[PDF] Top 20 Increased breast cancer risk for patients with multiple sclerosis: a nationwide population-based cohort study.

... has increased steadily from 249 new cases per 100 000 in 2002 to 276 per 100 000 in 2008 in the island of Taiwan ...[20]. Cancer has been the leading cause of death in Taiwan for almost three ... See full document

... younger patients aged < 35 years is not obvious, and cancer is not common in that age group, with a relatively small case number possibly contributing to the ...this study also show ... See full document

... first nationwide population-based cohort study to investigate the associations between lung cancer and previous pneumococcal ...Our study showed that the incidence of lung ... See full document

... through a standardized procedure. This is a major limitation of this study compared to studies using standardized examinations of ...of a random sample for every 50 to 100 ambulatory ... See full document

... indicated for hematological disorders. 3,4 In addition to infection, cancer is thought to be related to human ...studied for its effects on tumor cell growth with inconsistent results, 7–10 ... See full document

... complied with the recommendations of the International RLS Study ...covers a highly representative sample of Taiwan’s general population because the reimbursement policy is universal and ... See full document

... Our study has a few ...cataract, cancer, and other comorbid medical conditions are identified completely dependent on ICD ...established a mechanism to interview patients and reviews ... See full document

... established a mechanism to interview patients and reviews medical charts to verify the diagnosis validity and quality of ...this study, we ensured that all of the study cohort ... See full document

... launched a mass screening program for breast cancer more than 20 years ...criterion for the screening program is mainly based on ...of breast cancer patients ... See full document

... breast cancer or thyroid cancer histology information was unavailable in the ...had breast cancer followed by thyroid cancer were more likely to have had invasive ductal ... See full document

... Second, patients with mood disorders tend to have autonomic and cardiovascular dysregulation, including an increased sympathetic drive, withdrawal of parasympathetic tone, cardiac rate and rhythm ... See full document

... People with depression who never sought medical attention were ...adjusting for certain concurrent illnesses, the patients with depression could have been less healthy and could have had ... See full document

... index, dietary habits, physical exercise, medication interaction, patients’ drug compliance, and treatment response. Second, we could not obtain information regarding the individual severity of DM/PM. People ... See full document

... this study had the major strengths of nationwide data and casted some light on an unanswered question, there were some ...subjects with thyroid diseases or malignancy and included variables of ... See full document

... Abstract: Patients with optic neuritis (ON) are at an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), an illness that may result in physical dysfunction and short life ... See full document

... diseases, with the Ethics Review Board of China Medical University ...(CMU-REC-101-012). Study participants From the 1997-2010 claims data, we identified patients aged 20 years and older with ... See full document

... in patients with lung cancers than ...bore a significant impact. In a hospital based case-control study in Taiwan, Lee ...independent risk factor for lung ... See full document

... medication for US-diagnosed patients might interfere with the possible relationship between US and ...because patients with US typically visit physicians more frequently than other ... See full document

... CFS cohort than in the non-CFS cohort (log-rank test p < 0 ...ED for cohorts with and without CFS were ...that patients with CFS had a 1.88-fold higher risk of ... See full document

... the nationwide database compiled by the NHRI and released for us to use in ...are based on the International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification ... See full document