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Foods, 2023 Heavy metal(loid)s pollution in farmland soil is not only a serious environmental but also a human health-related issue. Accurate understanding and evaluation of heavy metal pollution levels in the soil are very important for sustainable agricultural ...
Guohui Shen +7 more
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Body mass index and risk of BPH: a meta-analysis [PDF]
Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 2011 Epidemiological studies have reported conflicting results relating obesity to BPH. A meta-analysis of cohort and case-control studies was conducted to pool the risk estimates of the association between obesity and BPH.Eligible studies were retrieved by both computer searches and review of references.
S, Wang +6 more
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Tail risk analysis of the S&P/OIC COMCEC 50 index
Borsa Istanbul Review, 2015 The S&P/OIC COMCEC 50 Sharia index is a joint index created by the organization of the Islamic conference (OIC) member states' stock exchanges forum and S&P indices. It is a Sharia-compliant benchmark of the 50 leading companies from OIC-members.
Mahmoud Bekri, Young Shin (Aaron) Kim
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Hedging Brevity Risk with Mortality-based Securities [PDF]
, 2006 In 2003, Swiss Re introduced a mortality-based security designed to hedge excessive mortality changes for its life book of business. The concern was apparently brevity risk, i.e., the risk of premature death.
MacMinn, Richard, Richter, Andreas
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Sex Differences in Outcomes after Stroke in Patients with Diabetes in Ontario, Canada. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Outcomes after stroke in those with diabetes are not well characterized, especially by sex and age. We sought to calculate the sex- and age-specific risk of cardiovascular outcomes after ischemic stroke among those with diabetes.
Dhamoon, Mandip S. +5 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 Background and aimsChronic inflammation plays a significant role in the etiology of endometriosis, which might be affected by dietary intake. This study aimed to investigate the association between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and the risk of ...
Penglin Liu +7 more
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Association between triglyceride glucose index and risk of cancer: A meta-analysis
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 BackgroundTriglyceride glucose (TyG) index as a more convenient and reliable predictor of insulin resistance (IR) is thought to be associated with many diseases, but its relationship with cancer remains unclear.MethodsThe meta-analysis was conducted to ...
Huan Wang +5 more
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Portfolio selection in euro area with CAPM and Lower Partial Moments models [PDF]
, 2020 This article selects portfolios using estimates given by CAPM and three Lower Partial Moments models (LPM). The CAPM assumption about investors’ behaviour towards risk is that they are equally concerned with upside and downside risk.
Fonseca, José Soares da
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Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load and Cancer Risk: An Updated Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Nutrients, 2019 Diets high in glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) have been related to an increased risk of selected cancers, but additional quantification is required. We updated a systematic review and meta-analysis published in 2015 to May 2019 to provide quantitative information on GI/GL and cancer risk.
F. Turati +3 more
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Time-Varying Risk Aversion and the Profitability of Carry Trades: Evidence from the Cross-Quantilogram [PDF]
, 2020 open access articleThis paper examines the predictive power of time-varying risk aversion over payoffs to the carry trade strategy via the cross-quantilogram methodology.
Demirer, Riza +3 more
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