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| Andrew FloodSummaryAffiliation: University of Minnesota Country: USA Publications
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Empirically derived dietary patterns and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in a large prospective cohort studyEllen M Velie
Department of Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:1308-19. 2005..Inconsistent associations have been reported between diet and breast cancer...- Elevated serum concentrations of insulin and glucose increase risk of recurrent colorectal adenomasAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and the Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Gastroenterology 133:1423-9. 2007..Indicators of insulin resistance have been hypothesized to promote colorectal cancer... 
Concentration of folate in colorectal tissue biopsies predicts prevalence of adenomatous polypsAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Gut 60:66-72. 2011..Folate has been implicated as a potential aetiological factor for colorectal cancer. Previous research has not adequately exploited concentrations of folate in normal colonic mucosal biopsies to examine the issue...- Serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 and recurrent colorectal adenomasAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1493-8. 2008..Why IGF-I would decrease risk of recurrent adenoma (as distinct from incident adenoma or colorectal cancer) is not clear... - Energy density and weight change in a long-term weight-loss trialAndrew Flood
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 6:57. 2009..abstract:.. - Carbohydrate, glycemic index, and glycemic load and colorectal adenomas in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Screening StudyAndrew Flood
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:1184-92. 2006..It is possible that high-glycemic-load diets, through their hyperinsulinemic effects, can increase the risk of colorectal cancer... - Dietary patterns as identified by factor analysis and colorectal cancer among middle-aged AmericansAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and The Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:176-84. 2008..Although diet has long been suspected as an etiological factor for colorectal cancer, studies of single foods and nutrients have provided inconsistent results... - Diabetes and risk of incident colorectal cancer in a prospective cohort of womenAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1277-84. 2010..To determine whether accounting for the time dynamics of diabetes exposure will change the risk estimates for colorectal cancer... - Dietary carbohydrate, glycemic index, and glycemic load and the risk of colorectal cancer in the BCDDP cohortLori Strayer
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:853-63. 2007..Case-control studies support this hypothesis, but prospective cohorts have had mixed results... 
Multiple sociodemographic and socioenvironmental characteristics are correlated with major patterns of dietary intake in adolescentsGretchen J Cutler
Minnesota Department of Health, St Paul, MN, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 111:230-40. 2011..Few studies have used dietary pattern analysis, a useful method to summarize dietary intake, in adolescents...- Survival of women with colon cancer in relation to precancer anthropometric characteristics: the Iowa Women's Health StudyAnna E Prizment
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota 55455, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2229-37. 2010..We hypothesized that precancer anthropometric variables are associated with mortality among women who developed colon cancer in a prospective cohort, the Iowa Women's Health Study (IWHS)... - Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of colorectal cancerJill R Johnson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:196-203. 2009..55; 95% CI, 0.32-0.98) had the largest risk reduction. In this study, estrogen plus progestin use, especially sequential regimen use, was associated with the largest overall reduction of colorectal cancer risk... - Meat, fat, and their subtypes as risk factors for colorectal cancer in a prospective cohort of womenAndrew Flood
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:59-68. 2003..This study provided no evidence of an association between either meat or fat (or any of their subtypes) and colorectal cancer incidence, but the authors cannot rule out the possibility of a modest association... - History of allergy and reduced incidence of colorectal cancer, Iowa Women's Health StudyAnna E Prizment
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2357-62. 2007..63 to 0.78 across these end points). Allergy history, which may reflect enhanced immunosurveillance, is associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer... - Nutrients, food groups, dietary patterns, and risk of pancreatic cancer in postmenopausal womenMaki Inoue-Choi
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:711-4. 2011..Identifying modifiable risk factors for pancreatic cancer is important because of its poor prognosis. Previous findings on diet are inconsistent... - Methodology for adding glycemic load values to the National Cancer Institute Diet History Questionnaire databaseAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:393-402. 2006..A growing interest exists in using glycemic index and glycemic load as potentially important exposures in investigations of risk for a variety of chronic diseases... - Major patterns of dietary intake in adolescents and their stability over timeGretchen J Cutler
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Nutr 139:323-8. 2009..Patterns were similar across gender and age cohorts and were relatively similar over time, with the exception a new fast food pattern... - Calcium from diet and supplements is associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer in a prospective cohort of womenAndrew Flood
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:126-32. 2005..e., diet or supplements)... - Folate, methionine, alcohol, and colorectal cancer in a prospective study of women in the United StatesAndrew Flood
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, MSC 7232, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cancer Causes Control 13:551-61. 2002..We investigated the associations of folate, methionine, and alcohol intake, as well as combinations of these factors, with risk of colorectal cancer (CRC)... - Dietary fibre and risk of colorectal cancer in the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project (BCDDP) follow-up cohortVolker Mai
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:234-9. 2003..We investigated the association between dietary fibre intake and risk of CRC in a cohort of women that prospectively answered a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ)... - Dietary fibre and colorectal adenoma in a colorectal cancer early detection programmeUlrike Peters
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, DHHS, MD 20892 7273, USA
Lancet 361:1491-5. 2003..Although dietary fibre has been reported to have no association with colorectal adenoma and cancer, in some studies this topic remains controversial... - Loss of insulin-like growth factor-II imprinting and the presence of screen-detected colorectal adenomas in womenKaren Woodson
Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:407-10. 2004..These findings are intriguing and need to be confirmed in larger studies... - Calcium intake and colorectal adenoma in a US colorectal cancer early detection programUlrike Peters
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:1358-65. 2004..Calcium can reduce the risk of colorectal tumors by binding secondary bile and fatty acids, which leads to antiproliferative effects in the bowel, or by acting directly on the colonic epithelium, which affects differentiation and apoptosis... - Fruit and vegetable intakes and the risk of colorectal cancer in the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project follow-up cohortAndrew Flood
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, The National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:936-43. 2002..Recent findings have cast doubt on the hypothesis that high intakes of fruit and vegetables are associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer... - Colonoscopic screening of average-risk women for colorectal neoplasiaPhilip Schoenfeld
Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Center for Excellence in Health Services Research, Ann Arbor 48105, USA
N Engl J Med 352:2061-8. 2005..In a tandem study, we examined the yield of screening colonoscopy in women... - Genomic methylation of leukocyte DNA in relation to colorectal adenoma among asymptomatic womenUnhee Lim
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Gastroenterology 134:47-55. 2008..We examined genomic methylation of leukocyte DNA in relation to colorectal adenoma (CRA) among asymptomatic women (40-79 years of age) participating in a multicenter colonoscopy screening study (CONCeRN Study, 2000-2002)... - Mediterranean dietary pattern and prediction of all-cause mortality in a US population: results from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health StudyPanagiota N Mitrou
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Arch Intern Med 167:2461-8. 2007..The Mediterranean diet has been suggested to play a beneficial role for health and longevity. However, to our knowledge, no prospective US study has investigated the Mediterranean dietary pattern in relation to mortality... - Diet quality and subsequent cancer incidence and mortality in a prospective cohort of womenVolker Mai
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:54-60. 2005..Incidence was only decreased for lung cancers. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that a high RFS dietary pattern, or associated lifestyle factors, might affect cancer progression and survival...