[PDF] Top 20 Obesity and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review of prospective studies.

... important risk factor for many types of solid cancers, especially for CRC ...that obesity is associated with 7% to 60% greater risk of CRC compared with normal weight individuals ... See full document

... Meta-DiSc and STATA ...negatives and false negatives) were extracted to obtain pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), positive predicted value, ... See full document

... increased risk of cryptorchidism, but high levels of alcohol drinking should be noted and ...Previous studies [10, 34] re- ported an increased risk of cryptorchidism when ... See full document

... development of this review revealed a shortage of ar- ticles addressing the subject, in particular Brazilian studies, as well as epidemiological studies about the ...plasias and ... See full document

... point of view, technical problems such as low sample size, the number of genes included in the classifier, translation between platforms or cohort heterogeneity, among others, have been reported as ... See full document

... included studies have adjusted for some important covariates, which are major con- cerns in our study, may have confounded these ...intake and PCa risk was more evident in studies without ... See full document

... (12q24.2) and expresses a type of detoxify- ing enzyme, which contributes to the oxidation of intracellular aldehydes ...agents and protects against oxidative damage by catalyzing the ... See full document

... aware of the limitations of this ...published and cited, and are preferentially published in English language journals ...only studies written in English language and therefore, ... See full document

... studied cancer risks markers at defined risk loci are often poorly linked to the actual risk ...mapping of these true risk ...groups, studies assessing multiple ethnic groups can ... See full document

... other risk factors were controlled in the multivariate regression ...explanations of this ...history of CRC, smoking, alcohol intake, and self-reported hypertension were all well-established ... See full document

... search of all English reports on studies for the association between the TP53BP1 Asp353Glu (rs560191) polymorphism and susceptibility to cancer using Medline, the Cochrane Library, EMbase, Web ... See full document

... Previous studies have suggested that certain types of cancer, such as brain and pancreatic cancer, are associated with an increased risk of developing a VTE, but to date, ... See full document

... CHD risk about as strongly as are some major established risk factors, the current data reinforce interest in the connection between inflammatory pathways and cardiovascular ...investigations ... See full document

... effect of BRAF-V600E mutation on patient survival separately based on study design RCT versus cohort and cancer ...heterogeneity of the studies using chi-square test of ... See full document

... appraise and deal with an adverse ...affect and attempts to avoid or deny negative emotions or situations may lead to social withdrawal, less engagement in health behaviors, and more psychological ... See full document

... included studies. In some studies, potentially important confounding factors, such as age, race, alcohol intake, tea consumption and smoking, were not ...included studies, the number of ... See full document

... substances of LC n-3 PUFAs, such as eicosapentaeoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid, and docosahexaenoic ...inflammatory and carcinogenic chemicals, while n-3 PUFAs are anti-inflammatory and ... See full document

... value of the lower and upper boundaries of each category as the assigned ...fat, and unsaturated fat intake and the risk for Pca were fitted by modelling both tails (left-tail ... See full document

... metastasis of CRC, which was consistent with the conclusions of most included ...status of CRC metastasis at the time of diagnosis. The expression of MUC1 in CRC tis- sue can be ... See full document

... characteristics of each study. The seven observational studies included in this review had a total duration of follow-up periods from six to 63 months, were conducted in European countries, in ... See full document