... views of the funders and the EU institutions Factors influencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging April 2008 Introduction Most of us will know of someone affected by breast cancer, ... However, all the established risk factors together can only explain about half of breast cancer cases and for the remainder, scientists and doctors are still unsure of the causes2,3 One of the suggested ... the ovaries) and is essential for the development of the breast, paradoxically oestrogen is also involved in the development of breast cancer via the stimulation and proliferation of breast cancer...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
... women and the position of the detector in the ipsilateral lung that all could increase the amount of scatter dose detected Nevertheless, from a clinical perspective those rates are small and the risk ... measurements of the head leakage and room back-scatter He carefully reviewed the manuscript AR did the planning of the brachytherapy treatments, checked all the calculations and carefully reviewed the ... compensation the lifetime incremental risk of lung cancer is calculated at 0.49% This value is little higher but of the same order of magnitude than the 0.30% increased risk for adjuvant radiotherapy...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"
... To our knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and the risk of type DM Red ... in the association of unprocessed total meat intake and type DM risk depending on the BMI of the women A higher consumption of total unprocessed meat was related to a modest reduction in the risk ... decrease in risk of type DM in the NHS II [6] No association between poultry consumption and risk of type DM was found in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study [7], the WHS [3], or the NHS I...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49
Critical evaluation of diagnostic aids for the detection of oral cancer docx
... in the detection of oral cancer and precancer J Oral Pathol Med 1996;25(3):97–103 53 Onofre MA, Sposto MR, Navarro CM Reliability of toluidine blue application in the detection of oral epithelial ... D, Frist S The relevance of the high positive predictive value of the oral brush biopsy Oral Oncol 2005;41(7):753–5 42 Sciubba JJ Improving detection of precancerous and cancerous oral lesions ... disease of interest (in this case: oral dysplasia and/ or oral cancer) and other noncancerous conditions? The importance of this criterion can be appreciated by recalling the development of carcinoembryonic...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21
Investor Alert: Self-Directed IRAs and the Risk of Fraud pptx
... degree of risk, and the level of risk typically correlates with the return an investor can expect to receive Low risk generally means low yields, and high yields typically involve higher risk Fraud ... illiquid and difficult to value As a result, self-directed IRA custodians often list the value of the investment as the original purchase price, the original purchase price plus returns reported by the ... IRAs and steering them to custodians who offered the self-directed IRAs Approximately $3.5 million of the funds invested in the bonds came from self-directed IRAs SEC v Stinson Be mindful of “guaranteed”...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20
Work-Related Health Limitations, Education, and the Risk of Marital Disruption pdf
... in the amount of work they could perform, irrespective of whether they are limited in the kind of work they can perform (1 = yes, and = no) The vast majority of respondents who noted that they ... indicated whether the husband made less than 40% of the couple’s total income, and the second dummy variable indicated whether the husband made more than 60% of the couples’ total income The omitted ... by the end of the study but were at risk of divorce until the study ended) The model I estimated is of the following general form and takes into account the fact that all eligible members of...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20
Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer With Medicine: A Guide for Women potx
... breast cancer Risk of Breast Cancer Most women will never get breast cancer A woman’s risk of breast cancer depends on her age and other risk factors Most women who get breast cancer have no risk ... others Talk with your doctor or nurse about your risk of breast cancer Tamoxifen and raloxifene can lower the risk of getting some kinds of breast cancer These medicines also can raise the risk ... Blood clots in the lungs and legs Tamoxifen and raloxifene raise the risk of blood clots Blood clots happen more often with tamoxifen than raloxifene n Endometrial cancer (cancer of the uterus lining)...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20
Low-Carbohydrate-Diet Score and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women potx
... to the percentage of energy as carbohydrate, the percentage of energy as animal protein, and the percentage of energy as animal fat, and the other was calculated according to the percentage of ... protein intake and the highest carbohydrate intake) to 30 (the highest protein and fat intake and the lowest carbohydrate intake) Therefore, the higher the score, the more closely the participant’s ... multiplying the carbohydrate content of each food by its glycemic index (the glycemic index of glucose is 100) and then multiplied this value by the frequency of consumption and summed these values...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20
Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women doc
... and promote inflammation in the absence of free TNF ligand.6 Nonetheless, only a few studies have examined the relationship between levels of sTNF-R1, sTNFR2, and interleukin-6 and the risk of ... pool the estimates of relative risk for men and women, we used the weighted average of estimates according to the random-effects model of DerSimonian and Laird.24 All P values are two-tailed, and ... association between the levels of soluble TNF-a receptors and the risk of coronary heart disease (Table 3) Men in the highest quintile of interleukin-6 had a 57 percent increase in the risk of coronary...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo y học: "Inhaled Corticosteroids, Corticosteroid Osteoporosis, and the Risk of Fracture in Chronic Asthma" pps
... to control for the effects of age, sex, years of estrogen use, physical activity, the current daily dose of prednisone, years of prednisone use, and the cumulative lifetime dose of inhaled corticosteroid ... bisphosphonates have the capacity to restore bone mass and thus reduce the risk of vertebral fracture.3 They are currently recommended as first-line therapy for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis ... Bisphosphonates and calcium should not be taken at the same time of day because the calcium impairs absorption of the bisphosphonate Therapeutic Tactics It is important that the daily dose of ICS be...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23
Báo cáo y học: "Tumour necrosis factor blockade and the risk of osteoporosis: back to the future " ppt
... Application of such automated radiogrammetry to the existing clinical trial data (such as these hand X-rays) offers an opportunity to examine the effects of TNF blockade on bone loss and hence ... example of how older methodology can still provide insights into modern aspects of pathogenesis and treatment – hence the title ‘back to the future’ Competing interests The author declares that they ... osteoporosis Rheumatol Rehab 1977, 16:223-229 Schorn D: Osteoporosis of the rheumatoid hand - the effects of treatment with D-penicillamine and oral gold salts South Afr Med J 1983, 63:121-123 Kalla AA,...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
GT-repeat polymorphism in the heme oxygenase1 gene promoter and the risk of carotid atherosclerosis related to arsenic exposure ppt
... the arsenic exposure of the Lanyang participants On the other hand, residents of the LMN cohort had at one time shared one or several artesian wells because of economic reasons, and some of the ... possibility of other genes that confounded the relation between the HO-1 genotype and carotid atherosclerosis In the LMN cohort in the context of high arsenic exposure, the Page of 11 possibility of an ... in atherosclerosis, possibly masking the role of the HO-1 genotype Gene polymorphisms of p53 and glutathionetransferase P1 (GSTP1) were related to the risk of carotid atherosclerosis in the Lanyang...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
Báo cáo y học: "The association between systemic glucocorticoid therapy and the risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and metaanalyses" pptx
... most analyses of observational studies reported an increased risk of infection, which conflicts with the result of the RCTs The dose of GC therapy varied both within and between RCTs and observational ... inverse of the variance of the logarithm of the odds ratio) to the definition of infection (for example, serious or not serious), alternative weighting was performed by number of patients, then ... Ten of 21 studies had no reported infections in either arm, and four further studies had no infections in one of the two arms The estimated relative risk of infection associated with GC therapy...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22
Báo cáo khoa học: " Red blood cell transfusions and the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome among the critically ill: a cohort study" ppt
... Ascertainment of the blood transfusion exposure For the ARDS cases, the pRBC transfusions were examined in the time period prior to or at the visit of the first recorded ARDS complication For the control ... http://ccforum.com/content/11/3/R63 ately preceding the visit with the onset of ARDS, and (ii) for the No ARDS group, we used the highest SOFA score observed in the ICU (that is, the worst condition) Statistical ... increased risk of ARDS Whereas severity of illness, baseline hemoglobin, and hypoalbuminemia were each significant risk factors for ARDS development, the magnitude of the association with ARDS and...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21
Uric acid levels and the risk of contrast induced nephropathy in patients undergoing coronary angiography or PCI pdf
... associated with the risk of CIN Acknowledgment Prof De Luca had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis ... far few studies have investigated the role of uric acid in the occurrence of CIN Therefore, the aim of the current study was to evaluate whether high level of serum uric acid in patients undergoing ... no association between uric acid and the extent of CAD [26] On the basis of this assumptions it might be supposed that the role of uric acid in the development of CIN could potentially represent...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2016, 14:06
báo cáo hóa học:" New views on the hypothesis of respiratory cancer risk from soluble nickel exposure; and reconsideration of this risk''''s historical sources in nickel refineries" potx
... during the 1901–1970 period He found that 81 of the 85 nasal cancer cases and 260 of the 280 lung cancer cases began work during the high risk period before 1928 The work records of 215 lung and ... as the most probable cause of the respiratory cancer risk observed in KNR's electrolysis department; and their absence in the same environment at PCNR as the likely reason for the normal risk ... KNR and Canada, the Norwegian Cancer Registry (NCR), and the Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) and chaired by one of us (Thornhill) who had specific responsibilities to gather and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo y học: "Grb2-associated binder 1 polymorphism was associated with the risk of Helicobactor pylori infection and gastric atrophy"
... increased the risk of gastric atrophy [18] Table shows the age-sex-adjusted ORs of the Gab1 and the combinations of PTPN11 and Gab1 genotypes for gastric atrophy among seropositive healthy controls The ... genotype frequency and ORs of the Gab1 genotypes for gastric cancer among the seropositive subjects The Gab1 gene was not associated with the risk of gastric cancer among the seropositive subjects ... polymorphism and the step of atrophy/metaplasia-gastric cancer We assessed whether the Gab1 gene polymorphism was associated with the development of H pylori-related gastric cancer Table shows the Int...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:37
Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security
... main safeguards in place, and concludes that there may be a need to reconsider some of them in view of the growing role of nonbanks and of the global reach of risks in the electronic era Introduction ... the case in several European countries), compliance risk may arise if the rules and management of the payment scheme not comply with the regulatory standards • Risk of illicit use: the risk of ... The risk elements are then viewed in the context of other company-specific factors, such as the state of current control (i.e., the security baseline); the sophistication of vulnerabilities and...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15
Tài liệu Banks’ exposure to interest rate risk, their earnings from term transformation, and the dynamics of the term structure pptx
... 4) The R2 of the full model is 17.24%, i.e the combined contribution of the systematic factor and the regulation to the total timely variation of the exposure is 17.24% and, therefore, 82.76% of ... instance, the duration, and the weighted sum of the positions’ duration is a measure of the bank’s exposure to interest rate risk (See, for instance, Sierra and Yeager (2004)) The main problem of these ... correlation between the earnings from term transformation and the risk premia on loans In times of a boom the term structure tends to be steep and the risk premia (and thereby the mark-up) tend...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Misconceptions About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides and the Causes of Cancer doc
... Summary The major causes of cancer are: a) Smoking: About a third of U.S cancer (90 percent of lung cancer) ; b) Dietary imbalances, e.g., lack of dietary fruits and vegetables: The quarter of the ... on the Panel of Expert Reviewers for the National Toxicology Program, the Boards of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and the Annapolis Center, and was a member of the Harvard Risk Management ... one-third of cancer risk. ” The authors estimate that unbalanced diets (e.g., low intake of fruits and vegetables) account for about one-third of cancer risk, in agreement with the earlier estimate of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20