Rotating Night Shift Work and the Risk of Ischemic Stroke (2009)
Brown, Devin L., Feskanich, Diane, Sánchez, Brisa N., Rexrode, Kathryn M., Schernhammer, Eva S., Lisabeth, Lynda D.
Rotating night shift work disrupts circadian rhythms and is associated with coronary heart disease. The relation between rotating night shift work and ischemic stroke is unclear. The Nurses’ Health...
Urinary 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin Levels and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women (2008)
Schernhammer, Eva S., Berrino, Franco, Krogh, Vittorio, Secreto, Giorgio, Micheli, Andrea, Venturelli, Elisabetta, ...
Background Low urinary melatonin levels have been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women. However, the association between melatonin levels and breast cancer risk...
A Cohort Study of Tumoral LINE-1 Hypomethylation and Prognosis in Colon Cancer (2008)
Ogino, Shuji, Nosho, Katsuhiko, Kirkner, Gregory J., Kawasaki, Takako, Chan, Andrew T., Schernhammer, Eva S., ...
Genome-wide DNA hypomethylation plays has an important role in genomic instability and colorectal carcinogenesis. However, the relationship between cellular DNA methylation level and patient outcome...
Work Characteristics and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Women (2007)
Kroenke, Candyce H., Spiegelman, Donna, Manson, JoAnn, Schernhammer, Eva S., Colditz, Graham A., Kawachi, Ichiro
The authors prospectively investigated associations between potentially stressful work characteristics and type 2 diabetes incidence in 62,574 young and middle-aged women, aged 29–46 years at...
Urinary Melatonin Levels and Breast Cancer Risk (2005)
Schernhammer, Eva S., Hankinson, Susan E.
Exposure to light at night suppresses melatonin production, and night-shift work (a surrogate for such exposure) has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. However, the association...
Job Stress and Breast Cancer Risk: The Nurses' Health Study (2004)
Schernhammer, Eva S., Hankinson, Susan E., Rosner, Bernard, Kroenke, Candyce H., Willett, Walter C., Colditz, Graham A., ...
Workers tend to perceive certain features of their jobs as harmful to health and are alert to associations between job stress and health outcomes, but few observational studies have evaluated the...
Caregiving Stress, Endogenous Sex Steroid Hormone Levels, and Breast Cancer Incidence (2004)
Kroenke, Candyce H., Hankinson, Susan E., Schernhammer, Eva S., Colditz, Graham A., Kawachi, Ichiro, Holmes, Michelle D.
Stress is hypothesized to be a risk factor for breast cancer. The authors examined associations of hours of, and self-reported levels of stress from, informal caregiving with prospective breast...
A Prospective Study of Aspirin Use and the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in Women (2004)
Schernhammer, Eva S., Kang, Jae-Hee, Chan, Andrew T., Michaud, Dominique S., Skinner, Halcyon G., Giovannucci, Edward, ...
Background: In vitro experiments and limited animal studies suggest that aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may inhibit pancreatic carcinogenesis. Because few studies have examined the...
Night-Shift Work and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Nurses Health Study (2003)
Schernhammer, Eva S., Laden, Francine, Speizer, Frank E., Willett, Walter C., Hunter, David J., Kawachi, Ichiro, ...
Exposure to light at night suppresses the physiologic production of melatonin, a hormone that has antiproliferative effects on intestinal cancers. Although observational studies have associated...
Schernhammer, Eva S., Laden, Francine, Speizer, Frank E., Willett, Walter C., Hunter, David J., Kawachi, Ichiro, ...
Schernhammer, Eva S., Laden, Francine, Speizer, Frank E., Willett, Walter C., Hunter, David J., Kawachi, Ichiro, ...
Background: Melatonin shows potential oncostatic action, and light exposure during night suppresses melatonin production. There is little information, however, about the direct effect of night work...