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| Sara ObergSummaryAffiliation: Karolinska Institutet Country: Sweden Publications
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Ethnic differences in the association of birth weight and blood pressure: the Georgia cardiovascular twin studySara Oberg
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Am J Hypertens 20:1235-41. 2007..However, most previous studies in biethnic samples have not found a significant inverse association between birth weight and blood pressure in AAs...
Birth weight-breast cancer revisited: is the association confounded by familial factors?Sara Oberg
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Box 281 Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2447-52. 2009..The study aimed to investigate whether the association between birth weight and the risk of breast cancer can be confounded by familial factors, such as shared environment and common genes...
Birth weight predicts risk of cardiovascular disease within dizygotic but not monozygotic twin pairs: a large population-based co-twin-control studySara Oberg
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE 171 77, Sweden
Circulation 123:2792-8. 2011..Within-twin-pair analysis provides a unique opportunity to investigate whether factors shared within twin pairs influence the association...
Twinship influence on morbidity and mortality across the lifespanSara Oberg
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Epidemiol 41:1002-9. 2012..To better understand the influence twinning may have on health, we investigated long-term health outcomes of twins, their singleton siblings and singletons from the population...
Sibling comparison designs: bias from non-shared confounders and measurement errorThomas Frisell
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Epidemiology 23:713-20. 2012..Implications for the interpretation of sibling comparison results are discussed...
Familial aggregation of schizophrenia: the moderating effect of age at onset, parental immigration, paternal age and season of birthAnna C Svensson
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Public Health 40:43-50. 2012..An abundance of evidence has firmly established the familial aggregation of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to examine how age at onset, parental characteristics and season of birth modify the familiality in schizophrenia...
