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Protein, iron, and meat consumption and risk for rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort studyElizabeth Benito-Garcia
Section of Clinical Sciences, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 9:R16. 2007..We were unable to confirm that there is an association between protein or meat and risk for RA in this large female cohort. Iron was also not associated with RA in this cohort...
Menopausal and reproductive factors and risk of age-related macular degenerationDiane Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 126:519-24. 2008..To investigate whether estrogen exposures are associated with lower risks of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Aspirin and lung cancer risk in a cohort study of women: dosage, duration and latencyD Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Br J Cancer 97:1295-9. 2007....- Nightshift work and fracture risk: the Nurses' Health StudyD Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Osteoporos Int 20:537-42. 2009..Our study, to our knowledge, the first to address this question, supports the hypothesis that nightshift work may negatively affect bone health, adding to the growing list of ailments that have been associated with shift work... 
Plasma vitamin D metabolites and risk of colorectal cancer in womenDiane Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1502-8. 2004..We therefore examined risk in relation to plasma concentrations of these vitamin D metabolites...- Dietary intakes of vitamins A, C, and E and risk of melanoma in two cohorts of womenD Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Br J Cancer 88:1381-7. 2003..05) and a significant positive dose-response with frequency of orange juice consumption (P=0.008). Further research is needed to determine whether another component in foods such as orange juice may contribute to an increase in risk... - Calcium, vitamin D, milk consumption, and hip fractures: a prospective study among postmenopausal womenDiane Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 77:504-11. 2003..Fewer studies have focused on vitamin D in preventing postmenopausal osteoporosis or fractures... - Walking and leisure-time activity and risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal womenDiane Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 288:2300-6. 2002..Walking is the most common activity among older adults, and evidence suggests that it can increase femoral bone density and reduce fracture risk... - Vitamin K intake and hip fractures in women: a prospective studyD Feskanich
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 69:74-9. 1999..However, data are limited on the effects of dietary vitamin K... - Stress and suicide in the Nurses' Health StudyD Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:95-8. 2002..This study examined prospectively the associations between self perceived stress, diazepam use, and death from suicide among adult women... - Vitamin A intake and hip fractures among postmenopausal womenDiane Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
JAMA 287:47-54. 2002..Ingestion of toxic amounts of vitamin A affects bone remodeling and can have adverse skeletal effects in animals. The possibility has been raised that long-term high vitamin A intake could contribute to fracture risk in humans... - Prospective study of fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of lung cancer among men and womenD Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 92:1812-23. 2000..beta-Carotene was hypothesized to be largely responsible for the apparent protective effect, but this hypothesis was not supported by clinical trials... - Oral contraceptive use and risk of melanoma in premenopausal womenD Feskanich
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Br J Cancer 81:918-23. 1999..Further research is needed to determine whether low-dose oestrogen pills in particular are associated with an increase in risk and to describe possible interactions between OC use and sun exposure or other risk factors for melanoma... - Adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and risk of major chronic disease in menM L McCullough
Departments of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 72:1223-31. 2000..The healthy eating index (HEI) measures the concordance of dietary patterns with these guidelines... - Physical activity patterns and prevention of weight gain in premenopausal womenR A Mekary
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 2115, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 33:1039-47. 2009..Studies of the association between physical activity (PA) and weight maintenance have been inconsistent... - Physical activity and risk of breast cancer in premenopausal womenG A Colditz
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Br J Cancer 89:847-51. 2003..The potential interactions between physical activity, adiposity, and current use of OCs require further study... - Physical activity in relation to long-term weight maintenance after intentional weight loss in premenopausal womenRania A Mekary
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:167-74. 2010..Increased PA, particularly high intensity activities, is associated with better maintenance of weight loss. The benefits of activity were greater among overweight/obese than normal weight women... - Reproducibility and validity of dietary patterns assessed with a food-frequency questionnaireF B Hu
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 69:243-9. 1999..Recently, the analysis of dietary patterns has emerged as a possible approach to examining diet-disease relations... - Lung cancer incidence in never smokersHeather A Wakelee
Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:472-8. 2007..However, data on this topic, particularly lung cancer incidence rates in never smokers, are limited... - Fruits, vegetables and lung cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studiesStephanie A Smith-Warner
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 107:1001-11. 2003..However, we cannot rule out the possibility that our results are due to residual confounding by smoking. The primary focus for reducing lung cancer incidence should continue to be smoking prevention and cessation... - Intake of fruits and vegetables, carotenoids, folate, and vitamins A, C, E and risk of bladder cancer among women (United States)Crystal N Holick
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:1135-45. 2005..To examine the relation between fruits and vegetables, carotenoids, folate, and vitamins A, C, E and the risk of bladder cancer in a prospective study of women... - Long-term aspirin use and mortality in womenAndrew T Chan
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 0214, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:562-72. 2007..The influence of long-term use of aspirin on total mortality in women remains uncertain... - Reproductive and menopausal factors and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in womenKaren H Costenbader
Robert B Brigham Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Research Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Rheum 56:1251-62. 2007..This study was carried out to examine associations between female reproductive and menopausal factors and the development of SLE... - Operating room nursing and lung cancer risk in a cohort of female registered nursesMargaret A Gates
Department of Medicine, Bridham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Channing Laboratory, Third Floor, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 33:140-7. 2007..We examined the association between duration of employment as an operating room nurse, a proxy measure for surgical smoke exposure, and subsequent lung cancer risk... - Dietary correlates of urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin concentrations in the Nurses' Health Study cohortsEva S Schernhammer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 90:975-85. 2009..Although melatonin is a direct derivative of the essential amino acid tryptophan, little is known about the relation of diet with melatonin concentrations... - A nested case control study of plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and risk of colorectal cancerKana Wu
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Bldg 2, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1120-9. 2007..We investigated this relationship in a nested case-control study within the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), a large ongoing study of male health professionals living in the United States... - Coffee, tea, caffeine and risk of breast cancer: a 22-year follow-upDavaasambuu Ganmaa
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 122:2071-6. 2008..However, our results suggested a weak inverse association between caffeine-containing beverages and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer... - Aspirin, NSAID, and acetaminophen use and the risk of endometrial cancerAkila N Viswanathan
Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women s Hospital Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Res 68:2507-13. 2008..However, risk was significantly lower for current aspirin users who were obese or who were postmenopausal and had never used PMHs; these subgroup findings require further confirmation... - Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels and survival in patients with colorectal cancerKimmie Ng
Division of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:2984-91. 2008..Higher plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D(3) (25(OH)D) levels are associated with a decreased incidence of colorectal cancer, but the influence of plasma 25(OH)D on the outcome of patients with established colorectal cancer is unknown... - Bicycle riding, walking, and weight gain in premenopausal womenANNE C LUSK
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Ave, Bldg II, Room 314, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:1050-6. 2010..To our knowledge, research has not been conducted on bicycle riding and weight control in comparison with walking. Our objective was to assess the association between bicycle riding and weight control in premenopausal women... - Modifying the Healthy Eating Index to assess diet quality in children and adolescentsDiane Feskanich
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 104:1375-83. 2004..The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a scoring system used by the US government to assess adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. We examined the ability of the HEI to monitor diet quality among youth... - Risk factors and individual probabilities of melanoma for whitesEunyoung Cho
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:2669-75. 2005.... - Physical activity and survival after breast cancer diagnosisMichelle D Holmes
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 293:2479-86. 2005..Physical activity has been shown to decrease the incidence of breast cancer, but the effect on recurrence or survival after a breast cancer diagnosis is not known... - Intakes of vitamins A, C and E and folate and multivitamins and lung cancer: a pooled analysis of 8 prospective studiesEunyoung Cho
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 118:970-8. 2006..The results generally did not differ across studies or by sex, smoking habits and lung cancer cell type. In conclusion, these data do not support the hypothesis that intakes of vitamins A, C and E and folate reduce lung cancer risk... - Dietary carotenoids and risk of lung cancer in a pooled analysis of seven cohort studiesSatu Mannisto
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:40-8. 2004..Although smoking is the strongest risk factor for lung cancer, greater intake of foods high in beta-cryptoxanthin, such as citrus fruit, may modestly lower the risk... - Validation of adolescent diet recalled by adultsSonia S Maruti
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Epidemiology 17:226-9. 2006..Few studies have examined the validity of adolescent diet as recalled by adults many years later... - Smoking intensity, duration, and cessation, and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in womenKaren H Costenbader
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Robert B Brigham Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Research Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am J Med 119:503.e1-9. 2006.... - Reproducibility and validity of the Diet Quality Index Revised as assessed by use of a food-frequency questionnaireP K Newby
Jean Mayer US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:941-9. 2003..The Diet Quality Index Revised (DQI-R) is a dietary assessment instrument based on 10 dietary recommendations reflecting dietary guidelines and policy in the United States... - Adult recall of adolescent diet: reproducibility and comparison with maternal reportingSonia S Maruti
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02215, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:89-97. 2005..30 (range, 0.10-0.61). While further studies are warranted, these findings imply that this food frequency questionnaire provides a reasonable record of adolescent diet... - Vitamin D intake and risks of systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis in womenK H Costenbader
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Section of Clinical Sciences, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 67:530-5. 2008..Vitamin D has immune-modulating effects and may protect against the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)... - Physical activity and premenopausal breast cancer: an examination of recall and selection biasSonia S Maruti
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:549-58. 2009..Compared with cohort studies, case-control investigations have tended to report clearer protective associations for the relationship between physical activity and premenopausal breast cancer risk... - Smoking and the risk of endometrial cancer: results from the Nurses' Health StudyAkila N Viswanathan
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 114:996-1001. 2005..The findings provide insight into disease etiology and suggest that the influence of smoking on endometrial cancer risk occurs even in early adulthood, is long-lasting, and may not be attributed solely to short-term hormonal modulation... - Systemic lupus erythematosus and the risk of cardiovascular disease: results from the nurses' health studyA Elisabeth Hak
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arthritis Rheum 61:1396-402. 2009..Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, prospective population-based data addressing this association have been lacking... - A prospective study of age-specific physical activity and premenopausal breast cancerSonia S Maruti
Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, M4 B402, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:728-37. 2008..We investigated whether physical activity is associated with reduced incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, and, if so, what age period and intensity of activity are critical... - Lung cancer rates in men and women with comparable histories of smokingChris Bain
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:826-34. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Women do not appear to have a greater susceptibility to lung cancer than men, given equal smoking exposure. Research should be focused on enhancing preventive interventions for all... - Alcohol consumption and risk of lung cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studiesJo L Freudenheim
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:657-67. 2005..Although smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer, much is unknown about lung cancer etiology, including risk determinants for nonsmokers and modifying factors for smokers... - Prospective study of diabetes and risk of hip fracture: the Nurses' Health StudyMohsen Janghorbani
School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Diabetes Care 29:1573-8. 2006..The purpose of this study was to determine whether women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of hip fractures... - Diet quality and major chronic disease risk in men and women: moving toward improved dietary guidanceMarjorie L McCullough
American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:1261-71. 2002..Research suggests that greater reductions in risk are possible with more specific guidance...