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    • Migraine and Cognitive Decline Among Women: Prospective Cohort Study 

      Rist, Pamela Marie; Kang, Jae Hee Hee; Buring, Julie Elizabeth; Glymour, Maria Lee; Grodstein, Francine; Kurth, Tobias (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2012)
      Objective: To evaluate the association between migraine and cognitive decline among women. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Women’s Health Study, United States. Participants 6349 women aged 65 or older enrolled in ...

    • Migraine and risk of cardiovascular disease in women: prospective cohort study 

      Kurth, Tobias; Winter, Anke C.; Eliassen, A. Heather; Dushkes, Rimma; Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Manson, JoAnn E.; Rexrode, Kathryn M. (2016)
      OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between migraine and incident cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality in women.DESIGN Prospective cohort study among Nurses' Health Study II participants, with follow-up ...

    • Migraine and risk of haemorrhagic stroke in women: prospective cohort study 

      Kurth, Tobias; Kase, Carlos S; Schürks, Markus; Tzourio, Christophe; Buring, Julie Elizabeth (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2010)
      Objectives: To examine the association between migraine and migraine aura status with risk of haemorrhagic stroke. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Women’s Health Study, United States. Participants: 27 860 women ...

    • Migraine, Vascular Risk, and Cardiovascular Events in Women: Prospective Cohort Study 

      Schürks, Markus; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Kurth, Tobias; Gaziano, John Michael; Buring, Julie Elizabeth (BMJ Publishing Group, 2008)
      Objectives: To evaluate whether the association between migraine with aura and increased risk of cardiovascular disease is modified by vascular risk groups as measured by the Framingham risk score for coronary heart disease. ...

    • Migraine-Asthma Comorbidity and Risk of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy 

      Czerwinski, Stefanie; Gollero, Jolana; Qiu, Chunfang; Sorensen, Tanya K.; Williams, Michelle A. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
      Background: To evaluate the association of migraine and asthma and to estimate the risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in relation to maternal comorbid migraine and asthma. Methods: Reproductive age women (N = ...

    • Milestones and Impact Factors 

      Ozonoff, David M.; Grandjean, Philippe (BioMed Central, 2010)
      Environmental Health has just received its first Impact Factor by Thomson ISI. At a level of 2.48, this achievement is quite satisfactory and places Environmental Health in the top 25% of environmental science journals. ...

    • Military Service and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in a Population-based Cohort 

      Weisskopf, Marc G.; Cudkowicz, Merit E.; Johnson, Norman (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)
      Background: Military service has been suggested to be associated with an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but only one prospective study—of a volunteer cohort—has examined this question. Methods: We ...

    • Milk and dairy consumption among men with prostate cancer and risk of metastases and prostate cancer death 

      Pettersson, Andreas; Kasperzyk, Julie L.; Kenfield, Stacey A.; Richman, Erin L.; Chan, June M.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Stampfer, Meir; Mucci, Lorelei A.; Giovannucci, Edward L. (American Association for Cancer Research, 2012)
      Background: Whether milk and dairy intake after a prostate cancer diagnosis is associated with a poorer prognosis is unknown. We investigated postdiagnostic milk and dairy intake in relation to risk of lethal prostate ...

    • Milk consumption and acne in teenaged boys 

      Adebamowo, Clement; Spiegelman, Donna; Berkey, Catherine; Danby, F. William; Rockett, Helaine; Colditz, Graham; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Holmes, Michelle (Elsevier, 2008)
      Objective. We sought to examine the association between dietary dairy intake and teenaged acne among boys.Methods: This was a prospective cohort study. We Studied 4273 boys, members of a prospective cohort study of youths ...

    • Milk Consumption and the Prepubertal Somatotropic Axis 

      Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Ganmaa, Davaasambuu; Pollak, Michael N; Nakamoto, Erika K; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Tserendolgor, Uush; Willett, Walter C.; Frazier, A. Lindsay (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: Nutrients, hormones and growth factors in dairy foods may stimulate growth hormone (GH), insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), and raise the ratio of IGF-I to its binding protein, IGFBP-3. We conducted pilot ...

    • Milk Intake, Circulating Levels of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I, and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Men 

      Ma, J.; Giovannucci, E.; Pollak, M.; Chan, J. M.; Gaziano, J. M.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Stampfer, Meir (Oxford University Press, 2001)
      Background: Milk and dietary calcium may have antiproliferative effects against colorectal cancer, but milk intake also raises serum levels of insulinlike growth factor-I (IGF-I). A high ratio of IGF-I to IGF-binding ...

    • Mineralogy affects geoavailability, bioaccessibility and bioavailability of zinc 

      Molina, Ramon M.; Schaider, Laurel A.; Donaghey, Thomas Clark; Shine, James P.; Brain, Joseph David (Elsevier BV, 2013)
      We correlated mineralogical and particle characteristics of Zn-containing particles with Zn geoavailability, bioaccessibility, and bioavailability following gavage and intranasal (IN) administration in rats. We compared ...

    • Minimal Phenotyping Yields Genome-Wide Association Signals of Low Specificity for Major Depression 

      Cai, Na; Revez, Joana A.; Adams, Mark J.; Andlauer, Till F. M.; Breen, Gerome; Byrne, Enda M.; Clarke, Toni-Kim; Forstner, Andreas J.; Grabe, Hans J.; Hamilton, Steven P.; Levinson, Douglas F.; Lewis, Cathryn M.; Lewis, Glyn; Martin, Nicholas G.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Mors, Ole; Muller-Myhsok, Bertram; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Perlis, Roy H.; Pistis, Giorgio; Potash, James B.; Preisig, Martin; Shi, Jianxin; Smoller, Jordan W.; Streit, Fabien; Tiemeier, Henning; Uher, Rudolf; Van der Auwera, Sandra; Viktorin, Alexander; Weissman, Myrna M.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Flint, Jonathan (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-03-30)
      Minimal phenotyping refers to the reliance on the use of a small number of self-report items for disease case identification, increasingly used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we report differences in genetic ...

    • Minimal sufficient causation and directed acyclic graphs 

      VanderWeele, Tyler J.; Robins, James M. (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2009)
      Notions of minimal sufficient causation are incorporated within the directed acyclic graph causal framework. Doing so allows for the graphical representation of sufficient causes and minimal sufficient causes on causal ...

    • Minimally Symptomatic Infection in an Ebola ‘Hotspot’: A Cross-Sectional Serosurvey 

      Richardson, Eugene T.; Kelly, J. Daniel; Barrie, Mohamed Bailor; Mesman, Annelies W.; Karku, Sahr; Quiwa, Komba; Marsh, Regan H.; Koedoyoma, Songor; Daboh, Fodei; Barron, Kathryn P.; Grady, Michael; Tucker, Elizabeth; Dierberg, Kerry L.; Rutherford, George W.; Barry, Michele; Jones, James Holland; Murray, Megan B.; Farmer, Paul E. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Introduction: Evidence for minimally symptomatic Ebola virus (EBOV) infection is limited. During the 2013–16 outbreak in West Africa, it was not considered epidemiologically relevant to published models or projections of ...

    • Misalignment between perceptions and actual global burden of disease: evidence from the US population 

      Siegel, Karen R.; Feigl, Andrea; Kishore, Sandeep P.; Stuckler, David (CoAction Publishing, 2011)
      Significant funding of health programs in low-income countries comes from external sources, mainly private donors and national development agencies of high-income countries. How these external funds are allocated remains ...

    • A Mismatch Between Patient Education Materials About Sickle Cell Disease and the Literacy Level of Their Intended Audience 

      McClure, Elizabeth; Ng, Jared; Vitzthum, Kelly; Rudd, Rima E. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2016)
      Introduction Despite the first goal of the 2010 National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy, the literacy demands of much health information exceeds the reading skills of most US adults. The objective of this study ...

    • Misperceived Pre-pregnancy Body Weight Status Predicts Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: Findings from a US Cohort Study 

      Herring, Sharon J; Oken, Emily; Haines, Jess; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Gillman, Matthew William (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Excessive gestational weight gain promotes poor maternal and child health outcomes. Weight misperception is associated with weight gain in non-pregnant women, but no data exist during pregnancy. The purpose of ...

    • Missed opportunities to deliver intermittent preventive treatment for malaria to pregnant women 2003–2013: a systematic analysis of 58 household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa 

      Andrews, Kathryn G.; Lynch, Michael; Eckert, Erin; Gutman, Julie (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Despite the availability of effective preventive measures, including intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy (IPTp), malaria continues to cause substantial disease burden among pregnant ...

    • Missed opportunities: family history and behavioral risk factors in breast cancer risk assessment among a multiethnic group of women 

      Karliner, Leah S.; Napoles-Springer, Anna; Kerlikowske, Karla; Haas, Jennifer S.; Gregorich, Steven E.; Kaplan, Celia Patricia (Springer-Verlag, 2007)
      Background: Clinician’s knowledge of a woman’s cancer family history (CFH) and counseling about health-related behaviors (HRB) is necessary for appropriate breast cancer care. Objective: To evaluate whether clinicians ...