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Diet: Vegetables, Fruits, Associated Micronutrients, and Risk of Prostate Cancer
(Oxford University Press, 2001)
Genetic requirements for mycobacterial survival during infection
(National Academy of Sciences, 2003)
Despite the importance of tuberculosis as a public health problem, we know relatively little about the molecular mechanisms used by the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, to persist in the host. To define these ...
Bacterial Growth and Cell Division: a Mycobacterial Perspective
(American Society for Microbiology, 2008)
The genus Mycobacterium is best known for its two major pathogenic species, M. tuberculosis and M. leprae, the causative agents of two of the world's oldest diseases, tuberculosis and leprosy, respectively. M. tuberculosis ...
Inference for the Proportional Hazards Model with Misclassified Discrete-Valued Covariates
(Wiley, 2004)
We consider the Cox proportional hazards model with discrete-valued covariates subject to misclassification. We present a simple estimator of the regression parameter vector for this model. The estimator is based on a ...
Fish consumption and risk of major chronic disease in men
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Background: Although fish consumption may reduce specific disease endpoints, such as sudden cardiac death and prostate cancer, the effects of major chronic disease on total burden, reflecting sums of effects on a variety ...
Glycemic index, glycemic load, and dietary fiber intake and incidence of type 2 diabetes in younger and middle-age women
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
Background: Increasing evidence suggests an important role of carbohydrate quality in the development of type 2 diabetes. Objective: Our objective was to prospectively examine the association between glycemic index, glycemic ...
Social ties and mental health
(Springer Verlag, 2001)
It is generally agreed that social ties play a beneficial role in the maintenance of psychological well-being. In this targeted review, we highlight four sets of insights that emerge from the literature on social ties and ...
Reproductive Factors, Hormonal Contraception, and Risk of Uterine Leiomyomata in African-American Women: A Prospective Study
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
The authors assessed the risk of uterine leiomyomata in relation to reproductive factors and hormonal contraception in a prospective cohort study of US Black women. From March 1997 through March 2001, the authors followed ...