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Prevalence of congenital heart defects in people with Down syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background The prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHD) in Down syndrome (DS) varies considerably across studies (from 16 ...
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Diagnosis-specific sick leave as a long-term predictor of disability pension: a 13-year follow-up of the GAZEL cohort study
Background Factors that increase the risk of labour market exclusion are poorly understood. In this study, we examined the extent to which all-cause and diagnosis-specific sick leave predict ...
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Effect of social support on memory ageing of middle-aged and older cancer survivors: a marginal structural modelling approach
Background While social support is associated with better cognitive health among cancer-free individuals, this relationship is understudied among cancer survivors. We investigated whether overall ...
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Ethnic group, socioeconomic position and pregnancy outcome: a mediation model through latent class
Background Preterm birth (PTB) and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) disproportionately affect women who are Black or Asian. Structural racism produces health inequalities. Identifying latent ...
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A primary healthcare-based intervention to improve a Danish cervical cancer screening programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Background: The proportion of non-attenders in cervical cancer screening is high, and should be minimised. A targeted invitation to women not participating for the last 5 years in cervical screening ...
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Biochemical markers of smoke absorption and self reported exposure to passive smoking.
One hundred non-smoking patients attending hospital outpatient clinics reported their degree of passive exposure to tobacco smoke over the preceding three days and provided samples of blood, expired ...
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Economic determinants of diet in older adults: systematic review
Background and aims Many economic factors are associated with diet, yet the evidence is generally cross-sectional. Older people are considered especially vulnerable to poor diets from negative changes ...
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Global inequity of COVID-19 diagnostics: challenges and opportunities
Correspondence to Dr Shanti Narayanasamy, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; shanti.narayanasamy{at}duke.edu Diagnostics for COVID-19 have ...
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Association of mortality with high temperatures in a temperate climate: England and Wales
Correspondence to Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ben.armstrong{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background It is well known that high ambient ...
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Mechanistic causality and counterfactual-manipulative causality: recent insights from philosophy of science
Current epidemiological and statistical theory about research methods and how to elicit causation from epidemiological studies is strongly influenced by counterfactual-manipulative thinking. However, ...
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Socioeconomic differences in childhood growth trajectories: at what age do height inequalities emerge?
2 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Dr Laura D Howe, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, ...