It is often of interest to assess how much of the effect of an exposure on a response is mediated through an intermediate variable. However, systematic approaches are lacking, other than assessment of ...

Jonathan Freeman, Donald A. Goldmann and John E. McGowan, Jr. Most information in hospital epidemiology comes from observational studies of hospitalized patients, not from planned experiments. Data ...

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health applies, develops, and teaches the skills needed to understand the determinants of disease and ...

Like other types of chronic morbidity, the causes of low birthweight, infant mortality, and/or prematurity are complex and poorly understood. As pointed out by Rockhill (2005), epidemiology focuses ...

This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

Throughout recorded history, human society has lived with periodic epidemics and pandemics. Numerous disease outbreaks have led to death, societal upheaval, and economic disruption. Predicting how an ...

Objective: The prevalence of overweight and obesity was estimated among the school children and adolescents of three provinces of central Italy, and the role of several possible influencing factors ...

Epidemiology is considered to be the cornerstone of public health, enabling the study of distribution patterns that assist with identifying the determinants of health and disease conditions. This ...

Protein profiling utilizing SELDI technology may detect ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with high reliability in patient's serum No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO ...