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Overview

Jean Wactawski-Wende is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, with a significant emphasis on physiology, oncology, public health, environmental and occupational health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and periodontics.

Their scholarly work covers various topics including cancer risks and factors, nutritional studies and diet, bone health and osteoporosis research, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, menopause health impacts and treatments, nutrition and health in aging, as well as estrogen and related hormone effects.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Aladdin H. Shadyab, JoAnn E. Manson, Michael J. LaMonte, Kathleen M. Hovey, and Rowan T. Chlebowski.

Wactawski-Wende has published extensively in notable venues. Some frequently appearing journals include UNC Libraries, Current Developments in Nutrition, The Journals of Gerontology Series A, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on epidemiology, women's health, cancer, and hormone therapy. Examples of such papers are:

  • Periodontal disease and cancer: Epidemiologic studies and possible mechanisms, 2020, Periodontology 2000
  • Dietary Modification and Breast Cancer Mortality: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials and Clinical Practice, 2024, JAMA
  • Randomized Trial Evaluation of the Benefits and Risks of Menopausal Hormone Therapy Among Women 50-59 Years of Age, 2020, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Cardiometabolic risk factors and survival after cancer in the Women's Health Initiative, 2020, Cancer

Best Publications

  • Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

    Garnet L. Anderson;Marian C. Limacher;Annlouise R. Assaf;Tamsen Bassford

  • Estrogen plus progestin and the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: a randomized controlled trial.

    Sally A. Shumaker;Claudine Legault;Stephen R. Rapp;Leon Thal

  • Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.

    Rebecca D. Jackson;Andrea Z. LaCroix;Margery Gass;Robert B. Wallace

  • Menopausal hormone therapy and health outcomes during the intervention and extended poststopping phases of the women's health initiative randomized trials

    Jo Ann E. Manson;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Marcia L. Stefanick;Aaron K. Aragaki

  • Effects of estrogen plus progestin on risk of fracture and bone mineral density: the Women's Health Initiative randomized trial.

    Jane A. Cauley;John Robbins;Zhao Chen;Steven R. Cummings

  • Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

  • Exemestane for Breast-Cancer Prevention in Postmenopausal Women

    Paul E. Goss;James N. Ingle;José E. Alés-Martínez;Angela M. Cheung

  • Low-Fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Ross L. Prentice;Bette Caan;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Ruth Patterson

  • Estrogen plus progestin and colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Jean Wactawski-Wende;Cheryl Ritenbaugh;F. Allan Hubbell

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • Estrogen plus progestin and breast cancer incidence and mortality in postmenopausal women

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Garnet L. Anderson;Margery Gass;Dorothy S. Lane

  • A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

    Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

  • Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial

    Shirley A. A. Beresford;Karen C. Johnson;Cheryl Ritenbaugh;Norman L. Lasser

  • Elevation of circulating branched-chain amino acids is an early event in human pancreatic adenocarcinoma development

    Jared R Mayers;Chen Wu;Chen Wu;Clary B Clish;Peter Kraft

  • Statin Use and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative

    Annie L. Culver;Ira S. Ockene;Raji Balasubramanian;Barbara C. Olendzki

  • Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Long-Term All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials

    Joann E. Manson;Aaron K. Aragaki;Jacques E. Rossouw;Garnet L. Anderson

  • The relationship between bone mineral density and periodontitis in postmenopausal women.

    Mine Tezal;Jean Wactawski-Wende;Sara G. Grossi;Alex W. Ho

  • Calcium Plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Breast Cancer

    Rowan T Chlebowski;Karen C Johnson;Charles Kooperberg;Mary Pettinger

  • Patient level pooled analysis of 68 500 patients from seven major vitamin D fracture trials in US and Europe

    B Abrahamsen;T Masud;A Avenell;F Anderson

  • Conjugated equine oestrogen and breast cancer incidence and mortality in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: extended follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative randomised placebo-controlled trial.

    Garnet L. Anderson;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Aaron K. Aragaki;Lewis H. Kuller

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Rowan T. Chlebowski
Rowan T. Chlebowski UCLA Medical Center
Marcia L. Stefanick
Marcia L. Stefanick Stanford University
Karen C. Johnson
Karen C. Johnson University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Rebecca D. Jackson
Rebecca D. Jackson The Ohio State University
Thomas E. Rohan
Thomas E. Rohan Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Garnet L. Anderson
Garnet L. Anderson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jane A. Cauley
Jane A. Cauley University of Pittsburgh
Robert J. Genco
Robert J. Genco University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Julie E. Buring
Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital

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