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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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A Prospective Study of Major Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Breast Cancer
TL;DR: The results are in agreement with the majority of previous studies that show alcohol consumption moderately increases the risk of breast cancer, but the results do not support any association between breast cancer risk and the "Western" or "healthy" dietary patterns.
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Omega-6 fatty acid biomarkers and incident type 2 diabetes: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 39 740 adults from 20 prospective cohort studies.
Jason H Y Wu,Matti Marklund,Fumiaki Imamura,Nathan L. Tintle,Andres V Ardisson Korat,Janette de Goede,Xia Zhou,Wei-Sin Yang,Marcia C de Oliveira Otto,Janine Kröger,Waqas Qureshi,Jyrki K. Virtanen,Julie K. Bassett,Alexis C. Frazier-Wood,Maria Lankinen,Rachel A. Murphy,Kalina Rajaobelina,Liana C Del Gobbo,Nita G. Forouhi,Robert Luben,Kay-Tee Khaw,Kay-Tee Khaw,Nicholas J. Wareham,Anya Kalsbeek,Jenna Veenstra,Juhua Luo,Frank B. Hu,Hung-Ju Lin,David S. Siscovick,Heiner Boeing,Tzu-An Chen,Brian T. Steffen,Lyn M. Steffen,Allison M. Hodge,Gudny Eriksdottir,Albert V. Smith,V. Gudnason,Tamara B. Harris,Ingeborg A. Brouwer,Claudine Berr,Catherine Helmer,Cécilia Samieri,Markku Laakso,Michael Y. Tsai,Graham G. Giles,Tarja Nurmi,Lynne E. Wagenknecht,Matthias B. Schulze,Rozenn N. Lemaitre,Kuo-Liong Chien,Sabita S. Soedamah-Muthu,Johanna M. Geleijnse,Qi Sun,William S. Harris,Lars Lind,Johan Ärnlöv,Johan Ärnlöv,Ulf Risérus,Renata Micha,Dariush Mozaffarian +59 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that linoleic acid has long-term benefits for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and that arachidonic acid is not harmful.
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Prospective Study of Zinc Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women
TL;DR: Higher zinc intake may be associated with a slightly lower risk of type 2 diabetes in women, and an inverse association for dietary zinc to heme iron ratio is found.
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C-reactive protein and incident cardiovascular events among men with diabetes.
TL;DR: High plasma levels of CRP were associated with an increased risk of incident cardiovascular events among diabetic men, independent of currently established lifestyle risk factors, blood lipids, and glycemic control.
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Comparison of Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometric and Anthropometric Measures of Adiposity in Relation to Adiposity-Related Biologic Factors
TL;DR: The data indicate that the validity of simple anthropometric measures such as BMI and WC is comparable to that of DXA measurements of fat mass and fat mass percent, as evaluated by their associations with obesity-related biomarkers and prevalence of metabolic syndrome.