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| Deborah A BoggsSummaryAffiliation: Boston University Country: USA Publications
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Validation of a breast cancer risk prediction model developed for Black womenDeborah A Boggs
Slone Epidemiology Center, 1010 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 105:361-7. 2013....
Fruit and vegetable intake in relation to risk of breast cancer in the Black Women's Health StudyDeborah A Boggs
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:1268-79. 2010....- General and abdominal obesity and risk of death among black womenDeborah A Boggs
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
N Engl J Med 365:901-8. 2011..The limited data available on blacks indicate that the risk of death is increased only at very high levels of BMI (≥35.0)... - Tea and coffee intake in relation to risk of breast cancer in the Black Women's Health StudyDeborah A Boggs
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1941-8. 2010..We prospectively examined the relation of tea and coffee consumption to risk of breast cancer among 52,062 women aged 21-69 at enrollment in 1995 in the Black Women's Health Study... - Dietary patterns and 14-y weight gain in African American womenDeborah A Boggs
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 94:86-94. 2011..An inverse association between healthy dietary patterns and weight gain that has been shown in white populations is not evident in the few studies in African Americans, a population at high risk of obesity... - Reproductive and hormonal factors in relation to incidence of sarcoidosis in US Black women: The Black Women's Health StudyYvette C Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 176:635-41. 2012..These results suggest that later full-term pregnancy and longer exposure to endogenous female hormones may be related to a reduced risk of sarcoidosis... - Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of breast cancer by hormone receptor statusSeungyoun Jung
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 105:219-36. 2013..Because ER(-) tumors account for only 15% to 20% of breast cancers, large pooled analyses are necessary to evaluate precisely the suspected inverse association between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of ER(-) breast cancer... 
A prospective study of body size and breast cancer in black womenJulie R Palmer
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1795-802. 2007....- Intake of fruit, vegetables, and carotenoids in relation to risk of uterine leiomyomataLauren A Wise
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 94:1620-31. 2011..US black women have higher rates of uterine leiomyomata (UL) and lower intakes of fruit and vegetables than do white women. Whether fruit and vegetable intake is associated with UL in black women has not been studied... - Genetic variants on chromosome 5p12 are associated with risk of breast cancer in African American women: the Black Women's Health StudyEdward A Ruiz-Narváez
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 123:525-30. 2010..We successfully used the shorter range of LD in our AA sample to refine the localization of the putative causal variant... - Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status in relation to breast cancer incidence in African-American womenJulie R Palmer
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 176:1141-6. 2012..These findings suggest that the observed associations of breast cancer with SES may be largely mediated by reproductive factors that are associated with both estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and SES... - Cardiometabolic factors and breast cancer risk in U.S. black womenJaclyn L F Bosco
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue LW519, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 134:1247-56. 2012..23 (0.93-1.62) and 1.63 (1.12-2.37), respectively. Our findings provide some support for an association between cardiometabolic factors and breast cancer incidence among postmenopausal U.S. black women... - Regular aspirin use and breast cancer risk in US Black womenJaclyn L F Bosco
Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:1553-61. 2011..Epidemiologic studies have yet to provide consistent evidence to support a protective effect of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) on the incidence of breast cancer... - Coffee, tea, and alcohol intake in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes in African American womenDeborah A Boggs
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:960-6. 2010..Numerous studies have reported inverse associations of coffee, tea, and alcohol intake with risk of type 2 diabetes, but none has reported results separately among African American women... - Consumption of restaurant foods and incidence of type 2 diabetes in African American womenSupriya Krishnan
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 91:465-71. 2010..Type 2 diabetes is a major problem in Western nations. Profound secular changes in the food environment and eating habits may play a role. In particular, consumption of foods prepared outside the home has greatly increased... - Oral contraceptive use and estrogen/progesterone receptor-negative breast cancer among African American womenLynn Rosenberg
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2073-9. 2010..We carried out the first assessment of the effect of oral contraceptive use on the incidence of breast cancer classified by receptor status among African American women, a group disproportionately affected by ER(-) cancer... - Child and adolescent abuse in relation to obesity in adulthood: the Black Women's Health StudyRenée Boynton-Jarrett
Division of General Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Pediatrics 130:245-53. 2012..To investigate the association of physical and sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence with risk of adult obesity among black women in the United States... - Hair relaxers not associated with breast cancer risk: evidence from the black women's health studyLynn Rosenberg
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1035-7. 2007..98 (95% confidence interval, 0.78-1.39). These results suggest that hair relaxer use does not increase the incidence of breast cancer in African American women... - Abuse victimization and risk of breast cancer in the Black Women's Health Study [corrected]Lauren A Wise
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:659-69. 2011..Our data suggest an increased risk of breast cancer among African-American women who reported physical abuse in adulthood, but there was little evidence of a dose-response relation. These results require confirmation in other studies... - Urogenital abnormalities in men exposed to diethylstilbestrol in utero: a cohort studyJulie R Palmer
Slone Epidemiology Center of Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Environ Health 8:37. 2009..Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen widely prescribed to pregnant women during the 1940s70s, has been shown to cause reproductive problems in the daughters. Studies of prenatally-exposed males have yielded conflicting results... - Parity and lactation in relation to estrogen receptor negative breast cancer in African American womenJulie R Palmer
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:1883-91. 2011..We assessed the relation of parity and lactation to incidence of ER(-)/PR(-) and ER(+)/PR(+) breast cancer in a cohort of African American women... - Sarcoidosis in black women in the United States: data from the Black Women's Health StudyYvette C Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Chest 139:144-50. 2011..In the United States, black women are most frequently and most severely affected. There have been few epidemiologic studies of sarcoidosis focusing on black women... - Family history of cancer and risk of breast cancer in the Black Women's Health StudyJulie R Palmer
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:1733-7. 2009..Relatively little research has been conducted on familial breast cancer in African American women... - Use of a web-based questionnaire in the Black Women's Health StudyCordelia W Russell
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:1286-91. 2010..The use of a Web questionnaire in the BWHS resulted in cost savings and more complete responses. Although there are advantages to using a Web questionnaire, the use of multiple means of soliciting questionnaire responses is still needed... - Carotenoid intakes and risk of breast cancer defined by estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor status: a pooled analysis of 18 prospective cohort studiesXuehong Zhang
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 95:713-25. 2012..Epidemiologic studies examining associations between carotenoid intakes and risk of breast cancer by estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status are limited... - Sugar-sweetened beverages and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in African American womenJulie R Palmer
Slone Epidemiology Center, BostonUniversity, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1487-92. 2008..Our objective was to examine the association between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain, and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in African American women... - Estrogen receptor positive tumors: do reproductive factors explain differences in incidence between black and white women?Erica T Warner
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 24:731-9. 2013..In two large prospective cohorts, the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) and the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII), we investigated whether reproductive factors explain the difference...