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Alicja Wolk

Researcher at Karolinska Institutet

Publications -  829
Citations -  76043

Alicja Wolk is an academic researcher from Karolinska Institutet. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Prospective cohort study. The author has an hindex of 135, co-authored 778 publications receiving 66239 citations. Previous affiliations of Alicja Wolk include United States Department of Agriculture & Uppsala University Hospital.

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Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, +33 more
- 02 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: In white adults, overweight and obesity (and possibly underweight) are associated with increased all-cause mortality and the hazard ratios for the men were similar.
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Meta-Analysis for Linear and Nonlinear Dose-Response Relations: Examples, an Evaluation of Approximations, and Software

Nicola Orsini, +4 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: Methods for point and interval estimation of relative risk for log-linear exposure-response relations in meta-analyses of published ordinal categorical exposure- response data have been proposed and the use of 2 publicly available user-friendly programs (Stata and SAS) to implement meta-analysis for dose-response data is illustrated.
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Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

Kyriaki Michailidou, +396 more
- 02 Nov 2017 - 
TL;DR: A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in 122,977 cases and 105,974 controls of European ancestry and 14,068 cases and 13,104 controls of East Asian ancestry finds that heritability of Breast cancer due to all single-nucleotide polymorphisms in regulatory features was 2–5-fold enriched relative to the genome- wide average.
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Pooled Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies on Height, Weight, and Breast Cancer Risk

Piet A. van den Brandt, +17 more
- 15 Sep 2000 - 
TL;DR: The authors found little evidence for interaction with other breast cancer risk factors, and data indicate that height is an independent risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer; in premenopausal women, this relation is less clear.
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Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Susanna C. Larsson, +2 more
- 16 Nov 2005 - 
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of published data on the association between diabetes and the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer found that diabetes was associated with an increased risk of colors, compared with no diabetes, and these results were consistent between case-control and cohort studies and between studies conducted in the United States and in Europe.