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Marie-Elise Parent

Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Verified email at iaf.inrs.ca
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Does BCG vaccination protect against the development of childhood asthma? A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

M El-Zein, ME Parent, A Benedetti… - International journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Results have been conflicting as to whether Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)
vaccine, a non-specific stimulator of the immune function, protects, predisposes or is …

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

DV Conti, BF Darst, LC Moss, EJ Saunders, X Sheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is a highly heritable disease with large disparities in incidence rates across
ancestry populations. We conducted a multiancestry meta-analysis of prostate cancer …

Cigarette smoking and lung cancer—relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case–control studies

B Pesch, B Kendzia, P Gustavsson… - … journal of cancer, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Lung cancer is mainly caused by smoking, but the quantitative relations between smoking
and histologic subtypes of lung cancer remain inconclusive. By using one of the largest lung …

Role of hormonal and other factors in human prostate cancer

DT Wigle, MC Turner, J Gomes… - Journal of Toxicology and …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
American men have a lifetime risk of about 18% for prostate cancer diagnosis. Large
international variations in prostate cancer risks and increased risks among migrants from …

[HTML][HTML] The INTERPHONE study: design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population

E Cardis, L Richardson, I Deltour, B Armstrong… - European journal of …, 2007 - Springer
The very rapid worldwide increase in mobile phone use in the last decade has generated
considerable interest in the possible health effects of exposure to radio frequency (RF) …

Night work and the risk of cancer among men

MÉ Parent, M El-Zein, MC Rousseau… - American journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Night work might influence cancer risk, possibly via suppression of melatonin release. In a
population-based case-control study conducted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, between …

Risk of brain tumours in relation to estimated RF dose from mobile phones: results from five Interphone countries

E Cardis, BK Armstrong, JD Bowman… - Occupational and …, 2011 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives The objective of this study was to examine the associations of brain tumours with
radio frequency (RF) fields from mobile phones. Methods Patients with brain tumour from the …

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and the risk of lung cancer: a meta-analysis

L Zhong, MS Goldberg, MÉ Parent, JA Hanley - Lung cancer, 2000 - Elsevier
A meta-analysis was carried out to calculate a pooled estimate of relative risk of lung cancer
following exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and to determine whether there …

Risk of developing lung cancer in relation to exposure to fumes from Chinese-style cooking

L Zhong, MS Goldberg, MÉ Parent, JA Hanley - Scandinavian journal of …, 1999 - JSTOR
In an evaluation of the association between exposure to indoor air pollution from Chinese-
style cooking and the risk of lung cancer, epidemiologie and experimental studies were …

Recall bias in the assessment of exposure to mobile phones

M Vrijheid, BK Armstrong, D Bedard, J Brown… - Journal of exposure …, 2009 - nature.com
Most studies of mobile phone use are case–control studies that rely on participants' reports
of past phone use for their exposure assessment. Differential errors in recalled phone use …