Sentences with phrase «cancer risk ratios»

Cancer risk ratios were exceeded by over a factor of 100 for both arsenic and dioxins.

Not exact matches

A significantly reduced risk of breast cancer was also found for those whose lifetime duration of lactation totaled 73 - 108 months (odds ratio = 0.47, 95 % CI: 0.23, 0.95) and for those who breastfed for > or = 109 months (odds ratio = 0.24, 95 % CI: 0.11, 0.53).

A high waist - to - hip ratio portends a greater risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and even certain cancers — for both men and women.

Adjusted relative risk ratios (RRR) and 95 % confidence intervals for the association between prostate cancer incidence and the scores of adherence to Western, Prudent, and Mediterranean dietary patterns in MCC - Spain study by tumor aggressiveness and extension.

In context, the risk of death from prostate cancer is about 3 percent, so the potential overdiagnosis ratio is on the order of 10 or 20 to 1.

Additional cancer risk factors were older age, receipt of hormone replacement therapy and smoking, but after controlling for these risk factors, fat ratio remained an independent risk factor.

Looking in detail at specific cancers and risk factors the investigators determined that only lung and GI cancers were associated with high abdominal to peripheral fat ratios (HR: 1.68; 95 %, CI: 1.12 to 2.53; p < 0.05 and HR: 1.34; 95 %, CI: 1 to 1.8; p < 0.05, respectively).

Using a novel approach, scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC - WHO) showed that three different measurements of body size, BMI, waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio all predicted similar obesity - related cancer risk in older aCancer (IARC - WHO) showed that three different measurements of body size, BMI, waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio all predicted similar obesity - related cancer risk in older acancer risk in older adults.

To illustrate potential mutation - specific effects on absolute cancer risks, we used the hazard ratio estimates to derive approximate absolute risks and 95 % confidence intervals, based on published estimates for the overall risks of breast and ovarian cancer by age 70 years.26 These estimates are for illustration and do not represent absolute risk estimates that would be required in a genetic counseling setting, as they do not account for noncancer outcomes that may influence a woman's life expectancy, the effects of family history, and nonrandom ascertainment of mutation carriers in this sample and depend on assumptions about the prevalence of different mutation classes in the population.

Odds ratios (OR) and 95 % confidence intervals (CI) were estimated with consideration of multiple established reproductive and environmental risk factors for breast cancer.

The results showed that the risk of breast cancer increased by an odd ratio of 3.88 in females who described using the underarm products multiple times per day starting before their 30th birthday.

Main outcomes and measures: Annual incidences, standardized incidence ratios, and cumulative risks of breast, ovarian, and contralateral breast cancer.

They analyzed four types of antihypertensive drugs: beta blockers, diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi), and CCBs, and used Cox proportional hazard regression models to obtain hazard ratios for the association of the four types of medication with risk of pancreatic cancer.

The ratio of Omega - 3 fats to Omega - 6 fats in your body and your diet can impact heart disease risk, cancer risk and more.

Aerobic exercise reduce the risk of breast cancer development, by changing the metabolism of estrogen in our body and increasing the ratio of «good» (2 - hydroxyestrone) to the «bad» (16alpha - hydroxyestrone) estrogens.

An article published in «Experimental Biology and Medicine» in June 2008 found that having a much higher ratio of omega - 6 fats to omega - 3 fats, as most Americans have, increases your risk for asthma, cancer, heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

What is the risk - benefit ratio of the cancers picked up by mammograms and the cancers caused by mammograms?

Increasing the omega - 6 to omega - 3 ratio is another potent way to increase your risk of cancer cell proliferation.

Prostate cancer hormonal risk factors (e.g., in men, the 2:16 α ratio, the Testosterone: Estrogen ratio [low T: E suggests insulin resistance which correlates with increased risk for prostate cancer]-RRB-

A 2 / 16α Ratio of < 2 indicates increased risk for prostate and laryngeal cancer.

(1) The 2 / 16α ratio: a decrease in this ratio of the estrone metabolites, 2 - hydroxyestrone and 16α - hydroxyestrone, is associated with an increased risk of breast and cervical cancer.

2 / 16α ratio: The ratio of 2 - hydroxyestrone (2 - OH E1) to 16α - hydroxyestrone (16α - OH E1) is an indicator of an individual's risk of developing breast or prostate cancer.

216 Hydroxyestrone ratio tells you about your cancer risk for breast cancer, and prostate cancer, so it gets really complicated.

2 / 16α ratio: The ratio of 2 - hydroxyestrone (2 - OH E1) to 16α - hydroxyestrone (16α - OH E1) is one indicator of a man's risk of developing prostate cancer.

The scientists were even able to calculate the dose / benefit ratio for carrots and cancer prevention: for every 10 grams per day of carrot consumption, the risk of prostate cancer was reduced by 5 percent.

If you don't lower your omega - 6 fats to acceptable levels, your omega 6:3 ratio will not be low enough, and you will not be likely receive the full benefits of omega - 3 fats such as reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's, arthritis and many other degenerative illnesses.

Every five - unit increase in body mass index — BMI, a ratio of weight to height — causes a 23 percent increased risk of cancer in the upper stomach.

An ELISA method for measuring 2 - and 16 - alpha - hydroxylated estrogen (OHE) metabolites in urine is available and the ratio of urinary 2 - OHE / 16 - alpha - OHE (2 / 16 - alpha ratio) is a useful biomarker for estrogen - related cancer risk.

This unhealthy ratio, to which commercial mayonnaise and other processed foods contribute, increases your risk of developing heart diseases, some cancers, Type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis, as well as inflammatory and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Estrogen metabolism and risk of breast cancer: a prospective study of the 2:16 alpha - hydroxy - estrone ratio in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Ratios of estrogen metabolites (16 - OH / 2 -0 H estrone) can also be checked to identify an increased risk of breast and other cancers.

«Between the two extremes (high - vegetable, low - meat diet [s] versus high - meat, low - vegetable diet [s]-RRB-, a risk ratio of about 8 appears to exist, sufficient... to explain a substantial part of [that] international variation in the incidence of colorectal cancer.»

Coffee consumption was also shown to be associated with increased ratio of plasma 2 - hydroxyestrone to 16 - alphahydroxyestrone, a predictor of lower breast cancer risk [81].

Conventional cancer treatments like radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy may destroy the cancer, but there's a trade - off in side effects; the risk - benefit ratio must be considered.