#epidemiology — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/679538/ Hormone therapy during menopause transition associated with lower heart disease risk #BreastCancer #cancer #CardiovascularDisease #Éire #Epidemiology #Health #Healthcare #Heart #HeartFailure #Hormone #IE #Ireland #medicine #Menopause #pH #PublicHealth #Research #Stroke #therapy #Women'sHealth

Avoiding areas thought to be disease hotspots may actually make outbreaks worse if local case reporting is incomplete. New research involving #WorldPop scientists reveals how travel behaviour can distort health data and hide disease risks, especially in rural areas. Better local reporting could save lives.

https://www.worldpop.org/blog/why-staying-away-from-infection-hotspots-can-backfire/

#GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #GeoHealth #DiseaseSurveillance

What is the future of nutritional epidemiology?

Open Access
doi.org/10.59717/j.x...

#Nutrition #Diet #Epidemiology #health #aging #food

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uqeu4u5bjwieganft5z42pkk/post/3muuetkyaas2m

Challenges, advances and futur...

Comparison of the gut microbiota of people in France and Saudi Arabia https://www.diningandcooking.com/2799185/comparison-of-the-gut-microbiota-of-people-in-france-and-saudi-arabia/ #bacteria #ClinicalNutrition #Diabetes #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #general #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #PolicyAndPublicHealthInMicrobiology

Editorial handover at Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric #Epidemiology. Outgoing Craig Morgan's editorial about "Time for Change"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-026-03166-5

"[...] scientific journals are the products, and therefore the intellectual property, of scientific communities."

"There are many calls for the concept of statistical significance to be retired. I regret not implementing this in SPPE."

All the best to Uli Reininghaus and the new team!

#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor

Researchers evaluated two experimental Zika virus vaccines to understand the roles of antibodies and T cells, discovering that long-term viral protection requires a coordinated immune response from both components rather than relying on T cells alone.
#Immunology #Virology #Epidemiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/imgy08262601.html

Stuffed toys can release short-chain PFAS into saliva, study finds

A saliva-based test shows how plush toys may add to young children’s PFAS exposure, while revealing why a…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Chemicals #Children #Compound #Dyslipidemia #epidemiology #Fluorine #food #FoodSafety #Liver #oral
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/818057/

Stuffed toys can release short-chain PFAS into saliva, study finds

A saliva-based test shows how plush toys may add to young children’s PFAS exposure, while revealing why a…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Chemicals #Children #Compound #Dyslipidemia #epidemiology #Fluorine #food #FoodSafety #Liver #oral
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/818057/

The Bourbon virus is an emerging, rare viral pathogen transmitted by the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) that causes severe, influenza-like illness in humans.
#Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseases #Virology #Entomology #Immunology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/epi07212601.html

As someone prone to health anxiety, and an epidemiologist in training, I get the occasional scare.

Today I was halfway through leaf-blowing our garage before noticing mouse droppings. In Colorado, deer mice are common. They are the primary reservoir of Hantavirus, which spreads via aerosolized feces and urine (CDC, 2025).

For repeated occupational exposure, Hantavirus has an estimated attack rate of 0.00071, or 1 case per 1,412 individuals exposed via rodent handling (PMID: 18252096). This, however, was a short, one-time exposure.

With a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of ~35% (PMID: 21762572), my estimated odds of infection from this incident are about 1 in 3,332, then a 35% chance of death if infected.

The risk is low, but the reminder is important: never sweep or blow around mouse droppings. Spray, soak, and wipe. Even anxious epidemiologists need that reminder.

CDPHE - https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html

#Hantavirus #HealthAnxiety #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseaseEpidemiology #EnvironmentalEpidemiology

My opening credits for #ISOQOL

#1/
Greeted on the Hohenzollernbrücke with a statement from the results of the #SoliMed #Gesundheitsatlas #Köln 👇
https://solimed-koeln.de/gesundheitsatlas-koeln/
#SDoH #SocialDeterminants #Epidemiology

#2/
Then my final meeting as Editor in Chief of Quality Of Life Research. Counting down the issues, with the October one just out (two more to go):
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/33-10

#ISOQOL2024 #HRQL #HealthEconomics

Recommendations for conduct and write-up of observational studies from my #NightshiftEditor threads got some attention on #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7229141904678887424/

The five suggested papers in brief:

1) STROBE
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297

2) Confounder selection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447501/

3) DAG tutorial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821727/

4) Table 2 Fallacy
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/177/4/292/147738?login=false

5) Prediction vs causation
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974?login=false

#AcademicWriting #Epidemiology #StudyDesign

It was a really excellent first day at #MWMsymposium, thank you to all presenters!

I have posted some reflections and resources from the presenters in my🟦feed:
https://bsky.app/profile/jrboehnke.bsky.social

Tomorrow you will find me posting here about the talks.

#SDoH #HRQL #Epidemiology #ISOQOL

New #job posting: Research Fellow in Eco-Epidemiology & Human Ecology

https://globalecologyflinders.com/2023/05/11/new-job-postingresearch-fellow-in-eco-epidemiology-human-ecology/

#jobsearch #joboffer #jobs #ecojobs #Australia #disease #epidemiology #humanEcology #Indigenous #palaeoecology #modelling #sciencejobs #researchFellow #postdoc

Rather than having evolved in an immunocompromised person in South Africa as suspected, Omicron seems to have evolved in steps while circulating in West Africa during summer 2021 before exploding across the south that autumn.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8737

#ViralEvolution #Omicron #SarsCoV2 #Virology #WestAfrica #SouthAfrica #Immunocompromised #COVID19 #OriginOfCovid #ScienceMagazine #Phylogenetics #VirusEvolution #BA1 #VariantsOfSARSCoV2 #ViralGenetics #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseaseEpidemiology