Selected Publications

Identification and estimation of the average causal effects under dietary substitution strategies.
Chiu YH, Wen L. 2025. Statistics in Medicine. In Press.

Metformin Use in the First Trimester of Pregnancy and Risk for Nonlive Birth and Congenital Malformations: Emulating a Target Trial Using Real-World Data.
Chiu YH, Huybrechts KF, Patorno E, Yland JJ, Cesta CE, Bateman BT, Seely EW, Hernán MA, Hernández-Díaz S. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Jun 18. PMID: 38885505.

Internal validation of gestational age estimation algorithms in healthcare databases using pregnancies conceived with fertility procedures.
Chiu YH, Huybrechts KF, Zhu Y, Straub L, Bateman BT, Logan R, Hernández-Díaz S. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 6:kwae045. PMID: 38583933.

Evaluating model specification when using the parametric g-formula in the presence of censoring.
Chiu YH, Wen L, McGrath S, Logan R, Dahabreh IJ, Hernán MA. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Nov 3;192(11):1887-1895. PMID: 37338985; PMCID: PMC11043789.

Estimating the effect of nutritional interventions using observational data: the American Heart Association’s 2020 Dietary Goals and Mortality.
Chiu YH, Chavarro JE, Dickerman BA, Manson JE, Mukamal KJ, Rexrod KM, Rim EB, Hernán MA. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Aug 2; 114(2):690-730.

Effect of intergenerational exposure interventions on adolescent outcomes: An application of inverse probability weighting to longitudinal pre-birth cohort data.
Chiu YH, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleiman K, Oken E, and Young JG. Paediatr Perina Epidemiol. 2020 May; 34(3):366-375.

Well-defined interventions for nutritional studies: from target trials to nutritional modeling.
Chiu YH. Am J of Clin Nutri. 2022 Jan 11;115(1):3-5.

Hypothetical 22-year intervention with DASH diet lowered risk of heart failure in a general population.
Ibsen DB, Chiu YH, Gémes K, Wolk A. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jan 8;193(1):96-106. PMID: 37656615; PMCID: PMC10773477.

Effectiveness and safety of intrauterine insemination versus assisted reproductive technology: emulating a target trial using a healthcare database of administrative claims.
Chiu YH, Yland JJ, Rinaudo P, Hsu J, McGrath S, Hernández-Díaz S, Hernán MA. Fertility and Sterility. 2022 May; 117(5):981-991.

The effect of prenatal treatments on offspring events in the presence of competing events: application to a randomized trial of fertility therapies.
Chiu YH, Stensrud MJ, Dahabreh IJ, Rinaudo P, Diamond MP, Hsu J, Hernández-Díaz S, Hernán MA. Epidemiology. 2020. Sep;31(5); 636-643.

Emulating a target trial of interventions initiated during pregnancy with healthcare databases: the example of COVID-19 vaccination.
Hernández-Díaz S, Huybrechts KF, Chiu Y-H, Yland JJ, Bateman BT, Hernán MA. Epidemiology. 2023;34(2):238-246.

Emulating a target trial of the comparative effectiveness of clomiphene citrate and letrozole for ovulation induction.
Yland JJ, Chiu YH, Rinaudo P, Hsu J, Hernán MA, Hernández-Díaz S. Human Reproduction. 2022 April 1;37(4): 793-805.

Selection on treatment in the target population of generalizability and transportability analyses.
Chiu YH, Dahabreh IJ. arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08758, 2022.

A complete publication list can be found here.