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| Somdat MahabirSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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Physical activity and renal cell cancer risk in a cohort of male smokersSomdat Mahabir
Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Int J Cancer 108:600-5. 2004..18-1.13) (p-value for trend = 0.12). Occupational physical activity was unrelated to renal cell cancer risk. These data suggest that recreational physical activity may play a role in the prevention of renal cell cancer in men...- Randomized, placebo-controlled pilot trial of the effects of alpha-tocopherol supplementation on levels of autoantibodies against 5-hydroxymethyl-2-deoxyuridine in melanoma patientsSomdat Mahabir
Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Insitute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 8314, USA
Melanoma Res 14:49-56. 2004..Further studies using much larger sample sizes are required to confirm this finding... - Prospective study of alcohol drinking and renal cell cancer risk in a cohort of finnish male smokersSomdat Mahabir
Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Boulevard, Suite 705, MSC 8314, Bethesda, MD 20892 7058, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:170-5. 2005..Because most of the risk reductions were seen at the highest quartile of alcohol intake and alcohol is a risk factor for a number of cancers particularly among smokers, these data should be interpreted with caution... 
Mineral intake and lung cancer risk in the NIH-American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health studySomdat Mahabir
Modifiable Risk Factors Branch, Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1976-83. 2010..Due to dietary recall bias in case-control studies, our objective was to assess whether these findings hold in a prospective cohort study...- Dietary alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols in lung cancer riskSomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Cancer 123:1173-80. 2008..Given the limitations with case-control studies, these findings need to be confirmed in further investigations... - Dietary zinc, copper and selenium, and risk of lung cancerSomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Cancer 120:1108-15. 2007..Given the known limitations of case-control studies, these findings must be interpreted with caution and warrant further investigation... 
Body Mass Index, percent body fat, and regional body fat distribution in relation to leptin concentrations in healthy, non-smoking postmenopausal women in a feeding studySomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Nutr J 6:3. 2007....- Comparison of energy expenditure estimates from 4 physical activity questionnaires with doubly labeled water estimates in postmenopausal womenSomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:230-6. 2006..However, most epidemiologic studies have not validated these methods against the doubly labeled water (DLW) technique for measuring EE... - A prospective study of polymorphisms of DNA repair genes XRCC1, XPD23 and APE/ref-1 and risk of stroke in Linxian, ChinaSomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, CPB4 3247, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1340, 1155 Pressler Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:737-41. 2007..Stroke is the leading cause of death in Linxian, China. Although there is evidence of DNA damage in experimental stroke, no data exist on DNA repair and stroke in human populations... - Joint effects of dietary trace metals and DNA repair capacity in lung cancer riskSomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer, 1155 Pressler Boulevard, CPB4 3247, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2756-62. 2007..No significant joint associations were seen for Se or Ca and DRC. Our joint associations between Cu-DRC, Zn-DRC and Fe-DRC and lung cancer risk require confirmation in prospective studies... - Dietary magnesium and DNA repair capacity as risk factors for lung cancerSomdat Mahabir
Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1340, CPB4 3241, 1155 Pressler Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Carcinogenesis 29:949-56. 2008..These intriguing results need to be confirmed in prospective studies... 
Relationship between obesity and pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy among women with operable breast cancerJennifer K Litton
Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:4072-7. 2008..To understand the mechanism through which obesity in breast cancer patients is associated with poorer outcome, we evaluated body mass index (BMI) and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) in women with operable breast cancer...- Birthplace, years of residence in the United States, and obesity among Mexican-American adultsCarlos H Barcenas
Department of Internal Medicine of the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, and Boston VA Healthcare System, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1043-52. 2007..To evaluate the association between birthplace (Mexico or U.S.) and obesity in men and women and to analyze the relationship between duration of U.S. residency and prevalence of obesity in Mexican immigrants...