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Brenda M Birmann

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Wang S, Bertrand K, Deubler E, Chao C, Birmann B, Rosner B, et al.
Am J Epidemiol . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39745801
Case-control studies of sun exposure and ultraviolet radiation (UVR) have consistently reported inverse associations with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) risk, but prospective studies have yielded mixed results. Few studies have explored...
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Young A, Mullins C, Sehgal N, Vermeulen R, Kolijn P, Vlaanderen J, et al.
JNCI Cancer Spectr . 2024 Dec; 9(1). PMID: 39700422
Background: Despite advances in understanding genetic susceptibility to cancer, much of cancer heritability remains unidentified. At the same time, the makeup of industrial chemicals in our environment only grows more...
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McCarty R, Trabert B, Kriebel D, Millar M, Birmann B, Grieshober L, et al.
Cancer Med . 2024 Oct; 13(20):e70260. PMID: 39444249
Background: Approximately one-third of US adults have a tattoo, and the prevalence is increasing. Tattooing can result in long-term exposure to carcinogens and inflammatory and immune responses. Methods: We examined...
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Strohmaier S, Pillai M, Weitzer J, Han E, Zenk L, Birmann B, et al.
Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ . 2024 Aug; 14(8):2157-2174. PMID: 39194938
Considerable evidence links the "Big Five" personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness) with depression. However, potential mediating and moderating factors are less well understood. We utilized data from...
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Zhao L, Zhang X, Birmann B, Danford C, Lai M, Simon T, et al.
Int J Cancer . 2024 Jun; 155(9):1593-1603. PMID: 38861327
Previous studies suggest a role for inflammation in hepatocarcinogenesis. However, no study has comprehensively evaluated associations between circulating inflammatory proteins and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among the general population....
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Arnold K, Ong K, Ravi G, Cutshall H, Purnell K, Wessel M, et al.
Br J Cancer . 2024 Jun; 131(2):312-324. PMID: 38849476
Background: Obesity is an established modifiable risk factor for multiple myeloma (MM). However, associations of obesity and MM risk in Black populations, for whom obesity and MM are more common,...
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Chen J, Hart J, VoPham T, Elliott E, Birmann B, Laden F
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev . 2024 Apr; 33(7):961-964. PMID: 38656285
Background: Certain hazardous air pollutants (HAP) are known or suspected to pose immunological or cancer risk to humans, but evidence is limited from the general population. Methods: We assessed associations...
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Haycock P, Borges M, Burrows K, Lemaitre R, Harrison S, Burgess S, et al.
Int J Epidemiol . 2024 Apr; 52(5):1498-1521. PMID: 38587501
Background: Mendelian randomization (MR) studies are susceptible to metadata errors (e.g. incorrect specification of the effect allele column) and other analytical issues that can introduce substantial bias into analyses. We...
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Wang Q, Babic A, Rosenthal M, Lee A, Zhang Y, Zhang X, et al.
JAMA . 2024 Jan; 331(4):318-328. PMID: 38261044
Importance: Weight loss is common in primary care. Among individuals with recent weight loss, the rates of cancer during the subsequent 12 months are unclear compared with those without recent...
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Schernhammer E, Weitzer J, Han E, Bertau M, Zenk L, Caniglia G, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Oct; 18(10):e0286488. PMID: 37824449
Interpersonal trust declined worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic; strategies are needed to restore it. We surveyed 3,065 quota-sampled German-speaking adults residing in the D-A-CH region. Using multinomial logistic regression models...