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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,Patricia Hartge,James R. Cerhan,Alan J. Flint,Lindsay M. Hannan,Robert J. MacInnis,Robert J. MacInnis,Steven C. Moore,Geoffrey S. Tobias,Hoda Anton-Culver,Laura E. Beane Freeman,W. Lawrence Beeson,Sandra Clipp,Dallas R. English,Aaron R. Folsom,D. Michal Freedman,Graham G. Giles,Niclas Håkansson,Katherine D. Henderson,Judith Hoffman-Bolton,Jane A. Hoppin,Karen L. Koenig,I. Min Lee,Martha S. Linet,Yikyung Park,Gaia Pocobelli,Arthur Schatzkin,Howard D. Sesso,Elisabete Weiderpass,Bradley J. Willcox,Alicja Wolk,Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte,Walter C. Willett,Michael J. Thun +33 more
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
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,Kyriaki Michailidou,Sara Lindström,Sara Lindström,Joe Dennis,Jonathan Beesley,Shirley Hui,Siddhartha Kar,Audrey Lemaçon,Penny Soucy,Dylan M. Glubb,Asha Rostamianfar,Manjeet K. Bolla,Qin Wang,Jonathan Tyrer,Ed Dicks,Andy C. H. Lee,Zhaoming Wang,Jamie Allen,Renske Keeman,Ursula Eilber,Juliet D. French,Xiaoqing Chen,Laura Fachal,Karen McCue,Amy E. McCart Reed,Maya Ghoussaini,Jason S. Carroll,Xia Jiang,Hilary K. Finucane,Hilary K. Finucane,Marcia Adams,Muriel A. Adank,Habibul Ahsan,Kristiina Aittomäki,Hoda Anton-Culver,Natalia Antonenkova,Volker Arndt,Kristan J. Aronson,Banu Arun,Paul L. Auer,Paul L. Auer,Francois Bacot,Myrto Barrdahl,Caroline Baynes,Matthias W. Beckmann,Sabine Behrens,Javier Benitez,Marina Bermisheva,Leslie Bernstein,Carl Blomqvist,Natalia Bogdanova,Stig E. Bojesen,Stig E. Bojesen,Bernardo Bonanni,Anne Lise Børresen-Dale,Judith S. Brand,Hiltrud Brauch,Hiltrud Brauch,Hiltrud Brauch,Paul Brennan,Hermann Brenner,Louise A. Brinton,Per Broberg,Ian W. Brock,Annegien Broeks,Angela Brooks-Wilson,Angela Brooks-Wilson,Sara Y. Brucker,Thomas Brüning,Barbara Burwinkel,Barbara Burwinkel,Katja Butterbach,Qiuyin Cai,Hui Cai,Trinidad Caldés,Federico Canzian,Angel Carracedo,Brian D. Carter,Jose E. Castelao,Tsun Leung Chan,Tongguang Cheng,Kee Seng Chia,Ji Yeob Choi,Hans Christiansen,Christine L. Clarke,Margriet Collée,Don M. Conroy,Emilie Cordina-Duverger,Sten Cornelissen,David G. Cox,David G. Cox,Angela Cox,Simon S. Cross,Julie M. Cunningham,Kamila Czene,Mary B. Daly,Peter Devilee,Kimberly F. Doheny,Thilo Dörk,Isabel dos-Santos-Silva,Martine Dumont,Lorraine Durcan,Miriam Dwek,Diana Eccles,Arif B. Ekici,A. Heather Eliassen,A. Heather Eliassen,Carolina Ellberg,Mingajeva Elvira,Christoph Engel,Mikael Eriksson,Peter A. Fasching,Peter A. Fasching,Jonine D. Figueroa,Dieter Flesch-Janys,Olivia Fletcher,Henrik Flyger,Lin Fritschi,Valerie Gaborieau,Marike Gabrielson,Manuela Gago-Dominguez,Yu Tang Gao,Susan M. Gapstur,José A. García-Sáenz,Mia M. Gaudet,Vassilios Georgoulias,Graham G. Giles,Graham G. Giles,Gord Glendon,Mark S. Goldberg,David E. Goldgar,Anna González-Neira,Grethe I. Grenaker Alnæs,Mervi Grip,Jacek Gronwald,Anne Grundy,Pascal Guénel,Lothar Haeberle,Eric Hahnen,Christopher A. Haiman,Niclas Håkansson,Ute Hamann,N Hamel,Susan E. Hankinson,Patricia Harrington,Steven N. Hart,Jaana M. Hartikainen,Mikael Hartman,Mikael Hartman,Alexander Hein,Jane Heyworth,Belynda Hicks,Peter Hillemanns,Dona N. Ho,Antoinette Hollestelle,Maartje J. Hooning,Robert N. Hoover,John L. Hopper,Ming-Feng Hou,Chia-Ni Hsiung,Guanmengqian Huang,Keith Humphreys,Junko Ishiguro,Hidemi Ito,Motoki Iwasaki,Hiroji Iwata,Anna Jakubowska,Wolfgang Janni,Esther M. John,Esther M. John,Nichola Johnson,Kristine Jones,Michael Jones,Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen,Rudolf Kaaks,Maria Kabisch,Katarzyna Kaczmarek,Daehee Kang,Daehee Kang,Yoshio Kasuga,Michael J. Kerin,Sofia Khan,Elza Khusnutdinova,Elza Khusnutdinova,Johanna I. Kiiski,Sung-Won Kim,Julia A. Knight,Julia A. Knight,Veli-Matti Kosma,Vessela N. Kristensen,Vessela N. Kristensen,Ute Krüger,Ava Kwong,Diether Lambrechts,Loic Le Marchand,Eunjung Lee,Min Hyuk Lee,Jong Won Lee,Chuen Neng Lee,Flavio Lejbkowicz,Jingmei Li,Jenna Lilyquist,Annika Lindblom,Jolanta Lissowska,Wing-Yee Lo,Wing-Yee Lo,Sibylle Loibl,Jirong Long,Artitaya Lophatananon,Artitaya Lophatananon,Jan Lubinski,Craig Luccarini,Michael P. Lux,Edmond S. K. Ma,Robert J. MacInnis,Robert J. MacInnis,Tom Maishman,Enes Makalic,Kathleen E. Malone,Ivana Maleva Kostovska,Arto Mannermaa,Siranoush Manoukian,JoAnn E. Manson,JoAnn E. Manson,Sara Margolin,Shivaani Mariapun,Maria Elena Martinez,Keitaro Matsuo,Dimitrios Mavroudis,James McKay,Catriona McLean,Hanne Meijers-Heijboer,Alfons Meindl,Primitiva Menéndez,Usha Menon,J.-P. Meyer,Hui Miao,Nicola Miller,Nur Aishah Taib,Kenneth Muir,Kenneth Muir,Anna Marie Mulligan,Anna Marie Mulligan,Claire Mulot,Susan L. Neuhausen,Heli Nevanlinna,Patrick Neven,Sune F. Nielsen,Dong-Young Noh,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Aaron D. Norman,Olufunmilayo I. Olopade,Janet E. Olson,Håkan Olsson,Curtis Olswold,Nick Orr,V. Shane Pankratz,Sue K. Park,Sue K. Park,Tjoung-Won Park-Simon,Rachel Lloyd,Jose Ignacio Arias Perez,Paolo Peterlongo,Julian Peto,Kelly-Anne Phillips,Mila Pinchev,Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska,Ross L. Prentice,Nadege Presneau,Darya Prokofyeva,Elizabeth W. Pugh,Katri Pylkäs,Brigitte Rack,Paolo Radice,Nazneen Rahman,Gadi Rennert,Hedy S. Rennert,Valerie Rhenius,Atocha Romero,Jane Romm,Kathryn J. Ruddy,Thomas Rüdiger,Anja Rudolph,Matthias Ruebner,Emiel J. Th. Rutgers,Emmanouil Saloustros,Dale P. Sandler,Suleeporn Sangrajrang,Elinor J. Sawyer,Daniel F. Schmidt,Rita K. Schmutzler,Andreas Schneeweiss,Minouk J. Schoemaker,Fredrick R. Schumacher,Peter Schürmann,Rodney J. Scott,Rodney J. Scott,Christopher G. Scott,Sheila Seal,Caroline Seynaeve,Mitul Shah,Priyanka Sharma,Chen-Yang Shen,Chen-Yang Shen,Grace Sheng,Mark E. Sherman,Martha J. Shrubsole,Xiao-Ou Shu,Ann Smeets,Christof Sohn,Melissa C. Southey,John J. Spinelli,John J. Spinelli,Christa Stegmaier,Sarah Stewart-Brown,Jennifer Stone,Jennifer Stone,Daniel O. Stram,Harald Surowy,Harald Surowy,Anthony J. Swerdlow,Rulla M. Tamimi,Rulla M. Tamimi,Jack A. Taylor,Maria Tengström,Soo Hwang Teo,Mary Beth Terry,Daniel C. Tessier,Somchai Thanasitthichai,Kathrin Thöne,Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar,Ian Tomlinson,Ling Tong,Diana Torres,Diana Torres,Thérèse Truong,Chiu-Chen Tseng,Shoichiro Tsugane,Hans-Ulrich Ulmer,Giske Ursin,Michael Untch,Celine M. Vachon,Christi J. van Asperen,David Van Den Berg,Ans M.W. van den Ouweland,Lizet E. van der Kolk,Rob B. van der Luijt,Daniel Vincent,Jason Vollenweider,Quinten Waisfisz,Shan Wang-Gohrke,Clarice R. Weinberg,Camilla Wendt,Alice S. Whittemore,Hans Wildiers,Walter C. Willett,Robert Winqvist,Alicja Wolk,Anna H. Wu,Lucy Xia,Taiki Yamaji,Xiaohong R. Yang,Cheng Har Yip,Keun-Young Yoo,Jyh-Cherng Yu,Wei Zheng,Ying Zheng,Bin Zhu,Argyrios Ziogas,Elad Ziv,Sunil R. Lakhani,Sunil R. Lakhani,Antonis C. Antoniou,Arnaud Droit,Irene L. Andrulis,Irene L. Andrulis,Christopher I. Amos,Fergus J. Couch,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Jenny Chang-Claude,Jenny Chang-Claude,Per Hall,David J. Hunter,Roger L. Milne,Roger L. Milne,Montserrat Garcia-Closas,Marjanka K. Schmidt,Stephen J. Chanock,Alison M. Dunning,Stacey L. Edwards,Gary D. Bader,Georgia Chenevix-Trench,Jacques Simard,Peter Kraft,Douglas F. Easton +396 more
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,Donna Spiegelman,Shiaw Shyuan Yaun,Hans-Olov Adami,Lawrence Beeson,Aaron R. Folsom,Gary E. Fraser,R. Alexandra Goldbohm,Saxon Graham,Lawrence H. Kushi,James R. Marshall,Anthony B. Miller,Tom Rohan,Stephanie A. Smith-Warner,Frank E. Speizer,Walter C. Willett,Alicja Wolk,David J. Hunter +17 more
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
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.