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Accountability Assessment of Health Improvements in the United States Associated with Reduced Coal Emissions Between 2005 and 2012 by Henneman, Lucas R F, Choirat, Christine, Zigler, and Corwin M

“…BACKGROUND:National, state, and local policies contributed to a 65% reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2012 in…”
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The Relationship Between Methamphetamine Use and Increased Dental Disease by Shetty, Vivek, DDS, DrMedDent, Mooney, Larissa J., MD, Zigler, Corwin M., MA, Belin, Thomas R., PhD, Murphy, Debra, PhD, Rawson, Richard, PhD

“…ABSTRACT Background Methamphetamine (MA) use has been linked anecdotally to rampant dental disease. The authors sought to determine the relative prevalence of…”
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Area variations in health: A spatial multilevel modeling approach by Arcaya, Mariana, Brewster, Mark, Zigler, Corwin M., Subramanian, S.V.

“…Both space and membership in geographically-embedded administrative units can produce variations in health, resulting in geographic clusters of good and poor…”
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Evaluating federal policies using Bayesian time series models: estimating the causal impact of the hospital readmissions reduction program by Papadogeorgou, Georgia, Menchetti, Fiammetta, Choirat, Christine, Wasfy, Jason H., Zigler, Corwin M., Mealli, Fabrizia

“…Researchers are often faced with evaluating the effect of a policy or program that was simultaneously initiated across an entire population of units at a…”
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Air pollution accountability of energy transitions: the relative importance of point source emissions and wind fields in exposure changes by Henneman, Lucas RF, Mickley, Loretta J, Zigler, Corwin M

“…Recent studies have sought epidemiological evidence of the effectiveness of energy transitions. Such evidence often relies on so-called 'natural experiments',…”
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Invited Commentary: The Promise and Pitfalls of Causal Inference With Multivariate Environmental Exposures by Zigler, Corwin M

“…The accompanying article by Keil et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2021;190(12):2647–2657) deploys Bayesian g-computation to investigate the causal effect of 6 airborne…”
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Causal inference with interfering units for cluster and population level treatment allocation programs by Papadogeorgou, Georgia, Mealli, Fabrizia, Zigler, Corwin M.

“…Interference arises when an individual's potential outcome depends on the individual treatment level, but also on the treatment level of others. A common…”
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Bipartite Causal Inference with Interference by Zigler, Corwin M, Papadogeorgou, Georgia

“…Statistical methods to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions are increasingly challenged by the inherent interconnectedness of units. Specifically, a…”
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Adjusting for unmeasured spatial confounding with distance adjusted propensity score matching by Papadogeorgou, Georgia, Choirat, Christine, Zigler, Corwin M

“…SUMMARY Propensity score matching is a common tool for adjusting for observed confounding in observational studies, but is known to have limitations in the…”
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Impact of National Ambient Air Quality Standards Nonattainment Designations on Particulate Pollution and Health by Zigler, Corwin M, Choirat, Christine, Dominici, Francesca

“…BACKGROUND:Despite dramatic air quality improvement in the United States over the past decades, recent years have brought renewed scrutiny and uncertainty…”
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Optimizing the development and evaluation of complex interventions: lessons learned from the BetterBirth Program and associated trial by Barnhart, Dale A, Semrau, Katherine E A, Zigler, Corwin M, Molina, Rose L, Delaney, Megan Marx, Hirschhorn, Lisa R, Spiegelman, Donna

“…Despite extensive efforts to develop and refine intervention packages, complex interventions often fail to produce the desired health impacts in full-scale…”
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The Role of Neighborhood Air Pollution in Disparate Racial and Ethnic Asthma Acute Care Use by Chambliss, Sarah E, Matsui, Elizabeth C, Zárate, Rebecca A, Zigler, Corwin M

“…The share of Black or Latinx residents in a census tract remains associated with asthma-related emergency department (ED) visit rates after controlling for…”
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Uncertainty in the design stage of two‐stage Bayesian propensity score analysis by Liao, Shirley X., Zigler, Corwin M.

“…The two‐stage process of propensity score analysis (PSA) includes a design stage where propensity scores (PSs) are estimated and implemented to approximate a…”
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74 Targeting the Immune System to Cancer by Levitzki, A, Shir, A, Berhani, O, Langut, Y, Zigler, M, Ben-Ezri, E, Pesach, N, Klein, S

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Cell adhesion: implication in tumor progression by Zigler, M, Dobroff, A S, Bar-Eli, M

“…Changes in the adhesive properties of neoplastic cells, as well as intracellular signaling mediated by cell surface adhesion molecules, play essential roles in…”
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Targeting EGFR in bladder cancer by VILLARES, G. J, ZIGLER, M, BLEHM, K, BOGDAN, C, MCCONKEY, D, COLIN, D, BAR-ELI, Menashe

“…Expression and overexpression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have been described in several solid tumors including bladder, breast, colorectal,…”
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Pollen and viruses contribute to spatio-temporal variation in asthma-related emergency department visits by Katz, Daniel S.W., Zigler, Corwin M., Bhavnani, Darlene, Balcer-Whaley, Susan, Matsui, Elizabeth C.

“…Asthma exacerbations are an important cause of emergency department visits but much remains unknown about the role of environmental triggers including viruses…”
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Characterizing population exposure to coal emissions sources in the United States using the HyADS model by Henneman, Lucas R.F., Choirat, Christine, Ivey, Cesunica, Cummiskey, Kevin, Zigler, Corwin M.

“…In anticipation of the expanding appreciation for air quality models in health outcomes studies, we develop and evaluate a reduced-complexity model for…”
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Model-Averaged Confounder Adjustment for Estimating Multivariate Exposure Effects with Linear Regression by Wilson, Ander, Zigler, Corwin M., Patel, Chirag J., Dominici, Francesca

“…In environmental and nutritional epidemiology and in many other fields, there is increasing interest in estimating the effect of simultaneous exposure to…”
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Local exposure misclassification in national models: relationships with urban infrastructure and demographics by Chambliss, Sarah E., Campmier, Mark Joseph, Audirac, Michelle, Apte, Joshua S., Zigler, Corwin M.

“…Background National-scale linear regression-based modeling may mischaracterize localized patterns, including hyperlocal peaks and neighborhood- to…”
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