Epidemiology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "But my patients are different!": risk adjustment in 2012 and beyond. 
  • "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over": epidemiology and risk factors for bloodstream infections following cardiac catheterization. 
  • ). How does socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood damage health in adulthood? Testing psychosocial pathways 
  • 1-Hydroxypyrene concentrations in first morning voids and 24-h composite urine: intra- and inter-individual comparisons. 
  • 5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms and the risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates. 
  • A Cross-Cancer Genetic Association Analysis of the DNA Repair and DNA Damage Signaling Pathways for Lung, Ovary, Prostate, Breast, and Colorectal Cancer. 
  • A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units. 
  • A NEIGHBORHOOD AND SPATIAL MEASURE OF RACIAL ISOLATION APPLIED TO BIRTHWEIGHT. 
  • A Predictive Model of Noncardia Gastric Adenocarcinoma Risk Using Antibody Response to Helicobacter pylori Proteins and Pepsinogen. 
  • A calibration hierarchy for risk models was defined: from utopia to empirical data. 
  • A cancer incidence survey in Tianjin: the third largest city in China-between 1981 and 2000. 
  • A case-control study of candidate ovarian cancer susceptibility polymorphisms. 
  • A case-control study of nosocomial ampicillin-resistant enterococcal infection and colonization at a university hospital. 
  • A cohort analysis of U.S. stomach cancer mortality 1950-1977. 
  • A comparison between National Healthcare Safety Network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A comparison of administrative versus clinical data: coronary artery bypass surgery as an example. Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. 
  • A comparison of analytic approaches for investigating the obesity paradox in kidney cancer. 
  • A comparison of environmental contamination by patients infected or colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a multicenter study. 
  • A comparison of serologic methods for diagnosis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 
  • A comparison of the Charlson comorbidity index derived from medical record data and administrative billing data. 
  • A comparison of two formats for teaching critical reading skills in a medical journal club. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates. 
  • A computational method to classify variants of uncertain significance using functional assay data with application to BRCA1. 
  • A confidence ellipse for the Net Reclassification Improvement. 
  • A dynamic analysis of chronic disease development: a study of sex specific changes in coronary heart disease incidence and risk factors in Framingham. 
  • A genetic stochastic process model for genome-wide joint analysis of biomarker dynamics and disease susceptibility with longitudinal data. 
  • A mathematical model to evaluate the routine use of fecal microbiota transplantation to prevent incident and recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A method for assessing drug therapy appropriateness. 
  • A model for incorporating patient and stakeholder voices in a learning health care network: Washington State's Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network. 
  • A multifaceted intervention to reduce rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a resource-limited setting. 
  • A new method for analysis of case-control studies that involve misclassified exposures. 
  • A novel approach for measuring residential socioeconomic factors associated with cardiovascular and metabolic health. 
  • A novel haplotype-sharing approach for genome-wide case-control association studies implicates the calpastatin gene in Parkinson's disease. 
  • A pooled multisite analysis of the effects of atopic medical conditions in glioma risk in different ethnic groups. 
  • A pooled multisite analysis of the effects of female reproductive hormones on glioma risk. 
  • A population-based mercury exposure assessment near an artisanal and small-scale gold mining site in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • A program for eradication of hepatitis B from Taiwan by a 10-year, four-dose vaccination program. 
  • A proposed approach may help systematic reviews retain needed expertise while minimizing bias from nonfinancial conflicts of interest. 
  • A prospective observational study of the effect of penicillin skin testing on antibiotic use in the intensive care unit. 
  • A prospective study of plasma Selenoprotein P and lung cancer risk among low-income adults. 
  • A prospective study of transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) between environmental sites and hospitalized patients-the TransFER study. 
  • A pseudo-outbreak of Aureobasidium species lower respiratory tract infections caused by reuse of single-use stopcocks during bronchoscopy. 
  • A questionnaire-based assessment of symptoms associated with tear film dysfunction and lid margin disease in an Asian population. 
  • A randomized controlled trial comparing quantitative informed consent formats. 
  • A regression model for longitudinal change in the presence of measurement error. 
  • A review of the application of inflammatory biomarkers in epidemiologic cancer research. 
  • A sex-specific association between a 15q25 variant and upper aerodigestive tract cancers. 
  • A simple HEPA filtering facepiece. 
  • A stochastic compartment model of stomach cancer with correlated waiting time distributions. 
  • A structured review of randomized controlled trials of weight loss showed little improvement in health-related quality of life. 
  • A summated score for the medication appropriateness index: development and assessment of clinimetric properties including content validity. 
  • A variable age of onset segregation model for linkage analysis, with correction for ascertainment, applied to glioma. 
  • A visualization tool for genetic parameters in complex human traits 
  • ABO blood group and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer within the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • AHRQ series on complex intervention systematic reviews-paper 5: advanced analytic methods. 
  • AN ETIOLOGIC STUDY OF CLEFT-PALATE IN HUMANS 
  • ANALYSES OF SECULAR TRENDS IN ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE MORTALITY IN NORTH-CAROLINA 
  • APC I1307K and the risk of prostate cancer. 
  • APOB Genotypes and CDH13 Haplotypes in the Cholesterol-Related Pathway Genes Predict Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival. 
  • Ability of an antibiogram to predict Pseudomonas aeruginosa susceptibility to targeted antimicrobials based on hospital day of isolation. 
  • Abstract 101: The Tanzanian Pediatric Cancer Network: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Incidence of Presenting Patients and Access to Pediatric Cancer Care in Tanzania 
  • Abstract 102: Breakpoints in Protocol Compliance and Their Influence on Outcomes for Children with Wilms Tumor in Northern Tanzania 
  • Abstract 112: Use of WhatsApp to Improve Medical Provider Communication for Children with Wilms Tumor in Tanzania 
  • Abstract 4: Impact of Immunohistochemistry on Diagnostic Accuracy for Pediatric Cancer in Tanzania 
  • Abstract A023: Results from a town hall meeting: Inflammatory breast cancer listening session led by KOMEN scholars 
  • Abstract A038: Current unmet needs in inflammatory breast cancer/IBC patient care: Analysis of open-ended responses from a community engagement session of clinicians, researchers, advocates, and patients at the Duke Consortium for IBC conference 
  • Abstract A043: Cancer care in people with HIV: Identifying adherence challenges to improve outcomes 
  • Abstract A066: Performance of the prostate health index (PHI) assay in black men 
  • Abstract A076: Adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy: Do racial disparities persist among the insured? 
  • Abstract A080: Rates of Invitation, participation, and willingness to engage in medical and clinical research: Findings from attendees at two gender-specific community-based screening programs 
  • Abstract A082: ENACT: A randomized trial assessing the impact of the Oncotype DX Prostate Cancer Assay on treatment decision in a racially diverse population of men eligible for active surveillance 
  • Abstract A114: Characterization of a metastatic prostate cancer xenograft derived from a patient of African ancestry 
  • Abstract A30: Using the principles of community-based participatory research to build an office of health equity within a nationally designated cancer institute 
  • Abstract A51: Racial and gender disparities in knowledge and awareness of HPV and HPV vaccine in a national sample of U.S. adults 
  • Abstract A52: Sociodemographic predictors of HPV and HPV vaccine knowledge and awareness among Americans who use the Internet as their primary source of health information 
  • Abstract A60: A paradox: Engaging in at-risk behavior may not correlate with perceived susceptibility to cancer or heart disease 
  • Abstract A73: Obesity, weight gain, and ovarian cancer risk in African American women 
  • Abstract B006: Developing Men Moving Forward, a lifestyle intervention for African American prostate cancer survivors 
  • Abstract B006: Development of a novel therapeutic splice-switching oligonucleotide targeting race-related androgen receptor signaling and aggressive prostate cancer 
  • Abstract B034: Improving patient-centered care for inflammatory breast cancer: Strategies for addressing barriers faced by patients, researchers, and providers 
  • Abstract B035: Identification of a tumor cell adaptive stress response signaling pathway, which drives aggressive breast cancer phenotype and therapeutic resistance, in African American patients with locally advanced breast cancer subtypes 
  • Abstract B050: Identification of differentially expressed and spliced genes between breast, colon, lung, and prostate cancer from African American and white patients 
  • Abstract B061: Mechanistic and functional interrogation of novel ancestry-related alternatively spliced androgen receptor signal genes in prostate cancer 
  • Abstract B063: Race-related LMO7 exon skipping enhances prostate tumor invasion 
  • Abstract B064: Race-related genetic variation and response to secondary hormonal therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer 
  • Abstract B071: Genomic differences between non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in African American and white patients 
  • Abstract B088: Health insurance status, stage at presentation and survival among female patients with head and neck cancer 
  • Abstract B18: Development of novel therapeutic splice-switching oligonucleotides against aggressive prostate cancer in men of African descent 
  • Abstract B22: Altered methylation profiles of imprinted genes in response to prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke in the Newborn Epigenetic STudy (NEST) cohort 
  • Abstract B35: Altered DNA methylation at imprinted insulin-like growth factor-2 (IGF2) resulting from heavy metal exposure in vitro and in vivo in infants from the Newborn Epigenetic STudy (NEST). 
  • Abstract B40: Rare variant discovery in known cancer genes from whole-exome sequencingof African American hereditary prostate cancer families 
  • Abstract B44: Immune pathway dysregulations in inflammatory breast cancer health disparity 
  • Abstract B51: Dairy, calcium, vitamin D and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women 
  • Abstract B58: Assessing university students' sexual risk behavior, knowledge of the human papillomavirus, (HPV), HPV vaccine, and association between HPV and head and neck cancer 
  • Abstract B58: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms of race-related alternatively spliced genes associate with prostate cancer risk, aggressiveness and/or survival 
  • Abstract B70: Characteristics, risk perception, and predictors of oral cancer knowledge among drag racers and their fans 
  • Abstract B78: The interplay between smoking at diagnosis, marital status, and head and neck cancer survivorship 
  • Abstract B79: Disparities in HPV vaccine initiation and completion based on sexual orientation among women in the United States 
  • Abstract B89: HPV is not just a woman's business! Understanding the gaps in men's knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccine 
  • Abstract C007: Racial differences in feasibility and perceived value of electronic symptom monitoring in a cohort of Black and White bladder and prostate cancer patients 
  • Abstract C038: First- and second-degree family history of ovarian and breast cancers in relation to risk of invasive ovarian cancer in African American and White women 
  • Abstract C044: Dietary inflammatory potential prior to diagnosis and risk of all-cause mortality among African-American women with ovarian carcinoma 
  • Abstract C070: Racial disparities in body mass index and ovarian cancer risk in the OCWAA Consortium 
  • Abstract C16: Feasibility study: Protein profiling of primary breast cancers from premenopausal women 
  • Abstract C47: Gender and racial disparities in long-term survival of oral and oropharyngeal cancer in the United States 
  • Abstract D010: Developing an inflammatory breast cancer campaign: Results from focus groups led by Komen scholars 
  • Abstract D064: Race-related RNA splicing dysregulation of PI3Kd signaling: A therapeutic target for aggressive prostate cancer 
  • Abstract D071: Impact of racial differences in financial burden on time to treatment 
  • Abstract D084: Overall survival (OS) of African-American (AA) and Caucasian (CAU) men who received sipuleucel-T for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)—final PROCEED analysis 
  • Abstract D093: Who carries the excess cancer risk burden: Implications of disparities in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure 
  • Abstract IA09: Intervening on the financial toxicity of cancer care 
  • Abstract IA18: North Carolina Central University and Duke Cancer Institute's collaborative cancer research and education program: Connecting cancer disparities translational research, clinical trials operations, and community engagement 
  • Abstract PO-045: Experiences of oncologists treating cancer patients living with HIV: Opportunities to improve care and reduce disparities 
  • Abstract PO-107: Racial differences in survival among advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients who received immunotherapy: An analysis of the U.S. National Cancer Database (NCDB) 
  • Abstract PO-113: Overall survival in ovarian cancer patients seeking care at more than one treatment facility 
  • Abstract PO-137: Comparative transcriptomic analysis of prostate cancer from African American and Caucasian American men by Gleason score and race 
  • Abstract PO-178: Metabolic syndrome and risk of breast cancer by molecular subtype: Analysis of the Mechanisms for Novel and Established Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Women of Nigerian Descent (MEND) study 
  • Abstract PO-183: Racial disparities in Helicobacter pylori infection: A systematic review and retrospective study 
  • Abstract PO-232: Racial differences in the tumor immune landscape and survival of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma 
  • Abstract PO-271: Racial and ethnic disparities in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake among adults aged 27-45 years in the United States 
  • Abstract PR05: Dietary quality and ovarian cancer risk in African American women 
  • Abstract PR11: Racial differences in characteristics of early- vs. late-onset colorectal cancer among veterans 
  • Abstract SS02-02: A long walk from FGFR2 alternative splicing to cancer progression 
  • Access to ophthalmologic care in Thailand: a regional analysis. 
  • Acculturation and Ethnic Variations in Breast Cancer Risk Factors, Gail Model Risk Estimates and Mammographic Breast Density 
  • Accumulation of health disorders as a systemic measure of aging: Findings from the NLTCS data. 
  • Accuracy of Self-reported Weight in Hispanic/Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. 
  • Accuracy of reporting bleeding during pregnancy. 
  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for water and sanitation in Indonesia - Results from a five-year (2013-2017) large-scale effectiveness evaluation. 
  • Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia. 
  • Acquisition of Clostridium difficile from the hospital environment. 
  • Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: differing perspectives. 
  • Addressing Extreme Propensity Scores in Estimating Counterfactual Survival Functions via the Overlap Weights. 
  • Addressing Extreme Propensity Scores via the Overlap Weights. 
  • Adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy: Do racial disparities persist among the insured? 
  • Adherence to self-quarantine recommendations during an outbreak of norovirus infection. 
  • Adiposity in relation to age at menarche and other reproductive factors among 300 000 Chinese women: findings from China Kadoorie Biobank study. 
  • Adjusting for bias due to incomplete case ascertainment in case-control studies of birth defects. 
  • Adult body mass index and risk of ovarian cancer by subtype: a Mendelian randomization study. 
  • Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis. 
  • Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis. 
  • Adverse events associated with hepatitis B vaccine in U.S. children less than six years of age, 1993 and 1994. 
  • Affected-sib-pair interval mapping and exclusion for complex genetic traits: sampling considerations. 
  • Age and menopausal effects of hormonal birth control and hormone replacement therapy in relation to breast cancer risk. 
  • Age at menarche, time to regular cycling, and breast cancer (North Carolina, United States). 
  • Age at natural menopause and the risk of developing invasive epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Age at natural menopause in women exposed to diethylstilbestrol in utero. 
  • Age-specific occurrence of HPV16- and HPV18-related cervical cancer. 
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center methods provide guidance on prioritization and selection of harms in systematic reviews. 
  • Air concentrations of VOCs in portable and traditional classrooms: results of a pilot study in Los Angeles County. 
  • Air pollution and lung cancer mortality in Harris County, Texas, 1979-1981. 
  • Air pollution and mortality in São Paulo, Brazil: Effects of multiple pollutants and analysis of susceptible populations. 
  • Alcohol Hand Rub Significantly Reduces Overall Bacterial Bioburden on Stethoscopes in a Real-World Clinical Setting 
  • Alcohol and Cancer: Existing Knowledge and Evidence Gaps across the Cancer Continuum. 
  • Alcohol consumption and blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Alcohol consumption and breast cancer among black and white women in North Carolina (United States). 
  • Alcohol consumption and changes in blood pressure among African Americans. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Alcohol dehydrogenase 3 genotype is not associated with risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity and pharynx. 
  • Alcohol disorders among Asian Americans: associations with unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, and ethnic identification (the national Latino and Asian Americans study, 2002-2003). 
  • Alteration in vaginal microflora, douching prior to pregnancy, and preterm birth. 
  • Ambient Air Pollution and Lung Function Among Children in 4 Cities in China (1993–1996) 
  • Ambient particulate matter and lung function growth in Chinese children. 
  • Amebiasis in a mental institution: serologic and epidemiologic studies. 
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among 1991 Gulf War veterans: evidence for a time-limited outbreak. 
  • An "almost exhaustive" search-based sequential permutation method for detecting epistasis in disease association studies. 
  • An 'electronic' extramural course in epidemiology and medical statistics. 
  • An Empirical Comparison of Joint and Stratified Frameworks for Studying G × E Interactions: Systolic Blood Pressure and Smoking in the CHARGE Gene-Lifestyle Interactions Working Group. 
  • An analysis of 90-day emergency department visits after peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) placement for prosthetic joint infection. 
  • An argument for renewed focus on epidemiology for public health. 
  • An ecologic study of protective equipment and injury in two contact sports. 
  • An evaluation of metrics for assessing catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs): A statewide comparison. 
  • An evaluation of penicillin prophylaxis during an outbreak of foodborne streptococcal pharyngitis. 
  • An examination of male and female odds ratios by BMI, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption for cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx in pooled data from 15 case-control studies. 
  • An exploration of genetic association tests for disease risk and age at onset. 
  • An integrated method to determine meaningful changes in health-related quality of life. 
  • An outbreak of Shigella sonnei gastroenteritis on Colorado River raft trips. 
  • Analgesic drug use and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Analysis of 60 reported glioma risk SNPs replicates published GWAS findings but fails to replicate associations from published candidate-gene studies. 
  • Analysis of Huntington disease linkage and age-of-onset distributions. 
  • Analysis of Japanese encephalitis epidemic in Western Nepal in 1997. 
  • Analysis of change in self-reported physical function among older persons in four population studies. 
  • Analysis of over 10,000 Cases finds no association between previously reported candidate polymorphisms and ovarian cancer outcome. 
  • Analyzing and interpreting patient-reported outcome measures in clinical trials: comment on Collister et al. 
  • Angina, myocardial ischemia and coronary disease: gold standards, operational definitions and correlations. 
  • Ankle-brachial index, cognitive impairment and cerebrovascular disease in a Chinese population. 
  • Antenatal haemoglobin A1c and risk of large-for-gestational-age infants in a multi-ethnic cohort of women with gestational diabetes. 
  • Anthropometric measurements and epithelial ovarian cancer risk in African-American and White women. 
  • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria on personal devices in hospital intensive care units: Molecular approaches to quantifying and describing changes in the bacterial community of personal mobile devices. 
  • Antibody Responses to Streptococcus Gallolyticus Subspecies Gallolyticus Proteins in a Large Prospective Colorectal Cancer Cohort Consortium. 
  • Antidepressant medications and their association with invasive breast cancer and carcinoma in situ of the breast. 
  • Antidepressant use in the elderly: association with demographic characteristics, health-related factors, and health care utilization. 
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention-Leveraging the Synergy: A Position Paper Update. 
  • Antimicrobial activity of a continuous visible light disinfection system. 
  • Antimicrobial activity of a continuously active disinfectant against healthcare pathogens. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention-leveraging the synergy: A position paper update. 
  • Antioxidant and DNA methylation-related nutrients and risk of distal colorectal cancer. 
  • Apolipoprotein E genotype, cardiovascular biomarkers and risk of stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of 14,015 stroke cases and pooled analysis of primary biomarker data from up to 60,883 individuals. 
  • Apolipoprotein E polymorphism, life stress and self-reported health among older adults. 
  • Approaching a Scientific Consensus on the Association between Allergies and Glioma Risk: A Report from the Glioma International Case-Control Study. 
  • Are Gulf War veterans experiencing illness due to exposure to smoke from Kuwaiti oil well fires? Examination of Department of Defense hospitalization data. 
  • Are care experiences associated with survival among cancer patients? An analysis of the SEER-CAHPS data resource. 
  • Are health-related quality-of-life measures affected by the mode of administration? 
  • Are international differences in the outcomes of acute coronary syndromes apparent or real? A multilevel analysis. 
  • Are sleep complaints an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction? 
  • Are we forgetting the "universal" in universal masking? Current challenges and future solutions. 
  • Arsenic exposure of rural populations from the Rift Valley of Ethiopia as monitored by keratin in toenails 
  • Arsenic exposure of rural populations from the Rift Valley of Ethiopia as monitored by keratin in toenails. 
  • Aspirin, NSAIDs, and Glioma Risk: Original Data from the Glioma International Case-Control Study and a Meta-analysis. 
  • Assessing Human Exposure to Animal Neurocarcinogens: A Pilot Study 
  • Assessing applicability when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program. 
  • Assessing community-level exposure to social vulnerability and isolation: spatial patterning and urban-rural differences. 
  • Assessing differential impacts of COVID-19 on black communities. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessing household wealth in health studies in developing countries: A comparison of participatory wealth ranking and survey techniques from rural South Africa 
  • Assessing knowledge and barriers at the primary care provider level that contribute to disparities in inflammatory breast cancer diagnosis and treatment 
  • Assessing quality of life and preferences in the seriously ill using utility theory. 
  • Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity. 
  • Assessing the Cumulative Contribution of New and Established Common Genetic Risk Factors to Early-Onset Prostate Cancer. 
  • Assessing the clinical effectiveness of preventive maneuvers: analytic principles and systematic methods in reviewing evidence and developing clinical practice recommendations. A report by the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. 
  • Assessing the performance of prediction models: a framework for traditional and novel measures. 
  • Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Assessment of Heart Transplant Waitlist Time and Pre- and Post-transplant Failure: A Mixed Methods Approach. 
  • Assessment of Multifactor Gene-Environment Interactions and Ovarian Cancer Risk: Candidate Genes, Obesity, and Hormone-Related Risk Factors. 
  • Assessment of Self-Contamination During Removal of Personal Protective Equipment for Ebola Patient Care. 
  • Assessment of autoantibodies to meningioma in a population-based study. 
  • Assessment of hepatocyte growth factor in ovarian cancer mortality. 
  • Assessment of moderate coffee consumption and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomization study. 
  • Assessment of multiple respondent driven sampling estimators under real and theoretical recruitment conditions in empirical samples of female sex workers in China 
  • Assessment of type of allergy and antihistamine use in the development of glioma. 
  • Association Between Substance Use and Gun-Related Behaviors. 
  • Association and interactions between DNA repair gene polymorphisms and adult glioma. 
  • Association between Body Powder Use and Ovarian Cancer: The African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES). 
  • Association between PARP-1 V762A polymorphism and cancer susceptibility: a meta-analysis. 
  • Association between blood lead and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Association between body mass index and mortality in patients with glioblastoma mutliforme. 
  • Association between breast density and subsequent breast cancer following treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Association between family history of cancer and mutagen sensitivity in upper aerodigestive tract cancer patients. 
  • Association between genetically predicted polycystic ovary syndrome and ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomization study. 
  • Association between germline variation in the FHIT gene and prostate cancer in Caucasians and African Americans. 
  • Association between glioma and history of allergies, asthma, and eczema: a case-control study with three groups of controls. 
  • Association between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and breast cancer varies by menopausal status. 
  • Association between low dietary folate intake and suboptimal cellular DNA repair capacity. 
  • Association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and invasive breast cancer and carcinoma in situ of the breast. 
  • Association between statins and prostate tumor inflammatory infiltrate in men undergoing radical prostatectomy. 
  • Association between tea consumption and risk of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 0.5 million Chinese adults. 
  • Association of Aging-Related Endophenotypes With Mortality in 2 Cohort Studies: the Long Life Family Study and the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. 
  • Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and diet on the risk of gastric cancer: a case-control study in Hawaii. 
  • Association of Parity and Time since Last Birth with Breast Cancer Prognosis by Intrinsic Subtype. 
  • Association of adiposity status and changes in early to mid-adulthood with incidence of Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Association of air pollution sources and aldehydes with biomarkers of blood coagulation, pulmonary inflammation, and systemic oxidative stress. 
  • Association of an Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Association of community food environment and obesity among US adults: a geographical information system analysis. 
  • Association of cord blood methylation fractions at imprinted insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2), plasma IGF2, and birth weight. 
  • Association of education with incidence of cognitive impairment in three established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly. 
  • Association of fibrinogen and coagulation factors VII and VIII with cardiovascular risk factors in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Cardiovascular Health Study Investigators. 
  • Association of genetic variants of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase with risk of lung cancer in non-Hispanic Whites. 
  • Association of genetic variation in IKZF1, ARID5B, and CEBPE and surrogates for early-life infections with the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hispanic children. 
  • Association of marijuana smoking with oropharyngeal and oral tongue cancers: pooled analysis from the INHANCE consortium. 
  • Association of maternal and intrauterine characteristics with age at menarche in a multiethnic population in Hawaii. 
  • Association of physical activity with development of uterine leiomyoma. 
  • Association of plasma micronutrient levels and urinary isoprostane with risk of lung cancer: the multiethnic cohort study. 
  • Association of polymorphisms in AhR, CYP1A1, GSTM1, and GSTT1 genes with levels of DNA damage in peripheral blood lymphocytes among coke-oven workers. 
  • Association of race and other potential risk factors with nonvertebral fractures in community-dwelling elderly women. 
  • Association of retirement age with mortality: a population-based longitudinal study among older adults in the USA. 
  • Association of sequence variants on chromosomes 20, 11, and 5 (20q13.33, 11q23.3, and 5p15.33) with glioma susceptibility in a Chinese population. 
  • Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in glycosylation genes with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Association of vitamin D levels and risk of ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomization study. 
  • Associations among family support, family stress, and personal functional health status. 
  • Associations between Alcohol Consumption Patterns and Risk of Multiple Myeloma: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea. 
  • Associations between anthropometry, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. 
  • Associations between cigarette smoking and pain among veterans. 
  • Associations between findings on cranial magnetic resonance imaging and retinal photography in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Associations between serum levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) flame retardants and environmental and behavioral factors in pregnant women. 
  • Associations of Accelerometry-Assessed and Self-Reported Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Adults. 
  • Associations of Healthcare Affordability, Availability, and Accessibility with Quality Treatment Metrics in Patients with Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Associations of Premenopausal Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy With Breast Cancer Among Black and White Women: The Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001. 
  • Associations of high-grade glioma with glioma risk alleles and histories of allergy and smoking. 
  • Assortativity and Bias in Epidemiologic Studies of Contagious Outcomes: A Simulated Example in the Context of Vaccination. 
  • Asymptomatic screening for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as an infection prevention measure in healthcare facilities: Challenges and considerations. 
  • Attitudes Regarding Overweight, Exercise, and Health among Blacks (United States). 
  • Attitudes toward participation in a pregnancy and child cohort study. 
  • Attitudes, perceptions, and strategies toward increasing cancer screening, treatment, and participation in research among Latinos. 
  • Attribution of 12 high-risk human papillomavirus genotypes to infection and cervical disease. 
  • Atypia in random periareolar fine-needle aspiration affects the decision of women at high risk to take tamoxifen for breast cancer chemoprevention. 
  • Atypical metaplasia and incidence of bronchogenic carcinoma. 
  • Authors' Response to Kaufman and Muntaner. 
  • Auto-antibodies to p53 and the Subsequent Development of Colorectal Cancer in a U.S. Prospective Cohort Consortium. 
  • Auto-antibodies to p53 and the Subsequent Development of Colorectal Cancer in a United States Prospective Cohort Consortium 
  • BEHAVIORAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF FRAGILE-X SYNDROME IN FEMALE PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS 
  • Back to the future: Redefining "universal precautions" to include masking for all patient encounters. 
  • Balancing Contamination and Referral Bias in a Randomized Clinical Trial: An Application of Pseudo-Cluster Randomization. 
  • Barriers to full colon evaluation for a positive fecal occult blood test. 
  • Bayesian methods for correcting misclassification: an example from birth defects epidemiology. 
  • Bayesian methods for highly correlated exposure data. 
  • Bayesian selection of predictors of conception probabilities across the menstrual cycle. 
  • Benign gynecologic conditions are associated with ovarian cancer risk in African-American women: a case-control study. 
  • Biomonitoring of metals and trace elements in urine of central Ethiopian populations. 
  • Birth order and myopia. 
  • Black sexuality, social construction, and research targeting 'The Down Low' ('The DL'). 
  • Black tea and cardiovascular disease. 
  • Black tea consumption and risk of rectal cancer in Moscow population. 
  • Black-White differences in physical and cognitive aging among older breast cancer survivors in the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study 
  • Black-white differences in risk of becoming disabled and recovering from disability in old age: a longitudinal analysis of two EPESE populations. 
  • Black/white differences in hypertension in the elderly: an epidemiologic analysis in central North Carolina. 
  • Blood Lead, Bone Turnover, and Survival in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 
  • Blood culture contamination with Enterococci and skin organisms: implications for surveillance definitions of primary bloodstream infections. 
  • Blood pressure and mortality risk in the elderly. 
  • Body Mass Index and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Study of US Military Veterans. 
  • Body mass index and obesity- and diabetes-associated genotypes and risk for pancreatic cancer. 
  • Body mass index and risk of head and neck cancer in a pooled analysis of case-control studies in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) Consortium. 
  • Body mass index is associated with gene methylation in estrogen receptor-positive breast tumors. 
  • Body mass index, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption and cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx: modeling odds ratios in pooled case-control data. 
  • Body mass trajectories through adulthood: results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (1981-2006). 
  • Body size across the life course and risk of premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer in Black women, the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993-2001. 
  • Body size and breast cancer risk in black women and white women: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Braden score may be associated with time to onset of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in high-risk patients: Lessons learned from a root cause analysis tool. 
  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Variants (RS6265) are Associated with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Outcomes in a Patient Sample 
  • Breast cancer and dietary factors in Taiwanese women. 
  • Breast cancer survival among economically disadvantaged women: the influences of delayed diagnosis and treatment on mortality. 
  • Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China. 
  • Brominated flame retardants in breast milk and behavioural and cognitive development at 36 months. 
  • Burden of healthcare-associated infections among hospitalized children within community hospitals participating in an infection control network. 
  • C-reactive protein and retinal microvascular caliber in a multiethnic asian population. 
  • CAUTIs in Patients With Thoracic Epidurals 
  • CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF A COHORT OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS WITH HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION. 
  • COX-2 polymorphism, use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and risk of colon cancer in African Americans (United States). 
  • CYP2E1 G1532C, NQO1 Pro187Ser, and CYP1B1 Val432Leu polymorphisms are not associated with risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Caffeine and miscarriage risk. 
  • Calculating an institutional personal protective equipment (PPE) burn rate to project future usage patterns during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Can lay-led walking programmes increase physical activity in middle aged adults? A randomised controlled trial. 
  • Cancer Progress and Priorities: Gastric Cancer. 
  • Cancer Survivorship and Subclinical Myocardial Damage. 
  • Cancer control research 2001. 
  • Cancer in children of parents exposed to hydrocarbon-related industries and occupations. 
  • Cancer prevention and screening practices of siblings of childhood cancer survivors: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Candidate gene analysis using imputed genotypes: cell cycle single-nucleotide polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk. 
  • Cardiovascular risk factors in adult survivors of pediatric cancer--a report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Casablanca redux: we are shocked that public reporting of rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections are inaccurate. 
  • Cataract prevalence varies substantially with assessment systems: comparison of clinical and photographic grading in a population-based study. 
  • Categorisation of continuous risk factors in epidemiological publications: A survey of current practice 
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) Reduction: A Multidisciplinary Approach 
  • Catheter-related bloodstream infections in children. 
  • Causal pie bingo! 
  • Central line-associated bloodstream infections in adult hematology patients with febrile neutropenia: an evaluation of surveillance definitions using differential time to blood culture positivity. 
  • Central line-associated infections as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital-acquired condition versus standard infection control surveillance: why hospital compare seems conflicted. 
  • Central-line-associated bloodstream infections secondary to anaerobes: Time for a definition change? 
  • Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk. 
  • Challenges and opportunities in international molecular cancer prevention research: An ASPO Molecular Epidemiology and the Environment and International Cancer Prevention Interest Groups Report. 
  • Challenges in hospital-acquired coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveillance and attribution of infection source. 
  • Chance-corrected sensitivity and specificity for three-zone diagnostic tests. 
  • Changes in Visual Function in the Elderly Population in the United States: 1995-2010. 
  • Changes in health status among participants of the Framingham Heart Study from the 1960s to the 1990s: application of an index of cumulative deficits. 
  • Characteristics of patients diagnosed with both melanoma and renal cell cancer. 
  • Characteristics of the built environment and spatial patterning of type 2 diabetes in the urban core of Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Characterization of infectious aerosols in health care facilities: an aid to effective engineering controls and preventive strategies. 
  • Characterization of resistance to newer antimicrobials among carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the post-acute-care setting. 
  • Cherry-picking by trialists and meta-analysts can drive conclusions about intervention efficacy. 
  • Childhood brain tumor epidemiology: a brain tumor epidemiology consortium review. 
  • Childhood cancer survivors: Health behaviors and receptivity to health promotion interventions. 
  • Childhood respiratory symptoms, hospital admissions, and long-term exposure to airborne particulate matter. 
  • Children's microenvironmental exposure to PM_2.5 and ozone and the impact of indoor air filtration. 
  • Choice of exposure scores for categorical regression in meta-analysis: a case study of a common problem. 
  • Cholera on Guam, 1974: epidemiologic findings and isolation of non-toxinogenic strains. 
  • Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). 
  • Chronic Recreational Physical Inactivity and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Risk: Evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Cigarette smoking and acute non-influenzal respiratory disease in military cadets. 
  • Cigarette smoking and pulmonary tuberculosis in northern California. 
  • Cigarette smoking and risk of meningioma: the effect of gender. 
  • Cigarette smoking and risk of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 21 case-control studies 
  • Cigarette smoking and risk of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 21 case-control studies. 
  • Cigarette smoking and the association with serous ovarian cancer in African American women: African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES). 
  • Cigarette smoking, N-acetyltransferases 1 and 2, and breast cancer risk. 
  • Cigarette smoking, glutathione-s-transferase M1 and t1 genetic polymorphisms, and breast cancer risk (United States). 
  • Cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking and the risk of head and neck cancers: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium. 
  • Circulating Biomarkers of Inflammation and Ovarian Cancer Risk in the Nurses' Health Studies. 
  • Circulating Cancer-Associated Macrophage-Like Cells Differentiate Malignant Breast Cancer and Benign Breast Conditions. 
  • Circulating cytokines and gastric cancer risk. 
  • Circulating levels of inflammatory markers and cancer risk in the health aging and body composition cohort. 
  • Circulating vitamin D concentrations and risk of breast and prostate cancer: a Mendelian randomization study. 
  • Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina and cervix: incidence, undetected disease, and diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals. 
  • Clinical and psychosocial characteristics of HIV-11-infected patients in the US deep south. 
  • Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Clinical research in primary stroke prevention: needs, opportunities, and challenges. 
  • Clustering of high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in premenopausal and postmenopausal female twins. 
  • Co-infection or co-colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Cognitive Function in the Community Setting: The Neighborhood as ‘Cognitive Reserve'? 
  • Cohort Profile: FAMILY Cohort. 
  • Cohort Profile: Panel on Health and Ageing of Singaporean Elderly (PHASE). 
  • Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium. 
  • Cohort profile: Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) birth cohort study. 
  • Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit. 
  • Colon surgical-site infections and the impact of "present at the time of surgery (PATOS)" in a large network of community hospitals. 
  • Colonic mucosal fatty acid synthase as an early biomarker for colorectal neoplasia: modulation by obesity and gender. 
  • Colorectal cancer screening awareness and intentions among low income, sociodemographically diverse adults under age 50. 
  • Combined and interactive effects of environmental and GWAS-identified risk factors in ovarian cancer. 
  • Combined effects of the p53 and p73 polymorphisms on lung cancer risk. 
  • Commentary: Personality and the socioeconomic-health gradient. 
  • Commentary: Sir Arthur Mitchell--pioneer of psychiatric epidemiology and of community care. 
  • Commentary: This study failed? 
  • Commentary: cardiovascular risk factors--the next epidemic in Uganda: findings from the population-based HIV/AIDS rural surveillance cohort. 
  • Commentary: economic crisis or structural adjustment--which is worse for child health in African countries? 
  • Commentary: how does socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood damage health in adulthood? Testing psychosocial pathways. 
  • Commentary: practical advantages of Bayesian analysis of epidemiologic data. 
  • Common Genetic Variation and Susceptibility to Ovarian Cancer: Current Insights and Future Directions. 
  • Common comorbidity scales were similar in their ability to predict health care costs and mortality. 
  • Common genetic polymorphisms contribute to the association between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and non-melanoma skin cancer. 
  • Common variation in Nemo-like kinase is associated with risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Common variation in the BRCA1 gene and prostate cancer risk. 
  • Communicating breast cancer risks to women using different formats. 
  • Comparative analysis of breast cancer risk factors among African-American women and White women. 
  • Comparative effects of vivax malaria, fever, and diarrhea on child growth 
  • Comparative efficacy of hand hygiene agents in the reduction of bacteria and viruses. 
  • Comparative evaluation of the microbicidal activity of low-temperature sterilization technologies to steam sterilization. 
  • Comparative health and self-rated health are equivalently associated with health indicators among older adults. 
  • Comparing population-level mental health of UK workers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study using Understanding Society. 
  • Comparing questionnaire-based methods to assess occupational silica exposure. 
  • Comparing the Value of Data Visualization Methods for Communicating Harms in Clinical Trials. 
  • Comparing the reliability of responses to telephone-administered versus self-administered Web-based surveys in a case-control study of adult malignant brain cancer. 
  • Comparing the utility of multimedia models for human and ecologic exposure analysis: Two cases 
  • Comparison of Bacterial Contamination in a Children’s Outpatient Clinic: General Medicine Versus Pulmonary Units 
  • Comparison of Metrics Used to Track CLABSIs and CAUTIs Across a Regional Network 
  • Comparison of analytic models for estimating the effect of clinical factors on the cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Comparison of costs, length of stay, and mortality associated with Candida glabrata and Candida albicans bloodstream infections. 
  • Comparison of gestational age at birth based on last menstrual period and ultrasound during the first trimester. 
  • Comparison of metrics used to track central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) across a regional network. 
  • Comparison of non-intensive care unit (ICU) versus ICU rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in community hospitals. 
  • Comparison of rectal mucosal proliferation measured by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) immunohistochemistry and whole crypt dissection. 
  • Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals. 
  • Comparison of three rapid household survey sampling methods for vaccination coverage assessment in a peri-urban setting in Pakistan. 
  • Comparison of two methods for calculating lifetime ovulatory cycles. 
  • Comparison of two self-rating instruments for medication adherence assessment in hypertension revealed insufficient psychometric properties. 
  • Comparison of two self-rating instruments for medication adherence in hypertension revealed insufficient psychometric properties - Final response 
  • Complete effect-profile assessment in association studies with multiple genetic and multiple environmental factors. 
  • Complete genomic screen for disease susceptibility loci in nuclear families. 
  • Complex Modalities Of Gene Action On Phenotypes With Post Reproductive Manifestation: The Case Of Genetic Trade-Off 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Computer communication for international collaboration in education in public health. The TEMPUS Consortium for a New Public Health in Hungary. 
  • Computing a Synthetic Chronic Psychosocial Stress Measurement in Multiple Datasets and its Application in the Replication of G × E Interactions of the EBF1 Gene. 
  • Conclusion of Avery et al--validation of findings but concern about rationale. 
  • Consistency of primary brain tumor diagnoses and codes in cancer surveillance systems. 
  • Constructing unit-specific empiric treatment guidelines for catheter-related and primary bacteremia by determining the likelihood of inadequate therapy. 
  • Construction and analysis of the NCI-EDRN breast cancer reference set for circulating markers of disease. 
  • Consumer product exposures associated with urinary phthalate levels in pregnant women. 
  • Contemporary Considerations for Constructing a Genetic Risk Score: An Empirical Approach. 
  • Context and sequelae of food insecurity in children's development. 
  • Continuous room decontamination technologies. 
  • Contribution of diet and physical activity to metabolic parameters among survivors of childhood leukemia. 
  • Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants. 
  • Control for confounding in case-control studies using the stratification score, a retrospective balancing score. 
  • Controlling for Informed Presence Bias Due to the Number of Health Encounters in an Electronic Health Record. 
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research agenda for healthcare epidemiology. 
  • Correction for likelihood-ratio formula 
  • Correlation and reproducibility of retinal vascular geometric measurements for stereoscopic retinal images of the same eyes. 
  • Correlation between selected environmental exposures and karyotype in acute myelocytic leukemia. 
  • Correspondence re: E. Hawk, et al., Male pattern baldness and clinical prostate cancer in the epidemiologic follow-up of the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Cancer Epidemiol.Biomark. Prev., 9: 523-527, 2000. 
  • Correspondence re: Zheng et al, Haplotype of two variants in p16 (CDKN2/MTS-1/INK4a) exon 3 and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a case-control study. 11: 640-645, 2002. 
  • Corrigendum to GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence-imprecision. J Clin Epidemiol 2011;64:1283-1293. 
  • Costs and outcomes among hemodialysis-dependent patients with methicillin-resistant or methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • County-level hurricane exposure and birth rates: application of difference-in-differences analysis for confounding control. 
  • Covariate adjustment increased power in randomized controlled trials: an example in traumatic brain injury. 
  • Criteria for the use of Sartwell's incubation period model to study chronic diseases with uncertain etiology. 
  • Cross-Cancer Genome-Wide Association Study of Endometrial Cancer and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Identifies Genetic Risk Regions Associated with Risk of Both Cancers. 
  • Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US. 
  • Cross-sectional association between perceived discrimination and hypertension in African-American men and women: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Cryptococcal ventricular-peritoneal shunt infection: clinical and epidemiological evaluation of two closely associated cases. 
  • Crystalline silica and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus: A population-based case-control study in the southeastern United States 
  • Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: literature review and research recommendations for global mental health epidemiology. 
  • Culture and epidemiology special issue: towards an integrated study of culture and population health. 
  • Current approaches used in epidemiologic studies to examine short-term multipollutant air pollution exposures. 
  • Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes? 
  • Current unmet needs in inflammatory breast cancer/IBC patient care: Analysis of open-ended responses from a community engagement session of clinicians, researchers, advocates, and patients at the Duke Consortium for IBC conference 
  • Cyanoacrylate dressings: are they microbiologically impermeable? 
  • Cyclin E overexpression in epithelial ovarian cancer characterizes an etiologic subgroup. 
  • Cyclin E overexpression relates to ovarian cancer histology but not to risk factors. 
  • Cyclooxygenase 2 polymorphism (Val511Ala), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and breast cancer in African American women. 
  • DDT USE FOR MALARIA CONTROL IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: PERSPECTIVES, POLITICS, AND POLICY 
  • DEPRESSION IS PROSPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH COMBAT DEPLOYMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN 
  • DNA repair and susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma: a case-control study. 
  • DNA repair capacity and lung cancer risk in never smokers. 
  • DNA repair gene XRCC3 241Met variant is not associated with risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma. 
  • DNMT3b polymorphism and hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer age of onset. 
  • Data and methods to characterize the role of sex work and to inform sex work programs in generalized HIV epidemics: evidence to challenge assumptions. 
  • Data quality from a longitudinal study of adolescent health at schools near industrial livestock facilities. 
  • Decision making about cancer screening: an assessment of the state of the science and a suggested research agenda from the ASPO Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Communication Special Interest Group. 
  • Decline in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits over the life course in the general population: trajectories across five population birth cohorts spanning ages 3 to 45 years. 
  • Decline in physical activity level in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Decontamination of targeted pathogens from patient rooms using an automated ultraviolet-C-emitting device. 
  • Defining care provided for breast cancer based on medical record review or Medicare claims: information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patterns of Care Study. 
  • Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life. 
  • Definitions and epidemiology. 
  • Delay between stroke onset and emergency department evaluation. 
  • Demographic, presentation, and treatment factors and racial disparities in ovarian cancer hospitalization outcomes. 
  • Demonstrating bias and improved inference for stoves' health benefits. 
  • Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days. 
  • Dependence of confounding on the target population: a modification of causal graphs to account for co-action. 
  • Depot-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Use Is Associated with Decreased Risk of Ovarian Cancer: The Mounting Evidence of a Protective Role of Progestins. 
  • Depression in black and white women. The role of marriage and socioeconomic status. 
  • Depressive symptoms and age-related macular degeneration in older people: the cardiovascular health study. 
  • Depressive symptoms and prospective incidence of colorectal cancer in women. 
  • Derivation and validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk score for targeted HIV screening. 
  • Descriptive evidence that risk profiles for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 1, 2, and 3 are unique. 
  • Design, progress and challenges of a double-blind trial of warfarin versus aspirin for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis. 
  • Designing clinical trials for paroxysmal atrial tachycardia and other paroxysmal arrhythmias. 
  • Detection of early-stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma. 
  • Determinants and Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Uptake in a National Cohort of US Adults: A Longitudinal Study. 
  • Determinants of delays in care-seeking for ovarian cancer symptoms in African American women. 
  • Determinants of hypertension in West Africa: contribution of anthropometric and dietary factors to urban-rural and socioeconomic gradients. 
  • Determining times to maximum urine excretion of 1-aminopyrene after diesel exhaust exposure. 
  • Developing effective community and health system partnerships to advance health equity and health disparities research. 
  • Development and application of health outcome descriptors facilitated decision-making in the production of practice guidelines. 
  • Development of a novel therapeutic splice-switching oligonucleotide targeting race-related androgen receptor signaling and aggressive prostate cancer 
  • Development of a novel therapeutic splice-switching oligonucleotide targeting race-related androgen receptor signaling and aggressive prostate cancer. 
  • Development, Construct Validity, and Predictive Validity of a Continuous Frailty Scale: Results From 2 Large US Cohorts. 
  • Developmental Processes can Drive Inter-chromosomal Linkage Disequilibrium 
  • Developmental epidemiology. 
  • Diagnosis of urinary tract infections: need for a reflective rather than reflexive approach. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy and cost analysis of the Alere™ i Influenza A&B near-patient test using throat swabs. 
  • Diagnostic tests are not always black or white: or, all that glitters is not [a] gold [standard]. 
  • Diarrhoeal disease in Bangladesh: epidemiology, mortality averted and costs at a rural treatment centre. 
  • Did AIDS mortality decrease the number of lifetime sexual partners in Kenya: an ecological analysis? 
  • Diet quality and physical activity of African American prostate cancer survivors at baseline of Men Moving Forward, a lifestyle intervention program 
  • Dietary Fat Intake after Colon Cancer Diagnosis in Relation to Cancer Recurrence and Survival: CALGB 89803 (Alliance). 
  • Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Decline Among Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Dietary Quality and Ovarian Cancer Risk in African-American Women. 
  • Dietary folate intake and lung cancer risk in former smokers: a case-control analysis. 
  • Dietary inflammatory potential prior to diagnosis and risk of all-cause mortality among African-American women with ovarian carcinoma 
  • Dietary inflammatory potential prior to diagnosis and risk of all-cause mortality among African-American women with ovarian carcinoma 
  • Dietary mutagen exposure and risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Dietary patterns, food groups, and rectal cancer risk in Whites and African-Americans. 
  • Differences between black and white patients with cancer of the uterine corpus in interval from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation (United States). 
  • Differences between univariate and bivariate models for summarizing diagnostic accuracy may not be large. 
  • Differences in adiposity trajectories by birth cohort and childhood social class: evidence from cohorts born in the 1930s, 1950s and 1970s in the west of Scotland. 
  • Differences in antibody levels to H. pylori virulence factors VacA and CagA among African Americans and whites in the Southeast USA. 
  • Differences in baseline characteristics and outcomes at 1- and 2-year follow-up of cancer survivors accrued via self-referral versus cancer registry in the FRESH START Diet and exercise trial. 
  • Differences in race, molecular and tumor characteristics among women diagnosed with invasive ductal and lobular breast carcinomas. 
  • Differences in time-to-testing and time-to-isolation between community-onset and hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile cases at a tertiary care VA medical center. 
  • Direct Participation in and Indirect Exposure to the Occupy Central Movement and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study of Hong Kong Adults. 
  • Direct and indirect estimates of HIV-1 incidence in a high-prevalence population. 
  • Disparities in HPV vaccine uptake and provider recommendation by provider facility type 
  • Disparities in central line-associated bloodstream infection and catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates: An exploratory analysis. 
  • Distinct loci in the CHRNA5/CHRNA3/CHRNB4 gene cluster are associated with onset of regular smoking. 
  • Distribution and correlates of waist-to-hip ratio in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Diversity and transparency in gynecologic oncology clinical trials. 
  • Diversity of Enrollment in Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials: Current Status and Future Directions. 
  • Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk? 
  • Do Periarticular Joint Injections Present an Increase in Infection Risk? - CORRIGENDUM. 
  • Does Mother Know Best? Treatment Adherence as a Function of Anticipated Treatment Benefit. 
  • Does lacrimal duct occlusion decrease intraocular pressure in patients refractory to medical treatment for glaucoma? A randomized, sham-controlled, crossover trial. 
  • Does persistent precarious employment affect health outcomes among working age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Does weight loss from middle age to old age explain the inverse weight mortality relation in old age? 
  • Doubly robust estimation of causal effects. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and duration of gestation. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and fetal growth. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-products and time to pregnancy. 
  • Duke Case-Mix System (DUMIX) for ambulatory health care. 
  • EFFECT OF HAART INITIATION ON CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN HIV-1 INFECTED PATIENTS 
  • ENVIRONMENTAL-FACTORS IN THE ETIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD RHABDOMYOSARCOMA 
  • ESR1 promoter hypermethylation does not predict atypia in RPFNA nor persistent atypia after 12 months tamoxifen chemoprevention. 
  • ESR1/SYNE1 polymorphism and invasive epithelial ovarian cancer risk: an Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium study. 
  • EXAMINING THE ROLE OF HAND CONTAMINATION AND ASYMPTOMATIC COLONIZATION IN THE TRANSMISSION OF HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS. 
  • Early Life Exposure to Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Findings from a Multisite Case-Control Study. 
  • Early experience with universal preprocedural testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a relatively low-prevalence area. 
  • Early life growth, socioeconomic status, and mammographic breast density in an urban US birth cohort. 
  • Early onset baldness and prostate cancer risk. 
  • Early-life antecedents of atrial fibrillation: place of birth and atrial fibrillation-related mortality. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Educational Mobility Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Over 10 Years Among US Latinos. 
  • Effect modification of FADS2 polymorphisms on the association between breastfeeding and intelligence: results from a collaborative meta-analysis. 
  • Effect of Postnatal HIV Treatment on Clinical Mastitis and Breast Inflammation in HIV-Infected Breast-feeding Women. 
  • Effect of insulin-like growth factor gene polymorphisms alone or in interaction with diabetes on the risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Effect of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in the neonatal intensive care unit on total hospital cost. 
  • Effect of race and poverty on the process and outcome of inpatient rehabilitation among stroke patients. 
  • Effect of the Intelligent Health Messenger Box on health care professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and practice related to hand hygiene and hand bacteria counts. 
  • Effective inactivation of human immunodeficiency virus with chlorhexidine antiseptics containing detergents and alcohol. 
  • Effectiveness of ultraviolet devices and hydrogen peroxide systems for terminal room decontamination: Focus on clinical trials. 
  • Effects of ACE D/I Polymorphism and 11 SNPs Heterozygosity in the Same Gene on Health Risks in Framingham Study 
  • Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy and Depressive Symptoms on All-Cause Mortality Among HIV-Infected Women. 
  • Effects of a low fat, flaxseed-supplemented diet on men with prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) or atypia. 
  • Effects of covariates: a summary of Group 5 contributions. 
  • Effects of depression on employment and social outcomes: a Mendelian randomisation study. 
  • Effects of low-carbohydrate diets versus low-fat diets on metabolic risk factors: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials. 
  • Effects of particulate matter gamma radiation on oxidative stress biomarkers in COPD patients. 
  • Effects of personal air pollutant exposure on oxidative stress: Potential confounding by natural variation in melatonin levels. 
  • Effects of sexual intercourse patterns in time to pregnancy studies. 
  • Effects of tobacco smoking and other modifiable risk factors on ill health: Results from HRS and ahead. 
  • Efficacy of GLI antagonists in triple-negative inflammatory breast cancer 2D and 3D models 
  • Efficacy of UV-C Disinfection in Hyperbaric Chambers 
  • Efficacy of UV-C disinfection in hyperbaric chambers. 
  • Efficacy of a couple-based randomized controlled trial to help Latino fathers quit smoking during pregnancy and postpartum: the Parejas trial. 
  • Efficacy of povidone-iodine in pre-operative skin preparation. 
  • Elbogen et al. Respond to "Stressors and Suicide Attempts in a Time of COVID-19". 
  • Elevated preoperative fasting serum glucose levels increase the risk of postoperative mediastinitis in patients undergoing open heart surgery. 
  • Eleven Telomere, Epigenetic Clock, and Biomarker-Composite Quantifications of Biological Aging: Do They Measure the Same Thing? 
  • Emerging evidence for seasonality of gram-negative bacterial infections. 
  • Emerging moxifloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis isolates in South India. 
  • Emotional distress among survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer or adult cancer. 
  • Empirical antimicrobial therapy for bloodstream infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: no better than a coin toss. 
  • Endemic cholera in rural Bangladesh, 1966-1980. 
  • Endometrial hyperplasia risk in relation to recent use of oral contraceptives and hormone therapy. 
  • Enhanced Bundled Interventions to Reduce Surgical Site Infections for Patients with Congenital Cardiac Disease 
  • Enhanced disinfection leads to reduction of microbial contamination and a decrease in patient colonization and infection. 
  • Enteral Medication as the Source of a Burkholderia Cepacia Complex Outbreak in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients 
  • Enterococcus species and the central line-associated bloodstream infection surveillance definition: evaluating the importance of blood culture contamination. 
  • Environmental Exposures and Adult Brain Cancers 
  • Environmental Exposures and Adult Brain Cancers 
  • Environmental Quality and Invasive Breast Cancer. 
  • Environmental contaminants and body fat distribution. 
  • Environmental contributions to disparities in pregnancy outcomes. 
  • Environmental factors in relation to breast cancer characterized by p53 protein expression. 
  • Epidemiologic Evidence to Guide the Understanding and Prevention of Gun Violence. 
  • Epidemiologic and molecular prognostic review of glioblastoma. 
  • Epidemiologic research on health disparities: some thoughts on history and current developments. 
  • Epidemiological marker for oxidant status: comparison of the ELISA and the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry assay for urine 2,3-dinor-5,6-dihydro-15-F2t-isoprostane. 
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Correlates of Cancer among Homeless and Unstably Housed Veterans in the VA Health Care System. 
  • Epidemiology and outcome of major postoperative infections following cardiac surgery: risk factors and impact of pathogen type. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for recurrent Staphylococcus aureus colonization following active surveillance and decolonization in the NICU. 
  • Epidemiology of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Viral Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis Among Incarcerated Transgender People: A Case of Limited Data. 
  • Epidemiology of Posttransrectal Prostate Biopsy Bloodstream Infections and Impact of a Screening Program 
  • Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in patients admitted to freestanding pediatric hospitals, 2009-2016. 
  • Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in community hospitals. 
  • Epidemiology of primary health problems in Beirut. 
  • Epigenetic regulation of Newborns' imprinted genes related to gestational growth: patterning by parental race/ethnicity and maternal socioeconomic status. 
  • Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis: an incidence study in a Peruvian rural population. 
  • Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) Gene Variants and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk. 
  • Epplein et al. respond to "endometrial hyperplasia - Getting back to normal" 
  • Erratum: A questionnaire-based assessment of symptoms associated with tear film dysfunction and lid margin disease in an asian population (Ophthalmic Epidemiology 16:1 (31)) 
  • Establishing an international computer network for research and teaching in public health and epidemiology. 
  • Establishment of African American prostate cancer patient-derived primary cell lines and xenografts. 
  • Estimating crude or common odds ratios in case-control studies with informatively missing exposure data. 
  • Estimating lifetime risk of developing high serum total cholesterol: adjustment for baseline prevalence and single-occasion measurements. 
  • Estimating personal exposures from ambient air pollution measures: using meta-analysis to assess measurement error. 
  • Estimating quality-adjusted life year losses associated with visual field deficits using methodological approaches. 
  • Estimating the Effectiveness of Rotavirus Vaccine Schedules. 
  • Estimating the number of potential family members eligible for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing in a "Traceback" approach. 
  • Estimating the occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Gulf War (1990-1991) veterans using capture-recapture methods. 
  • Estrogen Plus Progestin Hormone Therapy and Ovarian Cancer: A Complicated Relationship Explored. 
  • Estrogen bioactivation, genetic polymorphisms, and ovarian cancer. 
  • Ethnic variation in central corneal refractive power and steep cornea in Asians. 
  • Evaluating Correlates of Awareness of the Association between Drinking Too Much Alcohol and Cancer Risk in the United States. 
  • Evaluating haplotype effects in case-control studies via penalized-likelihood approaches: prospective or retrospective analysis? 
  • Evaluation of Effects of Genetic polymorphisms and Age Trajectories of Physiological Indices on survival 
  • Evaluation of Genotype-specific Age Patterns of Hazard Rates Using Joint Analysis of Genetic and Non-genetic Subsamples of Longitudinal Data 
  • Evaluation of dilute hydrogen peroxide technology for continuous room decontamination of multidrug-resistant organisms. 
  • Evaluation of hospital blood culture utilization rates to identify opportunities for diagnostic stewardship. 
  • Evaluation of minimum clinically meaningful changes in scores on the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) SST Report Number 19. 
  • Evaluation of ovarian cancer preventive agents in the chicken. 
  • Evidence for selective expression of the p53 codon 72 polymorphs: Implications in cancer development 
  • Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs): a novel and systematic method for building directed acyclic graphs. 
  • Evidence-based medicine and stroke. 
  • Excess salmonellosis in women in the United States: 1968-2000. 
  • Excessive use of vancomycin: a successful intervention strategy at an academic medical center. 
  • Exploratory quantile regression with many covariates: An application to adverse birth outcomes 
  • Exploring Factors Underlying Ethnic Difference in Age-related Macular Degeneration Prevalence. 
  • Exploring racial differences in the obesity gender gap. 
  • Exploring the association between melanoma and glioma risks. 
  • Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Indoor Environments 
  • Exposure to drinking water disinfection by-products and pregnancy loss. 
  • Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds among recently pregnant rural Guatemalan women cooking and heating with solid fuels. 
  • Exposure-response relationships between lifetime exposure to residential coal smoke and respiratory symptoms and illnesses in Chinese children. 
  • Expression in normal human tissues of five nucleotide excision repair genes measured simultaneously by multiplex reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. 
  • Expression of nucleotide excision repair proteins in lymphocytes as a marker of susceptibility to squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck. 
  • Extended HPV Genotyping to Compare HPV Type Distribution in Self- and Provider-Collected Samples for Cervical Cancer Screening. 
  • Extended Human Papillomavirus Genotyping to Predict Progression to High-Grade Cervical Precancer: A Prospective Cohort Study in the Southeastern United States. 
  • FAS and FASLG genetic variants and risk for second primary malignancy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Factor analysis of household factors: are they associated with respiratory conditions in Chinese children? 
  • Factors affecting workforce participation and healthy worker biases in U.S. women and men. 
  • Factors predicting change in prescription and nonprescription drug use in a community-residing black and white elderly population. 
  • Factors that influence tear meniscus area and conjunctivochalasis: The Singapore Indian eye study. 
  • False positive rates in a genomic screen for complex quantitative traits. 
  • FamRVC Program for Family-based Rare Variant Association Tests for Censored Traits and its Applications to Age-at-onset of Alzheimer's Disease 
  • Familial clustering of intracerebral hemorrhage: a prospective study in North Carolina. 
  • Familial ovarian cancer: a population-based case-control study. 
  • Family history of gynaecological cancers: relationships to the incidence of breast cancer prior to age 55. 
  • Family history of prostate cancer and prostate tumor aggressiveness in black and non-black men;results from an equal access biopsy study. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Feasibility and Value of Developing a Regional Antibiogram for Community Hospitals. 
  • Female reproductive factors and major eye diseases in Asian women -the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Fertility Preservation and Financial Hardship among Adolescent and Young Adult Women with Cancer. 
  • Filtration evaluation and clinical use of expired elastomeric P-100 filter cartridges during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Financial Strain and Suicide Attempts in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults. 
  • Fine organic particulate matter dominates indoor-generated PM2.5 in RIOPA homes. 
  • Fine-mapping of the 5p15.33, 6p22.1-p21.31, and 15q25.1 regions identifies functional and histology-specific lung cancer susceptibility loci in African-Americans. 
  • First-year weight loss with androgen-deprivation therapy increases risks of prostate cancer progression and prostate cancer-specific mortality: results from SEARCH. 
  • Flame retardant exposure assessment: findings from a behavioral intervention study. 
  • Flaxseed supplementation (not dietary fat restriction) reduces prostate cancer proliferation rates in men presurgery. 
  • Folate intake, markers of folate status and oral clefts: is the evidence converging? 
  • Follow-up of GxE Interactions: EBF1 GxE Association, Synthetic Chronic Psychosocial Stress, and Dropout from a Structured Exercise Program 
  • Food Insecurity Is an Independent Risk Factor for Depressive Symptoms in Survivors of Digestive Cancers. 
  • Foodborne disease outbreaks of chemical etiology in the United States, 1970-1974. 
  • Forecasting chronic disease risks in developing countries. 
  • Foreword. Expanding Methodologies for Capturing Day-Specific Probabilities of Conception. 
  • Four methods of estimating the minimal important difference score were compared to establish a clinically significant change in Headache Impact Test. 
  • Frequency of attendance at religious services and mortality in a U.S. national cohort. 
  • Fresh fruit consumption and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank. 
  • Fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of distal gastric cancer in the Shanghai Women's and Men's Health studies. 
  • Functional Outcomes and Social Attainment in Asian/Pacific Islander Childhood Cancer Survivors in the United States: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Functional Variants in Notch Pathway Genes NCOR2, NCSTN, and MAML2 Predict Survival of Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma. 
  • Further evidence concerning the use of a clinical comorbidity index with ICD-9-CM administrative data 
  • GLIOGENE an International Consortium to Understand Familial Glioma. 
  • GRADE Guidelines: 19. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences-Risk of bias and indirectness. 
  • GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence--imprecision. 
  • GRADE guidelines: 20. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences-inconsistency, imprecision, and other domains. 
  • GRADE guidelines: 21 part 1. Study design, risk of bias, and indirectness in rating the certainty across a body of evidence for test accuracy. 
  • GRADE guidelines: 21 part 2. Test accuracy: inconsistency, imprecision, publication bias, and other domains for rating the certainty of evidence and presenting it in evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. 
  • GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence--study limitations (risk of bias). 
  • GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias. 
  • Gastrointestinal illness and first-time seizures in children 
  • Gender Differences in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Val66Met Variants and Stressful Life Events on Psychological and Metabolic Phenotypes 
  • Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries. 
  • Gene set analysis of survival following ovarian cancer implicates macrolide binding and intracellular signaling genes. 
  • Gene variants in angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis and cutaneous melanoma progression. 
  • Gene-environment interactions in cancer epidemiology: a National Cancer Institute Think Tank report. 
  • Generalizability of Subgroup Effects. 
  • Genes and Environmental Exposures in Veterans with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: the GENEVA study. Rationale, study design and demographic characteristics. 
  • Genes and recent developments in the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. 
  • Genetic Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma Risk Variants Are Associated with Increasing Cumulative Adenoma Counts. 
  • Genetic Factors Associated with Absolute and Relative Plasma Concentrations of Calcitriol. 
  • Genetic Susceptibility to Acutely Decreased Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway Activity Following Inhalation of Fresh Diesel Exhaust or Secondary Organic Aerosols 
  • Genetic Variation Associated with Longer Telomere Length Increases Risk of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. 
  • Genetic analysis of durations: correlated frailty model applied to survival of Danish twins. 
  • Genetic analysis workshop IV: Huntington disease linkage analysis summary. 
  • Genetic association tests based on ranks (GATOR) for quantitative traits with and without censoring. 
  • Genetic factors in susceptibility to death: a comparative analysis of bivariate survival models. 
  • Genetic polymorphisms in glutathione S-transferase mu and theta, N-acetyltransferase, and CYP1A1 and risk of gliomas. 
  • Genetic polymorphisms of ataxia telangiectasia mutated and breast cancer risk. 
  • Genetic risk factors for perinatally acquired HIV-1 infection. 
  • Genetic simulation tools for post-genome wide association studies of complex diseases. 
  • Genetic susceptibility to lung cancer: the role of DNA damage and repair. 
  • Genetic susceptibility variants for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • Genetic variation in TYMS in the one-carbon transfer pathway is associated with ovarian carcinoma types in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Genetically low vitamin D concentrations and myopic refractive error: a Mendelian randomization study. 
  • Genetics of the Measure of Physiological Dysregulation: Insights from Longitudinal Data 
  • Genetics of the measure of physiological dysregulation: findings from the health and retirement study 
  • Genital Powder Use and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in the Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry Consortium. 
  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Pregnancy in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Genome-wide Analysis of Common Copy Number Variation and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Risk. 
  • Genome-wide Analysis of Non-completion of Controlled Exercise Trials in Sedentary Adults 
  • Genome-wide Meta-analysis of 24 Age-related Phenotypes Leveraging Longitudinal Follow-up and Genetic Heterogeneity Identified Abundant Associations in a Modest Sample of 26,371 Individuals 
  • Genomic differences between non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in African American and white patients 
  • Genotype-based association test for general pedigrees: the genotype-PDT. 
  • Geographic Differences in Baseline Prostate Inflammation and Relationship with Subsequent Prostate Cancer Risk: Results from the Multinational REDUCE Trial. 
  • Geographic Patterns of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children of Participants in Nurses' Health Study II. 
  • Geographic variation in one-year recurrent ischemic stroke rates for elderly Medicare beneficiaries in the USA. 
  • Gestational thyroid hormone concentrations and risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. 
  • Gestational weight gain and birth outcome in relation to prepregnancy body mass index and ethnicity. 
  • Glaucoma, Alzheimer disease and other dementia: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Global public health and the information superhighway. Epidemiologists are using the internet. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • Grading the strength of a body of evidence when assessing health care interventions: an EPC update. 
  • Guidance for infection prevention and healthcare epidemiology programs: healthcare epidemiologist skills and competencies. 
  • Guidance on public reporting of healthcare-associated infections: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 
  • HDL-cholesterol levels and risk of age-related macular degeneration: a multiethnic genetic study using Mendelian randomization. 
  • HIERARCHICAL SPATIAL MODELING OF UNCERTAINTY IN AIR POLLUTION AND BIRTH WEIGHT STUDY 
  • HIV and Viral Hepatitis Among Imprisoned Key Populations. 
  • HIV-1 incidence among opiate users in northern Thailand. 
  • HLA-DR15 haplotype and multiple sclerosis: a HuGE review. 
  • HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION AND CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA AMONG KENYAN WOMEN WITH HIV 
  • HPV genotypes and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a multiethnic cohort in the southeastern USA 
  • HPV genotypes and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a multiethnic cohort in the southeastern USA. 
  • Hand hygiene noncompliance and the cost of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. 
  • Haplotype associations with quantitative traits in the presence of complex multilocus and heterogeneous effects. 
  • Haplotype of N-acetyltransferase 1 and 2 and risk of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Haplotype-based analysis: a summary of GAW16 Group 4 analysis. 
  • Haplotypes of two variants in p16 (CDKN2/MTS-1/INK4a) exon 3 and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a case-control study. 
  • Harmonizing psychosocial stress and CVD-risk variables for developing robust estimates of GxE analyses 
  • Harms are assessed inconsistently and reported inadequately Part 2: nonsystematic adverse events. 
  • Harms are assessed inconsistently and reported inadequately part 1: systematic adverse events. 
  • Harvesting the low-hanging fruit? Comparative assessment of intravenous to oral route antimicrobial conversion policy implementation. 
  • Hat, shade, long sleeves, or sunscreen? Rethinking US sun protection messages based on their relative effectiveness. 
  • Hazardous chemicals in synthetic turf materials and their bioaccessibility in digestive fluids. 
  • Health Outcomes Associated With Clinician-initiated Delivery for Hypertensive Disorders at 34-38 Weeks' Gestation. 
  • Health behaviours and socio-economic status in Ontario, Canada. 
  • Health care utilization, lifestyle, and emotional factors and mammography practices in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Health-related quality of life among African American prostate cancer survivors enrolled in a lifestyle intervention program 
  • Health-related quality of life in Gulf War era military personnel. 
  • Healthcare Access Domains Mediate Racial Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Treatment Quality in a US Patient Cohort: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis. 
  • Heavy Metals, Organic Solvents and Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Analysis of Gene-environment Interactions 
  • Heavy drinking in early adulthood and outcomes at mid life. 
  • Helicobacter pylori Biomarkers and Risk of Colorectal Oncogenesis--Response. 
  • Helicobacter pylori Blood Biomarkers and Gastric Cancer Survival in China. 
  • Helicobacter pylori blood biomarker for gastric cancer risk in East Asia. 
  • Helicobacter pylori protein-specific antibodies and risk of colorectal cancer. 
  • Hemoglobin is associated with retinal vascular fractals in type 1 diabetes patients. 
  • Heritability of Endophenotypes of Pulmonary & Physical Function in Long Life Family Study 
  • Heritable Late Life Phenotypes and Inter-Chromosomal Linkage Disequilibrium in the Human Genome 
  • High Prediagnosis Inflammation-Related Risk Score Associated with Decreased Ovarian Cancer Survival. 
  • High lead exposures resulting from pottery production in a village in Michoacán State, Mexico. 
  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. 
  • High-Resolution Analyses of Effects of Polygenic Risk Scores on Time-to-Event Outcomes in Longitudinal Studies 
  • High-throughput detection of glutathione s-transferase polymorphic alleles in a pediatric cancer population. 
  • History of Comorbidities and Survival of Ovarian Cancer Patients, Results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • History of hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes and ovarian cancer patient survival: evidence from the ovarian cancer association consortium. 
  • Hormonal and personal effects on estrogen receptors in breast cancer. 
  • Hormonal risk factors for ovarian cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Hormone-related factors and risk of breast cancer in relation to estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor status. 
  • Hospital Readmissions in Patients With Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. 
  • Hospital epidemiologists and the art of salesmanship. 
  • Hospital epidemiologists' and infection preventionists' opinions regarding hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia as a potential healthcare-associated infection metric. 
  • Hospital management of tuberculosis in a region with a low incidence of tuberculosis and a high prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria. 
  • Hospital visitors as controls. 
  • Hospital-Onset MRSA Bacteremia Rates Are Significantly Correlated With Sociodemographic Factors: A Step Toward Risk Adjustment. 
  • Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections: estimating all-cause mortality and length of stay. 
  • Hospitalizations for fractures after renal transplantation in the United States. 
  • Hostility during late adolescence predicts coronary risk factors at mid-life. 
  • Hostility during late adolescence predicts coronary risk factors at midlife 
  • How can epidemiology improve mental health services for children and adolescents? 
  • How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in epidemiologic studies? An example of research in tracking of obesity. 
  • How do we assess a racial disparity in health? Distribution, interaction, and interpretation in epidemiological studies. 
  • Human biospecimen research: experimental protocol and quality control tools. 
  • Human papillomavirus vaccination uptake among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults in the United States. 
  • Hydrocarbon emissions and health risks from cookstoves in developing countries. 
  • Hydrogen peroxide instillations into the urinary drainage bag: should we or shouldn't we? 
  • Hypercholesterolemia and prostate cancer: a hospital-based case-control study. 
  • Hypermethylation of the breast cancer-associated gene 1 promoter does not predict cytologic atypia or correlate with surrogate end points of breast cancer risk. 
  • Hypertonic hyperglycemia progresses to diabetes faster than normotonic hyperglycemia. 
  • Hypospadias in sons of women exposed to diethylstilbestrol in utero. 
  • Hysterectomy, tubal sterilization, and the risk of breast cancer. 
  • IGF1 (CA)19 repeat and IGFBP3 -202 A/C genotypes and the risk of prostate cancer in Black and White men. 
  • Identification of a Locus Near ULK1 Associated With Progression-Free Survival in Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Identification of differentially expressed and spliced genes between breast, colon, lung, and prostate cancer from African American and white patients 
  • Identification of susceptibility loci contributing to a complex disease using conventional segregation, linkage, and association methods. 
  • Identification of the Fraction of Indolent Tumors and Associated Overdiagnosis in Breast Cancer Screening Trials. 
  • Identification of women at increased risk for breast cancer in a population-based screening program. 
  • Identifying a national death index match. 
  • Identifying susceptibility genes for prostate cancer--a family-based association study of polymorphisms in CYP17, CYP19, CYP11A1, and LH-beta. 
  • Impact of Changes to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Rates in Intensive Care Units at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Impact of Early COVID-19 Pandemic on Common Ophthalmic Procedures Volumes: A US Claims-Based Analysis. 
  • Impact of FDA black box warning on fluoroquinolone and alternative antibiotic use in southeastern US hospitals. 
  • Impact of Risk-Stratified Therapy on Health Status in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Impact of a surgical site infection bundle on cesarean delivery infection rates 
  • Impact of alcohol-based hand-rub disinfection on bacterial bioburden on stethoscopes in a real-world clinical setting. 
  • Impact of central venous catheter type and methods on catheter-related colonization and bacteraemia. 
  • Impact of change to molecular testing for Clostridium difficile infection on healthcare facility-associated incidence rates. 
  • Impact of estrogen use on decline in cognitive function in a representative sample of older community-resident women. 
  • Impact of geographic density of eye care professionals on eye care among adults with diabetes. 
  • Impact of hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy prevalence on rates of cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer among American Indian and Alaska Native women, 1999-2004. 
  • Impact of immortal person-time and time scale in comparative effectiveness research for medical devices: a case for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Impact of molecular testing on reported Clostridoides difficile infection rates. 
  • Impact of preoperative chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) application methods on preoperative CHG skin concentration. 
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a tertiary care public hospital in Singapore: resources and economic costs. 
  • Impacts of silver-coated antimicrobial screen covers on the cell-phone microbiome of resident physicians. 
  • Impairment of physical and psychosocial function in recurrent syncope. 
  • Impairment of physical and psychosocial health in recurrent syncope: Defining a new chronic disease 
  • Implementation Lessons Learned From the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study: Process and Perceptions of Enhanced Disinfection with Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices. 
  • Implementation of strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Implications of M bias in epidemiologic studies: a simulation study. 
  • Importance of healthy lifestyle factors and ideal cardiovascular health metrics for risk of heart failure in Chinese adults 
  • Importance of vertebrate viruses for choosing hand antiseptics with virucidal efficacy. 
  • Imprint regulatory elements as epigenetic biosensors of exposure in epidemiological studies. 
  • Improved empiric antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis with use of local urinary antibiogram and clinical decision support system. 
  • Improving Diversity and Promoting Inclusion in the Society for Epidemiologic Research Through Choice of Conference Location. 
  • Improving Human and Ecological Exposure Assessments: A Bayesian Network Modeling Approach 
  • Improving infection control practices of nurse anesthetists in the anesthesia workspace. 
  • Improving the measurement of self-reported medication nonadherence. 
  • Improving the measurement of self-reported medication nonadherence: Response to authors 
  • Imsulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1): An exploration of serum levels, binding protein (IGFBP-3) and IGF-1 CA repeat genotype, and the risk of prostae cancer 
  • In a mailed physician survey, questionnaire length had a threshold effect on response rate. 
  • In populo. 
  • In pursuit of the holy grail: Improving C. difficile testing appropriateness with iterative electronic health record clinical decision support and targeted test restriction. 
  • In situ assessment of intraepithelial neoplasia in hamster trachea epithelium using angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry. 
  • In-vehicle Exposures to Traffic and Biomarkers of Airway Oxidative Stress Among Healthy Humans 
  • Inappropriate Clostridium difficile Testing and Consequent Overtreatment and Inaccurate Publicly Reported Metrics. 
  • Inappropriate outpatient antibiotic use in children insured by Kentucky Medicaid. 
  • Incidence of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ in the United States, 2000-2014. 
  • Incidence of and preoperative risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and chest wound infection after cardiac surgery. 
  • Incidence of squamous neoplasia of the cervix and vagina in women exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol (United States). 
  • Inconsistent mammography perceptions and practices among women at risk of breast cancer following a pediatric malignancy: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Incorporating external information to improve sparse signal detection in rare-variant gene-set-based analyses. 
  • Incorporating genetic susceptibility feedback into a smoking cessation program for African-American smokers with low income. 
  • Incorporating prior information into set-based analyses using higher criticism statistics with an application to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 
  • Increased risk for familial ovarian cancer among Jewish women: a population-based case-control study. 
  • Increased weight & body fatness associated with chemotherapy for breast cancer ... & what can be done? 
  • Increasing Incidence of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli in Community Hospitals throughout the Southeastern United States. 
  • Increasing rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in academic hospitals: a result of active surveillance? 
  • Inequities in life course criminal legal system sanctions: measuring cumulative involvement. 
  • Infection control in the Russian Federation: review of a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Infectious complications following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: an automated surveillance system for detecting postprocedure bacteremia. 
  • Inference on haplotype/disease association using parent-affected-child data: the projection conditional on parental haplotypes method. 
  • Inflammation biomarkers and near-term death in older men. 
  • Inflammatory Markers and Incidence of Hospitalization With Infection in Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Influence of Lifecourse Socioeconomic Position on Incident Heart Failure Heart Failure in Blacks and Whites: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study 
  • Influence of ambient (outdoor) sources on residential indoor and personal PM2.5 concentrations: analyses of RIOPA data. 
  • Influence of individual and social contextual factors on changes in leisure-time physical activity in working-class populations: results of the Healthy Directions-Small Businesses Study. 
  • Influence of life-course socioeconomic position on incident heart failure in blacks and whites: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Influence of parent characteristics and disease outcome framing on HPV vaccine acceptability among rural, Southern women. 
  • Influenza vaccination of household contacts of newborns: a hospital-based strategy to increase vaccination rates. 
  • Inherited variants in mitochondrial biogenesis genes may influence epithelial ovarian cancer risk. 
  • Inside-out: the changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Insurance-Based Differences in Time to Diagnostic Follow-up after Positive Screening Mammography. 
  • Integrated depression management: a proposed trial of a new model of care in a low vision rehabilitation setting. 
  • Integrating Surveillance Data to Estimate Race/Ethnicity-specific Hysterectomy Inequalities Among Reproductive-aged Women: Who's at Risk? 
  • Integration of Population-Level Genotype Data with Functional Annotation Reveals Over-Representation of Long Noncoding RNAs at Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Loci. 
  • Integration of SIMIA and SIMLAPLOT: A graphical user interface for complex disease simulation and analysis 
  • Intensive care unit environmental cleaning: an evaluation in sixteen hospitals using a novel assessment tool. 
  • Interacting Effect of ACE D/I Polymorphism and Smoking on Health Risks in Framingham Study 
  • Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium. 
  • Intercommunity variations in the association between social ties and mortality in the elderly. A comparative analysis of three communities. 
  • Interdependent effects of cohesion and concurrency for epidemic potential. 
  • Interest in testing for genetic susceptibility to lung cancer among Black college students "at risk" of becoming cigarette smokers. 
  • International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Following Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass. 
  • International mortality from primary nervous system neoplasms: Distribution and trends 
  • International mortality from primary nervous system neoplasms: distribution and trends. 
  • International patterns of mortality from multiple sclerosis 
  • Interplay between exercise and BMI; results from an equal access, racially diverse biopsy study. 
  • Interpretation of simultaneous linkage and family-based association tests in genome screens. 
  • Interpreting analyses of continuous covariates in affected sibling pair linkage studies. 
  • Interpreting incremental value of markers added to risk prediction models. 
  • Interrater Reliability of Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events and Pneumonia. 
  • Intraocular pressure and its relationship to ocular and systemic factors in a healthy Chinese rural population: the Handan Eye Study. 
  • Introduction to "A Compendium of Strategies To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 updates". 
  • Investigating pathogen burden in relation to a cumulative deficits index in a representative sample of US adults. 
  • Investigation of Exomic Variants Associated with Overall Survival in Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Investigation of accuracy of death certificate completion and implications on mortality statistics in Greece. 
  • Invited Commentary: Cassel's "The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance"-A Modern Classic. 
  • Invited Commentary: Epidemiologic Methods as Applied to Epidemiology Education-Goals and Expectations to Advance and Diversify the Field. 
  • Invited Commentary: What Social Epidemiology Brings to the Table-Reconciling Social Epidemiology and Causal Inference. 
  • Invited commentary: (Mass) Imprisonment and (Inequities in) Health. 
  • Invited commentary: Clinical usefulness of the Framingham cardiovascular risk profile beyond its statistical performance. 
  • Invited commentary: socioeconomic status, hostility, and health behaviors--does it matter which comes first? 
  • Involuntary smoking and head and neck cancer risk: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium. 
  • Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? 
  • Is an increased dwell time of a peripherally inserted catheter associated with an increased risk of bloodstream infection in infants? 
  • Is bilateral age-related macular degeneration less common in Asians than Caucasians? 
  • Is birth order associated with adult mortality? 
  • Is obesity associated with a decline in intelligence quotient during the first half of the life course? 
  • Is stroke history reliably reported by elderly with cognitive impairment? A community-based study. 
  • Is the Black-White Mental Health Paradox Consistent Across Gender and Psychiatric Disorders? 
  • Is there a clear threshold for fasting plasma glucose that differentiates between those with and without neuropathy and chronic kidney disease?: the Singapore Prospective Study Program. 
  • Issues of diagnostic review in brain tumor studies: from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. 
  • Job stress and preeclampsia. 
  • Joint effects of alcohol consumption and polymorphisms in alcohol and oxidative stress metabolism genes on risk of head and neck cancer. 
  • Joint effects of dietary trace metals and DNA repair capacity in lung cancer risk. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and confidence regarding infections and antimicrobial stewardship: a survey of Veterans Affairs providers who care for older adults. 
  • LDScore Regression Identifies Novel Associations Between Glioma and Autoimmune Conditions 
  • Laboratory profile of sickle cell disease: a cross-sectional analysis. The Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Lack of association between patients' measured burden of disease and risk for hospital readmission. 
  • Lack of awareness of common eye conditions in the community. 
  • Lactation and breast cancer risk. 
  • Lactational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene and infant growth: an analysis of the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Babies Study. 
  • Latent class analysis was accurate but sensitive in data simulations. 
  • Latent class model characterization of neighborhood socioeconomic status. 
  • Latent transition models to study women's changing of dietary patterns from pregnancy to 1 year postpartum. 
  • Legal implications of antibiotic stewardship programs. 
  • Lessons learned from hospital Ebola preparation. 
  • Letter to the Editor: "Expanding epidemiology in secondary schools: a call to epidemiologists". 
  • Letters to the editor 
  • Leveraging Genome and Phenome-Wide Association Studies to Investigate Genetic Risk of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. 
  • Leveraging population information in family-based rare variant association analyses of quantitative traits. 
  • Life after the screen: making sense of many P-values. 
  • Life course models: improving interpretation by consideration of total effects. 
  • Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Lifetime Occurrence of Brain Metastases Arising from Lung, Breast, and Skin Cancers in the Elderly: A SEER-Medicare Study. 
  • Lifetime number of ovulatory cycles and epithelial ovarian cancer risk in African American women. 
  • Likelihood ratios for continuous test results--making the clinicians' job easier or harder? 
  • Likelihood ratios with confidence: sample size estimation for diagnostic test studies. 
  • Likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity values can be back-calculated when the odds ratios are known. 
  • Linkage analysis in familial Alzheimer disease: description of the Duke and Boston data sets. 
  • Linkage analysis with gene-environment interaction: model illustration and performance of ordered subset analysis. 
  • Lipid adjustment for chemical exposures: accounting for concomitant variables. 
  • Local influenza-like illness surveillance at a university health system during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. 
  • Long-term ambient air pollution levels in four Chinese cities: inter-city and intra-city concentration gradients for epidemiological studies. 
  • Long-term effects of smoking on retinal microvascular caliber. 
  • Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and renal function in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood-level Racial Residential Segregation with Obesity Among Blacks. 
  • Longitudinal Associations of US Acculturation With Cognitive Performance, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia. 
  • Longitudinal Evaluation of Neuromuscular Dysfunction in Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of cardiovascular disease risk profile in neighbourhood poverty subgroups: 5-year results from an afterschool fitness programme in the USA. 
  • Longitudinal associations between neighborhood child opportunity and physical fitness for New York City public school youth. 
  • Longitudinal models for chronic disease risk: an evaluation of logistic multiple regression and alternatives. 
  • Longitudinal predictors of nonadherence to maintenance of mammography. 
  • Loss of resources and Hurricane experience as predictors of post-partum depression among women in southern Louisiana 
  • Loss to Follow up among Glaucoma Patients at a Tertiary Eye Center over 10 Years: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Outcomes. 
  • Low frequency of cigarette smoking and the risk of head and neck cancer in the INHANCE consortium pooled analysis. 
  • Low incidence of familial breast cancer among Hispanic women. 
  • Lung Cancer Risk Associated with Regulated and Unregulated Chrysotile Asbestos Fibers. 
  • Lung cancer in Florida. Risks associated with residence in the central Florida phosphate mining region. 
  • Male Circumcision Reduces Penile HPV Incidence and Persistence: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya. 
  • Malondialdehyde in exhaled breath condensate and urine as a biomarker of air pollution induced oxidative stress. 
  • Mapping hot spots of breast cancer mortality in the United States: place matters for Blacks and Hispanics. 
  • Mapping of the IRF8 gene identifies a 3'UTR variant associated with risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia but not other common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes. 
  • Marginal structural models for analyzing causal effects of time-dependent treatments: an application in perinatal epidemiology. 
  • Marijuana smoking and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the INHANCE consortium. 
  • Marine ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid and Fish Intake after Colon Cancer Diagnosis and Survival: CALGB 89803 (Alliance). 
  • Marital trajectories and mortality among US adults. 
  • Maternal Dietary Patterns are Associated with Lower Levels of Cardiometabolic Markers during Pregnancy. 
  • Maternal Prenatal Depressive Symptoms and Spontaneous Preterm Births among African American Women in Baltimore 
  • Maternal age, birth order, and race: Differential effects on birthweight 
  • Maternal age, birth order, and race: differential effects on birthweight. 
  • Maternal and childhood nutrition and later blood pressure levels in young Guatemalan adults. 
  • Maternal dietary patterns are associated with risk of neural tube and congenital heart defects. 
  • Maternal one carbon metabolism and arsenic methylation in a pregnancy cohort in Mexico. 
  • Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and spontaneous preterm births among African-American women in Baltimore, Maryland. 
  • Maternal serum levels of polychlorinated biphenyls and 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE) and time to pregnancy. 
  • Mathematical model for the natural history of human papillomavirus infection and cervical carcinogenesis. 
  • Mathematical modeling of folate metabolism: predicted effects of genetic polymorphisms on mechanisms and biomarkers relevant to carcinogenesis. 
  • Mathematical modeling predicts the effect of folate deficiency and excess on cancer-related biomarkers. 
  • Mathematical modeling: epidemiology meets systems biology. 
  • Measure once, cut twice--adding patient-reported outcome measures to the electronic health record for comparative effectiveness research. 
  • Measures of social class based on education for use in health studies in developing countries. 
  • Measuring Empiric Antibiotic Spectrum Patterns Across Space and Time 
  • Measuring access to eye care: a public health perspective. 
  • Measuring activities in clinical trials using random work sampling: implications for cost-effectiveness analysis and measurement of the intervention. 
  • Measuring agreement between patient and proxy responses to multidimensional health-related quality-of-life measures in clinical trials. An application of psychometric profile analysis. 
  • Measuring empiric antibiotic spectrum-A journey through space and time. 
  • Measuring immunization coverage among preschool children: past, present, and future opportunities 
  • Measuring social inclusion--a key outcome in global mental health. 
  • Mechanistic and functional interrogation of novel ancestry-related alternatively spliced androgen receptor signal genes in prostate cancer 
  • Mediating effects of cancer risk factors on the association between race and cancer incidence: analysis of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. 
  • Medical disability assessment of the back pain patient for the Social Security Administration: the weighting of presenting clinical features. 
  • Medical record bias in documentation of obstetric and neonatal clinical quality of care indicators in Uganda. 
  • Medical transport-associated infection: Review and commentary making a case for its legitimacy. 
  • Medically Attended Catheter Complications Are Common in Patients With Outpatient Central Venous Catheters. 
  • Mendelian randomization study of adiposity-related traits and risk of breast, ovarian, prostate, lung and colorectal cancer. 
  • Mental and physical health-related quality of life among U.S. cancer survivors: population estimates from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. 
  • Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: Bringing epidemiologic research to policy 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Meta-analyses of colorectal cancer risk factors. 
  • Meta-analysis investigating associations between healthy diet and fasting glucose and insulin levels and modification by loci associated with glucose homeostasis in data from 15 cohorts. 
  • Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Identifies Novel Loci Associated With Optic Disc Morphology. 
  • Meta-analysis of gene-environment interaction: joint estimation of SNP and SNP × environment regression coefficients. 
  • Metabolic syndrome is associated with aggressive prostate cancer regardless of race. 
  • Metformin, Diabetes, and Survival among U.S. Veterans with Colorectal Cancer-Response. 
  • Metformin, Diabetes, and Survival among U.S. Veterans with Colorectal Cancer. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal real-time PCR: a predictive tool for contamination of the hospital environment. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance: National Healthcare Safety Network's laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection surveillance. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Methodological considerations in observational comparative effectiveness research for implantable medical devices: an epidemiologic perspective. 
  • Methodological remarks on the recent meta-analysis examining the association between glutathione-S-transferase M1 polymorphism and sporadic colorectal cancer risk. 
  • Methodology of the Singapore Indian Chinese Cohort (SICC) eye study: quantifying ethnic variations in the epidemiology of eye diseases in Asians. 
  • Methodology to correct for differential misclassification. 
  • Methods for interaction analyses using family-based case-control data: conditional logistic regression versus generalized estimating equations. 
  • Methods for large-scale single mediator hypothesis testing: Possible choices and comparisons. 
  • Methods to assess adverse health-related outcomes in cancer survivors. 
  • MicroRNA processing and binding site polymorphisms are not replicated in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Microbiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia compared with that of hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Millennium Cohort: the 2001-2003 baseline prevalence of mental disorders in the U.S. military. 
  • Minimizing hair dispersal: Is this an opportunity for improvement in health care-acquired infection prevention? 
  • Modeling community-level effects on preterm birth. 
  • Models for forecasting chronic disease processes in adult and elderly populations: effects of stochasticity. 
  • Modifying attributions of colorectal cancer risk. 
  • Molecular signatures of epithelial ovarian cancer: analysis of associations with tumor characteristics and epidemiologic risk factors. 
  • Monocyte counts and prostate cancer outcomes in white and black men: results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Mortality and time to extubation in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Mortality from cerebrovascular disease: International comparisons and temporal trends 
  • Mortality under plausible interventions on antiretroviral treatment and depression in HIV-infected women: an application of the parametric g-formula. 
  • Moving CLABSI Prevention beyond the Intensive Care Unit: Risk Factors in Pediatric Oncology Patients 
  • Moving from ethnography to epidemiology: lessons learned in Appalachia. 
  • Multi-faceted strategies improve collection compliance and sample acceptance rate for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) active surveillance testing. 
  • Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions. 
  • Multiethnic polygenic risk scores improve risk prediction in diverse populations. 
  • Multiple Overimputation to Address Missing Data and Measurement Error: Application to HIV Treatment During Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes. 
  • Multiple bias analysis using logistic regression: an example from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 
  • Multiple imputation for missing data via sequential regression trees. 
  • Multiple nosocomial infections. An incidence study. 
  • Multiple outcomes and analyses in clinical trials create challenges for interpretation and research synthesis. 
  • Multistage designs in the genomic era: providing balance in complex disease studies. 
  • Multistate Outbreak of an Emerging Burkholderia cepacia Complex Strain Associated With Contaminated Oral Liquid Docusate Sodium. 
  • Mutagen sensitivity in upper aerodigestive tract cancer: a case-control analysis. 
  • Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing. 
  • N95 Reprocessing by Low Temperature Sterilization with 59% Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic 
  • NO2 exposure and ventilatory function in schoolchildren 
  • NO₂ exposure and ventilatory function in schoolchildren 
  • NYC FITNESSGRAM: Population-Level Physical Fitness Surveillance for New York City Youth 
  • National trends and disparities in cervical cancer screening among commercially insured Women, 2001-2010. 
  • Natural experiment examining the longitudinal association between change in residential segregation and youth cardiovascular health across race/ethnicity and gender in the USA. 
  • Navigating reflex urine culture practices in community hospitals: Need for a validated approach. 
  • Near miss maternal mortality in a multiethnic population. 
  • Negative controls to detect uncontrolled confounding in observational studies of mammographic screening comparing participants and non-participants. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and adverse birth outcomes among diverse ethnic groups. 
  • Neighborhood language isolation and depressive symptoms among elderly U.S. Latinos. 
  • Neighborhood socio-economic characteristics, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori sero-prevalence. 
  • Neighbourhood food environment and gestational diabetes in New York City. 
  • Network-Based Integration of GWAS and Gene Expression Identifies a HOX-Centric Network Associated with Serous Ovarian Cancer Risk. 
  • Neutrophil, lymphocyte and platelet counts, and risk of prostate cancer outcomes in white and black men: results from the SEARCH database. 
  • New methods facilitated the process of prioritizing questions and health outcomes in guideline development. 
  • New systematic review methodology for visual impairment and blindness for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study. 
  • No Association between hOGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • No Evidence That Genetic Variation in the Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Pathway Influences Ovarian Cancer Survival. 
  • No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma. 
  • No association between telomere length and survival among the elderly and oldest old. 
  • No association or linkage between an intronic polymorphism of presenilin-1 and sporadic or late-onset familial Alzheimer disease. 
  • No relationship between ovarian cancer risk and progesterone receptor gene polymorphism in a population-based, case-control study in North Carolina. 
  • Non-communicable chronic diseases and timely breast cancer screening among women of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Cohort Study. 
  • Noninfectious disease among the Bhutanese refugee population at a United States urban clinic. 
  • Nonparametric Bounds for the Risk Function. 
  • Nonparametric bayes shrinkage for assessing exposures to mixtures subject to limits of detection. 
  • Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and risk of gastric adenocarcinoma: the multiethnic cohort study. 
  • North Carolina public school teachers' contact patterns and mask use within and outside of school during the prevaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Nosocomial methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus primary bacteremia: at what costs? 
  • Novel Variants of ELP2 and PIAS1 in the Interferon Gamma Signaling Pathway Are Associated with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival. 
  • Null association between vitamin D and PSA levels among black men in a vitamin D supplementation trial. 
  • Nutritional profiling reveals glutamine-utilizing transaminases as a metabolic vulnerability of TAZ/YAP-driven breast cancer cells 
  • O-184 
  • OP49 Socioeconomic Status and Late Adolescent Trajectories of Smoking, Drinking, and Psychiatric Distress 
  • OVERLOAD: THE IMPACT OF INCIDENT STRESSFUL EVENTS ON ANTIRETROVIRAL MEDICATION ADHERENCE AND VIROLOGIC FAILURE IN A LONGITUDINAL, MULTI-SITE HIV COHORT STUDY. 
  • Obesity before age 30 years and risk of advanced prostate cancer. 
  • Obesity increases the risk for high-grade prostate cancer: results from the REDUCE study. 
  • Observer variability of Osler's maneuver in detection of pseudohypertension. 
  • Observing and improving hand hygiene compliance: implementation and refinement of an electronic-assisted direct-observer hand hygiene audit program. 
  • Occupational asbestos exposure and the incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the gastrointestinal tract: an ecologic study. 
  • Offspring sex and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: a multinational pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • On Approaches to Improve Power in Analyses of Genetic Effects on Time-To-Event Outcomes in Longitudinal Studies 
  • On contact precautions: the good, the bad, and the ugly. 
  • On improving the measurement of self-reported medication nonadherence 
  • On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables. 
  • Oncogenic pathway signatures in human cancers as a guide to targeted therapies. 
  • Opportunities in technology and connected health for population science. 
  • Optimizing reflex urine cultures: Using a population-specific approach to diagnostic stewardship. 
  • Oral contraceptive use and risk of breast, cervical, colorectal, and endometrial cancers: a systematic review. 
  • Oral contraceptive use and risk of cancer--response. 
  • Oral contraceptives and survival in breast cancer patients aged 20 to 54 years. 
  • Ordered subset analysis for case-control studies. 
  • Ordered subset analysis in genetic linkage mapping of complex traits. 
  • Ordered-subset analysis (OSA) for family-based association mapping of complex traits. 
  • Organizational improvements to enhance modern clinical epidemiology. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • Outpatient antibiotic prescribing patterns in pediatric academic and community practices. 
  • Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry (OCWAA) consortium: a resource of harmonized data from eight epidemiologic studies of African American and white women. 
  • Ovarian cancer epidemiology in the era of collaborative team science. 
  • Ovarian cancer risk factors in African-American and white women. 
  • Overall diet quality and age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Overexpression of protein phosphatase 4 correlates with poor prognosis in patients with stage II pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. 
  • Overuse of antenatal care amongst low-risk patients in France: Study underscores the need for an evidence-based standard for adequate antenatal care. 
  • Overweight and obese perimenopausal and postmenopausal women exhibit increased abnormal mammary epithelial cytology. 
  • Ovulation and ovarian cancer: a comparison of two methods for calculating lifetime ovulatory cycles (United States). 
  • PBDE Levels in Indoor Air and Dust Collected From US Urban Residences 
  • PCORnet® 2020: current state, accomplishments, and future directions. 
  • PROMIS Fatigue Item Bank had Clinical Validity across Diverse Chronic Conditions. 
  • PROMIS measures of pain, fatigue, negative affect, physical function, and social function demonstrated clinical validity across a range of chronic conditions. 
  • PROSPECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AND COPING BEHAVIORS IN DEPLOYERS SUPPORTING THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN 
  • PTEN polymorphism (IVS4) is not associated with risk of prostate cancer. 
  • Pandemic hits: Evaluation of an antimicrobial stewardship program website for hospital communication during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 
  • Paramyxovirus Outbreak in a Long-Term Care Facility: The Challenges of Implementing Infection Control Practices in a Congregate Setting. 
  • Parental Incarceration and Child Health in the United States. 
  • Parenthood and the risk of cardiovascular diseases among 0.5 million men and women: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank. 
  • Part I. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Part I. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Part II. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to Shigella infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Part II. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to Shigella infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Part III. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Part III. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Participation rates in a case-control study: the impact of age, race, and race of interviewer. 
  • Particulate matter exposure, prenatal and postnatal windows of susceptibility, and autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Partitioning of time trends in prevalence and mortality of bladder cancer in the United States. 
  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis. 
  • Patient navigation significantly reduces delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of Columbia. 
  • Patient-care practices associated with an increased prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection among chronic hemodialysis patients. 
  • Patient-days: a better measure of incidence of occupational bloodborne exposures. 
  • Patterns and predictors of vaginal bleeding in the first trimester of pregnancy. 
  • Pediatric research priorities in healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial stewardship. 
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and the Risk of Ovarian Cancer and Borderline Ovarian Tumors: A Pooled Analysis of 13 Case-Control Studies. 
  • Pencina et al. respond to "The incremental value of new markers" and "Clinically relevant measures? A note of caution". 
  • Perceptions of Stroke and Associated Health-Care-Seeking Behavior in Northern Tanzania: A Community-Based Study. 
  • Performance of Three-Biomarker Immunohistochemistry for Intrinsic Breast Cancer Subtyping in the AMBER Consortium. 
  • Performance of amplified DNA in an Illumina GoldenGate BeadArray assay. 
  • Performing cost-effectiveness analysis by integrating randomized trial data with a comprehensive decision model: application to treatment of acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Complications in Children Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT). 
  • Persistence of antibody in healthcare workers vaccinated against hepatitis B. 
  • Personal exposure to particles in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 
  • Personality and the socioeconomic-health gradient 
  • Physical activity and magnetic field exposure in pregnancy. 
  • Physical activity and sleep among pregnant women. 
  • Physical activity at age 12 and adult breast cancer risk (United States). 
  • Physical activity, television viewing time, and retinal microvascular caliber: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Physical inactivity in adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Place of Residence and Cognitive Function among the Adult Population in India. 
  • Plasma biomarker profiles differ depending on breast cancer subtype but RANTES is consistently increased. 
  • Plasma fibrinogen levels and their correlates in 6457 coronary heart disease patients. The Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention (BIP) Study. 
  • Point-prevalence study of antimicrobial use in public hospitals in southern Sri Lanka identifies opportunities for improving prescribing practices. 
  • Policies and practices of SHEA Research Network hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Oligomenorrhea, and Risk of Ovarian Cancer Histotypes: Evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Polymorphism in the GALNT1 gene and epithelial ovarian cancer in non-Hispanic white women: the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Polymorphism in the IL18 gene and epithelial ovarian cancer in non-Hispanic white women. 
  • Polymorphisms in MicroRNAs are associated with survival in non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Polymorphisms in the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Gene as Determinants of Cardiovascular Diseases Risks and Short Life in Framingham Heart Study 
  • Polymorphisms in the DNA repair genes XPC, XPD, and XPG and risk of cutaneous melanoma: a case-control analysis. 
  • Polymorphisms in the two helicases ERCC2/XPD and ERCC3/XPB of the transcription factor IIH complex and risk of lung cancer: a case-control analysis in a Chinese population. 
  • Polymorphisms of methionine synthase and methionine synthase reductase and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a case-control analysis. 
  • Polymorphisms of methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase and risk of lung cancer: a case-control study. 
  • Pooled analysis of alcohol dehydrogenase genotypes and head and neck cancer: a HuGE review. 
  • Pooling of case specimens to create standard serum sets for screening cancer biomarkers. 
  • Poor functional status as a risk factor for surgical site infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Population distribution of lifetime risk of ovarian cancer in the United States. 
  • Population impact of mortality reduction: the effects of elimination of major causes of death on the 'saved' population. 
  • Population-based survey methods to quantify associations between human rights violations and health outcomes among internally displaced persons in eastern Burma. 
  • Post hoc Analysis for Detecting Individual Rare Variant Risk Associations Using Probit Regression Bayesian Variable Selection Methods in Case-Control Sequencing Studies. 
  • Post-diagnosis adiposity and survival among breast cancer patients: influence of breast cancer subtype. 
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder, physical activity, and eating behaviors. 
  • Postdischarge antibiotic use for prophylaxis following spinal fusion. 
  • Postdischarge surveillance to identify subsequent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in colonized children. 
  • Postrelease mortality among persons hospitalized during their incarceration. 
  • Potential selection bias in a community-based study of PSA levels in African-American men. 
  • Potential sensitivity of bias analysis results to incorrect assumptions of nondifferential or differential binary exposure misclassification. 
  • Potential underreporting of energy intake in the Ontario Health Survey and its relationship with nutrient and food intakes. 
  • Potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphisms in the core nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Power and sample size calculations for SNP association studies with censored time-to-event outcomes. 
  • Precisely modeling zero-inflated count phenotype for rare variants. 
  • Prediagnostic Antibody Responses to Fusobacterium nucleatum Proteins Are Not Associated with Risk of Colorectal Cancer in a Large U.S. Consortium. 
  • Prediagnostic Smoking Is Associated with Binary and Quantitative Measures of ER Protein and ESR1 mRNA Expression in Breast Tumors. 
  • Prediagnostic plasma vascular endothelial growth factor levels and risk of prostate cancer. 
  • Predicting non-elective hospital readmissions: a multi-site study. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Readmissions. 
  • Predicting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using a mass fraction approach in a geostatistical framework across North Carolina. 
  • Prediction of incident stroke events based on retinal vessel caliber: a systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis. 
  • Prediction of subsequent ischemic heart disease using serial resting electrocardiograms. 
  • Predictors of Colorectal Cancer Surveillance among Radiation-treated Survivors of Childhood Cancer 
  • Predictors of measurement error in energy intake during pregnancy. 
  • Predictors of use and consumption of public drinking water among pregnant women. 
  • Predictors of vaginal bleeding during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. 
  • Predisease: when does it make sense? 
  • Pregnancy recency and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Pregnancy regency, menopausal status, and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Pregnancy, pregnancy loss and the risk of diabetes in Chinese women: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank. 
  • Premenopausal Hysterectomy and Risk of Ovarian Cancer in African-American Women. 
  • Premenopausal gynecologic surgery and survival among black and white women with breast cancer. 
  • Premier: a clinical trial of comprehensive lifestyle modification for blood pressure control: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Prenatal Phthalate Exposures and Body Mass Index Among 4- to 7-Year-old Children: A Pooled Analysis. 
  • Preparing nursing homes for a second wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). 
  • Prepregnancy handling of antineoplastic drugs and risk of miscarriage in female nurses. 
  • Prevalence of dementia in the United States: the aging, demographics, and memory study. 
  • Prevalence of lens opacities in Asian Malays. 
  • Prevalence of traumatic brain injury in the general adult population: a meta-analysis. 
  • Prevalence survey of cytomegalovirus infection in children in Chengdu. 
  • Prevention-effective adherence trajectories among transgender women indicated for PrEP in the United States: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Primary brain tumor incidence rates in four United States regions, 1985-1989: a pilot study. 
  • Primary central nervous system lymphoma in patients with and without HIV infection: a multicenter study and comparison with U.S national data. 
  • Primary peritoneal and ovarian cancers: an epidemiological comparative analysis. 
  • Private Drinking Water Wells as a Source of Exposure to Perfluorooctanoic Acid in Communities Surrounding a Washington, West Virginia Fluoropolymer Production Facility 
  • Private religious activity and cardiovascular risk. 
  • Probability samples of area births versus clinic populations for reproductive epidemiology studies. 
  • Progesterone receptor promoter +331A polymorphism is associated with a reduced risk of endometrioid and clear cell ovarian cancers. 
  • Progesterone receptor promoter+331/G/A polymorphism is associated with deceased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Prognostic Significance of Estimated BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status in women diagnosed with breast cancer 
  • Project PREVENT: a randomized trial to reduce multiple behavioral risk factors for colon cancer. 
  • Propensity Score-Based Estimators With Multiple Error-Prone Covariates. 
  • Propensity score estimation: neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees (CART), and meta-classifiers as alternatives to logistic regression. 
  • Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • Proposing six criteria to improve reproducibility of "usual care" interventions in back pain trials: a systematic review. 
  • Prospective association between receipt of the economic impact payment and mental health outcomes. 
  • Prospective study of Helicobacter pylori biomarkers for gastric cancer risk among Chinese men. 
  • Prostate cancer susceptibility polymorphism rs2660753 is not associated with invasive ovarian cancer. 
  • Protecting Confidentiality in Cancer Registry Data With Geographic Identifiers. 
  • Protein microarray analysis of mammary epithelial cells from obese and nonobese women at high risk for breast cancer: feasibility data. 
  • Proxy response patterns among the aged: effects on estimates of health status and medical care utilization from the 1982-1984 long-term care surveys. 
  • Pseudo-outbreak of adenovirus in bronchoscopy suite. 
  • Psychologic stress in the workplace and spontaneous abortion. 
  • Psychosocial risk factors and retinal microvascular signs: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Public Health Education: Teaching Epidemiology in High School Classrooms. 
  • Pyrogenic reactions in hemodialysis patients, Hanoi, Vietnam. 
  • Quality of Physician Communication about HPV Vaccine-Letter. 
  • Quality of stepped-wedge trial reporting can be reliably assessed using an updated CONSORT: crowd-sourcing systematic review. 
  • Quantifying the contributions of behavioral and biological risk factors to socioeconomic disparities in coronary heart disease incidence: the MORGEN study. 
  • Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data. 
  • Quasi-experimental evidence on the causal effects of physical health on mental health. 
  • RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN SEX HORMONES WITH WEIGHT LOSS AND MAINTENANCE IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN. 
  • RE: "A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIP FOR ALL". 
  • RE: "The hidden epidemic of firearm injury: Increasing firearm injury rates during 2001-2013". 
  • RE: “RISK PREDICTION FOR EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER IN 11 UNITED STATES–BASED CASE-CONTROL STUDIES: INCORPORATION OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC RISK FACTORS AND 17 CONFIRMED GENETIC LOCI” 
  • RE:"ADDRESSING EXTREME PROPENSITY SCORES VIA THE OVERLAP WEIGHTS". 
  • RESPONDING TO ADVERSITY? QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DYNAMIC SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ITS RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH 
  • Race Differences in the Associations between Menstrual Cycle Characteristics and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Race, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori infection in a low-income United States population. 
  • Race, anthropometric factors, and stage at diagnosis of breast cancer. 
  • Race-related differential splicing of the insulin receptor: A novel target underlying prostate cancer disparities 
  • Race/ethnicity, physical activity, and quality of life in breast cancer survivors. 
  • Racial Capitalism Within Public Health-How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities. 
  • Racial Differences in Helicobacter pylori CagA Sero-prevalence in a Consortium of Adult Cohorts in the United States. 
  • Racial Differences in Treatment and Survival among Veterans and Non-Veterans with Stage I NSCLC: An Evaluation of Veterans Affairs and SEER-Medicare Populations. 
  • Racial Differences in the Association Between Preoperative Serum Cholesterol and Prostate Cancer Recurrence: Results from the SEARCH Database. 
  • Racial Differences in the Tumor Immune Landscape and Survival of Women with High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in infant mortality and low birth weight. A psychosocial critique. 
  • Racial differences in acute lymphocytic leukemia mortality and incidence trends. 
  • Racial differences in adipose tissue distribution and risk of aggressive prostate cancer among men undergoing radiotherapy. 
  • Racial differences in characteristics of early- vs. late-onset colorectal cancer among veterans 
  • Racial differences in enrolment in a cancer genetics registry. 
  • Racial differences in methylation pathway-structured predictive models and breast cancer survival 
  • Racial differences in prostate cancer screening by family history. 
  • Racial disparities in elevated prenatal depressive symptoms among black and white women in eastern north Carolina. 
  • Racial disparity in breast cancer survival: the impact of pre-treatment hematologic variables. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in the epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in the epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies. 
  • Randomized controlled clinical trial of weekly oltipraz in smokers. 
  • Rapid report on using data to make standardized decisions about enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from the MoTrPAC study. 
  • Rates of Invitation, participation, and willingness to engage in medical and clinical research: Findings from attendees at two gender-specific community-based screening programs 
  • Rationale and Methodology for a Community-Based Study of Diabetic Retinopathy in an Indonesian Population with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Jogjakarta Eye Diabetic Study in the Community. 
  • Rationale and design of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial (DASH). A multicenter controlled-feeding study of dietary patterns to lower blood pressure. 
  • Rationale and methodology for a population-based study of eye diseases in Malay people: The Singapore Malay eye study (SiMES). 
  • Rationale, design, methodology, and baseline data of a population-based study in rural China: the Handan Eye Study. 
  • Re: "Tracking of cardiovascular risk factors: the Tromsø Study, 1979, 1995". 
  • Receipt of public assistance during childhood and hypertension risk in adulthood. 
  • Recent changes in the NHSN definition for UTI: for better AND worse. 
  • Recent trends in US mortality in early and middle adulthood: racial/ethnic disparities in inter-cohort patterns. 
  • Recommendations for surveillance of Clostridium difficile-associated disease. 
  • Recreational physical activity and ovarian cancer risk and survival. 
  • Recreational physical activity and survival in African-American women with ovarian cancer. 
  • Recruitment experience in the first phase of the African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer (AAHPC) study. 
  • Recurrent event frailty models reduced time-varying and other biases in evaluating transfusion protocols for traumatic hemorrhage. 
  • Reduced DNA repair capacity in head and neck cancer patients. 
  • Reduced expression of hMLH1 and hGTBP/hMSH6: a risk factor for head and neck cancer. 
  • Reducing abdominal hysterectomy surgical site infections: A multidisciplinary quality initiative 
  • Reducing misclassification in assignment of timing of events during pregnancy. 
  • Reduction in antimicrobial use among medical intensive care unit patients during a cluster randomized crossover trial of palliative care consultation. 
  • Reduction in patient refusal of CHG bathing. 
  • Reduction of Central-Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections in a Spinal Cord Injury Unit 
  • Reduction of exit-site infections of tunnelled intravascular catheters among neutropenic patients by sustained-release chlorhexidine dressings: results from a prospective randomized controlled trial. 
  • Reflex Urine Culture Practices in a Regional Community Hospital Network 
  • Regional differences in the impact of diabetes on population health in the USA. 
  • Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for Clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes. 
  • Rejoinder: how to reduce racial disparities?: Upon what to intervene? 
  • Relation between ambient air quality and selected birth defects, seven county study, Texas, 1997-2000. 
  • Relation of age-related cataract with obesity and obesity genes in an Asian population. 
  • Relation of prescription nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use to cognitive function among community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Relations of Current and Past Cancer with Severe Outcomes among 104,590 Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: The COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Relationship Between the APOE Polymorphism and Risks of Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease: Application of the Genetic Stochastic Process Model 
  • Relationship between genotype variants in coronary artery disease (CAD) and HDL level 
  • Relationship between race and other potential risk factors and nonvertebral fractures in community-dwelling elderly women 
  • Relationship of Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA) study: study design, methods and quality assurance/control results. 
  • Relationship of epithelial ovarian cancer to other malignancies within families. 
  • Relationships Between Brominated Flame Retardant Concentrations in House Dust and Serum Hormone Levels in Men 
  • Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African-American women with and without a family history of breast cancer. 
  • Relationships among breast cancer perceived absolute risk, comparative risk, and worries. 
  • Relationships among objective and subjective risk for breast cancer and mammography stages of change. 
  • Relationships between the Nicotine Metabolite Ratio and a Panel of Exposure and Effect Biomarkers: Findings from Two Studies of U.S. Commercial Cigarette Smokers. 
  • Relative frequency of nosocomial pathogens at a university hospital during the decade 1980 to 1989. 
  • Reliability and validity of self and proxy reporting of morbidity data: a case study from Beirut, Lebanon. 
  • Religious service attendance and major depression: a case of reverse causality? 
  • Replication of breast cancer susceptibility loci in whites and African Americans using a Bayesian approach. 
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  • Reply to Eric Schlote regarding "Evaluation of dilute hydrogen peroxide technology for continuous room decontamination of multidrug-resistant organisms". 
  • Reply to Fe Talento et al 
  • Reply: "age at menopause: imputing age at menopause for women with a hysterectomy with application to risk of postmenopausal breast cancer". 
  • Representativeness of Medicare Participants in the Jackson Heart Study for African American Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Reproducibility and variability of the rectal mucosal proliferation index using proliferating cell nuclear antigen immunohistochemistry. 
  • Reproducibility of random periareolar fine needle aspiration in a multi-institutional Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) cross-sectional study. 
  • Reproductive Factors Do Not Influence Survival with Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Reproductive factors and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women. 
  • Reproductive factors in relation to breast cancer characterized by p53 protein expression (United States). 
  • Reproductive risk factor associations with lobular and ductal carcinoma in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship-Mathematical Modeling. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • Research needs in antibiotic stewardship. 
  • Residence in Skilled Nursing Facilities Is Associated with Tigecycline Nonsusceptibility in Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. 
  • Residential Racial Isolation and Spatial Patterning of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Resistant enterococci: a prospective study of prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with colonization in a university hospital. 
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  • Response rates to a mailed survey targeting childhood cancer survivors 
  • Response rates to a mailed survey targeting childhood cancer survivors: a comparison of conditional versus unconditional incentives. 
  • Response to Morisky & DiMatteo Re: On improving the measurement of self-reported medication nonadherence 
  • Responses to online GSTM1 genetic test results among smokers related to patients with lung cancer: a pilot study. 
  • Results from a town hall meeting: Inflammatory breast cancer listening session led by KOMEN scholars 
  • Results from project LEAD (Leading the way in Exercise And Diet): A lifestyle intervention trial aimed at older adults diagnosed with breast and prostate cancer. 
  • Results of a Veterans Affairs employee education program on antimicrobial stewardship for older adults. 
  • Retinal Vein Occlusion in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease Study. 
  • Retinal microvascular abnormalities and cognitive function in Latino adults in Los Angeles. 
  • Retinal microvascular caliber and chronic kidney disease in an Asian population. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber and age-related macular degeneration in an Indian population from Singapore. 
  • Retinal vessel caliber and myopic retinopathy: the blue mountains eye study. 
  • Retinoic acid receptor-beta2 promoter methylation in random periareolar fine needle aspiration. 
  • Rhythmic bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics at a large hospital. 
  • Rising rates of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in community hospitals: a mixed-methods review of epidemiology and microbiology practices in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Risk Analysis of Prostate Cancer in PRACTICAL, a Multinational Consortium, Using 25 Known Prostate Cancer Susceptibility Loci. 
  • Risk Prediction for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in 11 United States-Based Case-Control Studies: Incorporation of Epidemiologic Risk Factors and 17 Confirmed Genetic Loci. 
  • Risk factor dynamics, mortality and life expectancy differences between eastern and western Finland: the Finnish Cohorts of the Seven Countries Study. 
  • Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study. 
  • Risk factors for development of systemic lupus erythematosus: allergies, infections, and family history. 
  • Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk? 
  • Risk factors for head and neck cancer in young adults: a pooled analysis in the INHANCE consortium. 
  • Risk factors for lower urinary tract symptoms in a population-based sample of African-American men. 
  • Risk factors for mortality and progression to severe COVID-19 disease in the Southeast region in the United States: A report from the SEUS Study Group. 
  • Risk factors for strabismus and amblyopia in young Singapore Chinese children. 
  • Risk factors for surgical site infection complicating laminectomy. 
  • Risk for COVID-19 infection and death among Latinos in the United States: examining heterogeneity in transmission dynamics. 
  • Risk of complex and atypical endometrial hyperplasia in relation to anthropometric measures and reproductive history. 
  • Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) acquisition during ambulance transport: A retrospective propensity-score-matched cohort analysis. 
  • Risk of sharp device-related blood and body fluid exposure in operating rooms. 
  • Robust Tests for Additive Gene-Environment Interaction in Case-Control Studies Using Gene-Environment Independence. 
  • Robust estimation and testing of haplotype effects in case-control studies. 
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mississippi: survey for spotted fever antibodies in dogs and for spotted fever group reckettsiae in dog ticks. 
  • Roger et al. respond to "future of population studies". 
  • Role of the Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1 gene in familial and sporadic prostate cancer. 
  • Role of the environment in the transmission of Clostridium difficile in health care facilities. 
  • Route of administration for antibiotics with high oral bioavailability. 
  • Rural, Large Town, and Urban Differences in Optimal Subspecialty Follow-up and Survivorship Care Plan Documentation among Childhood Cancer Survivors. 
  • Rural-urban differences in health behaviors and outcomes among older, overweight, long-term cancer survivors in the RENEW randomized control trial. 
  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA persists on surfaces following terminal disinfection of COVID-19 hospital isolation rooms. 
  • SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in New York metropolitan area: the view from a major urgent care provider. 
  • SHEA neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) white paper series: Practical approaches to Staphylococcus aureus disease prevention. 
  • SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS: MODIFYING A QUANTITATIVE INSTRUMENT FOR A RESOURCE-POOR ENVIRONMENT 
  • SPATIAL ADJUSTMENT OF MEASUREMENT ERROR IN MATERNAL EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION. 
  • STRESSFUL DEPLOYMENT EVENTS AND POST-DEPLOYMENT SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN VETERANS OF THE AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ WARS 
  • Safety and efficacy of weekly oral oltipraz in chronic smokers. 
  • Safety culture and hand hygiene: linking attitudes to behavior. 
  • Salivary Cholinesterase Activity in Children with Organic and Conventional Diets 
  • Salmonella enterica serotype Javiana infections associated with amphibian contact, Mississippi, 2001. 
  • Sam-pointed domain containing Ets transcription factor in luminal breast cancer pathogenesis. 
  • Sample size considerations of prediction-validation methods in high-dimensional data for survival outcomes. 
  • Sample size for biomarker studies: more subjects or more measurements per subject? 
  • Sampling distributions of p(pos) and p(neg). 
  • Sampling strategies for tissue microarrays to evaluate biomarkers in ovarian cancer. 
  • Score-based adjustment for confounding by population stratification in genetic association studies. 
  • Screening for therapy-related second cancers. 
  • Seasonal Variation of Common Surgical Site Infections: Does Season Matter? 
  • Seasonal and novel H1N1 influenza vaccination at a children's hospital. 
  • Selective use of intranasal mupirocin and chlorhexidine bathing and the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection among intensive care unit patients. 
  • Self-Reported versus observed audit: Measuring CHG bathing compliance. 
  • Self-monitoring by Environmental Services May Not Accurately Measure Thoroughness of Hospital Room Cleaning. 
  • Self-reported vitamin supplementation in early pregnancy and risk of miscarriage. 
  • Semiparametric tests for identifying differentially methylated loci with case-control designs using Illumina arrays. 
  • Sensitivity and specificity of standardized screens of cognitive impairment and dementia among elderly black and white community residents. 
  • SeqSIMLA2: simulating correlated quantitative traits accounting for shared environmental effects in user-specified pedigree structure. 
  • Sequential sib-pair and association studies to detect genes in quantitative traits. 
  • Serious superficial incisional surgical site infections (SSISSIs): A proposed surveillance definition. 
  • Serum Pepsinogen as a Biomarker for Gastric Cancer in the United States: A Nested Case-Control Study Using the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial Data. 
  • Serum Phosphate and Retinal Microvascular Changes: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and the Beaver Dam Eye Study. 
  • Serum albumin in older persons: relationship with age and health status. 
  • Serum cholesterol in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for suspected coronary artery disease: diagnostic and prognostic implications. 
  • Serum cystatin C and prediabetes in non-obese US adults. 
  • Serum lipid profile and risk of prostate cancer recurrence: Results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) surface contamination in staff common areas and impact on healthcare worker infection: Prospective surveillance during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 
  • Severe surgical site infection in community hospitals: epidemiology, key procedures, and the changing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Sex Differences in Cancer Incidence and Survival: A Pan-Cancer Analysis. 
  • Sex differences in fitness outcomes among minority youth after participation in a park-based after-school program. 
  • Sex differences in risk of lung cancer associated with methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms. 
  • Sharing confidential data for research purposes: A primer [invited commentary] 
  • Sharing confidential data for research purposes: a primer. 
  • Shifting focus toward healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: The need for neonatal intensive care unit-specific NHSN definitions. 
  • Shifting surgical site infection denominators and implications for National Health Safety Network reporting. 
  • Shigellosis at sea: an outbreak aboard a passenger cruise ship. 
  • Shigellosis in custodial institutions. 
  • Shigellosis in the United States: five-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1968. 
  • Shigellosis in the United States: ten-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1973. 
  • Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures. 
  • Short- and long-term prognosis among veterans with neurological disorders and subsequent lower-extremity amputation. 
  • Should spontaneous and medically indicated preterm births be separated for studying aetiology? 
  • Should the definition for the negative likelihood ratio be changed? 
  • Shrinkage estimation for robust and efficient screening of single-SNP association from case-control genome-wide association studies. 
  • Sibling history of myocardial infarction or stroke and risk of cardiovascular disease in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Sickle hemoglobin (HbS) allele and sickle cell disease: a HuGE review. 
  • Simple methods for assessing haplotype-environment interactions in case-only and case-control studies. 
  • Skin antisepsis: it's not only what you use, it's the way that you use it. 
  • Sleep safe in clean hands: Improving hand hygiene compliance in the operating room through education and increased access to hand hygiene products. 
  • Slime production, adherence and hydrophobicity in coagulase-negative staphylococci causing peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis. 
  • Smokeless Tobacco Use and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis of US Studies in the INHANCE Consortium. 
  • Smoking Dependent and Independent Causal Effects of Educational Ascertainment and Alcohol Use on Lung Cancer 
  • Smoking-adjusted lung cancer incidence among Asian-Americans (United States). 
  • Social Support, Stress and Blood Pressure in Blacks: The Pitt County Study 
  • Social class differences in anxiety and depression across the life-course: evidence from three cohorts in the west of Scotland 
  • Social network diversity and risks of ischemic heart disease and total mortality: findings from the Copenhagen City Heart Study. 
  • Social support and hypertension among blacks and whites in a rural, southern community. 
  • Social support and mortality in an elderly community population. 
  • Social support, stress, and blood pressure in black adults. 
  • Socioeconomic Status in Relation to the Risk of Ovarian Cancer in African-American Women: A Population-Based Case-Control Study. 
  • Socioeconomic status and overweight/obesity in an adult Chinese population in Singapore. 
  • Socioeconomic status and risk of multiple myeloma. 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and blood pressure in black adults. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and hypertension in blacks and whites. 
  • Socioeconomic trends in hospitalization for multiple sclerosis. 
  • Solid fuel use, socioeconomic indicators and risk of cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study in a rural area of Sichuan, China. 
  • Sources of organic acids in indoor air: a field study. 
  • Soy intake and breast cancer risk: a prospective study of 300,000 Chinese women and a dose-response meta-analysis. 
  • Sphingolipids as biomarkers of fumonisin exposure and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in china. 
  • Statement of principles: Epidemiology and minority populations 
  • Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina. 
  • Statewide variability in predictors of survival among geographically and racially diverse breast cancer cohorts 
  • Statins and cancer risk: what do we know and where do we go from here? 
  • Statistical methods for the time-to-event analysis of individual participant data from multiple epidemiological studies. 
  • Statistical methods in SUPPORT. 
  • Status of the Prevention of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in International Settings: A Survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network. 
  • Stochastic Model for Joint Analysis of Genetic and Non-Genetic Data from Longitudinal Studies of Aging, Health and Longevity 
  • Strategic transformation of population studies: recommendations of the working group on epidemiology and population sciences from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council and Board of External Experts. 
  • Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. 
  • Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals. 
  • Stratification-score matching improves correction for confounding by population stratification in case-control association studies. 
  • Strengthening the reporting of Genetic RIsk Prediction Studies (GRIPS): explanation and elaboration. 
  • Strengthening the reporting of genetic risk prediction studies (GRIPS): explanation and elaboration. 
  • Stress management intervention for primary prevention of hypertension: detailed results from Phase I of Trials of Hypertension Prevention (TOHP-I). 
  • Strobilurin fungicides in house dust: is wallboard a source? 
  • Structure and Control of Healthy Worker Effects in Studies of Pregnancy Outcomes. 
  • Substance use disorders and psychiatric comorbidity in mid and later life: a review. 
  • Summary of contributions to GAW15 Group 13: candidate gene association studies. 
  • Supplemental vitamin E increases biomarkers of estrogen stimulation in random core breast biopsies of women taking tamoxifen 
  • Surgeon choice in the use of postdischarge antibiotics for prophylaxis following mastectomy with and without breast reconstruction. 
  • Surgical Procedure Characteristics and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposure. 
  • Surgical Team Stability and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposures During Surgical Procedures. 
  • Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis: is the glass half empty or more than 99% full? 
  • Surgical site infection trends in community hospitals from 2013 to 2018. 
  • Surgical site infections after laparoscopic and open cholecystectomies in community hospitals . 
  • Surgical-site infection due to Staphylococcus aureus among elderly patients: mortality, duration of hospitalization, and cost. 
  • Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions. 
  • Survival at the threshold of viability: a nationwide survey of the opinions and attitudes of physicians in a developing country. 
  • Survival of epithelial ovarian cancer in Black women: a society to cell approach in the African American cancer epidemiology study (AACES). 
  • Survival-related Selection Bias in Studies of Racial Health Disparities: The Importance of the Target Population and Study Design. 
  • Survivors of childhood cancer in the United States: prevalence and burden of morbidity. 
  • Sustained reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections using multi-faceted strategies led by champions: A quality improvement initiative. 
  • Sydenham Society: racial variations in carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Symptoms, weight loss and physical function in a lifestyle intervention study of older cancer survivors. 
  • Systematic review highlights difficulty interpreting diverse clinical outcomes in abnormal uterine bleeding trials. 
  • Systematic review of prostate cancer's association with body size in childhood and young adulthood. 
  • Systemic markers of oxidative status and colorectal adenomatous polyps. 
  • Systemic oxidative stress, as measured by urinary allantoin and F(2)-isoprostanes, is not increased in Down syndrome. 
  • TEACHING EPIDEMIOLOGY IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS: A WORKABLE MODEL 
  • THE INFLUENCE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN A SEXUAL NETWORK OF YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN 
  • Tea intake and risk of colon cancer in African-Americans and whites: North Carolina colon cancer study. 
  • Teaching on the Continuum: Epidemiology Education From High School Through Graduate School. 
  • Techniques for improving ophthalmic studies performed on administrative databases. 
  • Teens learning epidemiology? A cohort study on epidemiology instruction for high school youth. 
  • Televisions as Sources of DecaBDE in House Dust 
  • Telomere length and TERT functional polymorphisms are not associated with risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Ten Emerging Trends in the Epidemiology of Diabetic Retinopathy. 
  • Testing for contributions of mitochondrial DNA mutations to complex diseases. 
  • Testing the effect of rare compound-heterozygous and recessive mutations in case--parent sequencing studies. 
  • The Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Horizon Study: An AYA Cancer Survivorship Cohort. 
  • The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: study design and methods. 
  • The Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial: A Three-Arm, Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial With Crossover Design to Determine the Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Impregnated Scrubs in Preventing Healthcare Provider Contamination. 
  • The Association of Accelerated Epigenetic Age with Time-to-death Mediated by Subclinical and Clinical Vascular Outcomes 
  • The Association of MUC16 Mutation with Tumor Mutation Burden and Its Prognostic Implications in Cutaneous Melanoma. 
  • The Beijing HEART Study: Study Hypotheses and Preliminary Results 
  • The Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS): Metabolomics in 47 Prospective Cohort Studies. 
  • The Diet of Higher Insulinemic Potential Is Not Associated with Worse Survival in Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer (Alliance). 
  • The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology. 
  • The Effect of Gender on Visual Field Sensitivity: The Singapore Chinese Eye Study. 
  • The Effectiveness of a Multidisciplinary Community-Based Mitigation Program in Reducing Arsenic Exposure in Araihazar, Bangladesh 
  • The Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration: analysis of individual data on lipid, inflammatory and other markers in over 1.1 million participants in 104 prospective studies of cardiovascular diseases. 
  • The Galaxy Plot: A New Visualization Tool for Bivariate Meta-Analysis Studies. 
  • The Glioma International Case-Control Study: A Report From the Genetic Epidemiology of Glioma International Consortium. 
  • The Gulf War Era Cohort and Biorepository: A Longitudinal Research Resource of Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War Era. 
  • The HOXB13 G84E Mutation Is Associated with an Increased Risk for Prostate Cancer and Other Malignancies. 
  • The Impact of 2015 NHSN Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Definition Change on Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates and CLABSI Prevention Efforts at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • The Intersectionality between Race, Ethnicity, and Residential-Level Socioeconomic Status in Disparities of Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes: A SEER Study. 
  • The MD-MPH program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
  • The National Registry of Veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • The OncoArray Consortium: A Network for Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Common Cancers. 
  • The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005-2008. 
  • The Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) instrument was useful for refining a randomized trial design: experiences from an investigative team. 
  • The Relationship of Visiting Alternative Care Practitioners with Receiving Medical Eye Care in Patients with Chronic Ocular Disease. 
  • The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development: A Nationwide US Multicohort Study. 
  • The Role of Genes and Life Course in Late Life Diseases 
  • The Role of Polymorphisms in the ACE and ADRB2 Genes in Incidence of Myocardial Infarction in Framingham Heart Study Participants 
  • The Shared Genetic Architectures Between Lung Cancer and Multiple Polygenic Phenotypes in Genome-Wide Association Studies. 
  • The US National Comorbidity Survey: overview and future directions. 
  • The Use of Optical Coherence Tomography for Early Glaucoma Screening in a Population of Patients with Diabetes. 
  • The accuracy of medicare claims data in identifying Alzheimer's disease. 
  • The accuracy of self-report of herpes zoster. 
  • The association between in utero cigarette smoke exposure and age at menopause. 
  • The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic. 
  • The association between neighborhood quality, youth physical fitness, and modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors. 
  • The association between race and prostate cancer risk on initial biopsy in an equal access, multiethnic cohort. 
  • The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa. 
  • The association between urinary concentrations of phosphorous-containing flame retardant metabolites and semen parameters among men from a fertility clinic. 
  • The association between waist circumference and risk of mortality considering body mass index in 65- to 74-year-olds: a meta-analysis of 29 cohorts involving more than 58 000 elderly persons. 
  • The association of cigarette smoking with gastric cancer: the multiethnic cohort study. 
  • The association of fitness and school absenteeism across gender and poverty: a prospective multilevel analysis in New York City middle schools. 
  • The association of urinary phosphorous-containing flame retardant metabolites and self-reported personal care and household product use among couples seeking fertility treatment. 
  • The associations of adolescent cigarette smoking, alcoholic beverage consumption, environmental tobacco smoke, and ionizing radiation with subsequent breast cancer risk (United States). 
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  • The biology of tobacco and nicotine: bench to bedside. 
  • The causal effects of health conditions and risk factors on social and socioeconomic outcomes: Mendelian randomization in UK Biobank. 
  • The contribution of baseline weight and weight gain to blood pressure change in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • The correlation of fecundability among twins: evidence of a genetic effect on fertility? 
  • The development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines for gastric cancer and Helicobacter pylori. 
  • The economic costs to United States hospitals of invasive fungal infections in transplant patients. 
  • The effect of Brain- Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Val66Met Variants on the Path from Psychosocial Stress to Depression, Body Mass Index and Pre-Clinical Atherosclerosis 
  • The effect of using a pre-dive checklist on the incidence of diving mishaps in recreational scuba diving: a cluster-randomized trial. 
  • The effect of weight change on nursing care facility admission in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Survey. 
  • The epidemiologic evidence for a relationship between social support and health. 
  • The epidemiology of gynaecologic health: contemporary opportunities and challenges. 
  • The epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a network of community hospitals: a prospective multicenter study. 
  • The evolution of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): Is it time for more inclusive metrics? 
  • The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research. 
  • The expanding epidemics of HIV type 1 among men who have sex with men in low- and middle-income countries: diversity and consistency. 
  • The factor XII -4C>T variant and risk of common thrombotic disorders: A HuGE review and meta-analysis of evidence from observational studies. 
  • The growing importance of non-device-associated healthcare-associated infections: a relative proportion and incidence study at an academic medical center, 2008-2012. 
  • The hOGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism and lung cancer risk: a meta-analysis. 
  • The impact of a comprehensive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection prevention bundle on non-COVID-19 hospital-acquired respiratory viral infection (HA-RVI) rates. 
  • The impact of a physical geographic barrier on the dynamics of measles. 
  • The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response on hospital infection prevention programs and practices in the southeastern United States. 
  • The impact of depth of infection and postdischarge surveillance on rate of surgical-site infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • The impact of item order on ratings of cancer risk perception. 
  • The impact of patient-reported penicillin or cephalosporin allergy on surgical site infections. 
  • The impact of surgical-site infections following orthopedic surgery at a community hospital and a university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay, and extra cost. 
  • The impact of surgical-site infections in the 1990s: attributable mortality, excess length of hospitalization, and extra costs. 
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of nurses in British Columbia, Canada using trends analysis across three time points. 
  • The importance of the relationship between social networks and quality of life. 
  • The importance of work-up (verification) bias correction in assessing the accuracy of SPECT thallium-201 testing for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • The incidence of neuro-ophthalmic diseases in Singapore: a prospective study in public hospitals. 
  • The influence of oral statin medications on progression of glaucomatous visual field loss: A propensity score analysis. 
  • The joint effects of maternal prepregnancy body mass index and age on the risk of gastroschisis. 
  • The long-term relation among retinal arteriolar narrowing, blood pressure, and incident severe hypertension. 
  • The methodology of visual field testing with frequency doubling technology in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2006. 
  • The more you test, the more you find: The smallest P-values become increasingly enriched with real findings as more tests are conducted. 
  • The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. 
  • The oral microbiota in patients with pancreatic cancer, patients with IPMNs, and controls: a pilot study. 
  • The paracrine hormone for the GUCY2C tumor suppressor, guanylin, is universally lost in colorectal cancer. 
  • The participant effect: mortality in a community-based study compared to vital statistics. 
  • The polymorphic exon 1 androgen receptor CAG repeat in men with a potential inherited predisposition to prostate cancer. 
  • The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection. 
  • The presence of human papillomavirus-16/-18 E6, p53, and Bcl-2 protein in cervicovaginal smears from patients with invasive cervical cancer. 
  • The prevalence and 3-year incidence of dementia in older Black and White community residents. 
  • The prevalence and characteristics of congenital pigmented lesions in newborn babies in Oxford. 
  • The prevalence and risk factors of ocular trauma: the Singapore Indian eye study. 
  • The prevalence of major depression in black and white adults in five United States communities. 
  • The randomized placebo-phase design for clinical trials. 
  • The relation of computer-based measures of sperm morphology and motility to male infertility. 
  • The relation of psychosocial dimensions of work with coronary heart disease risk factors: a meta-analysis of five United States data bases. 
  • The relationship between birthweight and early age-related maculopathy: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • The relationship between cholesterol level and myocardial infarction or mortality risk in patients with coronary artery disease. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry. 
  • The relationship of mental and behavioral disorders to all-cause mortality in a 27-year follow-up of 4 epidemiologic catchment area samples. 
  • The role of brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) genetic variants in exercise training 
  • The role of vision in academic school performance. 
  • The spatial distribution of gender differences in obesity prevalence differs from overall obesity prevalence among US adults. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part I. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part II. 
  • The utility of acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II scores for prediction of mortality among intensive care unit (ICU) and non-ICU patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • The value of population-based studies in the genomic era. 
  • Three-year Change in the Wellbeing of Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Institutional and Family-Based Care Settings in Five Low and Middle Income Countries 
  • Throw that epidemiologist out of the emergency room! Using the television series ER as a vehicle for teaching methodologists about medical issues. 
  • Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?: Comparing 2 approaches to implausible values of change in body size. 
  • Tissue Distribution of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Rats Following Oral Exposure and the Relationship to Body Burdens 
  • To Be a CLABSI or Not to Be a CLABSI-That is the Question: The Epidemiology of BSI in a Large ECMO Population. 
  • Toddler's behavior and its impacts on exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers. 
  • Total dietary antioxidant index and survival in patients with glioblastoma multiforme. 
  • Total duration of antimicrobial therapy resulting from inpatient hospitalization. 
  • Total exposure and exposure rate effects for alcohol and smoking and risk of head and neck cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies. 
  • Toward Achieving Health Equity - ASPO's 2022 Annual Meeting March 13-15, 2022 Marriott University Park, Tucson, Arizona. 
  • Trade-Off In The Effects Of The APOE Polymorphism On The Ages At Onset Of CVD And Cancer: Insights From The Genetic Stochastic Process Model 
  • Traditional definition of healthcare-associated influenza underestimates cases associated with other healthcare exposures in a population-based surveillance system. 
  • Trajectory of overall health from self-report and factors contributing to health declines among cancer survivors. 
  • Transactional sex, HIV and health among young cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men in Thailand. 
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