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    Occupational exposure to endocrine disruptors and lymphoma risk in a multi-centric European study

    Incidence rates of lymphoma are usually higher in men than in women, and oestrogens may protect against lymphoma.

    L Costas, C Infante-Rivard, J-P Zock, M Van Tongeren… in British Journal of Cancer (2015)

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    Test–retest reliability of an infectious disease questionnaire and evaluation of self-assessed vulnerability to infections

    Large scale population-based studies focusing on infectious diseases are scarce. This may be explained by methodological obstacles concerning ascertainment of data on infectious diseases requiring, e.g. collec...

    S. Castell, M.K. Akmatov, N. Obi… in Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforsch… (2014)

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    Feasibility and quality development of biomaterials in the pretest studies of the German National Cohort

    The German National Cohort (GNC) is designed to address research questions concerning a wide range of possible causes of major chronic diseases (e.g. cancer, diabetes, infectious, allergic, neurologic and card...

    A. Kühn, A. Nieters, A. Köttgen, O.N. Goek… in Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforsch… (2014)

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    A meta-analysis of Hodgkin lymphoma reveals 19p13.3 TCF3 as a novel susceptibility locus

    Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) have identified associations with genetic variation at both HLA and non-HLA loci; however, much of heritable HL susceptibility remains une...

    W. Cozen, M. N. Timofeeva, D. Li, A. Diepstra, D. Hazelett… in Nature Communications (2014)

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    Inflammation marker and risk of pancreatic cancer: a nested case–control study within the EPIC cohort

    Established risk factors for pancreatic cancer include smoking, long-standing diabetes, high body fatness, and chronic pancreatitis, all of which can be characterised by aspects of inflammatory processes. Howe...

    V A Grote, R Kaaks, A Nieters, A Tjønneland, J Halkjær… in British Journal of Cancer (2012)

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    Diabetes mellitus, glycated haemoglobin and C-peptide levels in relation to pancreatic cancer risk: a study within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort

    There has been long-standing debate about whether diabetes is a causal risk factor for pancreatic cancer or a consequence of tumour development. Prospective epidemiological studies have shown variable relation...

    V. A. Grote, S. Rohrmann, A. Nieters, L. Dossus, A. Tjønneland, J. Halkjær… in Diabetologia (2011)

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    Antibodies against lytic and latent Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus antigens and lymphoma in the European EpiLymph case–control study

    Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus is associated with primary effusion lymphoma and multicentric Castleman's disease.

    Y Benavente, G Mbisa, N Labo, D Casabonne, N Becker… in British Journal of Cancer (2011)

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    Diet and hip fractures among elderly Europeans in the EPIC cohort

    Evidence on the role of diet during adulthood and beyond on fracture occurrence is limited. We investigated diet and hip fracture incidence in a population of elderly Europeans, participants in the European Pr...

    V Benetou, P Orfanos, D Zylis, S Sieri… in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2011)

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    Gene polymorphisms in Toll-like receptors, interleukin-10, and interleukin-10 receptor alpha and lymphoma risk

    Interactions between environment and immune system play an essential role in the aetiology of immunopathologies, including lymphomas. Toll-like receptors (TLR) belong to a group of pattern recognition receptor...

    A Nieters, L Beckmann, E Deeg, N Becker in Genes & Immunity (2006)

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    Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and Hodgkin's lymphoma: a European multi-centre case–control study (EPILYMPH)

    We analysed the effects of tobacco and alcohol in the aetiology of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL), based on 340 cases and 2465 controls enrolled in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Czech Republic, between 1...

    H Besson, P Brennan, N Becker, S De Sanjosé, A Nieters, R Font… in British Journal of Cancer (2006)

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    Cytokine gene polymorphisms and atopic disease in two European cohorts. (ECRHS-Basel and SAPALDIA)

    Atopy and allergic phenotypes are biologically characterized by an imbalanced T helper cell response skewed towards a type 2 (TH2) immune response associated with elevated serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. ...

    M Imboden, A Nieters, AJ Bircher, M Brutsche, N Becker… in Clinical and Molecular Allergy (2006)

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    Allergic sensitisation and allergic rhinitis are associated with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the diet and in red blood cell membranes

    Due to inconsistent results based on dietary intake data, unsaturated fatty acids in red blood cell (RBC) membranes and diet were used to investigate their association with allergic sensitisation and allergic ...

    S Hoff, H Seiler, J Heinrich, I Kompauer… in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2005)

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    Tumorepidemiologie

    Das Educational “Tumorepidemiologie” hatte zum Ziel, Einblicke in gegenwärtig besonders intensiv bearbeitete bzw. diskutierte Bereiche der Epidemiologie zu geben. Einer der Beiträge gab einen Überblick über di...

    N. Becker, A. Nieters, J. Windeler in Der Onkologe (2002)