Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...

Many epidemiological studies assessing the relationship between exposure and disease are carried out without data on individual exposures. When this barrier is encountered in occupational studies, the ...

European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 17, No. 12 (2001), pp. 1089-1095 (7 pages) Our aim was to quantify the association between hypertension and four well-known cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, ...

Studies of the aetiology of glioma, the commonest malignant brain tumour, with a very poor prognosis, are urgently needed, specifically to identify modifiable risk factors. The main reason that ...

The coronavirus pandemic has underscored that the field of epidemiology, which focuses on discovering the causes of disease outbreaks and tracing the spread of illness, is an academic discipline with ...

Epidemiological studies are essential in understanding the causes, risk factors of diseases, and disease patterns for ...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in US men, and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men worldwide. Although pesticides have been implicated in studies of prostate ...

Nora L. Nock, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, was appointed to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study ...

Dublin, July 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Persistent Epithelial Defect (PED) - Epidemiology Forecast - 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report delivers an in ...

Patients with tattoos aged 20 to 60 years are at a greater risk of developing cutaneous melanoma than matched control patients without tattoos.