Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Epidemiology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort101
The Authors Respond94
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models88
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects61
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?52
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression50
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay47
Re. Prediagnostic Exposures and Cancer Survival: Can a Meaningful Causal Estimand be Specified?46
Causal Identification Conditions for the Effect of Treatment in the Treated: Illustration Using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry45
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies43
Oral manifestations of HIV as indicators of disease progression and antiretroviral therapy adherence: A scoping review33
A prospective study on the association between potential prescribing omissions and hospitalizations in community-dwelling older adults32
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research31
Comparative Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness During Omicron Using Conventional and Causal Inference Approaches in a Longitudinal Cohort31
Application of the E-value under non-proportional hazards30
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data27
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?26
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–202026
Long-term Effect of the Medicaid Expansion Program on Cancer Mortality by U.S. Region, Gender and Race/Ethnicity26
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study25
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study24
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?24
Use of Routinely Collected Data to Classify Planned Mode of Delivery Among Pregnancies With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: A Validation Study24
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data24
Re: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects23
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?22
Associations of reproductive factors with expression of stromal markers in women with benign breast biopsies22
Metabolic syndrome and memory decline: evidence from a longitudinal aging cohort in rural South Africa22
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?22
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome21
Are We the Same, or Are We Different?: Untangling Education Policy Effects from State and Birth-year Differences19
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth19
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach18
The Author Responds18
Transporting Results from a Trial to an External Target Population When Trial Participation Impacts Adherence: Erratum18
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize17
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness17
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population17
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects17
Comparative Risks of Opioid Overdose in Patients on Oxycodone Initiating Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors16
A Framework for Thinking About the Potential Public Health Impact of Epidemiologic Research16
Using Measurement Error Parameters From Validation Data16
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States15
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.15
Gut Health, Systemic Inflammation, and Linear Growth Among Indonesian Infants: Findings From the Action Against Stunting Hub Observation Cohort: Erratum14
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data14
Generalizing Findings in Nested Cohorts14
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders14
Reproductive Health in an Era of Cascading Inequity: The “Double Jeopardy” of Environmental Stressors and Gaps in the Social Safety Net14
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown14
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates13
Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories13
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures13
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters13
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth13
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care13
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France13
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden12
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study12
Improving Inference in Air Pollution Epidemiology: The Case for Rethinking Multipollutant Adjustment12
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women12
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk11
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods11
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II11
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?11
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome11
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research11
Molecular characterization of norovirus circulating in district Lahore11
Impact of Abortion-Limiting Legislation on Preterm and Early Term Birth in Atlanta, Georgia, 2020-202311
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 202011
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias11
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study10
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models10
The Association Between Outdoor Temperature During the Past Weeks and Current Fluid Homeostasis10
The Long Arm of Childhood Policy: Historical Schooling Laws and COVID-19 Pandemic-era Mortality10
Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Extreme Heat and NO2 Exposures on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California10
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices: Erratum10
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina10
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties10
Thanks to Our Reviewers10
An Expedited Chart Review Process for Large Database Studies Using Natural Language Processing and Multiwave Adaptive Sampling9
Everything All at Once: On Choosing an Estimand for Multi-component Environmental Exposures9
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records9
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide9
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study9
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study9
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive9
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure9
Considerations for Estimating Causal Effects of Informatively Timed Treatments9
The Authors Respond8
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure8
Identifying Demographic Predictors of Increased Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Risk Among New York State Medicaid Enrollees After the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects8
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity8
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets8
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables8
Against Resignation on Prespecification: Reproducibility and Target Trial Emulation8
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring8
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator7
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States7
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke7
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk7
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs7
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies7
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive7
The Ideal Trial: Defining Causal Estimands that Balance Relevance and Feasibility in Target Trial Emulations and Actual Randomized Trials7
Julianne Skarha, Winner of the 2026 Rothman Prize7
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study7
Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution7
Thanks to Our Reviewers 20257
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure7
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination7
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria7
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio7
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission7
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”6
State Minimum Wages and Food Insecurity Among Households Receiving Government Food Assistance6
Comparison of Lactation Information from Electronic Health Records with Survey Data Across Five US Health Systems6
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies6
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index6
Temporal Variation in the Association Between Short-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality Across Subpopulations in North Carolina and Michigan, U.S.6
Adapting Back-calculation Methods to Estimate the Incidence of Tuberculosis6
Longitudinal Transitions Between Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Associations with Substance Use among US Young Adults, 2016–20236
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada6
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology6
Nesting a Target Study within a Target Trial: A Framework for Evaluating Intervention Effects on Disparities6
Bounds and E-values for Marginal Causal Effects6
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis6
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health6
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy6
Unbiased Estimates Using Temporally Aggregated Outcome Data in Time Series Analysis: Generalization to Different Outcomes, Exposures, and Types of Aggregation6
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain6
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox6
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–20206
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data6
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be6
Longer-term Survival of UK People with Bleeding Disorders Infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Hepatitis C Virus Through Contaminated Blood Transfusions6
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction6
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction6
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records5
Validation of Body Mass Index-For-Age Percentile Curves in Older Adults Using Data From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging5
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects5
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age5
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus5
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization5
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital5
What Makes Something Worth Knowing? Epistemology and Public Health Impact5
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores5
A New Criterion for Determining a Cutoff Value Based on the Biases of Incidence Proportions in the Presence of Non-differential Outcome Misclassifications5
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality5
A Call for Randomization: Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Disease5
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study5
Discretizing Continuous Event Time Data5
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study5
Heat-attributable Mortality in the Summer of 2022 in Spain5
Marco Piccininni, Winner of the 2024 Rothman Prize5
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference5
Lagged and Nonlinear Effects of Temperature Extremes on Mortality in US Federal Prisons: A Case-Crossover Study, 2009–20214
Mapping Food Is Medicine Across Texas: Regional and Demographic Disparities in Program Availability4
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential4
Effects of Recall and Selection Biases on Modeling Cancer Risk From Mobile Phone Use: Results From a Case–Control Simulation Study4
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number4
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects4
Effects of Lagged Deforestation on Malaria Risk in the Peruvian Amazon: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis4
Doubly Robust Control Outcome Calibration Approach Estimation of Conditional Effects with Uncontrolled Confounding4
Excess mortality following discharge from substance use disorder treatment in Chile, 2010–20204
Target Trial Emulation Without Matching: A More Efficient Approach for Evaluating Vaccine Effectiveness Using Observational Data4
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology4
Defining and Estimating Outcomes Directly Averted by a Vaccination Program when Rollout Occurs Over Time4
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data4
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island4
Associations between area-level deprivation at the Census tract level and preterm birth in the Biosocial Impact of Black Births (BIBB) Study4
Improving Biomarker-based HIV Incidence Estimation in the Treatment Era4
Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Time-varying Mediators4
The Prevalent New-user Design for Studies With no Active Comparator: The Example of Statins and Cancer4
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination4
Revisiting Severe Maternal Morbidity Recurrence: Selection Bias and the Implications for Risk Estimation Across Pregnancies4
Stratification and Accumulation?: Explaining Changing Mortality Inequities Between Business Owners and Non-owners in the United States (1984–2022)4
Joint effects of prenatal pesticide exposure and maternal psychosocial stressors on brain development in children from a South African birth cohort4
Can the All of Us sample be reweighted to mirror a nationally representative sample? A comparison of mortality predictors4
Adjusting Adjustments: Using External Data to Estimate the Impact of Different Confounder Sets on Published Associations4
Advanced Approaches to Generating High-validity Real-world Evidence in Asthma3
Spatial Difference-in-Differences with Bayesian Disease Mapping Models3
Incorporating Data from Multiple Endpoints in the Analysis of Clinical Trials: Example from RSV Vaccines3
Understanding Algorithmic Fairness for Clinical Prediction in Terms of Subgroup Net Benefit and Health Equity3
Visualizing External Validity: Graphical Displays to Inform the Extension of Treatment Effects from Trials to Clinical Practice3
Re: Don’t Let Your Analysis Go to Seed: On the Impact of Random Seed on Machine Learning-based Causal Inference3
Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational Inequity in Life Expectancy3
The Association Between Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Anemia in HIV/AIDS Patients3
Gut health, systemic inflammation, and linear growth among Indonesian infants: findings from the Action Against Stunting Hub observation cohort3
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Mortality and Hospitalization Among People With Opioid Use-related Infections3
Investigating the Potential Short-term Adverse Effects of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Novel Regression Discontinuity Analysis3
Applying the Target Study Conceptual Model to Measure Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Treatment Intensification3
Back to Basics: What Descriptive Epidemiology Can Teach Us About the Recent Rise in Firearm Homicide3
Re. E-values for Mendelian Randomization3
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor3
Body size and composition in relation to the risk of thyroid autoimmunity in children: A prospective analysis in the TEDDY cohort3
Causal Approaches to Disease Progression Analyses3
Accounting for Misclassification and Selection Bias in Estimating Effectiveness of Self-managed Medication Abortion3
Mapping the epidemiology of oral Candida and cognitive decline: A scoping review of emerging evidence3
Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Central North Carolina: Accounting for Outcome Misclassification in Complex Sample Designs3
Cold-related Mortality in US State and Private Prisons: A Case–Crossover Analysis3
The Separate and Joint Associations of Own and Spousal Depression with Mortality in Couples3
The Impact of Power Outages on Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicare Fee-for-service Enrollees in New York State, 2017–20183
A Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis of HIV/STI Prevention and Healthcare Access Among Transgender and Nonbinary People3
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices3
Association of Early-life Trauma With Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy3
Causal Estimands for Analyses of Averted and Avertible Outcomes due to Infectious Disease Interventions: Erratum3
Impact of Activity Participation on the Risk of Mortality and Hospitalizations in Danish Men and Women: Insights from REGLINK-SHAREDK3
Primary Care Strategies for Managing Multimorbidity Among Adults Aged 65+ in Low-Resource Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review3
Examining the influence of local inclusionary zoning policies on the relationship between type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 mortality3
Spatial Variability and Clustering of Life Expectancy in the United States: 1990–20193
The Authors Respond3
The Population-level Effect of Adjuvant Therapies on Breast Cancer Recurrence: Application of the Trend-in-Trend Design2
Erratum: Definition and Interpretation of Separable Path-specific Effects With Multiple Ordered Mediators2
Evaluating Estimators in Partially Identified Models2
Indoor Radon Concentrations and Hematologic Traits in the Women’s Health Initiative2
Neighborhood-level Measures of Structural Racism and Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Black Mothers in California2
Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs2
Examining the Interactive Associations of Cannabis and Alcohol Outlets With Self-harm Injuries in California: A Spatiotemporal Analysis2
Beta Approach for Risk Summarization: An Empirical Bayes Method for Summarizing Pregnancy History to Predict Later Health Outcomes2
Antibiotics and Preterm Delivery: The Prevalent New-user Cohort Design to Resolve Immortal Time Bias2
Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness2
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: A Time-Series Analysis from 2010 to 20172
Validation of Long-term Recall of Pregnancy-related Weight in the Life-course Experiences And Pregnancy Study2
Migration and Health: Chasing Causality in a Complex World2
Estimation of the Time-Varying Incremental Effect of Low-dose Aspirin on Incidence of Pregnancy2
The Contribution of Noncommunicable and Infectious Diseases to the Effect of Depression on Mortality: A Longitudinal Causal Mediation Analysis2
Accounting for Twins and Other Multiple Births in Perinatal Studies of Live Births Conducted Using Healthcare Administration Data2
A Quasi-experimental Study of General Practices’ Referral to Mammography in the Posttrial Treatment Era2
Mixture Models for Social Epidemiology: Opportunities and Cautions2
Riesz Representers for the Rest of Us2
Jørn Olsen, 20 May 1946–5 January 20262
Considerations for the Analysis of Urinary Environmental Chemical Concentrations During Pregnancy2
The Association between Abortion legalization and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Uruguay2
Decomposing the Black–White Racial Disparity in Severe Maternal Morbidity Risk: The Role of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy2
The Role of Epidemiology in Addressing Ableism2
In utero Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and the Risk of Cerebral Palsy: A Population-based Cohort Study2
Outcome of Pregnancy Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and Preterm Birth2
Handling Multivariable Missing Data in Causal Mediation Analysis Estimating Interventional Effects2
Use of Health Administrative Data to Identify Migraine in Individuals With a Recognized Pregnancy: A Validation Study in Ontario, Canada: Erratum2
Transportability Without Positivity: A Synthesis of Statistical and Simulation Modeling2
Associations of alcohol use with expression of stromal markers in benign breast biopsy samples2
Self-reported Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Vaccine Effectiveness Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Quantitative Bias Analysis2
Five Facts About Influence Functions2
The Authors Respond2
Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis2
Racially restrictive covenants in public health2
Re. Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination2
The Authors Respond2
Investigating Symptom Duration Using Current Status Data: A Case Study of Postacute COVID-19 Syndrome2
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