Androgenic progestins in oral contraceptives and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancerJulia B Greer
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:731-40. 2005
..The authors investigated whether OC efficacy might differ according to androgenicity by using data from a large, population-based, case-control study (the Steroid Hormones and Reproductions [SHARE] Study)...
- Short-term oral contraceptive use and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer
Julia B Greer
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:66-72. 2005
..Mediating factors may reflect endogenous hormone levels, OC metabolism, or OC bioactivity...
ABO blood group and chronic pancreatitis risk in the NAPS2 cohortJulia B Greer
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Pancreas 40:1188-94. 2011
..Our goal was to determine whether ABO blood group may affect the risk of chronic pancreatitis...
- Multicenter approach to recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis in the United States: the North American Pancreatitis Study 2 (NAPS2)
David C Whitcomb
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pancreatology 8:520-31. 2008
..We developed the North American Pancreatitis Study 2 (NAPS2) to be sufficiently powered to understand the complex environmental, metabolic and genetic mechanisms underlying RAP and CP...
- Anthropometry and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer
Julia B Greer
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Cancer 106:2247-57. 2006
..Because factors such as oral contraceptive (OC), hormone therapy (HT), and parity may affect weight and hormone levels, the associations were examined in women with and without these characteristics...
- Significant association between ABO blood group and pancreatic cancer
Julia B Greer
The Institute For Transfusion Medicine, 3636 Blvd of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
World J Gastroenterol 16:5588-91. 2010
..To evaluate whether the ABO blood group is related to pancreatic cancer risk in the general population of the United States...
New developments in pancreatic cancerJulia B Greer
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Arts Building, 3708 Fifth Avenue, Fourth Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Curr Gastroenterol Rep 13:131-9. 2011
..Finally, CA 19-9 levels, the presence of diabetes mellitus, and a six-gene signature provided critical information regarding survival that could help guide treatment of individuals diagnosed with pancreatic adenocarcinoma...
- Alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and the risk of recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis
Dhiraj Yadav
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3708 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1035-45. 2009
..We examined the current prevalence of alcohol use and smoking and their association with RAP and CP in patients evaluated at US referral centers...
- Pathways to injury in chronic pancreatitis: decoding the role of the high-risk SPINK1 N34S haplotype using meta-analysis
Elie Aoun
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2003. 2008
..We tested this hypothesis by evaluating the differences in effect size of the high risk SPINK1 N34S haplotype on CP from multiple etiologies after combining clinical reports of SPINK1 N34S frequency using meta-analysis...
- Pancreatic cancer patients who smoke and drink are diagnosed at younger ages
Randall E Brand
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Hillman Cancer Center, 5117 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 7:1007-12. 2009
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- Pancreatitis in children and adolescents
Mark E Lowe
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3755 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Curr Gastroenterol Rep 10:128-35. 2008
..Improvements in diagnostic and imaging methods and growing awareness cannot account for the recent increases in the observed incidence of pediatric acute pancreatitis...
- Serum immunoglobulin G fraction 4 levels in pancreatic cancer: elevations not associated with autoimmune pancreatitis
Amit Raina
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 132:48-53. 2008
..A previous Japanese study reported that serum IgG4 greater than 135 mg/dL was 97% specific and 95% sensitive in predicting autoimmune pancreatitis...
