Publications

(2023). Prognosis of Various Atrial Fibrillation Patterns in the General Population. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

(2023). Lipoprotein (a) and Progression of Aortic Valve Calcification: A Case of Collider Bias? Reply. European Heart Journal.

(2023). Impact of Waiting Time on Post-Transplant Survival for Recipients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Natural Experiment Randomized by Blood Group. JHEP Reports.

(2023). Falsification of the Instrumental Variable Conditions in Mendelian Randomization Studies in the UK Biobank. European Journal of Epidemiology.

(2023). Augmenting Treatment Arms with External Data through Propensity-Score Weighted Power-Priors: An Application in Expanded Access. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01557.

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(2022). Prenatal Smoking, Alcohol and Caffeine Exposure and Maternal-Reported Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Childhood: Triangulation of Evidence Using Negative Control and Polygenic Risk Score Analyses. Addiction (Abingdon, England).

(2022). Prenatal Exposure to Trans Fatty Acids and Head Growth in Fetal Life and Childhood: Triangulating Confounder-Adjustment and Instrumental Variable Approaches. European Journal of Epidemiology.

(2022). Plasma microRNA Signature of Alcohol Consumption: The Rotterdam Study. The Journal of nutrition.

(2022). Invited Commentary: Conducting and Emulating Trials to Study Effects of Social Interventions. American journal of epidemiology.

(2022). Diagnostic Accuracy of MRI Techniques for Treatment Response Evaluation in Patients with Brain Metastasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Radiotherapy and Oncology.

(2022). Causal Inference Using Observational Intensive Care Unit Data: A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Future Practice. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.

(2022). Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Brain Morphology: Examining Confounding Bias. ELife.

(2021). Physical Activity Spaces Not Effective against Socioeconomic Inequalities in Myopia Incidence: The Generation R Study. Optometry and Vision Science.

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(2021). Age-varying genetic associations and implications for bias in Mendelian randomization. medrXiv.

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(2021). Prenatal alcohol consumption and child IQ and cognition: a Mendelian randomization study. medrXiv.

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(2021). Mental Health in People with Parkinson's Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Potential for Targeted Interventions?. npj Parkinson’s Disease.

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(2021). Are Mendelian randomization investigations immune from bias due to reverse causation?. European Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2021). Genetic scores for adult subcortical volumes associate with subcortical volumes during infancy and childhood. Human Brain Mapping.

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(2021). Prenatal Exposure to Trans Fatty Acids in Relation to Brain Development in Fetal Life and Childhood: Calendar Time as an Instrumental Variable. Perinatal Determinants of Child Brain Development.

(2021). Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Child IQ and Cognition: A Mendelian Randomization Study. medRxiv.

(2021). Effect of COVID-19 Stressors on Mental Health and Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders.

(2021). Analysis of Early and Late Maternal Complications Associated with Delivery Using Propensity Score. Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia.

(2021). Age-Varying Genetic Associations and Implications for Bias in Mendelian Randomization. medRxiv.

(2021). Age-Varying Genetic Associations and Implications for Bias in Mendelian Randomization. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.

(2020). Estimating Reductions in Ethnic Inequalities in Child Adiposity from Hypothetical Diet, Screen Time, and Sports Participation Interventions. Epidemiology.

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(2020). Do Case-Control Studies Always Estimate Odds Ratios?. American Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2020). Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Children. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

(2020). Generating Evidence in the Age of COVID-19: Transmission of Sars-Cov-2 by Children. OSF Preprints.

(2020). Commentary: Mendelian Randomization with Multiple Exposures: The Importance of Thinking about Time. International journal of epidemiology.

(2020). Associations of Physical Activity and Screen Time with White Matter Microstructure in Children from the General Population. Neuroimage.

(2020). Application of the Instrumental Inequalities to a Mendelian Randomization Study with Multiple Proposed Instruments. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).

(2019). Mendelian randomization with multiple exposures-the importance of thinking about time. International Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2019). From GWAS to PheWAS: the search for causality in big data. The Lancet Digital Health.

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(2019). Interpretation and Potential Biases of Mendelian Randomization Estimates With Time-Varying Exposures. American Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2019). Health Profile Differences between Recipients and Non-Recipients of the Brazilian Income Transfer Program in a Low-Income Population. Cadernos de Saúde Pb́lica.

(2019). Diferenças No Perfil de Saúde Entre Beneficiŕios e Não-Benefici'íos Do Programa Bolsa Fam'iá Em Uma Populaçõ de Baixa Renda. Cadernos de Saúde Pb́lica.

(2018). Mendelian randomization with a binary exposure variable: interpretation and presentation of causal estimates. European Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2018). Understanding the Assumptions Underlying Instrumental Variable Analyses: a Brief Review of Falsification Strategies and Related Tools. Current Epidemiology Reports.

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(2018). Causal Null Hypotheses of Sustained Treatment Strategies: What Can Be Tested with an Instrumental Variable?. European Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2018). The Impact of Parental and Medical Leave Policies on Socioeconomic and Health Outcomes in OECD Countries: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature. The Milbank Quarterly.

(2018). Effect of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Length-for-Age and Weight-for-Age in Brazilian Infants at 24 Months Using Doubly-Robust, Targeted Estimation. Social Science & Medicine.

(2018). Conditional Cash Transfers and Child Health.

(2017). Target trial emulation: teaching epidemiology and beyond. European Journal of Epidemiology.

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(2017). Malignancy in Pediatric-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. The Journal of rheumatology.

(2017). Focus and Coverage of Bolsa Família Program in the Pelotas 2004 Birth Cohort. Revista de Saúde Pb́lica.

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(2016). Malignancy Incidence in 5294 Patients with Juvenile Arthritis. RMD Open.

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(2016). Health-Selective Migration among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Quebec :A Cohort Study Using Administrative Data. Rheumatology International.

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(2016). Commentary: Can a Quasi-Experimental Design Be a Better Idea than an Experimental One?. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).

(2016). Cancer in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Inception Cohort. 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting.

(2016). Can a Quasi-experimental Design Be a Better Idea than an Experimental One?. Epidemiology.

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(2015). Cancer Risk in 5,108 Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). Arthritis & Rheumatology.

(2014). Lung Cancer in SLE: An Update. Journal of Autoimmune Diseases and Rheumatology.

(2014). Cancer Risk Factors in SLE: Multivariate Regression Analysis in 16,409 Patients. Journal of Autoimmune Diseases and Rheumatology.

(2013). Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Validation Studies to Identify Rheumatic Diseases in Health Administrative Databases. Arthritis Care and Research.

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(2013). Estimating Health-Selective Migration in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Administrative Data. American Journal of Epidemiology.

(2013). Consensus Statements for the Use of Administrative Health Data in Rheumatic Disease Research and Surveillance. Journal of Rheumatology.

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(2013). Cancer Risk in Systemic Lupus: An Updated International Multi- Centre Cohort Study. Journal of Autoimmunity.

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(2013). Cancer Risk in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus.. Arthritis research & therapy.

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(2013). Breast Cancer in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Oncology.

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(2012). Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Systemic Sclerosis in the First Nations Population of Alberta, Canada. Arthritis Care and Research.

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(2012). Prevalence of Autoimmune Inflammatory Myopathy in the First Nations Population of Alberta, Canada. Arthritis Care and Research.

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(2012). Cancer in Pediatric-Onset Systemic Lupus: What Is the Role of Disease Duration and Other Factors on Risk?: 2475. Arthritis & Rheumatism.

(2012). Alberta's First Nations Community Is Not at Increased Risk of Inflammatory Myopathy: Population-based Prevalence Estimates Using Administrative Databases. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2012). A Population-Based Assessment of Live Births in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.. Annals of the rheumatic diseases.

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(2011). The Prevalence of Systemic Lupus in Alberta: A Population-Based Assessment. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2011). The Prevalence of Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases in Canadian Pediatric Populations: Administrative Database Estimates. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2011). Scleroderma Prevalence in Alberta: A Population-Based Assessment. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2011). Population-Based Prevalence Estimates of Myositis in First Nations Relative to Non-First Nations Canadians. Arthritis and Rheumatism.

(2011). Malignancy and JIA: Updated Results.. Arthritis & Rheumatism.

(2011). Malignancy and JIA: Updated Results. Arthritis and Rheumatism.

(2011). Malignancies in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Preliminary Report. Journal of Rheumatology.

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(2011). Is the Heightened Lung Cancer Risk in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Decreasing over Time? Data from a Very Large International Multi-Centre Cohort. Arthritis and Rheumatism.

(2011). Cancer Risk in Pediatric Systemic Lupus: Updated Analyses. Arthritis and Rheumatism.

(2011). A Systematic Review to Evaluate the Quality and Reporting of Administrative Database Validation Studies for Rheumatic Diseases. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2010). Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2010). Preliminary Analyses of Spatial Clustering of the Prevalence of Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases in Montreal, Quebec. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2010). Further Defining Cancer Risk in Systemic Lupus: Updated Results in an Expanded International Multi-Centre Cohort. Arthritis and rheumatism.

(2010). A Population-Based Ecological Investigation of the Relationship between Road Density and Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Prevalence. Journal of Rheumatology.

(2009). Indicator Species of Soil Nutrients and Poplar Plantation Productivity in Southeastern Quebec. McGill University.