Positive epidemiology, revisited: The case for centering human rights and economic justice
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 22:kwae056. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae056. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, a growing body of research in positive epidemiology has sought to expand the traditional focus of epidemiologic research beyond risk factors for disease and towards a more holistic understanding of health that includes the study of positive assets that shape well-being more broadly. While this paradigm shift holds great promise for transforming people's lives for the better, it is also critiqued for showcasing decontextualized perspectives that could cause great harm to the public's health if translated uncriticall...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Farah Qureshi Christy Denckla Julia K Boehm Source Type: research
School racial composition, effect modification by caring teacher/staff presence, and mid/late-life depressive symptoms: findings from the Study of Healthy Aging among African Americans
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae050. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae050. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor Black students in the United States, attending schools with a higher proportion of White students is associated with worse mental and physical health outcomes in adolescence/early adulthood. No prior studies evaluate K-12 school racial composition and later-life mental health. In a cohort of Black adults ages 50+ in Northern California who retrospectively self-reported school racial composition for grades 1, 6, 9, and 12, we assessed the association between attending a school with mostly Black students vs. not and mid/late-life...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Taylor M Mobley Eleanor Hayes-Larson Yingyan Wu Rachel L Peterson Kristen M George Paola Gilsanz M Maria Glymour Marilyn D Thomas Lisa L Barnes Rachel A Whitmer Elizabeth Rose Mayeda Source Type: research
Inflammatory, Metabolic and Endothelial Biomarkers Before and After Pregnancy Complications
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae053. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae053. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWomen with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), and preterm birth (PTB) have excess cardiovascular disease compared to those with uncomplicated births, perhaps related to pre-pregnancy inflammation, dysmetabolism or endothelial dysfunction. We included 1238 women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (1985-2011) with 2215 births classified according to outcomes (term, uncomplicated births were the referent). Repeated measures ANOVA estimated pre-pregnancy, post-preg...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Baiyang Sun Erica P Gunderson Marnie Bertolet Samia H Lopa Samantha G Bryan Cora E Lewis Janet M Catov Source Type: research
Joint Effects of Indoor Air Pollution and Maternal Psychosocial Factors During Pregnancy on Trajectories of Early Childhood Psychopathology
CONCLUSIONS: Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants and psychosocial factors was associated with internalizing and externalizing child behavior trajectories. Understanding joint effects of adverse exposure mixtures will facilitate targeted interventions to prevent childhood psychopathology.PMID:38634620 | DOI:10.1093/aje/kwae046 (Source: Am J Epidemiol)
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Grace M Christensen Michele Marcus Aneesa Vanker Stephanie M Eick Susan Malcolm-Smith Shakira F Suglia Howard H Chang Heather J Zar Dan J Stein Anke H üls Source Type: research
A call for sex-positive epidemiology
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae054. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae054. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe World Health Organization specifies that sexual health requires the potential for pleasurable and safe sexual experiences. Yet epidemiologic research into sexual pleasure and other positive sexual outcomes has been scant. In this commentary, we aim to support the development and adoption of sex-positive epidemiology, which we define as epidemiology that incorporates the study of pleasure and other positive features alongside sexually transmitted infections and other familiar negative outcomes. We first call epidemiologists' att...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Julia C Bond Jessie V Ford Source Type: research
School racial composition, effect modification by caring teacher/staff presence, and mid/late-life depressive symptoms: findings from the Study of Healthy Aging among African Americans
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae050. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae050. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor Black students in the United States, attending schools with a higher proportion of White students is associated with worse mental and physical health outcomes in adolescence/early adulthood. No prior studies evaluate K-12 school racial composition and later-life mental health. In a cohort of Black adults ages 50+ in Northern California who retrospectively self-reported school racial composition for grades 1, 6, 9, and 12, we assessed the association between attending a school with mostly Black students vs. not and mid/late-life...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Taylor M Mobley Eleanor Hayes-Larson Yingyan Wu Rachel L Peterson Kristen M George Paola Gilsanz M Maria Glymour Marilyn D Thomas Lisa L Barnes Rachel A Whitmer Elizabeth Rose Mayeda Source Type: research
Inflammatory, Metabolic and Endothelial Biomarkers Before and After Pregnancy Complications
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae053. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae053. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWomen with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), and preterm birth (PTB) have excess cardiovascular disease compared to those with uncomplicated births, perhaps related to pre-pregnancy inflammation, dysmetabolism or endothelial dysfunction. We included 1238 women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (1985-2011) with 2215 births classified according to outcomes (term, uncomplicated births were the referent). Repeated measures ANOVA estimated pre-pregnancy, post-preg...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Baiyang Sun Erica P Gunderson Marnie Bertolet Samia H Lopa Samantha G Bryan Cora E Lewis Janet M Catov Source Type: research
Joint Effects of Indoor Air Pollution and Maternal Psychosocial Factors During Pregnancy on Trajectories of Early Childhood Psychopathology
CONCLUSIONS: Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants and psychosocial factors was associated with internalizing and externalizing child behavior trajectories. Understanding joint effects of adverse exposure mixtures will facilitate targeted interventions to prevent childhood psychopathology.PMID:38634620 | DOI:10.1093/aje/kwae046 (Source: Am J Epidemiol)
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Grace M Christensen Michele Marcus Aneesa Vanker Stephanie M Eick Susan Malcolm-Smith Shakira F Suglia Howard H Chang Heather J Zar Dan J Stein Anke H üls Source Type: research
A call for sex-positive epidemiology
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae054. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae054. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe World Health Organization specifies that sexual health requires the potential for pleasurable and safe sexual experiences. Yet epidemiologic research into sexual pleasure and other positive sexual outcomes has been scant. In this commentary, we aim to support the development and adoption of sex-positive epidemiology, which we define as epidemiology that incorporates the study of pleasure and other positive features alongside sexually transmitted infections and other familiar negative outcomes. We first call epidemiologists' att...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Julia C Bond Jessie V Ford Source Type: research
School racial composition, effect modification by caring teacher/staff presence, and mid/late-life depressive symptoms: findings from the Study of Healthy Aging among African Americans
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae050. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae050. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor Black students in the United States, attending schools with a higher proportion of White students is associated with worse mental and physical health outcomes in adolescence/early adulthood. No prior studies evaluate K-12 school racial composition and later-life mental health. In a cohort of Black adults ages 50+ in Northern California who retrospectively self-reported school racial composition for grades 1, 6, 9, and 12, we assessed the association between attending a school with mostly Black students vs. not and mid/late-life...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Taylor M Mobley Eleanor Hayes-Larson Yingyan Wu Rachel L Peterson Kristen M George Paola Gilsanz M Maria Glymour Marilyn D Thomas Lisa L Barnes Rachel A Whitmer Elizabeth Rose Mayeda Source Type: research
Inflammatory, Metabolic and Endothelial Biomarkers Before and After Pregnancy Complications
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae053. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae053. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWomen with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), and preterm birth (PTB) have excess cardiovascular disease compared to those with uncomplicated births, perhaps related to pre-pregnancy inflammation, dysmetabolism or endothelial dysfunction. We included 1238 women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (1985-2011) with 2215 births classified according to outcomes (term, uncomplicated births were the referent). Repeated measures ANOVA estimated pre-pregnancy, post-preg...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Baiyang Sun Erica P Gunderson Marnie Bertolet Samia H Lopa Samantha G Bryan Cora E Lewis Janet M Catov Source Type: research
Joint Effects of Indoor Air Pollution and Maternal Psychosocial Factors During Pregnancy on Trajectories of Early Childhood Psychopathology
CONCLUSIONS: Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants and psychosocial factors was associated with internalizing and externalizing child behavior trajectories. Understanding joint effects of adverse exposure mixtures will facilitate targeted interventions to prevent childhood psychopathology.PMID:38634620 | DOI:10.1093/aje/kwae046 (Source: Am J Epidemiol)
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Grace M Christensen Michele Marcus Aneesa Vanker Stephanie M Eick Susan Malcolm-Smith Shakira F Suglia Howard H Chang Heather J Zar Dan J Stein Anke H üls Source Type: research
A call for sex-positive epidemiology
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae054. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae054. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe World Health Organization specifies that sexual health requires the potential for pleasurable and safe sexual experiences. Yet epidemiologic research into sexual pleasure and other positive sexual outcomes has been scant. In this commentary, we aim to support the development and adoption of sex-positive epidemiology, which we define as epidemiology that incorporates the study of pleasure and other positive features alongside sexually transmitted infections and other familiar negative outcomes. We first call epidemiologists' att...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Julia C Bond Jessie V Ford Source Type: research
The Role of Multiple Birth and Birth Complications in the Association Between Assisted Reproductive Technology Conception and Autism Diagnosis
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 15:kwae049. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae049. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent decades, the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has increased rapidly. To assess the relationship between ART and autism diagnosis, we linked California birth records from 2000 through 2016 with contemporaneous records from the National ART Surveillance System (NASS) and autism caseload records from California's Department of Developmental Services from 2000 through November 2019. All 95,149 birth records that were successfully linked to a NASS record, indicating an ART birth, were matched 1:1 using propensity ...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 17, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Alix S Winter Anthony K Yartel Christine Fountain Keely Cheslack-Postava Yujia Zhang Laura A Schieve Dmitry M Kissin Peter Bearman Source Type: research
Indicators of cure for women living after uterine and ovarian cancers: a population-based study
This study aims to estimate long-term survival, cancer prevalence, and several cure indicators for Italian women with gynaecological cancers. Thirty-one cancer registries, representing 47% of the Italian female population, were included. Mixture cure models were used to estimate Net Survival (NS), Cure Fraction, Time To Cure (5-year conditional NS>95%), Cure Prevalence (women who will not die of cancer), and Already Cured (living longer than Time to Cure). In 2018, 0.4% (121,704) of Italian women were alive after corpus uteri cancer, 0.2% (52,551) after cervical, and 0.2% (52,153) after ovarian cancer. More than 90% of ...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 17, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Fabiola Giudici Angela De Paoli Federica Toffolutti Stefano Guzzinati Silvia Francisci Lauro Bucchi Gemma Gatta Elena Demuru Sandra Mallone Antonella Dal Cin Adele Caldarella Francesco Cuccaro Enrica Migliore Maria Letizia Gambino Alessandra Ravaioli Anto Source Type: research
