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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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Oral Contraceptive Use and Malignant Melanoma
Chris Bain,Charles H. Hennekens,Frank E. Speizer,Bernard Rosner,Walter C. Willett,Charlene Belanger +5 more
TL;DR: There was no overall relationship between a prior history of oral contraceptive use and the development of melanoma among 141 cases of nonfatal malignant melanoma and 2,820 age-matched controls drawn from respondents to a large postal survey of registered U.S. nurses.
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Household aggregation of pulmonary function and chronic bronchitis.
TL;DR: Analysis showed a significant tendency for chronic bronchitis to aggregate within households, and correlation of 1-sec forced expiratory volume between mother and child appeared to be confounded by maternal smoking habits.
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Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study
Robert J. Lipnick,Julie E. Buring,Charles H. Hennekens,Bernard Rosner,Walter C. Willett,Chris Bain,Meir J. Stampfer,Graham A. Colditz,Richard Peto,Frank E. Speizer +9 more
TL;DR: Data on past use of OCs provide substantial reassuring evidence that there is no large excess risk of breast cancer within a few years of cessation of pill use, and the observed moderate elevation of Breast cancer risk with current use was of borderline statistical significance.
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Mortality Among Professional American-Style Football Players and Professional American Baseball Players.
Vy T Nguyen,Ross Zafonte,Jarvis T. Chen,Kalé Z. Kponee-Shovein,Sabrina Paganoni,Alvaro Pascual-Leone,Frank E. Speizer,Frank E. Speizer,Aaron L. Baggish,Herman A. Taylor,Lee M. Nadler,Theodore K. Courtney,Ann Connor,Marc G. Weisskopf +13 more
TL;DR: It was found that NFL players had a higher rate of mortality than MLB players, which may be associated with aspects of playing in professional American-style football.