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Whole-grain intake in mid-life and healthy ageing in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort
Growing elderly populations worldwide have sparked interest in factors promoting healthy aging. Diet and other lifestyle patterns are key factors for healthy ageing; however, evidence is sparse for specific di...
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Open AccessAssessing household lifestyle exposures from consumer purchases, the My Purchases cohort
Consumer purchase data (CPD) is a promising instrument to assess the impact of purchases on health, but is limited by the need for manual scanning, a lack of access to data from multiple retailers, and limited...
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Open AccessAssociations between parenthood and dementia in men and women: biology or confounding?
High parity and extremes of age at first birth have been linked with increased dementia risk in women, with exposure to pregnancy-associated physiological changes proposed as an explanation. However, confoundi...
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Open AccessAssociation between preeclampsia in daughters and risk of cardiovascular disease in parents
Preeclampsia and cardiovascular disease (CVD) might share heritable underlying mechanisms. We investigated whether preeclampsia in daughters is associated with CVD in parents. In a register-based cohort study,...
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Open AccessA quantitative comparison of two measures of postpartum depression
Studies investigating the prevalence and risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD) have used different definitions. Some studies have used a high score on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) to ...
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Open AccessIntegrating genetics with newborn metabolomics in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is caused by hypertrophy of the pyloric sphincter muscle.
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Prognosis regarding shunt revision and mortality among hydrocephalus patients below the age of 2 years and the association to patient-related risk factors
Little is known about the prognosis regarding shunt revision and mortality among hydrocephalus patients below 2 years of age. The aims of this study were to investigate (1) the cumulative risks of shunt revisi...
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Synchronous bilateral breast cancer: a nationwide study on histopathology and etiology
The aim of the present study was to describe histopathologic characteristics of synchronous bilateral breast cancer (SBBC), and by comparing SBBC to unilateral breast cancer (UBC), identify possible etiologica...
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Open AccessBreast cancer mortality in synchronous bilateral breast cancer patients
Evidence suggests that patients with synchronous bilateral breast cancer (SBBC), diagnosed within 4 months, have an inferior prognosis compared to unilateral breast cancer (UBC) patients. Using data from natio...
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Open AccessPregnancy duration and breast cancer risk
Full-term pregnancies reduce a woman’s long-term breast cancer risk, while abortions have been shown to have no effect. The precise minimal duration of pregnancy necessary to lower a woman’s breast cancer risk...
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Incidence of sialolithiasis in Denmark: a nationwide population-based register study
Sialolithiasis is a frequent disorder affecting the salivary glands. The incidence rate (IR) has been reported to be 2.9–5.5 per 100,000 person-years, but all previous studies have been based on selected hospi...
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Open AccessBreast cancer in women using digoxin: tumor characteristics and relapse risk
Digoxin use is associated with increased incidence of breast and uterus cancers. We postulated that digoxin use might affect tumor characteristics and increase relapse risk in women with breast cancer.
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Reproductive patterns and non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk in Danish women and men
Reproductive patterns have been inconsistently linked to risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in women, and fathering patterns in relation to NHL risk have not been studied. The authors conducted a register-base...
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Open AccessEnvironmental risk factors differ between rheumatoid arthritis with and without auto-antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides
The aim of this study was to evaluate new and previously hypothesised non-genetic risk factors for serologic subtypes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) defined by the presence or absence of auto-antibodies to cycli...
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Breast cancer risk after childbirth in young women with family history (Denmark)
Objective: The increased risk of breast cancer in women with family history of breast cancer (FHBC) might be reduced by early childbirths. However, childbirth induces a transient increase in risk in the first 5–...
