BACKGROUND We analyzed the joint effect of environmental risk factors and family history of colorectal cancer on colon cancer. METHODS We used data from a case-control study conducted in northern Italy between 1992 and 1996 including 1225 cases with colon cancer and 4154 controls. We created a weighed risk factor score for the main environmental risk factors in this population (positive famil...

Background: We analyzed the joint effect of environmental risk factors and family history of colorectal cancer on colon cancer. Methods: We used data from a case-control study conducted in northern Italy between 1992 and 1996 including 1225 cases with colon cancer and 4154 controls. We created a weighed risk factor score for the main environmental risk factors in this population (positive famil...

abstract objective the incidence of childhood cancer has been increasing nearly one percent per year for the past two decades. leukemia and lymphoma are the most common types of childhood cancers. this study assessed the relation between environmental factors (hydrocarbon, agricultural toxin, insecticide) and leukemia/lymphoma in children, which was evaluated by the frequency of the parents’ ha...

Phthalates exposure occurs in all areas, such as foods' plastic packaging, cosmetics, and others. Previous studies showed that phthalates are associated with the prevalence of T2DM. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is caused by a combination defective insulin secretion pancreatic β-cells insulin-resistance. This study aimed to investigate whether phthalate an environmental risk factor for A case...

The interest in conducting studies to examine geneenvironment interaction is increasing for most chronic and complex diseases such as cancer. This increased interest is mostly due to considerable advances in molecular genetic techniques. Gene-environment studies are motivated by different situations including: 1) The detection of major genes that do not have estimated lifetime risks that reach ...

purpose: due to unhealthy lifestyles, there has been an increase in the prevalence of coronary artery disease (cad) and a reduction in its age of onset. given the high cost of diagnosis and treatment of cad, there is an urgent need to teach people strategies helpful in changing their lifestyles as this can help reduce the risk factors of the disease. therefore, the goal of the present study was...

hepatitis b (hb) disease occurs with high risk behaviors in the different communities. aim of this study was to find out some of local customs in lifestyle that might be risk factors for transmitting this disease in order to design the educational programs and control it periodically in chaharmahal va bakhtiari, iran. this was a case-control study, carried out on patients with hb and the contro...