What should I make of the nonsensical news that I am "probably light-skinned" but have a "twofold risk of baldness"?
After controlling for various factors, the team found that drinking two or more colas a day — whether artificially sweetened or regular — was linked to a twofold risk of chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Rashimi Sinha, a researcher at the National Cancer Institute, said, "We found a twofold risk of breast cancer in women who consumed very-well-done red meat as compared to rare or medium".
This is despite the fact that patients who solely choose alternative therapies have a greater than twofold risk of mortality, and those with early-stage cancers such as those of the breast and bowel face a four to sixfold increase in mortality compared with those who have standard therapy.
The use of nutritional supplements by athletes is associated with a twofold risk, first to use adulterated supplements, either by accidental contamination or by deliberate spiking, and second to use prohibited substances with doping being viewed as a gradual progression from the use of nutritional supplements to the misuse of harder drugs.
Investing in one single candidate has a twofold risk.
He notes, however, that the twofold risk would need to be confirmed in more studies before it could be used in the clinic.
Also it has been noted that patients' age is not a risk factor for dislocation [1, 36], but Ekelund et al. [38] found a nearly twofold risk of dislocation among very old patients (above 80 years).
In the multivariate analyses adjusting for potential confounders, a nearly twofold risk (OR 1.8; 95% CI 1.5-2.3 1.5-2.3veloping CDH was forndevelopinge with CDHCs at baseline.
Major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) were ascertained using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria.Participants exposed to high psychological job demands (excessive workload, extreme time pressures) had a twofold risk of MDD or GAD compared to those with low job demands.
Previous Ottman and Lipton's studies on 1948 patients with epilepsy demonstrated a twofold higher risk for migraine in patients with epilepsy compared to their first degree relatives without epilepsy, and they also showed a nearly twofold risk of migraine compared to controls (24%% vs 12%%).
