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Alcohol Intake Between Menarche and First Pregnancy: A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Risk
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Background: Adult alcohol consumption during the previous year is related to breast cancer risk. Breast tissue is particularly susceptible to carcinogens between menarche and first full-term pregnancy. No study has ...
Parental smoking during pregnancy and risk of overweight and obesity in the daughter
(2013)
Objective: Emerging evidence suggests that prenatal exposures may affect long-term health outcomes. In utero exposure to smoking is associated with an increased risk of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. ...
Muscle-Strengthening and Conditioning Activities and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study in Two Cohorts of US Women
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background: It is well established that aerobic physical activity can lower the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but whether muscle-strengthening activities are beneficial for the prevention of T2D is unclear. This study ...
Food Predictors of Plasma Carotenoids
(MDPI, 2013)
Empirical prediction models that weight food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) food items by their relation to nutrient biomarker concentrations may estimate nutrient exposure better than nutrient intakes derived from food ...
Walnut Consumption Is Associated with Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women12
(American Society for Nutrition, 2013)
Walnuts are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and have been shown to improve various cardiometabolic risk factors. We aimed to investigate the association between walnut intake and incident type 2 diabetes in 2 large ...
A Genome-Wide “Pleiotropy Scan” Does Not Identify New Susceptibility Loci for Estrogen Receptor Negative Breast Cancer
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Approximately 15–30% of all breast cancer tumors are estrogen receptor negative (ER−). Compared with ER-positive (ER+) disease they have an earlier age at onset and worse prognosis. Despite the vast number of risk variants ...
Dietary and Plasma Magnesium and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)
Background: Magnesium is associated with lower risk of sudden cardiac death, possibly through antiarrhythmic mechanisms. Magnesium influences endothelial function, inflammation, blood pressure, and diabetes, but a direct ...
Prepregnancy Consumption of Fruits and Fruit Juices and the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
(American Diabetes Association, 2012)
OBJECTIVE Examine the association of prepregnancy habitual consumption of fruits and fruit juices and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) risk. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A prospective study among women with at least one ...
Magnesium intake, plasma C-peptide, and colorectal cancer incidence in US women: a 28-year follow-up study
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
Background: Laboratory studies suggest a possible role of magnesium intake in colorectal carcinogenesis but epidemiological evidence is inconclusive. Method: We tested magnesium–colorectal cancer hypothesis in the Nurses' ...
Changes in water and beverage intake and long-term weight changes: results from three prospective cohort studies
(2013)
Objective: To examine the long-term relationship between changes in water and beverage intake and weight change. Subjects Prospective cohort studies of 50 013 women aged 40-64 in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS, 1986-2006), ...