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... Conventional risk factors and carotid atherosclerosis Table 1 presents the frequency distribution and the age- and gender-adjusted ORs with the 95% CIs for the clas- sic risk factors for the patient and ... (carriers of the S/S or S/ L genotype vs. carriers of the LL genotype). In the next combination analysis, the relative percentage cha nge in the risk of atherosclerosis from carriers to non-carriers of ... mate 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

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... 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 ... remained in the other areas of potential heterogeneity, and the I values often remained high Nonetheless, within this heterogeneity, the direction of effect typically suggested an increased risk associated ... 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

... Department of Health and Human Services based on unequivocal epidemiologic evidence for lung cancer and mesothelioma [8, 9] However, the impact of these exposures on the risk of cancer at other sites remains ... movement of the earth, such as mining, farming, quarrying, as well as construction, masonry, sandblasting, and production of glass, ceramics, and cement [1] There are tens of millions of exposed ... quartiles of processed meat intake, quartiles of tap water intake, coffee and tea consumption (number of cups/week), quartiles of total and added fat Page of 13 intake, total moderate and total

Ngày tải lên: 17/06/2020, 03:18

... 10.1186/s12885-016-2532-6 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Chronic kidney disease and the risk of cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 32,057 participants from six prospective studies Germaine Wong1,2*†, ... Chapman2 and Jonathan Craig1 Abstract Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease but the relevance of reduced kidney function to cancer risk ... (32,057 participants); including one population-based cohort and five randomized controlled trials Participants were grouped into one of five CKD categories (estimated glomerular filtration rate

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 14:14

... of filtered coffee and the risk of malignant melanoma (ptrend = 0.02) There was a borderline, nonsignificant association between heavy consumption of filtered coffee and the risk of malignant ... carried out the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript MJ contributed with the interpretation of the data, discussion of the biological mechanisms behind the findings, and revision of the manuscript ... boiled coffee consumption and the risk of malignant melanoma in any of the consumption categories Conclusions: The data from the NOWAC Study indicate that a moderate intake of filtered coffee could

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 15:05

... BMI, and EI influenced the association between alcohol intake and the risk of pancreatic cancer However, we could not determine the effects of these potential confounding factors on the risk of ... intake and the risk of pancreatic cancer have given inconsistent results The purpose of this study was to summarize and examine the evidence regarding the association between alcohol intake and ... per day) intake and the risk of pancreatic cancer The value assigned to each alcohol intake category was the mid-point for closed categories and the median for open categories Furthermore, we constructed

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2020, 09:24

... list of author information is available at the end of the article as a part of the Women’s Health Initiative found no effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on colorectal cancer risk and ... may reduce the risk of colon cancer and recurrence of colorectal adenoma [3] In addition, a pooled analysis of 10 cohort studies and meta-analyses of observational studies demonstrate the association ... report [27] The food frequency questionnaire consisted of 106 food items, and participants were asked to report the average frequencies and portion sizes of the foods they ate during the previous

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:00

... association of changes in coffee consumption with the occurrence of gastric cancer, and further accurately assess the association between coffee consumption and Page 13 of 14 the risk of gastric ... in the included studies, and the units and cut-offs of coffee consumption were heterogeneous across different studies Nevertheless, we used RRs for the highest versus the lowest category of coffee ... performed the dose–response meta-analysis based on the method described by Greenland and Longnecker [18] and Orsini et al [19] The amount of coffee consumption, the distributions of cases and person

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:57

... modulating the transcription of EGF gene and hence affecting serum levels of EGF [11] For now, there are a number of studies conducted to examine the association between EGF +61A/G polymorphism and ... discussion The following data were extracted: authors, name of journal, year of publication, ethnicity and country of study population, inclusion and exclusion criteria, characteristics of cases and ... 80%) occur in eastern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and China alone accounts for more than 50% of the total cases [3] Despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of HCC, it still has poor prognosis

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2020, 16:09

... available at the end of the article studies have investigated the possible relationship between the temperature of beverages and foods and EC risk [6-8], since recurrent thermal injuries to the esophageal ... beverage and food consumption and EC risk A random-effect model was used to pool the results from the included studies Publication bias was assessed by using the Begg test, the Egger test, and funnel ... number of studies are now emerging examining the health consequences of the high temperature of beverages and foods We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the evidence and clarify the association

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2020, 11:14

... habits, and other cancer risk factors Figure Flow diagram of the number of subcohort members and cases on whom the analyses were based *PALGA: nationwide network and registry of histopathology and ... Among others, questions were asked about whether the subject was a smoker at baseline; age at which they started and stopped smoking; the number of cigarettes smoked daily and the number of smoking ... consumption, cigarette smoking and HNC -risk [9-15] Of these studies, most had a small number of cases and were thereby hardly able to examine subtypes; HNC was often combined with other cancers into upper

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 00:46

... inclusion and exclusion criteria, contributed to the data analysis and interpretation of the data JT and TL contributed to the electronic search, hand-search of literature and the revision of the manuscript ... non-drinkers However, the range of tea consumption and the cut-offs for the categories differed between studies Another drawback of the previous meta-analyses is the inclusion of retrospective case–control ... analysis, and interpretation of the data ZJ drafted the manuscript and contributed to the study design HJ contributed to revising the manuscript, data analysis and interpretation of the data CX

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 00:49

... computed for the entire sample of 1,759 cases and controls after standardizing the 1,349 SNPs to the control population We determined clusters of white and non-white subjects using the same restriction ... pathways Given the few suggestive associations in our data and the compelling biologic rationale for an association between genetic variation in these pathways and breast cancer risk, further studies ... “enabling characteristic” of other cancer hallmarks such as angiogenesis, cell proliferation and survival, and metastasis [6,7] The presence of inflammatory messengers in the tumor microenvironment

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 06:22

... predict the risk of PSA failure, regardless of which Gleason score variable was used By contrast, stromal IRS was the only independent predictor of the risk of death, regardless of how the Gleason ... analyzed Epithelial IRS was not predictive of the risk of death, similarly to all the other variables we considered, including extra-prostatic extension and Gleason score However, the latter variables ... exploratory and, as such, they should be evaluated with caution Nonetheless, they warrant IHC methodological standardization and further validation of the potential usefulness of POSTN as a prognostic

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 08:13

... 3A) The peaks in the admission rate for dengue fever were similar in both epidemics, and between the more urban district of Nha Trang and the more rural district of Ninh Hoa The position and the ... data (rather than incidence) and have not quantified human population density as a risk factor [15– 18] We analysed the effect of population density and lack of tap water supply on the risk of dengue ... purposes of the model explore the association between vector abundance and human population density, and its effect on dengue fever risk, we applied a simple mathematical model on the basis of the

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2022, 08:38

... Clayton and Kaldor(Clayton and Kaldor, 1987) and expanded by Banerjee, Carlin and Gelfand.(Banerjee et al., 2004) Our full model, then, consisted of the dependent variable as the log of the observed ... information about parameters of interest (θ) are our prior beliefs or the prior distribution of the parameter (Pr[θ]) and the likelihood of observing the data given the parameter (Pr[y|θ]) Our ... λ )) where the conditional distribution of each λ i , given all the other λ i ‘s, is normal with μ = the average λ of its neighbors and a precision (τλ ) proportional to the number of neighbors

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 10:46

... in the amount of work they could perform, irrespective of whether they are limited in the kind of work they can perform (1 = yes ,and0 = no). The vast majority of respondents who noted that they ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... 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 ... of fat and protein and a lower intake of carbohydrate). The association between the low-carbohydrate-diet score and the risk of coronary heart disease was examined. Results During 20 years of ... were then summed to create the overall diet score, which ranged from 0 (the lowest fat and protein intake and the highest carbohydrate in- take) to 30 (the highest protein and fat intake and the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... markers and the risk of coronary heart disease in men and women 2607 the risk of coronary heart disease and that the risks were attenuated after adjustment for the presence or absence of diabetes ... Nevertheless, our findings support the theory that the level of C-reactive pro- tein provides an additional measure of the risk of coronary heart disease beyond that afforded by the Framingham risk ... high levels of C-reactive protein are associated with an in- creased risk of coronary heart disease among men and women and that the level of C-reactive protein is a significant marker of the risk of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... Technology and Policy Adoption, Combating Cybercrime, Privacy and Trust. Information Risk and the Economics of Security presents the latest research on the economics driving both the risks and the ... credit and liquidity risk is borne by various parties involved in a payment scheme depending on the timing of the process, what party has custody of funds, and on the design of (and legal and ... documents the role played by nonbanks in the EU and U.S. retail payment systems. The analysis is conducted through the use of tables showing, for each of the various payment activities and each of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15