Xianglan Zhang

..No previous study has used biomarkers of soy intake in assessing the relationship between soy consumption and CHD. Biomarkers that reflect both intake and metabolism may be more informative than self-reports of dietary intake...

..Although both general and abdominal adiposity are well-established risk factors for coronary heart disease, their associations with stroke are less well characterized, particularly in generally lean Asian populations...

..Inadequate control for potential methodological biases has been suggested as an explanation for the conflicting findings concerning the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality...

..Although it has been suggested that high gravidity and parity increase the risk for coronary heart disease, their associations with stroke are unclear...

..Increased abdominal adiposity has been linked to an increase in mortality in populations where many are overweight or obese; it is unclear whether the same is true in relatively lean populations...

..Resting heart rate has been shown to predict risk of cardiovascular disease; its association with diabetes remains unclear, particularly in non-Western populations...

..Asian populations habitually consume a large amount of cruciferous vegetables and other plant-based foods. Few epidemiologic investigations have evaluated the potential health effects of these foods in Asian populations...

..Data from epidemiologic studies linking usual soy food intake with colorectal cancer are limited and inconsistent...

..Little is known about components of adult height in relation to mortality, particularly in developing countries...

..This study suggests that soy food consumption may reduce lung cancer risk in nonsmoking women, particularly for aggressive tumors, and its effect may be modified by endogenous estrogens...

..88, 95% CI: 0.78-0.99). No significant association was found among smokers (HR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.66-1.34). This study suggests that regular consumption of green tea may reduce colorectal cancer risk among non-smokers...

..To determine whether various levels of blood pressure (BP), particularly normal and high normal BP or prehypertension, predict cardiovascular mortality among urban Chinese women...

..Similar results were also found for intake of isoflavones. CONCLUSION: Soy food consumption may reduce the risk of fracture in postmenopausal women, particularly among those in the early years following menopause...

..Soy and some of its constituents, such as isoflavones, have been shown to affect the inflammatory process in animal studies. The association between soy food intake and inflammatory markers has not been evaluated adequately in humans...

..To evaluate the associations of age at menarche and the leg length-to-sitting-height ratio, markers of adolescent growth, with risk of diabetes in later life...

..CONCLUSION This study suggests, to the best of our knowledge for the first time, that, among women with lung cancer, prediagnosis intake of soy food is associated with better overall survival...

..Moreover, inflammatory response to obesity differed by race and sex, which may contribute to CVD disparities...

..43; 95% confidence interval, 0.24-0.77). The inverse association with regular tea drinking was observed for both colon and rectal cancers. This study suggests that regular consumption of green tea may reduce CRC risk in women...

..Most studies that have evaluated the association between the body-mass index (BMI) and the risks of death from any cause and from specific causes have been conducted in populations of European origin...

..We sought to determine the association of hip circumference with risk of type 2 diabetes in a relatively lean population...

..0, -1.9 mm Hg) for systolic BP and -2.2 mm Hg (95% CI: -3.8, -0.6 mm Hg) for diastolic BP. CONCLUSION: Usual intake of soy foods was inversely associated with both systolic and diastolic BPs, particularly among elderly women...

..Further investigations are needed to elucidate the sex-specific associations between red meat intake and mortality...

..The authors found that women nonsmokers who lived with husbands who smoked had an elevated prevalence of stroke, and prevalence increased with increasing intensity and duration of husbands' smoking...

..This study evaluated associations of various anthropometric measures of adiposity with a panel of inflammatory and oxidative stress markers in a relatively lean population of Chinese women...

..We evaluated the association between PAI-1 4G/5G polymorphism and breast cancer survival in a population-based cohort of breast cancer patients...

..14; 95% CI, 0.04-0.48 for the highest vs. the lowest quartile of intake; P for trend = 0.001). This study provides, for the first time, direct evidence that soy food consumption may reduce the risk of CHD in women...

..Data on impacts of long-term weight change on prehypertension are sparse...

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..9 (1.0-8.4) for the elderly. CONCLUSIONS: WHR was positively associated with the risk of CHD in both younger and older women, while other anthropometrics, including BMI, were related to CHD risk primarily among younger women...

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..The activation of PPARalpha by fenofibrate in mesangial cells may partially contribute to its renal protection. Thus, fenofibrate may serve as a therapeutic agent for type II diabetes and diabetic nephropathy...

..0 (95% CI 1.3-3.0) for women with BMI>or=25 kg/m2. CONCLUSIONS: Adult weight gain, particularly during the peri-menopausal period, plays a significant role in the development of endometrial cancer risk...

..Study results may contribute to the development of new strategies for the primary prevention of stroke. ..