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The effect of cannabis on prostate-specific antigen level among men in the United States: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

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George Papandonatos is partially supported by Institutional Development Award # U54GM115677 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institute of Health, which funds Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR).

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  1. Chien-Hsiang Weng and Daniel R. Wieland are both first authors of this article.

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02903, USA

    Chien-Hsiang Weng

  2. Providence Community Health Centers, Providence, RI, 02905, USA

    Chien-Hsiang Weng

  3. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Daniel R. Wieland

  4. Department of Surgery, University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    Xun Luo

  5. Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02903, USA

    Katherine L. Webb & George D. Papandonatos

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CHW: study development, data collection and management, data analysis, results interpretation, and manuscript writing/editing. DW: study development, result interpretation, and manuscript writing/editing. XL: study development, data analysis consulting, and result interpretation. KW: data analysis consulting and results interpretation. GDP: study development, data analysis consulting, and result interpretation. All authors reviewed the manuscript for content and approved the final version.

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Weng, CH., Wieland, D.R., Luo, X. et al. The effect of cannabis on prostate-specific antigen level among men in the United States: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. World J Urol 39, 4509–4510 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-020-03456-w

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