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Antibiotics and risk of breast cancer: up to 9 years of follow-up of 2.1 million womenGary D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2102-6. 2006....
Epidemiologic evaluation of pharmaceuticals with limited evidence of carcinogenicityGary D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Int J Cancer 125:2173-8. 2009..Although not definitive, these findings should be considered in the evaluations of these pharmaceuticals...- Cryptococcosis: the 1981-2000 epidemicGary D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Mycoses 48:122-5. 2005..Thus, cryptococcosis incidence increased markedly in men early in the AIDS epidemic, and began to decrease in both male and female HIV-positive patients well before highly active antiretroviral therapy became available... - Early symptoms of ovarian cancer: a case-control study without recall biasGary D Friedman
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Fam Pract 22:548-53. 2005..Ovarian cancer is usually diagnosed after it has spread and is difficult to cure. Previous attempts to identify early symptoms have either lacked a control group or have been based on interviews of cases, with possible recall bias... - Pharmaceuticals that cause mammary gland tumors in animals: findings in womenGary D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 116:187-94. 2009..Although inconclusive, our findings suggest a need for more research on furosemide and griseofulvin... - Screening pharmaceuticals for possible carcinogenic effects: initial positive results for drugs not previously screenedGary D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:1821-35. 2009..To screen commonly used prescription drugs for possible carcinogenic effects... - Screening statins for possible carcinogenic risk: up to 9 years of follow-up of 361,859 recipientsGary D Friedman
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 17:27-36. 2008..Determine the risk of cancer in statin users... - Barbiturates and lung cancer: a re-evaluationG D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 28:375-9. 1999..Sixteen more years of follow-up have accumulated permitting a more detailed evaluation of this association... - Effect of cigar smoking on the risk of cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer in menC Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, Calif 94611, USA
N Engl J Med 340:1773-80. 1999..However, unlike the relation between cigarette smoking and cardiovascular disease, the association between cigar smoking and cardiovascular disease has not been clearly established... - Screening prescription drugs for possible carcinogenicity: eleven to fifteen years of follow-upJ V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94611
Cancer Res 49:5736-47. 1989..However, for less frequently prescribed medications, our power to detect moderate increases in cancer risk was quite low... - Barbiturates, smoking, and bladder cancer riskL A Habel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94611, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 7:1049-50. 1998.... - Cigarette smoking and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma subtypesL J Herrinton
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California 94611, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 7:25-8. 1998..These results give limited evidence for a relationship between smoking and the risk of follicular lymphoma... - Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: association with personal characteristics and self reported health conditionsC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California 94611, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 55:721-8. 2001..To examine the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and demographic, lifestyle, occupational characteristics and self reported health conditions... - Methylphenidate use in children and risk of cancer at 18 sites: results of surveillance analysesNina Oestreicher
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 16:1268-72. 2007..A recent report linked methylphenidate (MPH) use in children to cytologic abnormalities in plasma lymphocytes, a possible cancer biomarker. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of MPH use and childhood cancer risk... - Risk of hemorrhagic stroke in Asian American ethnic groupsArthur L Klatsky
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Neuroepidemiology 25:26-31. 2005..6 (1.1-2.3, p = 0.01), due substantially to increased risks of SAH in Japanese people and ICH in Filipinos. These data mandate emphasis upon preventive measures in these groups... - Cohort study of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and risk of first ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attackCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Neuroepidemiology 23:38-44. 2004..Although potentially important confounders (such as dietary habits) were not included in the analysis, high-level ETS exposure at home was independently associated with increased risk of first ischemic stroke among never-smoking women... - Association of basal cell skin cancers with other cancers (United States)G D Friedman
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California, USA
Cancer Causes Control 11:891-7. 2000..Persons with basal cell skin cancer (BCSC) have shown increased risk of developing cancer at several other sites... - Body size, age at shaving initiation, and prostate cancer in a large, multiracial cohortL A Habel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Prostate 43:136-43. 2000.... 
Alcohol consumption and risk of hematologic malignanciesArthur L Klatsky
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94610, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:746-53. 2009..Limited data suggest that alcohol drinking may have an inverse relation to risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Prospective data about alcohol, NHL, and other hematologic malignancies (HM) are sparse...- Alcohol drinking and risk of hemorrhagic strokeArthur L Klatsky
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, Calif 94611, USA
Neuroepidemiology 21:115-22. 2002..Beverage choice (wine, beer, and liquor) was not independently related. We conclude that only heavy drinking is weakly related to increased HS risk and that light drinking need not be proscribed with respect to HS risk... - Association of prediagnostic serum vitamin D levels with the development of basal cell carcinomaMaryam M Asgari
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
J Invest Dermatol 130:1438-43. 2010..11). Our findings suggest that higher prediagnostic serum 25(OH)D levels may be associated with increased risk of subsequent BCC. Further studies to evaluate the effect of sun exposure on BCC and serum 25(OH)D levels may be warranted... - Systolic blood pressure and mortality in prevalent haemodialysis patients in the HEMO studyT I Chang
Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
J Hum Hypertens 25:98-105. 2011..Randomized clinical trials are needed to define optimal blood pressure targets in the haemodialysis population... - Cohort study of thyroid cancer in a San Francisco Bay area populationC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Int J Cancer 93:745-50. 2001..These results provide further evidence for a role of female gender, radiation, goiter, Asian race, high educational attainment and family history of thyroid disease in the etiology of thyroid cancer... - Concomitant medication use in postmenopausal women using estrogen therapyR Small
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94611-5714, USA
Menopause 8:120-6. 2001..CONCLUSION: Greater use of certain prescription medications by estrogen users than by nonusers should be considered in studying the health effects of estrogen replacement therapy... - Potential risk factors for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma include oral contraceptives: results of a nested case-control studyMaryam M Asgari
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:427-42. 2010.... - Statin use and risk of basal cell carcinomaMaryam M Asgari
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
J Am Acad Dermatol 61:66-72. 2009..We examined the association between statin use and basal cell carcinoma (BCC) risk... - Wine, liquor, beer and risk of breast cancer in a large populationYan Li
Oncology Department, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Eur J Cancer 45:843-50. 2009..We conclude that with a threshold below 1-2 drinks daily, a hormone-related mechanism mediates a relation of alcohol drinking to an increased BrCa risk... - Association between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and cutaneous squamous cell carcinomaMaryam M Asgari
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Arch Dermatol 146:388-95. 2010..To examine the association between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)... - Helicobacter pylori infection and development of pancreatic cancerCatherine de Martel
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Road, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1188-94. 2008..Infection with Helicobacter pylori is an established risk factor for gastric cancer. Results from two studies suggest that it may also be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer... - Alcohol drinking and risk of hospitalization for heart failure with and without associated coronary artery diseaseArthur L Klatsky
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California, USA
Am J Cardiol 96:346-51. 2005.... - Sequelae of systemic hypertension in alcohol abstainers, light drinkers, and heavy drinkersArthur L Klatsky
Department of Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, California, USA
Am J Cardiol 98:1063-8. 2006..In conclusion, the data indicate that the risks of hypertension are similar regardless of the amount of alcohol consumption... - Short-term chloral hydrate administration and cancer in humansTmirah Haselkorn
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Drug Saf 29:67-77. 2006..Chloral hydrate, used as a hypnosedative in adults and children, has been shown to be genotoxic and carcinogenic in animal studies. We investigated the potential causal association between chloral hydrate exposure and cancer risk in humans... - Wine, liquor, beer, and mortalityArthur L Klatsky
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:585-95. 2003.... - Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk of development of esophageal adenocarcinomaCatherine de Martel
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5405, USA
J Infect Dis 191:761-7. 2005..An increase in the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has coincided with a decrease in the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection. Whether these 2 phenomena are associated is unknown... - Risk of subsequent cancer following invasive or in situ squamous cell skin cancerJimmy Thomas Efird
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:469-75. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that patients diagnosed with SCSC may be at an increased risk of subsequent cancer at many sites, although several estimated risk estimates were within the limits of chance given no true association... - C-reactive protein, Helicobacter pylori, Chlamydia pneumoniae, cytomegalovirus and risk for myocardial infarctionHeidi L Witherell
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305, USA
Ann Epidemiol 13:170-7. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Elevated CRP is a risk factor for subsequent MI in older individuals. The relationship between Hp and MI may be due to confounding or co-linearity with socioeconomic status... - The confounded relation of coffee drinking to coronary artery diseaseArthur L Klatsky
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California, USA
Am J Cardiol 101:825-7. 2008.... - Coffee, cirrhosis, and transaminase enzymesArthur L Klatsky
Division of Research, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, Calif 94611, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1190-5. 2006..A minority of persons at risk develop liver cirrhosis, but knowledge of risk modulators is sparse. Several reports suggest that coffee drinking is associated with lower cirrhosis risk... - Smoking and cryptococcosis in AIDS patientsGary D Friedman
Mycoses 49:68-9. 2006 - Erratum: Screening statins for possible carcinogenic risk: up to 9 years of follow-up of 361 859 recipientsGary D Friedman
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 17:751. 2008 - The risk for malignant primary adult-onset glioma in a large, multiethnic, managed-care cohort: cigarette smoking and other lifestyle behaviorsJimmy T Efird
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
J Neurooncol 68:57-69. 2004..Drinkers of >7 cups of coffee per day had a 70% increased risk for MPAG and smaller risk elevation for lower consumption. Alcohol usage was not associated with an increased risk for MPAG...