Gabriele Nagel

..For some nutrients the dietary changes were consistent with results from independent national surveys. The performance of the FFQ gives confidence in the dietary data to be used as long-term exposure variables...

..We explored the associations between serum apolipoprotein concentrations and symptoms of asthma and atopy...

..These findings may explain some of the controversy regarding breastfeeding, since the direction of the association with breastfeeding depends on the predominating wheeze phenotype (e.g. atopic, nonatopic)...

..Thus, we investigated the association between educational attainment and multimorbidity in a prospective cohort study, taking also into account intermediate factors that could explain such associations...

..However, in subgroups of postmenopausal women, a weak protective effect between beta-carotene and vitamin E from food and breast cancer risk cannot be excluded...

..These results suggest that adipokines may contribute to increased asthma and allergy risk in obese subjects. Stronger associations among girls with non-atopic asthma may indicate diverse pathological mechanisms...

..Obesity is associated with substantial metabolic changes and subclinical inflammation. We explored associations between body mass index (BMI) and cardiometabolic biomarkers and their clustering in overweight and obese schoolchildren...

..A study was undertaken to assess the association between dietary factors, asthma and allergy in a large international study including objective measurements of atopy...

..To describe the prevalence and to assess type and indicators of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use in the two German EPIC-cohorts...

..Risk factors for rare gynecological cancers are largely unknown. Initial research has indicated that the metabolic syndrome (MetS) or individual components could play a role...

..We explored the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and various cardiometabolic biomarkers in 10-year-old children...

..To evaluate the association of socioeconomic position with adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and stomach...

..Physically inactive children with regular consumption of sweetened drinks and no breakfast were prone to be overweight or obese. Changes of these lifestyle factors as targets of interventions are promising to prevent childhood obesity...

..A protective role of dietary vitamin E intake on disorders related to the immune system, such as allergic diseases, has been suggested. However, results from epidemiological studies are conflicting...

..Therefore, we aimed to analyze the relationship between cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and status inconsistency. Another target was to assess the influence of behaviour related risk factors on this association...

..The aim of the study was to explore the influence of reproductive and dietary factors on the age at menopause...

..Respiratory diseases contributed to mortality in the lowest BMI category independently from smoking status. Underweight and obesity were both associated with higher all-cause mortality in men and women...

..To our knowledge this is the first report on this association, but due to the risk of chance finding, this has to be confirmed in a study with sufficient statistical power...

..Our study contributes to the identification of groups of elderly who are likely to have different prospects for long-term disease occurrence and survival...

..After calibration, the two components had a similar weight. This observation has important implications for the analysis of multicenter studies because the between-cohort component provides a large part of the overall heterogeneity...

..Among premenopausal women, weight and BMI showed nonsignificant inverse associations with breast cancer...

..These results suggest that variation in macronutrients is meaningful for mortality and that the RRR method is more appropriate than the classic PCA method to identify dietary patterns relevant to mortality...

..To investigate the association of a posteriori dietary patterns with overall survival of older Europeans...

..This association was limited to distal GC, while serologically defined SCAG was strongly associated with cardia GC, thus suggesting a divergent risk pattern for these 2 sites...

..Findings from this large study support the causal relation between smoking and gastric cancer in this European population. Stomach cancer should be added to the burden of diseases caused by smoking...

..To examine whether adherence to the modified Mediterranean diet, in which unsaturates were substituted for monounsaturates, is associated with longer life expectancy among elderly Europeans...

..We conducted a case-control study nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort to examine associations among premenopausal serum concentrations of sex steroids and subsequent breast cancer risk...

..Independent of adiposity and insulin, IGF-I was associated with decreased SHBG levels, and increased concentrations of androgens and postmenopausal estrogens...

..Our study supports a possible protective role of vegetable intake in the intestinal type of GC and the ACO. Citrus fruit consumption may have a role in the protection against cardia GC and ACO...

..Our data indicate that the relationship of adiposity with breast cancer in postmenopausal women could be partially explained by the increases in endogenous estrogens, and by a decrease in levels of SHBG...

..Although the period of follow-up is relatively short, the results provide no evidence for an association between fish intake and breast cancer risk...

..We examined the risks of gastric cancer and esophageal adenocarcinoma associated with meat consumption within the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort...

..Nevertheless, among older, postmenopausal women, hyperinsulinemia might contribute to increasing breast cancer risk...

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..The study is based on data obtained in a population-based cohort-study, which was performed to evaluate the quality of health care for patients with breast cancer...