Sabina Sieri

..This study examined the prospective association between dietary selenium intake and risk of type 2 diabetes...

..Interest in the roles of glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) in breast cancer etiology has been stimulated by indications that disease risk is linked to insulinemia, sex hormone bioavailability, and insulin-like growth factor 1...

..The results of this study add to the existing epidemiological evidence that hyperglycemia and insulin resistance increase BC risk...

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..Epidemiologic studies have produced conflicting results with respect to an association of dietary fat with breast cancer...

..However, it remains unclear to what extent serum hormone-breast cancer associations differ with receptor status...

..We found numerous indirect relationships (ie, not due to dietary consumption of food sources of the fatty acids) between plasma fatty acids and diet, which we propose as due to the influence of complex life-style factors...

..12 (95% CI = 0.03-0.52, p for trend = 0.005). These findings support the hypothesis that ovarian hyperandrogenism associated with luteal insufficiency increases the risk of BC in premenopausal women...

..For our Italian population, a diet with a high score on the Italian Index was associated with the greatest risk reduction, probably because it was conceived to capture healthy eating in the context of foods typically available in Italy...

..A Western diet is associated with breast cancer risk...

..Investigation of larger cohorts is necessary to reveal any residual confounding of the association of yogurt intake with CRC risk...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the survival of women with breast cancer in relation to pre-diagnostic alcohol intake and other factors known to influence prognosis...

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..Documentation of these changes in relation to age, sex and region provides an essential starting point for investigating the influence of diet on the development of cancer and other chronic diseases...

..However age, smoking status and acetone treatment are possible causes of misclassification...

..027). Dietary habits of patients with advanced and/or fluctuating PD should always be checked, with particular reference to protein intake...

..001); whereas women with body mass index > or =25 had no protective effect for the consumption of salad vegetables. These findings suggest that a diet rich in raw vegetables and olive oil protects against breast cancer...

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..The relationship of specific fruit and vegetable subgroups with RCC risk warrant further investigation...

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..Knowledge of the bias related to self-selected sampling is important for better directing the interpretation of the EPIC-Italy study results...

..CONCLUSION: Although the period of follow-up is limited for now, the results suggest that total or specific vegetable and fruit intake is not associated with risk for breast cancer...

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..These results support the hypothesis that hypertension, rather than its medications, increases the risk of RCC in both sexes, while effective blood pressure control may lower the risk...

..Baseline characteristics of participants are briefly described...

..Dietary recommendations aimed at the Italian elderly population should support a dietary pattern characterised by a high consumption of olive oil, raw vegetables and poultry...

..Subsequent analyses will extend this approach to non-fatal cardiovascular outcomes and to further dietary, biochemical and genetic factors...

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

..This discrepancy may be related to differences in fat distribution between sexes or to the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in women...

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

..These results indicate that chronic alteration of glucose metabolism is related to breast cancer development...

..05). CONCLUSIONS: Erythrocyte membrane levels of some specific fatty acids can be used as biomarkers of these fatty acids as proportions of dietary fat...

..This observation may have implications on the dietary measurement error characteristics and support the potential benefit of between-cohort calibration...

..We aimed at examining the association between dietary constituents and risk of cutaneous melanoma...

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..The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between prostate cancer risk and circulating concentrations of folate and vitamin B(12) in a large prospective cohort...

..58 (95% CI, 0.76-3.40) and in postmenopausal women, the OR was 1.60 (95% CI, 0.76-3.48). Serum fructosamine levels tended to be positively associated with breast cancer risk independent of menopausal status...

..Statistical power to examine associations by colon site has been limited in previous studies...

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..Although there was no overall association between ethanol intake and risk of lung cancer, the authors cannot rule out a lower risk for moderate consumption and a possibly increased risk for high lifelong consumption...

..The FFQ should be validated in external populations before being used for research purposes...

..Our data give further credence to public health efforts aiming to reduce the prevalence of obesity to prevent RCC, in addition to other chronic diseases...

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..Low urinary melatonin levels have been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women. However, the association between melatonin levels and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women remains unclear...