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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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Wine consumption and epithelial ovarian cancer.
Susanna C. Larsson,Alicja Wolk +1 more
TL;DR: To the Editors: The authors read with interest the article by Webb et al. in which the authors showed a statistically significant trend toward lower risk of epithelial ovarian cancer with increasing wine consumption in a large case-control study of Australian women.
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The CHEK2 Variant C.349A>G Is Associated with Prostate Cancer Risk and Carriers Share a Common Ancestor
Andreia Brandão,Paula Paulo,Sofia Maia,Manuela Pinheiro,Ana Peixoto,Marta Cardoso,Maria P. Silva,Catarina Santos,Rosalind A. Eeles,Zsofia Kote-Jarai,Kenneth Muir,Johanna Schleutker,Ying Wang,Nora Pashayan,Jyotsna Batra,Apcb BioResource,Apcb BioResource,Henrik Grönberg,David E. Neal,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Catherine M. Tangen,Melissa C. Southey,Alicja Wolk,Demetrius Albanes,Christopher A. Haiman,Ruth C. Travis,Janet L. Stanford,Lorelei A. Mucci,Catharine M L West,Sune F. Nielsen,Sune F. Nielsen,Adam S. Kibel,Olivier Cussenot,Sonja I. Berndt,Stella Koutros,Karina Dalsgaard Sørensen,Cezary Cybulski,Eli Marie Grindedal,Jong Y. Park,Sue A. Ingles,Christiane Maier,Robert J. Hamilton,Barry S. Rosenstein,Ana Vega,Manolis Kogevinas,Fredrik Wiklund,Kathryn L. Penney,Hermann Brenner,Esther M. John,Radka Kaneva,Christopher J. Logothetis,Susan L. Neuhausen,Kim De Ruyck,Azad Hassan Abdul Razack,Lisa F. Newcomb,Lisa F. Newcomb,Canary Pass Investigators,Canary Pass Investigators,Davor Lessel,Nawaid Usmani,Frank Claessens,Manuela Gago-Dominguez,Paul A. Townsend,Monique J. Roobol,Manuel R. Teixeira +64 more
TL;DR: The results clearly demonstrate that c.349A>G in the CHEK2 tumour-suppressor gene is a founder variant significantly associated with an increased risk of PrCa, suggesting its potential usefulness for cost-effective targeted genetic screening in PrCa families.
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Fish consumption and all-cause mortality in a cohort of Swedish men and women.
TL;DR: Epidemiological studies of fish consumption and all‐cause mortality have provided inconsistent results and calls for further studies to be made for consistency.
Measures of body fatness and height in early and mid-to-late adulthood and prostate cancer: risk and mortality in The Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer
Jeanine M. Genkinger,Jeanine M. Genkinger,Kana Wu,Meilin Wang,Demetrius Albanes,Amanda Black,P.A. van den Brandt,K. A. Burke,Michael B. Cook,Susan M. Gapstur,Graham G. Giles,Graham G. Giles,Edward Giovannucci,Gary G. Goodman,Phyllis J. Goodman,Niclas Håkansson,Timothy J. Key,Satu Männistö,Loic Le Marchand,Linda M. Liao,Robert J. MacInnis,Robert J. MacInnis,Marian L. Neuhouser,Elizabeth A. Platz,Norie Sawada,Jeannette M. Schenk,Victoria L. Stevens,Ruth C. Travis,Shoichiro Tsugane,Kala Visvanathan,Lynne R. Wilkens,Alicja Wolk,Alicja Wolk,Stephanie A. Smith-Warner +33 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that height and total and central adiposity in mid-to-later adulthood, but not early adulthood adiposity, are associated with risk of advanced forms of prostate cancer, and maintenance of healthy weight may help prevent advanced prostate cancer.
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Self-Administered Food Frequency Questionnaire: The Effect of Different Designs on Food and Nutrient Intake Estimates
Alicja Wolk,R Bergström,Hans-Olov Adami,Hans-Olov Adami,E M Ohlander,Åke Bruce,L. Holmberg,Leif Bergkvist +7 more
TL;DR: The results of this study have implications for the design of questionnaires and for pooled analyses in nutritional epidemiology, when different food questionnaires are used.