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PURPOSE: This study was conducted to estimate incidence, mortality and survival rate of lung cancer in the elderly people in Korea.
METHODS: Study population was Korean Elderly Phamacoepidemiologic Cohort (KEPEC). The...
Stress is a newly recognized risk factor that appears to contribute to all recognized mechanisms underlying cardiac events, specifically, by clustering of traditional cardiovascular risk factors, endothelial dysfunction, myocardial ischemia,...
Nutrients are the primary dietary component that are of interest in studying the diet-disease relationships because they give us more direct biological mechanisms. However, exploring the associations of the foods...
For the past three decades, considerable attentions have been paid to the search for stressors, stress outcomes and stress modifiers that may reduce the impact of exposure to environmental stressors....
PURPOSE: Stomach cancer is a major cancer in the world as well as in Korea. Helicobacter pylori infection was suggested causing atropic gastritis, but there has been a debate on...
Stress can induce modifications in the central nervous(CNS), autonomic nervous and neuroendocrine system. Thus, the stress response has long been measured in laboratory experiments by biochemical changes in the hormone...
Son JH, Chun BY, Yeh MH, Lee KE, Lee SS, Lee YS, Kim BG
KMID: 2303943
Korean J Epidemiol.
2002 Dec;24(2):113-120.
PURPOSE: This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of osteoporosis and to identify the related factors of bone mineral density (BMD) in rural postmenopausal women.
METHODS: Three hundred ninety postmenopausal...
Kim H, Lee KS, Chang SH, Park S, Kim C, Lee CH, Kweon HJ, Chung SS
KMID: 2303942
Korean J Epidemiol.
2002 Dec;24(2):107-112.
OBJECTIVES: Since Korea has been known to be one of the endemic area for hepatitis B virus(HBV) infection, vaccination for HBV has been recommended for all neonates in Korea. After...