G N Farhat

Summary

Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research
    Waqas Amin
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    BMC Cancer 8:236. 2008
  2. ncbi The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer - an emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank
    Sambit K Mohanty
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    BMC Cancer 8:91. 2008
  3. ncbi The association of bone mineral density measures with incident cardiovascular disease in older adults
    G N Farhat
    Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Osteoporos Int 18:999-1008. 2007
  4. ncbi The association of bone mineral density with prostate cancer risk in the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study
    Ghada N Farhat
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Epidemiology and Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Science, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Cancer Pavilion, Suite 4C, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:148-54. 2009
  5. ncbi Volumetric and areal bone mineral density measures are associated with cardiovascular disease in older men and women: the health, aging, and body composition study
    G N Farhat
    Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 DeSoto Street, 127 Parran Hall, PA 15261, USA
    Calcif Tissue Int 79:102-11. 2006

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Publications5

  1. ncbi National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research
    Waqas Amin
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    BMC Cancer 8:236. 2008
    ..The National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank is an initiative which collects annotated datasets relevant to human mesothelioma to develop an enterprising biospecimen resource to fulfill researchers' need...
  2. ncbi The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer - an emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank
    Sambit K Mohanty
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    BMC Cancer 8:91. 2008
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  3. ncbi The association of bone mineral density measures with incident cardiovascular disease in older adults
    G N Farhat
    Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Osteoporos Int 18:999-1008. 2007
    ..BMD measures were inversely related to CVD in women and white men, independent of age and shared risk factors for osteoporosis and CVD...
  4. ncbi The association of bone mineral density with prostate cancer risk in the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study
    Ghada N Farhat
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Epidemiology and Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Science, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Cancer Pavilion, Suite 4C, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:148-54. 2009
    ..However, no associations were observed with low-grade disease. Our results provide support for an inverse association between BMD and PCa risk. Possible pathophyisological mechanisms linking BMD and PCa should be elucidated...
  5. ncbi Volumetric and areal bone mineral density measures are associated with cardiovascular disease in older men and women: the health, aging, and body composition study
    G N Farhat
    Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 DeSoto Street, 127 Parran Hall, PA 15261, USA
    Calcif Tissue Int 79:102-11. 2006
    ..In conclusion, our results provide further evidence for an inverse association between BMD and CVD in men and women. Future research should investigate common pathophysiological links for osteoporosis and CVD...