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Rilpivirine use in the Swiss HIV cohort study: a prospective cohort study [PDF]
Rilpivirine is safe and effective in HIV-naïve patients with low baseline HIV-RNA or in switch strategy. It offers the advantages of few drug-drug interactions and a favourable toxicity profile. We aimed to determine the reasons for prescribing the rilpivirine (RPV)/tenofovir disoproxil (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC) co-formulation within the Swiss HIV ...
Sculier, Delphine+9 more
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Oral contraception and eye disease: findings in two large cohort studies [PDF]
AIM : To investigate the relation between oral contraceptive use and certain eye diseases. \ud \ud METHODS : Abstraction of the relevant data from the two large British cohort studies of the effects of oral contraception, the Royal College of General ...
Chappell, D.+5 more
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Aims/Introduction Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common complications of pregnancy and is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Tetsuo Sekine+14 more
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Crude incidence in two-phase designs in the presence of competing risks. [PDF]
BackgroundIn many studies, some information might not be available for the whole cohort, some covariates, or even the outcome, might be ascertained in selected subsamples. These studies are part of a broad category termed two-phase studies.
A Demnati+45 more
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Birth seasonality studies in a large Prader-Willi syndrome cohort. [PDF]
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is generally due to sporadic paternal deletions of the chromosome 15q11-q13 region followed by maternal disomy 15. Advanced maternal age is more commonly seen in those with maternal disomy 15. Environmental factors (e.g., drug
Butler, Merlin G+6 more
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The two-stage clonal expansion model in occupational cancer epidemiology: Results from three cohort studies [PDF]
Copyright © 2010 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. All rights reserved.Objectives: The objective of this work was to apply the two-stage clonal expansion model, with the intention to expand the literature on epidemiological applications of the model and ...
Gore, R, Kriebel, D, Zeka, A
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Cohort profile: The Tromso Study [PDF]
The Tromso Study was initiated in 1974 in an attempt to help combat the high mortality of cardiovascular diseases in Norway, that was particularly pronounced among middle-aged men. In the mid-1970s, Norwegian men had a 20% risk of dying of myocardial infarction (MI) before the age of 75 years. The situation in Northern Norway was even worse.
Jacobsen, Bjarne Koster+4 more
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BackgroundThis study aimed to develop an efficient interview sheet during pregnancy and screening tool to identify pregnant women needing social support at obstetric institutions.
Haruna Kawaguchi+7 more
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What are cohort studies? [PDF]
In 1951, Richard Doll and Austin Bradford-Hill commenced a ground-breaking research project by writing to all registered doctors in the UK to ask about their smoking habits. The British Doctors Study recruited and followed-up over 40 000 participants, monitoring mortality rates and causes of death over the subsequent years and decades. Even by the time
Barrett, David, Noble, Helen
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BMI and all cause mortality: systematic review and non-linear dose-response meta-analysis of 230 cohort studies with 3.74 million deaths among 30.3 million participants [PDF]
To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of body mass index (BMI) and the risk of all cause mortality, and to clarify the shape and the nadir of the dose-response curve, and the influence on the results of confounding from ...
Aune, D+7 more
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