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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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Effects of smoking and physical activity on body weight: developments in Sweden between 1980 and 1989

TL;DR: To study the effects of changes in smoking and exercise habits on body weight in Sweden, a large number of people have given up smoking and exercised less, and the proportion of those who smoke and those who exercise has increased.
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Chocolate intake and incidence of heart failure: Findings from the Cohort of Swedish Men

TL;DR: In this large prospective cohort study, there was a J‐shaped relationship between chocolate consumption and HF incidence and moderate chocolate consumption was associated with a lower rate of HF hospitalization or death, but the protective association was not observed among individuals consuming ≥1 serving per day.
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Association between statin use and consultation or surgery for osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: a pooled analysis of four cohort studies

TL;DR: Statin use is not associated with reduced risk of consultation or surgery for OA of the hip or knee, and there is no dose-response relation between duration of current statin use and the risk of OA.
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The FANCM:p.Arg658* truncating variant is associated with risk of triple-negative breast cancer

Gisella Figlioli, +284 more
- 01 Nov 2019 - 
TL;DR: The data suggest that the effect of truncating variants on breast cancer risk may depend on their position in the gene, and that cell sensitivity to olaparib exposure, identifies a possible therapeutic option to treat FANCM-associated tumors.