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Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk
There have been many case-control studies of melanoma and the use of indoor tanning equipment. A recent meta analysis of 8 credible studies in North America estimated an overall significant odds ratio of 1.23. Three of these 8 studies also reported separately on commercial use and home use of indoor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19381980.2016.1270485 |
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description | There have been many case-control studies of melanoma and the use of indoor tanning equipment. A recent meta analysis of 8 credible studies in North America estimated an overall significant odds ratio of 1.23. Three of these 8 studies also reported separately on commercial use and home use of indoor tanning equipment. For home use the overall odds ratio was a significant 1.53 while for commercial use there was a non significant 1.05. |
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spelling | pubmed-53860992017-04-12 Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk Hoel, David G. Dermatoendocrinol Letter to the Editor There have been many case-control studies of melanoma and the use of indoor tanning equipment. A recent meta analysis of 8 credible studies in North America estimated an overall significant odds ratio of 1.23. Three of these 8 studies also reported separately on commercial use and home use of indoor tanning equipment. For home use the overall odds ratio was a significant 1.53 while for commercial use there was a non significant 1.05. Taylor & Francis 2016-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5386099/ /pubmed/28405266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19381980.2016.1270485 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Hoel, David G. Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
title | Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
title_full | Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
title_fullStr | Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
title_full_unstemmed | Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
title_short | Commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
title_sort | commercial tanning salons and melanoma risk |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19381980.2016.1270485 |
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