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Lifetime risks of hip fracture in patients with type 2 diabetic: Taiwan Diabetes Study
This study is to estimate the lifetime risks of hip fracture in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability and hip fracture risk in older persons
We investigated the association between blood pressure variability measured by the coefficient of variation (CV) of blood pressure and hip fracture in older persons with diabetes. After excluding patients with...
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Visit-to-visit variation of fasting plasma glucose is a predictor of hip fracture in older persons with type 2 diabetes: the Taiwan Diabetes Study
We investigated the association between fasting plasma glucose variability (FPG-CV) and the risk of hip fracture in elderly diabetic patients. Our finding showed a temporal association between FPG-CV and hip f...
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Open AccessIndependent and joint effect of type 2 diabetes and gastric and hepatobiliary diseases on risk of pancreatic cancer risk: 10-year follow-up of population-based cohort
Type 2 diabetes mellitus, gastric and hepatobiliary comorbidities, and cancer share common risk factors: for example, tobacco, obesity, physical inactivity, high calorie intake, and metabolic disorders. Prior ...
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Evaluating environmental performance using new process capability indices for autocorrelated data
Traditionally, the process capability index is developed by assuming that the process output data are independent and follow normal distribution. However, in most environmental cases, the process data are auto...
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Vitamin D receptor variability and physical activity are jointly associated with low handgrip strength and osteoporosis in community-dwelling elderly people in Taiwan: the Taichung Community Health Study for Elders (TCHS-E)
We studied 472 elders to assess joint association of vitamin D receptor (VDR) variability and physical activity on low handgrip strength (LHS) and osteoporosis (OST). Our findings showed that higher risks of O...
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LRIG1 modulates aggressiveness of head and neck cancers by regulating EGFR-MAPK-SPHK1 signaling and extracellular matrix remodeling
EGFR overexpression and chromosome 3p deletion are two frequent events in head and neck cancers. We previously mapped the smallest region of recurrent copy-number loss at 3p12.2-p14.1. LRIG1, a negative regulator...
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Selenium is inversely associated with interleukin-6 in the elderly
Selenium is an essential trace element with antioxidant property. Decreased serum selenium concentration with aging had been found in previous report. In this study, we aim to investigate the association betwe...
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Relationship between interpregnancy interval and birth defects in Washington State
Interpregnancy interval (IPI) influences numerous adverse perinatal outcomes. IPI's impact on birth defects is unclear.
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Gene expression array testing of FFPE archival breast tumor samples: an optimized protocol for WG-DASL® sample preparation
Archived formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues constitute a vast, well-annotated, but underexploited resource for the molecular study of cancer progression, largely because degradation, chemical mod...
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Open AccessClinical characteristics of different histologic types of breast cancer
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, though little is known about some of its rarer forms, including certain histologic types. Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program data on 135 157 inv...
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Open AccessEpidemiologic and molecular risk factors for contralateral breast cancer among young women
Women diagnosed with a first breast cancer before the age of 45 years have a greater than 5.0-fold risk of develo** a second primary contralateral breast cancer (CBC) than women in the general population hav...
