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Autor:
W F, Page, L M, Brass
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Military medicine. 166(9)
For the first 30 years after repatriation, former American prisoners of war (POWs) of World War II and the Korean Conflict had lower death rates for heart disease and stroke than non-POW veteran controls and the U.S. population, but subsequent morbid
Autor:
W F, Page, R N, Miller
Publikováno v:
Military medicine. 165(10)
In our earlier, 30-year follow-up of American prisoners of war (POWs) of World War II and the Korean conflict, we found evidence of increased cirrhosis mortality. Using federal records, we have now extended our follow-up to 50 years (42 years for Kor
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Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies. 1(3)
At least two twin registries in the United States have been or are being assembled using the similarity of Social Security Numbers in computerized records to help identify possible twin pairs. While the success of such enterprises depends directly on
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The Prostate. 33(4)
Increased risk of prostate cancer among men with a family history of the disease has been observed in several epidemiological studies, and family studies have identified hereditary prostate cancer characterized by early onset and autosomal dominant i
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Behavior genetics. 27(4)
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Stroke. 27(7)
Myocardial infarction and stroke are both predominantly manifestations of atherosclerosis, yet stroke is commonly ignored in prognostic studies and therapeutic trials of ischemic heart disease. Our objective was to assess, in a community setting, the
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Military medicine. 160(7)
Veterans now make up nearly two-thirds of U.S. males aged 65 and older, and thus medical research in the male geriatric population is largely concerned with veterans, whose mortality experience assumes greater importance as they age. Department of Ve
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Cancer epidemiology, biomarkersprevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 4(5)
Given the current explosion of knowledge of the genetics and molecular biology of cancer, the possibility of widespread testing for inherited predisposition to cancer has been raised. The main objective of this study was to assess the effect of inher
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Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae. 44(3-4)
Prior studies have suggested that the risk of testicular cancer among dizygotic twins may exceed that among monozygotic twins or the general population. Cryptorchidism is associated with testicular cancer and twinship, and therefore might potentially
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Neuroepidemiology. 14(6)
Previously, we studied the effect of population ancestry on the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in US veterans of World War II, comparing by state 1980 US census ancestry data with MS case/control ratios. Here, the joint effects of population ancestr