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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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Dietary cadmium exposure and prostate cancer incidence: a population-based prospective cohort study
TL;DR: Support is provided that dietary cadmium exposure may have a role in prostate cancer development and multivariable-adjusted risk estimates between tumour subtypes provide support.
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Adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with a lower risk of later-onset Crohn’s disease: results from two large prospective cohort studies
Hamed Khalili,Niclas Håkansson,Simon S. M. Chan,Ye Chen,Paul Lochhead,Jonas F. Ludvigsson,Andrew T. Chan,Andrew Hart,Ola Olén,Alicja Wolk +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between Mediterranean diet and risk of later-onset Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) in a prospective cohort study of 83,147 participants (age range: 45 to 79 years) in the Cohort of Swedish Men and Swedish Mammography Cohort.
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Total and specific fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of stroke: a prospective study.
TL;DR: This study shows an inverse association of fruit and vegetable consumption with stroke risk, particularly consumption of apples and pears and green leafy vegetables was inversely associated with stroke.
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Long-term fatty fish consumption and renal cell carcinoma incidence in women.
TL;DR: Consuming fatty fish may reduce the occurrence of RCC in women, and an inverse association of fatty fish consumption with the risk of R CC was found, but no association was found with lean fish consumption.
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Intakes of Fruit, Vegetables, and Carotenoids and Renal Cell Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of 13 Prospective Studies
Jung Eun Lee,Satu Männistö,Donna Spiegelman,David J. Hunter,Leslie Bernstein,Piet A. van den Brandt,Julie E. Buring,Eunyoung Cho,Dallas R. English,Andrew Flood,Jo L. Freudenheim,Graham G. Giles,Edward Giovannucci,Niclas Håkansson,Pamela L. Horn-Ross,Eric J. Jacobs,Michael F. Leitzmann,James R. Marshall,Marjorie L. McCullough,Anthony B. Miller,Thomas E. Rohan,Julie A. Ross,Arthur Schatzkin,Leo J. Schouten,Jarmo Virtamo,Alicja Wolk,Shumin M. Zhang,Stephanie A. Smith-Warner +27 more
TL;DR: It is found that increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with decreasing risk of renal cell cancer; carotenoids present in fruit and vegetables may partly contribute to this protection.