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Food and Nutrition

Our researchers explore the good news and the bad news about what we eat, how much we eat, the supplements we take, and how what we consume affects both health and disease.

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Caffeine, Coffee, Tea and Mortality

This study explores, in a large population, the relations of coffee drinking, tea drinking and caffeine intake to total mortality and to mortality from a variety of specific causes. 
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program
Principal Investigator: Klatsky, Arthur

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Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Nutritional and Physical Activity Assessment Study (NPAAS)

The project has two interconnected aims: The first is calibration of instruments used in WHI, while the second is evaluation and comparison of prominent dietary and physical activity assessment instruments (and their combination). The project is being done as an ancillary study to WHI in nine of the 40 existing WHI clinical centers.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Caan, Bette

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Coffee, caffeine, and risk of hospitalization for arrhythmias

Klatsky, A. L.; Hasan, A. S.; Armstrong, M. A.; Udaltsova, N.; Morton, C.;
  15 (3): 19-25
Summer 2011
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Diet and Colorectal Cancer: Analysis of a Candidate Pathway Using SNPS, Haplotypes, and Multi-Gene Assessment

Slattery, M. L.; Lundgreen, A.; Herrick, J. S.; Caan, B. J.; Potter, J. D.; Wolff, R. K.;
 
Oct 14 2011
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Antioxidant supplement use after breast cancer diagnosis and mortality in the Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) cohort

Greenlee, H.; Kwan, M. L.; Kushi, L. H.; Song, J.; Castillo, A.; Weltzien, E.; Quesenberry, C. P., Jr.; Caan, B. J.;
Cancer  
Sep 27 2011
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Antioxidant supplement use after breast cancer diagnosis and mortality in the Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) cohort

Greenlee, H.; Kwan, M. L.; Kushi, L. H.; Song, J.; Castillo, A.; Weltzien, E.; Quesenberry, C. P., Jr.; Caan, B. J.;
Cancer 
Sep 27 2011
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The effect of calcium plus vitamin D on risk for invasive cancer: results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) calcium plus vitamin D randomized clinical trial

Brunner, R. L.; Wactawski-Wende, J.; Caan, B. J.; Cochrane, B. B.; Chlebowski, R. T.; Gass, M. L.; Jacobs, E. T.; LaCroix, A. Z.; Lane, D.; Larson, J.; Margolis, K. L.; Millen, A. E.; Sarto, G. E.; Vitolins, M. Z.; Wallace, R. B.;
  63 (6): 827-41
 2011
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Evaluation and comparison of food records, recalls, and frequencies for energy and protein assessment by using recovery biomarkers

Prentice, R. L.; Mossavar-Rahmani, Y.; Huang, Y.; Van Horn, L.; Beresford, S. A.; Caan, B.; Tinker, L.; Schoeller, D.; Bingham, S.; Eaton, C. B.; Thomson, C.; Johnson, K. C.; Ockene, J.; Sarto, G.; Heiss, G.; Neuhouser, M. L.;
  174 (5): 591-603
Sep 1 2011
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The influence of neighborhood food stores on change in young girls' body mass index

Leung, C. W.; Laraia, B. A.; Kelly, M.; Nickleach, D.; Adler, N. E.; Kushi, L. H.; Yen, I. H.;
Am J Prev Med  41 (1): 43-51
Jul 2011
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Following cancer prevention guidelines reduces risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality

McCullough, M. L.; Patel, A. V.; Kushi, L. H.; Patel, R.; Willett, W. C.; Doyle, C.; Thun, M. J.; Gapstur, S.;
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev  
Apr 5 2011
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Nutrients in Folate-Mediated, One-Carbon Metabolism and the Risk of Rectal Tumors in Men and Women

Curtin, K.; Samowitz, W. S.; Ulrich, C. M.; Wolff, R. K.; Herrick, J. S.; Caan, B. J.; Slattery, M. L.;
Nutr Cancer   1
Mar 31 2011
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Soy food consumption and breast cancer prognosis

Caan, B. J.; Natarajan, L.; Parker, B.; Gold, E. B.; Thomson, C.; Newman, V.; Rock, C. L.; Pu, M.; Al-Delaimy, W.; Pierce, J. P.;
  20 (5): 854-8
May 2011
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Coffee, ADORA2A, and CYP1A2: the caffeine connection in Parkinson's disease

Popat, R. A.; Van Den Eeden, S. K.; Tanner, C. M.; Kamel, F.; Umbach, D. M.; Marder, K.; Mayeux, R.; Ritz, B.; Ross, G. W.; Petrovitch, H.; Topol, B.; McGuire, V.; Costello, S.; Manthripragada, A. D.; Southwick, A.; Myers, R. M.; Nelson, L. M.;
Eur J Neurol  
Jan 31 2011
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Association of Vitamin D Insufficiency with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in HIV-Infected Persons

Choi, A. I.; Lo, J. C.; Mulligan, K.; Schnell, A.; Kalapus, S. C.; Li, Y.; Hunt, P. W.; Martin, J. N.; Deeks, S. G.; Hsue, P. Y.;
Clin Infect Dis  
Jan 27 2011
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Association of tea consumption and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Asgari, M. M.; White, E.; Warton, E. M.; Hararah, M. K.; Friedman, G. D.; Chren, M. M.;
Nutr Cancer  63 (2): 314-8
 2011
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Fish oil, selenium, and mercury in relation to incidence of hypertension: a 20-year follow-up study

Xun, P.; Hou, N.; Daviglus, M.; Liu, K.; Steven Morris, J.; Shikany, J. M.; Sidney, S.; Jacobs, D. R., Jr.; He, K.;
J Intern Med  
Dec 10 2010
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Marine Fatty Acid Intake Is Associated with Breast Cancer Prognosis

Patterson, R. E.; Flatt, S. W.; Newman, V. A.; Natarajan, L.; Rock, C. L.; Thomson, C. A.; Caan, B. J.; Parker, B. A.; Pierce, J. P.;
J Nutr  
Dec 22 2010
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