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Morbidity Due to Obesity, Hypertension and Diabetes II Attributable to Non Breastfeeding and Low Birth Weight during the 1000 Days of Life: Estimation of the Population Attributable Fraction
... While it should be noted that the development of chronic disease is a multifactorial process, it is clear that the likelihood of developing them could be reduced if risk factors at all stages of life were prevented, ...
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Population-attributable causes of cancer in Korea : obesity and physical inactivity
... The present study has several strengths. First, we used national cancer incidence data that achieve a nearly complete coverage of the Korean population. With well-established nationwide popula- tion-based cancer ...
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Population Attributable Fraction of Hypertension Associated with Obesity in Iran
... . Population attributable fraction (PAF) calculated based on the percentage was obtained with high and low confidence; all calculations were performed using Microsoft Excel sand entered to ARC GIS software ...
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Population Attributable Fraction of Ischemic Heart Disease Associated to Hypertension in the Middle East and North Africa
... Introduction: Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) has been increasing in the Middle East and North Africa. Hypertension is an important modifiable risk factor of IHD and plays an important role in the epidemic of IHD. ...
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Population attributable fraction of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer disease: A systematic review of systematic reviews
... Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. Demonstrating the modifiable risk factors of AD can help to plan for prevention of this disease. The aim of the current review was to characterize ...
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Population attributable fraction of leading non communicable cardiovascular diseases due to leisure time physical inactivity: a systematic review
... general population is engaged in even light-intensity PA (<550–150 kcal/ ...general population is encouraged to accumulate >1100 kcal/week of equivalent leisure-time ...
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<p>Estimation of Generalized Impact Fraction and Population Attributable Fraction of Hypertension Based on JNC-IV and 2017 ACC/AHA Guidelines for Cardiovascular Diseases Using Parametric G-Formula: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS)</p>
... a population-based cohort study, the current results showed that by reducing stage 2 to stage 1 HTN or to normal BP, the number of new CVD cases would be reduced by about 17% and 20%, ...
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Asthma caused by occupational exposures is common – A systematic analysis of estimates of the population-attributable fraction
... general population-based sample from Brazil, subjects with a positive bronchial methacholine challenge test who also reported a temporal association between asthmatic symptoms and work were compared with referents ...
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Accounting for biases in survey-based estimates of population attributable fractions
... Methods: We review equations for calculating PAF based on either the proportion of deceased (pd) or the proportion of the entire sample (pe) that receives the exposure. We explore how estimates from each equation are ...
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Prevalence and risk factors of Hepatitis C virus infection in Brazil, 2005 through 2009: a cross sectional study
... [25]. Population attributable risk—the fraction of disease in the total study population that is attributable to the ex- posure— was estimated for multiple factors using case– control data ...
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Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in the South Indian adult population: The Andhra Pradesh Eye disease study
... the population attributable risk percentage (PAR%) data on different types of refractive errors in adult ...this population-based study demonstrated the expected association between age and different ...
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Contribution of Residential Exposures to Asthma in US Children and Adolescents
... sis of allergic rhinitis as a risk factor for asthma or the result of environmental exposure that predisposes to both allergic rhinitis and asthma. Similarly, family history of atopy may represent shared genes or com- ...
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The unveiling of a new risk factor associated with bladder cancer in Lebanon
... The population attributable fraction (PAF) was used to estimate the role of THM on bladder cancer in- cidence in ...the population subjected to the risk and the relative risk of cancer associated ...
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Assessment of public health impact of work-related asthma
... assessing attributable fraction, the estimate of exposure should be accurate in terms of giving a valid effect estimate, but it does not need to be representative of the entire ...the population ...
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The association of hyperglycaemia with prevalent tuberculosis: a population based cross sectional study
... tuberculosis. Population attributable fractions (PAFs) of prevalent tuberculosis to hyperglycaemia and HIV were calculated separately for each country and for combined ...study population at exposure ...
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Nut consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies
... the population-attributable risk of mortality due to low nut consumption: PAR = p(rr–1)/(1 + p(rr–1)), where p is the prevalence of the exposure in the population, and rr is the relative ...
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Comorbidities affect risk of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
... sequential population attributable frac- tions ...additional population attributable fraction for comorbidity ...the population than other recognized risk ...
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Occupational leptospirosis in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey University, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Similar to earlier observations in abattoir workers, Leptospira sero-prevalence of farmers and veterinarians was associated with the recall of influenza-like illness of sampled individuals. Using the estimated incidence ...
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Population prevalence, attributable risk, and attributable risk percentage for high methylmalonic acid concentrations in the post-folic acid fortification period in the US
... investigate population pre- valence estimates, population attributable risk (PAR), and PAR% for high serum MMA in the post-folic acid fortification period for US ...
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Risk Factors for Sporadic Cryptosporidiosis among Immunocompetent Persons in the United States from 1999 to 2001
... into several categories: contact with persons with diarrhea, contact with animals, travel, recreational water, drinking water, and food and beverage consumption. Participants were also asked questions about demographics ...
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