Invited Commentary: Is the Polysocial Score Approach Valuable for Advancing Social Determinants of Health Research?
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 29:kwae057. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae057. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSocial determinants of health (SDOH) encompass the social environmental factors and lived experiences that collectively shape an individual's health. Recently, the polysocial score approach has been introduced as an innovative method for capturing the cumulative impact of a broad spectrum of social factors. This approach offers a promising opportunity to complement and enhance conventional methodologies in the advancement of SDOH research. In this issue of the Journal, Jawadekar et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XX-X-XXXX) evalu...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 30, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Chenkai Wu Source Type: research
Invited Commentary: Is the Polysocial Score Approach Valuable for Advancing Social Determinants of Health Research?
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 29:kwae057. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae057. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSocial determinants of health (SDOH) encompass the social environmental factors and lived experiences that collectively shape an individual's health. Recently, the polysocial score approach has been introduced as an innovative method for capturing the cumulative impact of a broad spectrum of social factors. This approach offers a promising opportunity to complement and enhance conventional methodologies in the advancement of SDOH research. In this issue of the Journal, Jawadekar et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XX-X-XXXX) evalu...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 30, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Chenkai Wu Source Type: research
Can the potential benefit of individualizing treatment be assessed using trial summary statistics alone?
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 26:kwae040. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndividualizing treatment assignment can improve outcomes for diseases with patient-to-patient variability in comparative treatment effects. When a clinical trial demonstrates that some patients improve on treatment while others do not, it is tempting to assume that treatment effect heterogeneity exists. However, if outcome variability is mainly driven by factors other than variability in the treatment effect, investigating the extent to which covariate data can predict differential treatment response is a potential waste of resour...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 28, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Nina Galanter Marco Carone Ronald C Kessler Alex Luedtke Source Type: research
Bringing home the benefits: Do pro-family employee benefits mitigate the risk of depression from competing workplace and domestic labor roles?
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 26:kwae055. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae055. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite significant historical progress toward gender parity in employment status in the US, women remain more likely to provide domestic labor, creating role competition which may increase depression symptoms. Pro-family employee benefits may minimize the stress of competing roles. We tested whether depressive symptoms were higher among women with vs. without competing roles and whether this effect was greater among women without (vs. with) pro-family benefits. Data included employed women surveyed across 4 waves of the National L...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 28, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jonathan M Platt Lisa Bates Justin Jager Katie A McLaughlin Katherine M Keyes Source Type: research
Can the potential benefit of individualizing treatment be assessed using trial summary statistics alone?
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 26:kwae040. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndividualizing treatment assignment can improve outcomes for diseases with patient-to-patient variability in comparative treatment effects. When a clinical trial demonstrates that some patients improve on treatment while others do not, it is tempting to assume that treatment effect heterogeneity exists. However, if outcome variability is mainly driven by factors other than variability in the treatment effect, investigating the extent to which covariate data can predict differential treatment response is a potential waste of resour...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 28, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Nina Galanter Marco Carone Ronald C Kessler Alex Luedtke Source Type: research
Bringing home the benefits: Do pro-family employee benefits mitigate the risk of depression from competing workplace and domestic labor roles?
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 26:kwae055. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae055. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite significant historical progress toward gender parity in employment status in the US, women remain more likely to provide domestic labor, creating role competition which may increase depression symptoms. Pro-family employee benefits may minimize the stress of competing roles. We tested whether depressive symptoms were higher among women with vs. without competing roles and whether this effect was greater among women without (vs. with) pro-family benefits. Data included employed women surveyed across 4 waves of the National L...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 28, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jonathan M Platt Lisa Bates Justin Jager Katie A McLaughlin Katherine M Keyes Source Type: research
Positive epidemiology, revisited: The case for centering human rights and economic justice
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 22:kwae056. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae056. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, a growing body of research in positive epidemiology has sought to expand the traditional focus of epidemiologic research beyond risk factors for disease and towards a more holistic understanding of health that includes the study of positive assets that shape well-being more broadly. While this paradigm shift holds great promise for transforming people's lives for the better, it is also critiqued for showcasing decontextualized perspectives that could cause great harm to the public's health if translated uncriticall...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Farah Qureshi Christy Denckla Julia K Boehm Source Type: research
Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Practical Guide to Honest Causal Forests for Identifying Heterogeneous Treatment Effects"
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 25:kwae052. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae052. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38664219 | DOI:10.1093/aje/kwae052 (Source: Am J Epidemiol)
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Neal Jawadekar Source Type: research
Positive epidemiology, revisited: The case for centering human rights and economic justice
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 22:kwae056. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae056. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, a growing body of research in positive epidemiology has sought to expand the traditional focus of epidemiologic research beyond risk factors for disease and towards a more holistic understanding of health that includes the study of positive assets that shape well-being more broadly. While this paradigm shift holds great promise for transforming people's lives for the better, it is also critiqued for showcasing decontextualized perspectives that could cause great harm to the public's health if translated uncriticall...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Farah Qureshi Christy Denckla Julia K Boehm Source Type: research
Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Practical Guide to Honest Causal Forests for Identifying Heterogeneous Treatment Effects"
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 25:kwae052. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae052. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38664219 | DOI:10.1093/aje/kwae052 (Source: Am J Epidemiol)
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Neal Jawadekar Source Type: research
Positive epidemiology, revisited: The case for centering human rights and economic justice
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 22:kwae056. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae056. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, a growing body of research in positive epidemiology has sought to expand the traditional focus of epidemiologic research beyond risk factors for disease and towards a more holistic understanding of health that includes the study of positive assets that shape well-being more broadly. While this paradigm shift holds great promise for transforming people's lives for the better, it is also critiqued for showcasing decontextualized perspectives that could cause great harm to the public's health if translated uncriticall...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Farah Qureshi Christy Denckla Julia K Boehm Source Type: research
Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Practical Guide to Honest Causal Forests for Identifying Heterogeneous Treatment Effects"
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 25:kwae052. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae052. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38664219 | DOI:10.1093/aje/kwae052 (Source: Am J Epidemiol)
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Neal Jawadekar Source Type: research
Positive epidemiology, revisited: The case for centering human rights and economic justice
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 22:kwae056. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae056. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, a growing body of research in positive epidemiology has sought to expand the traditional focus of epidemiologic research beyond risk factors for disease and towards a more holistic understanding of health that includes the study of positive assets that shape well-being more broadly. While this paradigm shift holds great promise for transforming people's lives for the better, it is also critiqued for showcasing decontextualized perspectives that could cause great harm to the public's health if translated uncriticall...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 25, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Farah Qureshi Christy Denckla Julia K Boehm Source Type: research
School racial composition, effect modification by caring teacher/staff presence, and mid/late-life depressive symptoms: findings from the Study of Healthy Aging among African Americans
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae050. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae050. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor Black students in the United States, attending schools with a higher proportion of White students is associated with worse mental and physical health outcomes in adolescence/early adulthood. No prior studies evaluate K-12 school racial composition and later-life mental health. In a cohort of Black adults ages 50+ in Northern California who retrospectively self-reported school racial composition for grades 1, 6, 9, and 12, we assessed the association between attending a school with mostly Black students vs. not and mid/late-life...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Taylor M Mobley Eleanor Hayes-Larson Yingyan Wu Rachel L Peterson Kristen M George Paola Gilsanz M Maria Glymour Marilyn D Thomas Lisa L Barnes Rachel A Whitmer Elizabeth Rose Mayeda Source Type: research
Inflammatory, Metabolic and Endothelial Biomarkers Before and After Pregnancy Complications
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 17:kwae053. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae053. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWomen with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), and preterm birth (PTB) have excess cardiovascular disease compared to those with uncomplicated births, perhaps related to pre-pregnancy inflammation, dysmetabolism or endothelial dysfunction. We included 1238 women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (1985-2011) with 2215 births classified according to outcomes (term, uncomplicated births were the referent). Repeated measures ANOVA estimated pre-pregnancy, post-preg...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - April 18, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Baiyang Sun Erica P Gunderson Marnie Bertolet Samia H Lopa Samantha G Bryan Cora E Lewis Janet M Catov Source Type: research
