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Although it was not the purpose of this study to explain the high rates of breast cancer in Marin County, one hypothesis of the study was that if exposures specific to Marin County were to some degree responsible for the high rates there, one would expect women with breast cancer to have lived longer in Marin County than control women after adjustment for generally recognized breast cancer risk factors.
While we wait for further clarification from the scientific community, we have chosen not to remove these results from the Clear Skies benefits estimates, nor have we elected to apply any interim adjustment factor based on the preliminary reanalyses.
After adjustment, older age, having type 1 diabetes, an abnormal HbA 1c level, and report of antibiotic use during the previous 2 weeks were statistically significantly associated with Candida colonization.
The primary advantages of the method are that it is easy to use, it only requires case data, it automatically adjusts for naturally occurring purely spatial and purely temporal variation, it allows adjustment for space by day-of-week interaction, and it is capable of handling missing data.
In this analysis, "adaptive" refers to using the data to select the follow-up time, with appropriate adjustment in computing confidence intervals.