Search Results - "Hense, Hans‐Werner"
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Isolating the effect of confounding from the observed survival benefit of screening participants - a methodological approach illustrated by data from the German mammography screening programme
Published in BMC medicine (30-01-2024)“…Mammography screening programmes (MSP) aim to reduce breast cancer mortality by shifting diagnoses to earlier stages. However, it is difficult to evaluate the…”
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The Phenotypic Course of Age-Related Macular Degeneration for ARMS2/HTRA1: The EYE-RISK Consortium
Published in Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.) (01-07-2022)“…Age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2 (ARMS2) is considered the most enigmatic of the genes for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We investigated the…”
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Long-term pattern of brain natriuretic peptide and N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide and its determinants in the general population: contribution of age, gender, and cardiac and extra-cardiac factors
Published in European journal of heart failure (01-08-2013)“…Aims The natriuretic peptides BNP and NT‐proBNP are potent cardiac markers, but knowledge of long‐term changes is sparse. We thus quantified determinants of…”
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Bed Sharing and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Can We Resolve the Debate?
Published in The Journal of pediatrics (2012)“…Objective To conduct a meta-analysis on the relationship between bed sharing and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk. Study design Data from PubMed and…”
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A cohort study of mammography screening finds that comorbidity measures are insufficient for controlling selection bias
Published in Journal of clinical epidemiology (01-12-2018)“…To examine the potential of claims-based comorbidity measures for controlling selection bias in observational studies of mammography screening. Based on claims…”
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Association of lipid-lowering drugs and antidiabetic drugs with age-related macular degeneration: a meta-analysis in Europeans
Published in British journal of ophthalmology (01-12-2023)“…To investigate the association of commonly used systemic medications with prevalent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the general population. We…”
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Decision aid and cost compensation influence uptake of PSA-based early detection without affecting decisional conflict: a cluster randomised trial
Published in Scientific reports (06-12-2021)“…International guidelines recommend to inform men about the benefits and harms of prostate specific antigen (PSA) based early detection of prostate cancer. This…”
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Incidence of advanced-stage breast cancer in regular participants of a mammography screening program: a prospective register-based study
Published in BMC cancer (04-03-2020)“…The European Guidelines for breast cancer screening suggest that the impact of population-based mammography screening programmes (MSP) may be assessed using…”
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Are there sustained psychological impacts in women diagnosed with in-situ or early invasive breast cancers?
Published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health (16-01-2023)“…The detection of a ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS) or an early invasive breast cancer (EIBC), particularly by population-wide mammography-screening-programs,…”
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The ringlike structure of macular pigment in age-related maculopathy: results from the Muenster Aging and Retina Study (MARS)
Published in Investigative ophthalmology & visual science (11-10-2011)“…The role of macular pigment (MP) in age-related maculopathy (ARM) is still not clearly understood. Recent studies have reported on variations in the spatial…”
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Digital breast tomosynthesis plus synthesised images versus standard full-field digital mammography in population-based screening (TOSYMA): protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Published in BMJ open (14-05-2018)“…IntroductionDevelopment of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) provides a technology that generates three-dimensional data sets, thus reducing the pitfalls of…”
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Determinants of macular pigment optical density and its relation to age-related maculopathy: results from the Muenster Aging and Retina Study (MARS)
Published in Investigative ophthalmology & visual science (01-06-2011)“…The controversial protective effect of macular pigment (MP), consisting of lutein (L) and zeaxantin (Z), in age-related maculopathy (ARM) and its late-stage,…”
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The association of retinal structure and macular pigment distribution
Published in Investigative ophthalmology & visual science (26-02-2014)“…Macular pigment optical density (MPOD) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are thought to be associated; however, the details are not yet understood…”
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Comparing adaptive and fixed bandwidth-based kernel density estimates in spatial cancer epidemiology
Published in International journal of health geographics (31-03-2015)“…Monitoring spatial disease risk (e.g. identifying risk areas) is of great relevance in public health research, especially in cancer epidemiology. A common…”
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The contribution of genetic factors to phenotype and progression of drusen in early age-related macular degeneration
Published in Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology (01-08-2014)“…Purpose Genetic factors contribute to the development and progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We aimed to assess the association of drusen…”
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Ophthalmic epidemiology in Europe: the "European Eye Epidemiology" (E3) consortium
Published in European journal of epidemiology (01-02-2016)“…The European Eye Epidemiology (E3) consortium is a recently formed consortium of 29 groups from 12 European countries. It already comprises 21 populationbased…”
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Digital breast tomosynthesis plus synthesised mammography versus digital screening mammography for the detection of invasive breast cancer (TOSYMA): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, superiority trial
Published in The lancet oncology (01-05-2022)“…Two dimensional (2D) full-field digital mammography is the current standard of breast cancer screening. Digital breast tomosynthesis generates pseudo-three…”
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Association between degenerative aortic valve disease and long-term exposure to cardiovascular risk factors: results of the longitudinal population-based KORA/MONICA survey
Published in European heart journal (01-08-2009)“…Aims Degenerative aortic valve disease (DAVD), a common finding in the elderly, is associated with an increased risk of death due to cardiovascular causes…”
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Surrogate endpoints in breast cancer screening trials – Authors' reply
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Smoking history and the incidence of age-related macular degeneration—Results from the Muenster Aging and Retina Study (MARS) cohort and systematic review and meta-analysis of observational longitudinal studies
Published in Addictive behaviors (01-11-2009)“…Abstract To compare the association of smoking with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the Muenster Aging and Retina Study (MARS) cohort with current…”
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