Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications
Research in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications examines age, environment, chronic disease, social health determinants, maternal and child health, and mental health all in an effort to understand and improve the health of populations as a whole. These publications contain risk assessment and examinations of various health determinants to understand the health and circumstances of certain populations.
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Submissions from 2021
A comparison of COVID-19 epidemiological indicators in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, Erica A. Yarmol-Matusiak, Lauren E. Cipriano, and Saverio Stranges
Submissions from 2020
Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, C. Abbafati, D. B. Machado, B. Cislaghi, O. M. Salman, M. Karanikolos, M. McKee, K. M. Abbas, O. J. Brady, H. J. Larson, S. Trias-Llimós, S. Cummins, S. M. Langan, B. Sartorius, A. Hafiz, E. Jenabi, N. Mohammad Gholi Mezerji, S. Borzouei, G. Azarian, S. Khazaei, M. Abbasi, B. Asghari, S. Masoumi, H. Komaki, A. Taherkhani, M. Adabi, M. Abbasifard, G. Bazmandegan, Z. Kamiab, A. Vakilian, M. Anjomshoa, A. Mokari, and S. Sabour
Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, C. Abbafati, D. B. Machado, B. Cislaghi, O. M. Salman, M. Karanikolos, M. McKee, K. M. Abbas, O. J. Brady, H. J. Larson, S. Trias-Llimós, S. Cummins, S. M. Langan, B. Sartorius, A. Hafiz, E. Jenabi, N. Mohammad Gholi Mezerji, S. Borzouei, G. Azarian, S. Khazaei, M. Abbasi, B. Asghari, S. Masoumi, H. Komaki, A. Taherkhani, M. Adabi, M. Abbasifard, G. Bazmandegan, Z. Kamiab, A. Vakilian, M. Anjomshoa, A. Mokari, and S. Sabour
Call to Action: SARS-CoV-2 and CerebrovAscular DisordErs (CASCADE), Shahram Abootalebi, Benjamin M. Aertker, Mohammad Sobhan Andalibi, Negar Asdaghi, Ozlem Aykac, M. Reza Azarpazhooh, M. Cecilia Bahit, Kristian Barlinn, Hamidon Basri, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, Anna Bersano, Jose Biller, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Robert D. Brown, Bruce CV Campbell, Salvador Cruz-Flores, Deidre Anne De Silva, Mario Di Napoli, Afshin A. Divani, Randall C. Edgell, Johanna T. Fifi, Abdoreza Ghoreishi, Teruyuki Hirano, Keun Sik Hong, Chung Y. Hsu, Josephine F. Huang, Manabu Inoue, Amanda L. Jagolino, Moira Kapral, Hoo Fan Kee, Zafer Keser, and Rakesh Khatri
COVID-19 and inequality: are we all in this together?, Shehzad Ali, Miqdad Asaria, and Saverio Stranges
A third of community-dwelling elderly with intermediate and high level of Alzheimer's neuropathologic changes are not demented: A meta-analysis, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Abolfazl Avan, Lauren E. Cipriano, David G. Munoz, Mahdiyeh Erfanian, Amin Amiri, Saverio Stranges, and Vladimir Hachinski
Correlations between COVID-19 and burden of dementia: An ecological study and review of literature, M. Reza Azarpazhooh, Amin Amiri, Negar Morovatdar, Sandy Steinwender, Amir Rezaei Ardani, Nawaf Yassi, Jose Biller, Saverio Stranges, Masoud Tokazebani Belasi, Sepideh Kazemi Neya, Bita Khorram, Mohammad Sobhan Sheikh Andalibi, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Naghmeh Mokhber, and Mario Di Napoli
COVID-19 pandemic and burden of non-communicable diseases: An ecological study on data of 185 countries, M. Reza Azarpazhooh, Negar Morovatdar, Abolfazl Avan, Thanh G. Phan, Afshin A. Divani, Nawaf Yassi, Saverio Stranges, Brian Silver, José Biller, Masoud Tokazebani Belasi, Sepideh Kazemi Neya, Bita Khorram, Asher Frydman, Yongchai Nilanont, Elisa Onorati, and Mario Di Napoli
Covid-19 and clinical-epidemiological research in Italy: proposal of a research agenda on priority topics by the Italian association of epidemiology, Giovannino Ciccone, Silvia Deandrea, Antonio Clavenna, Ursula Kirchmayer, Vittorio Simeon, Anna Acampora, Nerina Agabiti, Laura Angelici, Roita Banzi, Ennio Cadum, Anna Castiglione, Paolo Chiodini, Cinzia Colombo, Eliana Ferroni, Enrica Migliore, Lorenza Nisticò, Eva Pagano, Anna Maria Sabelli, Carlotta Sacerdote, Caterina Silvestri, Salvatore Soldati, Saverio Stranges, Marcello Tirani, Marina Davoli, Claudia Galassi, and Francesco Forastiere
After-hours Incentives and Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from Ontario Forthcoming at Canadian Public Policy, Rose Anne Devlin, Koffi Ahoto Kpelitse, Lihua Li, Nirav Mehta, and Sisira Sarma
Concordance between health administrative data and survey-derived diagnoses for mood and anxiety disorders, J. Edwards, A. Thind, S. Stranges, M. Chiu, and K. K. Anderson
The association between daily naps and metabolic syndrome: Evidence from a population-based study in the Middle-East, Hamideh Ghazizadeh, Naser Mobarra, Habibollah Esmaily, Seyed Mohammad Reza Seyedi, Amin Amiri, Fariborz Rezaeitalab, Naghmeh Mokhber, Mohsen Moohebati, Mahmoud Ebrahimi, Mohammad Tayebi, Negin Behboodi, Maryam Mohammadi-Bajgiran, Samineh Hashemi, Gordon A. Ferns, Saverio Stranges, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan, and Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh
Stroke Care Trends During COVID-19 Pandemic in Zanjan Province, Iran. From the CASCADE Initiative: Statistical Analysis Plan and Preliminary Results, Abdoreza Ghoreishi, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Ziad Sabaa-Ayoun, Nawaf Yassi, P. N. Sylaja, Yama Akbari, Afshin A. Divani, Jose Biller, Thanh Phan, Sandy Steinwender, Brian Silver, Ramin Zand, Hamidon Bin Basri, Omer M. Iqbal, Annemarei Ranta, Sean Ruland, Elizabeth Macri, Henry Ma, Thanh N. Nguyen, Shahram Abootalebi, Animesh Gupta, Matias Alet, Simona Lattanzi, Masoom Desai, Rubens J. Gagliardi, Tarun Girotra, Manabu Inoue, Takeshi Yoshimoto, Cristian Flavo Isaac, Stephan A. Mayer, Negar Morovatdar, and Yongchai Nilanont
The impact of improved access to after-hours primary care on emergency department and primary care utilization: A systematic review., Michael Hong, Amardeep Thind, Gregory S Zaric, and Sisira Sarma
Cooking with shea butter is associated with lower blood pressure in the Ghanaian population, A. Kofi Amegah, Emmanuel Brahuah, and Saverio Stranges
Role of clinical, functional and social factors in the association between multimorbidity and quality of life: Findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Tatjana T. Makovski, Gwenaelle Le Coroller, Polina Putrik, Yun Hee Choi, Maurice P. Zeegers, Saverio Stranges, Maria Ruiz Castell, Laetitia Huiart, and Marjan Van Den Akker
Canadian geriatrics society COVID-19 recommendations for older adults. what do older adults need to know?, Manuel Montero-Odasso, S. Denise Goens, Nellie Kamkar, Robert Lam, Kenneth Madden, Frank Molnar, Mark Speechley, and Saverio Stranges
Regular physical activity postpones age of occurrence of first-ever stroke and improves long-term outcomes, Negar Morovatdar, Mario Di Napoli, Saverio Stranges, Amanda G. Thrift, Moira Kapral, Reza Behrouz, Mohammad Taghi Farzadfard, Mohammad Sobhan Sheikh Andalibi, Reza Rahimzadeh Oskooie, Anuradha Sawant, Naghmeh Mokhber, and M. Reza Azarpazhooh
Sleep behaviours and multimorbidity occurrence in middle-aged and older adults: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), Kathryn Nicholson, Rebecca Rodrigues, Kelly K. Anderson, Piotr Wilk, Giuseppe Guaiana, and Saverio Stranges
Relationships between sleep and internalizing problems in early adolescence: Results from Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, Sophia Nunes, M. Karen Campbell, Neil Klar, Graham J. Reid, and Saverio Stranges
Excess mortality from COVID-19: a commentary on the Italian experience, Paolo Pasquariello and Saverio Stranges
Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: A Pilot Study on Deep Learning for Hypoglycemic Events Detection based on ECG, Mihaela Porumb, Saverio Stranges, Antonio Pescapè, and Leandro Pecchia
Mediterranean-Style Diet for the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Cochrane Review, Karen Rees, Andrea Takeda, Nicole Martin, Leila Ellis, Dilini Wijesekara, Abhinav Vepa, Archik Das, Louise Hartley, and Saverio Stranges
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study, Gregory A. Roth, George A. Mensah, Catherine O. Johnson, Giovanni Addolorato, Enrico Ammirati, Larry M. Baddour, Noël C. Barengo, Andrea Z. Beaton, Emelia J. Benjamin, Catherine P. Benziger, Aimé Bonny, Michael Brauer, Marianne Brodmann, Thomas J. Cahill, Jonathan Carapetis, Alberico L. Catapano, Sumeet S. Chugh, Leslie T. Cooper, Josef Coresh, Michael Criqui, Nicole DeCleene, Kim A. Eagle, Sophia Emmons-Bell, Valery L. Feigin, Joaquim Fernández-Solà, Gerry Fowkes, Emmanuela Gakidou, Scott M. Grundy, Feng J. He, George Howard, Frank Hu, and Lesley Inker
Uganda as a role model for pandemic containment in Africa, Ahmed M. Sarki, Alex Ezeh, and Saverio Stranges