A PheWAS Analysis of the Risks and Benefits of Growing Up on a Farm
This was the first known study to utilize a PheWAS approach to comprehensively compare medical comorbidities in farm versus non-farm youth. Findings confirmed the known injury hazards in farm youth, but there appeared to be more health benefits of living on farms. Some of these apparent protections were novel, particularly those related to affective disorders, but require future confirmatory testing to understand how care seeking behaviors may also influence farm and non-farm households.
Authors
- Casper G. Bendixsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3419-6940)
- Jeffrey J. VanWormer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-8703)
- Richard L. Berg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3732-0716)
- Josie M. Rudolphi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5815-0197)
- Rachel Gabor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7706-2897)
- Rick Burke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2366-4013)
- Bryan Weichelt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2862-3114)
Institutions
- University of Illinois System (US)
- Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations (FR)
- Office of Research Services (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Agromedicine
- Published
- 2025-11-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924x.2025.2591079
- Primary Topic
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00