Jonathan A. C. Sterne

How Much of the Data Published in Observational Studies of the Association between Diet and Prostate or Bladder Cancer Is Usable for Meta-Analysis? (2008)

Bekkering, Geertruida E., Harris, Ross J., Thomas, Steve, Mayer, Anne-Marie B., Beynon, Rebecca, Ness, Andrew R., ...

Epidemiologic investigations often report dose-response associations, which may be combined in meta-analyses. The authors examined how often the log odds, risk, or hazard ratio per unit increase in...

The Impact of Residual and Unmeasured Confounding in Epidemiologic Studies: A Simulation Study (2007)

Fewell, Zoe, Davey Smith, George, Sterne, Jonathan A. C.

Measurement error in explanatory variables and unmeasured confounders can cause considerable problems in epidemiologic studies. It is well recognized that under certain conditions, nondifferential...

A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies (2007)

Harbord, Roger M., Deeks, Jonathan J., Egger, Matthias, Whiting, Penny, Sterne, Jonathan A. C.

Studies of diagnostic accuracy require more sophisticated methods for their meta-analysis than studies of therapeutic interventions. A number of different, and apparently divergent, methods for...

A coronary heart disease risk model for predicting the effect of potent antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected men (2007)

May, Margaret, Sterne, Jonathan A C, Shipley, Martin, Brunner, Eric, D’Agostino, Ralph, Whincup, Peter, ...

Background Many HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) experience metabolic complications including dyslipidaemia and insulin resistance, which may increase their...

A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies (2007)

Harbord, Roger M., Deeks, Jonathan J., Egger, Matthias, Whiting, Penny, Sterne, Jonathan A. C.

Studies of diagnostic accuracy require more sophisticated methods for their meta-analysis than studies of therapeutic interventions. A number of different, and apparently divergent, methods for...

Nutritional interventions and outcome in patients with cancer or preinvasive lesions: systematic review (2006)

Davey Smith, George, Harbord, Roger, Sterne, Jonathan A C, Beynon, Rebecca, ...

BACKGROUND: Dietary modifications and supplements are used widely by patients with cancer and preinvasive lesions as an adjunct to standard treatment. Given the widespread use of nutritional...

Nutritional Interventions and Outcome in Patients With Cancer or Preinvasive Lesions: Systematic Review (2006)

Davies, Anna A., Davey Smith, George, Harbord, Roger, Bekkering, Geertruida E., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Beynon, Rebecca, ...

Background: Dietary modifications and supplements are used widely by patients with cancer and preinvasive lesions as an adjunct to standard treatment. Given the widespread use of nutritional...

A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies (2006)

Harbord, Roger M., Deeks, Jonathan J., Egger, Matthias, Whiting, Penny, Sterne, Jonathan A.C.

Studies of diagnostic accuracy require more sophisticated methods for their meta-analysis than studies of therapeutic interventions. A number of different, and apparently divergent, methods for...

Association of Childhood Socioeconomic Position with Cause-specific Mortality in a Prospective Record Linkage Study of 1,839,384 Individuals (2006)

Lawlor, Debbie A., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Tynelius, Per, Davey Smith, George, Rasmussen, Finn

Previous studies have lacked sufficient power to assess associations between early-life socioeconomic position and adult cause-specific mortality. The authors examined associations of parental social...

Regression models for twin studies: a critical review (2005)

Carlin, John B., Gurrin, Lyle C., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Morley, Ruth, Dwyer, Terry

Twin studies have long been recognized for their value in learning about the aetiology of disease and specifically for their potential for separating genetic effects from environmental effects. The...

Cause-specific hospital admission and mortality among working men: association with socioeconomic circumstances in childhood and adult life, and the mediating role of daily stress (2005)

Metcalfe, Chris, Davey Smith, George, Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Heslop, Pauline, Macleod, John, Hart, Carole L.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of childhood and adulthood social class with the occurrence of specific diseases, including those not associated with a high...

Estimating the Effect of Cardiovascular Risk Factors on All-Cause Mortality and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease Using G-Estimation: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (2002)

Tilling, Kate, Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Szklo, Moyses

Standard methods for analysis of cohort studies may give biased estimates of exposure effects in the presence of time-varying confounding. Such effects may instead be estimated by using G-estimation....

Dietary antioxidants and asthma in adults: population-based case-control study (2001)

Shaheen, Seif O., Sterne, Jonathan A.C., Thompson, Rachel L., Songhurst, Christina E., Margetts, Barrie M., Burney, Peter G.

A protective role for dietary antioxidants in asthma has been proposed. However, epidemiological evidence to implicate antioxidant vitamins is weak, and data on the role of flavonoid-rich foods and...

Capture-Recapture Models Including Covariate Effects (1999)

Tilling, Kate, Sterne, Jonathan A. C.

Capture-recapture methods are used to estimate the incidence of a disease, using a multiple-source registry. Usually, log-linear methods are used to estimate population size, assuming that not all...

Geographic Determinants of Leprosy in Karonga District, Northern Malawi (1995)

STERNE, JONATHAN A C, PÖNNIGHAUS, JÖRG M, FINE, PAUL E M, MALEMA, SIMON S

Background Geographical differences in leprosy risk are not understood, but may provide clues about the natural history of the disease. We report an analysis of the geographical distribution of...

Coverage and uptake of systematic postal screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis and prevalence of infection in the United Kingdom general population: cross sectional study

Macleod, John, Salisbury, Chris, Low, Nicola, McCarthy, Anne, Sterne, Jonathan A C, Holloway, Aisha, ...

Objective To measure the coverage and uptake of systematic postal screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis and the prevalence of infection in the general population in the United Kingdom. To...

Partner notification of chlamydia infection in primary care: randomised controlled trial and analysis of resource use

Low, Nicola, McCarthy, Anne, Roberts, Tracy E, Huengsberg, Mia, Sanford, Emma, Sterne, Jonathan A C, ...

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a practice nurse led strategy to improve the notification and treatment of partners of people with chlamydia infection.

Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: systematic review

Whiting, Penny, Harbord, Roger, Main, Caroline, Deeks, Jonathan J, Filippini, Graziella, Egger, Matthias, ...

Objective To determine the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging criteria for the early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in patients with suspected disease.

Coverage and uptake of systematic postal screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis and prevalence of infection in the United Kingdom general population: cross sectional study

Macleod, John, Salisbury, Chris, Low, Nicola, McCarthy, Anne, Sterne, Jonathan A C, Holloway, Aisha, ...

Objective To measure the coverage and uptake of systematic postal screening for genital Chlamydia trachomatis and the prevalence of infection in the general population in the United Kingdom. To...

Partner notification of chlamydia infection in primary care: randomised controlled trial and analysis of resource use

Low, Nicola, McCarthy, Anne, Roberts, Tracy E, Huengsberg, Mia, Sanford, Emma, Sterne, Jonathan A C, ...

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a practice nurse led strategy to improve the notification and treatment of partners of people with chlamydia infection.

Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: systematic review

Whiting, Penny, Harbord, Roger, Main, Caroline, Deeks, Jonathan J, Filippini, Graziella, Egger, Matthias, ...

Objective To determine the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging criteria for the early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in patients with suspected disease.

Vulvovaginal-Swab or First-Catch Urine Specimen To Detect Chlamydia trachomatis in Women in a Community Setting?▿

Skidmore, Sue, Horner, Paddy, Herring, Alan, Sell, Joanne, Paul, Ian, Thomas, Jane, ...

Screening for chlamydia in women is widely recommended. We evaluated the performance of two nucleic acid amplification tests for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis in self-collected vulvovaginal-swab...

Socioeconomic inequalities in health

Lawlor, Debbie A, Sterne, Jonathan A C

Are important but the effects of age and sex may be overlooked

Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

Wood, Lesley, Egger, Matthias, Gluud, Lise Lotte, Schulz, Kenneth F, Jüni, Peter, Altman, Douglas G, ...

Objective To examine whether the association of inadequate or unclear allocation concealment and lack of blinding with biased estimates of intervention effects varies with the nature of the...

The double jeopardy of clustered measurement and cluster randomisation

Kramer, Michael S, Martin, Richard M, Sterne, Jonathan A C, Shapiro, Stanley, Dahhou, Mourad, Platt, Robert W

Michael S Kramer and colleagues suggest that double clustering might explain the negative results of some cluster randomised trials and describe some strategies for avoiding the problem