ContextAs the prevalence of obesity increases in the United States, concern over the association
of body weight with excess mortality has also increased.ObjectiveTo estimate deaths …

Background Effective antiretroviral therapy has reduced the risk of AIDS and dramatically
prolonged the survival of HIV-infected people in the United States. Consequently, an …

BACKGROUND: In 1989, Gail and colleagues developed a model for estimating the risk of
breast cancer in women participating in a program of annual mammographic screening (…

Certain important nonlinear regression models lead to biased estimates of treatment effect,
even in randomized experiments, if needed covariates are omitted. The asymptotic bias is …

BACKGROUND: In response to findings from the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial that tamoxifen
treatment produced a 49% reduction in the risk of invasive breast cancer in a population …

We report a set of tools to estimate the number of susceptibility loci and the distribution of
their effect sizes for a trait on the basis of discoveries from existing genome-wide association …

To assist in medical counseling, we present a method to estimate the chance that a woman
with given age and risk factors will develop breast cancer over a specified interval. The risk …

Background Epidemiologic evidence indicates that diets high in fruits and vegetables are
associated with a reduced risk of several cancers, including cancers of the esophagus and …

ContextThe association of body mass index (BMI) with cause-specific mortality has not been
reported for the US population.ObjectiveTo estimate cause-specific excess deaths …

Background To clarify which types of cancer result from AIDS, we compared the cancer
experiences of people with AIDS with those of the general population by matching population-…