Vendhan Gajalakshmi
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Gajalakshmi V, Lacey B, Kanimozhi V, Sherliker P, Peto R, Lewington S
Lancet Glob Health
. 2018 Jun;
6(7):e787-e794.
PMID: 29903379
Background: The association between cause-specific mortality and body-mass index (BMI) has been studied mainly in high-income countries. We investigated the relations between BMI, systolic blood pressure, and mortality in India....
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Gajalakshmi V, Kanimozhi V
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
. 2015 Mar;
16(3):1201-6.
PMID: 25735356
Background: Tobacco is consumed in both smoking and smokeless forms in India. About 35-40% of tobacco consumption in India is in the latter. The study objective was to describe the...
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Patel V, Ramasundarahettige C, Vijayakumar L, Thakur J, Gajalakshmi V, Gururaj G, et al.
Lancet
. 2012 Jun;
379(9834):2343-51.
PMID: 22726517
Background: WHO estimates that about 170,000 deaths by suicide occur in India every year, but few epidemiological studies of suicide have been done in the country. We aimed to quantify...
4.
Dikshit R, Gupta P, Ramasundarahettige C, Gajalakshmi V, Aleksandrowicz L, Badwe R, et al.
Lancet
. 2012 Mar;
379(9828):1807-16.
PMID: 22460346
Background: The age-specific mortality rates and total deaths from specific cancers have not been documented for the various regions and subpopulations of India. We therefore assessed the cause of death...
5.
Gajalakshmi V, Whitlock G, Peto R
Cancer Causes Control
. 2012 Feb;
23 Suppl 1:91-8.
PMID: 22350862
Objective: The objective of this work was to describe the relationships between educational level, tobacco chewing, and cancer mortality in south India, among middle-aged adults who never smoked tobacco or...
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Wang J, Jiang J, Zhao Y, Gajalakshmi V, Kuriki K, Suzuki S, et al.
Cancer Epidemiol
. 2010 Aug;
35(1):66-72.
PMID: 20688591
Background: Susceptibility to sporadic colorectal cancer is multifactorial and arises from interactive combinations of allelic variants in low-penetrance genes and relevant environmental risk factors. Genetic polymorphisms in metabolic enzymes as...
7.
Wang J, Zhao Y, Jiang J, Gajalakshmi V, Kuriki K, Nakamura S, et al.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol
. 2010 Mar;
136(10):1517-25.
PMID: 20229274
Purpose: Genetic polymorphisms in DNA repair genes may influence variations in individual DNA repair capacity, which could be associated with the development of cancer. We detected the distributions of three...
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Jha P, Kumar R, Khera A, Bhattacharya M, Arora P, Gajalakshmi V, et al.
BMJ
. 2010 Feb;
340:c621.
PMID: 20179131
Objective: To determine the rates of death and infection from HIV in India. Design: Nationally representative survey of deaths. Setting: 1.1 million homes in India. Population 123,000 deaths at all...
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Mathew A, Gajalakshmi V, Rajan B, Kanimozhi V, Brennan P, Binukumar B, et al.
Eur J Cancer Prev
. 2009 Jul;
18(5):368-76.
PMID: 19584735
Breast cancer (BC) incidence in India is approximately 100% higher among urban women than rural women. The role of household activities (HA) among urban and rural women in the development...
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Gajalakshmi V, Peto R
Int J Epidemiol
. 2009 Jun;
38(4):1018-25.
PMID: 19498083
Background: To investigate the extent to which smoking and/or drinking can increase the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), a population-based case-control study was conducted in rural south India. Methods: A...