Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Epidemiology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort161
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay87
Causal Identification Conditions for the Effect of Treatment in the Treated: Illustration Using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry81
Re. Prediagnostic Exposures and Cancer Survival: Can a Meaningful Causal Estimand be Specified?66
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology66
The Authors Respond51
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models46
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies45
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects45
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?40
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders37
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression36
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?31
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research30
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data29
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study28
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth28
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–202028
Use of Routinely Collected Data to Classify Planned Mode of Delivery Among Pregnancies With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: A Validation Study26
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study24
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?24
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?23
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data23
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome23
The Author Responds22
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?22
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach21
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize21
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population20
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data20
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown18
Comparative Risks of Opioid Overdose in Patients on Oxycodone Initiating Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors18
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects18
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness18
Using Measurement Error Parameters From Validation Data18
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–201818
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.17
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures16
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States16
A Framework for Thinking About the Potential Public Health Impact of Epidemiologic Research16
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care16
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth16
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders16
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France15
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II15
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women15
Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories14
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods14
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters14
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates14
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?14
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk13
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 202013
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden13
Improving inference in air pollution epidemiology: the case for rethinking multi-pollutant adjustment13
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research12
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina12
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models12
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias12
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study12
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study12
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome12
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study12
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?12
Thanks to Our Reviewers11
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties11
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide11
An expedited chart review process for large database studies using natural language processing and multi-wave adaptive sampling11
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive11
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure11
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records11
Identifying demographic predictors of increased non-fatal opioid overdose risk among New York State Medicaid enrollees following the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects11
The association between outdoor temperature during the past weeks and current fluid homeostasis11
Considerations for Estimating Causal Effects of Informatively Timed Treatments11
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort10
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study10
The Authors Respond10
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator10
Spatial heterogeneity in synergistic effects of extreme heat and NO2 exposures on cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in California10
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables10
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring10
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive10
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices: Erratum10
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity10
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences9
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure9
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination9
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke9
The Ideal Trial: Defining Causal Estimands that Balance Relevance and Feasibility in Target Trial Emulations and Actual Randomized Trials9
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies9
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure9
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets9
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction8
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs8
Unbiased Estimates Using Temporally Aggregated Outcome Data in Time Series Analysis: Generalization to Different Outcomes, Exposures, and Types of Aggregation8
Thanks to Our Reviewers 20258
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission8
Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution8
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study8
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States8
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria8
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase8
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk8
State Minimum Wages and Food Insecurity Among Households Receiving Government Food Assistance7
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”7
Bounds and E-values for Marginal Causal Effects7
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data7
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index7
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be7
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio7
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies7
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy7
Temporal variation in the association between short-term exposure to fine particulate matter and mortality across subpopulations in North Carolina and Michigan, U.S.7
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis6
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health6
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology6
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction6
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference6
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores6
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study6
Adapting Back-calculation Methods to Estimate the Incidence of Tuberculosis6
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox6
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain6
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital6
What Makes Something Worth Knowing? Epistemology and Public Health Impact6
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study6
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–20206
Longer-term Survival of UK People with Bleeding Disorders Infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Hepatitis C Virus Through Contaminated Blood Transfusions6
Comparison of Lactation Information from Electronic Health Records with Survey Data Across Five US Health Systems6
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age6
Validation of Body Mass Index-for-age percentile curves in older adults using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging6
Discretizing Continuous Event Time Data6
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects6
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-195
Selection of Comparator Group in Observational Drug Safety Studies: Alternatives to the Active Comparator New User Design5
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality5
Marco Piccininni, Winner of the 2024 Rothman Prize5
Target trial emulation without matching: a more efficient approach for evaluating vaccine effectiveness using observational data5
A New Criterion for Determining a Cutoff Value Based on the Biases of Incidence Proportions in the Presence of Non-differential Outcome Misclassifications5
Doubly Robust Control Outcome Calibration Approach Estimation of Conditional Effects with Uncontrolled Confounding5
The Prevalent New-user Design for Studies With no Active Comparator: The Example of Statins and Cancer5
Defining and Estimating Outcomes Directly Averted by a Vaccination Program when Rollout Occurs Over Time5
Advanced Approaches to Generating High-validity Real-world Evidence in Asthma5
A Call for Randomization: Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Disease5
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology5
Effects of Recall and Selection Biases on Modeling Cancer Risk From Mobile Phone Use: Results From a Case–Control Simulation Study5
On the Conventional Definition of Path-specific Effects: Fully Mediated Interaction With Multiple Ordered Mediators5
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential5
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island5
Sexual Mixing by HIV Status and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Addressing Information Bias5
The Impact of Power Outages on Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicare Fee-for-service Enrollees in New York State, 2017–20185
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus5
Pregnancy Exposure to Phenols and Anthropometric Measures in Gestation and at Birth5
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number5
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination5
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization5
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records5
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data5
Improving Biomarker-based HIV Incidence Estimation in the Treatment Era5
Adjusting Adjustments: Using External Data to Estimate the Impact of Different Confounder Sets on Published Associations5
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects5
Heat-attributable Mortality in the Summer of 2022 in Spain5
Accounting for Misclassification and Selection Bias in Estimating Effectiveness of Self-managed Medication Abortion4
Applying the Target Study Conceptual Model to Measure Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Treatment Intensification4
The Authors Respond4
Spatial Difference-in-Differences with Bayesian Disease Mapping Models4
Investigating the Potential Short-term Adverse Effects of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Novel Regression Discontinuity Analysis4
Homogeneity in the Instrument-exposure Association and Point Estimation Using Binary Instrumental Variables4
Re. E-values for Mendelian Randomization4
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices4
Gestational Hypertensive Disorders and Maternal Breast Cancer Risk in a Nationwide Cohort of 40,720 Parous Women4
Understanding Algorithmic Fairness for Clinical Prediction in Terms of Subgroup Net Benefit and Health Equity4
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Mortality and Hospitalization Among People With Opioid Use-related Infections4
Spatial Variability and Clustering of Life Expectancy in the United States: 1990–20194
Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Time-varying Mediators4
Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Central North Carolina: Accounting for Outcome Misclassification in Complex Sample Designs4
Impact of Activity Participation on the Risk of Mortality and Hospitalizations in Danish Men and Women: Insights from REGLINK-SHAREDK4
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor4
Re: Don’t Let Your Analysis Go to Seed: On the Impact of Random Seed on Machine Learning-based Causal Inference4
Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational Inequity in Life Expectancy4
A Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis of HIV/STI Prevention and Healthcare Access Among Transgender and Nonbinary People4
The Association Between Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Anemia in HIV/AIDS Patients4
Cold-related Mortality in US State and Private Prisons: A Case–Crossover Analysis4
Back to Basics: What Descriptive Epidemiology Can Teach Us About the Recent Rise in Firearm Homicide4
Incorporating Data from Multiple Endpoints in the Analysis of Clinical Trials: Example from RSV Vaccines4
Causal Approaches to Disease Progression Analyses4
Visualizing External Validity: Graphical Displays to Inform the Extension of Treatment Effects from Trials to Clinical Practice4
The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 20163
Re. Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination3
Considerations for the Analysis of Urinary Environmental Chemical Concentrations During Pregnancy3
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws3
The Authors Respond3
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: A Time-Series Analysis from 2010 to 20173
Migration and Health: Chasing Causality in a Complex World3
Investigating Symptom Duration Using Current Status Data: A Case Study of Postacute COVID-19 Syndrome3
Differential Participation, a Potential Cause of Spurious Associations in Observational Cohorts in Environmental Epidemiology3
Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness3
The Promise of Intersectional Critique for Epidemiology3
Understanding Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates in the United States: The Role of Rotavirus Activity and Diagnostic Misclassification3
Beta Approach for Risk Summarization: An Empirical Bayes Method for Summarizing Pregnancy History to Predict Later Health Outcomes3
Association of Early-life Trauma With Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy3
Commentary: The Seedy Side of Causal Effect Estimation with Machine Learning3
Decomposing the Black–White Racial Disparity in Severe Maternal Morbidity Risk: The Role of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy3
Validation of Long-term Recall of Pregnancy-related Weight in the Life-course Experiences And Pregnancy Study3
Associations of Local Cannabis Control Policies With Harmful Cannabis Exposures Reported to the California Poison Control System3
Risk Factors and Inequities in Transportation Injury and Mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs)3
Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs3
Five Facts About Influence Functions3
The Role of Epidemiology in Addressing Ableism3
Increased Residential Clustering of COVID-19 Cases Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern B.1.1.73
In utero Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and the Risk of Cerebral Palsy: A Population-based Cohort Study3
The Population-level Effect of Adjuvant Therapies on Breast Cancer Recurrence: Application of the Trend-in-Trend Design3
Interpretations of Studies on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Post-acute COVID-19 Sequelae3
Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis3
Validation of Parent-reported Gestational Age Categories for Children Less Than 6 Years of Age2
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat2
The Recent Rise in Homicide: An Analysis of Weekly Mortality Data, United States, 2018–20222
Long-term Traffic-related Air Pollutant Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis2
Neighborhood-level Measures of Structural Racism and Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Black Mothers in California2
Handling Multivariable Missing Data in Causal Mediation Analysis Estimating Interventional Effects2
Mind the Gap: Addressing Missing Person Time When Estimating Outcome Incidence in Longitudinal Data2
Is Leaving the House a Protective Factor Against Early Death?: Informing Interventions Demands More Specific Exposures2
Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide2
An Overview of Current Methods for Real-world Applications to Generalize or Transport Clinical Trial Findings to Target Populations of Interest2
The Authors Respond2
Housing and Preterm Birth, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death in Canada: A Population-based Study Using 2006 and 2016 National Census Data2
Role of Air Pollution in the Development of Asthma Among Children with a History of Bronchiolitis in Infancy2
Jørn Olsen, 20 May 1946–5 January 20262
Studying Continuous, Time-varying, and/or Complex Exposures Using Longitudinal Modified Treatment Policies2
Transportability Without Positivity: A Synthesis of Statistical and Simulation Modeling2
Outcome of Pregnancy Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and Preterm Birth2
Use of health administrative data to identify migraine in individuals with a recognized pregnancy: A validation study in Ontario, Canada: Erratum2
The Contribution of Noncommunicable and Infectious Diseases to the Effect of Depression on Mortality: A Longitudinal Causal Mediation Analysis2
Erratum: “The Effect of Mobile Stroke Unit Care on Functional Outcomes: An Application of the Front-door Formula”2
Urinary Biomarkers of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Timing of Pubertal Development: The California PAH Study2
Mortality Associated With Heatwave Severity in the Three Largest Australian Cities2
Maternal History of Childhood Maltreatment and Pregnancy Weight Outcomes2
Re: Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?2
Defining Spatial Epidemiology: A Systematic Review and Re-orientation2
Antibiotics and Preterm Delivery: The Prevalent New-user Cohort Design to Resolve Immortal Time Bias2
Comparative Analysis of Instrumental Variables on the Assignment of Buprenorphine/Naloxone or Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder2
Mixture Models for Social Epidemiology: Opportunities and Cautions2
The Authors Respond2
Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Childhood Autism-related Outcomes2
Erratum: Average Causal Effect Estimation via Instrumental Variables: The No Simultaneous Heterogeneity Assumption2
Computing True Parameter Values in Simulation Studies Using Monte Carlo Integration2
Multilevel Resilience and Appointment Attendance Among African American/Black Adults with HIV: A Prospective Multisite Cohort Study2
Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting and Confounder Missingness in Electronic Health Record-based Analyses: A Comparison of Approaches Using Plasmode Simulation2
The Relationship of Preconception and Early Pregnancy Isoprostanes with Fecundability and Pregnancy Loss2
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