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Validity and Reproducibility of a Food Frequency Questionnaire for Dietary Factors Related to Colorectal Cancer
data for the FFQ, of whom 156 also participated in the validity assessment. Mean differences in the intake of foods and nutrients between FFQ1 and FFQ2 were, overall, small and statistically ...
Immediate referral to colposcopy versus cytological surveillance for low-grade cervical cytological abnormalities in the absence of HPV test: A systematic review and a meta-analysis of the literature.
assessed using I(2) statistics. Six RCT s were included. Immediate colposcopy significantly increased detection of unimportant abnormalities as opposed to repeat cytology (koilocytosis: 32 vs. 21%, RR: 1.49, ...
DLL4 expression is a prognostic marker and may predict gemcitabine benefit in resected pancreatic cancer.
gemcitabine therapy was statistically significant (P<0.001). The validating cohort recapitulated the findings of the training cohort. CONCLUSIONS: Low DLL4 abundance in tumour cells may predict the benefit ...
ANOVA model for network meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy data.
framework and uses the data more efficiently. Nonetheless, handling the inherent correlation between sensitivity and specificity continues to be a statistical challenge. We developed an arm-based hierarchical ...
BruxAir. Short-term health effects of air pollution in the Brussels Capital Region 2004-2011: an epidemiological time series approach.
health effects, (2) optimize the statistical methodology, (3) estimate the relative risks and (4) estimate the cost saving potential. Results include (1) purchase is indeed a sensitive indicator, (2) ...
Ecotoxicological potential of antibiotic pollution-industrial wastewater: bioavailability, biomarkers, and occurrence in Mytilus galloprovincialis.
cells. Results show that PW exhibited a statistically significant (p < 0.001) genotoxic effect in a dose-dependent manner. However, the toxic effects of PW decreased significantly after its treatment ...
Adverse obstetric outcomes after local treatment for cervical preinvasive and early invasive disease according to cone depth: systematic review and meta-analysis.
model and inverse variance. Heterogeneity between studies was assessed with I(2) statistics. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Obstetric outcomes comprised preterm birth (including spontaneous and threatened), ...
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Smoking Cessation Due to a Smoking Ban: General Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Luxembourg.
Socio-Economique Liewen Zu Letzebuerg/European Union–Statistic on Income and Living Conditions) survey, which was a representative survey of the general population aged ≥16 years conducted in Luxembourg in 2005, ...
A Versatile Panel of Reference Gene Assays for the Measurement of Chicken mRNA by Quantitative PCR.
selected genes on the detection of statistically significant differences in expression. The results are compared with those obtained using 28s ribosomal RNA, the present most widely accepted reference gene ...
Educational differentials in disability vary across and within welfare regimes: a comparison of 26 European countries in 2009.
European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU- SILC) across 26 countries classified into four welfare regime groups. Logistic models adjusted by country, age and sex (in all 30-79 years and in ...