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    PCB exposure and potential future cancer incidence in Slovak children: an assessment from molecular finger printing by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA®) derived from experimental and epidemiological investigations

    The risk of cancer due to PCB exposure in humans is highly debated. In eastern Slovakia, high exposure of the population to organochlorines (especially PCBs) was associated with various disease and disorder pa...

    Somiranjan Ghosh, Christopher A. Loffredo… in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2018)

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    An Examination of Self-Rated Health Among African-American Men

    Self-rated health is a concept that has been linked to objective health outcomes but has not received much attention with regard to African-American men. The purpose of this study is to examine the relation of...

    Teletia R. Taylor, Alana Mohammed… in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2017)

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    Factors Associated with Exercise Motivation among African-American Men

    The primary aims of this study were to: (1) characterize exercise stages of change among a sample of African-American men, (2) determine if exercise motivation was associated with self-reported exercise behavi...

    Alana Mohammed, Jules P. Harrell… in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2016)

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    Consumption of dairy and meat in relation to breast cancer risk in the Black Women’s Health Study

    Dairy and meat consumption may impact breast cancer risk through modification of hormones (e.g., estrogen), through specific nutrients (e.g., vitamin D), or through products formed in processing/cooking (e.g.,...

    Jeanine M. Genkinger, Kepher H. Makambi, Julie R. Palmer… in Cancer Causes & Control (2013)

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    Plasma IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 may be imprecise surrogates for breast concentrations: an analysis of healthy women

    We investigated insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 and IGF binding protein (IGFBP)-3 concentrations in histologically normal breast tissues and assessed their association with plasma concentrations, and breast...

    Adana A. Llanos, Theodore M. Brasky… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2013)

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    Use of multivitamins, folic acid and herbal supplements among breast cancer survivors: the black women's health study

    Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use, including herbals and multivitamin supplements, is quite common in the U.S., and has been shown to be highest in breast cancer survivors. However, limited data...

    Mireille Bright-Gbebry, Kepher H Makambi… in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2011)

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    Molecular Breast Cancer Subtypes in Premenopausal African-American Women, Tumor Biologic Factors and Clinical Outcome

    Breast cancer is currently viewed as a heterogeneous disease made up of various subtypes, with distinct differences in prognosis. Our goal was to study the distribution and to characterize the clinical and bio...

    Chukwuemeka U. Ihemelandu, LaSalle D. Leffall Jr.… in Annals of Surgical Oncology (2007)

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    Small sample properties of tests on homogeneity in one—way Anova and Meta—analysis

    In the present Monte Carlo study, the empirical Type I error properties and power of several statistics for testing the homogeneity hypothesis in a one—way classification are examined in the case of small samp...

    Joachim Hartung, Dogan Argaç, Kepher H. Makambi in Statistical Papers (2002)