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Phytoestrogen and fiber intakes in relation to incident vasomotor symptoms: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the NationEllen B Gold
University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
Menopause 20:305-14. 2013..We analyzed longitudinal data from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation for the relation of dietary phytoestrogen and fiber intake to incident VMS in this multiracial/ethnic cohort...
Active, but not passive cigarette smoking was inversely associated with mammographic densityLesley M Butler
Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1681, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:301-11. 2010..A negative relation between mammographic density, a strong breast cancer risk factor, and active smoking would lend support for an antiestrogenic mechanism...- Sex steroid metabolism polymorphisms and mammographic density in pre- and early perimenopausal womenCarolyn J Crandall
Department of Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Medicine GIM, 911 Broxton Ave, 1st Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Breast Cancer Res 11:R51. 2009.... 
Relation of demographic and lifestyle factors to symptoms in a multi-racial/ethnic population of women 40-55 years of ageE B Gold
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Am J Epidemiol 152:463-73. 2000..78), and who rated themselves less physically active than other women their age (odds ratios = 1.24-2.33). These results suggest that lifestyle, menstrual status, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status affect symptoms in this age group...- Cross-sectional analysis of specific complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by racial/ethnic group and menopausal status: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Ellen B Gold
School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Menopause 14:612-23. 2007..To examine the relationships of race/ethnicity, menopausal status, health characteristics, and symptoms with use of 21 types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in midlife women... - Diet and lifestyle factors associated with premenstrual symptoms in a racially diverse community sample: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Ellen B Gold
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:641-56. 2007.... - Relation of daily urinary hormone patterns to vasomotor symptoms in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of midlife women: study of women's health across the nationEllen B Gold
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Reprod Sci 14:786-97. 2007.... - Longitudinal analysis of the association between vasomotor symptoms and race/ethnicity across the menopausal transition: study of women's health across the nationEllen B Gold
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1226-35. 2006..We also sought to determine whether racial/ethnic differences were explained by sociodemographic, health, or lifestyle factors... - Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the NationEllen B Gold
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616 8648, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:1189-99. 2004..No dietary nutrients were significantly associated with vasomotor symptoms. These cross-sectional findings require further longitudinal exploration to identify lifestyle changes for women that may help prevent vasomotor symptoms... - Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife womenE B Gold
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Am J Epidemiol 153:865-74. 2001..Thus, this study provides important insights into this determinant of long-term disease risk in women... - The timing of the age at which natural menopause occursEllen B Gold
Department of Public Health Sciences and Division of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 38:425-40. 2011..Knowledge about these relationships offers women and their health care providers enhanced understanding and choices to deal with menopause... - Adiposity and reporting of vasomotor symptoms among midlife women: the study of women's health across the nationRebecca C Thurston
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:78-85. 2008..14, 1.42) in age- and site-adjusted models. Associations persisted in fully adjusted models and were not reduced when models included reproductive hormones. These findings support a thermoregulatory model of vasomotor symptoms... - Menopause-associated symptoms and cognitive performance: results from the study of women's health across the nationGail A Greendale
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Epidemiol 171:1214-24. 2010..The authors found that depressive, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and vasomotor symptoms did not account for the transient decrement in SDMT learning observed during late perimenopause... - Cancer occurrence in Southeast Asian children in CaliforniaJonathan M Ducore
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 26:613-8. 2004..To estimate misclassification of ethnicity and cancer incidence in Southeast Asian children using the population-based California Cancer Registry... - Dietary genistein intake and cognitive performance in a multiethnic cohort of midlife womenMei Hua Huang
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Menopause 13:621-30. 2006..To examine the relationship between food frequency questionnaire estimated isoflavone intakes and cognitive performance... - Factors associated with prevalent and incident urinary incontinence in a cohort of midlife women: a longitudinal analysis of data: study of women's health across the nationL Elaine Waetjen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:309-18. 2007..In midlife women, incident incontinence is mild with different characteristics and baseline risk factors; overweight women have a higher risk of developing incontinence... - Use of conventional and complementary health care during the transition to menopause: longitudinal results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Yali A Bair
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California at Davis, 2103 Stockton Blvd, Suite 2224, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Menopause 12:31-9. 2005.... - Association between menopausal transition stages and developing urinary incontinenceL Elaine Waetjen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Davis, CA
Obstet Gynecol 114:989-98. 2009..To estimate whether menopause transition stage is independently associated with the development of incontinence symptoms... - Menstrual and reproductive factors in relation to mammographic density: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Lesley M Butler
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, 1616 DaVinci Court, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 112:165-74. 2008..2, P<0.01 for >or=3 births versus no births). Our data support a mechanism for parity and breast cancer that involves mammographic density among pre- and early perimenopausal women that may be modified by body size... - Infection-related hospitalizations in older patients with ESRDLorien S Dalrymple
Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 56:522-30. 2010..Few studies have examined the full range of infections experienced by dialysis patients. The purpose of this study is to examine types, rates, and risk factors for infection in older persons starting dialysis therapy... - Self-reported anxiety, depressive, and vasomotor symptoms: a study of perimenopausal women presenting to a specialized midlife assessment centerAndreea L Seritan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Menopause 17:410-5. 2010..The aim of this study was to examine the association of vasomotor symptoms (VMS) with anxiety and/or depressive symptoms in perimenopausal women... - Factors associated with worsening and improving urinary incontinence across the menopausal transitionL Elaine Waetjen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Statistics, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Obstet Gynecol 111:667-77. 2008..To evaluate whether the menopausal transition is associated with worsening of urinary incontinence symptoms over 6 years in midlife women... - Dietary factors and vasomotor symptoms in breast cancer survivors: the WHEL StudyEllen B Gold
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Menopause 13:423-33. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: High dietary fiber intakes, premenopausal, and high social support were related to decreased severity of VMS 1 year after study enrollment in women recently treated for breast cancer... - The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicityBill L Lasley
Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:3760-7. 2002.... - Factors affecting menstrual cycle characteristicsYan Liu
Center for Family Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:131-40. 2004..These results indicate that potentially modifiable risk factors, as well as immutable host factors, are associated with menstrual cycle characteristics that may in turn be related to subsequent disease risk... - Ethnic differences in use of complementary and alternative medicine at midlife: longitudinal results from SWAN participantsYali A Bair
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1832-40. 2002..We estimated the prevalence and longitudinal correlates of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) at midlife among participants of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)... - Risk factors and comorbidities in primary biliary cirrhosis: a controlled interview-based study of 1032 patientsM Eric Gershwin
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Hepatology 42:1194-202. 2005..Exogenous estrogens may also contribute to explain the female predominance of the disease... - Dietary change and reduced breast cancer events among women without hot flashes after treatment of early-stage breast cancer: subgroup analysis of the Women's Healthy Eating and Living StudyJohn P Pierce
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1565S-1571S. 2009.... - Quality of life and everyday activities in patients with primary biliary cirrhosisCarlo Selmi
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Hepatology 46:1836-43. 2007..Nevertheless, patients with PBC suffer significantly more than controls from a variety of symptoms that are beyond the immediate impact of liver failure and affect their lifestyle, personal relationships, and work activities... - Increases in plasma carotenoid concentrations in response to a major dietary change in the women's healthy eating and living studyJohn P Pierce
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0901, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1886-92. 2006..Other intervention studies have not achieved the level of change in circulating carotenoids required to properly test this hypothesis... - Time-varying effects of prognostic factors associated with disease-free survival in breast cancerLoki Natarajan
Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093 0901, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1463-70. 2009..7 years (hazard ratio = 1.5). These results emphasize the importance of careful statistical modeling allowing for possibly time-dependent effects in long-term survivorship studies... - Telephone counseling intervention increases intakes of micronutrient- and phytochemical-rich vegetables, fruit and fiber in breast cancer survivorsJohn P Pierce
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
J Nutr 134:452-8. 2004.... - Dietary pattern influences breast cancer prognosis in women without hot flashes: the women's healthy eating and living trialEllen B Gold
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:352-9. 2009..To determine whether a low-fat diet high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber differentially affects prognosis in breast cancer survivors with hot flashes (HF) or without HF after treatment... - Presence of vasomotor symptoms is associated with lower bone mineral density: a longitudinal analysisCarolyn J Crandall
Department of Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Menopause 16:239-46. 2009..To determine whether women with vasomotor symptoms (VMS) have lower bone mineral density (BMD) than do women without VMS... - Bayesian analysis of risk factors for anovulationYan Liu
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Stat Med 23:1901-19. 2004..Our results indicated that increasing physical activity was associated with a significantly increased risk of anovulation; and smokers had a potentially, but not statistically significant, increased occurrence of anovulation... - Reliability of plasma carotenoid biomarkers and its relation to study powerWael K Al-Delaimy
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Epidemiology 19:338-44. 2008..We assessed reliability of plasma carotenoid levels over time and how it could influence study power through sample size and effect-size... - Prenatal exposure to wood fuel smoke and low birth weightAMNA R SIDDIQUI
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:543-9. 2008..Maternal exposure to wood fuel smoke may lead to impaired fetal growth due to hypoxia and or oxidative stress from smoke constituents such as carbon monoxide and particulate matter... - Tamoxifen, hot flashes and recurrence in breast cancerJoanne E Mortimer
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 108:421-6. 2008..The strength of this finding suggests that further study of the relationship between hot flashes and breast cancer progression is warranted. Additional work is warranted to clarify the mechanism of hot flashes in this setting... - Influence of a diet very high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in fat on prognosis following treatment for breast cancer: the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) randomized trialJohn P Pierce
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
JAMA 298:289-98. 2007..Evidence is lacking that a dietary pattern high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in total fat can influence breast cancer recurrence or survival... - Telephone counseling helps maintain long-term adherence to a high-vegetable dietary patternJohn P Pierce
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
J Nutr 137:2291-6. 2007..This large change will allow testing of hypotheses on the role of dietary change in preventing additional breast cancer events... - Low to moderate alcohol intake is not associated with increased mortality after breast cancerShirley W Flatt
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:681-8. 2010..An inverse association between alcohol intake and obesity suggests possible confounding between these variables (and perhaps other factors) with breast cancer outcomes... - A randomized trial of the effect of a plant-based dietary pattern on additional breast cancer events and survival: the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) StudyJohn P Pierce
Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0645, USA
Control Clin Trials 23:728-56. 2002..We will assess evidence of effectiveness by the length of the breast cancer event-free interval, as well as by overall survival separately in all the women in the study as well as specifically in women under and over the age of 55 years... - Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of womenMaryFran R Sowers
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
J Nutr 136:1588-95. 2006.... - Helping midlife women predict the onset of the final menses: SWAN, the Study of Women's Health Across the NationNanette Santoro
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461, USA
Menopause 14:415-24. 2007..Women approaching menopause often ask their doctors, "When are my periods going to end?" The objective of this study was to predict time to the final menstrual period (FMP)... - Depressive symptoms during the menopausal transition: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Joyce T Bromberger
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
J Affect Disord 103:267-72. 2007..This study examined the longitudinal relationship between changes in menopausal status and the risk of clinically relevant depressive symptoms and whether the relationship differed according to initial depressive symptom level... - Functional status of patients with primary biliary cirrhosisArti Parikh-Patel
Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Davis, 95616, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 97:2871-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Studies of this nature have potential implications for the well-being and management of patients with PBC, and focus on issues that can be addressed to help maintain functional status in this chronic disease... - Lifestyle factors: are they related to vasomotor symptoms and do they modify the effectiveness or side effects of hormone therapy?Gail A Greendale
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
Am J Med 118:148-54. 2005..Whether certain behaviors or BMI raise or lower the risks or benefits of HT remains largely unknown and should be the focus of future research... - Physical activity and menstrual cycle characteristics in two prospective cohortsBarbara Sternfeld
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:402-9. 2002..These findings lend modest support to the hypothesis that moderate levels of physical activity can lengthen the menstrual cycle... - Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptorsCarolyn J Crandall
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Am J Med 119:S52-60. 2006..Clarification of the mechanisms of the associations and confirmation in other populations is warranted... - Complementary and alternative medicine use among American women: findings from The National Health Interview Survey, 2002Dawn M Upchurch
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:102-13. 2007..This study identified sociodemographic, health, and lifestyle factors associated with use of various types of CAM among women in the United States and examined health conditions and reasons for use... - The relationship of longitudinal change in reproductive hormones and vasomotor symptoms during the menopausal transitionJohn F Randolph
L4228 Women s Hospital, University of Michigan Health System, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0276, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:6106-12. 2005..Vasomotor symptoms are reported by 65-76% of women traversing the menopausal transition and are a primary reason for medical intervention during this life stage... - Mammographic density in a multiethnic cohortLaurel A Habel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Menopause 14:891-9. 2007..To compare mammographic density among premenopausal and early perimenopausal women from four racial/ethnic groups and to examine density and acculturation among Japanese and Chinese women... - Reproductive hormones in the early menopausal transition: relationship to ethnicity, body size, and menopausal statusJohn F Randolph
Clinical Centers: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:1516-22. 2003..All hormone concentrations were significantly correlated with body mass index. We conclude that serum sex steroid, FSH, and SHBG levels vary by ethnicity, but are highly confounded by ethnic disparities in body size... - The relation of occupational organic solvent exposure to symptom reporting in a sample of white and Chinese midlife womenRochelle S Green
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:410-23. 2005..This study examined the relation of occupational solvent exposure to menopausal and other symptoms in midlife women... - Use of complementary and alternative medicine during the menopause transition: longitudinal results from the Study of Women's Health Across the NationYali A Bair
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, Sacramento, CA, USA
Menopause 15:32-43. 2008..This study examined whether use of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies during the menopause transition varied by ethnicity... - Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nationNanette Santoro
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Mazer 316, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:4836-45. 2005..Because circulating androgens decline with age, the use of androgen supplementation for women to improve health and well-being has been increasing... - Physical activity and mammographic density in a cohort of midlife womenNina Oestreicher
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 40:451-6. 2008..Physical activity (PA) is one of few modifiable breast cancer risk factors. There have been few studies of the relation between PA and mammographic density, especially in multiethnic populations... - Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone StudyNanette Santoro
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10461, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:2622-31. 2004..Comparisons to younger women indirectly support the inhibin hypothesis, which proposes that the initiating event in the menopausal transition is the loss of inhibin negative feedback on FSH secondary to a diminished follicular reserve... - Sleep disturbance during the menopausal transition in a multi-ethnic community sample of womenHoward M Kravitz
Rush University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Rush West Campus, 2150 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL, USA
Sleep 31:979-90. 2008.... - Reproductive steroid hormones and recurrence-free survival in women with a history of breast cancerCheryl L Rock
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:614-20. 2008.... - Dietary fat subgroups, zinc, and vegetable components are related to urine F2a-isoprostane concentration, a measure of oxidative stress, in midlife womenKristin M Tomey
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
J Nutr 137:2412-9. 2007..346, SE = 0.14, P = 0.01), and -0.117, 0.04 (P = 0.001), respectively]. In conclusion, diet (fat subtypes, zinc, and vegetable components) and smoking were associated with urine F(2a)-isoprostanes, a marker of oxidative stress...
Research Grants
- Study of Women's Health Across the Nation III--UC DavisEllen Gold; Fiscal Year: 2007..We will build upon the rich foundation developed during SWAN I and II and link these data to important menopause-related and health outcomes in SWAN III. ..
- SWAN Sleep Study II-UC Davis/Kaiser siteEllen Gold; Fiscal Year: 2007..The results can inform primary prevention of adverse health outcomes due to the menopause-related sleep disturbances. ..
- CAM Use in Midlife Women in Five Ethnic GroupsEllen Gold; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- Sleep during the peri-menopause in a multi-ethnic cohortEllen Gold; Fiscal Year: 2005..All sleep study data, as well as relevant data from the Core SWAN study, will be merged and analyzed by the Michigan site. The Chicago and UC Davis PIs will co-chair the Sleep Study Steering Committee. ..