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Farhad Islami
Researcher at American Cancer Society
Publications - 245
Citations - 74220
Farhad Islami is an academic researcher from American Cancer Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 223 publications receiving 52150 citations. Previous affiliations of Farhad Islami include Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Among Never Smokers in Golestan Province, Iran, an Area of High Incidence of Esophageal Cancer - a Cross-Sectional Study with Repeated Measurement of Urinary 1-OHPG in Two Seasons
Farhad Islami,Paolo Boffetta,Frederik J. van Schooten,Paul T. Strickland,David H. Phillips,Akram Pourshams,Akbar Fazeltabar Malekshah,Roger W. L. Godschalk,Elham Jafari,Arash Etemadi,Salahadin Abubaker,Farin Kamangar,Kurt Straif,Henrik Møller,Joachim Schüz,Reza Malekzadeh +15 more
TL;DR: High exposure of the general population in Golestan toPAHs is confirmed and it is suggested that certain foods, cooking methods, and genetic polymorphisms increase exposure to PAHs.
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Secondhand Smoking and the Risk of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a High Incidence Region, Kashmir, India: A Case-control–observational Study
Rumaisa Rafiq,Idrees Ayoub Shah,Gulzar Ahmad Bhat,Mohd Maqbool Lone,Farhad Islami,Paolo Boffetta,Nazir Ahmad Dar +6 more
TL;DR: An indication of increased risk of ESCC associated with exposure to SHS is found, and studies with larger numbers of SHS-exposed never tobacco users are required to further examine this association.
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Oral health and mortality in the Golestan Cohort Study
Emily Vogtmann,Arash Etemadi,Farin Kamangar,Farin Kamangar,Farhad Islami,Farhad Islami,Gholamreza Roshandel,Hossein Poustchi,Akram Pourshams,Masoud Khoshnia,Abdulsamad Gharravi,Abdulsamad Gharravi,Paul Brennan,Paolo Boffetta,Sanford M. Dawsey,Reza Malekzadeh,Christian C. Abnet +16 more
TL;DR: Poor oral health appears to predict overall and cause-specific mortality in populations in economic transition, and investigation of the underlying mechanisms might provide an important contribution to reducing mortality.
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Achalasia: a review of Western and Iranian experiences.
TL;DR: In summary, laparoscopic myotomy can be considered as the procedure of choice for treatment of achalasia and graded pneumatic dilation is an effective alternative when the performance of myotomy is not possible for any reason.
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Cardiovascular disease mortality and years of life lost attributable to non-optimal systolic blood pressure and hypertension in northeastern Iran
Sadaf G. Sepanlou,Roger B. Newson,Hossein Poustchi,Masoud M Malekzadeh,Parisa Rezanejad Asl,Arash Etemadi,Hooman Khademi,Farhad Islami,Akram Pourshams,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Christian C. Abnet,Paul Brennan,Paolo Bofetta,Sanford M. Dawsey,Farin Kamangar,Reza Malekzadeh +15 more
TL;DR: A very large proportion of CVD deaths can be averted if blood pressure is controlled in Iran.