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Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID-19 by Dror, Amiel A., Eisenbach, Netanel, Taiber, Shahar, Morozov, Nicole G., Mizrachi, Matti, Zigron, Asaf, Srouji, Samer, Sela, Eyal

“…Vaccine hesitancy remains a barrier to full population inoculation against highly infectious diseases. Coincident with the rapid developments of COVID-19…”
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Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications by Levin, Andrew T., Hanage, William P., Owusu-Boaitey, Nana, Cochran, Kensington B., Walsh, Seamus P., Meyerowitz-Katz, Gideon

“…Determine age-specific infection fatality rates for COVID-19 to inform public health policies and communications that help protect vulnerable age groups…”
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Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation by Carter, Alice R., Sanderson, Eleanor, Hammerton, Gemma, Richmond, Rebecca C., Davey Smith, George, Heron, Jon, Taylor, Amy E., Davies, Neil M., Howe, Laura D.

“…Mediation analysis seeks to explain the pathway(s) through which an exposure affects an outcome. Traditional, non-instrumental variable methods for mediation…”
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Principles of confounder selection by VanderWeele, Tyler J.

“…Selecting an appropriate set of confounders for which to control is critical for reliable causal inference. Recent theoretical and methodological developments…”
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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries by Skjefte, Malia, Ngirbabul, Michelle, Akeju, Oluwasefunmi, Escudero, Daniel, Hernandez-Diaz, Sonia, Wyszynski, Diego F., Wu, Julia W.

“…With the development of multiple effective vaccines, reducing the global morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 will depend on the distribution and acceptance of…”
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Interpreting findings from Mendelian randomization using the MR-Egger method by Burgess, Stephen, Thompson, Simon G.

“…Mendelian randomization-Egger (MR-Egger) is an analysis method for Mendelian randomization using summarized genetic data. MR-Egger consists of three parts: (1)…”
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Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis by Patterson, Richard, McNamara, Eoin, Tainio, Marko, de Sá, Thiago Hérick, Smith, Andrea D., Sharp, Stephen J., Edwards, Phil, Woodcock, James, Brage, Søren, Wijndaele, Katrien

“…Purpose: To estimate the strength and shape of the dose-response relationship between sedentary behaviour and all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and…”
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The longitudinal integrated database for health insurance and labour market studies (LISA) and its use in medical research by Ludvigsson, Jonas F., Svedberg, Pia, Olén, Ola, Bruze, Gustaf, Neovius, Martin

“…Education, income, and occupation are factors known to affect health and disease. In this review we describe the Swedish Longitudinal Integrated Database for…”
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Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy by Palamenghi, Lorenzo, Barello, Serena, Boccia, Stefania, Graffigna, Guendalina

“…Researchers have been working quickly and collaboratively for the development of vaccines against the COVID-19 virus. The effort of the scientific community in…”
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Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19 by Harrison, Emily A., Wu, Julia W.

“…In the early months of the COVID-19 epidemic, some have wondered if the force of this global experience will solve the problem of vaccine refusal that has…”
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Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study by Ikram, M. Arfan, Brusselle, Guy, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Goedegebure, André, Ikram, M. Kamran, Kavousi, Maryam, Kieboom, Brenda C. T., Klaver, Caroline C. W., de Knegt, Robert J., Luik, Annemarie I., Nijsten, Tamar E. C., Peeters, Robin P., van Rooij, Frank J. A., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, André G., Vernooij, Meike W., Voortman, Trudy

“…The Rotterdam Study is an ongoing prospective cohort study that started in 1990 in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The study aims to unravel etiology,…”
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‘Vaccine hesitancy’ among university students in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic by Barello, Serena, Nania, Tiziana, Dellafiore, Federica, Graffigna, Guendalina, Caruso, Rosario

“…The debate around vaccines has been in the spotlight over the last few years in Europe, both within the scientific community and the general public debate. In…”
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A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research by Muka, Taulant, Glisic, Marija, Milic, Jelena, Verhoog, Sanne, Bohlius, Julia, Bramer, Wichor, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Franco, Oscar H.

“…To inform evidence-based practice in health care, guidelines and policies require accurate identification, collation, and integration of all available evidence…”
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Anemia and iron metabolism in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Taneri, Petek Eylul, Gómez-Ochoa, Sergio Alejandro, Llanaj, Erand, Raguindin, Peter Francis, Rojas, Lyda Z., Roa-Díaz, Zayne Milena, Salvador, Dante, Groothof, Dion, Minder, Beatrice, Kopp-Heim, Doris, Hautz, Wolf E., Eisenga, Michele F., Franco, Oscar H., Glisic, Marija, Muka, Taulant

“…Iron metabolism and anemia may play an important role in multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We conducted a systematic…”
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Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations by Greenland, Sander, Senn, Stephen J., Rothman, Kenneth J., Carlin, John B., Poole, Charles, Goodman, Steven N., Altman, Douglas G.

“…Misinterpretation and abuse of statistical tests, confidence intervals, and statistical power have been decried for decades, yet remain rampant. A key problem…”
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Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank by Nøst, Therese Haugdahl, Alcala, Karine, Urbarova, Ilona, Byrne, Karl Smith, Guida, Florence, Sandanger, Torkjel Manning, Johansson, Mattias

“…Systemic inflammation markers have been linked to increased cancer risk and mortality in a number of studies. However, few studies have estimated…”
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The Swedish cause of death register by Brooke, Hannah Louise, Talbäck, Mats, Hörnblad, Jesper, Johansson, Lars Age, Ludvigsson, Jonas Filip, Druid, Henrik, Feychting, Maria, Ljung, Rickard

“…Sweden has a long tradition of recording cause of death data. The Swedish cause of death register is a high quality virtually complete register of all deaths…”
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Registers of the Swedish total population and their use in medical research by Ludvigsson, Jonas F., Almqvist, Catarina, Bonamy, Anna-Karin Edstedt, Ljung, Rickard, Michaëlsson, Karl, Neovius, Martin, Stephansson, Olof, Ye, Weimin

“…The primary aim of the Swedish national population registration system is to obtain data that (1) reflect the composition, relationship and identities of the…”
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Mendelian randomization with a binary exposure variable: interpretation and presentation of causal estimates by Burgess, Stephen, Labrecque, Jeremy A.

“…Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants to make causal inferences about a modifiable exposure. Subject to a genetic variant satisfying the instrumental…”
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Consumption of red meat and processed meat and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies by Farvid, Maryam S., Sidahmed, Elkhansa, Spence, Nicholas D., Mante Angua, Kingsly, Rosner, Bernard A., Barnett, Junaidah B.

“…Red meat and processed meat consumption has been hypothesized to increase risk of cancer, but the evidence is inconsistent. We performed a systematic review…”
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