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Rachel Thompson
Researcher at University of Southampton
Publications - 31
Citations - 3599
Rachel Thompson is an academic researcher from University of Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer prevention & Population. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 31 publications receiving 3406 citations.
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Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review
Lee Hooper,Rachel Thompson,Roger A Harrison,Carolyn Summerbell,Andy R Ness,Helen J Moore,Helen V Worthington,Paul N. Durrington,Julian P T Higgins,Nigel Capps,Rudolph A. Riemersma,Shah Ebrahim,George Davey Smith +12 more
TL;DR: Long chain and shorter chain omega 3 fats do not have a clear effect on total mortality, combined cardiovascular events, or cancer.
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Food frequency questionnaires: a review of their design, validation and utilisation
TL;DR: The utilisation studies showed that FFQ were most commonly used in cross-sectional surveys, with ninety-three of the FFQ being designed to be disease-specific, and mean correlation coefficients were highest for Ca and fat, and lowest for vitamin A and vegetables.
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Reduced or modified dietary fat for preventing cardiovascular disease
Lee Hooper,Carolyn Summerbell,Rachel Thompson,Deirdre Sills,Felicia G. Roberts,Helen J Moore,George Davey Smith +6 more
TL;DR: The findings are suggestive of a small but potentially important reduction in cardiovascular risk on modification of dietary fat, but not reduction of total fat, in longer trials.
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Dietary antioxidants and asthma in adults: population-based case-control study.
Seif O. Shaheen,Jonathan A C Sterne,Rachel Thompson,Christina E. Songhurst,Barrie Margetts,Peter Burney +5 more
TL;DR: The associations between apple and red wine consumption and asthma may indicate a protective effect of flavonoids, and the findings for dietary selenium could have implications for health policy in Britain where intake has been declining.
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Opiate therapy in chronic cough.
Alyn H. Morice,Madhav S. Menon,S A Mulrennan,Caroline F. Everett,Caroline Wright,Jennifer Jackson,Rachel Thompson +6 more
TL;DR: Morphine sulfate is an effective antitussive in intractable chronic cough at the doses of 5 to 10 mg twice daily in patients failing to respond to specific measures.