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Application of a multistate transition model to describe deprescribing events among patients who concomitantly use anticoagulants and other medications Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Ximena Oyarzún-González, Chien-Wei Chiang, Yuxi Zhu, M.D. Mohaimenul Islam, Yi Shi, Kathleen T. Unroe, Katherine M. Hunold, Jeffrey M. Caterino, Lang Li, Pengyue Zhang, Macarius M. Donneyong
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Exploring the importance of family socio-economic position on the association between parental BMI and offspring BMI trajectories Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Jie Zhang PhD, Gemma L. Clayton PhD, Kim Overvad PhD, Anja Olsen PhD, Deborah A. Lawlor PhD, Christina C. Dahm PhD
We aimed to investigate the associations between parental BMI and offspring BMI trajectories and to explore whether the parent-offspring BMI growth trajectory association differed according to family SEP or social mobility. We used data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Children’s weight and height were collected from 1 to 18 years. Parents’ height and weight were reported
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All-cause mortality among United States military personnel: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study, 2001–2021 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Felicia R. Carey, Judith Harbertson, Neika Sharifian, Edward J. Boyko, Rudolph P. Rull, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team
The goal of this study was to estimate all-cause mortality among Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn era service members and veterans and to identify protective and risk factors for mortality. Using 20 years of longitudinal data from the Millennium Cohort Study (2001–2021), sequential Cox proportional hazard models were conducted to examine demographic, military, and health-related
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Lung cancer incidence, 2019–2020, United States: The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Christine M. Kava, David A. Siegel, Susan A. Sabatino, Jin Qin, Thomas B. Richards, S. Jane Henley
Cancer incidence declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in part due to health care delivery challenges. We examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in lung cancer incidence. We used 2019–2020 US Cancer Statistics data from 49 cancer registries covering 97 % of the US population. We calculated the number of new lung cancer diagnoses in 2019 and 2020, age-adjusted lung cancer incidence
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Sibling relatedness and pubertal development in girls and boys: A population-based cohort study Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Katrine Andersen MSc, Kathrine Wiell Rothausen MSc, Siri Eldevik Håberg PhD, Mikko Myrskylä PhD, Cecilia Høst Ramlau-Hansen PhD, Anne Gaml-Sørensen PhD
To investigate the association between sibling relatedness and pubertal development in girls and boys. This cohort study consisted of 10,657 children from the Puberty Cohort, Denmark. Information on sibling relatedness was obtained by self-report. Information on pubertal markers was obtained half yearly from age 11 and throughout puberty. Mean age difference at attaining pubertal markers was estimated
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From equality to equity: Increasing the use and reporting of equity-based approaches in epidemiology Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Patrick S. Sullivan, Amanda Castel, Kevin Fenton, Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, Sari Reisner, Hazel D. Dean
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Risk factors for long COVID syndrome in postmenopausal women with previously reported diagnosis of COVID-19 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Marian L. Neuhouser, Hamza Islam Butt, Chengcheng Hu, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Lorena Garcia, Shawna Follis, Charles Mouton, Holly R. Harris, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Emily W. Gower, Mara Vitolins, Diane Von Ah, Rami Nassir, Shama Karanth, Ted Ng, Electra Paskett, JoAnn E. Manson, Zhao Chen
Long COVID-19 syndrome occurs in 10–20 % of people after a confirmed/probable SARS-COV-2 infection; new symptoms begin within three months of COVID-19 diagnosis and last > 8 weeks. Little is known about risk factors for long COVID, particularly in older people who are at greater risk of COVID complications. Data are from Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) postmenopausal women who completed COVID surveys
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Re: Adjustment for duration of employment in occupational epidemiology Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Alexander P. Keil, Kaitlin Kelly-Reif, Sadie Costello, Stephen Bertke, David B. Richardson
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Congenital and acquired hypothyroidism: Temporal and spatial trends in France from 2014 to 2019 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Sylvain Chamot, Abdallah Al-Salameh, Thibaut Balcaen, Pascal Petit, Vincent Bonneterre, Christophe Cancé, Rachel Desailloud
To assess the incidence of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and acquired hypothyroidism (AH) between 2014 and 2019 in continental France. New cases of CH and AH were identified using the French National Health Data System ( SNDS). Temporal trends were studied using linear regression models. Spatial distributions were studied using Moran's global index (I) and the statistical method and local indicators
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Multimorbidity among the Indigenous population: A systematic review and meta-analysis Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 KM Shahunja, Tolassa W Ushula, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Sanghamitra Pati, Abdullah A. Mamun
Multimorbidity, the concurrent presence of multiple chronic health conditions in an individual, represents a mounting public health challenge. Chronic illnesses are prevalent in the Indigenous populations, which contributes to multimorbidity. However, the epidemiology of multimorbidity in this population is not well studied. This review aimed to elucidate the extent, determinants, consequences, and
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Childhood sleep is prospectively associated with adolescent alcohol and marijuana use Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Akshay S. Krishnan, David A. Reichenberger, Stephen M. Strayer, Lindsay Master, Michael A. Russell, Orfeu M. Buxton, Lauren Hale, Anne-Marie Chang
Prior studies have examined the cross-sectional relationship between adolescent sleep and substance use; however, fewer have explored the long-term connections between childhood sleep and adolescent substance use. This study investigated both cross-sectional associations during adolescence and prospective associations between childhood weeknight sleep and later alcohol and marijuana use in the Future
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Parenthood and the physical and mental health of sexual and gender minority parents: A cross-sectional, observational analysis from The PRIDE Study Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Diana M. Tordoff, Mitchell R. Lunn, Ava Snow, Brent Monseur, Annesa Flentje, Micah E. Lubensky, Zubin Dastur, Debra Kaysen, Stephanie A. Leonard, Juno Obedin-Maliver
To compare the physical and mental health of sexual and gender minority (SGM) parents to SGM non-parents. A cross-sectional analysis using 2018–2020 data from The PRIDE Study, a national longitudinal cohort of SGM adults. We used Poisson regression adjusted for age, gender, relationship status, race/ethnicity, household income, and education to assess the association between parental status and each
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Racial disparities in death of someone close during pregnancy: Findings from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 2017–2021 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Krista P. Woodward MPH MSW, Alexander Testa PhD, Dylan B. Jackson PhD
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the mortality rate in the U.S. and exposed many to the unexpected death of someone close. No prior research has assessed whether the COVID-19 pandemic was followed by an increase in bereavement during pregnancy, and whether patterns varied by race and ethnicity. Using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System from 2017–2021 across 23 U.S. sites (N = 107
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Time trends of the association of body mass index with mortality in 3.5 million young Swedish adults Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Innocent B. Mboya, Josef Fritz, Marisa da Silva, Ming Sun, Jens Wahlström, Patrik K.E. Magnusson, Sven Sandin, Weiyao Yin, Stefan Söderberg, Nancy L. Pedersen, Ylva Trolle Lagerros, Bright I. Nwaru, Hannu Kankaanranta, Abbas Chabok, Jerzy Leppert, Helena Backman, Linnea Hedman, Karolin Isaksson, Karl Michaëlsson, Christel Häggström, Tanja Stocks
We investigated time trends of the obesity-mortality association, accounting for age, sex, and cause-specific deaths. We analysed pooled nationwide data in Sweden for 3,472,310 individuals aged 17–39 years at baseline in 1963–2016. Cox regression and flexible parametric survival models investigated BMI-mortality associations in sub-groups of sex and baseline calendar years (men: <1975, 1975–1985, ≥1985
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COVID-19 vaccination initiation and completion in a multicenter cohort study of insured US transgender and cisgender adults Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Meron Siira, Darios Getahun, Michael J. Silverberg, Vin Tangpricha, Michael Goodman, Howa Yeung
Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people may have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet little is known about vaccination status in this population. This multicenter cohort study of insured adults examined the rates of COVID-19 vaccine initiation and completion in TGD persons compared to matched cisgender persons. A cohort of TGD persons and matched cisgender persons enrolled
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Interpregnancy weight change and neonatal and infant outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 José Alberto Martínez-Hortelano, Patricia Blázquez González, Inmaculada Concepción Rodríguez-Rojo, Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Sergio Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo, Irene Sequí-Domínguez, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno, Carlos Berlanga-Macías
To synthesize evidence regarding the association between interpregnancy weight change (IPWC) in consecutive pregnancies and neonatal or infant outcomes in the subsequent pregnancy. Search strategy was implemented in MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus and Cochrane Library from their inception to 13 November 2023. The most adjusted odds ratio (OR) or risk ratio estimates provided by original studies
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Comparison of sociodemographic factors, healthcare utilisation by general practitioner visits, somatic hospital admissions, and medication use in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Mette Bliddal, Emma Bjørk, Øystein Karlstad, Jonas W. Wastesson, Rikke Wesselhoeft, Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen, Anton Pottegård, Maarten Jan Wensink, Lotte Rasmussen
The healthcare systems in Scandinavia inform nationwide registers and the Scandinavian populations are increasingly combined in research. We aimed to compare Norway (NO), Sweden (SE), and Denmark (DK) regarding sociodemographic factors and healthcare. In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed aggregated data from the nationwide Scandinavian registers. We calculated country-specific statistics on sociodemographic
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Using GPS-defined venue-based affiliation networks among Black sexually minoritized men and transgender women to identify locations for HIV prevention interventions Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Yen-Tyng Chen, Cho-Hee Shrader, Dustin T. Duncan, Abby E. Rudolph, Seann D. Regan, Byoungjun Kim, Jade Pagkas-Bather, Justin Knox, Kayo Fujimoto, John A. Schneider
HIV biomedical intervention uptake is suboptimal among Black sexually minoritized men (SMM) and transgender women (TW). Venues where people meet and interact shape HIV-related risk and prevention behaviors. We aimed to construct GPS-defined venue-based affiliation networks and identify the unique set of venues that could maximize reach of HIV biomedical interventions among Black SMM and TW. We used
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When in the lifecourse? Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and biological health score Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Meena Kumari
Educational attainment is associated with multiphysiological wear and tear. However, associations with measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) across different life-stages are not established. Using regression models and data from 8105 participants from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (, we examined associations of lifecourse SEP with an overall biological health score (BHS). BHS is broader than
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Breastfeeding and behavioral problems in five-year-old Japanese children: The Kyushu Okinawa Maternal and Child Health Study Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Wahyuni Lamma, Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka, Alifa Abdul Karim, Masashi Arakawa
This prebirth cohort study examined the relationship between breastfeeding duration and behavioral problems in five-year-old Japanese children. Study subjects were 1198 mother–child pairs. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Emotional, conduct, hyperactivity, and peer problems and low prosocial behavior were assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
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Comparative effectiveness of treatment approaches for early invasive breast cancer Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Yan Lu, Rachel J. Meadows, Aaron W. Gehr, Kalyani Narra, Jolonda Bullock, Bassam Ghabach, Rohit P. Ojha
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Does reversible postpartum contraception reduce the risk of pregnancy condition recurrence? A longitudinal claims-based study from Maine Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Katherine A. Ahrens, Kristin Palmsten, Heather S. Lipkind, Christina M. Ackerman-Banks, Charlie O. Grantham
To estimate the effect of reversible postpartum contraception use on the risk of recurrent pregnancy condition in the subsequent pregnancy and if this effect was mediated through lengthening the interpregnancy interval (IPI). We used data from the Maine Health Data Organization's Maine All Payer Claims dataset. Our study population was Maine women with a livebirth index pregnancy between 2007 and 2019
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Disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma incidence among Hispanic and non-Hispanic adults in Arizona: Trends between 2009-2017 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Kristin E. Morrill PhD, Patrick Wightman PhD MPP, Alejandro Cruz MS, Ken Batai PhD, Geoffrey D. Block MD MSc FACP, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu PhD, David O. Garcia PhD FACSM
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly lethal cancer with few treatment options available to patients. Most HCC cases in Arizona, a state with a high proportion of Hispanic adults, have not been included in recent reports of HCC incidence. This study describes trends in HCC incidence and stage at diagnosis among Arizona residents between 2009–2017 and reports on racial and ethnic disparities for
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Semiparametric g-computation for survival outcomes with time-fixed exposures: An illustration Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Jessie K. Edwards, Stephen R. Cole, Paul N. Zivich, Michael G. Hudgens, Tiffany L. Breger, Bonnie E. Shook-Sa
Generalized (g-) computation is a useful tool for causal inference in epidemiology. However, in settings when the outcome is a survival time subject to right censoring, the standard pooled logistic regression approach to g-computation requires arbitrary discretization of time, parametric modeling of the baseline hazard function, and the need to expand one’s dataset. We illustrate a semiparametric Breslow
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Associations between sexual identity stigma and positive sexual identity, and depression among men who have sex with men in China: A mediation analysis using structural equation modelling Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Tianyi Zhou, Qiao Chen, Xiaoni Zhong
High levels of depression are common among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China, and there is limited research on the relationship between MSM stigma and depression. Guided by the psychological mediation framework, to explore the relationship between stigma and depression among MSM and how positive sexual identity plays a role in it, we tested this model whether: 1) enacted MSM stigma, perceived
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A longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 prevention strategies implemented among US K-12 public schools during the 2021-2022 school year Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Sarah Conklin PhD, Luke McConnell MS, Colleen Murray DrPH, Sanjana Pampati MPH, Catherine N. Rasberry PhD, Robert Stephens PhD, India Rose PhD, Lisa C. Barrios DrPH, Neha Kanade Cramer MPH, Sarah Lee PhD
Examine how school-based COVID-19 prevention strategy implementation varied over time, including by local characteristics. School administrators (n = 335) from a nationally representative sample of K-12 public schools completed four surveys assessing COVID-19 prevention strategies at two-month intervals between October 2021 and June 2022. We calculated weighted prevalence estimates by survey wave.
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Prospective associations between neighborhood features and body mass index in Montreal adolescents. Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Clémence Cavaillès, Tracie Ann Barnett, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Anna Smyrnova, Andrea Van Hulst, Jennifer O’Loughlin
To investigate the association between the neighborhood built environment and trajectories of body mass index (BMI) in youth. Data were collected in a prospective study of 1293 adolescents in Montreal. Built environment variables were obtained from public databases for road networks, land use, and the Canadian Census. Anthropometric data were collected when participants were ages 12.5, 15 and 17 years
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The physiological toll of arrests: An examination of arrest history on midlife allostatic load Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Katherine LeMasters, Alena Sorensen D'Alessio, Fatima Touma, Nafeesa Andrabi, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Carmen Gutierrez
To understand how allostatic load – cumulative physiologic burden of stress – varies by amount and timing of arrests stratified by race/ethnicity and by sex. Using The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we calculated descriptive statistics and mean differences in bio-marker measured allostatic load by arrest history stratified by race/ethnicity and sex. One-third of participants
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Racial and ethnic minority status in country of birth modifies racial and ethnic disparities in influenza vaccination among New York City adults Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 John L. Croft, Chloe A. Teasdale, Sasha Fleary, Elizabeth A. Kelvin
Understanding the relationship between race/ethnicity, birthplace, and health outcomes is important for reducing health disparities. This study assessed the relationship between racial/ethnic identity and minority racial/ethnic status in country of birth on influenza vaccination among New York City (NYC) adults. Using 2015–2019 data from NYC’s Community Health Surveys, we assessed the association between
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Model-driven decision support: A community-based meta-implementation strategy to predict population impact Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Kimberly Johnson, Wouter Vermeer, Holly Hills, Lia Chin-Purcell, Joshua T. Barnett, Timothy Burns, Marianne J. Dean, C. Hendricks Brown
Standard tools for public health decision making such as data dashboards, trial repositories, and intervention briefs may be necessary but insufficient for guiding community leaders in optimizing local public health strategy. Predictive modeling decision support tools may be the missing link that allows community level decision makers to confidently direct funding and other resources to interventions
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Population-based denominators matter: Bias in U.S. Virgin Islands COVID-19 vaccination coverage under changing population counts Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Katie Labgold, Hannah M. Cranford, Lisa L. Ekpo, Valerie V. Mac, Joseph Roth Jr, Monife Stout, Esther M. Ellis
The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) receives an updated population count once every 10 years and used 2010 decennial census population counts to estimate COVID-19 vaccination coverage during the COVID-19 emergency response. We investigated whether using outdated (2010) or modeled (2020 international database [IDB]) population counts biased vaccination coverage estimates used to inform public health priorities
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Cumulative remnant cholesterol burden increases the risk of cardiovascular disease among young adults Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Yi Wang, Yijun Zhang, Xiaonan Wang, Shuohua Chen, Xue Tian, Qin Xu, Xue Xia, Shouling Wu, Fen Liu, Anxin Wang
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Addressing bias in preterm birth research: The role of advanced imputation techniques for missing race and ethnicity in perinatal health data Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jihye Kim Scroggins, Ismael Ibrahim Hulchafo, Maxim Topaz, Kenrick Cato, Veronica Barcelona
To evaluate the effectiveness of Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) and Bayesian Improved First Name Surname Geocoding (BIFSG) in estimating race and ethnicity, and how they influence odds ratios for preterm birth. We analyzed hospital birth admission electronic health records (EHR) data (N = 9985). We created two simulation sets with 40 % of race and ethnicity data missing randomly or more
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Disparities in behaviors and experiences among transgender and cisgender high school students — 18 U.S. states, 2021 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Nicolas A. Suarez MPH, Izraelle I. McKinnon PhD, Kathleen H. Krause PhD, Catherine N. Rasberry PhD, Sanjana Pampati PhD, J. Michael Underwood PhD
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Screen use in transgender and gender-questioning adolescents: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jason M. Nagata, Priyadharshini Balasubramanian, Puja Iyra, Kyle T. Ganson, Alexander Testa, Jinbo He, David V. Glidden, Fiona C. Baker
To assess the association between transgender or gender-questioning identity and screen use (recreational screen time and problematic screen use) in a demographically diverse national sample of early adolescents in the U.S. We analyzed cross-sectional data from Year 3 of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD Study®, N = 9859, 2019–2021, mostly 12–13-years-old). Multiple linear regression
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Assessing reliability of naïve respondent-driven sampling samples by using repeated surveys among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New Jersey Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Peng Wang, Afework Wogayehu, Barbara Bolden, Abdel R. Ibrahim, Henry F. Raymond
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is widely used to sample populations with higher risk of HIV infection for whom no sampling frames exist. However, few studies have been done to assess the reliability of RDS in real world settings. We assessed the reliability of naïve RDS samples using five rounds of the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance – People Who Inject Drugs surveys in Newark, New Jersey from
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Police killings of unarmed Black persons and suicides among Black youth in the US: A national time-series analysis Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Geoffrey Carney-Knisely, Marquianna Griffin, Alaxandria Crawford, Kamesha Spates, Parvati Singh
Suicide deaths among Black youth in the US have increased rapidly over the past decade. Direct or vicarious racial trauma experienced through exposure to police brutality may underlie these concerning trends. We obtained nationally aggregated monthly counts of suicides for non-Hispanic Black and White youth (age ≤ 24 years) and adults (age > 24 years) from the National Mortality Vital Statistics restricted-use
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Using decision tree models and comprehensive statewide data to predict opioid overdoses following prison release Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Kristina Yamkovoy, Prasad Patil, Devon Dunn, Elizabeth Erdman, Dana Bernson, Pallavi Aytha Swathi, Samantha K. Nall, Yanjia Zhang, Jianing Wang, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Katherine H. LeMasters, Laura F. White, Joshua A. Barocas
Identifying predictors of opioid overdose following release from prison is critical for opioid overdose prevention. We leveraged an individually linked, state-wide database from 2015–2020 to predict the risk of opioid overdose within 90 days of release from Massachusetts state prisons. We developed two decision tree modeling schemes: a model fit on all individuals with a single weight for those that
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Trends in RSV testing patterns among infants presenting with bronchiolitis: Results from four United States health systems, 2015-2023 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Adam Z. Blatt MD PhD, Mina Suh MPH, Emmanuel B. Walter Jr MD MPH, Charles T. Wood MD, Claudia Espinosa MD, Maria E. Enriquez-Bruce MD, Joseph Domachowske MD, Danielle Daniels MD, Sonia Budhecha MD, Amanda Elliott, Zachary Wolf MBA MS, Emory B. Waddell, Naimisha Movva MPH, Heidi Reichert MA, Jon P. Fryzek PhD MPH, Christopher B. Nelson PhD MPH
Bronchiolitis due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization among American infants. The overall burden of RSV among infants has been historically under-estimated due to variable testing practices, particularly in the outpatient setting. Universal masking and social distancing implemented during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic altered RSV seasonality
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Person-centered hospital discharge data: Essential existing infrastructure to enhance public health surveillance of maternal substance use disorders in the midst of a national maternal overdose crisis Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Rohan R. D’Souza, Hannah LF Cooper, Howard H. Chang, Erin Rogers, Simone Wien, Sarah C. Blake, Michael R. Kramer
As crises of drug-related maternal harms escalate, US public health surveillance capacity remains suboptimal for drug-related maternal morbidities. Most state hospital discharge databases (HDDs) are -based, and thus limit ascertainment of morbidities to delivery visits and ignoring those occurring during the 21 months spanning pregnancy and postpartum year. This study analyzes data from a state that
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Association between glycemic status and the risk of gastric cancer in pre/peri-and postmenopausal women: A nationwide cohort study Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Kyung Hee Han, Yoon Jin Choi, Tae Il Kim, Noh Hyun Park, Kyung-do Han, Dong Ho Lee
This study aimed to assess the correlation between glycemic status (prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus) and the risk of gastric cancer according to menopausal status. A total of 982,559 pre/peri-menopausal and 1445,419 postmenopausal women aged ≥ 40, who underwent the Korean national health screening in 2009, were included and followed up until 2018. Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval
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Epidemiological approaches to multivariable models of health inequity: A study of race, rurality, and occupation during the COVID-19 pandemic Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Hannah Zadeh, Michaela Curran, Nicole Del Castillo, Carol Morales, Kimberly Dukes, Denise Martinez, Jorge L. Salinas, Rachel Bryant, Matida Bojang, Martha L. Carvour
Methods for assessing the structural mechanisms of health inequity are not well established. This study applies a phased approach to modeling racial, occupational, and rural disparities on the county level. Rural counties with disparately high rates of COVID-19 incidence or mortality were randomly paired with in-state control counties with the same rural-urban continuum code. Analysis was restricted
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A social acceptability scale: Validation in the context of government measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Andrainolo Ravalihasy, Adama Faye, Amadou Ibra Diallo, Ibrahima Gaye, Valéry Ridde
In March 2020, the government of Senegal introduced a curfew, a ban on travel between regions, the closure of markets, and a ban on attending places of worship to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of research into the response to COVID-19, we developed a scale to measure the social acceptability of these measures. We used Sekhon's theoretical framework of acceptability (TFA) to formulate
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Risk of congenital anomalies in children who have a sibling with cancer: A matched cohort study Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Nathalie Auger, Émilie Brousseau, Nahantara Lafleur, Laura Arbour
We assessed the risk of congenital anomalies in children who have a sibling with cancer. We performed a matched cohort study of children born between 2006 and 2022 in Quebec. The exposure was having a sibling with cancer. Exposed children were matched to unexposed children based on sex, number of siblings, birth order, and year. The outcome included heart defects, orofacial clefts, and other anomalies
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Adjustment for duration of employment in occupational epidemiology Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Yeji Ko, Sara C. Howard, Ashley P. Golden, Benjamin French
In occupational epidemiology, the healthy worker survivor effect can manifest as a time-dependent confounder because healthier workers can accrue greater amounts of exposure over longer periods of employment. For example, in occupational studies of radiation exposure that focus on cumulative annualized radiation dose, workers can accrue greater amounts of cumulative radiation exposure over longer periods
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Childhood obesity's influence on socioeconomic disparities in young adolescents’ mental health Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Maria Gueltzow, Joost Oude Groeniger, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Pauline W. Jansen, Tanja A.J. Houweling, Frank J. van Lenthe
We investigated whether socioeconomic inequalities in young adolescents’ mental health are partially due to the unequal distribution of childhood obesity across socioeconomic positions (SEP), i.e. differential exposure, or due to the effect of obesity on mental health being more detrimental among certain SEPs, i.e. differential impact. We studied 4660 participants of the Generation R study, a population-based
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Strategies to increase survey participation: A randomized controlled study in a population of breast cancer survivors Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jonathan Spoor, Marie-Jeanne T.F.D. Vrancken Peeters, Hester S.A. Oldenburg, Eveline M.A. Bleiker, Flora E. van Leeuwen
Data collection by mailing questionnaires to the study population is one of the main research methods in epidemiologic studies. As participation rates are decreasing, easy-to-implement and cost-effective strategies to increase survey participation are needed. In this study, we tested the effect of a pragmatic combination of evidence-based interventions. We conducted a two-armed randomized controlled
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Participant attrition from statewide, population-based Survey of the Health of Wisconsin into the longitudinal SHOW COVID-19 cohort Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Amy A. Schultz, Erin Nelson-Bakkum, Maria Nikodemova, Sarah Luongo, Jodi H. Barnet, Matthew C. Walsh, Andrew Bersch, Ajay Sethi, Paul Peppard, Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Corinne D. Engelman, Julia Lubsen, Tarakee Jackson, Kristen MC Malecki
Longitudinal studies are essential for examining how social and institutional determinants of health, historical and contemporary, affect disparities in COVID-19 related outcomes. The unequal impacts of COVID-19 likely exacerbated selected attrition in longitudinal research. This study examines attrition and survey mode effects in the SHOW COVID-19 study which recruited from a statewide, representative
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Social vulnerability and traumatic brain injury hospitalizations from sports and recreation among pediatric patients in the United States Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Oluwatosin Ogunmayowa, Alicia Lozano, Alexandra Hanlon, Frederick Paige, Natalie Cook, Charlotte Baker
This study examined the associations between individual as well as neighborhood social vulnerability and sports and recreation-related traumatic brain injury () hospitalizations among pediatric patients in the U.S. We obtained 2009, 2010 and 2011 hospitalization data in the U.S. from the National Inpatient Sample () database, linked it to 2010 neighborhood social vulnerability index () data from the
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Prevalence and secular trends in premetabolic syndrome in the United States: Findings from 1999-2020 nationally representative data of adults Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Oluwatomi Amuda, Bryan O. Okosun, Hodan Abdi, Ike S. Okosun
Although Premetabolic syndrome (PeMetSyn) is a precursor for metabolic syndrome (MetSyn), its prevalence and trends are unknown. This study examined the prevalence and trends in PreMetSyn and its association with sociodemographic risk factors in American adults. The 1999–2000 to 2017–2020 United States National Health and Nutritional Health Surveys (NHANES) data were used. PreMetSyn was defined as
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Association between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and offspring epigenetic aging at 3-5 weeks Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alonzo T. Folger, Lili Ding, Kimberly Yolton, Robert T. Ammerman, Hong Ji, Jennifer R. Frey, Katherine A. Bowers
Epigenetic clocks are emerging as tools for assessing acceleration and deceleration of biological age during childhood. Maternal depression during pregnancy may affect the biological aging of offspring and related development. In a low-income cohort of mother-child dyads, we investigated the relationship between prenatal maternal depressive symptoms and infant epigenetic age residuals, which represent
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Associations of U.S. hospital closure (2007-2018) with area socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic composition Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Elizabeth L. Tung, Joseph D. Bruch, Marshall H. Chin, Maxwell Menconi, Monica E. Peek, Elbert S. Huang
To examine whether hospital closure is associated with high levels of area socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic minority composition. Pooled cross-sectional analysis (2007–2018) of 6467 U.S. hospitals from the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey, comparing hospital population characteristics of closed hospitals to all remaining open hospitals. We used multilevel mixed-effects logistic
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Restrictive abortion legislation and adverse mental health during pregnancy and postpartum Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sarah McKetta, Payal Chakraborty, Catherine Gimbrone, Kodiak R.S. Soled, Tabor Hoatson, Ariel L. Beccia, Colleen A. Reynolds, Aimee K. Huang, Brittany M. Charlton
To determine the impact of abortion legislation on mental health during pregnancy and postpartum and assess whether pregnancy intention mediates associations. We quantified associations between restrictive abortion laws and stress, depression symptoms during and after pregnancy, and depression diagnoses after pregnancy using longitudinal data from Nurses’ Health Study 3 in 2010–2017 (4091 participants
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Diversity within epidemiology training programs and the public health workforce Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jan M. Eberth, Yvonne L. Michael, Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Reneé H. Moore
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The impact of COVID-19 vaccination prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection on prevalence of long COVID among a population-based probability sample of Michiganders, 2020-2022 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Colleen MacCallum-Bridges, Jana L. Hirschtick, Akash Patel, Robert C. Orellana, Michael R. Elliott, Nancy L. Fleischer
To estimate the association between COVID-19 vaccination status at the time of COVID-19 onset and long COVID prevalence. We used data from the Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study, a population-based probability sample of adults with COVID-19 (n = 4695). We considered 30-day and 90-day long COVID (illness duration ≥30 or ≥90 days, respectively), using Poisson regression to estimate prevalence
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Estimating the mortality risk correcting for high loss to follow-up among female sex workers with HIV in Durban, South Africa, 2018-2021 Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sita Lujintanon, Harry Hausler, Carly Comins, Mfezi Mcingana, Lillian Shipp, Deliwe Rene Phetlhu, Siyanda Makama, Vijayanand Guddera, Sharmistha Mishra, Stefan Baral, Sheree Schwartz
This study assesses risk factors of loss to follow-up (LTFU) and estimates mortality risk among female sex workers (FSW) with HIV in Durban, South Africa, in 2018–2021. We used data from the trial, which evaluated strategies for improved viral suppression. FSW with HIV aged ≥ 18 years with viral load ≥ 50 copies/mL were followed up for 18 months. LTFU was defined as absence from study or intervention
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Secondhand smoke exposure can increase the risk of first ischemic stroke: A 10.7-year prospective cohort study in China Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rumei Lu, Yulu Qin, Changping Xie, Xiaoping Tan, Tingping Zhu, Jinxue Tan, Sisi Wang, Jiajia Liang, Zhongshu Qin, Rong Pan, Pei Pei, Dianjianyi Sun, Li Su, Jian Lan
Passive smoking is considered a major public health issue in China. Prospective evidence regarding the link between secondhand smoke (SHS) and ischemic stroke in China is scarce. The China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study in Liuzhou City recruited 50,174 participants during 2004–2008. Of these 30,456 never-smokers were included in our study. The median follow-up period was 10.7 years. The incidence of
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Transactional sex among adults accessing sexual health services in Alabama, 2008–2022: Prevalence, associated risk factors, and associations with HIV, HCV, and STI diagnosis Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Kaitlyn Atkins, Josh Bruce, Emma Sophia Kay, Karen Musgrove, Polly Kellar, Sarah MacCarthy
The U.S. Deep South bears a disproportionate burden of HIV and other STIs. Transactional sex may influence these epidemics, but few studies have estimated its prevalence or correlates in the Deep South. We estimated the history of transactional sex among adults accessing an Alabama AIDS Service Organization from 2008–2022, using chi-square tests to examine its sociodemographic and behavioral correlates
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Mediation of the association between depression and coronary heart disease by metabolic syndrome components Ann. Epidemiol. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Meghan L. Smith, Bizu Gelaye, Alexander C. Tsai, Jaimie L. Gradus
Depression is associated with incident coronary heart disease (CHD) via a pathway that may be causal, but the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear. We assessed the extent to which metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components (i.e., elevated waist circumference, low high-density lipoprotein [HDL] cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood pressure, and elevated fasting plasma