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2024
, , , et al. Psychosocial factors, health behaviors and risk of cancer incidence: Testing interaction and effect modification in an individual participant data meta-analysis. Int J Cancer. 10, 154 (2024). 10.1002/ijc.34852
Verschoor CP, Theou O, Ma J. et al. Age- and sex-specific associations of frailty with mortality and healthcare utilization in community-dwelling adults from Ontario, Canada. BMC Geriatr 24, 223 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-04842-4
Pan K-Y, van Tuijl L, Basten M, et al. The mediating role of health behaviors in the association between depression, anxiety and cancer incidence: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. Published online (2024). 10.1017/S0033291724000850
O’Sullivan DE, Ruan Y, Farah E, Hutchinson JM, Hilsden RJ, Brenner DR. Risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer: A Canadian prospective cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2024.102578
Stutheit-Zhao EY, Sanz-Garcia E, et al. Early Changes in Tumor-Naive Cell-Free Methylomes and Fragmentomes Predict Outcomes in Pembrolizumab-Treated Solid Tumors. Cancer Discov (2024) 14 (6): 1048–1063. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-1060
2023
O’Sullivan DE, Hillier TWR, Brenner DR, Peters CE, King WD. Time spent in the sun and the risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a Canadian cohort study. Cancer Causes Control. 2023 Sep;34(9):791-799. 10.1007/s10552-023-01719-6
Darvishian M, Moustaqim-Barrette A, Awadalla P, Bhatti P, Broet P, McDonald K, Murphy RA, Skead K, Urquhart R, Vena J, Dummer TJB. Provincial variation in colorectal cancer screening adherence in Canada; evidence from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health. Front Oncol. 2023 Jun 16;13:1113907. 10.3389/fonc.2023.1113907
, , , , . Importance of accounting for timing of time-varying exposures in association studies: Hydrochlorothiazide and non-melanoma skin cancer. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2023; 32(12): 1411–1420. 10.1002/pds.5674
van Tuijl LA, Basten M, Pan KY, et al. Depression, anxiety, and the risk of cancer: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Cancer. 2023 Oct 15;129(20):3287-3299. 10.1002/cncr.34853
Murphy TJ, Swail H, Jain J, et al. The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Canada: a time-series study, 2020-2023. CMAJ. 2023 Aug 14;195(31):E1030-E1037. 10.1503/cmaj.230249
Vasiliadis HM, Spagnolo J, Fleury MJ, et al. Factors associated with mental health service use during the pandemic: Initiation and barriers. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2024 Feb;70(1):59-69. 10.1177/00207640231194489
Vasiliadis HM, Spagnolo J, Bartram M, et al. Factors associated with change in moderate or severe symptoms of anxiety and depression in community-living adults and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Can J Public Health. 2024 Apr;115(2):230-243. 10.17269/s41997-023-00832-y
2022
Xu C, Nery PB, Wiefels C, et al. Negative Association of Smoking History With Clinically Manifest Cardiac Sarcoidosis: A Case-Control Study. CJC Open. 2022 Jun 9;4(9):756-762. 10.1016/j.cjco.2022.06.001
Kirsh VA, Skead K, McDonald K, et al. Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS), International Journal of Epidemiology, 52 2, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac156
Urquhart R, Awadalla P, Bhatti P, et al. Harnessing the power of data linkage to enrich the cancer research ecosystem in Canada. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2022 Aug 25;7(3):1950. 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1950
Sud, M, Sivaswamy, A, Chu, A. et al.Population-Based Recalibration of the Framingham Risk Score and Pooled Cohort Equations.JACC. 2022 Oct, 80 (14) 1330–1342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.07.026
Zhou W, Kanai M, Wu KH, et al. Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease.Cell Genom. 2022 Oct 12;2(10):100192. 10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100192
2021
Pader J, Basmadjian RB, O’Sullivan DE et al. Examining the etiology of early-onset breast cancer in the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath). Cancer Causes Control 32, 1117–1128 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-021-01460-y
, , , et al. Psychosocial factors and cancer incidence (PSY-CA): Protocol for individual participant data meta-analyses. Brain and Behavior, 11, e2340 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2340
Durrani R, Friedrich MG, Schulze KM, et al. Effect of Cognitive Reserve on the Association of Vascular Brain Injury With Cognition: Analysis of the PURE and CAHHM Studies. Neurology 97, 17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000012765
Lona-Durazo F, Mendes M, Thakur R. et al. A large Canadian cohort provides insights into the genetic architecture of human hair colour. Commun Biol 4, 1253 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02764-0
2020
Anand SS, Friedrich MG, Desai D, et al. Reduced Cognitive Assessment Scores Among Individuals With Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Detected Vascular Brain Injury. Stoke 51, 4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.028179
Hall KA, Singh M, Mukherjee S, Palmer LJ. Physical activity is associated with reduced prevalence of self-reported obstructive sleep apnea in a large, general population cohort study. J Clin Sleep Med. 2020 Jul 15;16(7):1179-1187. 10.5664/jcsm.8456
Singh M, Hall KA, Reynolds A, Palmer LJ, Mukherjee S. The Relationship of Sleep Duration with Ethnicity and Chronic Disease in a Canadian General Population Cohort. Nat Sci Sleep. 2020 Apr 15;12:239-251. 10.2147/NSS.S226834
Hall RE, et al. The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds: How Well Does It Reflect the Canadian Population? CJC Open 2, 6 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2020.07.013
Gerstein HC, Smith EE, Ramasundarahettige C, et al. Diabetes, Brain Infarcts, Cognition, and Small Vessels in the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Jan 23;106(2):e891-e898. 10.1210/clinem/dgaa815
2019
Fortier I, Harmonization of the Health and Risk Factor Questionnaire data of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: a descriptive analysis.
Deschênes SS, Burns RJ, Graham E, Schmitz N. Depressive symptoms and sleep problems as risk factors for heart disease: a prospective community study. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2019 Aug 20;29:e50. 10.1017/S2045796019000441
2018
Kleiderman E, Pack A, Borry P, Zawati M. The author who wasn’t there? Fairness and attribution in publications following access to population biobanks. PLOS ONE 13(3): e0194997 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194997
2017
Drucker AM, Qureshi AA, Dummer TJB, Parker L, Li W. Atopic dermatitis and risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction and stroke in a cross‐sectional analysis from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project. British Journal of Dermatology, Volume 177, Issue 4, 1 October 2017, Pages 1043–1051, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.15727
Dummer TJB, Awadalla P, Boileau C, et al. The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: a pan-Canadian platform for research on chronic disease prevention.
2016
Grace SL, Tan Y, Cribbie RA, et al. The mental health status of ethnocultural minorities in Ontario and their mental health care. BMC Psychiatry 16, 47 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0759-z
Labonté M-E, Kirkpatrick SI, Bell RC, et al. Dietary assessment is a critical element of health research – Perspective from the Partnership for Advancing Nutritional and Dietary Assessment in Canada. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. 41(10): 1096-1099 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2016-0146
Anand SS, Tu JV, Awadalla P, et al. Rationale, design, and methods for Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort study (CAHHM) – a Pan Canadian cohort study. BMC Public Health 16, 650 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3310-8
2015
Kardan O, Gozdyra P, Misic B, et al. Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center. Sci Rep 5, 11610 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11610
2010
Fortier I, Burton PR, Robson PJ, et al. Quality, quantity and harmony: the DataSHaPER approach to integrating data across bioclinical studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2010, Pages 1383–1393, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq139
Borugian MJ, Robson P, Fortier I, et al. The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: building a pan-Canadian research platform for disease prevention. CMAJ. 2010 Aug 10;182(11):1197-201. 10.1503/cmaj.091540
- Using Machine Learning, Population Cohorts and Healthcare Data to Capture the Earliest Determinants of Chronic Disease and Aging – Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Oxford, October 2024.
- Integrating cohorts and multi-omics to capture the earliest determinants of disease and aging – Research Canada Parliamentary Health Research Caucus, May 2024.
- The Ontario Health Study: A resource for cancer, disease and health research in Ontario and Canada – ICES Research Forum, Strength of Numbers: Partnering for Impact, May 2024. View PDF
- Intersection of Work and Health: New Occupational Data to Explore Work-Health Connections – The Ontario Public Health Convention, April 2024. View Online
- Big data and computational approaches to capturing the earliest determinants of cancer and healthy aging – Toronto Bioinformatics User Group (TorBUG), January 2024.
- Trainee Research Webinar: Unlocking the genetic secrets of healthy aging, disease progression, and prevention – CanPath Webinar, December 2023. View PDF
- The Ontario Health Study and the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health: A Prospective population resource for cancer, disease and health research in Ontario and Canada – OICR Molecular Diagnostics Open House, October 2023. View on YouTube
- Ontario Tumour Bank and Ontario Health Study: Machine learning resources and projects – Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Consortium virtual forum, September 2023.
- The Ontario Health Study: A resource for cancer, disease and health research in Ontario and Canada – OICR Corporate Services, July 2023. View PDF
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