Word: iribarren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study also highlights the potential for managed-care companies to do good epidemiological studies. Funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Carlos Iribarren and colleagues from Kaiser Permanente combed through the computerized medical records of the company's health plan in Northern California and found 16,228 men who had never smoked cigarettes or cigars and another 1,546 men who smoked only cigars. Then they studied the men's medical histories from 1971 to 1995 to see how they fared...