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Dominique S. Michaud

Researcher at Tufts University

Publications -  241
Citations -  22605

Dominique S. Michaud is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Prospective cohort study. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 230 publications receiving 20559 citations. Previous affiliations of Dominique S. Michaud include Harvard University & United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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Circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor I and risk of breast cancer

TL;DR: A positive relation between circulating IGF-I concentration and risk of breast cancer was found among premenopausal but not postmenopausal women, and may be useful in the identification of women at high risk of Breast cancer and in the development of risk reduction strategies.
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Physical Activity, Obesity, Height, and the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

TL;DR: In 2 prospective cohort studies, obesity significantly increased the risk of pancreatic cancer, especially among those who are overweight and physical activity appears to decrease the risk.
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Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

Laufey T. Amundadottir, +77 more
- 01 Sep 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-stage genome-wide association study of pancreatic cancer, a cancer with one of the lowest survival rates worldwide, was conducted, where 558,542 SNPs were genotyped in 1,896 individuals and 1,939 controls drawn from 12 prospective cohorts plus one hospital-based case-control study.
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Design and Serendipity in Establishing a Large Cohort with Wide Dietary Intake Distributions The National Institutes of Health–American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health Study

TL;DR: In establishing a cohort of 567,169 persons (340,148 men and 227,021 women), the authors were fortunate in that a less-than-anticipated baseline response rate was offset by both a shifting and a widening of the intake distributions among those who provided satisfactory data.
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The Role of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disturbances in Cancers of the Colon, Prostate, and Pancreas

TL;DR: Substantial evidence now supports a strong role for diabetes and obesity in pancreatic cancer etiology, and the mechanisms for these associations remain speculative and deserve further study.