The Laboratory of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is a basic science and translational lab working in the intersection of public health and infection diseases, with a focus on vector studies and ...

Epidemiology is a tool, in many ways, to understand the distribution of disease in populations, and the factors that lead to ...

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders worldwide. Although its true prevalence is difficult to determine ...

Investigators reported an upward trend in the prevalence of diagnosed polycystic kidney disease, Alport syndrome, lupus nephritis, and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis from 2016 to 2020 and ...

Humans appear predisposed to atherosclerosis. Evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in mummies from Egypt, Peru, Ancestral Puebloans and Alaskan hunter-gatherers. Cholesterol was implicated in ...

Prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity estimated to increase, while hypercholesterolemia set to decline.

A new study finds the prevalence of developing celiac disease (CD) in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is similar to the general population. CD is an autoimmune disease caused by the ...

At this point in the COVID vaccination campaign, nearly all American adults who want the vaccine have gotten it and are gratefully snapping up their boosters too. Those who decline vaccination are ...