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Species | Fang FangSummaryAffiliation: Karolinska Institutet Country: Sweden Publications
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Risk of infection-related cancers after the loss of a child: a follow-up study in SwedenFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Cancer Res 71:116-22. 2011..Although potential confounding by unmeasured factors cannot be ruled out, our findings lend support to the hypothesis that severe life stressors, such as child loss, may raise the risk for several, chiefly HPV-related, cancers...
No association between DNA repair gene XRCC1 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Neurobiol Aging 33:1015.e25-6. 2012..Our results did not show any differences in the frequency of XRCC1 gene polymorphisms between ALS patients and controls free of any neurological disease...- Suicide and cardiovascular death after a cancer diagnosisFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
N Engl J Med 366:1310-8. 2012..Receiving a diagnosis of cancer is a traumatic experience that may trigger immediate adverse health consequences beyond the effects of the disease or treatment... - Infection of the central nervous system, sepsis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e29749. 2011..The relentless progression and invasive supportive treatments of ALS may on the other hand induce severe infections among ALS patients... - Hospitalization for osteoarthritis and prostate cancer specific mortality among Swedish men with prostate cancerFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 281, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
Cancer Epidemiol 34:644-7. 2010..To examine the potential role of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) use on prostate cancer (PCa) specific mortality... - Familial aggregation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ann Neurol 66:94-9. 2009..To assess the relative risk for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in families of ALS patients... - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Sweden, 1991-2005Fang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Box 281, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Arch Neurol 66:515-9. 2009..To investigate the temporal trend of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) incidence in Sweden between January 1, 1991, and December 31, 2005, and to explore incidence variations according to major demographic factors... - Suicide among patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Brain 131:2729-33. 2008..Patients with ALS are at excess risk of suicide in Sweden and the relative risk is higher during the earlier stage of the disease... - Maternal age, exposure to siblings, and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Am J Epidemiol 167:1281-6. 2008..Although the strength of the observed associations was modest, these results provided further support for the theory that early life exposures might contribute to the disease pathogenesis... 
Loss of a child and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Am J Epidemiol 167:203-10. 2008..5, 95% CI: 0.3, 0.8) than loss due to other causes. These data indicate that the risk of developing ALS decreases following the severe stress of parental bereavement. Further studies are needed to explore potential underlying mechanisms...- CNS infections, sepsis and risk of Parkinson's diseaseFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Epidemiol 41:1042-9. 2012..Neuroinflammation may play an important role in the aetiology of Parkinson's disease (PD); however, little is known about infections in relation to future PD risk... - Immediate risk for cardiovascular events and suicide following a prostate cancer diagnosis: prospective cohort studyKatja Fall
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS Med 6:e1000197. 2009..The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the emotional stress evoked by a prostate cancer diagnosis increases the immediate risks of cardiovascular events and suicide... - Association between blood lead and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Am J Epidemiol 171:1126-33. 2010..32). These results extend earlier findings by accounting for bone turnover in confirming the association between elevated blood lead level and higher risk of ALS... - Depression and the subsequent risk of Parkinson's disease in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health StudyFang Fang
Epidemiology Branch, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Mov Disord 25:1157-62. 2010..The results suggest that depression may either be a very early symptom of PD or share common etiological factors with PD... - Workplace exposures and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFang Fang
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1387-92. 2009..Occupation has been suggested to play a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) etiology, but detailed information on the importance of specific workplace exposures is lacking... - Smoking, snuff dipping and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--a prospective cohort studyFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Neuroepidemiology 27:217-21. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Our study provides no evidence that smoking or snuff dipping is associated with an increased ALS risk among men... - Maternal bereavement and childhood asthma-analyses in two large samples of Swedish childrenFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e27202. 2011..Prenatal factors such as prenatal psychological stress might influence the development of childhood asthma... - Head injury and Parkinson's disease: a population-based studyFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mov Disord 27:1632-5. 2012..The epidemiological evidence on head injury and the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been inconsistent... - Improvement of left atrial function is associated with lower incidence of atrial fibrillation and mortality after cardiac resynchronization therapyJeffrey W H Fung
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Heart Rhythm 5:780-6. 2008..Left atrial (LA) volume is a predictor of cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure. Improvement of LA function and reverse remodeling was observed after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)... - Number of STR repeats as a potential new quantitative genetic marker for complex diseases, illustrated by schizophreniaHui Liu
College of Medical Laboratory, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, 116027, P R China
Biochem Genet 45:683-9. 2007..61 vs. 32.35+/-2.58, P<0.05). It seems that the number of STR repeats may be a new, quantitative, and higher efficacy genetic marker for directly indicating genetic predisposition to complex hereditary diseases such as schizophrenia... - Screening of common mitochondrial mutations in Chinese patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathiesYu Qi
Central Laboratory, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, PR China
Mitochondrion 7:147-50. 2007..For A3243G mutation, the proportion of mutant mtDNA was not related to severity of the disease but to the age of onset... - Prevalence of knee symptoms and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis in African Americans and Caucasians: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis ProjectJoanne M Jordan
Thurston Arthritis Research Center and Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7280, USA
J Rheumatol 34:172-80. 2007..To report contemporary estimates of the prevalence of knee-related osteoarthritis (OA) outcomes in African Americans and Caucasians aged > or = 45 years... - Are you my mother? Bayesian phylogenetic inference of recombination among putative parental strainsJanet S Sinsheimer
Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1766, USA
Appl Bioinformatics 2:131-44. 2003.... - [Study of body mass index and waist circumference in association with blood pressure in adult Guangzhou residents]Fang Fang
Teaching and Research Section of Epidemiology, Department of Tropical Medicine, First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
Di Yi Jun Yi Da Xue Xue Bao 23:837-40. 2003..As the diagnostic index for abdominal obesity, the cut-off point of WC >or=80 cm should be instituted...