continuing professional education

Continuing Professional Education & Glossary by JECH


2008

• Hruschka (2008/11). A glossary of culture in epidemiology
• Gunasekara (2008/10). Glossary for econometrics and epidemiology
• Freeman (2008/9).Gone viral? Heard the buzz? A guide for public health practitioners and researchers on how Web 2.0
• Millar (2008/8). Glossary of terms relating to capture–recapture methods
• Starfield (2008/7). The concept of prevention: a good idea gone astray?
• Bambra (2008/1). The welfare state: a glossary for public health

2007

• Bambra (2007/12). The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation. 2. A systematic review of task restructuring interventions
• De Mario (2007/10). Income inequality measures
• Laurent (2007/08). Effect of socioeconomic status on the relationship between atmospheric pollution and mortality
• Rutherford (2007/08). Violence: a glossary, and Violence: a priority for public health? (part 2)
• Bambra (2007/07). A politics of health glossary
• Whitehead (2007/06). A typology of actions to tackle social inequalities in health
• Deary (2007/05). Cognitive epidemiology
• Moore (2007/04). Public health preparedness: a systems-level approach
• Decullier (2007/03). Oral presentation bias: a retrospective cohort study
• Burger (2007/03). A glossary on psychiatric epidemiology
• Rezaeian (2007/02).Geographical epidemiology, spatial analysis and geographical information systems: a multidisciplinary glossary
• Tite (2007/01). Why do peer reviewers decline to review? A survey

2006

• A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
• Benach (2006/11). Part 1, Terms from social psychology
• Muntaner (2006/12). Part 2 Terms from the sociology of work and organisations
• Hadden (2007/01). Part 3, Terms from the sociology of labour markets
• Bray (2006/10). Advanced paternal age: How old is too old?
• Baum (2006/10). Participatory action research
• Whittaker (2006/10). Pragmatic randomised controlled trials in parenting research: the issue of intention to treat
• Alvarez-Dardet (2006/08). Democratisation and health after the fall of the Wall
• Susser (2006/08). A personal history: social medicine in a South African setting, 1952–5. Part 2: Social medicine as a calling: ups, downs, and politics in Alexandra Township
• Labonte (2006/08). Glossary of the World Trade Organisation and public health: part 1    
• Labonte (2006/09). Glossary on the World Trade Organisation and public health: part 2   
• Carpiano (2006/07). A guide and glossary on postpositivist theory building for population health
• Popay (2006/07). Whose theory is it anyway?
• Dunn (2006/07). Speaking theoretically about population health
• Vagero (2006/07). Where does new theory come from?
• Carpiano (2006/07). Theory building on the high seas of population health: Love Boat, Mutiny on the Bounty, or Poseidon Adventure
• Hernan (2006/07). Estimating causal effects from epidemiological data
• Loue (2006/06). Community health advocacy
• Eriksson (2006/05). Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale and the relation with health: a systematic review
• Waters (2006/04). Evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions: the role and activities of the Cochrane Collaboration
• Barreto (2006/03). Infectious diseases epidemiology
• King (2006/03). What same sex civil partnerships may mean for health
• Galobardes (2006/01). Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1), and (part 2)

2005

• Agyemang (2005/12). Labelling African origin populations in the health arena in the 21st       
• Nguyen (2005/11). Terms in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology: I. Reproductive terms
• Nguyen (2005/12). Terms in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology: 2. Perinatal terms
• Krantz (2005/10). Violence against women
• Merlo. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology:
• 2005/09. Investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people
• 2005/12. Interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighborhood characteristics on individual health
• 2006/04. Using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena
• De Silva (2005/08). Social capital and mental illness: a systematic review
• McKee (2005/08). International cooperation and health. Part I: issues and concepts and Part 2: making a difference
• Baum (2005/07). Wealth and health: the need for more strategic public health research
• Neutra (2005/07). Glossary of terms used when discussing exposure to electric and magnetic fields
• Lindstrom (2005/06). Salutogenesis
• Merlo (2005/06). A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology
• Krieger (2005/04). Embodiment: a conceptual glossary for epidemiology
• Khawaja (2005/04). Poverty
• Pless (2005/03). Injury prevention: a glossary of terms
• Spencer (2005/02). Social paediatrics
• Barnett (2005/02). Excess in cardiovascular events on Mondays: a meta-analysis and prospective study
• McLaren (2005/01). Ecological perspectives in health research

2004

• Hawe (2004/12). A glossary of terms for navigating the field of social network analysis
• Halliday (2004/11). Genetics and public health—evolution, or revolution?
• Regidor (2004/10). Measures of health inequalities: part 1 and part 2
• Mackenbach (2004/09). Streets of Paris, sunflower seeds, and Nobel prizes. Reflections on the quantitative paradigm of public health
• Kawachi (2004/09). Five American authors on wealth, poverty, and inequality
• Almeida-Filho (2004/09). Saramago’s All the Names and the epidemiological dream
• Berridge (2004/09). History of addictions
• Delgado-Rodriguez (2004/08). Bias
• Rychetnik (2004/07). A glossary for evidence based public health
• Bhopal (2004/06). Glossary of terms relating to ethnicity and race: for reflection and debate
• Chapman (2004/05). Advocacy for public health: a primer
• Hernan (2004/04). A definition of causal effect for epidemiological research
• Jefferson (2004/04). Peer review
• Howden-Chapman (2004/03). Housing standards: a glossary of housing and health
• Barker (2004/02). Developmental origins of adult health and disease
• Rodriguez-Artalejo (2004/02). Cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention
• Tunstall (2004/01). Places and health

2003

• Illich (2003/12). Medical nemesis
• Kuh (2003/10). Life course epidemiology
• Mindell (2003/09). A glossary for health impact assessment
• Malats (2003/06). Basic molecular genetics for epidemiologists
• Malats (2003/07). Basic glossary on genetic epidemiology
• Malats (2003/08). Advanced glossary on genetic epidemiology
• Baum (2003/05). Social capital
• Berridge (2003/03). Public health history
• Garcia (2003/01). A glossary for research in occupational health 

The Celiac Surge

Article: The Celiac Surge
by Catherine Offord (TheScientist)
A rapid increase in the global incidence of the condition has researchers scrambling to understand the causes of the trend, and cope with the consequences. (Full Text)
Inforgraphic: Immune Irritation in the Gut

Geriatric Obesity - a Special Issue of International Journal of Obesity

Geriatric Obesity - a Special Issue of International Journal of Obesity

International Journal of Obesity just released a special issue on geriatiric obesity. It concluded that more research is needed to clarify the definition, to evaluate the tiem of treatment, and  strategies treatment of obesity in older adults.
Scoping review report: obesity in older adults

Abstract | Full Text

Obesity in the elderly: an emerging health issue Full Text | PDF

Stata articles

Stata Articles

• Cummings (2009). Methods for estimating adjusted risk ratios (pdf).
• Multiple imputation of missing values: further update of ice, with an emphasis on interval censoring (2007).
• Royston (2001). Flexible parametric alternatives to the Cox model, and more (stpm) (pdf).
• Lambert & Royston (2009). Further development of flexible parametric models for survival analysis (stpm2) (pdf).
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Journal: Significance

Significance is a quarterly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. Its aim is to communicate and demonstrate in an entertaining, thought-provoking and non-technical way the practical use of statistics in all walks of life and to show informatively and authoritatively how statistics benefit society.

• Bradley Efron and Efron’s bootstrap (2010), Statistical inference using bootstrap confidence intervals (2004)
• Introduction to Markov chains – the finite case (2010)
• Bayes factors (2006), Bayesian thought (2004), Statistics and the Bayesianmind (2007)
• Does significance matter? (2004)
• Making information beautiful – and clear (2011)
• The t-test tool (2008)
• Becoming familiar with multilevel modeling (2007)

Journal: Statistics Science

On this site, there are many quite knowledgeable articles and interviews:

• The Bootstrap and Bradley Efron: A Conversation with Good Friends (2003); Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Other Measures of Statistical Accuracy (1986)
• Understanding the shape of the hazard rate (2001)
• How to Lie with Statistics Turns Fifty (2005)
• The Bayes (2004)
• Struggles with Survey Weighting and Regression Modeling (2007)
• Statistics and the Environment (2003)
• Tribute to John W. Tukey (2003), A conversation with John W. Tukey and Elizabeth Tukey (2000)
• Voting, elections, and statistical science (2002)
• A Conversation with Chin Long Chiang (1999)
• Regression Models for Adjusting the 1980 Census (1986)
• The Central Limit Theorem Around 1935 (1986)

Obesity and Diabetes Articles

Obesity and Diabetes Articles

• Clinical Gems in Diabetes in Control: International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus
• NIH(2016). Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition, Diabetes in America, 2nd Edition
• Corkey (2016).What Causes Type 2 Diabetes?
• BMJ: Diabetes
• Bibliographic resource: Diabetes and the environment.
• International Society for Prediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (2009): The Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines
• Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes: tracing the reverse route from cure to cause (2008)
• IDF - Diabetes Atlas
• Diagnosis of Diabetes and prediabetes
• Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (ADA, 2013)
• Definition and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and intermediate hyperglycaemia (History of criteria) (WHO, 2006)
• Use of HbA1c in the diagnosis of diabetes (BMJ, 2012)
• Values for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (Venous, capillary of whole blood (1998)
• Added (A1c, prediabetes): Categories of increased risk for diabetes (2011)
• Added (A1c): Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (2010)
• Revised (FPG, prediabetes): Categories of increased risk for diabetes (2004)
• Revised (schemes): Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (2003)
• Revised (FPG): Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (1997)
• Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (1979)
• Homeostatic model assessment
• Wikipedia. Homeostatic model assessment
• Matthews (1985). Homeostatic model assessment
• Wallace (2004). Use and abuse of HOMA modeling
• Caumo (2006). New insights on the simultaneous assessment of insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function with the HOMA2 method
• Diabetes Care (2007). HOMA Point and Counterpoint
• Tabak (2009). Trajectories of glycaemia, insulin sensitivity, and insulin secretion
• Predicting type 2 diabetes
• German Institute of Human Nutrition (GIFE) provides a on-going systematic review and calculators of predicting model of type 2 diabetes.
• Obesity
• ConscienHealth (2018).The Counterintuitive Physiology of Obesity
• Levis (2016).Are All Calories Equal?
• Waist Circumference and Waist–Hip Ratio (WHO, 2008)
• R!: Body weight in the U.S. (2012)
• Damaged Hearts NEED Fat and Top 10 Super Foods To Control Diabetes fat (2011)
• Short sleep duration as a cause of obesity: myth or reality? (2011)
• Energy expenditure during sleep, sleep deprivation and sleep following sleep deprivation in adult humans (2010) This article support that sleep conserves energy and that sleep deprivation increases total daily EE in humans.
• Exercise and diet in weight management: updating what works (2010)
• Extra Calories Cause Weight Gain—But How Much? (2010)
• Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2011): "...A long-standing association exists between elevated triglyceride levels and cardiovascular disease* (CVD).  However, the extent to which triglycerides directly promote CVD or represent a biomarker of risk has been debated for 3 decades..."
• The Endocrine Function of Adipose Tissue: An Update (2006) - Medscape
• Lifestyle or medicine (2006)
• High-fructose corn syrup and obesity and diabetes (2009)
• Is Sugar Toxic? (2011) - NYTimes.com
• Brown Adipose Tissue: Function and Physiological Significance (2004) - Physilogical Reviews
• Upper and Lower Body Adipose Tissue Function (2004) - Obesity
• Obesity: BAI as a new measure of adiposity—throw away your scale? I will not use this index.
• An integrative view of obesity (2010) by David Heber another An Integrative View of Obesity (2007) by Brent E. Wisse et al.
• How Obesity Causes Diabetes: Not a Tall Tale (2005)
• Diabetes, Obesity, and the Brain (2005)
• Obesity in Biocultural Perspective (2006)
• Nature Insight: Obesity and Diabetes (2006)
• Science Special Issue: Obesity--What Is To Be Done? (2003)
• Measured Smoking-Related Chemicals in NHANES
• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
• Video Clips: Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Diseases
  • Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
  • Sugar: The Bitter Truth, an interesting talk.
  • Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity, another interesting talk but quite long.
  • What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Use of Alternative Thresholds Defining Insulin Resistance to Predict Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease -- Rutter et al. 117 (8): 1003 -- Circulation

Use of Alternative Thresholds Defining Insulin Resistance to Predict Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease
Source: Circulation

Background- The performance characteristics of surrogate insulin resistance (IR) measures, commonly defined as the top 25% of the measure's distribution, used to predict incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have not been critically assessed in community samples.  Methods and Results- Baseline IR was assessed among 2720 Framingham Offspring Study subjects by use of fasting insulin, the homeostasis model assessment of IR (HOMA-IR), and the reciprocal of the Gutt insulin sensitivity index, with 7- to 11-year follow-up for incident DM (130 cases) or CVD (235). Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity, specificity, and positive likelihood ratio were estimated at 12 diagnostic thresholds (quantiles) of IR measures. Positive likelihood ratios for DM or CVD increased in relation to IR quantiles; risk gradients were greater for DM than for CVD, with no 9th to 10th quantile (76th centile) threshold effects. IR had better discrimination for incident DM than for CVD (HOMA-IR area under the receiver operating characteristic curve: DM 0.80 versus CVD 0.63). The HOMA-IR 76th centile threshold was associated with these test-performance values: sensitivity (DM 68%, CVD 40%), specificity (DM 77%, CVD 76%), and positive likelihood ratio (DM 3.0, CVD 1.7). The HOMA-IR threshold that yielded >90% sensitivity was the 6th quantile for DM prediction and the 3rd quantile for CVD. Compared with the 76th centile threshold, these alternative thresholds yielded lower specificity (DM 43%, CVD 17%) and positive likelihood ratios (DM 1.6, CVD 1.1).  Conclusions- Surrogate IR measures have modest performance at the 76th centile, with no threshold effects. Different centile thresholds might be selected to optimize sensitivity versus specificity for DM versus CVD prediction if  surrogate IR measures are used for risk prediction.