Excess Deaths Attributable to the Los Angeles Wildfires From January 5 to February 1, 2025
Published in JAMA
August 2025
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Press Release: Boston University
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Identifying Patterns of Tobacco Use and Associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Machine Learning Analysis of Urine Biomarkers
Published in JACC Advances
February 2025
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Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023
Published in JAMA Network Open
January 2025
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Press Release: Boston University / University of Minnesota
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Excess Mortality as a Tool to Monitor the Evolution of Health Emergencies: Choices, Challenges, and Future Directions
Published in the American Journal of Public Health
May 2024
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Association of cigarette and electronic cigarette use patterns with all-cause mortality: A National Cohort Study of 145,390 US adults
Published in Preventive Medicine
March 2024
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Disparities in All-Cause Mortality Beyond the Acute Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
Published in Jama Network
February 2024
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Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths
Published in PNAS
February 2024
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Press Release: Boston University / University of Pennsylvania / University of Minnesota
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Monthly excess mortality across counties in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022
Published in Science Advances
June 2023
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Press Release: Boston University
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Missing Americans: Early death in the United States—1933–2021
Published in PNAS Nexus
May 2023
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Press Release: Boston University
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COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022
Published in JAMA Network Open
May 2023
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Press Release: Boston University
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E-Cigarette Use and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis of the PATH Study (2013–2019)
Published in Circulation
May 2022
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County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States
Published in SSM - Population Health
January 2022
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Loneliness, social isolation, and all-cause mortality in the United States
Published in SSM - Mental Health
August 2021
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Estimates of the Association of Dementia With US Mortality Levels Using Linked Survey and Mortality Records
Published in JAMA Neurology
August 2020
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Press Release: Boston University / University of Southern California
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The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement
Published in PNAS
January 2018
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Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches
Published in PLOS ONE
January 2017
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Press Release: Boston University
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