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Yikyung Park is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, contributing to a total of 174 publications. Key subfields of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Oncology, Surgery, and Epidemiology.

Their work covers a range of main topics, such as Nutritional Studies and Diet, Cancer Risks and Factors, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Liver Disease and Transplantation, and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet.

Notable recent papers by Yikyung Park include:

  • "Dallas Steatosis Index Identifies Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease," 2020, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • "Performance and Feasibility of Recalls Completed Using the Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool in Relation to Other Self-Report Tools and Biomarkers in the Interactive Diet and Activity Tracking in AARP (IDATA) Study," 2020, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • "Upper Limb Nerve Transfer Surgery in Patients With Tetraplegia," 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • "Outdoor light at night and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the NIH-AARP diet and health study," 2020, International Journal of Cancer
  • "Dietary advanced glycation end products and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study," 2020, Cancer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yikyung Park include:

  • Graham A. Colditz (19 publications)
  • Tuo Lan (13 publications)
  • Neeta Vachharajani (10 publications)
  • Jennifer Q. Lanctot (10 publications)
  • Melissa M. Hudson (10 publications)

Yikyung Park has published extensively in several venues, with notable frequency at:

  • HPB (7 publications)
  • Cancer Research (5 publications)
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons (4 publications)
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (4 publications)
  • British Journal of Cancer (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

    Amy Berrington De Gonzalez;Patricia Hartge;James R. Cerhan;Alan J. Flint

  • Genome-wide association study reveals genetic risk underlying Parkinson's disease

    Javier Simón-Sánchez;Claudia Schulte;Jose M Bras;Jose M Bras;Manu Sharma

  • Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity With Risk of 26 Types of Cancer in 1.44 Million Adults

    Steven C. Moore;I-Min Lee;Elisabete Weiderpass;Peter T. Campbell

  • Amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors and cause-specific mortality in US adults

    Charles E Matthews;Stephanie M George;Steven C Moore;Heather R Bowles

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis

    Steven C. Moore;Alpa V. Patel;Charles E. Matthews;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

  • Higher Diet Quality Is Associated with Decreased Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer Mortality among Older Adults

    Jill Reedy;Susan M. Krebs-Smith;Paige E. Miller;Angela D. Liese

  • Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality

    Neal D. Freedman;Christian C. Abnet;Albert R. Hollenbeck;Rashmi Sinha

  • Dietary fiber intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies.

    Yikyung Park;Yikyung Park;David J. Hunter;Donna Spiegelman;Leif Bergkvist

  • Physical activity recommendations and decreased risk of mortality.

    Michael F. Leitzmann;Yikyung Park;Aaron Blair;Rachel Ballard-Barbash

  • A Large Prospective Study of Meat Consumption and Colorectal Cancer Risk: An Investigation of Potential Mechanisms Underlying this Association

    Amanda J. Cross;Leah M. Ferrucci;Adam Risch;Barry I. Graubard

  • A Pooled Analysis of Waist Circumference and Mortality in 650,000 Adults

    James R. Cerhan;Steven C. Moore;Eric J. Jacobs;Cari M. Kitahara

  • Association between Class III Obesity (BMI of 40-59 kg/m2) and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies

    Cari M. Kitahara;Alan J. Flint;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez;Leslie Bernstein

  • Trends in Sedentary Behavior Among the US Population, 2001-2016

    Lin Yang;Chao Cao;Elizabeth D. Kantor;Long H. Nguyen

  • Dietary fiber and whole-grain consumption in relation to colorectal cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

    Arthur Schatzkin;Traci Mouw;Yikyung Park;Amy F Subar

  • PM2.5 air pollution and cause-specific cardiovascular disease mortality

    Richard B Hayes;Chris Lim;Yilong Zhang;Yilong Zhang;Kevin Cromar

  • Physical activities and future risk of Parkinson disease

    Q. Xu;Y. Park;X. Huang;A. Hollenbeck

  • Dietary fiber intake and mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

    Yikyung Park;Amy F. Subar;Albert Hollenbeck;Arthur Schatzkin

  • Dietary and Supplemental Calcium Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality The National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study

    Qian Xiao;Rachel A. Murphy;Denise K. Houston;Tamara B. Harris

  • Obesity and Thyroid Cancer Risk among U.S. Men and Women: A Pooled Analysis of Five Prospective Studies

    Cari M. Kitahara;Cari M. Kitahara;Elizabeth A. Platz;Laura E. Beane Freeman;Ann W. Hsing

Frequent Co-Authors

Neal D. Freedman
Neal D. Freedman National Institutes of Health
Michael F. Leitzmann
Michael F. Leitzmann University of Regensburg
Amy F. Subar
Amy F. Subar National Cancer Institute
Rashmi Sinha
Rashmi Sinha National Institutes of Health
Graham A. Colditz
Graham A. Colditz Washington University in St. Louis
Patricia Hartge
Patricia Hartge National Institutes of Health
Louise A. Brinton
Louise A. Brinton National Institutes of Health
Aaron Blair
Aaron Blair National Institutes of Health
Charles E. Matthews
Charles E. Matthews National Institutes of Health

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