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Parental smoking in pregnancy and the risks of adult-onset hypertensionLayla L de Jonge
Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hypertension 61:494-500. 2013....
Body fatness during childhood and adolescence and incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal women: a prospective cohort studyHeather J Baer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Breast Cancer Res 7:R314-25. 2005..We examined prospectively the relation between body fatness during childhood and adolescence and the incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal women...
Risk of breast cancer among daughters of mothers with diabetes: a population-based cohort studyOlof Stephansson
Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska University Hospital and Institute, T2, Stockholm, SE 171 76, Sweden
Breast Cancer Res 12:R14. 2010..Diabetes during pregnancy is related to enhanced fetal growth, which has been associated with increased breast cancer risk. Whether daughters of mothers with a diagnosis of diabetes have an increased risk of breast cancer is not known...
Fruit and vegetable consumption and colorectal adenomas in the Nurses' Health StudyKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Res 66:3942-53. 2006..67; 95% CI, 0.51-0.90; P(trend) = 0.005). Frequent consumption of fruit may reduce the risk of colorectal adenomas...- Preschool diet and adult risk of breast cancerKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 118:749-54. 2006..Further studies are needed to evaluate whether the association between preschool diet and breast cancer is reproducible in prospective data not subject to recall bias... - Birthweight, maternal weight trajectories and global DNA methylation of LINE-1 repetitive elementsKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e25254. 2011..Future studies may elucidate whether chromosomal instabilities or other functional consequences of these changes contribute to the increased risk of chronic diseases among individuals with these characteristics... - Measurement of fruit and vegetable consumption with diet questionnaires and implications for analyses and interpretationKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:987-94. 2005.... - Diet and cancer: current knowledge, methodologic pitfalls and future directionsKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 116:665-6. 2005 - Fiber intake and incidence of colorectal cancer among 76,947 women and 47,279 menKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:842-9. 2005.... - Longitudinal study of birthweight and the incidence of breast cancer in adulthoodKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Carcinogenesis 27:2464-8. 2006..This association was independent of other factors operating later in life, except for adult height... - Role of birthweight in the etiology of breast cancerKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 119:2007-25. 2006..LOI of IGF2 has also been found in mammary tumor tissue. The role of environmental factors that stimulate such epigenetic regulation of gene expression remains to be elucidated... - Diet and breast cancer: a review of the prospective observational studiesKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer 109:2712-49. 2007..The risk of breast cancer can be reduced by avoidance of weight gain in adulthood and limiting the consumption of alcohol... - A longitudinal study of infant feeding and obesity throughout life courseK B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:1078-85. 2007..We evaluated the relation between infant feeding and the development of overweight and obesity throughout life course... - The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial: a post-mortemKarin B Michels
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 114:1-6. 2009..The best information on prevention by diet and lifestyle will generally come from long-term prospective studies combined with controlled trials of intermediate endpoints... - A study of the importance of education and cost incentives on individual food choices at the Harvard School of Public Health cafeteriaKarin B Michels
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Coll Nutr 27:6-11. 2008..To investigate the importance of cost and awareness of health- or disease-promoting properties of foods and meals for choices by customers of a cafeteria... - Self-administered semiquantitative food frequency questionnaires: patterns, predictors, and interpretation of omitted itemsKarin B Michels
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiology 20:295-301. 2009..Food items on a self-administered food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) may be left blank because the food was not consumed, because of difficulties remembering the frequency or amount of intake, or due to an oversight... - The promises and challenges of epigenetic epidemiologyKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Exp Gerontol 45:297-301. 2010..In particular, the tissue-specificity of epigenetic marks restricts epidemiologic studies of adequate size to easily accessible tissues... - Adult weight change and incidence of premenopausal breast cancerKarin B Michels
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 130:902-9. 2012.... - Coffee, tea, and caffeine consumption and incidence of colon and rectal cancerKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:282-92. 2005..Cohort studies have not revealed such an association but were limited in size. We explored the association between consumption of coffee and tea and the incidence of colorectal cancer in two large prospective cohorts of women and men... - The role of nutrition in cancer development and preventionKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 114:163-5. 2005..Finally, epigenetic research is likely to contribute to the understanding of nutritional regulation of gene expression... - The effect of correlated measurement error in multivariate models of dietKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:59-67. 2004..Energy adjustment using regression residuals or energy density models led to improved parameter stability... - Hyperparathyroidism and subsequent incidence of breast cancerKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 110:449-51. 2004.... - Caloric restriction and incidence of breast cancerKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 291:1226-30. 2004..Restricting caloric intake is one of the most effective ways to extend lifespan and to reduce spontaneous tumor occurrence in experimental animals, but whether similar associations hold in humans has not been appropriately studied... - A prospective study of variety of healthy foods and mortality in womenKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:847-54. 2002..The simplest way to describe dietary preferences is to separate foods considered beneficial to health from foods considered to promote disease, and separate individuals on the basis of their regular consumption of these foods... - Type 2 diabetes and subsequent incidence of breast cancer in the Nurses' Health StudyKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 26:1752-8. 2003..We prospectively evaluated the association between type 2 diabetes and invasive breast cancer incidence in the Nurses' Health Study... - The contribution of the environment (especially diet) to breast cancer riskKarin B Michels
Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Breast Cancer Res 4:58-61. 2002.... - Hormone replacement therapy in epidemiologic studies and randomized clinical trials - are we checkmate?Karin B Michels
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 14:3-5. 2003 - Early life predictors of chronic diseaseKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12:157-61. 2003..A life course approach to chronic disease prevention includes the study of maternal diet during pregnancy, intrauterine exposures, postnatal growth, and the adolescent period... - Being breastfed in infancy and breast cancer incidence in adult life: results from the two nurses' health studiesK B Michels
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 153:275-83. 2001..11 (95% CI: 0.88, 1.39) for women who were breastfed compared with those who were not. Data from these two large cohorts do not support the hypothesis that being breastfed confers protection against subsequent breast cancer... - Prospective study of fruit and vegetable consumption and incidence of colon and rectal cancersK B Michels
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 92:1740-52. 2000..Frequent consumption of fruit and vegetables has been associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer in many observational studies... - Update on unethical use of placebos in randomised trialsKarin B Michels
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Bioethics 17:188-204. 2003..We suggest that the FDA's arguments defending their practice are insufficient to justify medical research that violates the Declaration of Helsinki... - Lactation and incidence of premenopausal breast cancer: a longitudinal studyAlison M Stuebe
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1364-71. 2009..Findings from observational studies suggest an inverse association between lactation and premenopausal breast cancer risk, but results are inconsistent, and data from large prospective cohort studies are lacking... - Longitudinal study on the role of body size in premenopausal breast cancerKarin B Michels
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:2395-402. 2006..Factors other than anovulation are likely to mediate the protection conferred by a high BMI... - Coffee, tea, and caffeine consumption and breast cancer incidence in a cohort of Swedish womenKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:21-6. 2002..04 (95% CI 0.87-1.24) compared to women in the lowest quintile. CONCLUSIONS: In this large cohort of Swedish women, consumption of coffee, tea, and caffeine was not associated with breast cancer incidence... - A prospective study of breast size and premenopausal breast cancer incidenceAaron S Kusano
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 118:2031-4. 2006..Stratifying by BMI at age 18 at a cutoff point of 21 kg/m2 gave similar results. Larger bra cup size at a young age is associated with a higher incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, though this association is limited to leaner women... - Validity of maternal recall of preschool diet after 43 yearsJorge E Chavarro
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1148-57. 2009..27; range, -0.14 to 0.85). Correlations for nutrient intakes were consistently low (median, 0.06; range, -0.35 to 0.27). Overall, the FFQ did not validly reflect overall preschool diet when completed by mothers 4 decades later... - Parental characteristics as predictors of birthweightFei Xue
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Reprod 23:168-77. 2008..Previous studies provided conflicting results on the relevance of parental characteristics for offspring's size at birth. The objective of this study was to investigate parental predictors of birthweight... - Cigarette smoking and the incidence of breast cancerFei Xue
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:125-33. 2011..Conversely, cigarette smoking also has antiestrogenic effects, which may reduce the risk of BC. The association between smoking and BC remains controversial... - Intrauterine factors and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of current evidenceFei Xue
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet Oncol 8:1088-100. 2007..We reviewed and summarised quantitatively the available data on intrauterine exposures and risk of breast cancer... - Diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and breast cancer: a review of the current evidenceFei Xue
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:s823-35. 2007.... - Measurement error correction for nutritional exposures with correlated measurement error: use of the method of triads in a longitudinal settingBernard Rosner
Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Stat Med 27:3466-89. 2008.... - Caffeine consumption during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth: a meta-analysisEkaterina Maslova
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:1120-32. 2010..The effect of caffeine intake during pregnancy on the risk of preterm delivery has been studied for the past 3 decades with inconsistent results... - Exposure to cigarette smoke in utero: comparison of reports from mother and daughterJulia F Simard
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 19:628-33. 2008..To study the role of in utero smoking exposure in offsprings' adult health outcomes, it may be necessary to rely upon reports by the offspring themselves... - Infant feeding and the incidence of endometrial cancerFei Xue
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1316-21. 2008..Having been breast-fed was not associated with the incidence of endometrial cancer in this cohort, but statistical power for analyses restricted to premenopausal women was limited... - Validity of adolescent diet recall 48 years laterJorge E Chavarro
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:1563-70. 2009..However, this food frequency questionnaire did not validly measure overall adolescent diet when completed by middle-aged and older adults on average 48 years after adolescence... - Green tea consumption and breast cancer risk or recurrence: a meta-analysisAdeyemi A Ogunleye
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677, Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 119:477-84. 2010..The association between green tea consumption and breast cancer incidence remains unclear based on the current evidence... - Observational studies analyzed like randomized experiments: an application to postmenopausal hormone therapy and coronary heart diseaseMiguel A Hernán
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiology 19:766-79. 2008..Observational studies had previously suggested reduced CHD risk in hormone users... - In utero exposures and the incidence of endometriosisStacey A Missmer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Fertil Steril 82:1501-8. 2004..To investigate the relation between the fetal environment and endometriosis... - Adult height, age at attained height, and incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal womenHeather J Baer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 119:2231-5. 2006..65). These results confirm previous findings that taller adult height is associated with increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer but do not provide evidence that age at attained height is related to risk... - Duration of lactation and incidence of type 2 diabetesAlison M Stuebe
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 294:2601-10. 2005..Lactation may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women by improving glucose homeostasis... - Parental age at delivery and incidence of breast cancer: a prospective cohort studyFei Xue
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 104:331-40. 2007..Studies on parental age at delivery in relation to breast cancer risk have had mixed results, but prospective data are limited. No study has explored the associations with subtypes of breast cancer defined by hormonal receptor status... - Smoking and other lifestyle factors and the risk of Graves' hyperthyroidismIngrid A Holm
Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1606-11. 2005..We sought to determine whether lifestyle factors, including smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity level, and body mass index, are risk factors for Graves' hyperthyroidism... - A prospective study of infertility due to ovulatory disorders, ovulation induction, and incidence of breast cancerKathryn L Terry
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:2484-9. 2006..Anovulation has been hypothesized to decrease the risk of breast cancer. Therefore, infertility attributed to ovulatory disorders and ovulation-induction therapy may influence breast cancer risk... - Menstrual cycle characteristics and incidence of premenopausal breast cancerKathryn L Terry
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1509-13. 2005..Anovulation, which is more common with long or irregular cycles, has been hypothesized to reduce the incidence of breast cancer... - Birthweight and body size throughout life in relation to sex hormones and prolactin concentrations in premenopausal womenShelley S Tworoger
Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2494-501. 2006..Our results suggest that effects on premenopausal sex hormone levels may be one mechanism through which adult adiposity, but not birthweight or childhood body size, affects premenopausal breast cancer risk... - Longitudinal study of birth weight and adult body mass index in predicting risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in womenJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
BMJ 330:1115. 2005..To determine whether birth weight and adult body size interact to predict coronary heart disease in women, as has been observed for men. To determine whether birth weight and adult body size interact to predict risk of stroke... - Breastfeeding during infancy and the risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthoodJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Epidemiology 15:550-6. 2004..Only 2 studies have evaluated the relation between having been breastfed and the risk of adult cardiovascular events... - 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... - A prospective study on habitual duration of sleep and incidence of breast cancer in a large cohort of womenSimone P Pinheiro
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Res 66:5521-5. 2006..05). In this prospective study, we found no convincing evidence for an association between sleep duration and the incidence of breast cancer... - Prenatal and perinatal factors and risk of multiple sclerosisHannah Gardener
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiology 20:611-8. 2009..A potential role of prenatal and perinatal exposures in autoimmunity has been hypothesized, but few studies have examined the relation between various prenatal and perinatal factors and the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS)... - Maternal pregnancy-related hypertension and risk for hypertension in offspring later in lifeKristin Palmsten
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obstet Gynecol 116:858-64. 2010..To estimate the association between maternal pregnancy-related hypertension and offspring hypertension later in life in a birth cohort from New England... - Induced and spontaneous abortion and incidence of breast cancer among young women: a prospective cohort studyKarin B Michels
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:814-20. 2007..Retrospective cohort studies using registry information in Scandinavia have not suggested an increase in the incidence of breast cancer, although data on individual reproductive factors were not accounted for... - Duration of lactation and incidence of myocardial infarction in middle to late adulthoodAlison M Stuebe
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 200:138.e1-8. 2009..We assessed the relation between duration of lactation and maternal incident myocardial infarction... - Dads as breastfeeding advocates: results from a randomized controlled trial of an educational interventionAdam J Wolfberg
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:708-12. 2004.... - Body fat distribution and risk of premenopausal breast cancer in the Nurses' Health Study IIHolly R Harris
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 103:273-8. 2011..01) for waist to hip ratio. Our findings suggest that body fat distribution does not play an important role in the overall incidence of premenopausal breast cancer but is associated with an increased risk for ER-negative breast cancer... - Birth weight and childhood leukemia: a meta-analysis and review of the current evidenceRobert W Caughey
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Cancer 124:2658-70. 2009..For AML the risk may be elevated at both high and low extremes of birth weight, suggesting a U-shaped association... - Breast size and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitusJoel G Ray
Departments of Medicine, and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 178:289-95. 2008..We sought to evaluate whether a woman's breast size in late adolescence is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adulthood... - Breast cancer--early life mattersKarin B Michels
N Engl J Med 351:1679-81. 2004 - Environmental pollutants, diet, physical activity, body size, and breast cancer: where do we stand in research to identify opportunities for prevention?Julia Green Brody
Silent Spring Institute, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, USA
Cancer 109:2627-34. 2007..Investments in research on environmental factors in breast cancer have potentially large public health benefits... - The women's health initiative--curse or blessing?Karin B Michels
Int J Epidemiol 35:814-6. 2006 - Nutritional epidemiology--past, present, futureKarin B Michels
Int J Epidemiol 32:486-8. 2003 - A maternalistic approach to preventionKarin B Michels
Int J Epidemiol 34:3-4. 2005 - Chromatin fluorescence characteristics and standard semen analysis parameters: correlations observed in andrology testing among 136 males referred for infertility evaluationE Scott Sills
Georgia Reproductive Specialists LLC, Atlanta, GA 30342, USA
J Obstet Gynaecol 24:74-7. 2004..Additionally, SCSA data may offer explanations for previous miscarriage, providing closure for some couples contemplating future use of anonymous donor sperm... - Estimating treatment effects from observational data: dissonant and resonant notes from the SYMPHONY trialsKarin B Michels
JAMA 287:3130-2. 2002 - Postmenopausal hormone therapy: a reversal of fortuneKarin B Michels
Circulation 107:1830-3. 2003 - Epigenetic epidemiology of the developmental origins hypothesisRobert A Waterland
Department of Pediatrics, USDA Children s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Annu Rev Nutr 27:363-88. 2007.... - The promise and challenges of population strategies of preventionKarin B Michels
Int J Epidemiol 37:914-6. 2008
Research Grants
- Epigenetic Changes After Intrauterine Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting ChemicalsKARIN MICHELS; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Maternal obesity, intrauterine gene expression and breast cancerKARIN MICHELS; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Lifetime body weight and premenopausal breast cancerKARIN MICHELS; Fiscal Year: 2007..It is also highly efficient since it borrows from questionnaire data, blood samples, and mammograms already collected for the NHS II. ..
- Validation of Preschool and High School Diet RecallKARIN MICHELS; Fiscal Year: 2006..Lastly we will determine whether the validity of recall depends on characteristics such as time between diet record and FFQ, number of children, gender of the subject, and nutritional status. ..
- METHODOLOGIC ISSUES IN NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGYKARIN MICHELS; Fiscal Year: 2002..We aim to provide guidance to researchers who wish to explore diet-disease relations in how to use data best to obtain most valid results and avoid pitfalls which might produce misleading associations. ..