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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Maureen A MurtaughSummaryAffiliation: University of Utah Country: USA Publications
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Meat consumption patterns and preparation, genetic variants of metabolic enzymes, and their association with rectal cancer in men and womenMaureen A Murtaugh
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA
J Nutr 134:776-84. 2004..These data suggest that mutagens such as HCA that form when meat is cooked may be culpable substances in rectal cancer risk, not red meat itself...- Interactions of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor {gamma} and diet in etiology of colorectal cancerMaureen A Murtaugh
Health Research Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Suite A, 375 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1224-9. 2005.... - The CYP1A1 genotype may alter the association of meat consumption patterns and preparation with the risk of colorectal cancer in men and womenMaureen A Murtaugh
Health Research Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA
J Nutr 135:179-86. 2005..Genetic susceptibility may modify the associations of some meat or meat preparation factors with the risk of colorectal cancer... - Association of fluids from beverages with risk of rectal cancerMaureen A Murtaugh
Health Research Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84101, USA
Nutr Cancer 49:25-31. 2004..Associations of alcohol to risk for rectal cancer may be related to cellular hyperproliferation and may be modified by NSAID use... - Epidemiological support for the protection of whole grains against diabetesMaureen A Murtaugh
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Proc Nutr Soc 62:143-9. 2003..There is accumulating evidence to support the hypothesis that whole-grain consumption is associated with a reduced risk of incident type 2 diabetes; it may also improve glucose control in diabetic individuals... 
Dietary intake of folate and co-factors in folate metabolism, MTHFR polymorphisms, and reduced rectal cancerMaureen A Murtaugh
Health Research Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:153-63. 2007..Folate intake, low methyl donor status, and MTHFR polymorphisms may play independent roles in the etiology of rectal cancer...- Antioxidants, carotenoids, and risk of rectal cancerMaureen A Murtaugh
Health Research Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:32-41. 2004..Associations differed by estrogen status for beta-carotene, lycopene, and vitamin E. These results suggest that vitamin E and lycopene may modestly reduce the risk of rectal cancer in women... - Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms, dietary promotion of insulin resistance, and colon and rectal cancerMaureen A Murtaugh
Health Research Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Nutr Cancer 55:35-43. 2006.... - Physical activity and breast cancer risk among women in the southwestern United StatesMartha L Slattery
Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84117, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:342-53. 2007..01), while among postmenopausal HAI women, physical activity interacted with body mass index (p value, 0.04). These data suggest that physical activity is important in reducing risk of breast cancer in both NHW and HAI women... - Associations among body mass index, waist circumference, and health indicators in American Indian and Alaska Native adultsMartha L Slattery
University of Utah, Department of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 USA
Am J Health Promot 24:246-54. 2010..Little is known about obesity-related health issues among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations... - Diet composition and risk of overweight and obesity in women living in the southwestern United StatesMaureen A Murtaugh
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 107:1311-21. 2007..We assessed the association of dietary patterns and macronutrient composition with overweight and obesity in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women... - Diet patterns and breast cancer risk in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women: the Four-Corners Breast Cancer StudyMaureen A Murtaugh
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Provo, UT, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:978-84. 2008..There is a lower incidence of breast cancer among Hispanic women than among non-Hispanic white women. Little is known about the role of diet in this difference... - Factors associated with response to a follow-up postal questionnaire in a cohort of American IndiansSandra L Edwards
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
Prev Med 48:596-9. 2009..The aim of the study was to collect pilot data on response rates to a follow-up postal questionnaire in a cohort of American Indians living in the Southwestern United States. We tested the effect of questionnaire length on response... - PPARgamma, energy balance, and associations with colon and rectal cancerMartha L Slattery
Health Research Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84108, USA
Nutr Cancer 51:155-61. 2005..These data do not support the hypothesis that the P12A PPARgamma polymorphism is associated with colon or rectal cancer through regulation of energy balance... 
Macronutrient composition influence on breast cancer risk in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women: the 4-Corners Breast Cancer StudyMaureen A Murtaugh
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA
Nutr Cancer 63:185-95. 2011..Associations of the macronutrients carbohydrate and fat with breast cancer risk were attenuated among postmenopausal obese women...- Development, implementation, and evaluation of a computerized self-administered diet history questionnaire for use in studies of American Indian and Alaskan native peopleMartha L Slattery
University of Utah, Internal Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 108:101-9. 2008..The methods developed for collection of dietary data appear to be appropriate for the targeted population and may have usefulness for other populations where collecting dietary data in a self-administered format is desirable... - Reproductive history in relation to breast cancer risk among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white womenCarol Sweeney
Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, 30 N 1900 E, AC230, Salt Lake City, Utah 841032, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:391-401. 2008..To evaluate reproductive history risk factors in breast cancer among Hispanic (HISP) women in the U.S. southwest, a population with approximately 33% lower breast cancer incidence than non-Hispanic whites (NHW)... - Genetic admixture among Hispanics and candidate gene polymorphisms: potential for confounding in a breast cancer study?Carol Sweeney
Department of Internal Medicine Health Research Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:142-50. 2007..CRRs from simulated scenarios indicated that appreciable confounding by admixture would occur only when within-group candidate SNP allele frequency differences are much larger than any that we observed... - Haplotype analysis of common vitamin D receptor variants and colon and rectal cancersCarol Sweeney
Health Research Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84108, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:744-9. 2006..In this analysis, haplotypes of the VDR influenced risk of colon cancer, but haplotype variables had only slightly better ability to explain case-control differences than genotype variables... - Correlates of urinary albumin excretion in young adult blacks and whites: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults StudyMaureen A Murtaugh
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:676-86. 2003..A risk of higher urinary albumin excretion exists at blood pressure levels below those commonly regarded as hypertension, with a greater risk among Blacks than among Whites... - Whole grain intake is associated with lower body mass and greater insulin sensitivity among adolescentsLyn M Steffen
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:243-50. 2003..02). This relation was stronger among adolescents with higher BMIs (p = 0.001). Whole grain intake was associated with greater insulin sensitivity and lower BMI in adolescents, especially among the heaviest persons... - Recruiting Hispanic women for a population-based study: validity of surname search and characteristics of nonparticipantsCarol Sweeney
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:1210-9. 2007..Recruitment of Hispanic cases and controls does not appear to be affected by selection bias related to community characteristics... - Family health history and health behaviors in Alaska native and American Indian peopleMartha L Slattery
University of Utah, Department of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 20:678-94. 2009..Family history of diseases among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people may influence health... - Validation of a dietary history questionnaire for American Indian and Alaska Native peopleMaureen A Murtaugh
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA
Ethn Dis 20:429-36. 2010.... - Insulin-like growth factor pathway polymorphisms associated with body size in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white womenCarol Sweeney
Health Research Center, Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Suite A, 375 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1802-9. 2005..These results provide evidence that IGF pathway polymorphisms have functional effects on growth and central obesity and indicate that genotype-phenotype relationships are ethnic specific... - Evaluation of a large, population-based sample supports a CpG island methylator phenotype in colon cancerWade S Samowitz
Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA
Gastroenterology 129:837-45. 2005..However, the presence or absence of microsatellite instability has a major effect on the expression of this phenotype... - Creating a clinical screening questionnaire for eating behaviors associated with overweight and obesityJessica L J Greenwood
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, 375 Chipeta Way Suite A, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 21:539-48. 2008..The objective of this study was to associate questions about specific eating behaviors with weight. Our ultimate goal was to create a clinical screening questionnaire for eating behaviors associated with overweight and obesity... - Development and use of touch-screen audio computer-assisted self-interviewing in a study of American IndiansSandra L Edwards
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:1336-42. 2007..These results indicate that the ACASI questionnaire is both an acceptable and a preferable mode of data collection in this population... - Associations of body size with metabolic syndrome and mortality in moderate chronic kidney diseaseBonnie C H Kwan
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2:992-8. 2007..We examined whether chronic kidney disease (CKD) modifies the association of obesity with metabolic syndrome and mortality... - Poor survival associated with the BRAF V600E mutation in microsatellite-stable colon cancersWade S Samowitz
Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City 84132, USA
Cancer Res 65:6063-9. 2005.... - Vascular leak is a central feature in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosisTracy M Frech
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, 4B200 SOM, 30 N 1900 E, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA
J Rheumatol 39:1385-91. 2012..We investigated the microvasculature alterations in the skin of patients with SSc at various stages of disease duration with whole-field digital microscopy... - Dietary phosphorus intake and mortality in moderate chronic kidney disease: NHANES IIIMaureen A Murtaugh
Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Nephrol Dial Transplant 27:990-6. 2012..Therefore, we examined these associations in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III... - Relation of birth weight to fasting insulin, insulin resistance, and body size in adolescenceMaureen A Murtaugh
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Diabetes Care 26:187-92. 2003..Insulin sensitivity increased nonsignificantly with birth weight... - Probiotics for the treatment of systemic sclerosis-associated gastrointestinal bloating/ distentionTracy M Frech
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Clin Exp Rheumatol 29:S22-5. 2011..Our hypothesis is that GIT symptoms in SSc patients with moderate bloating would improve with probiotic implementation... - Lack of synergistic effects of metabolic syndrome and plasma fibrinogen on coronary events and mortality in moderate CKDNirupama Ramkumar
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 49:356-64. 2007..Metabolic syndrome and inflammation are interlinked in patients with moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD)... - Gender- and race-specific determination of albumin excretion rate using albumin-to-creatinine ratio in single, untimed urine specimens: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults StudyDavid R Jacobs
University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:1114-9. 2002..Men and Blacks have a higher albumin excretion rate than do women and Whites and may thereby have an increased risk of microvascular and macrovascular disease... - Relation of ascorbic acid to coronary artery calcium: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults StudyJoel A Simon
General Internal Medicine Section 111A1, Medical Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:581-8. 2004..Low to marginally low plasma ascorbic acid levels were associated with a higher prevalence of coronary artery calcium among men but not among women... - Arthritis prevalence and associations in American Indian and Alaska Native peopleElizabeth D Ferucci
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, 4000 Ambassaador Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:1128-36. 2008..To investigate the prevalence of arthritis and associations with arthritis in American Indian and Alaska Native populations... - Long-term plasma lipid changes associated with a first birth: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults studyErica P Gunderson
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:1028-39. 2004..HDL cholesterol declines of -3 to -4 mg/dl after a first birth persisted during the 10 years of follow-up independent of weight, central adiposity, and selected behavior changes... - Variation in newborn size according to pregnancy weight change by trimesterJudith E Brown
Department of Public Health Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:205-9. 2002..The timing of maternal weight change in pregnancy may be an important determinant of the newborn's size... - Mothers' milk feedings in the neonatal intensive care unit: accuracy of the creamatocrit techniquePaula P Meier
Rush Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Perinatol 22:646-9. 2002..The variability in lipid and calories in these 32 OMM samples underscores the utility of this technique...