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General Features and Methodology

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The history of epidemiologic research on the role of nutritional elements and BC in Uruguay is brief and its beginning was two decades ago [1]. During the years 1994–2010 the authors have produced more than 50 scientific works on the area [2–52]. A high fraction of them were case-control type studies, lately not only carried out following conventional analysis but also factor analysis in search of nutritional patterns [26, 36, 43, 51, 52]. They were mostly performed in population admitted to public hospitals (who belong to low socio-economic strata) coming from the whole country but we also analyzed a population sample belonging to the private healthcare system (mid-to-high socio-economic strata) in the capital city, Montevideo, in order to cover different risk populations. Our studies have given to the medical literature their usually original contributions, whose publication in specialized scientific journals and presentations in congresses have allowed an adequate international dissemination of their results, also cited nowadays in Internet. Of special interest for us were also the papers referred to selection of risk population using dietary information [11–13, 16–19], and more recently those reporting the results of anthropometric [24, 25, 29, 30, 33, 34, 44, 45] and other epidemiologic research [35], including a review [47]. Finally, some recent multisite analyses have brought additional information on specific items related to BC [36–42]. The most relevant features of our work are herewith summarized.

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    Alvaro Luis Ronco

  2. School of Medicine Department of Pathology Epidemiology Group, Universidad de la República, Av. Brasil 3080 dep. 402, 11300, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Eduardo De Stéfani

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Ronco, A.L., De Stéfani, E. (2012). General Features and Methodology. In: Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2397-9_10

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