ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2013
Is the observed association between dairy intake and fibroids in African Americans explained by genetic ancestry?
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics' Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids.Journal of health and social behavior · 2025Article
- Research on Health Disparities: Strategies and Findings From the Black Women's Health Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Dietary Natural Compounds and Vitamins as Potential Cofactors in Uterine Fibroids Growth and Development.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Dairy and related nutrient intake and risk of uterine leiomyoma: a prospective cohort study.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- The effect of vitamin D supplementation on the size of uterine leiomyoma in women with vitamin D deficiency.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2019Article
- Association of Degree of European Genetic Ancestry With Serum Vitamin D Levels in African Americans.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin as a Possible Mediator of Leiomyoma Growth during Pregnancy: Molecular Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
- Dairy Food Intake Is Associated with Reproductive Hormones and Sporadic Anovulation among Healthy Premenopausal Women.The Journal of nutrition · 2017Article
- Predictors of biospecimen donation in the Black Women's Health Study.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2016Article
- Genetic ancestry as an effect modifier of naltrexone in smoking cessation among African Americans: an analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Pharmacogenetics and genomics · 2015Article
- Polymorphisms in vitamin D-related genes and risk of uterine leiomyomata.Fertility and sterility · 2014Article
- Epidemiology of Uterine Myomas: A Review.International journal of fertility & sterilityReview
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Abstract
Uterine leiomyomata are a major source of gynecological morbidity and are 2-3 times more prevalent in African Americans than European Americans. In an earlier report, we found that dairy intake was inversely associated with uterine leiomyomata among African Americans. Because African Americans are more likely to have lactose intolerance and avoid dairy products, the observed association might have been confounded by genetic ancestry. This report reevaluates the dairy-uterine leiomyomata association after accounting for genetic ancestry among 1,968 cases and 2,183 noncases from the Black Women's Health Study (1997-2007). Dairy intake was estimated by using food frequency questionnaires in 1995 and 2001. Percent European ancestry was estimated by using a panel of ancestry informative markers. Incidence rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated by using Cox regression, with adjustment for potential confounders and percent European ancestry. Incidence rate ratios comparing 1, 2, 3, and ≥4 servings/day with <1 serving/day of dairy products were 0.95 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.85, 1.06), 0.75 (95% CI: 0.61, 0.92), 0.77 (95% CI: 0.57, 1.04), and 0.59 (95% CI: 0.41, 0.86), respectively (Ptrend = 0.0003). These effect estimates were similar to those obtained without control for ancestry. The findings suggest that the observed inverse association between dairy consumption and uterine leiomyomata in African Americans is not explained by percent European ancestry.
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