Bell ML

ORCID: 0000-0002-3965-1359 · 6 papers in corpus
2026
The Creation of a Weight of Evidence Scoring Database for Risk Factors for Adverse Impacts to Birth Outcomes Using Expert Elicitation.
Birth defects research ·doi:10.1002/bdr2.70011

BackgroundAdverse birth outcomes are important public health measures and account for a substantial public health burden. There is considerable diversity of these health endpoints, as well as in the many factors suspected or recognized to i…

2025
Infertility burden among women firefighters: a cross-sectional exploratory analysis.
Occupational and environmental medicine ·doi:10.1136/oemed-2024-109967

ObjectivesDespite biological and environmental plausibility, risk factors for infertility have not yet been studied among female firefighters. In this exploratory analysis, we investigated the burden of infertility among a subset of US fire…

2020
Feasibility and acceptability of testing a menstrual-cycle timed smoking cessation intervention for women of reproductive age (Project Phase): Protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Contemporary clinical trials communications ·doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100569

BackgroundCompared to men, women have unique barriers to smoking cessation and are less likely to utilize quitline services. While current clinical recommendations have called for sex/gender-specific smoking cessation protocols, quitlines h…

2015
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition.
Lancet (London, England) ·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)61340-x

BackgroundThe Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable compariso…

2012
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
Lancet (London, England) ·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61728-0

BackgroundReliable and timely information on the leading causes of death in populations, and how these are changing, is a crucial input into health policy debates. In the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD…

2012
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
Lancet (London, England) ·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61729-2

BackgroundNon-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies done in 1990 and 2000 have been the o…