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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021 Background Advantages of midwife-led models of care have been reported; these include a higher vaginal birth rate and less interventions. In Germany, 98.4% of women are giving birth in obstetrician-led units.
Sophia L. Tietjen +7 more
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Вопросы современной педиатрии, 2022 Much medical research is observational. The reporting of observational studies is often of insufficient quality. Poor reporting hampers the assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a study and the generalisability of its results. Taking into account
Jan P. Vandenbroucke +8 more
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Designing Case-Control Studies [PDF]
Environmental Health Perspectives, 1979 Identification of confounding factors, evaluation of their influence on cause-effect associations, and the introduction of appropriate ways to account for these factors are important considerations in designing case-control studies. This paper presents designs useful for these purposes, after first providing a statistical definition of a confounding ...
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Statistical considerations for reporting and planning heart rate variability case-control studies.
Psychophysiology, 2017 The calculation of heart rate variability (HRV) is a popular tool used to investigate differences in cardiac autonomic control between population samples.
D. Quintana
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Lung cancer and socioeconomic status in a pooled analysis of case-control studies
PLoS ONE, 2018 Background An association between low socioeconomic status (SES) and lung cancer has been observed in several studies, but often without adequate control for smoking behavior. We studied the association between lung cancer and occupationally derived SES,
J. Hovanec +41 more
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Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, 2016 Background: Group of common metabolic disorders, diabetes mellitus (DM) share hyperglycaemia as phenotype. When diabetes co-occurs with depression, adverse bidirectional relationship is seen which increases the burden of both illnesses.
Kamal Nath, Robin Victor, Subrata Naskar
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Research Design: Case-Control Studies
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2022 Case-control studies are observational studies in which cases are subjects who have a characteristic of interest, such as a clinical diagnosis, and controls are (usually) matched subjects who do not have that characteristic.
Chittaranjan Andrade
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Sample Size and Statistical Power Calculation in Genetic Association Studies [PDF]
Genomics & Informatics, 2012 A sample size with sufficient statistical power is critical to the success of genetic association studies to detect causal genes of human complex diseases.
Eun Pyo Hong, Ji Wan Park
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Mycotoxin exposure and human cancer risk : a systematic review of epidemiological studies
, 2020 In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in investigating the carcinogenicity of mycotoxins in humans. This systematic review aims to provide an overview of data linking exposure to different mycotoxins with human cancer risk. Publications (
Castegnaro M. +16 more
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Correcting for batch effects in case-control microbiome studies
bioRxiv, 2018 High-throughput data generation platforms, like mass-spectrometry, microarrays, and second-generation sequencing are susceptible to batch effects due to run-to-run variation in reagents, equipment, protocols, or personnel.
S. Gibbons, C. Duvallet, E. Alm
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