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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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Effects of ozone on the pulmonary function of children
TL;DR: Healthy active children, 7 to 13 years old, in a summer recreational camp were chosen as subjects to investigate the acute effects of exposure to ambient-air pollution, indicating a general tendency for decreased function with increasing ozone concentration.
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Moles and Site-Specific Risk of Nonfamilial Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Womene
Martin A. Weinstock,Graham A. Colditz,Walter C. Willett,Walter C. Willett,Meir J. Stampfer,Meir J. Stampfer,Ben R. Bronstein,Martin C. Mihm,Frank E. Speizer +8 more
TL;DR: Self-reported mole counts and cutaneous melanoma with respect to anatomic site suggest that mole counts primarily indicate systemic melanoma risk, rather than direct risk from the moles themselves.
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Smoking Cessation and Time Course of Decreased Risks of Coronary Heart Disease in Middle-Aged Women
Ichiro Kawachi,Graham A. Colditz,Meir J. Stampfer,Walter C. Willett,JoAnn E. Manson,Bernard Rosner,Frank E. Speizer,Charles H. Hennekens +7 more
TL;DR: Women who stop smoking will experience an immediate benefit as well as a further longer-term decline in excess risk of coronary heart disease to the level of those who never smoked during the interval 10 to 14 years following cessation.
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The association between health status and the performance of excessively variable spirometry tests in a population-based study in six U.S. cities.
TL;DR: Test failure is almost as strong a predictor of mortality as poor FEV1, especially among women.
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Toenail Nicotine Levels as a Biomarker of Tobacco Smoke Exposure
TL;DR: Nail nicotine levels may reflect aspects of active and passive exposure not captured by standard questionnaires and, thus, have the potential to provide better assessment of associations with health risk.