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Frank E. Speizer
Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publications - 641
Citations - 140522
Frank E. Speizer is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Relative risk & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 193, co-authored 636 publications receiving 135891 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank E. Speizer include Medical Research Council & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Trends in the Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease and Changes in Diet and Lifestyle in Women
Frank B. Hu,Meir J. Stampfer,JoAnn E. Manson,Francine Grodstein,Graham A. Colditz,Frank E. Speizer,Walter C. Willett +6 more
TL;DR: Following 85,941 women who were 34 to 59 years old and had no previously diagnosed cardiovascular disease or cancer from 1980 to 1994 in the Nurses' Health Study found the incidence of coronary disease declined by 31 percent.
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Physical Activity and Risk for Cardiovascular Events in Diabetic Women
Frank B. Hu,Meir J. Stampfer,Caren G. Solomon,Simin Liu,Graham A. Colditz,Frank E. Speizer,Walter C. Willett,JoAnn E. Manson +7 more
TL;DR: Walking may provide a promising way to reduce risk for cardiovascular events among diabetic persons and the relationship between levels of physical activity and incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke among women with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Nurses' Health Study is examined.
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The relevance in adults of air-flow obstruction, but not of mucus hypersecretion, to mortality from chronic lung disease. Results from 20 years of prospective observation.
Richard Peto,Frank E. Speizer,A. L. Cochrane,F. Moore,C M Fletcher,C. M. Tinker,I. T. T. Higgins,Richard Gray,S. M. Richards,J. Gilliland,B. Norman-Smith +10 more
TL;DR: A moderate relationship existed between initial mucus hypersecretion and subsequent lung cancer mortality, but it is not known whether this was due solely to a common correlation of both conditions with the effective degree of exposure of the large bronchi to causative factors such as tobacco smoke.
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Dietary Carotenoids and Vitamins A, C, and E and Risk of Breast Cancer
Shumin M. Zhang,David J. Hunter,Michele R. Forman,Bernard Rosner,Frank E. Speizer,Graham A. Colditz,JoAnn E. Manson,Susan E. Hankinson,Walter C. Willett +8 more
TL;DR: Consumption of fruits and vegetables high in specific carotenoids and vitamins may reduce premenopausal breast cancer risk.
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Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease: Ten-Year Follow-Up From the Nursesʼ Health Study
Meir J. Stampfer,Graham A. Colditz,Walter C. Willett,JoAnn E. Manson,Bernard Rosner,Frank E. Speizer,Charles H. Hennekens +6 more
TL;DR: Current estrogen use is associated with a reduction in the incidence of coronary heart disease as well as in mortality from cardiovascular disease, but it is not associated with any change in the risk of stroke.