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Prospective study of risk factors for esophageal and gastric cancers in the Linxian general population trial cohort in China. Male Hypogonadism. This article was last reviewed on July 24, In addition, the sex difference in effect size for CYP11A1 rs was apparent in both study populations, but was significant only in the Shanxi study.