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| Yan CuiSummaryAffiliation: Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology Country: USA Publications
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Small area estimates reveal high cigarette smoking prevalence in low-income cities of Los Angeles countyYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Urban Health 89:397-406. 2012..Our study also demonstrates the feasibility of providing credible local estimates of smoking prevalence using the model-based small area estimation method...
Selected antioxidants and risk of hormone receptor-defined invasive breast cancers among postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative Observational StudyYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1009-18. 2008..Few studies have evaluated carotenoids and vitamins C and E in association with the risk of breast cancers defined by estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status...
Menstrual and reproductive history, postmenopausal hormone use, and risk of benign proliferative epithelial disorders of the breast: a cohort studyYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 313 N Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 114:113-20. 2009..96, 95%CL = 0.79, 1.16; HR for stopping <5 years earlier = 1.32, 95% CL = 1.08,1.61)...
Alcohol and folate consumption and risk of benign proliferative epithelial disorders of the breastYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 121:1346-51. 2007..In conclusion, we observed that alcohol consumption and folate intake were not associated with altered risk of BPED, and that there was no effect modification between them in relation to the risk of BPED...
Levels of zinc, selenium, calcium, and iron in benign breast tissue and risk of subsequent breast cancerYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1682-5. 2007..In conclusion, our data raise the possibility that relatively high levels of zinc, iron, and calcium in benign breast tissue may be associated with a modest increase in risk of subsequent breast cancer...
Human papillomavirus vaccine among adult women: disparities in awareness and acceptanceYan Cui
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:559-63. 2010..Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines have been shown to be safe and highly effective in young and middle-aged women...
Dietary flavonoid intake and lung cancer--a population-based case-control studyYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer 112:2241-8. 2008..To investigate the associations between commonly consumed flavonoid compounds and lung cancer, the authors conducted a population-based case-control study of 558 lung cancer cases and a group of 837 controls...
Effective birth control use among women at risk for unintended pregnancy in Los Angeles, CaliforniaTanya M Phares
Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90012, USA
Womens Health Issues 22:e351-8. 2012..Identifying sociodemographic and health-related risk factors associated with more effective versus less effective birth control use can help to identify barriers to effective birth control use and decrease risk for unintended pregnancy...
Dietary boron intake and prostate cancer riskYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Oncol Rep 11:887-92. 2004..0525). The observed association should be interpreted with caution because of the small case sample size and the nature of the cross-sectional study design, but deserve further investigation...
Cigarette smoking and risk of benign proliferative epithelial disorders of the breast in the Women's Health InitiativeYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Belfer 1301, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:431-8. 2007..To investigate the association between cigarette smoking and risk of benign proliferative epithelial disorders (BPED) of the breast...
Nuclear morphometric features in benign breast tissue and risk of subsequent breast cancerYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Belfer 1301D, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 104:103-7. 2007....
Dietary mineral and trace element intake and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in a Chinese populationHua Lu
Department of Epidemiology, Fujian Medical University, Fujian, Fuzhou, China
Nutr Cancer 55:63-70. 2006..Our results suggested that the potential joint effect of zinc and selenium might contribute to SCCE risk. Increased dietary intake of selenium and zinc may decrease the risk of SCCE in a low-selenium area of China...
Vitamin D, calcium, and breast cancer risk: a reviewYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Belfer 1301D, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1427-37. 2006..To further confirm the potential protective effects of calcium and vitamin D on breast cancer, well-designed cohort studies and clinical trials are warranted...
Cigarette smoking and breast cancer risk: update of a prospective cohort studyYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Belfer 1301D, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 100:293-9. 2006..13, 95% CL = 1.01-1.25). These results strongly suggest that cigarette smoking might play an important role in the etiology of breast cancer, particularly when initiated relatively early in life and when engaged in for long durations...
Inactivation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 (WIF1) expression by epigenetic silencing is a common event in breast cancerLingbao Ai
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and UF Shands Cancer Center Program in Cancer Genetics, Epigenetics and Tumor Virology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Carcinogenesis 27:1341-8. 2006..Our findings establish the WIF1 gene as a target for epigenetic silencing in breast cancer and provide a mechanistic link between the dysregulation of Wnt signaling and breast tumorigenesis...
