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Causal diagrams for disease latency bias. 疾病潜伏期偏差的因果图。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae111

Mahyar Etminan, Ramin Rezaeianzadeh, Mohammad A Mansournia

{"title":"Causal diagrams for disease latency bias.","authors":"Mahyar Etminan, Ramin Rezaeianzadeh, Mohammad A Mansournia","doi":"10.1093/ije/dyae111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae111","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Disease latency is defined as the time from disease initiation to disease diagnosis. Disease latency bias (DLB) can arise in epidemiological studies that examine latent outcomes, since the exact timing of the disease inception is unknown and might occur before exposure initiation, potentially leading to bias. Although DLB can affect epidemiological studies that examine different types of chronic disease (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, cancer etc), the manner by which DLB can introduce bias into these studies has not been previously elucidated. Information on the specific types of bias, and their structure, that can arise secondary to DLB is critical for researchers, to enable better understanding and control for DLB.Development: Here we describe four scenarios by which DLB can introduce bias (through different structures) into epidemiological studies that address latent outcomes, using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). We also discuss potential strategies to better understand, examine and control for DLB in these studies.Application: Using causal diagrams, we show that disease latency bias can affect results of epidemiological studies through: (i) unmeasured confounding; (ii) reverse causality; (iii) selection bias; (iv) bias through a mediator.Conclusion: Disease latency bias is an important bias that can affect a number of epidemiological studies that address latent outcomes. Causal diagrams can assist researchers better identify and control for this bias.","PeriodicalId":14147,"journal":{"name":"International journal of epidemiology","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141975583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Association of conventional cigarette smoking, heated tobacco product use and dual use with hypertension. 传统吸烟、加热烟草制品使用和双重使用与高血压的关系。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae114

Huan Hu, Tohru Nakagawa, Toru Honda, Shuichiro Yamamoto, Tetsuya Mizoue

{"title":"Association of conventional cigarette smoking, heated tobacco product use and dual use with hypertension.","authors":"Huan Hu, Tohru Nakagawa, Toru Honda, Shuichiro Yamamoto, Tetsuya Mizoue","doi":"10.1093/ije/dyae114","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ije/dyae114","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Heated tobacco products (HTPs) have emerged as alternatives to conventional cigarettes. However, their health effects remain largely unknown. This study aimed to prospectively explore the association between the use of cigarettes and HTPs and the risk of hypertension.Methods: This cohort study analysed data from 30 152 workers (82.0% men, mean age 42.9 ± 11.0 years) who were initially free of hypertension, participating in the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study. Participants were categorized into five groups based on their self-reported tobacco product use: never smokers, past smokers, exclusive cigarette smokers, exclusive HTP users and dual users of cigarettes and HTPs. Hypertension cases were identified using three data points from annual health checkup data collected between 2019 and 2021. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to investigate the association between tobacco product use and hypertension.Results: During a mean follow-up of 2.6 years (range: 0.1-4.0 years), 3656 new cases of hypertension were identified. Compared with never smokers, the risk of hypertension was higher among exclusive cigarette smokers [hazard ratio (HR) 1.26, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.13-1.41] and exclusive HTP users (HR 1.19, 95% CI 1.06-1.34). There was also a suggestion of increased risk of hypertension among dual users (HR 1.16, 95% CI 0.98-1.38). Furthermore, the risk of hypertension increased with the intensity of cigarette/HTP use in all tobacco product users.Conclusions: Similarly, both cigarette smoking and HTP use elevate the risk of hypertension. HTPs should not be regarded as less harmful alternatives to traditional cigarettes for preventing hypertension.","PeriodicalId":14147,"journal":{"name":"International journal of epidemiology","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11341126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142035824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pregnancy complications and new-onset maternal autoimmune disease. 妊娠并发症和新发孕产妇自身免疫性疾病。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae115

Natalie V Scime, Sonia M Grandi, Joel G Ray, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Mary A De Vera, Hailey R Banack, Simone N Vigod, Alexa Boblitz, Hilary K Brown

{"title":"Pregnancy complications and new-onset maternal autoimmune disease.","authors":"Natalie V Scime, Sonia M Grandi, Joel G Ray, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Mary A De Vera, Hailey R Banack, Simone N Vigod, Alexa Boblitz, Hilary K Brown","doi":"10.1093/ije/dyae115","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ije/dyae115","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Autoimmune diseases disproportionately impact women and female-specific aspects of reproduction are thought to play a role. We investigated the time-varying association between pregnancy complications and new-onset autoimmune disease in females during the reproductive and midlife years.Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study of 1 704 553 singleton births to 1 072 445 females in Ontario, Canada (2002-17) with no pre-existing autoimmune disease. Pregnancy complications were preeclampsia, stillbirth, spontaneous preterm birth and severe small for gestational age (SGA). Royston-Parmar models were used to estimate the time-varying association between pregnancy complications and a composite of 25 autoimmune diseases from date of delivery to date of autoimmune disease diagnosis or censoring at death, loss of health insurance, or 31 March 2021. Models were adjusted for baseline socio-demographics, parity and comorbidities.Results: At 19 years (median = 10.9 years of follow-up), cumulative incidence of autoimmune disease was 3.1% in those with a pregnancy complication and 2.6% in those without complications. Adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) curves as a function of time since birth were generally L-shaped. Universally, risks were most elevated within the first 3 years after birth [at 1 year: preeclampsia AHR 1.22, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.09-1.36; stillbirth AHR 1.36, 95% CI 0.99-1.85; spontaneous preterm birth AHR 1.30, 95% CI 1.18-1.44; severe SGA AHR 1.14, 95% CI 0.99-1.31] and plateaued but remained elevated thereafter.Conclusions: Prior history of pregnancy complications may be an important female-specific risk factor to consider during clinical assessment of females for possible autoimmune disease to facilitate timely detection and treatment.","PeriodicalId":14147,"journal":{"name":"International journal of epidemiology","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11349189/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142080273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A cautionary note on the recently proposed ICE Falcon method. 关于最近提出的 ICE Falcon 方法的警示说明。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae131

Arvid Sjölander, Thomas Frisell

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Cohort Profile: The Pearl River Cohort Study. 队列简介：珠江队列研究。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae112

Ying Wang, Zhicheng Du, Wangjian Zhang, Xiaowen Wang, Xiao Lin, Yu Liu, Yu Deng, Dingmei Zhang, Jing Gu, Lin Xu, Yuantao Hao

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Midlife health in Britain and the United States: a comparison of two nationally representative cohorts. 英国和美国的中年健康状况：两个具有全国代表性的队列比较。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae127

Charis Bridger Staatz, Iliya Gutin, Andrea Tilstra, Laura Gimeno, Bettina Moltrecht, Dario Moreno-Agostino, Vanessa Moulton, Martina K Narayanan, Jennifer B Dowd, Lauren Gaydosh, George B Ploubidis

{"title":"Midlife health in Britain and the United States: a comparison of two nationally representative cohorts.","authors":"Charis Bridger Staatz, Iliya Gutin, Andrea Tilstra, Laura Gimeno, Bettina Moltrecht, Dario Moreno-Agostino, Vanessa Moulton, Martina K Narayanan, Jennifer B Dowd, Lauren Gaydosh, George B Ploubidis","doi":"10.1093/ije/dyae127","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ije/dyae127","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Older adults in the USA have worse health and wider socioeconomic inequalities in health compared with those in Britain. Less is known about how health in the two countries compares in mid-life, a time of emerging health decline, including inequalities in health.Methods: We compare measures of current regular smoking status, obesity, self-rated health, cholesterol, blood pressure and glycated haemoglobin using population-weighted modified Poisson regression in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) in Britain (N = 9665) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) in the USA (N = 12 300), when cohort members were aged 34-46 and 33-43, respectively. We test whether associations vary by early- and mid-life socioeconomic position.Results: US adults had higher levels of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Prevalence of poor self-rated health and current regular smoking was worse in Britain. We found smaller socioeconomic inequalities in mid-life health in Britain compared with the USA. For some outcomes (e.g. smoking), the most socioeconomically advantaged group in the USA was healthier than the equivalent group in Britain. For other outcomes (hypertension and cholesterol), the most advantaged US group fared equal to or worse than the most disadvantaged groups in Britain.Conclusions: US adults have worse cardiometabolic health than British counterparts, even in early mid-life. The smaller socioeconomic inequalities and better overall health in Britain may reflect differences in access to health care, welfare systems or other environmental risk factors.","PeriodicalId":14147,"journal":{"name":"International journal of epidemiology","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11446604/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142365182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Data Resource Profile: Add Health Mortality Outcomes Surveillance. 数据资源简介：添加健康死亡率结果监测。

IF 7.7 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae121

Elizabeth M Lawrence,Elyssa A Trani,Kurtis M Anthony,Robert A Hummer,Tiffany Jensen,Sylvie Tuder,Laura R Loehr,Kathleen Mullan Harris,Eric A Whitsel

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Food, health, and climate change: can epidemiologists contribute further? 食物、健康和气候变化：流行病学家能否做出进一步贡献？

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae109

Walter Willett, Marco Springmann

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Software application profile: tpc and micd-R packages for causal discovery with incomplete cohort data. 软件应用简介：利用不完整队列数据发现因果关系的 tpc 和 micd-R 软件包。

IF 6.4 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae113

Ryan M Andrews, Christine W Bang, Vanessa Didelez, Janine Witte, Ronja Foraita

{"title":"Software application profile: tpc and micd-R packages for causal discovery with incomplete cohort data.","authors":"Ryan M Andrews, Christine W Bang, Vanessa Didelez, Janine Witte, Ronja Foraita","doi":"10.1093/ije/dyae113","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ije/dyae113","url":null,"abstract":"Motivation: The Peter Clark (PC) algorithm is a popular causal discovery method to learn causal graphs in a data-driven way. Until recently, existing PC algorithm implementations in R had important limitations regarding missing values, temporal structure or mixed measurement scales (categorical/continuous), which are all common features of cohort data. The new R packages presented here, micd and tpc, fill these gaps.Implementation: micd and tpc packages are R packages.General features: The micd package provides add-on functionality for dealing with missing values to the existing pcalg R package, including methods for multiple imputations relying on the Missing At Random assumption. Also, micd allows for mixed measurement scales assuming conditional Gaussianity. The tpc package efficiently exploits temporal information in a way that results in a more informative output that is less prone to statistical errors.Availability: The tpc and micd packages are freely available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). Their source code is also available on GitHub (https://github.com/bips-hb/micd; https://github.com/bips-hb/tpc).","PeriodicalId":14147,"journal":{"name":"International journal of epidemiology","volume":"53 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11346914/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From heatwaves to food systems: epidemiologists addressing climate challenges. 从热浪到粮食系统：流行病学家应对气候挑战。

IF 7.7 2区医学

International journal of epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae117

Marina Treskova,Till Bärnighausen,Cássia Rocha Pompeu,Joacim Rocklöv

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