Does the duration of diabetes increase the risk of cancer? A nationwide population-based cohort of patients with new-onset diabetes and a matched reference cohort.

Diabetes mellitus and cancer are both common health issues, but the correlation between these two diseases remains unclear. We investigated the association of cumulative exposure of diabetes mellitus as an indication of hyperglycemia in terms of disease duration on multiple cancer types. We hypothesized that the risk of cancer would increase over time after the onset of diabetes.

The natural history of incidentally discovered adrenocortical adenomas: a retrospective evaluation.

Adrenal adenoma is the most frequent lesion among adrenal incidentalomas. The present retrospective study was undertaken to investigate medium-term evolution of supposed or ascertained adrenocortical adenomas in a group of 53 subjects (16 males and 37 females, aged 31-83 yr), with bilateral (no.=8) or monolateral (no.

Helicobacter antibodies in 1973 and 1994 in the adult population of Vammala, Finland.

Changes in Helicobacter pylori seroprevalence were studied determining IgG and IgA antibodies of 408 randomly selected adults aged 15-74 years living in Vammala, Finland in 1973 and of 504 similarly selected subjects in 1994. Seroprevalence increased by age at both time points. The age-adjusted seroprevalence rate was clearly lower in 1994 than in 1973 (31 vs.