TL;DR: Technical developments and opportunities to apply spatial analytic methods in epidemiologic research are highlighted, focusing on methodologies involving geocoding, distance estimation, residential mobility, record linkage and data integration, spatial and spatio-temporal clustering, small area estimation, and Bayesian applications to disease mapping.

TL;DR: Evaluating current estimates of VVC and RVVC and providing new prevalence estimates using data from a 2011 seven-country internet panel survey on VVC conducted by Ipsos Health suggests RVVC is a common condition.

TL;DR: The main causative factors that contribute to esophageal cancer in high-risk areas have not yet been elucidated and challenges in this research area include determining the causative role of nitrosamine and conducting fruitful international collaborative studies based on a multidisciplinary approach.

TL;DR: Results suggest that race disparities in obesity are larger among those with income greater than or equal to $100,000 and who are college graduates and it is possible that African Americans experience fewer health-related benefits of increased income and education levels compared with whites.

TL;DR: Greater HRV was modestly associated with lower lifetime CVD risk and Cox regression analyses with the false discovery rate method correction showed independent associations of SDNN, meanNN, LF, and LF/HF in women with CVD.

TL;DR: The relationship between HRs and relative risks is clarified in a way that may be better suited for the applied clinical researcher and authors are strongly encouraged to ascribe accurate interpretations to the statistics derived from fitted Cox proportional hazards regression models.

TL;DR: An in-depth review of the activities of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Epidemiology identifies an opportunity to elaborate on knowledge gained since the inception of the original Ethics Guidelines published by the ACE Ethics and Standards of Practice Committee in 2000.

TL;DR: The etiologic role of environmental risk factors for mesothelioma of the pericardium and TVT remains elusive and trends in the incidence of these malignancies do not match those of pleural mesot helioma, which correspond to historical trends of commercial asbestos use.

TL;DR: Evidence is found for nonlinear relationships between geographic access and mammography utilization (nonlinear effects of driving times and facility density, P-values .01 and .005) and having at least one nearby mammography facility was associated with greater mammography frequency among urban women.

TL;DR: New evidence is provided for an association between NHL and exposure to the herbicide 2,4-D and evaluations of heterogeneity, dose-response, and bias are seen.

TL;DR: Low socioeconomic status and increased travel burden are barriers to care disproportionately experienced by nH Black colon cancer patients, and factors that might account for the observed disparity are examined.

TL;DR: It is suggested that promoting an active lifestyle in childhood may contribute to the prevention of both internalizing and externalizing disorders during adolescence, as well as physical inactivity, sedentary behaviors, and diet quality in childhood.

TL;DR: Alcohol and marijuana each play a significant role in fatal crash initiation and when used in combination, alcohol and marijuana appear to have a positive interaction effect on the risk of fatal crash Initiation on the additive scale.

TL;DR: There is increasing call for the utilization of multilevel modeling to explore the relationship between place-based contextual effects and cancer outcomes in the United States, and a systematic review of studies published between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2016 found opportunities for future research.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that identifying the salient modifiable features of counties can inform targeted policies to reduce diabetes incidence and that counties with more exercise opportunities, access to healthy food, and primary care physicians had fewer diabetes cases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculated monthly suicide rates from 1999 to 2013 for men and women aged 15 and above using Poisson regression with robust variance, accounting for seasonal and nonlinear suicide trajectories.

TL;DR: Given the current obesity epidemic in the US and the consequences of perinatal depression, additional prevention and screening efforts in this population may be warranted.

TL;DR: The NDI and NDI-Plus can be successfully used with the NPCR algorithm to identify mortality and cause of death among active duty military cohort members who die in the United States.

TL;DR: Higher CRF is associated with lower total cancer incidence in men, and a novel finding suggests that eliminating low CRF as a risk factor would potentially prevent considerable cancer morbidity and reduce the societal and economic burden associated with cancer.

TL;DR: The potential of social networks in raising PrEP awareness and use among YBMSM is demonstrated, and the persistently unawares had a higher median number of total Facebook friends and the BAs had substantially more "influential" friends.

TL;DR: Model-based measures provide a flexible approach for calculating agreement and association and are robust to missing and unbalanced data as well as the underlying disease prevalence.

TL;DR: This commentary describes existing approaches to and competencies for training in epidemiology, maps macro trends with competencies, highlights an example of competency-based education in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and suggests expanded and more dynamic training approaches.

TL;DR: The odds of PTSD were particularly elevated among women with a history of childhood abuse and IPV, and 13% of the childhood abuse-PTSD association was mediated by IPV.

TL;DR: High-stable BMI trajectory in infancy resulted in a higher risk for obesity at the age of 6 years, but had low accuracy for identifying obese children at the rate of 1 in 6 years.

TL;DR: It is found that living in places segregated by one's racial or ethnic peers is associated with lower likelihood of late-stage CRC diagnosis, whereas the opposite is true for people living in highly segregated Asian communities, and living inhighly segregated Hispanic communities has no significant association.

TL;DR: By examining racial and socioeconomic disparities simultaneously, this work was able to detect both disparities in viral suppression among PLWH in NYC.

TL;DR: An interp pregnancy BMI increase of ≥3 units is associated with an increased risk of all outcomes, and the findings emphasize the importance of interpregnancy weight management.

TL;DR: Diabetes, fasting glucose, and plasma leptin were inversely associated with risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm risk, and the MetS was associated with increased risk of AAA, due to the influence of the non-glucose MetS components.

TL;DR: Low and high deciles of both baseline and mean platelet count were positively associated with total mortality, CHD mortality, cancer mortality, and non-CHD/noncancer mortality in postmenopausal women.