Publications by authors named "M A Coday"
Metabolic phenotype and risk of obesity-related cancers in the Women's Health Initiative.
Cancer Prev Res (Phila)
November 2024
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- BMI might not accurately reflect the risk of obesity-related cancer (ORC) because metabolic issues can exist at various BMI levels.
- A study of 20,593 postmenopausal women identified four types of metabolic health and found that those with metabolic dysfunction—regardless of weight—had an increased risk of ORC.
- The research showed that overweight and obese individuals, especially those with metabolic dysfunction, faced a higher risk of developing ORC compared to metabolically healthy individuals with normal weight.
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- The study explores how social support, social strain, and stressful life events can impact survival rates among women diagnosed with breast cancer, particularly focusing on the role of psychosocial factors in mortality.
- Researchers analyzed data from 9,154 postmenopausal women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, examining the relationships between various psychosocial factors and different types of mortality over an average follow-up of 8.6 years.
- Results indicated that higher social support was linked to lower all-cause mortality, while high social strain correlated with decreased cardiovascular disease mortality, with differences observed based on race among participants.
We examined the prospective associations of social isolation and loneliness with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) among aging nonveteran and veteran women, and effect modification by veteran status. Participants with no history of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, coronary heart disease (CHD), or coronary heart failure from the Women's Health Initiative Extension Study II self-reported social isolation, loneliness, health behaviors, health status, and veteran status. CVD and CVD subevents were physician adjudicated.
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- About 65% of adults in the US drink sugar-sweetened beverages daily, prompting research into their potential links to liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality among postmenopausal women.
- The study followed 98,786 women aged 50 to 79 from the Women's Health Initiative, starting in the 1990s, to track their beverage consumption and health outcomes over nearly 21 years.
- Results indicated that women who consumed one or more servings of sugar-sweetened beverages daily had a significantly higher risk of developing liver cancer compared to those who consumed fewer than three servings per month.
Objective: The menopausal transition results in a progressive decrease in circulating estrogen levels. Experimental evidence in rodents has indicated that estrogen depletion leads to a reduction of energy expenditure and physical activity. It is unclear whether treatment with estrogen therapy increases physical activity level in postmenopausal women.
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