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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Ausgabe 1/2016

Inhalt (13 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

Modelling subject-specific childhood growth using linear mixed-effect models with cubic regression splines

Laura M. Grajeda, Andrada Ivanescu, Mayuko Saito, Ciprian Crainiceanu, Devan Jaganath, Robert H. Gilman, Jean E. Crabtree, Dermott Kelleher, Lilia Cabrera, Vitaliano Cama, William Checkley

Open Access Review

The obese gut microbiome across the epidemiologic transition

Lara R. Dugas, Miles Fuller, Jack Gilbert, Brian T. Layden

Open Access Methodology

Hypertension and diabetes in Africa: design and implementation of a large population-based study of burden and risk factors in rural and urban Malawi

Amelia Catharine Crampin, Ndoliwe Kayuni, Alemayehu Amberbir, Crispin Musicha, Olivier Koole, Terence Tafatatha, Keith Branson, Jacqueline Saul, Elenaus Mwaiyeghele, Lawrence Nkhwazi, Amos Phiri, Alison Jane Price, Beatrice Mwagomba, Charles Mwansambo, Shabbar Jaffar, Moffat Joha Nyirenda

Open Access Analytic Perspective

Methods of nutrition surveillance in low-income countries

Veronica Tuffrey, Andrew Hall

Open Access Methodology

Dimension reduction and shrinkage methods for high dimensional disease risk scores in historical data

Hiraku Kumamaru, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Robert J. Glynn, Soko Setoguchi, Joshua J. Gagne

Open Access Research article

Maximising follow-up participation rates in a large scale 45 and Up Study in Australia

Adrian Bauman, Philayrath Phongsavan, Alison Cowle, Emily Banks, Louisa Jorm, Kris Rogers, Bin Jalaludin, Anne Grunseit

Open Access Research article

Is Middle-Upper Arm Circumference “normally” distributed? Secondary data analysis of 852 nutrition surveys

Severine Frison, Francesco Checchi, Marko Kerac, Jennifer Nicholas

Open Access Research article

A distributional approach to obtain adjusted comparisons of proportions of a population at risk

Odile Sauzet, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Theda Borde, Silke Brenne, Matthias David, Oliver Razum, Janet L. Peacock

Open Access Research article

Assessing delivery practices of mothers over time and over space in Uganda, 2003–2012

Daniel A. Sprague, Caroline Jeffery, Nadine Crossland, Thomas House, Gareth O. Roberts, William Vargas, Joseph Ouma, Stephen K. Lwanga, Joseph J. Valadez

Open Access Research article

Effects of recall time on cause-of-death findings using verbal autopsy: empirical evidence from rural South Africa

Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Max Petzold, Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass

Open Access Research article

Comparison of dementia recorded in routinely collected hospital admission data in England with dementia recorded in primary care

Anna Brown, Oksana Kirichek, Angela Balkwill, Gillian Reeves, Valerie Beral, Cathie Sudlow, John Gallacher, Jane Green

Open Access Research article

Nutrition surveillance using a small open cohort: experience from Burkina Faso

Mathias Altmann, Christophe Fermanian, Boshen Jiao, Chiara Altare, Martin Loada, Mark Myatt

Open Access Research article

Parameters associated with design effect of child anthropometry indicators in small-scale field surveys

Erin N. Hulland, Curtis J. Blanton, Eva Z. Leidman, Oleg O. Bilukha