Confounding Factors (EpidemiologyAir PollutionParticle SizeThis study examines different aspects of students' collegelife to articulate their perceptions of campus community.The findings indicate that students' sense of community is closely associated with their feelings of being cared about, treated in a ...
Most previous discussions of confounding in the epidemiologic literature have considered only point exposure studies, that is, studies that measure exposure and covariate status only once, at...DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw231 被引量: 6 年份: 2017 ...
While eating disorders (EDs) are more commonly diagnosed in females, there is growing awareness that men also experience EDs and may do so in a different way. Difficulties with emotion processing and emotion regulation are believed to be important in EDs, but as studies have involved predominantly...
Causation in Epidemiology: In epidemiology, causation shows how one event -- for example, developing lung cancer -- is the result of another event, such as being a long-term tobacco user. Numerous models of causation have been developed; however, no specific model has been adapted widely. ...
What is the Public Health Impact?Chapter pp 91–108 Cite this chapter A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology 4135 Accesses Abstract In the previous chapter on Measures of Effect, we focused exclusively on ratio measures of effect In this chapter, we consider difference measures of effect and other ...
Cohort studies are common in fields like medicine, epidemiology, and healthcare. Example: Prospective cohort study You are examining the relationship between exposure to pesticides and the incidence of a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. You recruit a group of healthy participants, all of whom were...
Moderation and mediation analyses are two statistical techniques used in the field of causal inference. But they both serve different purposes and have distinct characteristics. Understanding the similarities and differences between these two techniques is vital when choosing the appropriate method. Mediation...
A review of problems of bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies of cervical neoplasia and oral contraceptive use is difficult to obtain 3) extensive differential errors in the Pap test inevitably introduce misclassification bias and 4) attempts to remedy these problems ... SH Swan,DB Petitti...
The outcomes of our analysis of studies which recorded fertility rates in women desiring pregnancy following UAE for symptomatic fibroids found an overall mean pregnancy rate of 39.4%, live birth rate of 69.2% and miscarriage rate of 22%. The major confounding factor was patient age with many st...
Substantial progress has been made in the understanding of anorexia nervosa (AN) and eating disorder (ED) genetics through the efforts of large-scale collaborative consortia, yielding the first genome-wide significant loci, AN-associated genes, and insig