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A Population Based Case Control Study on Breast Cancer and the Associated Risk Factors in a Rural Setting in Kerala, Southern India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013 Introduction: The incidence of breast cancer is increasing in developing countries over three decades. Despite good health indicators breast cancer is a public health problem in Kerala with an annual incidence of 14.9/100000 population.
P. Parameshwari +2 more
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The Netherlands Journal of Medicine, 1995 Case-control studies are a type of epidemiological study in which subjects are selected based on whether they have the outcome of interest, and then are examined for the presence of a prior exposure. By conditioning on outcome rather than exposure, case-control studies are very well suited to studies of rare outcomes, but are prone to selection bias in
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Case-control study of stroke and the quality of hypertension control in north west England [PDF]
, 1997 Objective: To examine the risk of stroke in relation to quality of hypertension control in routine general practice across an entire health district. Design: Population based matched case-control study.
Cruickshank, K +8 more
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Animals, 2021 Tooth resorption (TR; progressive destruction of hard dental tissues) varies in prevalence according to population, age, and country (29–66.1%). Our objective was twofold: describing the TR clinical presentation in Northeastern Spain, and studying 34 ...
Ana Whyte +4 more
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Case-control studies with contaminated controls [PDF]
Journal of Econometrics, 1996 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Imbens, G., Lancaster, T.
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A Meta-Analysis of the Risk Factors of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in Newborns
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 Objective: To determine the risk factors of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn using a meta-analysis method and provide a reference for its clinical prevention and treatment.Methods: A meta-analysis was performed by searching the PubMed ...
Ran Zhou +3 more
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Anal signs of child sexual abuse: a case–control study [PDF]
, 2014 Background: There is uncertainty about the nature and specificity of physical signs following anal child sexual abuse. The study investigates the extent to which physical findings discriminate between children with and without a history of anal abuse ...
Hobbs, Christopher J +1 more
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Study designs: Part 3 - Analytical observational studies
Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2019 In analytical observational studies, researchers try to establish an association between exposure(s) and outcome(s). Depending on the direction of enquiry, these studies can be directed forwards (cohort studies) or backwards (case–control studies).
Priya Ranganathan, Rakesh Aggarwal
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 BackgroundExcess mortality in gout has been attributed to cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Considering the decline in CVD mortality in the general population, we wanted to evaluate overall mortality in gout and cause-specific contributions to mortality ...
Mats Dehlin +2 more
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Investigating speech and language impairments in delirium: a preliminary case-control study [PDF]
, 2018 IntroductionLanguage impairment is recognized as as part of the delirium syndrome, yet there is little neuropsychological research on the nature of this dysfunction. Here we hypothesized that patients with delirium show impairments in language formation,
Clarke, Caoimhe +7 more
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