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Charles H. Hennekens
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 439
Citations - 120693
Charles H. Hennekens is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Risk factor & Relative risk. The author has an hindex of 150, co-authored 424 publications receiving 117806 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles H. Hennekens include University of Auckland & Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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An overview of the British and American aspirin studies.
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Type of postmenopausal hormone use and risk of breast cancer: 12-year follow-up from the Nurses' Health Study
Graham A. Colditz,Meir J. Stampfer,Walter C. Willett,David J. Hunter,JoAnn E. Manson,Charles H. Hennekens,Bernard Rosner,Frank E. Speizer +7 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that long-term past use of estrogen replacement therapy is not related to risk, that current estrogen use increases risk of breast cancer to a modest degree, and that the addition of progesterone does not remove the increased risk observed with current use of unopposed estrogen.
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Iron Status and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
TL;DR: The currently available data do not support radical changes in dietary recommendations or screening to detect high normal levels nor do they support the need for large-scale randomized trials of dietary restriction or phlebotomy as a means of lowering iron stores.
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Obesity and cardiovascular disease.
TL;DR: Although obesity is a modifiable and preventable cardiac risk factor, management of this disorder remains both challenging and vexing to clinicians and to find ways to decrease the rising prevalence of obesity and to help overweight individuals achieve and sustain weight loss.
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Body mass index. An independent predictor of cataract.
Robert J. Glynn,William G. Christen,JoAnn E. Manson,Jonathan Bernheimer,Charles H. Hennekens +4 more
TL;DR: Higher body mass index, a potentially modifiable risk factor, was a determinant of cataract in a prospective cohort study of apparently healthy men, consistent with experimental evidence that restriction of energy intake slows development ofCataract.