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SUBMITTER: Baandrup L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453615 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Baandrup L L Dehlendorff C C Friis S S Olsen J H JH Kjær S K SK
British journal of cancer 20141113 1
<h4>Background</h4>Limited data suggest that statin use reduces the risk for ovarian cancer.<h4>Methods</h4>Using Danish nationwide registries, we identified 4103 cases of epithelial ovarian cancer during 2000-2011 and age-matched them to 58,706 risk-set sampled controls. Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for epithelial ovarian cancer overall, and for histological types, associated with statin use.<h4>Results</h4>We ...[more]