European Journal of Epidemiology

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In Italy anti-asthmatic drug prescription is not always a reliable proxy of asthma

Marina Bianchi, Antonio Clavenna, Daniele Piovani, Maurizio Bonati

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 531-532

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Reply to Bianchi et al.: In Italy anti-asthmatic drug prescription is not always a reliable proxy of asthma

Gisella Pitter, Cristina Canova

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 533-533

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Epilepsy, excess deaths and years of life lost from external causes

Olli Nevalainen, Mikko Simola, Hanna Ansakorpi, Jani Raitanen, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 445-453

We systematically quantified excess mortality in epilepsy patients by cause of death using the population-attributable fraction and epilepsy-attributable years of potential life lost (YPLL) by age 75 years at ages 15 and over. We updated and undertook a re-review of mortality studies from our previous systematic review following PRISMA guidelines to identify cohort studies of general epilepsy populations...

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Placental abruption and long-term maternal cardiovascular disease mortality: a population-based registry study in Norway and Sweden

Lisa DeRoo, Rolv Skjærven, Allen Wilcox, Kari Klungsøyr, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 501-511

Women with preeclamptic pregnancies have increased long-term cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. We explored this mortality risk among women with placental abruption, another placental pathology. We used linked Medical Birth Registry and Death Registry data to study CVD mortality among over two million women with a first singleton birth between 1967 and 2002 in Norway and 1973 and 2003 in Sweden...

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The influence of hormone therapies on colon and rectal cancer

Lina Steinrud Mørch, Øjvind Lidegaard, Niels Keiding, Ellen Løkkegaard, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 481-489

Exogenous sex hormones seem to play a role in colorectal carcinogenesis. Little is known about the influence of different types or durations of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) on colorectal cancer risk. A nationwide cohort of women 50–79 years old without previous cancer (n = 1,006,219) were followed 1995–2009. Information on HT exposures was from the National Prescription Register and updated...

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Associations between early body mass index trajectories and later metabolic risk factors in European children: the IDEFICS study

Claudia Börnhorst, Kate Tilling, Paola Russo, Yannis Kourides, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 513-525

Faster growth seems to be a common factor in several hypotheses relating early life exposures to subsequent health. This study aims to investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) trajectories during infancy/childhood and later metabolic risk in order to identify sensitive periods of growth affecting health. In a first step, BMI trajectories of 3301 European children that participated...

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Disengaging from statistical significance

Kenneth J. Rothman

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 443-444

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Effect of major lifestyle risk factors, independent and jointly, on life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease: results from the Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES)

Mark G. O’Doherty, Karen Cairns, Vikki O’Neill, Felicity Lamrock, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 455-468

Seldom have studies taken account of changes in lifestyle habits in the elderly, or investigated their impact on disease-free life expectancy (LE) and LE with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Using data on subjects aged 50+ years from three European cohorts (RCPH, ESTHER and Tromsø), we used multi-state Markov models to calculate the independent and joint effects of smoking, physical activity, obesity...

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A joint model for longitudinal and time-to-event data to better assess the specific role of donor and recipient factors on long-term kidney transplantation outcomes

Marie-Cécile Fournier, Yohann Foucher, Paul Blanche, Fanny Buron, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 469-479

In renal transplantation, serum creatinine (SCr) is the main biomarker routinely measured to assess patient’s health, with chronic increases being strongly associated with long-term graft failure risk (death with a functioning graft or return to dialysis). Joint modeling may be useful to identify the specific role of risk factors on chronic evolution of kidney transplant recipients: some can be related...

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Quantifying the benefits of Mediterranean diet in terms of survival

Andrea Bellavia, Thanasis G. Tektonidis, Nicola Orsini, Alicja Wolk, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 527-530

Beneficial effects of Mediterranean diet (MD) have been consistently documented. However, to fully understand the public health implications of MD adherence, an informative step is to quantify these effects in terms of survival time differences. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of MD on survival, presenting results in terms of differences in median age at death. We used data from 71,333...

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Low serum vitamin D is associated with axial length and risk of myopia in young children

J. Willem L. Tideman, Jan Roelof Polling, Trudy Voortman, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, more

European Journal of Epidemiology > 2016 > 31 > 5 > 491-499

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between serum 25(OH)D levels and axial length (AL) and myopia in 6-year-old children. A total of 2666 children aged 6 years participating in the birth-cohort study Generation R underwent a stepwise eye examination. First, presenting visual acuity (VA) and AL were performed. Second, automated cycloplegic refraction was measured if LogMAR VA > 0...

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European Journal of Epidemiology

In Italy anti-asthmatic drug prescription is not always a reliable proxy of asthma

Reply to Bianchi et al.: In Italy anti-asthmatic drug prescription is not always a reliable proxy of asthma

Epilepsy, excess deaths and years of life lost from external causes

Placental abruption and long-term maternal cardiovascular disease mortality: a population-based registry study in Norway and Sweden

The influence of hormone therapies on colon and rectal cancer

Associations between early body mass index trajectories and later metabolic risk factors in European children: the IDEFICS study

Disengaging from statistical significance

Effect of major lifestyle risk factors, independent and jointly, on life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease: results from the Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES)

A joint model for longitudinal and time-to-event data to better assess the specific role of donor and recipient factors on long-term kidney transplantation outcomes

Quantifying the benefits of Mediterranean diet in terms of survival

Low serum vitamin D is associated with axial length and risk of myopia in young children

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