Karen Swallen

Summary

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Data quality and adjusted Hispanic mortality in the United States, 1989-1991
    Karen Swallen
    Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
    Ethn Dis 13:126-33. 2003
  2. ncbi Overweight, obesity, and health-related quality of life among adolescents: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
    Karen C Swallen
    Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
    Pediatrics 115:340-7. 2005
  3. ncbi Race and genomics
    Karen C Swallen
    N Engl J Med 348:2581-2; author reply 2581-2. 2003

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi Data quality and adjusted Hispanic mortality in the United States, 1989-1991
    Karen Swallen
    Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
    Ethn Dis 13:126-33. 2003
    ..Our main objective was to determine whether data quality biases mortality statistics. We calculated the impact of misclassification of ethnicity on death certificates in order to create adjusted mortality estimates...
  2. ncbi Overweight, obesity, and health-related quality of life among adolescents: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
    Karen C Swallen
    Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
    Pediatrics 115:340-7. 2005
    ..We investigated the association between obesity and health-related quality of life in a nationally representative sample of adolescents...
  3. ncbi Race and genomics
    Karen C Swallen
    N Engl J Med 348:2581-2; author reply 2581-2. 2003