... when they are heterogenous. In the absence of between-study het-erogeneity, the two methods provide identical results. The presence of heterogeneity can result from differ-ences in the selection ... Cochrane Q statistics test is used for the assess-ment of heterogeneity. The fixed effects model is used when the effects are assumed to be homogenous, while the random effects model is used when ... the summary OR and prevalence were essentially based on the random effects model. The meta-analyses were performed on crude ORs, since the adjusted ORs were not comparable because of the inclusion...
... the interview. As indicated in Material and methods, the articles reviewed herein represent all the Medline/Pubmed references that provided risk estimates by age or menopausal status. However, ... However, some studies may not have been taken into account, either because they were not referenced in Medline/Pubmed, or, because these risk factors, although studied, were not mentioned in the abstract ... development of breast cancer in women [2]. Indeed, breast cancerrisk increases with exposure to ovarian hormones : early menarche and late menopause were found to be risk factors whereas premenopausal...
... more a day. This increasing use is tempered, however, by the lower emissions, on average, from newer technology phones, and the increasing use of texting and hands-free operations that keep the ... the extension of the research to younger and older age groups was received directly from mobile phone operators in the UK under contracts which preserved the independence of the study. Results ... people exposed have x times the risk of non-exposed people. 10 The temporal lobe is the region of the brain located nearest the ear. PRESS RELEASE N° 200 17 MAY 2010 Interphone...
... temperature until ethanol and methanol were removed followed by drying in a freeze-dryer. Thedry extracts (extractable phytochemicals) represented 24.8% of the ricegerm and 16.3% of the rice bran, respectively. ... vitamin Eand γ-oryzanol was considered nearly complete because vitamin Eand γ-oryzanol were not detected in a fifth extractionwith 100% ethanol. In the water-dichloromethane partition,there were ... respectively. The extract waspartitioned between water (200 mL) and dichloromethane 3 times (200mL ì 3). The aqueous layer and combined dichloromethane extractwere rotary evaporated under reduced...
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... time interwal between these two ages, and parity appeared to have a limited influence on breast cancer risk. However, the relationship between these factors and the risk of breast cancer varied ... a beneficial effect on the risk of a breast cancer only when the cancer was diagnosed after age 50. The change in the slope of the curve showing the age-specific incidence of breast cancer ... the time elapsed until the differentiation of breast cells due to a first pregnancy (30). The risk decreased with a decreasing time interval between menarche and the first pregnancy (Table...
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... Translational Research on Biomarkers of Early CancerandCancer Risk An EDRN Associate member at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center showed that methylated CDKN2A and MGMT genes can be detected ... preclinical disease).Highlights of EDRN achievements include:ã Standard reference specimens and reagents, primarily plasma and serum (cases and matched controls) were developed for detection ... portfolio expanded, its collection of sample sets and reference data sets grew markedly and standard tools and resources were widely utilized. (See EDRN’s Infrastructures were built to improve informatics...
... to be effective against pest targets and the duration of time before harvest when it has to be applied(these are the rates specified on the pesticide label). Residuemeasurements are made on ... synthetic pesticide residues in the diet, large dis-crepancies in cancerrisk estimates are due to differences inexposure estimates rather than to differences in carcinogenicpotency values estimated ... chemicals. These small differ-ences in potency estimates are within the range of differencesin potency estimates from near-replicate tests where the samechemical is tested in the same sex,...
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... outcomes (the measures of how effective the interventions have been - O). Where appropriate, the clinical questions were refined once the evidence had been searched and, where necessary, sub-questions ... title or abstract before passing to the researcher. All the remaining articles were then stored in a Reference Manager electronic library. Searches were updated and re-run 6–8 weeks before the ... reviewed and presented the evidence to the GDG, managed the process and contributed to drafting the guideline. At the start of the guideline development process all GDG members’ interests were...