Browsing Centre for Cancer Prevention by Subject "Adolescent"
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Are IQ and educational outcomes in teenagers related to their cannabis use? A prospective cohort study.
(2016-02)There is much debate about the impact of adolescent cannabis use on intellectual and educational outcomes. We investigated associations between adolescent cannabis use and IQ and educational attainment in a sample of 2235 ... -
Burden of non-communicable diseases among adolescents aged 10-24 years in the EU, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019.
(2022-06)BACKGROUND: Disability and mortality burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have risen worldwide; however, the NCD burden among adolescents remains poorly described in the EU. METHODS: Estimates were retrieved from the ... -
Cancer incidence in English children, adolescents and young people: past trends and projections to 2030.
(2017-12-05)BACKGROUND: Estimating the future incidence of cancer is important to establish sufficient service provision, however, work in this area is limited for cancer in children, adolescents, and young adults (aged 0-24). METHODS: ... -
Data linkage errors in hospital administrative data when applying a pseudonymisation algorithm to paediatric intensive care records.
(2015-08-21)OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to estimate the rate of data linkage error in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) by testing the HESID pseudoanonymisation algorithm against a reference standard, in a national registry of paediatric ... -
Familial loading in specific language impairment: patterns of differences across proband characteristics, gender and relative type.
(2007-04)There is now little doubt that both environmental factors and genes are likely to make important contributions to the aetiology of specific language impairment (SLI). The most commonly proposed model for understanding these ... -
A flexible model for multivariate interval-censored survival times with complex correlation structure.
(2007-02-10)We focus on the analysis of multivariate survival times with highly structured interdependency and subject to interval censoring. Such data are common in developmental genetics and genetic epidemiology. We propose a flexible ... -
Mixed-methods evaluation of a novel online STI results service.
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018-01-11)OBJECTIVES: Evidence on optimal methods for providing STI test results is lacking. We evaluated an online results service, developed as part of an eSexual Health Clinic (eSHC). METHODS: We evaluated the online results ... -
Parkinson's disease in GTP cyclohydrolase 1 mutation carriers.
(2014-09)GTP cyclohydrolase 1, encoded by the GCH1 gene, is an essential enzyme for dopamine production in nigrostriatal cells. Loss-of-function mutations in GCH1 result in severe reduction of dopamine synthesis in nigrostriatal ... -
What cervical screening is appropriate for women who have been vaccinated against high risk HPV? A simulation study.
(2018-02-15)Women vaccinated against HPV16/18 are approaching the age for cervical screening; however, an updated screening algorithm has not been agreed. We use a microsimulation model calibrated to real published data to determine ...