Harmonizing Formula Prescription Patterns in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.

Harmonizing formulas are associated with beneficial renal outcomes in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but the therapeutic mechanisms are unclear. The study aims to explore the associations of intentions and independent factors with harmonizing formulas prescriptions for patients with CKD. We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study to explore factors associated with harmonizing formulas prescription.

A population-based case-control study on the association of exposure with risk of breast cancer.

Background: Due to a lack of evidence from large-scale epidemiological studies by far on this issue, whether there is a link between exposure and breast cancer risk remained inconclusive.

Methods: We conducted a population-based case-control study using Taiwan's National Health Insurance claim data, in which all breast cancer patients newly diagnosed between 2005 and 2008 were employed as the case group ( = 34,262) and a random sample of non-breast cancer individuals selected from 1-million beneficiaries registered in 2005 was served as the control group. For fair comparability, we employed the time density sampling method to select controls who were matched to case on date of breast cancer diagnosis and age with a case/control ratio of 1/3 ( = 102,786).