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Nutritional epidemiology methods and related statistical challenges and opportunities

Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2018
The public health importance of nutritional epidemiology research is discussed, along with methodological challenges to obtaining reliable information on dietary approaches to chronic disease prevention.
Ross L. Prentice, Ying Huang
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The Association between Herpes Zoster and Increased Cancer Risk: A Nationwide Population-Based Matched Control Study

Current Oncology, 2021
Background: Herpes zoster (HZ) is strongly associated with decreased immune function, a factor of cancer development. Previous studies suggested inconsistent results regarding the association between HZ and increased cancer risk.
Ji-Hoon Sim, Hyun-Seok Cho, Young-Do Kim, Juhan Mun, Sung-Bae Kim, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Jeong-Gil Leem   +6 more
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Liraglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes [PDF]

, 2016
Background The cardiovascular effect of liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 analogue, when added to standard care in patients with type 2 diabetes, remains unknown. Methods In this double-blind trial, we randomly assigned patients with type 2 diabetes
Bergenstal, RM, Brown-Frandsen, K, Buse, JB, Daniels, GH, Kristensen, P, LEADER Steering Committee on behalf of the LEADER Trial Investigators, Mann, JF, Marso, SP, Nauck, MA, Nissen, SE, Pocock, S, Poulter, NR, Ravn, LS, Steinberg, WM, Stockner, M, Zinman, B   +15 more
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Risk Factors Associated with Treatment Default Among Tuberculosis Patients in Adamawa State, Nigeria

Galician Medical Journal, 2022
Background. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis is complex, costly, and usually has poor outcomes.
Charles Okoro, Olateju Alao Bamigbala, Ayodeji Oluwatobi Ojetunde, Abdulmudallib Ibrahim   +3 more
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Impact of breast cancer subtypes on 3-year survival among adolescent and young adult women. [PDF]

, 2013
IntroductionYoung women have poorer survival after breast cancer than do older women. It is unclear whether this survival difference relates to the unique distribution of hormone receptor (HR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-defined ...
Clarke, Christina A, DeRouen, Mindy C, Gomez, Scarlett L, Keegan, Theresa HM, Kurian, Allison W, Press, David J, Tao, Li   +6 more
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Duration of adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND Since 2004, a regimen of 6 months of treatment with oxaliplatin plus a fluoropyrimidine has been standard adjuvant therapy in patients with stage III colon cancer.
Andre, Thierry, Boukovinas, Ioannis, Grothey, Axel, Iveson, Timothy, Kerr, Rachel, Labianca, Roberto, Meyerhardt, Jeffrey A., Meyers, Jeffrey P., Niedzwiecki, Donna, Paul, James, Renfro, Lindsay A., Sargent, Daniel J., Saunders, Mark, Shi, Qian, Shields, Anthony F., Sobrero, Alberto F., Souglakos, John, Taieb, Julien, Torri, Valter, Vernerey, Dewi, Watanabe, Toshiaki, Yamanaka, Takeharu, Yoshino, Takayuki   +22 more
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Odds ratio, hazard ratio and relative risk

Advances in Methodology and Statistics, 2016
Odds ratio (OR) is a statistic commonly encountered in professional or scientific medical literature. Most readers perceive it as relative risk (RR), although most of them do not know why that would be true.
J. Stare, D. Maucort-Boulch
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A survival analysis of South African children under the age of five years

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2011
The South African Demographic Health Survey data set (SADHS) of 2003 contains massive individual-level information on South African children under the age of five years selected from a random sample of 7756 households. The data set contains data on socio-
Zeleke Worku
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Preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and outcome from coronary artery bypass grafting [PDF]

, 2007
Background: An elevated preoperative white blood cell count has been associated with a worse outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Leukocyte subtypes, and particularly the neutrophil-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, may however, convey superior ...
Buchan, Keith G., Croal, Bernard L., Cuthbertson, Brian, El-Shafei, Hussein, Gibson, George, Gibson, Patrick H., Hillis, Graham S., Ifezulike, Ada I., Jeffrey, Robert R., Small, Gary R.   +9 more
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Coronary CT Angiography and 5-Year Risk of Myocardial Infarction. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: Although coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) improves diagnostic certainty in the assessment of patients with stable chest pain, its effect on 5-year clinical outcomes is unknown.
Adamson, Philip D., Berry, Colin, Boon, Nicholas A., Boylan, Heather, Brown, Ammani, Connolly, Eugene, Dweck, Marc R., Farrell, Lesley, Flather, Marcus, Forbes, John, Frood, Alison, Glover, Caroline, Hunter, Amanda, Johnstone, Janet, Lanaghan, Kirsten, Lewis, Stephanie, MacLean, Scott, Mangion, Kenneth, McGlynn, Deborah, McGregor, Lorraine, McLennan, Evonne, Mills, Nicholas L., Mordi, Ify, Murdoch, Laura, Newby, David E., Norrie, John, Paterson, Victoria, Roditi, Giles, Shah, Anoop S.V., Steedman, Tracey, Teenan, Marion, Teyhan, Fiona, The SCOT-HEART Investigators,, Timmis, Adam D., Tzemos, Nikolaos, van Beek, Edwin J.R., Williams, Michelle C., Woodward, Rosie   +37 more
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