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Andrea Z. LaCroix
Researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Publications - 276
Citations - 27753
Andrea Z. LaCroix is an academic researcher from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Women's Health Initiative & Osteoporosis. The author has an hindex of 88, co-authored 273 publications receiving 25538 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea Z. LaCroix include Group Health Cooperative & University of California, San Diego.
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Women’s Health Initiative View of Estrogen Avoidance and All-Cause Mortality
Ross L. Prentice,JoAnn E. Manson,Garnet L. Anderson,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Sally A. Shumaker,Rowan T. Chlebowski,Barbara V. Howard,Marcia L. Stefanick,Rebecca D. Jackson,Jean Wactawski-Wende,Jacques E. Rossouw +10 more
TL;DR: A development more nuanced and comprehensive than taking a specific subset hazard ratio and confidence interval at face value would be needed to project health risks and benefits from any decline in unopposed estrogen prescriptions following the WHI trials.
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Risks for frequent antimicrobial-treated infections in postmenopausal women.
Denise M. Boudreau,Suzanne G. Leveille,Shelly L. Gray,Douglas J. Black,Jack M. Guralnik,Luigi Ferrucci,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Andrea Z. LaCroix +7 more
TL;DR: The study provides new information on risk factors for outpatient infections and raises new questions regarding the susceptibility to frequent infections in older women and the automated pharmacy record method used in this study offers a low-cost alternative for use in future epidemiologic research.
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Hormone Therapy and Cardiovascular Risk—Reply
Jacques E. Rossouw,Ross L. Prentice,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Lieling Wu,JoAnn E. Manson,David H. Barad,Vanessa M. Barnabei,Marcia G. Ko,Karen L. Margolis,Marcia L. Stefanick +9 more
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Unopposed estrogen and endometrial cancer: association or causation?
TL;DR: The article is rather a simplistic explanation of different measures of association (effect) and how they relate to epidemiological study designs and the misleading and potentially harmful example of unopposed estrogen as a uterine carcinogen is used.
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Low doses of vitamin D with calcium reduce the risk of fractures: Patient level analysis of 68,500 patients from seven major vitamin D trials in the US and Europe
Bo Abrahamsen,Tahir Masud,John A Robbins,F H Anderson,Haakon E. Meyer,Cyrus Cooper,Helen Smith,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Alison Avenell,David J. Torgerson,A. Johansen,Rebecca D. Jackson,Lars Rejnmark,Jean Wactawski-Wende,Kim Brixen,L. Mosekilde,Roger M. Francis +16 more