Some of the difference may reflect the challenges of examining the prostate in obese men, making it more difficult to discover early malignancies, but the study's prospective design and availability of detailed records add to its strength.
This study has a prospective design and availability of rich, confounder data including sociodemographic and a range of preinjury correlates.
The strengths of our study are its prospective design and availability of rich, confounder data including sociodemographic and a range of preinjury correlates.
Strengths of the present study include its prospective nature, the availability of information on a number of reproductive and hormonal factors as well as other risk factors, and the high level of follow-up over a period of 16 years.
The strengths of this study include the prospective analysis, the availability of relevant covariates (including arsenic, an established carcinogen that was present in drinking water at levels above 10 µg/L, the current US EPA standard) [ 55] to adjust for confounding, and a population with a unique genetic background.
Further strengths are its large sample size, the prospective design, and the availability of up to four measurements per individual.
The strong points of this prospective study are the availability of longer term outcomes and the detailed patient information.
The availability of prospective cohort data on a large number of Japanese individuals provided us with a good opportunity to examine these associations.
However, the availability of prospective studies with biobanked samples and biotechnological development allowing large numbers of compounds to be measured in small amounts of biological samples (e.g., urine, plasma, serum) is encouraging.
Study coordinators tell prospective participants about the availability of genetic testing for diabetes risk, and ask them if they would be interested in undergoing such testing as part of a research study.
