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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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Meat and dairy food consumption and breast cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studies
Stacey A. Missmer,Stephanie A. Smith-Warner,Donna Spiegelman,Shiaw-Shyuan Yaun,Hans-Olov Adami,W. Lawrence Beeson,Piet A. van den Brandt,Gary E. Fraser,Jo L. Freudenheim,R. Alexandra Goldbohm,Saxon Graham,Lawrence H. Kushi,Anthony B. Miller,John D. Potter,Thomas E. Rohan,Frank E. Speizer,Paolo Toniolo,Walter C. Willett,Alicja Wolk,Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte,David J. Hunter +20 more
TL;DR: It is found that an inconsistent relation between egg consumption and risk of breast cancer merits further investigation, and a J-shaped association for egg consumption is suggested, compared to women who did not eat eggs.
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Diabetes mellitus and risk of bladder cancer : a meta-analysis
TL;DR: Findings from this meta-analysis suggest that individuals with diabetes may have a modestly increased risk of bladder cancer.
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Long-term dietary cadmium intake and postmenopausal endometrial cancer incidence: a population-based prospective cohort study.
TL;DR: The hypothesis that cadmium may exert estrogenic effects and thereby increase the risk of hormone-related cancers is supported.
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Total mortality after changes in leisure time physical activity in 50 year old men: 35 year follow-up of population based cohort
Liisa Byberg,Håkan Melhus,Rolf Gedeborg,Johan Sundström,Anders Ahlbom,Björn Zethelius,Lars Berglund,Alicja Wolk,Karl Michaëlsson +8 more
TL;DR: Increased physical activity in middle age is eventually followed by a reduction in mortality to the same level as seen among men with constantly high physical activity, comparable with that associated with smoking cessation.
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Reproducibility and Validity of Major Dietary Patterns among Swedish Women Assessed with a Food-Frequency Questionnaire
TL;DR: The results indicate that identification of dietary patterns through factor analysis is a reproducible and valid method and might be used in nutritional epidemiology as an alternative method of dietary assessment.