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Species | Issa J DahabrehSummaryAffiliation: Tufts Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Lack of replication for the association between HER2 I655V polymorphism and breast cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysisIssa J Dahabreh
Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 35:503-9. 2011....
Do observational studies using propensity score methods agree with randomized trials? A systematic comparison of studies on acute coronary syndromesIssa J Dahabreh
Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington Street, Box No 63, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Eur Heart J 33:1893-901. 2012..We aimed to systematically assess agreement between observational studies using PS methods and RCTs on therapeutic interventions for ACS...
Parity and risk of lung cancer in women: systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studiesIssa J Dahabreh
Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Lung Cancer 76:150-8. 2012..Future studies should include analyses in well-defined histological disease subgroups...
Association of episodic physical and sexual activity with triggering of acute cardiac events: systematic review and meta-analysisIssa J Dahabreh
Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington St, Box 63, Boston, MA 02111, USA
JAMA 305:1225-33. 2011..Evidence has suggested that physical and sexual activity might be triggers of acute cardiac events...
Paraoxonase 1 polymorphisms and ischemic stroke risk: A systematic review and meta-analysisIssa J Dahabreh
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Genet Med 12:606-15. 2010..We performed a meta-analysis of published studies investigating the association between ischemic stroke and two nonsynonymous PON1 polymorphisms, rs662 (p.Q192R) and rs854560 (p.L55M) in humans...
TP53 Arg72Pro polymorphism and colorectal cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysisIssa J Dahabreh
Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, 35 Kneeland Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1840-7. 2010..The TP53 rs1042522 polymorphism (c.215C>G, Arg72Pro) has been extensively investigated as a potential risk factor for colorectal cancer, but the results have thus far been inconclusive...
Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in response assessment before high-dose chemotherapy for lymphoma: a systematic review and meta-analysisTeruhiko Terasawa
Fujita Health University Nanakuri Sanatorium, 424 1 Odoricho, Tsu, Mie, 514 1295, Japan
Oncologist 15:750-9. 2010....
Heterogeneity of the phenotypic definition of coronary artery disease and its impact on genetic association studiesGeorgios D Kitsios
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center and Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Genet 4:58-67. 2011..We assessed the extent of phenotypic heterogeneity and quantified its impact in a large literature sample of association studies...
Active surveillance in men with localized prostate cancer: a systematic reviewIssa J Dahabreh
Tufts Evidence based Practice Center, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 156:582-90. 2012..Active surveillance (AS) and watchful waiting (WW) have been proposed as management strategies for low-risk, localized prostate cancer...
Systematic review: Anti-epidermal growth factor receptor treatment effect modification by KRAS mutations in advanced colorectal cancerIssa J Dahabreh
Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Ann Intern Med 154:37-49. 2011..KRAS mutations have been extensively investigated as predictive biomarkers for treatment of advanced colorectal cancer with the anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibodies cetuximab and panitumumab...
Patent foramen ovale closure and medical treatments for secondary stroke prevention: a systematic review of observational and randomized evidenceGeorgios D Kitsios
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Stroke 43:422-31. 2012..We synthesized the available evidence on secondary stroke prevention in patients with patent foramen ovale and cryptogenic stroke...
Emerging magnetic resonance imaging technologies for musculoskeletal imaging under loading stress: scope of the literatureIssa J Dahabreh
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Ann Intern Med 155:616-24. 2011..Overall, evidence is insufficient to support the clinical utility of MRI under loading stress for musculoskeletal conditions...
A review of genetic association studies of obstructive sleep apnea: field synopsis and meta-analysisVasileia Varvarigou
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Sleep 34:1461-8. 2011..Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a multifactorial disorder with a heritable component. We performed a field synopsis of genetic association studies of OSA to synthesize the available evidence...
