Neighborhood problems and health among older adults: received and donated social support and the sense of mastery as effect modifiers (cambridge.org)
The Swedish study involving 25,474 women is the first to quantify the combined effects of smoking and age at menopause on overall mortality in terms of survival time by investigating the role of smoking as a possible effect modifier. (sciencedaily.com)
Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc. (journals.plos.org)