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Association between Smoking and Health Outcomes in Postmenopausal Women Living with Multiple Sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis international

Jawahar R, Oh U, Eaton C, Wright N, Tindle H, Lapane KL.
PMID: 24860668
Mult Scler Int. 2014;2014:686045. doi: 10.1155/2014/686045. Epub 2014 Apr 22.

Background. In multiple sclerosis (MS), symptom management and improved health-related quality of life (HrQOL) may be modified by smoking. Objective. To evaluate the extent to which smoking is associated with worsened health outcomes and HrQOL for postmenopausal women with...

Generalization of adiposity genetic loci to US Hispanic women.

Nutrition & diabetes

Graff M, FernƔndez-Rhodes L, Liu S, Carlson C, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Neuhouser M, Reiner A, Kooperberg C, Rampersaud E, Manson JE, Kuller LH, Howard BV, Ochs-Balcom HM, Johnson KC, Vitolins MZ, Sucheston L, Monda K, North KE.
PMID: 23978819
Nutr Diabetes. 2013 Aug 26;3:e85. doi: 10.1038/nutd.2013.26.

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a public health concern. Yet the identification of adiposity-related genetic variants among United States (US) Hispanics, which is the largest US minority group, remains largely unknown.OBJECTIVE: To interrogate an a priori list of 47 (32 overall...

Risk factors for prolapse development in white, black, and Hispanic women.

Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery

Kudish BI, Iglesia CB, Gutman RE, Sokol AI, Rodgers AK, Gass M, O'Sullivan MJ, Larson J, Abu-Sitta M, Howard BV.
PMID: 22453694
Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2011 Mar;17(2):80-90. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0b013e31820e5d06.

OBJECTIVES: : This study aimed to examine the risk factors for prevalence and incidence of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in whites, Hispanics, and blacks.METHODS: : This is a secondary analysis of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Estrogen plus Progestin...

Statistical Aspects of the Use of Biomarkers in Nutritional Epidemiology Research.

Statistics in biosciences

Prentice RL, Huang Y, Tinker LF, Beresford SA, Lampe JW, Neuhouser ML.
PMID: 19841649
Stat Biosci. 2009 May 01;1(1):112-123. doi: 10.1007/s12561-009-9003-4.

Few strong and consistent associations have arisen from observational studies of dietary consumption in relation to chronic disease risk. Measurement error in self-reported dietary assessment may be obscuring many such associations. Attempts to correct for measurement error have mostly...

Association between physical health and cardiovascular diseases: Effect modification by chronic conditions.

SAGE open medicine

Saquib N, Brunner R, Desai M, Allison M, Garcia L, Stefanick ML.
PMID: 30013784
SAGE Open Med. 2018 Jul 11;6:2050312118785335. doi: 10.1177/2050312118785335. eCollection 2018.

OBJECTIVES: This study assessed whether the physical component summary score of the RAND-36 health-related quality-of-life survey was associated with incidence of coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, angina, or peripheral arterial disease, and whether baseline chronic conditions modified...

Generalization and fine mapping of red blood cell trait genetic associations to multi-ethnic populations: The PAGE Study.

American journal of hematology

Jo Hodonsky C, Schurmann C, Schick UM, Kocarnik J, Tao R, van Rooij FJ, Wassel C, Buyske S, Fornage M, Hindorff LA, Floyd JS, Ganesh SK, Lin DY, North KE, Reiner AP, Loos RJ, Kooperberg C, Avery CL.
PMID: 29905378
Am J Hematol. 2018 Jun 15; doi: 10.1002/ajh.25161. Epub 2018 Jun 15.

Red blood cell (RBC) traits provide insight into a wide range of physiological states and exhibit moderate to high heritability, making them excellent candidates for genetic studies to inform underlying biologic mechanisms. Previous RBC trait genome-wide association studies were...

Breast Cancer Prevention: Time for Change.

JCO oncology practice

Chlebowski RT, Aragaki AK, Pan K.
PMID: 34319769
JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Dec;17(12):709-716. doi: 10.1200/OP.21.00343. Epub 2021 Jul 28.

Agency breast cancer prevention guidelines for other than hereditary cancers have not materially changed in 20 years; endocrine-targeted agents (then, tamoxifen; now, adding raloxifene and aromatase inhibitors) reduce good prognosis estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, progesterone receptor (PR)-positive cancers without reducing...

Reticular Pseudodrusen Characteristics and Associations in the Carotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (CAREDS2), an Ancillary Study of the Women's Health Initiative.

Ophthalmology. Retina

Cleland SC, Domalpally A, Liu Z, Pak JW, Blodi BA, Bailey S, Gehrs K, Wallace R, Tinker L, Mares JA.
PMID: 33387684
Ophthalmol Retina. 2021 Aug;5(8):721-729. doi: 10.1016/j.oret.2020.12.019. Epub 2020 Dec 30.

PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence and morphologic features of reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) and their association with participant demographics and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) status in the Carotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (CAREDS2) sample, an ancillary study of...

Breast Cancer Prevention: Time for Change.

JCO oncology practice

Chlebowski RT, Aragaki AK, Pan K.
PMID: 34319769
JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Dec;17(12):709-716. doi: 10.1200/OP.21.00343. Epub 2021 Jul 28.

Agency breast cancer prevention guidelines for other than hereditary cancers have not materially changed in 20 years; endocrine-targeted agents (then, tamoxifen; now, adding raloxifene and aromatase inhibitors) reduce good prognosis estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, progesterone receptor (PR)-positive cancers without reducing...

Sedentary Behavior and Physical Function Decline in Older Women: Findings from the Women's Health Initiative.

Journal of aging research

Seguin R, Lamonte M, Tinker L, Liu J, Woods N, Michael YL, Bushnell C, Lacroix AZ.
PMID: 22675631
J Aging Res. 2012;2012:271589. doi: 10.1155/2012/271589. Epub 2012 May 21.

Sedentary behavior is associated with deleterious health outcomes. This study evaluated the association between sedentary time and physical function among postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. Data for this prospective cohort study were collected between 1993-1998...

Pleiotropic genomic variants at 17q21.31 associated with bone mineral density and body fat mass: a bivariate genome-wide association analysis.

European journal of human genetics : EJHG

Wei XT, Feng GJ, Zhang H, Xu Q, Ni JJ, Zhao M, Yang XL, Tian Q, Shen H, Hai R, Deng HW, Zhang L, Pei YF.
PMID: 32963334
Eur J Hum Genet. 2021 Apr;29(4):553-563. doi: 10.1038/s41431-020-00727-3. Epub 2020 Sep 22.

Osteoporosis and obesity are two severe complex diseases threatening public health worldwide. Both diseases are under strong genetic determinants as well as genetically correlated. Aiming to identify pleiotropic genes underlying obesity and osteoporosis, we performed a bivariate genome-wide association...

Low-fat dietary pattern and breast cancer mortality by metabolic syndrome components: a secondary analysis of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomised trial.

British journal of cancer

Pan K, Aragaki AK, Neuhouser ML, Simon MS, Luo J, Caan B, Snetselaar L, Mortimer JE, Manson JE, Kroenke C, Lane D, Reding K, Rohan TE, Chlebowski RT.
PMID: 34006923
Br J Cancer. 2021 Aug;125(3):372-379. doi: 10.1038/s41416-021-01379-w. Epub 2021 May 18.

BACKGROUND: In the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) dietary modification (DM) randomised trial, the low-fat dietary intervention reduced deaths from breast cancer (Pā€‰=ā€‰0.02). Extending these findings, secondary analysis examined dietary intervention influence on breast cancer mortality by metabolic...

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