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case-control study, n an investigation employing an epidemiologic approach in which previously existing incidents of a medical condition are used in lieu of gathering new information from a randomized population. Control is obtained by comparing known cases of the medical condition with a group of persons who have not developed the medical problem. |
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This single-center, case-control study documents a relative increase in methicillin resistance among 48 cases of Staphylococcus aureus--associated postpartum mastitis during 1998-2005. Vegetables, fruit, and antioxidant-related nutrients and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a National Cancer Institute-Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results population-based case-control study. The number of cases in the studies ranged from 34 to 496, and the number of controls from 25 to 2,070, although one nested case-control study used the rest of the cohort (22,286) as their controls (Table S1; http://ehp. |
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