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Open AccessSystematic review of the utility of the frailty index and frailty phenotype to predict all-cause mortality in older people
Current guidelines for healthcare of community-dwelling older people advocate screening for frailty to predict adverse health outcomes, but there is no consensus on the optimum instrument to use in such settin...
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Open AccessThe burden of injury in Central, Eastern, and Western European sub-region: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study
Injury remains a major concern to public health in the European region. Previous iterations of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study showed wide variation in injury death and disability adjusted life year (...
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Open AccessGenetic susceptibility, elevated blood pressure, and risk of atrial fibrillation: a Mendelian randomization study
Whether elevated blood pressure (BP) is a modifiable risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF) is not established. We tested (1) whether the association between BP and risk of AF is causal, (2) whether it varie...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Systemic inflammation is associated with incident stroke and heart disease in East Asians
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessRed meat, poultry and fish consumption and risk of diabetes: a 9 year prospective cohort study of the China Kadoorie Biobank
Previous evidence linking red meat consumption with diabetes risk mainly came from western countries, with little evidence from China, where patterns of meat consumption are different. Moreover, global evidenc...
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Open AccessSystemic inflammation is associated with incident stroke and heart disease in East Asians
Systemic inflammation, reflected by increased plasma concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) and fibrinogen, is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease, but its relevance for stroke types r...
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Open AccessInterethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent
Blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and more than 200 genetic loci associated with BP are known. Here, we perform a multi-stage genome-wide association study for BP (max N = 289,...
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Open AccessSystematic review of statistical approaches to quantify, or correct for, measurement error in a continuous exposure in nutritional epidemiology
Several statistical approaches have been proposed to assess and correct for exposure measurement error. We aimed to provide a critical overview of the most common approaches used in nutritional epidemiology.
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Development of the standards of reporting of neurological disorders (STROND) checklist: a guideline for the reporting of incidence and prevalence studies in neuroepidemiology
Incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services. However, the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by problems ...
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Open AccessStudy protocol: systematic review of the burden of heart failure in low- and middle-income countries
Setting priorities for the prevention and management of heart failure requires an empirical understanding of the pattern of disease burden. We aim to describe the methods for a systematic review of the literat...
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Open AccessStudy protocol: the empirical investigation of methods to correct for measurement error in biobanks with dietary assessment
The Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) is an organisation that aims to promote collaboration between researchers in the field of population-based genomics. The main objectives of P3G are to encourage col...
