Benjamin W Domingue,Robbee Wedow,Dalton Conley et al.
Benjamin W Domingue et al.
An increasing number of studies that are widely used in the demographic research community have collected genome-wide data from their respondents. It is therefore important that demographers have a proper understanding of some of the method...
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Biodemography and social biology. 2015;61(3):319-21. DOI:10.1080/19485565.2015.1129230 2015
Kitae Sohn
Kitae Sohn
Discrepancies between self-reported and measured hypertension pose a great risk to health because they prevent timely treatment. Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey, we compared self-reported and measured hypertension to assess the ...
Validation of Biomarkers of CVD Risk from Dried Blood Spots in Community-Based Research: Methodologies and Study-Specific Serum Equivalencies [0.03%]
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Laura B Samuelsson,Martica H Hall,Shakir McLean et al.
Laura B Samuelsson et al.
Dried blood spot (DBS) methodology offers significant advantages over venipuncture in studies of vulnerable populations or large-scale studies, including reduced participant burden and higher response rates. Uncertainty about the validity o...
Blood Substrate Collection and Handling Procedures under Pseudo-Field Conditions: Evaluation of Suitability for Inflammatory Biomarker Measurement [0.03%]
模拟现场条件下血液培养基采集和处理程序的评价：对炎症生物标志物测定的适用性评估
Karen Sugden,Andrea Danese,Idan Shalev et al.
Karen Sugden et al.
Routine incorporation of blood-based biomarker measurements in population studies has been hampered by challenges in obtaining samples suitable for biomarker assessment outside of laboratory settings. Here, we assessed the suitability of ve...
Siddharth Chandra,Yan-Liang Yu
Siddharth Chandra
The impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on human fertility has been subject to significant scholarly debate. The current study characterizes the inter-temporal association between excess deaths during the pandemic and the subsequent birth...
Are Improvements in Child Health Due to Increasing Status of Women in Developing Nations? [0.03%]
发展中国家妇女地位的提高是儿童健康状况改善的原因吗？
Tim B Heaton
Tim B Heaton
This research tests the hypothesis that change over time in women's status leads to improvements in their children's health. Specifically, we examine whether change in resources and empowerment in mother's roles as biological mothers, careg...
How Are Children of Older Mothers Doing? Evidence from the United Kingdom [0.03%]
晚育对子女的影响：基于英国的数据证据
A Goisis
A Goisis
Childbearing has been increasingly delayed in Western countries. As older mothers are likely to be advantaged over their younger counterparts, the demographic literature has tended to view this demographic trend as potentially beneficial fo...
Audrey M Dorélien
Audrey M Dorélien
Birth month is broadly predictive of both under-5 mortality rates and stunting throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Observed factors, such as mother's age at birth and educational status, are correlated with birth month but are not ...
Breakfast Skipping, Extreme Commutes, and the Sex Composition at Birth [0.03%]
不吃早餐、通勤时间过长与出生婴儿性别比失调
Bhashkar Mazumder,Zachary Seeskin
Bhashkar Mazumder
A growing body of literature has shown that environmental exposures in the period around conception can affect the sex ratio at birth through selective attrition that favors the survival of female conceptuses. Glucose availability is consid...