Example sentences for: case-control

How can you use “case-control” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In light of the laboratory evidence and limited number population-based studies, we conducted a hospital-based case-control study to further investigate the association between regular aspirin use and the risk of pancreatic cancer.

  • It appears from a case-control study [ 23] that the relation between percent densities and breast cancer is of similar strength in women of different ethnicities, although density levels vary by ethnicity.

  • A major advantage of nested case-control studies for early detection biomarkers is that they can be done quickly if serum from a long-term study has been stored in a biorepository.

  • , randomized trial [ 17 ] , cohort study [ 14 18 19 22 ] case-control study [ 20 23 ] , or by the vast differences in exposure assessment, ranging from assignment of participants to aspirin intervention group vs. placebo group [ 17 ] over ever use of aspirin in the last 30 days [ 14 ] to having had an NSAID prescription in the past three years [ 21 ] .

  • Clinical data indicate that the peak incidence of HUS occurs around two years of age, but the disease clearly occurs in significant numbers of older children [ 1 ] . Population-based studies suggest that there is a decline in the incidence of HUS from a peak at age 1-2 years until a nadir at about age 11 years [ 1 2 ] . In addition, a case-control study of the Washington State outbreak of HUS revealed that the mean age of patients with HUS was 8 years, while the mean age of patients without HUS was 15 years [ 3 ] . These studies raise the possibility, therefore, that the appearance or disappearance of a factor or factors in adolescents and adults reduces susceptibility to end-organ injury in HUS.


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