nested case-control study
Abdominal obesity, gender and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis – a nested case–control study
... Two previously described cohorts, the Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) and the Northern Sweden Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Deter- minants in Cardiovascular Disease (MONICA) project, were used for this ...
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First and second trimester urinary metabolic profiles and fetal growth restriction: an exploratory nested case control study within the infant development and environment study
... a nested case-control study within The Infant Development and the Environment Study (TIDES), a population-based multi-center pregnancy cohort ...on study site, maternal age (± 2 ...
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The usefulness of CYFRA 21–1 to diagnose and predict preeclampsia: a nested case control study
... single-center, nested case-control study, biological samples and medical data were obtained from the Biobank for Pregnancies at the Department of Obstetrics and Feto-maternal Medicine, Medical ...
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A nested case–control study of predictors for tuberculosis recurrence in a large UK Centre
... a nested case control study within an ethnically diverse UK setting to uncover factors associ- ated with TB ...the study cohort with a peak incidence at 6 to 12 months after treatment ...
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Lack of association between serological evidence of past Coxiella burnetii infection and incident ischaemic heart disease: nested case control study
... a case report of acute MI in a patient with Q fever ...follow-up study of people infected in 1983 in a large outbreak of Q fever in Switzerland[10] However this study was criticised for not ...
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Cigarette smoking and the risk of primary Sjögren’s syndrome: a nested case control study
... The closeness of cigarette smoke to mucosal mem- branes and exocrine glands, and the effect of the cigarette smoke on the immune system, makes the influence of cigarette smoking on the development of pSS interesting. ...
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Serum selenium level and cancer risk: a nested case-control study
... this nested case-control study of 281 women residing in Szczecin, Poland suggests that low serum selenium levels (≤ 70 μg/L) are associated with a statistically significant two-fold increase ...
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Plasma carotenoids, retinol, and tocopherols and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Multiethnic Cohort Study: a nested case control study
... present nested case-control study, we tested the hypoth- esis that plasma concentrations of carotenoids, retinol, and tocopherols are inversely related to breast cancer ...
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Consanguinity and neonatal death: a nested case-control study.
... this nested case-control study, 6900 newbornswho were born in rural areas of Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad Province (South-West of Iran)were followed till the end of neonatal period, and neonatal ...
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Major dietary patterns in relation to menstrual pain: a nested case control study
... into four groups: normal (0 – 2), mild (3 – 5), moderate (6–7) and severe (9–12). In the fifth section, the participants ’ dietary intakes for the last 6 months were assessed by a 115-item semi quantitative FFQ. This ...
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Premenopausal serum androgens and breast cancer risk: a nested case control study
... estrogens after menopause. This mechanism is thought to contribute to the well documented positive associa- tion between BMI and breast cancer risk observed after menopause [51]. It is unlikely, though, that this mechan- ...
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Proton pump inhibitors and acute kidney injury: a nested case–control study
... Drug-induced AIN is a form of acute kidney injury thought to result from an idiosyncratic, cell-mediated immunologic reaction [13,14]. Drugs are the most com- monly cited cause of AIN, but infectious and immune ...
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Serum estrogen levels and prostate cancer risk in the prostate cancer prevention trial: a nested case-control study
... The study benefits from vigorous annual screening by DRE and PSA test, and an end-of-study biopsy offered to all men who were cancer-free at the exit of the ...the control group and minimize mis- ...
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The association of polymorphisms in hormone metabolism pathway genes, menopausal hormone therapy, and breast cancer risk: a nested case control study in the California Teachers Study cohort
... present study, we also excluded 88 women (52 cases and 36 controls) who self-reported to have had a previous history of can- cer, leaving 1,510 cases and 1,511 ...
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Circulating levels of 25 hydroxyvitamin D and risk of breast cancer: a nested case control study
... Initiative study, in which a significant inverse association of 25(OH)D with breast cancer risk was atte- nuated and became non-significant after adjustment for BMI and physical activity ...our study, we ...
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Comparison of approaches to estimate confidence intervals of post-test probabilities of diagnostic test results in a nested case-control study
... the nested character of the design in a cohort with known size is ...regular case– control studies, controls are sampled from a source population with unknown ...
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Adrenocortical, autonomic, and inflammatory causes of the Metabolic Syndrome: nested case-control study
... Psychosocial measures explained some 13% of case- control differences in HRV indices and 37% of those in normetanephrine, the 3-methoxy metabolite of norepineph- rine. In view of the measurement problems ...
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Alcohol and Difficulty Conceiving in the SUN Cohort: A Nested Case-Control Study
... We conducted a case-control study nested in the SUN cohort. The SUN project started in 1999. It is a dynamic, ongoing and multipurpose prospective cohort of university graduates from all over ...
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Cervical cancer screening using the Cervista high-risk human papillomavirus test: opportunistic screening of a hospital-based population in Fujian province, China
... A nested case–control study within the Fujian provincial Cervical Lesion Screening Cohorts was used to evaluate the Cervista test as the primary cervical screening method in a hospital-based ...
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Advantages of the nested case-control design in diagnostic research
... different study designs in diagnostic research ...the nested case-control design in this paper) as a valid ...diagnostic study. Rutjes et al sug- gested not to use the term ...
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