Elevated serum homocysteine level as an independent risk factor for erectile dysfunction: a prospective pilot case-control study

Andrologia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. e12684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Zhang ◽  
Z. Xu ◽  
Y. Dai ◽  
Y. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Erectile Dysfunction ◽  
Independent Risk Factor ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Homocysteine Level ◽  
Elevated Serum ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Serum Homocysteine ◽  
Control Study

Association of Serum Homocysteine Level and Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: A Case-control Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Mohammadali Nazarinia ◽  
Asghar Zare ◽  
Mohammad javad Fallahi ◽  
Mesbah Shams
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Sclerosis ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Homocysteine Level ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Lung Involvement ◽  
Serum Homocysteine ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Control Study

Background:Systemic sclerosis is a disorder of connective tissue with unknown cause, affecting the skin and internal organs, characterized by fibrotic changes.Objective:To determine the correlation between serum homocysteine level and interstitial lung involvement in systemic sclerosis. </P><P> Materials and Methods: In this case – control study, 59 patients who fulfilled the ACR/EULAR classification criteria for systemic sclerosis and were referred to Hafez Hospital of Shiraz, Iran, were included as the case group. Fifty nine healthy subjects were involved as the control group. Patients were divided into two groups based on interstitial lung involvement and two subtypes, diffuse and limited type. Serum homocysteine, vitamin B12, and folate levels compared between the controls, and cases groups.Results:Of 59 case and control group, 53 (%89.8) were female and the mean age did not differ in both groups (P=0.929). Thirty five (%59.3) patients had interstitial lung involvement and 38(%64.4) had diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis. The mean serum homocysteine level was 13.9±6.3 µmol/L in the case and 13.7±9.2 µmol/L in the control group (P=0.86). The mean serum homocysteine level did not differ between the patients with and without interstitial lung involvement (P=0.52). The patients with lung involvement was older than those without lung involvement (P=0.004). Lung disease was more common in diffuse type (P=0.014).Conclusion:In our study, serum homocysteine level did not differ between the patients and healthy subjects. Also, there was no correlation between serum homocysteine level and lung involvement, but lung involvement was more common in older patients and also diffuse subtype.

Opium use as an independent risk factor for pancreatic cancer: A case-control study

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 102017
Author(s):  
Ahmad Naghibzadeh-Tahami ◽  
Maryam Marzban ◽  
Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi ◽  
Zaher Khazaei ◽  
Mohammad Javad Zahedi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pancreatic Cancer ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Independent Risk Factor ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Control Study ◽  
Opium Use

scholarly journals Rituximab identified as an independent risk factor for severe PJP: A case-control study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. e0239042
Author(s):  
Anat Zalmanovich ◽  
Ronen Ben-Ami ◽  
Galia Rahav ◽  
Danny Alon ◽  
Allon Moses ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Independent Risk Factor ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Control Study

scholarly journals Risk factors for post-bronchoscopy pneumonia: a case–control study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Sato ◽  
Kengo Murata ◽  
Miake Yamamoto ◽  
Tsukasa Ishiwata ◽  
Miyako Kitazono-Saitoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Independent Risk Factor ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Tracheobronchial Stenosis ◽  
Control Study ◽  
Age And Sex

AbstractThe bronchoscopy, though usually safe, is occasionally associated with complications, such as pneumonia. However, the use of prophylactic antibiotics is not recommended by the guidelines of the British Thoracic Society. Thus far there are few reports of the risk factors for post-bronchoscopy pneumonia; the purpose of this study was to evaluate these risk factors. We retrospectively collected data on patients in whom post-bronchoscopy pneumonia developed from the medical records of 2,265 patients who received 2666 diagnostic bronchoscopies at our institution between April 2006 and November 2011. Twice as many patients were enrolled in the control group as in the pneumonia group. The patients were matched for age and sex. In total, 37 patients (1.4%) had post-bronchoscopy pneumonia. Univariate analysis showed that a significantly larger proportion of patients in the pneumonia group had tracheobronchial stenosis (75.7% vs 18.9%, p < 0.01) and a final diagnosis of primary lung cancer (75.7% vs 43.2%, p < 0.01) than in the control group. The pneumonia group tended to have more patients with a history of smoking (83.8% vs 67.1%, p = 0.06) or bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) (4.3% vs 14.9%, p = 0.14) than the control group. In multivariate analysis, we found that tracheobronchial stenosis remained an independent risk factor for post-bronchoscopy pneumonia (odds ratio: 7.8, 95%CI: 2.5–24.2). In conclusion, tracheobronchial stenosis was identified as an independent risk factor for post-bronchoscopy pneumonia by multivariate analysis in this age- and sex- matched case control study.

Mode of delivery is an independent risk factor for maternal mortality: a case-control study

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 652
Author(s):  
Ariane Lasry ◽  
Ahmad Badeghiesh ◽  
Alexander Volodarsky-Perel ◽  
Yaron Gil ◽  
Jacques Balayla
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Independent Risk Factor ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Control Study
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