Birth month affects lifetime disease risk: A phenome-wide method

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1042-1053

  Boland, Mary Regina ^a   Shahn, Zachary ^a   Madigan, David ^a   Hripcsak, George ^a   Tatonetti, Nicholas P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Electronic health records; Embryonic and fetal development; Maternal exposure; Personalized medicine; Pregnancy; Prenatal nutritional physiological phenomena; Seasons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGY; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIRTH MONTH; BRONCHUS CANCER; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFETIME DISEASE RISK; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MYOPIA; OTITIS MEDIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN BRUISING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALGORITHM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATA MINING; DISEASES; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATA MINING; DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945175578     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv046     Document Type: Article

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