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Frank B. Hu

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  1784
Citations -  295051

Frank B. Hu is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Type 2 diabetes & Diabetes mellitus. The author has an hindex of 250, co-authored 1675 publications receiving 253464 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank B. Hu include Southwest University & Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined associations between body mass index and similar to 2.8 million SNPs in up to 123,865 individuals with targeted follow up of 42 SNPs and up to 125,931 additional individuals.
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Dietary flavonoid intake and weight maintenance: three prospective cohorts of 124,086 US men and women followed for up to 24 years.

TL;DR: Higher intake of foods rich in flavonols, flavan-3-ols, anthocyanins, and flavonoid polymers may contribute to weight maintenance in adulthood and may help to refine dietary recommendations for the prevention of obesity and its potential consequences.
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Circulating Levels of Endothelial Adhesion Molecules and Risk of Diabetes in an Ethnically Diverse Cohort of Women

TL;DR: Higher levels of E-selectin and ICAM-1 were consistently associated with increased diabetes risk in a multiethnic cohort of U.S. postmenopausal women, implicating an etiological role of endothelial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes.
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Sleep Duration and Snoring in Relation to Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Women With Type 2 Diabetes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether sleep duration and snoring are associated with biomarkers of CVD in women with type 2 diabetes and found that longer sleep duration was associated with increased levels of C-reactive protein after adjusting for age, BMI, lifestyle factors, family history of diabetes, glycemic control, and medication use.
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The role of sugar-sweetened beverages in the global epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases

TL;DR: A review of the evidence linking sugar-sweetened beverages to obesity, cardiometabolic outcomes and related cancers, as well as methods to grade the strength of nutritional research is presented in this article .