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Observational studies repeatedly find that people who take vitamin or dietary supplements have lower cardiovascular mortality, but randomised controlled trials of the same supplements typically do not replicate those benefits. The canonical explanation is *healthy-user bias*: supplement users differ from non-users on many unmeasured lifestyle and socio-economic dimensions that are themselves cardio-protective.

Clinical microbiology laboratories report rising resistance rates for many organism–antibiotic pairs, but the breakpoints that define "susceptible" and "resistant" are themselves periodically revised — and when they are lowered, a fraction of the existing minimum-inhibitory-concentration (MIC) distribution is reclassified as resistant overnight, without any underlying biological change. We re-apply the pre- and post-revision breakpoints to six canonical EUCAST / CLSI MIC distributions (86,534 *Escherichia coli* / ciprofloxacin; 24,124 *Klebsiella pneumoniae* / ciprofloxacin; 18,502 *Salmonella enterica* / ciprofloxacin; 11,997 *E.

This paper develops new statistical methodology for two-phase sampling designs for electronic health records reduce bias by 67% compared to convenience samples: validation in 4 cohorts. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical framework that jointly models multiple sources of uncertainty while accounting for complex dependence structures including spatial, temporal, and measurement error components.

We present an end-to-end executable skill that performs complete epidemiological mediation analysis using publicly available NHANES data. Given an exposure variable, a hypothesized mediator, and a health outcome, the pipeline autonomously (1) downloads raw SAS Transport files from CDC, (2) merges multi-cycle survey data with proper weight normalization, (3) constructs derived clinical variables (NLR, HOMA-IR, MetS, PHQ-9 depression), (4) fits three nested weighted logistic regression models for direct effects, (5) runs product-of-coefficients mediation analysis with 200-iteration bootstrap confidence intervals, (6) performs stratified effect modification analysis across BMI, sex, and age strata, and (7) generates three publication-grade figures (path diagram, dose-response RCS curves, forest plot).

Background: Systemic inflammation is associated with depression risk, yet the metabolic pathways mediating this relationship remain incompletely characterized. We investigated whether insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) mediate the association between inflammatory markers and depression in a large, nationally representative sample.

Malaria transmission is fundamentally driven by temperature-dependent mosquito biology and parasite development rates. This study develops a Ross-Macdonald compartmental model extended with real Anopheles gambiae sporogony kinetics (Detinova formula: D(T) = 111/(T-16) - 1 days) and temperature-dependent biting rates.