significant risk factor for mortality in ...
Secondly, we used a 2-year washout period (January 2004–December 2005) to exclude prevalent cases among patients with UC, to avoid confounding incidence rate due to pre-existing diseases. Patients with pre-existing UC would have visited the hospital at least once within 2 years, so we ...
Men aged 60–79 without prevalentHFfollowed for 9 years (N = 3,723). Information on incidentHFcases was obtained from primary care records. Assessment of sleep was based on self‐reported sleep duration at night and daytime napping. Self‐reported short nighttime sleep duration and daytime ...
Prevalent and incident cases of cancer and cardiovascular diseases (strokes, myocardial infarctions, and acute coronary syndromes) were self-reported during follow-up; incident cases were validated by a medical com- mittee based on medical records (diagnosis, hospitalization, radiological reports, ...