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Burden of postmenopausal breast cancer attributable to excess body weight: comparative study of body mass index and CUN-BAE in MCC-Spain study
Background 10% of postmenopausal breast cancer cases are attributed to a high body mass index (BMI). BMI underestimates body ...
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Changing relationship between income inequality and mortality
The recent paper by Dunn et al showed that the positive relationship between US state-level income inequality and mortality ...
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Secular trends in physical fitness and body size in Lithuanian children and adolescents between 1992 and 2012
1 Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania 2 Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania Correspondence to Dr Tomas Venckunas, Institute of Sport ...
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Sugar, dental caries and the incidence of acute rheumatic fever: a cohort study of Māori and Pacific children
Correspondence to Dr Simon Thornley, Epidemiologist, Auckland Regional Public Health Service, Cornwall Complex, Greenlane, Auckland 1051, New Zealand; sithor{at}gmail.com Objective To determine ...
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Overdose as a complex contagion: modelling the community spread of overdose events following law enforcement efforts to disrupt the drug market
Background The opioid overdose mortality crisis in the USA is an ongoing public health epidemic. Ongoing law enforcement strategies to disrupt local unregulated drug markets can have an iatrogenic ...
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Relationship between loneliness, social isolation and modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a latent class analysis
Correspondence to Dr Daisy Fancourt, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; d.fancourt{at}ucl.ac.uk Background There is growing research into the ...
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Systematic review of risk prediction models for falls after stroke
Background Falls are a significant cause of morbidity after stroke. The aim of this review was to identify, critically appraise and summarise risk prediction models for the occurrence of falling after ...
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Impact of alcohol taxes on violence in Hong Kong: a population-based interrupted time series analysis
Background Interpersonal violence is a major public health concern with alcohol use a known risk factor. Despite alcohol taxation being an effective policy to reduce consumption; Hong Kong, contrary ...
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An economic evaluation of setting up physical barriers in railway stations for preventing railway injury: evidence from Hong Kong
1 Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China 2 HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR ...
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The Australian epidemic of cardiovascular mortality 1935–2005: effects of period and birth cohort
1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, ...
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Importance of population-based longitudinal studies to understanding the impact of COVID-19
Correspondence to Dr Panayotes Demakakos, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; p.demakakos{at}ucl.ac.uk High-quality population-based ...
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Impact of weight change on specific-cause mortality among middle-aged Japanese individuals
Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Division of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan Background: The aim of this study was to ...