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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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Long-term cadmium exposure and fractures, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in a prospective cohort of women.

TL;DR: In this paper , the association of urinary Cadmium (U-Cd) with incidence of fractures, myocardial infarction, heart failure, ischemic stroke and mortality in postmenopausal women was assessed.

SHORT REPORT Overweight and obesity and incidence of leukemia: A meta-analysis of cohort studies

TL;DR: It is indicated that excess body weight is associated with an increased risk of developing leukemia, and the summary RRs associated with obesity were 1.25 (95% CI, 1.09–1.46) for chronic myeloid leukemia and 1.26 (95%) for acute myeloids.
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Genetically predicted circulating concentrations of micronutrients and risk of colorectal cancer among individuals of European descent: a Mendelian randomization study

Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, +110 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated associations of genetically predicted concentrations of 11 micronutrients (β-carotene, calcium, copper, folate, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, vitamin B-6, and zinc) with colorectal cancer risk using Mendelian randomization (MR).
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CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers.

Nichola Johnson, +174 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a genome-wide association study of urinary oestrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3 glucuronide levels in 560 premenopausal women and identified a single peak mapping to the CYP3A locus annotated by rs45446698.