age and the risk of neutropenic complications

... in the amount of work they could perform, irrespective of whether they are limited in the kind of work they can perform (1= yes, and 0 = no) The vast majority of respondents who noted that they ... approach, the first dummy variable indicated whether the husband made less than 40% of the couple’s total income, and the second dummy variable indicated whether the husband made more than 60% of the ... by the end of the study but were at risk of divorce until the study ended) The model I estimated is of the following general form and takes into account the fact that all eligible members of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... to the percentage of energy as carbohydrate, the percentage of energy as animal protein, and the percentage of energy as animal fat, and the other was calculated according to the percentage of ... protein intake and the highest carbohydrate in-take) to 30 (the highest protein and fat intake and the lowest carbohydrate intake) Therefore, the higher the score, the more closely the partic-ipant’s ... intake of fat and protein and a lower intake of carbohydrate) The association between the low-carbohydrate-diet score and the risk of coronary heart disease was examined Results During 20 years of...

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... Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women The new england journal of medicine original article Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women ... interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein as markers of risk for coronary heart disease among women participating in the Nurses’ Health Study and men participating in the Health Professionals Follow-up ... protein, and interleukin-6 as predictors of cardiovascular events The value of these inflammatory markers as independent predictors remains controversial methods We examined plasma levels of sTNF-R1,...

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... the arsenic exposure of the Lanyang participants On the other hand, residents of the LMN cohort had at one time shared one or several artesian wells because of economic reasons, and some of the ... of the S/S or S/ L genotype vs carriers of the LL genotype) In the next combination analysis, the relative percentage change in the risk of atherosclerosis from carriers to non-carriers of the ... in the well water by the number of years a participant had been drinking that well water while living in any of the var-ious villages Median levels of arsenic in the well water of the villages...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... combined Because of the low number of events and the sensitivity of the default Trang 3weighting (the inverse of the variance of the logarithm ofthe odds ratio) to the definition of infection (for ... particular, the definition of GC exposure and methods of risk attri-bution This is important for GC therapy in RA because of its intermittent pattern of use and multiple routes of administration GC therapy ... Ten of 21 studies had no reported infec-tions in either arm, and four further studies had no infections in one of the two arms The estimated relative risk of infection associated with GC therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... Department of Health and Human Services based on unequivocal epidemiologic evidence for lung cancer and mesothelioma [8, 9] However, the impact of these expo-sures on the risk of cancer at other sites ... silica and asbestos exposure by periods of 20 and 40 years Results The number of workers exposed and the most common exposure coding (concentration, frequency and reliabil-ity) among the 2014 ... con-centrations, frequency of exposure of 5–30% of work time, duration of < 10 years at low concentrations and duration of≥7 years at medium/high concentrations and the lowest tertile of cumulative asbestos...

Ngày tải lên: 17/06/2020, 03:18

... writing of the manuscript CB supervised the statistical analyses and contributed to the writing of the manuscript JCC conceived of and designed the study and contributed to the writing of the manuscript ... the effects of reduced kidney function and risk of cancer and cancer death The availability of individual data allowed for an assessment of the potential influence on estimates of competing risks ... wrote the manuscript NS designed the study, performed the statistical analyses and wrote the manuscript JE designed the study, supervised the statistical analyses and contributed to the writing of...

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... BMI, and EI influenced the association between alcohol intake and the risk of pancreatic cancer However, we could not determine the effects of these potential confounding factors on the risk of ... versus the lowest alcohol intake and the risk of pancreatic cancer in men, women, and total cohort (DOCX 191 kb) Additional file 5: Figure S4 Relative risk estimates of heavy alcohol intake and the ... consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer in the Netherlands Cohort Study Am J Epidemiol 2009;169:1233 –42. 35 Jiao L, Silverman DT, Schairer C, et al Alcohol use and risk of pancreatic cancer: the NIH-AARP...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2020, 09:24

... report [27] The food frequency questionnaire consisted of 106 food items, and participants were asked to report the average frequencies and portion sizes of the foods they ate during the previous ... 1 shows the relationship between daily dietary calcium intake and the risk of colorectal cancer in men and women Figure 2 shows the relationship between dietary calcium intake and risk of colorectal ... limitation comes from the study design and the use of the food frequency questionnaire First, the controls were recruited from the participants of the health check-up program provided by the National...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:00

... reflect the differences in food storage, the availability of fresh produce and the preva-lence of Helicobacter pylori infection [3] Therefore, the identification of modifiable risk factors for the ... of coffee and the risk of gastric cancer was limited and inconsistent [13] Since the publication of the last review on this topic, many more prospective studies have emerged, which could further ... to investigate the association between coffee consump-tion and the risk of gastric cancer and quantify the dose–response relationship of coffee consumption with gastric cancer risk Methods Search...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:57

... indicates the OR and the ends of the diamond correspond to the 95% CI. Trang 9partly ascribed to the higher prevalence of EGF +61G allele.The frequency of EGF +61G among the controls of all studies ... ◆) and a horizontal line The size of a box (gray square) is proportional to the weight that the study has in calculating the summary effect estimate (`) The center of the diamond indicates the ... hetero-geneity because of the low power of the statistic.I2ranges between 0 and 100%, and represents the proportion of Trang 3between-study variability that can be attributed to hetero-geneity rather than...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2020, 16:09

... consumption and the risk of esophageal cancer The results from the random-effects meta-analysis of hot beverage and food consumption and the risk of EC were shown in Figure 2 Thirty-two of 47 independent ... were to examine the stability of the primary re-sults and explore the resources of potential heterogen-eity The associations between hot beverage and food consumption and the risk of EC were similarly ... increased risk of EC associated with higher temperature of beverage and food intake However, the authors did not use quantitative tech-niques to compute summary estimates of the risk, and the review...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2020, 11:14

... smoking and the risk of subtypes of head-neck cancer: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study Denise HE Maasland1*, Piet A van den Brandt1, Bernd Kremer2, R Alexandra (Sandra) Goldbohm3 and Leo ... habits, and other cancer risk factors Figure 1 Flow diagram of the number of subcohort members and cases on whom the analyses were based *PALGA: nationwide network and registry of histopathology and ... Among others, questions were asked about whether the subject was a smoker at baseline; age at which they started and stopped smoking; the number of cigarettes smoked daily and the number of smoking...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 00:46

... non-drinkers However, the range of tea consumption and the cut-offs for the cat-egories differed between studies Another drawback of the previous meta-analyses is the inclusion of retrospective case–control ... ever use of oral contraceptives, age at menarche, age at menopause, number of children, age at first pregnancy, history of breast cancer in the family and years of schooling, current use of postmenopausal ... trials [4,5] The World Cancer Research Fund report of 2007 con-cluded that the evidence for associations between the consumption of tea and risk of some major cancers was still limited and inconsistent...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 00:49

... computed for the entire sample of 1,759 cases and controls after standardizing the 1,349 SNPs to the control population We determined clusters of white and non-white subjects using the same restric-tion ... with ductal and luminal subtypes respectively (Table 3) For most SNPs, the magnitude of risk associated with each subtype was the same as with the overall risk of breast cancer Fur-ther, onlyTLR9 ... decreased risk of breast cancer: rs17705608 located in the flanking 5′ UTR and rs7309 located in the 3′ UTR These SNPs were in moderate LD among controls (r2= 0.67) and had iden-tical relative risk...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 06:22

... survival was calculated as the amount of time between the date of prostatectomy and the date of death, regardless of the cause Table 2 POSTN expression in epithelium or stroma of tumor or normal tissue ... predict the risk of PSA failure, regard-less of which Gleason score variable was used By contrast, stromal IRS was the only independent predictor of the risk of death, regardless of how the Gleason ... not possible, by contacting the local tumor registry or the registry office of the patient’s place of residence The main characteristics of the patients making up the study cohort are summarized...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 08:13

... the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science The sponsors had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, ... district of Nha Trang and the more rural district of Ninh Hoa The position and the size of the peak did also not differ between classic dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever We further stratified ... explored whether the shape and position of the peak as displayed in Figure 2 depended on socio-demographic, geographic and clinical characteristics We found that the location of the peak in the admission...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2022, 08:38

... Clayton and Kaldor(Clayton and Kaldor, 1987) and expanded by Banerjee, Carlin and Gelfand.(Banerjee et al., 2004) Our full model, then, consisted of the dependent variable as the log of the observed ... λ )) where the conditional distribution of each λ i , given all the other λ i ‘s, is normal with μ = the average λ of its neighbors and a precision (τλ ) proportional to the number of neighbors ... greater influence (Greenland, 2006; Lawson et al., 2003) The result of combining the prior distribution and the likelihood is called the posterior distribution and follows Bayes’ Theorem: Trang 5Pr[θ|y]...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 10:46

... those of the Bank of England, the London School of Economics, or Harvard University.    Trang 3On falling neutral real rates, fiscal policy, and the risk ofŁukasz Rachel LSE and Bank of England ... the United States In a chapter of the Handbook of Macroeconomics at the turn of the century, Douglas Elmendorf and Gregory Mankiw (1999) reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature on the ... start of the 1980s, with theaverage estimate of the impact of under 1pp up until the crisis and around 1.5pp more recently.Excluding the effect of higher government debt, Figure 12 shows the equilibrium...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2022, 18:19

... degree of uncertainty because of the small numbers of cases recorded in the data base 3 Significance of the identified risks The individual risk of death attributable to trees identified in the ... by the National Tree Safety Group (NTSG) with the Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management (DARM) at Middlesex University The background to the contract is the interest of landowners, the ... that:  The nature and level of the risks are properly assessed and the results used properly to determine control measures The assessment of the risk needs to be based on the best available...

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