Sentences with phrase «between lung cancer risk»

In a new study from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, researchers investigated the relationship between lung cancer risk and various glucose indicators.

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However, the association between a healthy eating pattern and lung cancer risk is still unclear.

A large - scale genetic study of the links between telomere length and risk for five common cancers finds that long telomeres are associated with an increased risk of lung adenocarcinoma.

The strength of the association between smoking and lung cancer is even stronger, with smokers being 35 percent more likely than non-smokers to get lung cancer, but in terms of epidemiology, the 16 percent increased risk of skin cancer in ever - users of UV tanning remains strong.

The link between periodontitis and increased cancer risk was weaker or not apparent in African - American participants from the ARIC study, except in cases of lung and colorectal cancer.

There was no association between rotating shift work and any cancer mortality, except for lung cancer in those who worked shift work for 15 or more years (25 % higher risk).

Past epidemiological studies have found a link between the amount of time spent cooking over woks and the risk of lung cancer.

The authors then embarked on a study to determine the association between GI, GL and risk of lung cancer.

Assuming that the findings of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation within the non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer populations during five years.

Studies have found both positive and negative correlations between smoking pot and increased lung cancer risk, but inhaling smoke of any kind harms the lungs.

This research is a more in depth look into the relationship between diet and risk of lung cancer.

But, the required dose of radiation delivered to the chest is so high that a young woman getting just a single scan, for example, may increase her lifetime risk of breast cancer and lung cancer by between around 1 and 4 %.

In addition, several case - control studies have shown that specific forms of the gene that encodes glutathione S - transferase, which is the enzyme that metabolizes and helps eliminate isothiocyanates from the body, may influence the association between cruciferous vegetable intake and human lung and colorectal cancer risk (21 - 23).

The associations between high versus low consumption of decaffeinated coffee and lower risk of type 2 diabetes21 and endometrial cancer40 were of a similar magnitude to total or caffeinated coffee, and there was a small beneficial association between decaffeinated coffee and lung cancer.48 The other outcomes investigated for decaffeinated coffee showed no significant associations, though it should be noted that meta - analyses of consumption would have much lower power to detect an effect.

Consequently, although the causal link between SHS exposure and lung cancer development is well - established 1 — 3, the estimated risk for developing lung cancer consequent to SHS exposure remains somewhat debatable.»

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7