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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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Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy and risk of cholecystectomy: a prospective cohort study

TL;DR: This prospective study of postmenopausal women adds to the evidence that use of HRT may increase the risk of cholecystectomy, where the most common regimen of H RT has been different from those investigated in previous studies.

Meta-analysis of 16 studies of the association of alcohol with colorectal cancer

Sarah McNabb, +53 more
TL;DR: The overall pattern was not significantly modified by other CRC risk factors and there was no effect heterogeneity by tumor site or stage, providing further evidence that there is a J‐shaped association between alcohol consumption and CRC risk.
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Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy and risk of acute pancreatitis: a prospective cohort study

TL;DR: Use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy was associated with increased risk of acute pancreatitis, and Physicians should consider this potential increase in risk when prescribing such therapy.
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Additional SNPs improve risk stratification of a polygenic hazard score for prostate cancer

Roshan Karunamuni, +79 more
TL;DR: In this article, a machine learning approach, LASSO-regularized Cox regression, was used to select SNPs and to estimate their coefficients in the training set (75,596 men).