Asthma, hay fever (or allergic rhinitis) and eczema (or atopic dermatitis) often coexist in the
same individuals 1 , partly because of a shared genetic origin 2 , 3 , 4 . To identify shared risk …

Objective: To examine whether vagotomy decreases the risk of Parkinson disease (PD).
Methods: Using data from nationwide Swedish registers, we conducted a matched-cohort study …

Background Immune system dysfunction may be associated with eating disorders ( ED ) and
could have implications for detection, risk assessment, and treatment of both autoimmune …

Background We addressed if immaturity relative to peers reflected in birth month increases
the likelihood of ADHD diagnosis and treatment. Methods We linked nationwide Patient and …

Recent work has shown that the Lasso-based regularization is very useful for estimating the
high-dimensional inverse covariance matrix. A particularly useful scheme is based on …

High Body mass index (BMI) has been directly associated with risk of aggressive or fatal
prostate cancer. One possible explanation may be an effect of BMI on serum levels of prostate‐…

Methods| We used 7 lead single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified to be of
genome-wide significance4 as IVs for TL and extracted the final estimates of these SNPs on AD …

Rationale: Observational studies have found shorter leukocyte telomere length (TL) to be a
risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), and recently the association was suggested to …

We investigate discretization of continuous variables for classification problems in a high‐
dimensional framework. As the goal of classification is to correctly predict a class membership …

Background: Stress has been suggested as a contributing factor in the etiology of Parkinson's
Disease (PD), but epidemiological evidence is sparse. Objective: The objective of this …