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Dietary Quality and Ovarian Cancer Risk in African-American Women

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Epidemiology, May 2017
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Dietary Quality and Ovarian Cancer Risk in African-American Women
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American Journal of Epidemiology, May 2017
DOI 10.1093/aje/kwx022
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This study evaluated 3 index-based dietary patterns-Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2005, HEI-2010, and Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)-2010-in relation to ovarian cancer risk in African-American women. The study was conducted among 415 ovarian cancer cases and 629 age- and site-matched controls of African-American descent recruited from the population-based African American Cancer Epidemiology Study. Multivariable unconditional logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals between quartiles of dietary quality indices and ovarian cancer risk, adjusting for potential confounders. We found that higher AHEI-2010 scores, but not HEI-2005 or HEI-2010 scores, were associated with lower risk of ovarian cancer (comparing the highest quartile (4th) vs. lowest (1st), odds ratio (OR) = 0.66, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.45, 0.98; P for trend = 0.05). When stratified by menopausal status, no noteworthy associations were observed among premenopausal women. However, among postmenopausal women, greater adherence to HEI-2010 (quartile 4 vs. quartile 1, OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.36, 0.92; P for trend = 0.03) and AHEI-2010 (quartile 4 vs. quartile 1, OR = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.31, 0.78; P for trend = 0.01) were inversely associated with ovarian cancer. Our findings indicate that adherence to an overall healthy dietary pattern may reduce ovarian cancer risk in African-American women, and particularly among postmenopausal African-American women.

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Unknown 39 100%

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Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 8%
Psychology 2 5%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 12 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 October 2017.
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#5,597,999
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Outputs from American Journal of Epidemiology
#4,016
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#87,095
of 314,521 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Epidemiology
#91
of 186 outputs
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