Risk factors for human disease emergence

LH Taylor, SM Latham… - … Transactions of the …, 2001 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Only 33% of zoonotic species are known to be transmissible between humans and only 3%
of all the zoonotic species are considered to have their main reservoir in human populations; …

Human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation

J Harte - Population and Environment, 2007 - Springer
… between human activity and environmental degradation are myriad but at the risk of some …
can usefully group the contributing factors in three categories: human population size, the per-…

Lifetime number of partners as the only independent risk factor for human papillomavirus infection: a population-based study

R Karlsson, M Jonsson, K Edlund… - Sexually transmitted …, 1995 - journals.lww.com
human papillomavirus prevalence and identify risk factors in a group of young Swedish women.
Study Design. This was a population-… of cervical scrapings for human papillomavirus and …

[PDF][PDF] Ageing as a risk factor for disease

T Niccoli, L Partridge - Current biology, 2012 - cell.com
… Age is the main risk factor for the prevalent diseases of developed countries: cancer, … Indeed,
humans on a DR diet for a limited period of time show a decrease in risk factors associated …

[HTML][HTML] Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores

M Cardillo, A Purvis, W Sechrest, JL Gittleman… - PLoS …, 2004 - journals.plos.org
… Recent studies have shown that a species' extinction risk may be determined by two types
of factors: intrinsic biological traits and exposure to external anthropogenic threats. However, …

Risk factors associated with endometriosis: importance of study population for characterizing disease in the ENDO Study

CM Peterson, EB Johnstone, AO Hammoud… - American journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
populations, definitions utilized for risk factors, and diagnostic accuracy. Our aim is to assess
previously reported risk factors … in risk factors, and how they may inform regarding etiology. …

Human population structure and genetic association studies

E Ziv, EG Burchard - Pharmacogenomics, 2003 - Future Medicine
… given population. Thus, as a starting point, we consider a few recent human population studies
… The confounding factor has to be associated with both the risk factor being studied (in this …

Factors associated with oxidative stress in human populations

G Block, M Dietrich, EP Norkus… - American journal of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… of human populations and the relation of oxidative damage to diseases and their risk factors.
… data exist on the extent and distribution of oxidative damage in human populations (6). …

The effects of human population structure on large genetic association studies

J Marchini, LR Cardon, MS Phillips, P Donnelly - Nature genetics, 2004 - nature.com
… Much of this variation may be due to environmental or geographical risk factors. If studies
do not (or cannot) measure and correct for such factors, serious problems could arise (Fig. 4e). …

Risk factors for NIDDM in white population: Paris prospective study

MA Charles, A Fontbonne, N Thibult, JM Warnet… - Diabetes, 1991 - Am Diabetes Assoc
… (NIDDM) were assessed in a population of 5042 middle-aged white men, … risk factor. Subjects
with normal glucose tolerance but elevated fasting plasma glucose exhibited a similar risk