[PDF] Top 20 Surgery and risk for multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of case–control studies

... (a) multiple sclerosis OR demyelinating dis- ease, and (b) surgery; surgical intervention; operations; medical history; hospitalisation; tonsillectomy; anaes- thetic; appendectomy; adenoidectomy; ... See full document

... the risk of ECC by 1.75%. This conclusion is consistent with studies by both Welzel et ...these studies explain that HCV is the major risk factor for ICC but not for ... See full document

... 7. Berkey CS, Frazier AL, Gardner JD, Colditz GA. Adolescence and breast carcinoma risk. Cancer: Interdiscip Int JAm Cancer Soc. 1999;85(11):2400 – 9. 8. Prentice P, Viner RM. Pubertal timing and adult obesity and ... See full document

... the systematic review, three meta-analyses were ...a risk of ...in case – control ...among studies, invalidating the results presented. The study design ... See full document

... etiologic studies focused mainly on the environmental factors and rarely investigated the genetic ...effects. Risk of developing MS is increased more than 2-4% among first-degree ...corresponding ... See full document

... of studies and the risk of bias resulting from participant attrition mean these results should be interpreted with ...the meta-analysis indicates that there are under- lying clinical and ... See full document

... a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational ...epidemiological studies. Eligible studies will be observational studies reporting study-specific data for ... See full document

... higher risk of ischemic stroke [HR ...the risk of stroke was particularly important in younger patients (data not ...these studies were fairly ... See full document

... current meta-analysis summarizes the results of cohort studies and case-control studies involving a total of 9172 ...Our meta-analysis is based on pub- lished data ... See full document

... gastrointestinal surgery because of several advantages such as removing intraperi- toneal fluid and assisting the early detection of postopera- tive hemorrhage or anastomotic leakage [31 – ...and risk of ... See full document

... Preoperative understanding of clinical staging in gastric cancer is very useful in providing the best treatment for patients: for example, neoadjuvant (preoperative) chemotherapy can be used to treat AGC (i.e., tumors ... See full document

... of studies reported cessation outcomes at multiple endpoints using multiple metrics (eg, 7-day absti- nence, 30-day ...for analysis; if a primary outcome was not explicitly stated, we included ... See full document

... Disease Control and Prevention, corticoster- oids can be associated with a progression from LTBI to ...A case – control study conducted by Jick et al found an adjusted OR for TB of ...several ... See full document

... comparative studies that compared vandetanib with placebo or other tyrosine kinase inhibitor were ...editor, review studies, case reports, conference abstracts, and experimental animal ... See full document

... During 12 years of follow-up, AF occurred in 4,311 men during 449,744 person-years and in 2,730 women during 382,000 person-years. Coffee consumption was not associated with risk of AF, although there was a non- ... See full document

... for Systematic Reviews of Interventions [16] . A ‘risk of bias’ graph and a ‘risk of bias summary’ figure will be ...evaluate risk of bias separately for subjective (sexual function, ... See full document

... large meta-analysis of observational cohorts and randomised intervention studies [18] with 849,412 and 30,716 participants, respectively, reported an inverse correlation between serum 25(OH)D levels ... See full document

... The meta-analysis showed a mean cognitive and motor score (determined by the BSID) of ...longitudinal studies because of their higher risk of chromosomal disorders and syndromes, influencing ... See full document

... Collaboration Review Manager software (Nor- dic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark) ...used Review Manager ...between studies was assessed by using chi-square and I 2 tests, a ... See full document

... our analysis does not include C9orf72 repeat expansion analysis by Southern blot, although Individual definition of pathological expansion performed by each centre using repeat primed PCR was validated by ... See full document