Search Results - "ARAH, ONYEBUCHI A."

Bias Formulas for Sensitivity Analysis of Unmeasured Confounding for General Outcomes, Treatments, and Confounders by VanderWeele, Tyler J., Arah, Onyebuchi A.

“…Uncontrolled confounding in observational studies gives rise to biased effect estimates. Sensitivity analysis techniques can be useful in assessing the…”
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Bias from conditioning on live birth in pregnancy cohorts: an illustration based on neurodevelopment in children after prenatal exposure to organic pollutants by Liew, Zeyan, Olsen, Jørn, Cui, Xin, Ritz, Beate, Arah, Onyebuchi A

“…Only 60-70% of fertilized eggs may result in a live birth, and very early fetal loss mainly goes unnoticed. Outcomes that can only be ascertained in live-born…”
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Air pollution, noise exposure, and metabolic syndrome – A cohort study in elderly Mexican-Americans in Sacramento area by Yu, Yu, Paul, Kimberly, Arah, Onyebuchi A., Mayeda, Elizabeth Rose, Wu, Jun, Lee, Eunice, Shih, I-Fan, Su, Jason, Jerrett, Michael, Haan, Mary, Ritz, Beate

“…•Metabolic syndrome is prodromal to many diseases of aging.•Prevalence of metabolic syndrome is increasing especially among Mexican-Americans.•Few longitudinal…”
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Development and validation of a prediction equation for body fat percentage from measured BMI: a supervised machine learning approach by Xu, Shiming, Nianogo, Roch A., Jaga, Seema, Arah, Onyebuchi A.

“…Body mass index is a widely used but poor predictor of adiposity in populations with excessive fat-free mass. Rigorous predictive models validated specifically…”
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Occupational Physical Activity and 20-year Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study by Krause, Niklas, Brand, Richard J, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Kauhanen, Jussi

“…Objectives This study aimed to assess the effects of physically demanding work – measured as energy expenditure (EE) during occupational physical activities…”
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Forecasting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence and Burden: The ViLA-Obesity Simulation Model by Nianogo, Roch A, Arah, Onyebuchi A

“…Obesity is a major public health problem affecting millions of Americans and is considered one of the most potent risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Assessing…”
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Comparing Mortality of Peritoneal and Hemodialysis Patients in the First 2 Years of Dialysis Therapy: A Marginal Structural Model Analysis by Lukowsky, Lilia R, Mehrotra, Rajnish, Kheifets, Leeka, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Nissenson, Allen R, Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar

“…There are conflicting research results about the survival differences between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, especially during the first 2 years of…”
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Effort‐reward imbalance and ambulatory blood pressure among female Las Vegas hotel room cleaners by Feaster, Matthew, Arah, Onyebuchi A., Krause, Niklas

“…Background Effort‐reward imbalance (ERI) was hypothesized to be associated with ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) and pulse pressure (PP) among female hotel room…”
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Generalizability and Transportability of the National Lung Screening Trial Data: Extending Trial Results to Different Populations by Inoue, Kosuke, Hsu, William, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Prosper, Ashley E, Aberle, Denise R, Bui, Alex A T

“…Randomized controlled trials (RCT) play a central role in evidence-based healthcare. However, the clinical and policy implications of implementing RCTs in…”
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G-computation of average treatment effects on the treated and the untreated by Wang, Aolin, Nianogo, Roch A, Arah, Onyebuchi A

“…Average treatment effects on the treated (ATT) and the untreated (ATU) are useful when there is interest in: the evaluation of the effects of treatments or…”
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Cancers Preceding Parkinson's Disease after Adjustment for Bias in a Danish Population-Based Case-Control Study by Cui, Xin, Liew, Zeyan, Hansen, Johnni, Lee, Pei-Chen, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Ritz, Beate

“…Cancer patients are at lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD) compared with the general population. One explanation is the negative association…”
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Selection bias modeling using observed data augmented with imputed record-level probabilities by Thompson, Caroline A., PhD, MPH, Arah, Onyebuchi A., PhD, MPH

“…Abstract Purpose Selection bias is a form of systematic error that can be severe in compromised study designs such as case-control studies with inappropriate…”
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Change in clinical practice variations for antibiotic prescriptions across different pediatric clinics: A Japan's nationwide observational study by Okubo, Yusuke, Nariai, Hiroki, Michels, Karin B., Kim-Farley, Robert J., Nishi, Akihiro, Arah, Onyebuchi A., Kinoshita, Noriko, Uda, Kazuhiro, Miyairi, Isao

“…BACKGROUNDIn 2016, the Japanese government set the National Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance to reduce antibiotic prescriptions. However, the trends and…”
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Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study by Gaml-Sørensen, Anne, Brix, Nis, Hærvig, Katia Keglberg, Lindh, Christian, Tøttenborg, Sandra Søgaard, Hougaard, Karin Sørig, Høyer, Birgit Bjerre, Ernst, Andreas, Arendt, Linn Håkonsen, Clemmensen, Pernille Jul, Bonde, Jens Peter Ellekilde, Henriksen, Tine Brink, Toft, Gunnar, Arah, Onyebuchi A., Ramlau-Hansen, Cecilia Høst

“…Maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy may be important for reproductive health in male offspring by regulating cell proliferation and differentiation…”
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A conceptual framework for the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project by Arah, Onyebuchi A., Westert, Gert P., Hurst, Jeremy, Klazinga, Niek S.

“…Issues. The Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is aimed at developing a…”
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Measuring professionalism in medicine and nursing: results of a European survey by Lombarts, Kiki M J M H, Plochg, Thomas, Thompson, Caroline A, Arah, Onyebuchi A

“…Leveraging professionalism has been put forward as a strategy to drive improvement of patient care. We investigate professionalism as a factor influencing the…”
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Socioeconomic inequalities in children’s weight, height and BMI trajectories in Norway by Mekonnen, Teferi, Papadopoulou, Eleni, Arah, Onyebuchi A., Brantsæter, Anne Lise, Lien, Nanna, Gebremariam, Mekdes K.

“…Studies exploring when social inequalities in body mass index (BMI) and its composites emerge and how these evolve with age are limited. Thus, this study…”
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Mediating roles of preterm birth and restricted fetal growth in the relationship between maternal education and infant mortality: A Danish population-based cohort study by Yu, Yongfu, Liew, Zeyan, Wang, Aolin, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Li, Jialiang, Olsen, Jørn, Cnattingius, Sven, Qin, Guoyou, Obel, Carsten, Fu, Bo, Li, Jiong

“…Socioeconomic disparities in infant mortality have persisted for decades in high-income countries and may have become stronger in some populations. Therefore,…”
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Measuring social capital of hospital management boards in European hospitals: A validation study on psychometric properties of a questionnaire for Chief Executive Officers by Hammer, Antje, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Mannion, Russell, Groene, Oliver, Sunol, Rosa, Pfaff, Holger, Choi, Kyung-Eun

“…Abstract Background The commitment of hospital managers plays a key role in decisions regarding investments in quality improvement (QI) and the implementation…”
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A systematic review of the effects of residency training on patient outcomes by van der Leeuw, Renée M, Lombarts, Kiki M J M H, Arah, Onyebuchi A, Heineman, Maas Jan

“…Residents are vital to the clinical workforce of today and tomorrow. Although in training to become specialists, they also provide much of the daily patient…”
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