Depression and risk of mortality in people with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

FEP Van Dooren, G Nefs, MT Schram, FRJ Verhey… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Objective To examine the association between depression and all-cause and
cardiovascular mortality in people with diabetes by systematically reviewing the literature …

Overestimation of risk ratios by odds ratios in trials and cohort studies: alternatives to logistic regression

MJ Knol, S Le Cessie, A Algra, JP Vandenbroucke… - Cmaj, 2012 - Can Med Assoc
Analysis domly assigned to groups receiving surgery followed by radiotherapy, or
radiotherapy alone. 12 The primary outcome was the ability to walk, which occurred in …

Prevalence of statin use for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by race, ethnicity, and 10-year disease risk in the US: National Health and …

JA Jacobs, DK Addo, AR Zheutlin… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The burden of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in the US is
higher among Black and Hispanic vs White adults. Inclusion of race in guidance for statin …

The chrysalis effect: How ugly initial results metamorphosize into beautiful articles

EH O'Boyle Jr, GC Banks… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The issue of a published literature not representative of the population of research is most
often discussed in terms of entire studies being suppressed. However, alternative sources of …

Intervention effectiveness among war‐affected children: A cluster randomized controlled trial on improving mental health

SR Qouta, E Palosaari, M Diab… - Journal of traumatic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention in reducing mental health
symptoms among war‐affected children, and the role of peritraumatic dissociation in …

Optimal approximate conversions of odds ratios and hazard ratios to risk ratios

TJ VanderWeele - Biometrics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Odds ratios approximate risk ratios when the outcome under consideration is rare but can
diverge substantially from risk ratios when the outcome is common. In this paper, we derive …

Multicentre randomized clinical trial of inspiratory muscle training versus usual care before surgery for oesophageal cancer

K Valkenet, JCA Trappenburg, JP Ruurda… - Journal of British …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Up to 40 per cent of patients undergoing oesophagectomy develop pneumonia.
The aim of this study was to assess whether preoperative inspiratory muscle training (IMT) …

[HTML][HTML] Relative measures of association for binary outcomes: challenges and recommendations for the global health researcher

JA Gallis, EL Turner - Annals of global health, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Binary outcomes—which have two distinct levels (eg, disease yes/no)—are
commonly collected in global health research. The relative association of an exposure (eg, a …

A most odd ratio:: interpreting and describing odds ratios

A Persoskie, RA Ferrer - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction The OR is one of the most commonly used measures of association in
preventive medicine, and yet it is unintuitive and easily misinterpreted by journal authors …

Overestimation of relative risk and prevalence ratio: misuse of logistic modeling

C Gnardellis, V Notara, M Papadakaki, V Gialamas… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The extensive use of logistic regression models in analytical epidemiology as well as in
randomized clinical trials, often creates inflated estimates of the relative risk (RR) …