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    • Physical activity and risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective study from the Nurses’ Health Study cohorts 

      Khalili, Hamed; Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N; Konijeti, Gauree G; Liao, Xiaomei; Higuchi, Leslie M; Fuchs, Charles S; Spiegelman, Donna; Richter, James M; Korzenik, Joshua R; Chan, Andrew T (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2013)
      Objective: To examine the association between physical activity and risk of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study II. Participants: ...

    • Physical Activity and Survival after Diagnosis of Invasive Breast Cancer 

      Holick, C. N.; Newcomb, P. A.; Trentham-Dietz, A.; Titus-Ernstoff, L.; Bersch, A. J.; Stampfer, Meir; Baron, J. A.; Egan, K. M.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600 (American Association for Cancer Research, 2008)
      Previous studies suggest that increased physical activity may lower the risk of breast cancer incidence, but less is known about whether levels of physical activity after breast cancer diagnosis can influence survival. We ...

    • Physical Activity and Survival After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study 

      Kenfield, Stacey A.; Stampfer, Meir; Giovannucci, Edward; Chan, June M. (American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2011)
      Purpose: To determine whether higher physical activity after prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis decreases risk of overall and PCa-specific death. Patients and Methods: We evaluated physical activity in relation to overall and ...

    • Physical Activity and Television Watching in Relation to Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Men 

      Hu, Frank B.; Leitzmann, Michael F.; Stampfer, Meir; Colditz, Graham A.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600 (American Medical Association, 2001)
      Background: Television (TV) watching, a major sedentary behavior in the United States, has been associated with obesity. We hypothesized that prolonged TV watching may increase risk for type 2 diabetes. Methods: In 1986, ...

    • Physical Activity and Weight Gain Prevention in Older Men 

      Shiroma, Eric Jitsuo; Sesso, Howard David; Lee, I-Min (2011)
      Background: Physical activity and adiposity are important predictors of mortality, even in older individuals. However, it is unclear how much physical activity is needed to prevent weight gain in older persons. Purpose To ...

    • Physical Activity Attenuates the Influence of FTO Variants on Obesity Risk: A Meta-Analysis of 218,166 Adults and 19,268 Children 

      Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O.; Qi, Lu; Brage, Soren; Sharp, Stephen J.; Sonestedt, Emily; Demerath, Ellen; Ahmad, Tariq; Mora, Samia; Kaakinen, Marika; Sandholt, Camilla Helene; Holzapfel, Christina; Autenrieth, Christine S.; Hyppönen, Elina; Cauchi, Stéphane; He, Meian; Kutalik, Zoltan; Kumari, Meena; Stančáková, Alena; Meidtner, Karina; Balkau, Beverley; Tan, Jonathan T.; Mangino, Massimo; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Song, Yiqing; Zillikens, M. Carola; Jablonski, Kathleen A.; Garcia, Melissa E.; Johansson, Stefan; Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L.; Wu, Ying; van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V.; Onland-Moret, N. Charlotte; Zimmermann, Esther; Rivera, Natalia V.; Tanaka, Toshiko; Stringham, Heather M.; Silbernagel, Günther; Kanoni, Stavroula; Feitosa, Mary F.; Snitker, Soren; Ruiz, Jonatan R.; Metter, Jeffery; Larrad, Maria Teresa Martinez; Atalay, Mustafa; Hakanen, Maarit; Amin, Najaf; Cavalcanti-Proença, Christine; Grøntved, Anders; Hallmans, Göran; Jansson, John-Olov; Kuusisto, Johanna; Kähönen, Mika; Lutsey, Pamela L.; Nolan, John J.; Palla, Luigi; Pedersen, Oluf; Pérusse, Louis; Renström, Frida; Scott, Robert A.; Shungin, Dmitry; Sovio, Ulla; Tammelin, Tuija H.; Rönnemaa, Tapani; Lakka, Timo A.; Uusitupa, Matti; Rios, Manuel Serrano; Ferrucci, Luigi; Bouchard, Claude; Meirhaeghe, Aline; Fu, Mao; Walker, Mark; Borecki, Ingrid B.; Dedoussis, George V.; Fritsche, Andreas; Ohlsson, Claes; Boehnke, Michael; Bandinelli, Stefania; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Ebrahim, Shah; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Harris, Tamara B.; Sørensen, Thorkild I. A.; Mohlke, Karen L.; Hofman, Albert; Uitterlinden, André G.; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; Lehtimäki, Terho; Raitakari, Olli; Isomaa, Bo; Njølstad, Pål R.; Florez, Jose C.; Liu, Simin; Ness, Andy; Spector, Timothy D.; Tai, E. Shyong; Froguel, Philippe; Boeing, Heiner; Laakso, Markku; Marmot, Michael (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Background: The FTO gene harbors the strongest known susceptibility locus for obesity. While many individual studies have suggested that physical activity (PA) may attenuate the effect of FTO on obesity risk, other studies ...

    • Physical Activity Before and During Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis 

      Tobias, Deirdre Kay; Zhang, Cuilin; van Dam, Rob M.; Bowers, Katherine; Hu, Frank B. (American Diabetes Association, 2011)
      OBJECTIVE: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common complications of pregnancy and is associated with a substantially elevated risk of adverse health outcomes for both mothers and offspring. Physical ...

    • Physical Activity from Early Adulthood and Risk of Prostate Cancer: A 24-Year Follow-Up Study among Icelandic Men 

      Hrafnkelsdottir, S. M.; Torfadottir, J. E.; Aspelund, T.; Magnusson, K. T.; Tryggvadottir, L.; Gudnason, V.; Mucci, L. A.; Stampfer, M.; Valdimarsdottir, U. A. (American Association for Cancer Research, 2015)
      Physical activity in adult life may reduce prostate cancer risk. Data are scarce on the role of activity during early adulthood, as well as combined recreational and occupational physical activity on prostate cancer risk ...

    • Physical activity, BMI and cancer prevention in urban adults 

      Akarolo-Anthony, Sally Nneoma Sarah; Adebamowo, Clement Adebayo (BioMed Central, 2012)

    • Physical Activity, Genes for Physical Fitness, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease 

      Chomistek, Andrea K.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Cook, Nancy R.; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600; Lee, I-Min (2013)
      Purpose: Both physical activity and physical fitness are associated with decreased coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Our objective was to determine whether genes associated with physical fitness modify the association ...

    • Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Health Related Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer Survivors in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study 

      Phillips, Siobhan; Stampfer, Meir; Chan, June; Giovannucci, Edward; Kenfield, Stacey (Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2015)
      Many prostate cancer survivors experience compromised health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as a result of prostate cancer. We examined relationships between types and intensities of activity and sedentary behavior and ...

    • Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Leukocyte Telomere Length in Women 

      Du, Mengmeng; Prescott, Jennifer; Kraft, Peter; Han, Jiali; Giovannucci, Edward; Hankinson, Susan; De Vivo, Immaculata (Oxford University Press, 2012)
      Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a potential indicator of cellular aging; however, its relation to physical activity and sedentary behavior is unclear. The authors examined cross-sectionally associations among activity, ...

    • Physical activity, smoking, and genetic predisposition to obesity in people from Pakistan: the PROMIS study 

      Ahmad, Shafqat; Zhao, Wei; Renström, Frida; Rasheed, Asif; Samuel, Maria; Zaidi, Mozzam; Shah, Nabi; Mallick, Nadeem Hayyat; Zaman, Khan Shah; Ishaq, Mohammad; Rasheed, Syed Zahed; Memon, Fazal-ur-Rheman; Hanif, Bashir; Lakhani, Muhammad Shakir; Ahmed, Faisal; Kazmi, Shahana Urooj; Frossard, Philippe; Franks, Paul W.; Saleheen, Danish (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Multiple genetic variants have been reliably associated with obesity-related traits in Europeans, but little is known about their associations and interactions with lifestyle factors in South Asians. Methods: ...

    • Physical and sexual abuse in childhood as predictors of early onset cardiovascular events in women 

      Rich-Edwards, J. W.; Mason, S.; Rexrode, K.; Spiegelman, D.; Hibert, E.; Kawachi, I.; Jun, H. J.; Wright, R. J. (, 2012)
      Background-Although child abuse is widespread and has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, its association with CVD events is not established.Methods and Results-We examined associations of child ...

    • Physical Inactivity and Idiopathic Pulmonary Embolism in Women: Prospective Study 

      Kabrhel, Chrisopher; Varraso, Raphaëlle; Goldhaber, Samuel Zachary; Rimm, Eric B.; Camargo, Carlos Arturo (BMJ Publishing Group, 2011)
      Objectives: To determine the association between physical inactivity (that is, a sedentary lifestyle) and incident idiopathic pulmonary embolism. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ Health Study. Participants: ...

    • A physical sciences network characterization of non-tumorigenic and metastatic cells 

      Agus, David B.; Alexander, Jenolyn F.; Arap, Wadih; Ashili, Shashanka; Aslan, Joseph E.; Austin, Robert H.; Backman, Vadim; Bethel, Kelly J.; Bonneau, Richard; Chen, Wei-Chiang; Chen-Tanyolac, Chira; Choi, Nathan C.; Curley, Steven A.; Dallas, Matthew; Damania, Dhwanil; Davies, Paul C. W.; Decuzzi, Paolo; Dickinson, Laura; Estevez-Salmeron, Luis; Estrella, Veronica; Ferrari, Mauro; Fischbach, Claudia; Foo, Jasmine; Fraley, Stephanie I.; Frantz, Christian; Fuhrmann, Alexander; Gascard, Philippe; Gatenby, Robert A.; Geng, Yue; Gerecht, Sharon; Gillies, Robert J.; Godin, Biana; Grady, William M.; Greenfield, Alex; Hemphill, Courtney; Hempstead, Barbara L.; Hielscher, Abigail; Hillis, W. Daniel; Holland, Eric C.; Ibrahim-Hashim, Arig; Jacks, Tyler; Johnson, Roger H.; Joo, Ahyoung; Katz, Jonathan E.; Kelbauskas, Laimonas; Kesselman, Carl; King, Michael R.; Konstantopoulos, Konstantinos; Kraning-Rush, Casey M.; Kuhn, Peter; Kung, Kevin; Kwee, Brian; Lakins, Johnathon N.; Lambert, Guillaume; Liao, David; Licht, Jonathan D.; Liphardt, Jan T.; Liu, Liyu; Lloyd, Mark C.; Lyubimova, Anna; Mallick, Parag; Marko, John; McCarty, Owen J. T.; Meldrum, Deirdre R.; Michor, Franziska L.; Mumenthaler, Shannon M.; Nandakumar, Vivek; O’Halloran, Thomas V.; Oh, Steve; Pasqualini, Renata; Paszek, Matthew J.; Philips, Kevin G.; Poultney, Christopher S.; Rana, Kuldeepsinh; Reinhart-King, Cynthia A.; Ros, Robert; Semenza, Gregg L.; Senechal, Patti; Shuler, Michael L.; Srinivasan, Srimeenakshi; Staunton, Jack R.; Stypula, Yolanda; Subramanian, Hariharan; Tlsty, Thea D.; Tormoen, Garth W.; Tseng, Yiider; van Oudenaarden, Alexander; Verbridge, Scott S.; Wan, Jenny C.; Weaver, Valerie M.; Widom, Jonathan; Will, Christine; Wirtz, Denis; Wojtkowiak, Jonathan; Wu, Pei-Hsun (Nature Publishing Group, 2013)
      To investigate the transition from non-cancerous to metastatic from a physical sciences perspective, the Physical Sciences–Oncology Centers (PS-OC) Network performed molecular and biophysical comparative studies of the ...

    • Physical stature decline and the health status of the elderly population in England 

      Fernihough, Alan; McGovern, Mark (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      Few research papers in economics have examined the extent, causes or consequences of physical stature decline in aging populations. Using repeated observations on objectively measured data from the English Longitudinal ...

    • Physician communication styles in initial consultations for hematological cancer 

      Chhabra, Karan R.; Pollak, Kathryn I.; Lee, Stephanie J.; Back, Anthony L.; Goldman, Roberta E.; Tulsky, James Aaron (Elsevier BV, 2013)
      Objective To characterize practices in subspecialist physicians’ communication styles, and their potential effects on shared decision-making, in second-opinion consultations. Methods Theme-oriented discourse ...

    • A pilot randomized controlled trial to promote healthful fish consumption during pregnancy: The Food for Thought Study 

      Oken, Emily; Guthrie, Lauren B; Bloomingdale, Arienne; Platek, Deborah Nehama; Price, Sarah; Haines, Jess; Gillman, Matthew William; Olsen, Sjurdur F.; Bellinger, David C.; Wright, Robert O. (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Nutritionists advise pregnant women to eat fish to obtain adequate docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an essential nutrient important for optimal brain development. However, concern exists that this advice will lead ...

    • Pilot study assessing 18F-fluorothymidine PET/CT in cervical and vaginal cancers before and after external beam radiation☆ 

      Cho, Linda P.; Kim, Chun K.; Viswanathan, Akila N. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Objective: The role of F-18-fluorothymidine (FLT) PET-CT imaging in the evaluation of gynecologic cancers has not been established. We sought to evaluate (FLT) PET-CT imaging in gynecologic cancers by comparing standard ...