Publications by authors named "B Nicolau"
Recent years have seen significant positive changes and developments in oral health-related policy and data on oral health and oral health care in Canada. Simultaneously, on the international stage, the momentum for oral health and related research continues to build. These changes have led to an initiative to create Canada's first National Oral Health Research Strategy (NOHRS), which was recently published by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (Allison and Rock 2024).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOptimizing the timing of radiotherapy and chemotherapy tailored to the body's biological clock (i.e., chronotherapy) might improve treatment efficacy and reduce side effects.
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- Excess body fat in older age can increase the risk of ovarian cancer, although the connection is not very strong.
- A study in Montreal analyzed body mass index (BMI) data over decades for women 50 and older to understand different life stages' impact on ovarian cancer risk.
- The findings indicate that the accumulation hypothesis best explains the link between BMI and ovarian cancer risk, particularly highlighting the early childbearing years as a potentially sensitive period for increased risk.
Background: Early life factors for inflammatory bowel disease are likely to impact the gut microbiota.
Aim: We investigated the associations between early exposures and inflammatory bowel disease.
Methods: This case-control study was nested within the CO·MMUNITY cohort.